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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1922)
0 h .. Villi'-'' r SECOND SECTION PAGES 1 TO 6 ill ; dnfoi, Society, Gabs, General Ntci and Classified SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR - SALEM,. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS r 1 1 ;AUTOMOB! AND TRACTORS MOTORCYCLES -ACCESSORIES LES, TRUCKS BICYCLES Ben F. Jones tiomWeruis J - Highway Commission . en P. Jones, president of the Roosevelt Coast Military Highway association, has written a letter to thq ; tata highway commission cqpimeadlng that body for the progress it has made on that high way Some months ago Mr.. Jones aijd :some other leading . citizens of ('the. coast county were rather critical toward the commission, charging that too little progress had been made, but since then has traveled over the road and noted the work that has been done. "The directors are highly pleased with thasplendid coopera tion which the highway commis sion has given them during the past year," writes Mr. 'Jones. "To some of , the directors who have not been over the highway from I Marsh field to Crescent City until "ITS A DAYTON" LLOYD E. ftAMSDEN t387 Court Street Phone 1687 July 8 and 9, the magnitude of tho work was a revelation. With federal aid and your cooperation in the future, we teel that the Roosevelt highway will be com pleted by 1925." GOES g Moron at tbe Whet-i There are automoblliBts who have not the mental capacity nec essary to drive a car with safety to the public. The person of low mentality who has control of a car's steering wheel is not long in demonstrating his unfitness for that trust. Outrageous offenses committed in cold blood by auto mobile drivers ordinarily show a type of mind that cannot qpcercise caution and that has no restrain ing appreciation of human suffer ing. 'l A "part of the timely effort to reduce deaths and Injuries re sulting from reckless driving should be applied to the weeding out of morons and other persona of defective minds who go about armed with automobiles, which under their control - are deadly weapons." Chicago News. Wonderful Stunt Performed by Chevrolet Car in Re cent Demonstration RIMS d Rim Parts for all Cars Free Expert AdTlce IRA JORGKNSKN ISO South High Street 4 a 4 a : 4 . Climbing the Ankeny hill south ol town on high gear is a test for any automobile. The hill is one of "the most famous or in famous iti this part of Oregon; It is one that make Vm all won der why th?y didn't put off their stories cf how they had out-squirrelled every other car 01 the road, until after they have seen wheth er they can do this one supreme slunc. A Chevrolet Four-Ninety car did it,, however, on Tue?day, Aug. 8, under conditions that make it undeniable. It isn't like the story of the biggest fish that got away with only the near-catcher to swear to its size they've got the goods on the whole story. The Salem Automobile company of Salem took one of its regular stock cars, 1922 model, down to the hill, and in the presence of three outside, disinterested wit nesses, Leslie C. Newton for the Statesman, and E. A. Brown for the Capital Journal, and G. H. Sander for the Oleson Auto Ex change, disconnected the gear shift lever and took out the bolt in the clutch pedal, so that the clutch could not be slipped. Then, starting at the bottom, from a dead stop,, they lit out for the top of the hill which they made withoat a stop or a hesitation. Jt!s: some stunt try It! JTha accompanying car, a car selling for twice the money, wheeled along almost to its limit, in inter mediate gear. Some don't climb It on any kind of gear. The demonstrators of the Ch"e vrolet say that no other car sell ing under 11000 can duplicate this performance, with' the same gear, which is three and sixty-five one-hundreds to ona of high gear. The car sells, new, for only $663, delivered in Salem. crop and make fe of better qual ity. In the three .months of drought, the berries and the vnes gathered up a lot of dust and needed the rain to freshen them up for use. The rain did this, and U. will help to develop the later berries, even if It dos not add much size to the first al ready practically ripened. Evergreens seem, to be selling at the standard price of .5 cents, a ceni higher than the top price for lcgpns this year. Last year they went a cent or more above the logans. Most of the crop comes from pastures and fence rows. The comparatively small acreage of cultivated evergreens bears wonderfully well, but that Is still a minor part of the total crop. Several hundred tons will be brought 'in to Salem this year. Last year, ona man brought in 200 tons from near Aumsville. He grew most of these in his own pasture, and. others he bought and hauled from In his own neighbor hood. The berries are said to be somewhat smaller this year than last, because of Jhe dry season. The wire from London gives us no advices on tbe subject, but we will wager that Chief Justice Taft was the life of the party. provided he wore knee breeches at the .reception tendered aim by iving ueorge. exc, C1III BAILS E Prospector Finds Old Two Pounders in National Forest of Nevada far from Fales Hot springs In Mono county. California. They were "two-pounders," once a stan dard piece of ammunition in the American artiller). and only slightly rusred from their years of repose In the ground. General Fremont's diary records that on January 2S, 18J4, he was obliged to abandon his howttier at a point in Deep creek, a can yon so precipitous that only men and mules could navigate ft. This place Is about eight miles north of where the cannon balls were discovered, so It Is supposed Gen eral Fremont abandoned bis ho witzer ammunition as of no. fur ther use. , The relics were taken by Rang er Atchesoif to headquarters of the Mono national forest at Uin- den. MINDEN. Nev.. Aug. 12. (Dy Associated Press. ) A discovery of cannon balls in the Mono na tional forest where he expected to find gold led A. Fergusson, a pros pector, to wonder what battle In American history had takenlace there, but investigation proved that they were merely relics of General John C. Fremont's expedi tion to California in 1844. Although not well versed In ear ly California history, A; Fergus son as an overseas veteran Imme diately recognized the character of two steel spheres he dug from the gravel In a small ravine not LADIES U'hrn Irrcnlar or innorened VI Trt omph Pill. S? Bd pUbl ia all proper CMa.; Hat sold at drag atoras Do not xpariBTM with tbra; tiur iiDointmeot. 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Cctba, natt4kiifo abl at tint and at bub; drum typa lampa; Alemita lubri catioa; Bow diiva alauiic bora; unuauall; long apringa. PHcm F. O. B. Detroit, ravenut tax to be. added t Tour , fa Ca. 885;oadatei. 885t Coup. 138St Sedan, ill-CS Oscar B. Gingrich Motor & Tire Company TO GO IIIITO PACKS! Canning Will Begin Monday at Most Local Plants, Managers Report 371 Court Street Phone 635 ThciGood MAX WE Blackberry canning will be started tn some If not all of the Salem , plants Monday morning. Two email runs bave already been put ttrough the Star Products company plant on Mill Btreet, and berrifs came in several days ago to others of the plants. General ly, they were either put into cold storage, or sold out for fresh fruit, as they came, in too small quantities to operate the big can neries The rain of the past few days is . expected to increase the berry Chassis . Roadster. 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We firmly believe that there is not another stock car, outside of a Chevrolet, in the United States, selling under $1,500,00 that can duplicate this performance, using the same gear ratio, which Is three and sixty-five one-hundredths to one on high gear. : : v This performance only proves what the Chevrolet, Valve in head will do.' We are willing to make affidavit as to the truth of this test, and if doubted, will make it agaim Remember this was a strictly STOCK car,, the same as i every purchaser of Four Ninety Superior Chevrolet gets, had no adjustments or tuning up prior to the test and you buy an exact duplicate of this car, NEW, for, $663.00 delivered at Salem. Witnesses to the above trial. E. A. BROWN, Representative of Capital Journal. L. C. NEWTON, Representative of Oregon Statesman. ' G.-H.'SAUDER, Representing Oleson Auto Exchange. ; Salem Automobile 6. F.G.; Delano : Salem-Dallas A. LEoff