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SEVENTyrflF!TH JraAK
FIRSP PirEURES 1 0F
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In the Improved Ford runabout
stream lines and low 'construction
are accentuated. , The entire ap
pearance ot the iar BOffgestBjthe
cport type.- As in the touring cai,
coupe and , tudor, the gasoline
tank is suspended under1 the cowl
and filled without ; disturbing any
of the occupints; j A door at "the;
driver's 'left, and i storm curtains
which open with the doors; have
been provided. There islalso gen
erous room under; the rear deck
for luggage. j
Redesigning the Ford coupe has
not only given it a new degree of
State, County and Crty Op
erations Have Practically
Ceased at Present
PAVlnlG PROGRAM
EifflEQ fob en
. Faving operations in the state,
county and city ' are practically
over for the year, the only wvirk
of any, importance being the sur
Jacing of the Canemah section of
the Pacific highway - at - Oregon
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Approximately 73 miles : have
- been hard surfaced in the. state
this year. airbut 8i.2miles being
--. done by the I'variyusk counties,
-chiefly .Marlon,' Multnomah and
: Clack amas. At present there are
1280 miles of paving laid down
by the state highway dapartment
and counties.. ;
Marion county paved 16 miles
during the seasoa and graded and
graveled an additional 20 miles,
ccording. to y Jim Culver, county
road, master,. There will probably
not be so many miles paved next
-yar as the five-year program has
: been completed. However, atten
t ion will center upon the market
road program and an effort is be
Ing made to grade and gravel as
many miles s is possible. ecn year
in order to reach the outlying dis
trict. The road sof prepared will
be in readiness for; paving in fu
- tare . years. Marion . county; now
has ,138, miles of paving by the
county. Included in this amount
i are 3C miles of state paving oper
atlon. One of the main paving
jobs this season was the placing
of "black top" between St. Paul
and Newberg, giving another hard
surface route to Portland.
Eighty-four blocks were paved
with concrete in Salem this sea
son, involving , 85,400 square
yards, according . to - Walter S.
Britain May Take Seaplane Supremacy From U. S.
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'American airmen are worried xver the projpect. of .Great
iSchnerder Cap It he international seaplane, races lt Baltimore, Oct. 2. Britain is entering a
j"znjtry plaB6'CP).tePortc to b. capable of more than 3DQ miles aa hour. One of the Amer
ican entries (bottom) li the army'awumer" iothe Pulitaer trophy ce,jhich will be equipped witk
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beauty, but has increased its com
fort ami utility as well.- The body
Is lower and lowered on the chas
sis, contributing - to readability
and riding ease. The rear deck
also lias been redesigned to carry
out the stream line treatment of
the body, and provide a larger,
dust and, moisture proof compart
ment for luggage or parcels. Wide
doors, one-piece ; windshield, indi
rect ventilation' and improved
brake are other notable features
of the coupe.
The Ford ,'tndor in ehannell
green with lower body on a low-'
Low, street commissioner. There
was no black top laid in the city.
Streets and alleys paved this year
are as follows:
Alley, block 8; alley, Mock 2 Or
alley, block 19; Cottage from Fer
ry to Trade; Oak from Liberty to
High; Rural 'avenue from Com
mercial to High; Lefelle from
Commercial to Saginaw; Lefelle
from Fir; to Center, block 24;
Fairmount avenue from Superior
to Luther; Saginaw from Wash
ington to Lincoln; Fairmount avet
nue. from- Luther to Rura; Falr-t
mount avenue from Wilson td
Miller; University fnom Mill tq
Belleyne; Luther from Fir i td
Fairmount; Church, from Lefelle
to Howard, 3; Church from Hoyf
to Oxford. 3; Cross from. High t$
Church ; Thirteenth from Rural c
city limits, 3; Electric avenue
from High to Cot tage 2;- Mill
from 21st t'o Twenty-third; Trade
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from Corameretr Mt$riHt; Possible forthcifft fuftneFfiS
Howard from High to Church;
Belmont from Summer to Capir
tol; Eighteenth street - from D to
Market, 5; Ferry from Fifteenth
to Ninetieth; Marion from Twenty-third
to Twenty-foarth ;" alley.
