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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1925)
iiifc OREGON STATESI.IAN, SALE1I, OREGON ; .SUNDAY 2IPRNING. JULX19, 1S25 Me City Gefs i4r Afatf V Sale of Willys-Knight Sleeve Valve Fours Gaining, Reports Show ::; ; Officials ot WillyOverland In? dicate that the 4-cyllnder Wlllys Knlght Is enjoying even more popularity now than It aid a year ago or three years ago and that a steady demand for . these models has enabled the company to stan dardize these models in production that It dlrectlly meets competition both in and out of Its own class Probably no other teaturef ever offered to the automobile owner i has been as popularly received as has the . . Lancbester Balancer which Is now standard equipment on all 4-cyllnder Willys-Knight cars, company jofficials say. This device, of 'English origin and pa tented in this country by "Willys Overland, is used exclusively on the Willys-Knight fours, elimin ating the motor vibration so com mon in . most - 4-cylinder cars. Owners and drivers ot these mod els repeatedly Inform the company heads of the remarkable smooth ness made possible in their cars by this unusual feature. Undoubtedly much of -' the popularity of the 4-cylinder Willys-Knight is due to the trim ap pearance and fine equipment . of these models according to dealers who have analyzed Incidents lead ing to the unusual sales of these cars. The retailers in Willys Overland's big organization claim that the economy In the 4-cylinder, sleeve valve motors needs no Introduction to the public and that the Willys-Knight fours and sixes are continually being, purchased by former owners of, the poppet type of motor. , No other feature noted in the sales of Wlfiys-TCnigfit four by dealers everywnere in tne con tinued inroads ot these '4-cylinder models into the sales fields of many 'of the lighter types of six cylinder cars' of other makes; Dealers further report to the fac tory that the everyday experience of hundreds of drivers who have handled thele cars' from 50,000 to 200,000 miles with a minimum of trouble from the Willys-Knight best of sales factors, ia favor of motor has reacted as one of the the 4-cylinder line of Willys- Knights. - " CPA An MOTORBiKE HILL CLIMB EVENT SLATED TODAY FIFTH. ANNUAL MEET TO BE HELD AT ROCKY BUTTE , Best Riders in. Northwest Expect ed to Participate 1b lort . land Event ' Sunday afternoon Portlanders and vbltors will-have the oppor tunlty of witnessing one of the I greatest motorcycle competitive I events of the Pacific coast.' when riders compete la the fifth annual Rocky Butte hill climb. Rocky Butte Is one ot the hardest hills in the northwest and as yet no one has succeeded in going over the top. although some of the best riders in the west have tried. Rocky Butte has been awarded the North Pacific sectional hill climbing rating for this year, and because ot that fact many of the country's stellar riders will per form Sunday in an effort to gain glory for themselves and the ma chines and companies they Chicago Boasts Largest Meadow Park Area in US : When Clair V. Vance, brought his plane to the jrround in Sacramento with the first air malt that city received he 'was met by Jack Padjan in the role of Pony Express rider; The air mail" car Vies mail from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento in less than a day. The Pony Express riders, sixty years ago, took seven, and a half days to ride the 1966 miles of wilderness and plain. '. 1 the United States la ihe one in Washington park here.. It has an area of 101.7 square acres, which is nearly one-third of the total area of the park. The meadow is as level as en gineering skill can make it and It is covered ; with a velvet coat of grass. There is space for 280 per fect football gridirons, 125 base ball fields and more than 1,800 tennis courts. : ' Here Chicago's multitudes find room to "stretch their legs." The meadow Is surrounded by shaded walks and pleasure drives, minia ture lakes and flower gardens. The famous "Bug Glub' an insti tution unique to Chicago, meets- at this spot. Men, women and. child ren of every description-' gather in groups to listen to soap box ora tors, and demagogues deliver im passioned messages. It Is a place where the American right to abso lute freedom of speech is unhamp ered. -: i, ' Washington park is tne second largest of Chicago's parks, ranking next to Jackson, which has an area of 564 acres. More than $2,700,f 000 has been Bpent" In Improve ments, plus the. original cost - of the land. . The park has 110 ten nis .courts. 