FORD PillCE SLICE
ES AS SURPRISE
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Reduction in Prices on Clos
i'ed Models Comes Unher-
aided From Factory '
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f ProlfsVy th biggest, (recent
piece ofjntomobile. news 'Is: the
Ford MoWbr j company announce
ment of a reduction In price of the
entire line of Ford closed cars.
The new price level is ascribed
to the trend of closed "r buying
which has been rapidly dvelop
Ing. According to statement by
the company accompanying the
announcement, this , trend , , has
reached such a high. 'point that
manufacturing economies .have
been effected and -Jn. acocr dance
with the established policy of the
company, the benefits off these
f economies are passed on to pnr
jchasers of Ford . ears. X. :
Vj. Coming Virtually on the heels
tfot the sweping Improvements and
II refinements ; made in Ford cars
last fall, the new prices mark the
elimaz of a-period-of general as
cending values, ffLeai" ' than six
months ago, Ford bodies were
completely redesigned - to . make
possible a greater degree of beau
ty. driYingeasevnd rjdlng com
fort. Xn line, with this development
all-steel bodies were introduced
together with closed cars in color
and numerous refinements In the
chassis. ' '"' - f. ;
These Improvements, which
were the most pronounced ever
made in Ford cats, are now sup
plemented by the lowest prices at
which Ford closed cars have ever
sold. The reductions range from
$95 off the cost of the Fordor to
120 off the price of the Coupe.
The Tudor,1 most popular family
car of the Ford line, is reduced
$60.00
coinen
other states showing correspond
ingly high percentages of Increase,
Star entered 1926. to ; battle for
leadership - with' other makes of
cars that have been the quantity
leaders for years," says the Salem
Automobile company, r local Star
car dealers." . ' , " f ' -""ft
'; "Reports reaching here from
the Durant Motor - company! of
California, at Oakland.' show that
Star:- continues to hold a strong
position on the." sales ladder, ac
cording to January gtires and the
totals for February go farjrer
corueu. - i -
This can be attributed mostly
to the Star. four, because only a
comparatively few new Star, sixes
have been actually delivered since
their ' introduction, even though
hundreds have been signed up-for.
; VThe Star four has built up a
wonderful reputaiton i for itself,
and it was through the Star f pur
that the now : ; really ; great Star
dealer organization in the west
was built up.":. j- I
WOOL BAS PRICES
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FIRMER
Pacific Cooperative : Wool
Growers Coptract for .
3 Quantity-Supply
SEEN Ci SALES
Star Four Battles for Lead
ership; Large-Retail." Gain i
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SENATE ACTION ON t
TAX VINDICATES AUTQ
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automobiles because we have been
consistently reducing and repeal
ing excise taxes and I could see no
Justification at all for an excise
tax on automobiles any more than
on pianos or talking machines or
radios.
The absurdity of the situation
was apparent when we consider
that we place no sales tax! on
pianos, on talking machines; or
radios and yet in the case of the
automobile, in which millions of
Americans are getting v outdoor
exercise in their little cars that
cost from $300 to $500 or $1,000
and having difficulty in maintain
ing them, the senate committee
proposed to collect from them an
average of about $20 each.
'There was not a member of the
senate who could logically defend
the 3 per cent tax on passenger
cars any more than they could
logically defend the 2 per cent tax
on motor trucks. They could, not
defend it because they had, aban
doned other sources of. revenue
more lucrative, much more easily
collected, and much less j burden
some. . '..
As a consequence, the senate
had but one alternative in the faee
of these hard, concrete facts, and
that was to vote as it did wiping
out all automotive taxes.
JUSTICE IS SOUGHT
FOR VETS' PARENTS
New Bill Would Provide Aid
far Parents of Men Killed
:'. in Action
k The price of wool bags has gone
up. And Indications are for still
higher quotations., The Pacific
Cooperative Woolgrpwers associa
tion has contracted ion a quantity
basis for bags for its members.
Price quotations upon the f . o. b.
basis at Portland or San Francisco-serves
thus being available to
both California and northwest
growers, ; The association also an
nounced yesterday that pre-s hear
ing advances to member .will be
made on the basis of $1 per head
on sheep at 6 interest. The
management is closing out the
192S business, being engaged in
the sale of range wools at this
time. The Willamette valley and
Umpqua pools were closed some
weeks ago.
Impetus has been, given the as
sociation by thai attitude of the
National Woolgrowers association
as expressed at the annual meeting
at Boise this month. There the
special committee on wool market
ing recommended cooperative mar
keting of wools, discouraging con
tracting as Inimical to the best in
terests of the western wool indus
try. ;
The desirability of concentrat
ing large volumes; of a commod
ity In one organisation, or in a
federation of independent organi
zations as opposed to a large num
ber of local pools has recently
been brought out in a press state
ment by C. J. Hurd, specialist in
organization and; markets from
the Oregon Agricultural college.
T I r:
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SHOWS FEW LOSSES
Dealers Experience Practi
cally No Losses in Sell- i
Ing Cars on Time
The commanding position as
sumed during. 1925 throughout
the western territory by the Star
four, and. which has been held
since the beginning of the present
year, continues to be a -topic of
discution among automobile men.
4rNJi California alone iregister
ing an increase , of over; 90 per
cent In the year's business, and
The 6- per cent purchase certifi
cate plan in operation by the
Chevrolet Motor company has en
abled thousands of would-be mo
tor car owners to make the neces
sary down payment without seri
ously depleting their bank ac
counts.
Shipments from the .Pittsburgh
district to the various General
Motors plants during 1925 totall
ed 8,500 carloads TnostTy of raw
material from the steel mills.