"block 88; Court from Eighteenth
to Mill creek; Chemeketa frvm
Twentyq-first to Twenty-fourth;
alley, block 89 ; Winter from D to
Market, 3; Shipping from Capitol
to Cottage, 2; Shipping from Cap
ital to Southern Pacific R. R., 2;
Maple avenue from Highland to
South, 4; South from Cottage to
Maple; E street from Broadway
to Fifth; Market from -Commer
cial to Fifth, 4; Winter from
Market to South, 7; alley, block
50; alley, block 26; Lefelle from
Saginaw to Fir; Nebraska avenue
from Capitrol to Fifteenth, 3;
Leslie from High to Churcn. Now
total 12S0 miles paved highway
in Oregon. This includes three
cities.
The thorough cleaning of i the
spark plugs make a distinct dif
ference in the running of the en
gine, but the complete renwal of
all the plugs will make a still
greater difference. '
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FOUR MODEISS IMPROVED FORD CARSOGAlf DEMAND BIG
New Beauty arid
ered chase's is an ideal car for
family u e. With generous room
for five adult passengers, the to-
dor has been redesigned to incor-!
porato many new features of com
fort a i.J roadability, including the
placing . of the gasoline tank un
der the cowl where it may be
lilled from the outside, one-piece
ventilating windshield, lower
seats, improved control and larger
more powerful brakes.
LITTLE ECDK0WI1ES
CUT LARSE LOSSES
Apparently Trivial Waste
Found to Mount High;
New Machines Used
Automobile manufacturers are
constantly striving to reduce
manufacturing costs and thereby
lower the selling price to the pur
chaser. The .big economies have
long been effected in the'automo
bile business; but it is the small
apparently trival savings that the
more progressive manufacturers
are constantly seeking that mak
duce cpsst. These seemingly
small savings ; mean big ones,
however to the large scale man
ufacturers. For instance, a laundry ma
chine would, seem out of place in
an automobile factory v But such
a machine has recently been in
stalled by the Olds Motor Works.
This machine washes, rinses and
sterilizes 800 pounds of oil soaked
rags each day. Heretofore these
rags were destroyed after they
had been used but once. Now
they are reclaimed and do duty
until worn out. This results in
a considerable saving during the
year and is but one of the many
small economies successful auto
mobile manufacturers are using
to reduce expenses. The fact that
automobiles today are selling 25
per cent less than they did before
the war while general commodi
ties arei selling for 67 per cent
more, shows that the manufactur-
ers are
successful in eliminating
unnecessary costs
It is estimated that nearly 1.
000,000 motorists installed sets of
new spark plugs during Champion
National Change Week last May.
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Comfort in Coupe
Driving and riding comfcrt
have been materially increased in
the improved Ford touring car by
lengthening and redesigning the
body, suspending the gasoline
tank under the cowl and increas
ing the leg room in the rear com
partment. A door has been pro
vided at the driver's left and
storm curtains which open with
the dcors makes easy entry and
exit.
Trained Army Men Now Civilian
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For the first time in some years, the; two highest Ciilian posts
In the war department are hclct by "army men." Dwight W. Davis
(right), secretary of war, and. Han ford MacNwler, assistant secre
tary of war, both served in the world war as officers. They are seen
conferrinj: in the former's office in the war department.
TO GROW RUBBER
Manufacturer Announces a
Development of His Idea
Now Under Way
NEW YORK. Oct. 24. With
the leasing of 3 5,000 acres of
land in Mexico and 1,000,000 In
Liberia,, plans of Harvey S. Fire
stone, Sr., president of the Fire
stone Tire and Rubber company,
to produce his own rubber is
gradually reaching materializa
tion. The development of the
project, according to Mr. Fire
stone, will require a minimum of
1100.000,000.
