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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1925)
mm Section Three : - -.y : , .. - ...... . Pages I to 4 to SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1925 Autbrriotive .:1 r f MIGHT m bukbh Stage i Travels 104,000 Miles and Averages 20 . Allies to the Gallon if'ih- approximately 105.00& .""" ui cuti iu Biignuy less man two years of service n n stage coach on the famous Apache Trail in Arizona, a Willys-Knight 4-cylinder touring car is making an exceptional - performance rec ord. TV. G. Brundage, who operates the stage line, purchased the Willys-Knight from the Overland Ari zona Co., slightly less than two years ago, turning in another car on the deal. Mr. Brundage writes: "This car has missed hut one day of operation on its regular run to Mesa.. Chandler and Gilbert, and special runs over the Apache Trail and to Tuczon and Nogales, and has traveled more than 104, 000 miles. Every tire on this car has made more than 25,0,00 miles, and the car la regularly making 20 miles to the gallon of gasoline. "When yojur salesman sold me this Willys-Knight; he look in trade a standard make of car that had cost doable the price of the the Willys-Knight, and my hooks now shAw that I have paid off my present car by the savings over the former car." Mr. Brundage does not want to Have Your Cars Greased With Alemite and Crank Case Irained et Our price On Your Overhaul Job Barrett Bros. Garage and Service Station 1908-1999 X. Capitol part with his 7-passenger Willys Knight touring car for he says: "My Willys-Knight will he per fectly economical for another 100,000 miles." It is on such ex ceptionally hard wearing road ways , as those found in this Ari zona country that has made the Willys-Knight famous for Its econ omical and ever-lasting perform ance. Mr. Brundage's letter, un solicited, is an example of the hundreds of letters that flood the factory telling of remarkable Willys-Knight performance in the hands of satisfied owners. HUPP EIGHT SEES SET RECORD PAGE Company Announces 11 Month Demand of 12, 500 Automobiles Sales of Hupmobile Eights for its first eleven months will be 13,500 cars according to O. C. Hutchinson, general bales manag er of the Hupp Motor Car corpor ation. The car has been the larg est .selling straight eight in the world almost since the day last January when it was announced. "The sale of this record number of cars is a tribute never before paid any fine motor car," says Mr. Hutchinson. It means that never before has a car of compar able price been bought . in such large volume during its first year. Since our substantial re duction in its price, sales have continued at an even higher rate. "The performance it has given, coupled with the reputation whicli has consistantly attached to the -name Hupmobile for more than 15 years, are two strong factors In the car's success. In recent weeks its performance ha3 been strikingly emphasized by three new . and brilliant endurane and speed records which three differ ent models have established in the hands of thre different driv ers, two of them using their own personal cars." BOTH LEGS CBEO, DEALER SETS NIK Record for Selling Cars From Bedside Is Made bv Willys-Knight Man " DOWN THE ROAD t5 By Beck (Copyright, 1925, by Metropolitan Newspaper Service) A record for plain. grit and de termination in these days ''of hustle and bustle was recently es tablished through the remarkable will power of a South Rockwood, Michigan man following serious injuries in an automobile acci dent. Dan Mercure operates a thriv ing business as a Willys-Overland dealer in the small Michigan vil lage of slightly less than three hundred souls. For several years Mercure had seen his business' grow from a meager beginning until prosperity began to shine through for him and his family. The year 1925 bade fair to bring to Dan Mercure the fruits of hard work - when calamity broke through hid endeavors. In demonstrating a car to a customer, .Mercure stepped behind his care just as an approaching car drove up, pinning the unfdr- tunate man between the two au tomobiles and crushing both legs at the knees. Dan was taken home, both legs were placed in a cast, and he was left to lie weeks in bed until the broken members should heal, with nothing to oc cupy his mind but worry and rest lessness. But Dan Mercure was not so easily downed and some hidden strain of sturdy ancestors urged him on. "I can and will continue my business pust as if I were well" was his resolve and he pro ceeded to do it. The telephone was moved to his bedside on a swinging stand, one chair served as a table for literature and an other, in conjunction with a huge dictionary, was borrowed for a desk. Mercure set about with a will to call his friends. He invited them to drop in and talk busi ness, crops, the weather and any other excuse that would bring Life's Little Tragedies them in. They came, and Dan Mercure plied his trade even bet ter than when he was a well man. From the day of his accident, September 26, to October 11, Mer cure sold and had delivered eight new