29 baseball diamonds tillCAGC The largest clear. lev-1 and two football fields, in addition el grass .meadow in any park in' to 45,000 square feet of children's playground; 25,000 square feet ot wading pools and 1,580 bquare feet of sand courts. , , - The cleared level space occupy ing the northern end known as the meadow," is approximately 2.000 feet wide and 3,000 feet long. State of Washington Is : Spending Much for Roads SEATTLE More than 117. 000.000 are to be spent on Wash ington state's pay-as-you-go x$ad building program during-the com ing biennium. Of this sum it is estimated $14,500,000 will be available . from licenses for motor vehicles, and a tax of two cents a gallon on gasoline; "52. 250, 000 from federal aid, and nearly $500, from forest funds, v , C 1 Four bridges on the Pacific highway between ? Everett and Marysville,' in the .'Northwestern section of the state, $1,000,000. During the past 20 years Washington- - state has appropriated $50,000,000 for highways, and received $10,000,000 from the federal aid fund, and has 2,465 miles of improved highways to show for its money. Of this mile age 537 are paved and 1,770 grav eled. ECONOMY IS STRESSED IN DESIGN OF AUTOS resent. Alt A gold medals will be awarded at this meet. Cody Evans, veteran cyclist. will represent Harry Scott." of Sa lem in the event. Cody Evans took second place in the contest last year. P. L. Abbot, of Port land, and Harry Scott, ot Salem, both have a chance to win tor the third time, and thes gain perman ent possession of the Oregon Jour nal trophy." - It ' was under the auspices of the -Oregon Journal that the Rocky Butte hill climb was first instituted as an annual sporting occurrence. The sport or bill climbing has grown rapidly in popularity during the last few years until now it has become one of the crowd drawing features of the sport world. The reason for this popularity ia prob ably that the sport is thrilling to the spectator and apparently is full ot danger although very few casualties occur. - . is one of the notes made y sir 1 Ernest Bain, chairman ot the fin ance committee of the Leeds Uni versity who recently returned from visit to universities la. Canada and the united " States. In a lengthy rport he says In practical ly every university the stadium was pointed out with emphasis, the master of .sport: has a very com fortable position, and the tremen dous emphasis placed on sport is causina- university authorities In America grave anxiety. "I heard of one case," he said. "where a town's butcher had been enrolled as a member of the unl verslty because he had exceptional ability as a footballer ration of the'unlversitles.'he note that ia every American university, - we ammni are wen orsv powerful, so powerful as to create, difficulty In , many eases. , as , they fl not only lay down conditions upon t which gifts art made to t&Ci .unl-'J verslty but there is an active In terference with teaching. On the question of salaries, af ter detailing the amount paid to professors, be says It is significant that the individual responsible tor sports in all the' great universities receives a payment substantially higher "than that ot any academic member, even including the ckaa . cellor. , Dealing with details of organi- Read the Classified Ads Britisher Says American Colleges Are Sport Mad LONDON That .universities rep- overseas have gone mad on 'sport WALTER P. CHRYSLER'S TDAcnr-TAi us m.r OVERLAND, WILLYS-KNIGHT MODELS WIN i MARKS Arduous Mileage Tests Over All Kinds of . Roads Tell Story of Saving IPtof it Goacli How this One - ; ; ; : is built by Studebaker von the sturdy Standard Six Chassis t I .1 SUPERFICIALLY' other coaches . may resemble tbia ; Stndebaker Standard -Six, bat the resemblance r31 not stand anaysia. Only two cars are made on a one profit basis "-Ford fa the lowest price "-field and Stndebaker in the fine, car field. Only ia these two cases are all bodies, engines, dutches, gear sets, springs, differentials, steering gear and axles designed, eitliteered - and mannfactizred by one company v ContrasttUs with the average car, where the extra profits of many out side parts and body makers must be indnded fa the purchase price. These profits arc part of the production cost of the car the same as the steel and wood of the -body. They do not buy materials nor workmanship ta-they do not make any car one whit better. Studebaker