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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1920)
1 THE OREGON STATESMAN: TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1920. AU TOMOBI LE and TRU t ; ALE M Ms SS Sss - ' ' ' ' J CK SHOW . 18-13-20 I M Under Auspices of Marion-Polk Dealers Association ARMORY. FEB FHE MOTOR ERA IN COMPLETE EXHIBIT 50 PLEASURE CARS 20 TRUCKS Artistic Decorations-Orchestra Music Afternoon and Evening-Adm'n, to Partially Meet Exp., 25c HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TRAIN TO QUALIFY AS MOTOR CAR EXPENSES In an unpretentious building on 1 High street near Center Is a verita ble hire of industry, little known .to most member ot this community, where 23 young men students ot the Salem high school are perfecting them sel res as automobile mechanics under the tutorship ot E. E. Berg man. , "The shop" as it Is known among the students, Is a hobby with Super intendent -of Schools John W. Todd, and offers, a , thorough. (Course , In. me chanics. ,. Automobile work, . is fea tured, and although this department is in its second year only it has turned out some young mechanics worthy of the name The capacity of the building is taxed to its utmost, and the increas ' lng number of students who desire to take the: course wiirsdon make neceszary larger quarters and addi tional equipment. The present build lng has a floor space of 800 feet. Not long since a part was wanted for a high class automobile driven by a prominent citizen of Salem, but it coud not be had this side of the factory. This would require several weeks, during which period the. car would necessarly be out of commis sion. The I school shop solved the , problem. From raw material stu- three days the machine was running as usual. Company Organizes For ' Inland Freight Hauling EGIN SIX TOPS IN ROAD RECORD A recapitulation of various events and happenings in motordom during the past four years recalls to mind the repeated triumphs whicbr the El gin Six has made in stock car com petition; and thus, the "manner in which it has earned its title of "World's Champion Light Six." . Though the policy of the Elgin or ganization has never been to enter the kind of competition which re quires specially built acing models working, but I honestly believe I ras within the law. My car runs so smooth that 30 miles seems like 20." That stall fails to turn the trick nowadays. The judge merely yawns and forthwith begins to enter the sentence in the big book of doom, usually tacking thereto a reasonable sum as a penalty for springing such an ancient excuse. Read the Classified Ads. visitor Have you a papa and mamma? Little Girl I should say so. I've had three papas brv& first mamma and two mammas by my second papa. Judge. "Darling." be said, "I have lost all my money." "How careless of you. she re plied. "The next thing yon know you'll be losing me." Detroit Free Press. With a promise of rates approx imately 10 per cent lower than those now charged by the railroads a new hpatand truck, transportation com 1 .,Mfo.iAi.ai ZZzi I - officials have been oter zlousln. W7namWr-rane?-W;Marchl. entering strictly stock cars in scores lauwsuiug siauons as tar tuuia iruui Portland .as Eugene. The plan as outlined to The States man by President M. E. Lee. during his stay in Salfm last week, is to operate two steamboats on the Wil lamette river with stops at Butte ville, Crawford, Salem, Albany, Cor vallis and Eugene, from each of which places truck lines will deliver feight to neighboring towns. From Butteville six towns. Aurora, Barlow. Hubbard. Woodburn, (Gerrais and Mt. Angel will be served; from Sa lem, Silverton, West Stayton, Tur ner, Dallas and Monmouth will be served. The new company will be known as the Inland Empire Transporta- dents fashioned the part and within tnn. company. 3 RENEWAL OF Threaded Rubber Insulation never neeas to be given a thought But that of ordinary Insula tion does, at least once before the battery is worn out Threaded Rubber gives far better protection to plates and is the only kind that can be depend ed On to .last as long as the battery. It can be had only in the Still Bet ter Willard DEGGE & BURRELL i Auto Electricians .Through Service We Grow 238 North High Street of gruelling events of wide public interest. Most of these have been unrestricted to cars as moderate in price as the Elgin. On numerous occasions Elgin of ficials have taxed their ingenuity to devise special feats of broad inter rst, imposing critical tests for econ omy, enduring and speed, in order to prove for their own satisfaction the full xtent of the Elgin's effi ciency and stamina. The record which it established in winning the longest known cross country scaled-chassis endurance run during the summer of 1917 still stands as one of the most brilliant examples of high automobile achieve ment. It was on this occasion that an Elgin Six (an all stock model) which had been selected by Secre tary of War Baiter to report road conditions for the IT. S. war depart ment, taveled from Chicago to the Pacific coast, a distance of 6202 miles with en average gasoline con sumption of 19.4 miles to the gal lon, ant with its chassis officially pealed by President Chas. M. Have. ot the Chicago Motor Club in such a manner that neither the motor, clutch or transmission, could -be in merted or ad lusted enrotite. A to the Elgin for winning "the long est cross-con ntry, sealed-chassis run in automobile history." A most spectacular achievement, and yet on? which has become quite common to an Elgin car. is that of tumping, under - maximum speed, from a small incline into the air and landing full force upon a solid ma cadam road, at a distance of from ;0 to 70 odd feet. Tests such as these serve to prove the perfect Da snce of in parts and its ligid tenac ity of construction. The world'3 record long distance jump of 73 feet, one inch was made by an Elgin Six at Rellvllle, Illinois, on June 18. 1917. .As racing cross country with fast express trains will always prove a most thrilling event of vide public interest anionic automobile men. Just so do the it' any records that Elgin stock cars have established in num erous contests of this kind appeal t those who are most experienced 'n judeinc the comparative merits of speed and efficiency of cars In the medium priced category- A recent run of this kind was tnade from Cb4caeo to Indianapolis. when an Elgin ' Six Victory model, carrying four adult passengers, beat the time of the fastest extvss by ex actly fifty-six minutes. William K. Gibbs. formerly of Motor Age, and Chester Fonst of the Chicago Ameri can automobile department, were the official observers of this remarkable run. No water was added to the ra diator enroute. and the car aver aged seventeen and one-half miles to the gallon of gasoline 1 IB oa g) ool mV one jmmm plows tlOfS ''arrow $ f? 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