JAPAN TO TAX BASEBALL
TOKYO r All prof esslonal base
bair games in Japan will be taxed
in the future, according- to. ft de
cision of the taxation authorities.
An American ; girls' baseball
team recently played a number of
games in Tokyo and the gate re
ceipts were large. Plans are re
ported under way for the organi
sation of a Japanese National
League. So the government in
tends to get its percentage of the
receipts of professional games
hereafter.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 20
- Amendments to the World War
Adjusted Compensation Act which
will bring from $15,000,000 to
$20,000,000 tp mothers and fath
ers of men killed In action or who
died in service, were agreed upon
recently by the Hawley sub-committee
of the house of representa
tives appointed to examine amend
ing legislation contained In the
IMlls bill.
The Mills bill was j Introduced
at the request of the National
Legislative Committee of The
American Legion and' would re
move the dependency clause from
the adjusted compensation legis
lation as if affects parents of de
ceased veterans.
A sub-committee amendment
would include under the presump
tion of dependency a widowed
mother or a mother or . father
over 6Q years of age. It would
allow dependency to arise any
time between the date of the son's
death and January 1, 198. It
would allow the director of the
veterans' bureau to waive proof
of dependency in certain cases
and would make the section retro
active to May 19. 1924, the date
of passage of the act.
Another provision of the sub
committee bill would allow $60
additional credit to the relatives
of men killed in action 'or who
died in service, as their relatives
did not receive the $60 discharge
bonus.
It would correct the comptroller
general's decisions concerning
men who die while their applica
tions are In the mail. ' It would
give power to the director of the
bureau to determine the proper
beneficiary without reference to
the courts, his rulings on all sec
tions of the law not to be subject
to review by the comptroller general.
- The amendment would make
provision to replace lost or de
stroyed certificates with facility
and promptness.
("From the Automotive Daily
' . News)
KENOSHA, Wis.. Feb. 20. A
total of 9 5 per cent of the pass
enger cars sold in Kenosha are
sold on' the time payment plan,
and only about 1 per cent of the
purchasers fail to complete their
payments, according to a survey
of the leading dealers here.
In some cases the number of
failures averaged less than 1 per
cent, but all dealers were unani
mous that the plan was a neces
sary one in the business, and all
depreciated attempts to discour
age the -time payment plan or to
shorten the average time for the
completion of payments for the
completion of payments.
'Purchasing articles on the in
stallment plan might be unsatis
factory for some lines of busi
ness," declared Ray Stretch, pres
ident" of the Stretch Motor . com
pany, here, "but it is absolutely
essential in the automobile retail
business."
George Greiner, president of the
Greiner-Nash company, declared
that the wave of automobile buy
ing which characterizes the indus
try today would not be possible if
dealers did not. allow "painless"
methods to pay for the cars. Full
cash payment for a car these days
is now the exception, he said.
A. H. Dahl, of the Ford dealer
ship, cites figures, saying that 3,-
000,000 new cars will be sold in
the United States in 1926. 95 per
cent of which, he says, will be on
the installment plan.
striking- against - the. lifter rod.
which in turn strikes against the
valve steam, and the valve head
smashes down against the metal
valve rest. 1 .
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Six cylinders, each with two
valves, repeating this operation
thousands of times a minute, with
the valves getting out of correct
mechanical : adjusmtent, put an
impossible task upon the engineer
who endeavors ; to quiet all the
noise. -; " !
j In the Knight type motor there
is no clash of metal. The con
necting rods run in oil, the sleeves
slide by each other with an oil
film between-aud- the. whole , op
eration la inherently silent..'
': " Practically all the present day
motor adjustments i and Ills are
t
the direct result of valve opera
tion and carbon.
MOTOR GROUPS HOPE
BAN WILL BE LIFTED
(.loutiauOTi from pura: l
when the public should 1 be In
formed of the , consequences al
ready apparent and which must
only too. unfortunately be aggra
vated if the artificial restriction oi
supplies of raw rubber is to con
tinue..;;; ,; r;,. i j ,;) . t ." :
: j " 'It Is necessary, in the. Inter
ests of all purchasers and users
of commodities of which rubber
forms a part, to emphasize, that
the object of what; is' known as
the Stevcnsjpn restriction scheme
was to create an economic price,
and its present results, which are
accentuated every day, leave no
doubt whatever j that Its conse
quences are to 'create an uneco
nomical price for, tire equipment
for every type of road vehicle.
Buy a Want Ad It Pays Big
The Chevrolet Motor company
employs more than 100 experts in
the instruction of service manag
ers and mechanics for its. dealers
throughout the country!
' Condon Blalock . market road
contract let, for $16,000.
INDIANS TAKE DOMESTIC
SCIENCE
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. Indian
maidens, having adopted rouge
and bobbed hair, now have taken
up 'domestic science.
A department of culinary in
struction has been established in
the government Indian school here
with seven classes. The Indian
flappers are keenly Interested.
DEMANDS ON ENGINE
INCREASING VASTLY
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near its best efficiency. This
means frequent recourse to serv
ice .stations and repair shops.
The mechanism which actuates
the sleeves in the Knight type
motor consists of two small con
necting rods, positively controlled,
and with no necessity for adjust
ment.
Again, the demands for silent
operation put upon the present
day motor car, are defeated in the
poppet-vtlve type of motor by -the
fact that the the entire operation
of this form of construction re
quires the Incessant tapping of
metal against metal. The cam
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Can be used on and will improve any set. Has hb tubes
to burn out no acid to corode no water to add no
high voltage transformers. 1
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Stiff Furniture Co.
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Bonesteele Motor Co.
TURNER
Ball Brothers 1
STAYTON
Wood's Battery Shop
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