The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 07, 1926, Image 21

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Newspaper Page TextTHE OnGON STATSS31ANSAL3r.' OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 192G 5 I I J SCHOOLS FOR AUTO ft . : ..... Ill Ml BEING OPSO Durant Company Institutes New System in Cities . in Coast States. AKLAND.' March 6. How nTtny men, young and old, have wished for the chance to g back to school after they have started the battle against the world for their sustenance? , . "The Durant Motor Company of California, Star car builders, is starting, to find out, on a large proportionate scalo, . and ' la so doing is bringing about a condit ion of better living for hundreds of men; women and their families. In fifteen western cities. Star car dealers are "now successfully conducting, schools for expert salesmen and automotive experts, from which several hundred stu dents . have already been; grad uated, and in whlchVarei being proved to American business that greater possibilities than ever be fore, exist in their own organiza tions, 'j j ' " These schools, according to H. W. Curtis, Director of Sales, are now a definitely proved success, and more critics are enlisting the factory's aid dally; in opening and conducting their schools. J At the present? time, these schools are teaching more than 1200 students the liner arts of salesmanship and mechanics, i The schools are located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Fresno, Bakersfield, San Jose. Santa Bar bara and Salinas, California, Spo kane. Seattle and ; Walla ! Walla. Washington, Tucson, Arizona. Boise, Idaho, and , La Grande and Baker, Oregon. ".' k , Each school is being conducted by Star ear dealers in the cities mentioned, and the instructors are successful men in both the merch andising and mechanic ends of the antomobip business as it is known today. " . Step by j step, the students are taken through the fundamentals ot selling and auto mechanics, and Into the technical points of today's business.- j " 1 " The schools are open to the general public, the only require ment from the student; that the time be not wasted. Classes are held on a once-a-week basis, and instructors lecturing and giving practical examples and; the stu dents, with regularly outlined courses of study, answering ques tions put to them orally and writ ten. ; . . J ' :! t4 Wide interest in the schools is rowingVTrAccordlng to Durant -factory officials, a still greater number of schools will tie holding regular classes within j a short .time.. ; 41 ' . i The regular course includes fif teen' courses of study, which may be covered in eight weks. Stu dents are given regular diplomas upon completing the course satis factorily. ; i ; j ft VICK BROS. REPORT CAR SALES GROWING (Continued from page 1. !fv "These . cars will be about half Oakland closed cars and the bal ance made up of all the closed models of Pontiac. "Our March deliveries will be In Qreaies&Reward rt JorOcednWero H 7. . - -- f Capt. George Fried, heroic com mander of U. S. liner Roosevelt, got hfe greatest reward for saving the crew of the stricken British ship Antinoe, when his wife Jour neyed down New York bay;' to climb aboard his ship and fall Secret of .Vertical Flight Found at Last? . ... '. ir- . w;!! I 5 nil y v' 'Sv.. mm mm After many failures, De la Cierva, noted Spanish inventor, believes he has solved the problem of vertical flight. His latest helicopter" model is being demonstrated at Villiacoublay field, near Paris, where on several occasions It has remained In the air for some time. New photo shows the machine being prepared for flight. I i FOUR EXPEDITIONS o FORIGTG Explorers of United States Prepare for Dash Into Frozen North i BY JOHN T. LEWIXG, J Central Press Correspondent WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. With at least four expeditions preparing in the U. S. for aerial assaults on the unconquered Arctic, and three or four others being organized by adventurous European spirits, it looks like the polar regions will be a favorite summer resort, this year. : Perhaps the most ambitious of the expeditions is that being spon sored by the American Geograph ical Society and the Detroit Avia tion Society, under the leadership of Capt. George H. Wilkins, Aus-. tralian explorer and aviator. An expedition financed by Har rison Williams and George Palmer Putnam, to gather specimens for the American Museum of Natural History, will have Capt. Robert Bartlett as leader, ana Robert E. Peary, son of the, man credited with discovering the North Pole, will be in the party. Captain excess of, seventy new cars.r JNb now have our territory partially cbvered with dealers and appli cations are coming in from other outside points." The Vick com pany has the distributing agency for the Oakland and Pontiac for four counties, although at present, most of the) deliveries are being made in Salem. "Less1 than eight years ago," Mr. Vick said, "we protested strongly if we were forced to take one closed car out of ten machines. We had practically no demand foil them and could sell them only iri rare cases. Now it is just the opposite. We are trying to gei every closed model we can. Oui of J the j , sixty-five Oaklands so Id since last fall, we, have turned oui only two touring models. The new Pontiac, of-course, comes only in closed models." Bartlett accompanied Peary on some of his trips to the Arctic. Lt. Leigh Wade, one of the world fliers, will lead a third group of, adventurers. The fourth expedition definite ly announced is that which will be commanded by ILeut. