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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1924)
Military Tournament Will Be Spectacular O. A. C. Cadets s O. A. G. Elaborate preparations are be ing made for the Tenth Annual Military tournament at OAC on May 26, under the direction of Lieutenant Patrick Henry Tansey, ol the Engineer Corps. The tour nament is given by 'the ROTC, which trains students for fire ma jor branches of the United States army senrice, infantry, cavalry, fled artillery, engineers and mo tor transport corps. The program has been divided into three sec tions, a polo tourney and a mili tary circus. The former will be played at 3 o'clock and the latter staged in front of the stadium be ginning at 7 o'clock. Judges will be R. B. Rutherford, Michael But yi : - v J ! HIGHWAYS EAST FROM SPOKANE H ROUGH AT PRESENT, REPORT Highways east of Spokane are in poor condition at present due to snow or construction work, ac cording to a' letter received here from W. M. Flahery. publicity sec retary for the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. Is response to in quiries regarding automobile travel. '..' "The Inland Automobile asso Q1IHILL T Twelve Counties Now Closed i By Quarantine Regu ' - lations (From Los Angeles T.'mes.) More insistent demand came during the past ,week that all mo torists, refrain as far as possible from pleasure touring, owing to stricter quarantine regulations being placed in effect to stamp out the foot-and-mouth disease. Pleasure-seeking motorists, picnickers, bikers, hunters and anglers are finding all mountain road closed to them. ' In these, districts only those making their homes there the.' year round, or those having urgent business are allowed to pass. The latter class mustob tain permits from the horticul tural department. Hello! What Is It? The touring bureau of the Au- lUck-Yard Shrine, Erected EFFECT MOTORIS in Memory of Husband, Is Illuminated at Night If; J i ' i'iS- ' rY Wr33--y ft' 'ill J. AI4ed by frtenda. Mri. D. Sor rnino has rectd an unusual thrlne In the back-yard of her THE OREGON STAlfeSMAN. SALEM OREGON with "Apgie Roy" their 153 Rifle. Preparing for Big Tournament. . Cadets Jumping Practice for Big ler, R. O. Coleman and Robert Hager; Colonels D. E. Dentler, T. M. Anderson j and Robert Mc Leave. ; . , -" The polo tourney will be be tween the Portland Hunt club and the OAC cavalry team and will be in charge of Captain Glenn S. Fin- lcy. y y:V The second phase of the tourney has been divided into three acts, with 12 scenes to the first act. The program will open with a mil itary ; review and ceremony, in which all ROTC' units will partici pate. This will: bo followed by a wall scaling competition, under the direction of Lieutenant Leo Clarke; an exhibition polo con test; a cavalry exhibition ride, a ciation of thl3 city. f 3 advising all tourists who can possibly do so to hold over a few weeks before at tempting to cros the mountains," the letter stated. "However, the national parks highway via6aiui-. point and Thompson Falls Ij open but extremely round. It is be lieved that this highway will bo open to all travel by May 10th." tomobila club j has been deluged with inquiries during the past week relative to campaign regula tions on leaving the county. There arc now- twelve counties closed by quarantine regulations, which means that they have bad the foot-and-mouth disease within their borders, j The3e are L03' An geles, San Bernardino, Kern, Mer ced, Mariposa, Stanislaus, Ala meda, Contra! Coasta, Napa, San Francisco, San Joaquin and Sal ano. At the borders of all of these are quarantine stations. These are closed to the motoring public from 6 in the evening until 6 in the morning, and due to only the main roads being open, there is of necessity considerable delay in getting through. The surrounding countiej have served notice that pleasure motorists are - not wel come so long as the quarantine regulations are in force. In Ven tura county a five-hour fumiga tion for camping parties i3 im posed at the border. Motorists going there with camping equip ment are advised to be fumigated at the county , line, as previous fumigations will . not bo recog nized, for tho authorities are not satisfied with other processes than their own. Y ! by Syracuse Woman ' 11 it 1 1 i I n ory of her husband who died & few months ago. It is Illuminated at night by both electric bulbs and . 1 J . -A ' 1 ' 4 V ' - Tourney. tug of war, an artillery exhibition drill, infantry machine gun com petition between the Corvallia na tional guard unit and the OAC in fantry; a ladies' riding exhibition, rescue race, "fighting engineers in action," and the presentation of prizes. - . . . One of the most spectacular sham battles ever staged at night in the Willamette valley will be beld during ; night operations. This will bo followed by a pyro technic display, which Is her alded ast one of the best fireworks display since the Panama-Pacific International exposition. ; Many'Salem people are already making plan3 to attend this tour nament. . - On the Orange county lne cars equipped with camping outfits are turned back for three miles to Or. Heath's office on the highway at the outskirts of Whittier, where fumigation is done at a charge