Overland and Willys-Knight cars and three used cars, or an average of more than one a day. Mercure'st bipgest sales record whiled confined to bed was three cars sold and delivered in the space of three and one-half hours including an Overland four sedan, a six-cylinder Overland and a Willys-Knight six sedan. Now, faced with the prospect of one leg being permanently shorter than the other Mercure's philosophy for the future is out standing. "Some folks might feel sorry for me and the future, but E gifr ft 6 :t - Cost 'LssWmt. TIT pQ snr Greater mileage, greater satisfaction, greater dependability are built into this economical tire. Economies made possible by quantity production and our method of selling direct to you enables us to offer Wear-vieU Cords at Winter Necessities Put on your car's winter clothes make your motoring safe and com fortable. In addition to the necessi ties listed below, we also carry com plete lines of Gloves, Robes, Wind shield Weather Strips, Skid Chains,. Wind Wings, Top Recovers. Alcohol, V i... I i. i .ii i-.ii i ,- ii .1, , , not I, for it was that accident and the following weeks in bed that showed me that a dealer can sell cars under any sort of physi cal handicap if he just seta his mind to it." And with that re mark, Dan Mercure keeps right on selling cars as if nothing had ever happened- PAIGE DEAL SAID UNTRUE RUMORS OF CHANGES OF MANAGEMENT UNFOUNDED The Trumm Motor Car Co., local representatives of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co., makers of Paige and Jewett six-cylinder cars, have received from H. M. Jewett, president, a flat denial of rumors that there is a deal pending look ing toward a change of ownership i or of management of the Detroit company. "The Taige-Detroit Company," Mr. Jewett writes, "not only has not changed hands, but there have been, and there will be, no nego tiations to that end. , "The company has been operat ing most successfully under the present management for many years, and is planning to press its advantage in the six-cylinder field by aggressive policies of manufacturing and merchandising." SPEED UP TRAFFIC. IS PLEft OF EXPERT Barney Everttt Declares Lower Accidentand Death Rate Will Result (From Automobile Daily News.) DETROIT, Oct. 28. Barney Ev erltt, pioneer automobile xnann. f acturer and president and gener al manager of Rickenbacker Motor company, calls Detroit a' "slow town because of what he regards as the archaic traffic regulations restricting the speed of motor ve hicles. lie believes that speeding up the traffic, as Is being done in the city of Washington, where 35 miles is the maximum and in Kansas, where a speed of 60 miles an hour on the country roads is now lawful, offers a means of bet ter traffic conditions and lower ing the accident and death rate. "In a reactionary spasm, a year or so ago." says Mr. Everitt, "De troit tried slowing down traffic on boulevards and streets to 20 miles an hour. Why, the streets Were so densely crowded by the thou sands of slow moving cars that It was Work rather than pleasure to drive. A car became of little use as a saver of time and, as for the safety of the pedestrian, it was ac tually lessened. finally, tne tension was re leased. Nothing was said about It officially, but we were all placed In the position which all citizens who own motor cars now occupy namely, that of law breakers Everybody began to drive again at 30. When car speeds Increased, crossing the streets became com paratively safe for pedestrians. Speed the cars up to 35 and there will be less congestion. Let peo pie drive 50, and there would be none. "We still believe -some of us that accidents are due to speed, when all the evidence shows that they are due to carelessness, and that the speed of the vehicle has little to do with them. When a man drives fast ho is alert his , every sense Is keenly 'alive. Pe destrians, too, look out for the fast" car, but they often step di rectly In the path of the slow one. They triore frequently miscalcu late the speed of a slow-movtng car and "its driver cannot stop i time. A car going 10 miles an hour will do Just as much dftnaag to a pedestrian as one going 60. "Ear the felow moving vehicles from the busy streets.. Regulate trucks and taxis hold them down, because their drivers sel dom own the cars they drive, and have little of no sense. of respon sibility. Hurry up all other cars. "My suggestion for The present is a, 35 mile limit in city streets, 40 for boulevards, and not lass than 50 for country roads., "That is too slow, but for U time being or until folks coma to realize that speed does not neces-- sarily mean danger, it will suffice to relievecongestion. .There win seem to be only about bait as many cars on the street as we now have. And. it win not be? seeming. It will be a fact, A car ' going twice as fast is . on the street only half as long. It arrives at its destination and Is parked out of the way. "Of course, when we get twice as many cars as we now have- and that will be very soon we shall have to speed it up again." 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