The Oregon statesman., December 21, 1924, Page 20, Image 20

SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1924
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-. Although It
months before
will be some
accurate figures
are "cMained which will show the
rast sums of money spent for
highway construction in the Unit
ed States during 1924, authorita
tlTe estimates place the total fully
twenty per cent! in excess of the
1923 figure, which was approxi
mately $1,000,250,000. This a
mount puts the highway industry
in the select class of billion dollar
enterprises. ; i '
A goodly porportion of this a
mount is appropriated to mainten
ance, as those in charge of high
way work are fuly aliye to the
fact that eren the most sceintific
ally constructed roads must be
maintained. No one has yet dis
covered a road surface that can
be put down and then left sever
ely alone. The continual stream
of traffic that passes over the
well-paved highways of the coun
try inexorably takes its toll, and
it requires unremitting attention
on the part of those to whom the
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Many Applications Received
1 for Dealers of This
, . . . Line
The unusually successful recep
tion, given the new Maxwell cars
the country over has resulted in
-hundreds of applications for deal
erships being filed with Maxwell
2-Ictor Sales corporation In the last
few weeks, according to J. E.
Fi jds, vice-president in charge of
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he company's records show
tbat;never ibefore in the history of
ti.a organization has the selling
fr?achise been so largely sought
af; sr, not only in this country but
in Europe and Australia. . i
,f ,,1Thls recent swing to Maxwell,
led by some of the most .prominent
dealers in the country, is undoubt
edly the outcome of the fine per
formance capabilities of the new
Uaxwell'Jilr. Tlelda pointed out.
Reports have been , received by
the company from scores of dealers
that actual performance records of
demonstrators surpass the slogan
of25 mles per gallon, 58 miles per
"it and acceleration from 5 to 25
miles in eight seconds' adopted by
tfca factory for the new model.
'Record sales of Maxwell cars
ara,. being reported in all parts of
the country," Mr. Fields said.
""Hundreds of ' our dealers sales
fcr. November were two, and three
Uses those of a year ago. In De
triiit," quite generally recognized
as, a barometer of the automobile
market; . our dealers took orders
fenr more than 125 Maxwells in
two weeks. That is an un-heard-of
record for November."
V V DO I NEED, GAS?
! Gasoline is probably low in the
tank. .You don't know, for sure,
v So -you hunt up a long stick,
run; it into the tank after getting
hands .all dirty unscrewing the'
tank cap, then carry, the stick into
the light to see how much of it Is
wet. Even that doesn't tell how
many "gallons there Is left.
The new Studebaker owner has
cone of that trouble. He doesn'f
get a lot of dirt Into the tank on
that stick,, or let it rain into the
opening if it is storming.", :
. ; He sits at his wheel and glances,
at the indicator on the instrument
board and It tells his exactly: how
niany gallons remain. At 20 miles
to the gallon; that tells him -how
far he can go f 6 get the -kind 6t
gasoline he wants to -use ..;
t SLI) CAR SALES ARE URISK
; December business has been ex
ceptionally good for the Certified
rubllc - Motor Car ! Marked , The
average has been close to a car a
day and many of these have been
rood sized sales. This : may In
choate the idea if giving a car to
1 be family for Christmas has in
fluenced; the trade to some extent.
According to Byron Wright,
r aaager of the market, 1
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Vith this newfangled spelling
ii's Quite a social, --f unction ; to
;T3 to the shoppe for a choppe.
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higheway are entrusted
them in good condition.
to keep
ijuierenc
ance are in
methods lot main ten-
operation Un different
sections of the country. States,
counties, cities and various other
municipal organization all have
roads to maintain and, Vs was in
evitable, they have all followed
the same practice.' For a number
of years, the necessity for con
structing new roads ai4i recon
structing old ones to lqt-ep pace
with the ' enormous ( inctrease - in
automobile traffic, shohred the
maintenance problem iinto the
background but in the last few
years most of the states have been
making intensive studies of their
highway maintenance problems.
They have not all reached the
same conclusion, but so far as the
fundamentals are concerneil, they
are, approaching uniformity
A thorough discussion of state
maintenance of highways is otn the
program of the Annual Couven
tion ot -the American Road Btuild-
CITIES SHOULD STUDY
In a previous traffic talk I pointed
out the need for a city planning
commission. In this talk I want to
point how such a commission sbould
proceed. .'' I : . "
To begin with huge maps of the ,
city should be obtained and placed
side by side on walls so that the
streets and arteries of the city can
be seen and studied at a glance.
Secondly i counts , should be mads
of pedestrian and motor vehicular
and horse-drawn traffic at the busi
: est points of the street and the
; density of traffic Indicated on the
maps by different colors.
Studies should be made to see
. where the most traffic conies from
and where it Is going and at what
hours It is the densest.