As previously announced in the
Automotive Daily News, Mr. Fire
stone has long seen the need for
American produced rubber. The
increasing demand by this coun
try, now totaling 75 per cent of
the entire world's demand, and
the rigid restrictions on exports
by the British government, which
controls all but a small percent
age of the total "output, has con
vinced American rubber, manufac
turers for some time past, that it
was up to them to furnish their
own supply. Mr. Firestone has
been the leader in the movement,
and for the past three years has
conducted experiments and invest
igations in all quarters - of the
globe in an effort to find suitable
territory for rubber growing. ?
: Outlining his plans In an inter
view at the Hotel Plaza yesterday,
Mr. Firestone said he had formed
to planting organizations, and
expected eventually to have an
output of 250.000 tons of robber
a year, which is more than 50 per
cent of the world's present out
put. At present, America con
trols 3 per cent of thei world's
rubber production, the remaining,
7 per cent being controlled hy
British and Dutch' capital, "
f "This is the first big movement
that America has made to obtain
her own rubber,", said Mr. Fire
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! A contract-with the -Liberia
Tudor Ideal Family Closed Car
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The Valley. Ttfotor company, lo
cal Ford dealers, are still behjnd
with orders, but; are receiving
shipments right along and htope
to be able to supply the demand
without much delay, although
Manager W. L. Phillips advises
those wanting cars to place their
orders in plenty of time.
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government enables the American
company, Mr. Firestone said, to
survey the whole pf Liberia, and
choose here, and there the land
best suited for rubber production
until 1,000,000 acres have been
taken over. His plans call for
the employment of m'ore than
S00.000 natives, besides a ; great
organization of whites.
One 2,000-acrei plantation a
going concern in British hands
was purchased outright by the
company, and its! production of
thousands of pounds of raw rub
ber per month is coming to this
country, though the plantation is
being used mainly las a great nur
sery of rubber trees for the new
ones. Automobile Daily News.
BALL CHAMPS BUY CARS
WILLYS-KNIGHT ! SIXES PUR
CHASED BY MKADOW-YDK
During the world series games
in Pittsburgh and Washington,
two Pirate pitcher, Lee Meadows
and Emil Yde cheated quite a
sensation by driving; to and from
the games in their new Willys
Knight sixes which they had just
purchased.
The , two members of the new
world's championship team are
enthusiastic boosters for the new
sleeve-valve sixes and claim they
wouldn't own any other. -Yde,
who -proved an outstanding fig
ure during the (recent series,
bought a Willys-Knight six coupe
sedan while Meadows, who hurled
masterly iball against the great
Walter Johnson in the"- series
opener in Pittsburgh, is the proud
possessor of a - Willys-Knight , tip
sedan. Both ears were purchased
through the Norri Motor com
pany. Willys-Overland dealers in
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Notice to Advertisers
In order to better take care
of the Luge volume of adver
tising for -the Kunday States
man; it Is necessary for fopy for
the Aatomoblle Section to' be
in not later than Thursday eve
ning Instead of Friday. : We
ask your 'cooperation in tbis
.matter and assure you better
paper: each Sunday morning.
Advertising manager.
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Another large shipment of cars
will arrive here during the week
but orders already plated .will
take a large number from this
anvount. By the time the next
shipment is received the aVlley
Motor company believes it will be
i na positio nto guarante immedi
ate delivery on all orders.
vm SALES
One Profit Plan Has Develop
ed 1925 Sales. Over
Previous Year
"If the buyer of every auto
mobile had to make just one car
he would understand thoroughly
how much the term 'One-Profit
Manufacture' introduced to the
industry during the summer,
means to each purchaser," declare
Studebaker officials.
. In otherwordsJfhe had to
buy the eriginew?"from one maker,
the body from another, and from
different makers had to purchase
axles, transmissions, springs and
other important component parts,
then fit them together to make
the car run, these things would
be apparent to him at once:
The necessity for revising his
original plans to accommodate the'
size, shape and power of the en
gine; to make the body fit and
present a neat appearance: to ar
range all component parts so they
runction with each other.
