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SECTION THREE
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Automotive
Good Roads
C LEAN AN D VI GOROUS
SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAB
V. SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNIftG, MARCH 7, 1926
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BBEAT ADVAHCE S
seen inioii
Developments in Both Mill
tary and Commercial I
Phases Arft NntpH.
. DAYTON, O.. March . Avla
tion, both military and commercial
has been, advanced along several
lines during the last year by ex
perimentation and research at the
engineering division headquarters
of the army, air service at McCook
field. , ; v. .; .
The developments hare pertain
ed to improvement of metals and
other materials used in airplane
construction,' to more economical
airplane construction, to improve
ments in designs of planes, and in
ventions and adaptations of ac
cessories and methods in connec
tion 'with aviation, says a report
of the year's progress. -;: i
The predominant trend In mili
tary aircraft - development has
been toward a marked redaction
In the number of. types of planes
required for military purposes.
Formerly fifteen standard types
of. aircraft were considered neces
sary properly to f nlfill aU military
functions.' Today only five gen
eral trees are rnnlrd tn prom.
v. pllsb, the same purposes. The,re-
pS signing aircraft in certain instanc
4 .hr es,to perform two or more fun-
1 wv" luivugu uiieixnaugeaDie
equipment.
The five general types to which
planes now conform to meet mlll-
A I tary requirements are: Pursuit.
ill 1 j . ,
wiuuMuaieBi, oDservauon, train
ing and transport.
The first plane i built in the
United States exclusively for am
bulance purposes made its appear-
ance during the year." It accom
modates a pilot, a flight surgeon
mad two patients, the latter being
Sried latters In the fuselage.
. Oieal supplies are carried
' Practicability " of i the Loening
Amphibian plane for land-water-1
sUt use was proved by the MacMU
lan , polar flight and the photcn
graphing tour in the Minnesota
watershed region, said the report.
, New-accessories developed dur
ing the year included pneumatic
landing shock absorbers and the
airplane brake. The shock ab-
ixorDers are : telescoping cylinders
containing oil and v water. The
I; brakes decrease by about one-third
, N the distance of roll on the ground
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PRAHKWG, IS PAttGEROUS
fltOPKIt CARE M CST BE TAKE3T
TO PBEVE.VT IX JURY
Thousands of motorists whose
automobiles do not have self star
ers are Injured every year because
jthey do not know how to crank the
machine, says a statement Issued
by S. J. Williams, Director of Pub
lic Saftey, National Safety Council.
Driver of commercial cars, deliv
ery trucks, taxi cabs, etc who are
professional chauffeurs constitute
a large number of the people hurt
In this manner, strange as it may
seem for one would assume, that
men who are engaged in this occ
upation would know how to avoid
: jsuch hurts, - comments Mr. Will
i lama. Following are some pro
cautions to be observed when
cranking: ' ;-.' r '
Always pull the crank up, not
Hown,'. and, don't spin it unless
Absolutely nekessary.. When grasp-
LIng the crank, place thumb on the
Jf-fliame side of handle with tbe fln-
jgers; then it there is a kick-back,
4& "V handle will slip from hand. Keep
ine sparic reiaraea unui u en
gine has started.
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i TMk turned out by the Wood Auto Top ralnt aliop, ana
2by To Wood-of that firm. The old topWa. taken off
?nd!T-w CaUfornla lop with lWln panel typewladows t
Thb new paint Job is made, np of golden brown with a black
?2 flSi Ae new Oil-Lad style, solid finish that take, a
trim, rinisne " RmMm this h naint haa a
Bfv and all scratches will
H SPEED TESTS
FUB B KICK
"Wild Bears' and Bullocks
Fail to Prevent New
Record by the Jeweft.
Newspapers from India bring
detailed report of a record-breaking
performance of an American
car, a non-stop run from Bombay
to Delhi. 920 miles. In 28 hours,
32 minutes, :
The record, houra faster than
the best previous pertromance,
waa made by Lawrence P. Kent,
an American and former United
States Army officer, in a standard
Jewett. Re was accompanied by
Don C. Bliss, assistant U. S. trade
commissioner and 3. Preston Wills
of the E. I. DuPont De Nemours
company. All three, took turns at
the wheel. ,
i The actual elapsed time was 32
hours 42 minutes, much time hav
ing been lost in ferrying across
two wide rivers, and in inducing
village petrol dealers to get out of
bed frfr supply fuel.