of 50 cents. Passengers are not re quired to be disinfected. Animals ana otner articles on wticn an emBargo ha3 been placed .are not allowed. : '.;! - '' '. f'- In San .Bernardino county all cars are stopped at the line be yond Pomona and inspected. Those equipped with camping outfits are sprayed at the county line. "No charge has yet been placed on this service. ' - , Motorists with camping equip ment desiring to leave 'Los An geles county must go to 1248 Pro duce street, which i3 r one block south of Sixth and just east of Alameda 6treet, and be fumigated. This station is open from 7:30 in the morning until the work of the day is completed. A charge is made of $3 a car for fumigation. $5 for two cars, $7 for three cars, and 8 for four car3. Large tracks are $4 and smaller trucks 3. The opening of the fishing sea son has been postponed quite gen erally. In some counties the date for opening has been fixed at June 1 and July 1, but this will be sub ject to change, depending on the foot-and-mouth disease. Under the state law counties may restrict fishing within Jheir own borders under certain conditions at their own option, which accounts for the different dates in the proposed opening of the angling season. The Automobile club has noti fied all of its twenty-nine branches to continue to discourage all pleasure traveling and to advise motorists that they may expect de lay and inconvenience when trips are undertaken, whether for busi ness or pleasure, i f j Too to work in crowded cars, eat cold lunches at the shop, get home late too tired to enjoy.our evenings. . N. Did it ever occur to you that a bicycle will get you quickly and easily to work, home at noon for a hot meal, ; and early enough af night to enjoy some of the sunshine with your family, with healthful exercise that you would not have time to get in any other way. Think it' over and then come in and let us tell you of our easy terms. Harry W. Scott "The Cycle Man." 147 So. CoirTI St. A. A. A. APPEALS TO T Don't Destroy Nature Is Advice- Dcbrie Dangerous' Trospects for a more satisfac tory touring season for motor car owners were brightened this week when the American Automobile association issued an appeal to all tourists to refrain from any form of carelessness in their habits that might, tend to desecrate the countryside. According to Thomas P. Henry, president of the American Auto mobile association, the country side must be kept attractive as an Investment In touring satisfaction, and the tourist, he poin's out, has a direct interest in furthering the movement in each individual act. The automobile has brought the countryside of America to the American people, but It must not hide it again under the litter of picnic debris, he declared. - . Mr. Henry feels that the subject is far too important to be spoken of in anything but specific terms. Accordingly he has made the fol lowing definite requests: "When you "come to a beauty spot that has been wrecked by an earlier ' picnic party don't com plain. See that you don't leave a similar sight for the motor tourist who follows you. , "A wildf lower on the bush is worth ten in the tonneau, with ered and trampled. Leave the flowers where you can pnjoy them most. If motorists are to strip America of her foliagp mo toring will be stripped of one of its fundamental assets. I "Debris Is dangerous. The care less smoker plus the littered p'c- nic spot result in the forest fires that wreck the countryside, liter ally and figuratively. Bare hills encourage swollen streams and floods. Floods ruin the roads and lay waste the valleys." GARDNER'S STRENGTH SHOWN BV FINANCIAL STATEMENT , The financial statement for the year ending December, 1923, re cently issued by the Gardner Mo tor, company. Incorporated, of St. Louis, shows a net surplus of more than 10 per cent for the year after all liabilities, including 155,000 shares of outstanding stock, dealers' deposits and ac crued liabilities such as war tax, etc.. had been provided for. Cur rents assets. Including cash on hand, materials at co3t, accounts receivable, buildings, "machlneYy and equipment owned by the coin pany, are more than forty times greater than current liabilities. The company has no commercial debts or bank obligations of any kind. "Any man versed in finance,? said Russell K. Gardner, formerly president and now chairman of the board of directors of the Gardner Motor Co., Inc., "knows that the only true method of gauging financial soundness is by comparing liabilities to liquid as sets. And the statement just is sued shows that the Gardner Mo company, Incorporator, has more than $40 in resources against each dollar of obligations. To the best of my knowledge, no company in the automobile business is in . a more sound financial position than the Gardner Motor Co., Inc. 1 "Our policy has always been to 'make haste slowly.' Operating on our own capital, and with.no outside financial entanglements, we have been able to run our bus iness the way forty years of manu facture experience indicate it should be run. We build a car upon which we aro proud to put our name and sell it at a price which enables us to meet all com petition and still bring us a profit over and above all expenses. Wc pay cash for all parts and mate rials, and produce our - cars in large enough volume to get the benefits of quantity buying and quantity production. In this way. we not only earn substantial dis- Ride a Bicycle and Live! many of U3 keep our nosea the grindstone. We ride to MOTORS counts denied t3 the manufacturer operating on a long-time credit basis, but we are able to effect substantial manufacturing econo mies which enable us to offer the prospective owner of a car which is, we believe, unequalcd' at its price. . '- , Y ' u - "Proof that the public appreci ates this shown by. our produc tion records for the first quarter of 1921. Though January was an exceptionally busy month, Febru ary production was 100 per cent greater than that of January and March production 110 per cent greater than that br February." 