'Thirdly a study of accidents
should be made and with different
colored pins these accidents should
be marked on the maps for a period
of time, preferably one month.
In New York such a study re
vealed an unasuau large number
of injuries to children in certain
lections of the East Side of New
York. The study showed that while
there .were, play grounds nearby the
children preferred to play In the
streets, wisely enough, the police
of New York designated certain
streets where these accidents took
place as play , street and did not
permit vehicles of any kind to go
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Call our
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. BATTERY REPAIRING
We maintain a complete repair service
for all storage batteries."
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Tap Phases of Highway
: Maintenance.
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ers Association to be held at the
Congress Hotel, Chicago, January
5 ! to 9 next. Prank T. Sheets,
Chief Highway Engineer of Illi
nois, has been selected as best
qalified to discuss this important
subject. Mr.! Sheets has risen
from the ranks in the Illinois
Highway Department and knows
every phase of highway work. He
is one of the younger men in the
highway field who have been ap
pointed to positions of great im
portance. The people of his state
have just voted an additional
$100,000,000 bond issue for high
way construction.
' The sort of maintenance need
ed, of course, varies with the type
of road maintained. The hard
surfaced road, such as the con
crete road or the asphalt suface,
requires considerably less atten
tion than a gravel or other second
ary surface. No state in the
country is lucky enough to have
reached the point where all of its
roads are of the hard surfaced
type, so one of the first problems
- ACCIDENT STATISTICS
on those streets except during cer
tain hours of the early morning for
delivery purposes. Immediately the
1 number of accidents in those sec
tions decreased. '
Another city in studying a map
on which were indicated time and
character of accidents discovered
that most of the accidents In that
city occurred at certain busy cor
' sers and daring the hours of 5 to 7.
Extra traffic officers were stationed
' at those corners and as a result
accidents decreased.
But the use of extra officers la
not enough. Cities must realise ,
; that the demands npon the modern
city are 'quite different from these I
of twenty or thirty years ago. i
Suppose someone were asked to
lay out a City. Would the streets
be of the same width as are most ,
streets today? Of course hot. They
f would be . wide .enough to permit
l four and six lines of traffic at least.
There would be separate areas for
' the slower moving vehicles and spe
dal areas for the faster moving
1 motor cars. , , .
Would sidewalks be as wide?
Probably not. With so many more
people riding than heretofore it fs ,
reasonable to assume that less room
would be devoted to pedestrians.
The modern city of today must
be adapted and changed to meet
the ' changed order of . transporta
tion. n.
Starter Sp ecialist and
start your car
Bring
letliim fix y our car so
START EASIER
"We give authorized
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is to so organize the maintenance
department that it can work e
qually well on either type of road.
This phase of the problem will be
discussed by Mr. Sheets.
; Another problem that comes un
der the head of maintenance is
snow removal. It was not so
many years ago that only the big
ger cities spent considerable sums
for snow removal, but now in all
the northern states, the highway
departments are removing snow
on the country roads under their
jurisdiction. Work of clearing the
snow on the through routes be
tween the big cities usually be
gins before the snow stops falling.
Most of the states have snow re
moval forces all ready to turn out
at any hour of the night or day
to begin work. Many of the ma
chines, such as tractors and blade
graders, which are used for main
tenance during the summer, are
called upon for snow removal in
the winter. The porportion of the
maintenance fund which goes into
snow removal, is considerable.
COMPRESSED AIR
TO AID FLYERS
Wind Tunnel, Used to Meas
ure Atmospheric Pressure;
Result Observed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. The
national advisory committee for
aeronautics expects to gather val
uable scientific information for
use in building aircraft from ex
periments that will be conducted
in its new variable density wind
tunnel at Langley Field, Va. This
tank, said to be the only one of
its kind in the world, has Just be
gun to produce results.
The tank is 35 feet long; 15
feet in diameter and weighs 83
tons. It is mounted on a concrete
foundation and is surrounded by
a working platform. Air, pressure
as high as 20 time atmospheric
pressure are made possible. As
men cannot work in a tank of
Greasing and Towing
We Gir Yon Tour
Money' Wortk.
Tires and
Accessories
TEXAS GARAGE
Guaranteed Expert Bepalrlng
Tords and Chevrolcts
Specialty
1999 Capitol St. Phone 520
Salem, Oregon.
let him
In
Yoiar Arm!
it will
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ELECTRICAL SERVICE
electric service on
Phone 203
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compressed air, small glass win
dows are on the side to enable
observers to gain scientific data.
A small model airplane is plac
ed inthe wind tunnel and mounted
on a balance or scale, which re
cords the lifting characteristics of
the airplane wings and the resist
ance of the 5 whole structure.