Judging from the Indian papers,
the roads of India are not de
signed for high speed runs, and
the editors all treat the feat as
extraordinary. Bombay's leading
paperj "Times of India," says .the
run ''must rank as one of the
finest in the history of motoring
in India," and "to drive a motor
car 920 miles on Indian roads
without stopping the engine is in
Itself a sensational performance,
and to average 32, miles an hour
is more wonderful still."
Another interesting sidelight on
motoring In India is gleaned from
the Hindustan Times, published at
Delhi,' which says that "round
about ; Owalior the speeding car
came across a number of games
and nearly killed a wild bear by
running over it." The reader is
left to Judgewhether the motor
ists actually ran, over the bear
anl all but killed: it or whether
the bear, escaped: by being nearly,
but not quite, run over! "Wild
bear" in itself is an intriguing ex
pression' suggesting aa.it does that
in India one must distinguish be
tween wild-bears and domesticated
bears. Or else that, even in India,
the linotype operator is not infal
lible and changed a wild boar to
a bear f At any rate, they nearly
killed the bear (or boar) by run
ping over it quite different from
the common method of killing
boars (or bears?) in India by en
ticing them into an air-tight gar
age and and running the automo
bile engine until petromortis en
sues. N Other bothersome things to be
met with during a speed test in
India are the bullock carts.
"There were crowds of them,
transporting cotton," said Kent,
"and when yon overtake two of
them, and finally induce them to
pull over to the side of the road,
it's more than likely that one of
them pulls to right side and the
other to the left, blocking the
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UTILITY IS MAIN POINT
CARS NOW PURCHASED FOIU
AL.L WEATHER DIUYIAU
Utility in the nfodern automo
bile has- probably : won more
friends for it than any other fac
tor, declares P. G. Delano, of the
Salem Automobile Co., local Star
car dealer. "People today buy
cars for winter ; and summer
alike," he stated. "That accounts
for the voRue of the enclosed car.
and for the fact that so many mo
dels of the present, day automo
bile may be used for either dusi
ness or, pleasure purposes."
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polish out! The Wood company can
MJy TOOLS USED
IN niR PLMJT
Parker Company, Ford Service,-
Has 1, 145 Tools ,
for Repair Work
How many tools have you ' in
your garage at home, for use on
your car? That Is how many of
them can you find when you want
to tighten up a' thinga-ma-glg or
put on & new dohinkus or install
a what-you-call-it? -
Somewhere you undoubtedly
have a variety of. cresent wrench,
a monkey wrench and a screw
driver. One usually finds them,
with the tire pump, tangled up
with the; mud-chains.. Then, some
place in the garage, maybe under
an old coat, you doubtless have
a number pf the common garden
variety of wrenches of the non
descript class. If you are an aris
tocrat, it is possible that there
is a set of socket wrenches stowed
away somewhere.
But with all the tools you can
muster together, and with all the
work you can do "with them, they
dwindle into ' nothingness when
you consider the' equipment of a
first class garage. In the Parker
& Company shop, 444 South Com
mercial, j for example, Mr. 'Parker
found after an inventory, that
they have ' 1,145 tools. These
tools, he declares, represent an
outlay of $7,023. t
"It is this magnificent equip
ment, in willing and experienced
hands," Mr. Parker said, "that
makes it possible to do your re
pair work better and quicker."
Each one of these 1,145 tools has
its place in the shop and is re
turned to that place after it has
been used on a car. And in prac
tically all cases, each, individual
tool is j made for one purpose
alone. It is this systematic use of
equipment that enables a repair
company to turn out accurate
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Business Exceptionally Good
Firm Says; Closed Cars
Much in Demand.
Exceptionally good business in
automobile circles is noted by the
Vick Brothers company here, local
distributors of the Pontiac and
Oakland cars. "We -are selling
better than forty cars a month,"
George F. Vick said 'yesterday.