has achieved one-profit manufacture tV.rn.KrH mmmrm' tt . fiT-iehttd management and $515 Down And the balance in 18 montnly , pay-, ments of t $61.77. Come : in and see how easy it Is to buy this Standard Six Coach on oar liberal budget payment plan engineered and mannfacrnred under one -management, . to work more efficiently with every other part A better car because Stndebaker can afford to use finer upholstery, better steel, higher grades of lum ber, more painstaking workmanship fa hundreds of unseen places. - - ' Scores of thousands of miles of excess transportation are built into every Studebaker. . When the car which looked like an equal ralae while it was new, is breaking up, ' the Studebaker is breaking fa, '- That is why in Arizona out . where desert heat and rugged moun- " ; tain trails test automobiles to the utmost Studebaker sells double its normal pro- Krtion of cars. Every county fa Arizona which s bought an automobile for its sheriff has bought a Studebaker., - ' , "While the price has been kept down to a point which has been the sensation of the industry, per formance is the real reason back of the remarkable growth in pop ularity of Overland and WHlys Knlght cars this year." says J. H. Alfred, manager for the Pacllle Northwest for the Willys-Overland Pacific company.",,! j '.: .;; "Early in the year our engineer ing department made the promise that the performance of our cars "avw. .... i ....... ..t. will absorb 11118 year wouia 'Bcf ; These engineers- made ' this claim for the standard four cylin der Overland model and they bore it out in results. These cars have established a national economy record which has not been broken In arduous mileage tests oyer all kinds of roads they have estab lished a reputation for freedom from repairs which is the surprise of the so called small car field.' "In the new Overland Six oui engineers told us that we. would have a car which, tor acceleration speed, power, or hills and genera road ability, could not be ap proached. : ,Their claims .have been well borne out. In a recent series of tests to determine accel eration, the Overland Six defeat ed some ot Che fastest horses on the Pacific coast in the favorite sprint distance of of a mile and this meant that the car had to accelerate to better than 30 miles an hour from a standing start In slightly over 600 feet." "Against a 100. yard dash man with .a record ot 4 45 seconds. the Overland had to step from s standing start to better than 20 miles an hour in 300 feet and it beat the runner by 45 of a sec ond." : l. "Tests are now being conducted on important hills all over the Pa cific coast territory and -already the results are . proving that the engineers' claims are going to be exceeded." -;i :; !; ,. "In the 4-cylinder XTlllys-Knlght model, we were promised a-power and road ability : 1 development which would surprise us. Equiv alent progress has been made In this model."; ; i v "The eyes of the entire automo bile Industry were focused on the v Miys-tinignt six, and tnis car has also stepped far ahead of what was promised for it." Every city and town, regardless of size, should have a comprehen sive, far-seeing traffic program. Every community has ITS traffic problem, and, generally, the size of the community determines its seriousness. In laying oat new thorough fares and new - real estate de velopments thought should be given to the width of streets and highways, to the amount of park ing area nd to the width of sidewalks. Many cities in de veloping their suburbs are mak ing a time-old mistake of too nar row streets and highways. Today most houses are equip ped with garages. There ' are more families owning motor cars than there are families . owning none. This calls' for wider streets, wider highways, parking space that adequate, sidewalks that are of the proper width. As a town grows and the num ber of its motor vehicles increase traffic problems' become more numerous . and , more, serious. Then the community that antici pated this" situation will be proud of its foresight. ' Cities are learning that it is a good plan to route commercial vehicles motor , driven or horse hauled away from avenues used chiefly by passenger cars. They are also learning the necessity of keeping records of incoming and outgoing travel so that tne Dor den of traffic can be relieved by routing along designated avenues. Plan for the future growth of your city. f .'