5 ; SUPPLIES BOUGHT Five , hundred million lock washers were purchased . in one year by one automobile manufac turing corporation In thialcountry Most of the European automobile manufacturers buy this small but important unit a few thousand or so at a timet and pay the small quantity priced ; This same Ameri can producer purchases 375,000 tons of steel every 12 months European t manufacturers buy three or four thousand tons. This same condition obtains right down through ' the entire automobile manufacturing process. This is the reason why American made automobiles can .be shipped abroad, pay a stiff import duty. and yet compete with foreign cars, according to It. K. Jack, chief en gineer of the Olds Motor Works, Lansing, Mich. Y "European manufacturers still continue to use hand instead of machinery methods and to buy in small quantities," said Mr. Jack. "Only cheap labor makes It pos sible for them to operate at all Quantity purchasing and is use to the utmost by the two big out standing producers in this country is almost incomprehensible to the European mind." . TltAVEL KKDK i:i) A very large proportion of the auto traffic that was let through casterward lately at Yuma bridge passed Phoenix by on its way to ward Texas, generally taking the cutoff along the Southern Pacific between Gila Bend . and Casa Grande. , Hence, no problems of relief have been known to the lo cal authorities or have been re ported at the office of the Auto mobile Club, v Cross-country travel has been -suspended almost en tirely, though a few cars are pass lng on the'way to the Coast, com pared with about 100 a day a month before. . The weather man ai ways "keeps one more cold day in stock to use when j'ou take down the stove. a , 11 s r . . 1 ' 17 In, SUNDAY MORNING, GHIiETAX Figurcs for Month of April and Also for Recent Years . are Shown During he month of March the state tax on gasoline amounted to $182,282.10, according to a state ment by Sam A. Koxer, secretary of state. , v "Taxes were remitted on 5.807.949 gallons of gasoline and 352.379 gallons of distillate." says the statement. "Of the total col lected the sum of IS9.841.40 re sulted from the operation of the original law imposing a tax of one cent a gallon on gasoline and one- half cent a gallon on distillate, while 1122,440.70 was returned under the additional tax law pro viding for a uinform rate of two cents a gallon on all kinds of mo tor vehicle fuels. i 1 "The February , sales of gaso line represent an" increase of ap proximately 22 per cent over the sales mads during the preceding month, distillate sales having more than doubled. "To date the motor vehicle fuels tax measures have brought to the state treasury the total sum of $3,498,303.07. "Of the amount collected under the law of 1921 there has been returned up to April 30 the sum of : $132,665.08 to operators of farm tractor, motor boats, com merclal cleaning establishments, etc., pursuant to .that provision authorizing refunds of taxes on such motor vehicle fuels as are used for purposes other than in the operation of motor vehicles upon the public highways. Motor vehicle fuels taxes are credited to the state highway fund, becoming available for expenditure in the construction and maintenance of state highways." Famous German Airman Killed in Peace Flight KASSEL, Germany, April 7 by mail). Otto Linnekogel, ' the fa mous war pilot who recently broke hl3 neck in a fall from a height of . 90 feet, apparently was a victim of nercous collapse. Ho had not flown for six yea re decided to take out a new pilot's license and met death on his first flight. Linnekogel was extremely un S COMPUTED Announcing The New CHEVROLET We are now in our new building opposite from the City Hall at High and Chemeketa street. ' " ": - ." ' t ' ' " ' - - Y . " In this new modern home we will be in a position to serve our patrons better than ever before and at the same time better display our line. Our service department and shop are located in the same building... We expect to have everything cleaned up and ready? for your inspection in a - - "... " ' Jw y - i- '---( few days. Watch for our announcement. Newton -Chevrolet Co. Opposite City Hall Phone 1000 MAY 4, 1924 easy and showed himself to be. out of training when be entered the airplane. As the macnine leu the gruond spectators were horri fied to see him rise from ms sei when the car was about 90 feet in the air, and jump out. 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