''Beginning tomorrow we will
receive a carload of Oakland and
Pontiac cars each day -for the next
twelve days," Mr. Vick declared.
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VICIv BROS REPORT
CAR SALES GROWING
DOWN THE ROAD
WHEN THE LADYi NOVICE
ATTEMPTS TO BACK HER -CVR
INTO THE SMALL
SPACE IN FRONT OF YOURS-
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Demand For Pontiac Car
Causes High Production
Demand for the new Pontiac
Six since its initial presentation
at the New ' York show early In
January and the continued ' In
creased demand for the Oakland
Six have caused production at the
Oakland factories at Pontiac,
Mich., to 'be pushed up to 439
cars a day at the present time.
A production of 450 cars daily
Is scheduled for March and 500
cars daily beginning in April.
The production of February and
March this' year as a result of in
creasing' demand . represents a 300
per cent Increase ever the sched
ule of February and March last
year.
That the demand for the new
Pontiac Six has more than fulfilled-
expectations of Oakland and
General Motors officials is Indi
cated by the Increased production
schedule for the new line.
How strongly public Interest
and curiosity has been aroused by
the new Pontiac Six may be
gauged from, the fact that at New
Yorfcr and Chicago shows despite
the unfavorable display of the car
on the third floor of the Grand
Central Palace, New York, and in
the Annex of the Coliseum, Chi
cago (because the new car had not
been in production long enough
WOOD'S AUTO TOP
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Repair and Paint Shop to
Have New Equipment,
Special Construction.
Woods Auto and Top Shop is
to have a new home here soon, it
u as announced . here last week.
Immediate steps, towards the .con
struction of a twe-story concrete
building on Chemeketa street,
rear High, between the Newton
Chevrolet company and the alley,
will be taken by Charles S. Wel
ler. The building has already
been leased to Tom Wood of the
auto top company. The new
building will have a frontage of
64 feet and a depth of 84 feet. A
portion of the house will be sub
let to the Salem Automotive Ser
vice, to operated by Art Sand
burg. The building will be construct
ed with everything in mind for
the auto service and top depart
ment and will house modern
equipment throughout. A run
way has been provided for, shunt
ing cars from the ; street to the
second floor. The second floor
will be devoted entirely to the
paint shop. Accommodations will
be had for 20 automobiles on this
floor at one time. Three finish
ing rooms will occupy the front
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Apprehensive JJontenls of ijJi9lr1l
to obtain a favorable display posi
tion) thousands constantly went
out of; their way to reach the Pon
tiac booth and to learn what new
features of value had been pre
sented In this new car-. The num
ber ot orders received at the fac
tory left no doubt as to public
acceptance. ' f
The entire facilities of the
greatly enlarged Fisher body plant
at Pontiac are now being devoted
to producing bodies for the Pon
tiac Six and Oakland Six.
Demand for the Oakland models
is also starting out with unusual
strength this year, with schedules
set 25 per cent higher than for
the same months last year.
To take care of the peak pro
duction at the Oakland factories
which is scheduled for early In
April 600 employees are being
added to the payroll. This is in
addition to the increased force at
the Fisher Body plant.
With the enlarged production
schedules now in force and the
even larger contemplated sched
ules, fhe Oakland Motor Car com
pany is starting the year on the
greatest extension program in the
history of the company and one
of the greatest expansion program
ever contemplated by a single
company in the industry.
King S.,Barttett of Fred M.
Powell Company, Tells of
Motor School
King S. Bartlett of the Fred M.
Powell Motor Cars, local Packard
agent, having just recently re
turned from the Packard. plant at
Detroit says that this is goYng to
be one of the greatest years in the
sale of high grade automobiles
that we have ever seen.
Packard is making great im
provements In their plant so as to
be able to take care of their share
of this increased business.
Mr. Bartlett attended school at
the Packard plant for the study
of salesmanship, automobile con
struction and repairs.
This. course was very thorough
and was given by the best men in
the plant. It took a lot of patience
on the part of the instructors to
answer all questions asked them,
but they stood the test fine for the
reason that they all feel a per
sonal Interest and pride in doing
this part to make a high class
automobile.