The profit paid each separate
manufacturer for the part which
he produced would add up to a
respectable total In the entire cost.
Now if this buyer were to sell
his product adding his profit to
the entire cost to him, he would
realize 'what a proportion on his
selling price was represented bj
no actual value in the car, having
gone to pay these profits.
Studebaker lays no claim to
having originated the thought,
having found it already taking
strong hold of the car-buying
public mind. But a survey of the
field demonstrated that just as
Ford was the only manufacturer
of low-priced cars having suffi
cient plant equipment to manu
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facture cars complete and avoid
filling his price with parts-makers
profits, so Studebaker with $100,
000,000 in assets enjoyed that
distinction alone in the fine car
field. Probably no phrase has
been as much talked of during
the past season in the industry,
ad the result has bee a continua
tion of sales through 1925, con
siderably in excess of those during
1924.
DEALERS DECORATING
CAR AXD ACCESSORY FIRMS
DRESS FOR HALLOWE'EN
The fact that, hallowe'en time
is drawing near is called to our
minds by the window decoration
of automobile accessory houses.
Smith- & Wat kins, local tire and
accessory dealers Bare" their Court
street window- decorated for the
occasion. A background of yel-
fow and black with black cats and
witches bring out the color
scheme. Jack-o'-lanterns ot pump
kins with electric lights inside,
and spot lights with a face paint
ed on the - lens fill the window.
.Dana Straw, salesman and 'win
dow decorator for the firm is re
sponsible for the display.
At the Salem Automobile com
pany, H. E .Shade has put in a
very attractive window, using
Bpot Jights and jack-o'-lanterns
and colored paper. The lights in
the lanterns and spot lights flash
on and off at regular intervals
giving . spooky effect to the win
dow.' MOTORCYCLE -RACES TODAY
Motorcycle races will be held
today at Oakland. Oregon, under
the auspices of Oakland Gobbles
and. the Eugene Motorcycle club.
There are many thrilling events
scheduled and riders from Eugene,
Salem', Portland, Medford, have
entered. Cody Evans, Salem, well
known rider will participate riding
a Harley Davidson for Harry Scott
local cycleman.
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Will Double Factory Output,
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DETRIT, Oct. "-24. The, Paige
Detroit Motor Car company Js
planning, for "; the. ..production V next
year of at least twice as; many
Paige cars as in 1925, and: more
than-fifty per cent morejJewetts.
This announcement wasnade to
day by H. M. Jewett, president,, in
commenting on . Jhe company's
hlgprrturttdit In September;;;..,.
In" AugnBt'and September, v4 the
Company's production doubled. the
figures for those two months las!
year. Mr. Jewett says; that th
demand will continue brisk for tb
remainder of this year, and thai
1928 will be a big year -for the
automobile industry., . ,
PAINT JOB DISTINCTIVE
DESERT. GREY WITH BLACK
TRIM USED ON FORD
P. E. Perry, apprentice printer,
employed in the mechanical .' de
partment of the Capital Journal,
is the owner of perhaps the most
attractive Ford coupe , in Salem.
Soon after purchasing the ear," Mr. .
Perry tired of its appearance anil
decided to have it painted. Ha
consulted "with 'A.' V. White,' local
auto paint man, and ordered tkfr
job. The color used wa . deeert
grey with black, trim and th
material used was the ; J
auto enamel. ; . ,-
The car ; is decidedly ditferent,
than anything else la galea, '..It
has a very, keen and pleaalng,'ap
pearance. . . .. - - ,
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Navy board of Inquiry ha bv
gan official probe of sinking if " 'I
submarine S-A I witb Si aboard f
It is seen in session in Boston,
Front (L' to r.) Capt. W R
Hunt, Capt.' O. P. Jackson, '
Capt. D. A. Weaver ' Bark-r
Lieut. Comdr. C. A. Lock wood,
Lieut. Comdr.. Frank Lowe' V i
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