-j-lFir : v 1 a A Body for Every Business When you buy a Graham Brothers TrUck you have your choice of the largest line of standard bodies in the , industry. Whatever your require ments may be, Graham Brothers" ; . can supply you at minimum cost. , ; 1 BONESTEELE MOTOR CO. 474 S. Commercial ' Telephone 423 ' Graham Brothers Trucks. $CU BY DODO E BROTHERS DEALERS EVERYWHERE WILLYS-O VERLAN D f FINE MOTOR CARS A- Tuiz Coupe-Sedan vlSMIS'MOTOIR. CARS ........ .' ; . ' j .' "" t , - ' k , 5 . . Miles 1 T, SSipthing to -This Qredt Caf This coach is not a one year car thmuh -irrrfir en thoeart of atoekholders. Earn- " As a lendldample of the facts stated above.: tags which might hare been distributed hare been r we offer the Standard Six Coach, To appreciate retained fa business to bofld one of the largest tlxis ear you, must see it and ride in 1 it We wge gray iron foundries fa the world, to erect stamping yon to do so immediately. It is called a coach. ot , Irkffls, forgesTeT to purchase the finest labor- is fa reahty a roomy fiTcpassenger . coupe. , . saring machmery. to construct enormona body- It is a car that w31 give rou faithful economical service. It is buut to yield dependable, ccomortabla ' transportatio& for years and years. : i 5 -;:;; i . Buv now no more "vearlv models: - l . T"V.'- Im ili. rt ttit m m1l.ii mi In.. - tated to purchase an automobile, fearing that the car they bought in July would be made obsolete artificially by the announcement of new yearly models fa August or September. Studebaker has discontinued : the .' custom of r presenting ' yearly models. Instead. Stude bakers win be kept up to ' the minute fa body styles and chassis design re gardless of the calendar. . Come in NOW and see this sturdy, dependable one-profit Coach. bmldinv nlanta. As a result, resources totaling one hundred ma-. lion dollars are concentrated open the production of one-profit automobiles such as this Standard Six Coach. 1 - -.- -y-v:'-:-VA, ..." l ;'- J ; ; What does it mean to you! ' To you, as an automobile buyer, this means: ; ' LA Lower Price. - . -p "2. A Better Car. : A LOWER PRICE, because Srtidebaker does ftotTieed to pile its profit upon the profits of out tide parts manufacturers and body buuders. A BETTER CAR, because it is a thcmghly co ordinated, harmonious unit. Every part designed. 1 - L MARION AUTOMOBILE CO. 1 SS5 South. Commercial Street, Salem. Oregon OPES DAY AND NIGHT Phone 863 THIS' IS: A SJUDEBAK;E& ' "YE AR- PriYate Capital Sought to Aid Soviet Industry MOSCOW Problems of Inter nal trade are no wengarins the closest attention of the Soviet gov- ernment. The ' recent conference of the Communist party and - the fdeeral congress of Soviets passed a number ot reforms to. facilitate private Uade and to attract pri- i vate capital to general trado and Industry. The government . has found after many years of war up on private trade that prlvato cap i'al In Russia' does not exceed 5,- OOS.O 00 rubles. ' The trade turn over hardly reaches 2,000.000,000 rntiies a vear. ' . - Moscow, which Is cons'dered the! I biggest trade center In thi Soviet Feleratlon. made a trade turnover last year of 1.723,00,00ft rubles. The bulk of this sum falls upon Mate and - rtwperatlve trade.- ' 3 ; per cent ot the Moscow Industries ar In the hands of the state -ndl only seven per cent is in th? handjil ot cooperatrres and private con cerns. Prtvtto manufacturers in I lloscow employ only about 1 0,0 0 0 ; worxmen, wuicn is omy -1 .3 per 1 nt of the total number of work ers engaged In Moscow industry. Mileage that usiiaHyjfieam the end of satisfactory service to many cars only serves to prove to the" owner -of a Willys-Knight that the motor improves with use There are great numbers of users of Willys-Knight cars who have driven in excess of 50,000 miles without eipense for motor repairs The Willys-Knight sleeve-valve engine has no carbon troubles. .It never needs valve -grinding. All moving parts in this engine slide or rotate with none of -the 'con cussion of metal pounding on metal ' as in poppet-valve engines. Thafs why you'll never wear it out I r Another greatreason for the Willys' Knight's popularity is its freedom ; from vibrariontliaiiks to this car' having exclusive United States rights to the celebrated Lchester Balancer. -':'"':' Four-cylinder models from $1295 to $1695. Six -cylinder models from $1845 to $2495 All prices to. b. Toledo. We reserve the right to change prices and specifications without notice t x - ickBmihers, l High Street at Trade I i -; I v Telephone 1 841