They all feel that Packards' in
terest does not stop with its sale
but continues through the life of
every car they make.
.There were 121 men at this
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Cadillac Company Sees De
cided Swing Toward High
Class Motor Cars
The swing of tho pendulum of
public demand toward a greater
proportion of high grade cars Is
seen by Lawrence P. Fisher, presi
dent and general manager of the
Cadillac Motor Car, company. In
the present phenomenal growth of
sales of Cadillac cars and he sees
in the situation even greater sales
possibilities for cars iu the quality
class.
"During the past five years'
states Mr. Fisher, "the trend of
American economic life has been
toward increased economy and
efficiency, and that trend has been
reflected In the automotive indus
try. It has enlarged the market
for low-priced, , light-weight cars.
Slashing price reductions have in
many cases required a sacrifice of
quality.'
"The counter-current of this de
mand has now definitely set in.
A class of owners whQ realize
that genuine quality in its last
analysis is economy are today in
vesting in the highest grade of
motor car transportation. Cadillac
sales during the last five months
of 1925 were more than double
those of the corresponding period
of 1924.
"In addition to this class who
see ultimate economy in buying
what is best mechanically, there
is also another class who in addi
tion require the ultimate of re
finement. They travel in Pullman
cars and stop only at the best
hotels. The' added comfort, con-I
venience and prestige is worth
the additional rate. For this class
of people the Cadillac custom line
has always held a strong appeal;;
and that holds today even more
strongly on account of the new
Billion and Half Dollars to Be
Spent; During Present
Year, Said.
WASHINGTON. March 6. A
great national ' highway system.
partly financed by the federal
government, and connecting im
portant , cities I throughout the
United States will result from the
$1,500,000,000 road building pro
gram of the present year, accord
ing to Frank Page, president of
the American Association of State
Highway Officials and ex-presi-
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LITTLETn PIDHEER
Englishman Who. Started In
dustry Shares None in1
Millionaires' Profits. ...
LONDON, March 6 Rubber's
great romance, which has proved
to be a tragedy with automobile
tire buyers in the United States,
began with an old man in London,
Sir Henry Wickham. However, he
has shared none of the profits rub
ber boomers have made out of
wild speculation.
Sir Henry Wickham developed
scientific rubber cultivation in the
Orient by transplanting the hevea.
or rubber plant of the Amazon, to
the Far East, thus making possi
ble the rubber monopoly which
now lies in the bands of tho Brit
ish and Dutch planters.
Para was the center of the rub
ber trade when Sir Henry Wick
ham began his investigation back
in the sixties. His was a voice
crying in the wilderness In those
days, when he tried to interest
Britishers in rubber cultivation.
But he finally enlisted the sym
pathy of Sir Joseph Hooker, at
Kew, and ' showed him the first
drawing which was probably ever
made from nature of a leaf and
seed of a Para rubbber tree.
A little later Sir Henry got the
ear of Sir Clements Markham, of
the India office, who gave the
young explorer a roving commis
sion to bring the rubber tree seed
back to England.
The rubber seed was so short
lived that this was a difficult task.
Sir Henry was then engaged in
cultivating rubber at Santarem,
over 300 miles from the mouth of
the Amazon. One day an ocean
liner, the Amazonas of the Inman
Line, arrived in the river to the
great astonishment of the little
British cdlony. By a strange fate,
which probably prevented Brazil
from holding the grasp on the rut-
ber trade, which is now" in the
hands of the British, the steamer
was stranded in the river by her
two supercargoes and lay empty
in the river with no cargo for her
return trip.. .
Although Sir Henry had no
money, he wrote to the captain
and chartered the ship , in the
name of the government of India.
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SPRING COMPANY GROWS
SEVENTH FACTORY TO BK
BUILT IX WEST
OAKLAND, CaL, March 6.-r-The
Laher Spring - company, largest
western manufacturer of springs
and bumpers, and. already operat
ing six Pacific coast, factories, to
day announced the. opening of a
seventh factory at Salt Lake City,
Utah, to take care of a huge interf
mountain distribution. ;
The new plant will be under the
direction of Jack J. Caps, former
foreman of the Seattle, Washrt
Laher Spring- company factory,
and will carry a stock of $46,000
worth of springs, bumpers, and fit
tings. It is equipped to manu
facture . springs in quantity.