Through a honeycombed arrange
ment the air is driven through
the tunnel with a smooth flow,
with the airplane model suspend
ed in its path. ' -
By , experimenting " on models,
accurate calculations can be made
on which' the design of the new
airplanes is based. One of the
greatest problems of today, the
committee's officials declare, is
the non-functioning of a plane's
controls while it is flying at low
speed, especially when taking off
or about to land, thus causing ac
cidents. To endeavor to remedy
this condition and supply other
valuable information, the commit
tee's wind tunnel has been brought
into play.
The committee la an Independ
ent government establishment,
which includes the most eminent
men in aviation In the country,
all of whom serve without pay.
Vick Bro'thers to
Sell Own U$ed Cars
Vick Brothers decide they can
better serve their customers by
taking In their used car In ex
change on the new car. direct
from th customer. Selling new
cars now days requires more than
good salesmanship, as the new
car buyer is loking for the place
where he can get the best service
possible, as all standard makes of
new cars will give reasonably
good service, but the buyer is be
coming more and more interested
in the treatment he receives after
he has bought his car.
Vick Brothers fuly realize this
and are doing everything In their
power to equip their organization
to give the very best' service that
money can buy. Their organiza
tion now has the following de
partments: New car sales, parts
department, used car department,
painting department, battery de
partment, general repair depart
ment, tires and accessories.
Vick Brothers say they are go
ing to spend most of their effort
to see that each department gives
honest and courteous service to
the customer.
In looking over the Income tax
returns most of us are interested
in the how-come instead of the
Income.
It's an Overland. ; It seats four passengers. It
has doors front and rear. It's a family car. It's
a business car. It's a camping car. The Over
land Coupe-Sedan! QA distinct and exclusive
body creation with benefits and conveniences
never before built into a motor car. QDoors both
front and rear easy . entrance, easy exit no
climbing over seats or feeU QFront and rear
seats both adjust forward and backward to fit
tall and short people. QRear seat and up
holstery arc entirely removable giving 50 cubic
feet of square carrying space for anything and
everything a : salesman, merchant, farmer or
housewife wishes to carry, i QBoth seats quickly
GIFT PROBLEMS
oijiciay solved
Auto Accessories are a Quick
Solution of Gift
Problem ' 1
' With one motor vehicle for ev
ery 3.4 persons in the Pacific states
the preparation and filling - of
Christmas present lists has wel
comed a happy solution - In the
"Give Something for the Car"1 spir
it that is finding rapid favor here.
Those few who do not own au
tomobiles are fortunate in having
a friend or neighbor who shares
the pleasure of his possession with
them. In this way the average
person knows motor cars and
those accessories that tend toward
1921 Dodge Touf.
1923 Essex Tour.
1924 Star Tour.
1921 Studebaker Lt. 6 Tour.
Alcohol for Your
Radiator
Used Tires for
Gale
An automobile
makes a superb gift.
Why not come in to
day and select one
of our used cars?
You can't go wrong
here. We are de
pendable.
Certified Public
Motor Car Market,
255 N. Church
Phone 85
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VICE BROTHERS
High Street at Trade
heightened convenience and - com-1
fort, i- ;: ' ;
The giving of automobile acces
sories and equipment for Christ
mas presents' is dominant In the
minds of appreciative and thought
ful car owners and their friends;
and it is not amiss to give some
thing for the car since the entire
family will enjoy if.
So it is, a simple matter to solve
the gift problem when there Is an
automobile in the family and few
gifts could be more, appreciated by
the family in general than some ar
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These tires ought to cost more. They're
genuine Goodyear Balloons. And we give
standard Goodyear service ton them. Bargains
' at these prices.
29x4.40
31x5.25
32x5.77
33x6.20
33x6.75
34x7.30
Day & Zpsel
Commercial and Chemeketa Sts. Phone 66
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make into a full-length bed inthe car ideal for
camping trips. Large trunk at rear at small extra
cost. . Q Spanish long-grain upholstery tvas h
ahle QThe only closed car at the price with
'sliding gear transmission, a speedometer, foot
"accelerator, disc clutch and CXMPllETE EQUIP
MENT. It has lots of power. QReliability lives
j in its powerful engine and rugged rear axle. A car
! that saves you money in price and then saves you
money right along, all the time. 1 Big savings in
gasoline and oil less wear and tear on tires
! strength and' dependability that niinimize up
1 keep. Come in and see this remarkable Overland
f Coupe-Sedan at our Autumn Closed Car Show,
j You can buy it on the very easiest of easy terms.
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ticle that will add comfort or util
ity to their car. -
: Those without cars can show
their appreciation to their motor
ing friends wbo have' taken them
on week-end trips or Sunday ex
cursions by giving them a tire or
some needed accessory.
From the' activities noted at the
Western Auto Supplle company
during this holiday season, all in
dications point to a real automo
tive Christmas and the old family
sock will be filled with accessories
this year.
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