Other Laher factories are oper
ating in Spokane, Portland, Seat
tle, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
and in this city. Their volume ot
business is among the largest in
the . country.. .,'
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PEDESTRIAN GREATEST VICTIM
OF, AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS
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The. pedestrian is the greatest sufferer in autoraoUlo fitalitita,
according, to records analyzed by the Stewart-Warner Safety Council
for. the prevention of automobile accidents. No complete record U
available for the United States as a whole, but a report based On
3.023 auto fatalities occurring the first seven months of 1925. cover
ing, a population of thirty-one million, ia significant.,--Two thousand
of these 3,023 fatalities have been classified according to type, tlx-ty-eigbi
per. ent.of the victims wer pedestrians. 11.5 occurred v U'
another motor vehicle; - 7 per cent with horse vehicles, 4. 2 with fix I
objects, such as: lamp posts, '3.5 per. cent with street cars. 2.7 wit!i
railway trains and 1.4. per cent with bicycl-j. , The remaiair ir 6.3
per cent involved, he collision... The small proportion Involving tz:
way trains is encouraging and doubtless due to the graiual Etll.'
of unguarded graded crossings. " The menace to tLa pedestriaa Lo . -ever,
is alarming, and calls for greater care on fcSa jsrt in trc
ftreets and a the driver's for, morj cfjffvj r'""'-t '
IS 0PE1ED
Operators; t of Commercial
; Vehicles, Especially, Are
Urged to Take Care.
Approximately SO per cent of
the 21,000 'men women and
children killed' by automobiles
during 1925 were run down by
trucks, delivery' cars and taxi
cabs.' ' , r ' '
Almost 20 per cent, of the
800,000" persons Injured by
automobiles' last year were
struck by commercial cars.
To reduce this toll, the -National
Safety Council is inaug
urating j a country-wide cam
paign designed to make safer
drivers of chauffeurs employed
by fleet owners. V .
CHICAGO. March 6. -Inauguration
of a country-wide educa
tional campaign designed to make
drivers ot operators of commercial
motor vehicles, - trucks, . delivery
cars and taxi cabs, owned by re
tailers, wholesalers, manufact
urers, van,, storage and express
companies, .was announced to
night by W. H. Cameron, Manag
ing Director ot the National Safety
Council with headquarters here..
The program Includes a series
of lectures to be delivered in var
ious cities, radio talks to be broad
cast by leading stations, dash cards
for thousands, of . commercial ve
hicles, printed booklets containing
instructions relating to safe drive-
Ing, slogans to appear upon bill
boards, and . four different illus
trated posters every month which
will be displayed in garages, ser
vice stations, etc of fleet owners.
Letters asking for the co-oper-.
atien of corporations, companies
and individuals who own large
numbers of commercial cars will
be sent to the managers who rfll
be requested to have, their drivers
attend the ' schools which are to
be conducted by Community safety
councils throughout the country.
..More than 4;000 concerns are
now enrolled in the National Safe
ty Council and it Is the hdpo'of
Managing 'Director Cameron that
hundreds df other fleet owners
will be glad to receive the new
type of service which ha been
developed to assist them in edu
cating their drivers whose atten
tion wilt be called to the Impor-
tance of -safe .thinking and safe .
practices;
The series of six leaflets on safe
driving, cover the following sub
jects: "Rules of the Road "Me- ,
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SHOW ROOM NOV READY
OTTO J. WILSON INCREASES
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The new show room of the Otto
Wilson Automobile company, local
Buick distributors, has been com? '
pleted and the shop is to be fin
ished soon. Mr. Wilson said yes
terday. The show: room now ex
tends the entire length of the
building and will accommodate
many more cars than heretofore.
It measures 80 feet by "40? New
equipment has been Installed,
with lighting fixtures and f urni
ture.'' -;. -'P: ' " "
tt is thought the remodeling of
the entire shop will be completed
during. .this week... '
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