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, U. S. N. Meanwhile there Is being over hauled a dirigible in which Roald Amundsen; Norwegian explorer now n the U. S., hopes to be able to fly to the Pole over a course on which he ;was nearly " lost ; in at tempting a plane flight last year. Although none of the leaders will 1 admit the j possibility, it is probable that the invasion of the Arctci by air will develop Into a race for what ever honors are at tached to being the first to nail a flag to the North Pole. : j Lt. Wade is preparing to resign from the army air servlcie in order to gve all his time to preparations for the adventure. lis buddy on th world flight, Lt. H. k. Ogden. will act as his assistant 6n the po lar dash. . In personnel, equipment and fi nancing, the expedition will be all American. It is expected by prom inent alumni of Harvajrd, Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania and will be known as the American university's alum ni expedition. - The expedition is negotiating for a steamer to transport 'Its equipment to Point Arrow, .Alaska, which is to be the base also of the Wilkins expedition, organized for the same purpose. Lt. Comdr. Byrd is convinced by his experience as commander of the navy section of the MacMillan expedition last summer that ex ploration of the Arctic by aircraft is practical. ; , Officially, the navy is not to be connected with the expedition which is to be financed with the aid of prominent Americans, among whom are John D. Rocke feller, Jr., Vncent Astor and Edsel Ford. ; i At the same time, although its object will bet somewhat similar, it will not operate in competition with the other expeditions. Although the navy will not "offi cially be connected with the ex pedition it may furnish some en gines for the aircrafts. Commander Byrd expects : to havefour avfators with the expe dition as well as what ship and ground crews are necessary. It is his sope that the nevy will per mit Floyd Bennett, aviation pilot of Waterbury, Vt., to accompany him as he did on the MacMillan ex pedition. Bennett has been in avi ation work since he enlisted in 1917. I Donoghue Teaching Son to Be Boxer and Jockey LONDON. Steve Donoghue, England's premier jockey, is rais ing his boy to be a boxer and a horseman. j "Boxing makes a boy quick and nimble, and such qualities are the very life of a jockey," said the veteran rider, known chiefly in America for his failure to ride Papyrus to victory against Earl Sande on Zev in 1923. Young Pat Donoghue Is a stable boy at Epsom, where his father has raced home winners of the classic Derby four times. Re cently the boy won a boxing con test at the National Sporting; Club, where well-to-do Englishmen, al ways in evening dress, by rules of the club, watch the best pugil istic talent Britain can muster.. Many a man has cheated his rcreditorB by having property in his wife's name but no one ever es capes accidents by having safety that way. 1 - Ifl HEMP TESTS Roadster Crosses . Missouri in Hard Run, Shattering Former Record Ail existing speed records for motor car travel . between Kansas City and St. Louis were broken recently when a stock Willys Knight Great Six roadster crossed the state of Missouri in 4 hours and 19 minutes. The driver of the car which bettered the 'former Tecord by 29 minutes, was H. C. Davies. a racing driver of Kansas City, who was forced to use all his skill in negotiating sixty, miles of gravel road on the route at better than 40 miles an hour. M. A. Water man, real estate man of Kansas City, donated the Willis-Knight roadster for the trip which was run in conjunction with a local newspaper. - No stops were made on the trip although the car was slowed up in several towns to toss newspapers to new agencies. In addition to the, driver, John Hankinson, Kansas City represent ative of the National Motor Con test association, and a mechanic made the trip, the start of which was timed by Kansas City police officials. The test was sponsored by the Bernard-Buchli Motor Company, Willis-Overland dealers in Kansas City, and the car used was a stock, roadster. Not content with establishing a new mark for the Kansas City St. Louis route, Davies brought the car back to the former city on the return journey in 4 hours and 42 minutes, bettering the former record of 4 hours .and 48 minutes by a comfortable margin. Offi cials who watched the test were enthusiastic over the performance of the Willys-Knight Great Six. declaring that the newly-establish ed speed record between the two points indicated the exceptional performance of this car and its ease of handling. W OD E EMS How Long a Line Would 1500 Cars Make, Local Dealer Wants to Know "Try to visualize an unbroken line of 1,500 motor cars driven on -the road 35 feet apart how far wo'ttij the line extend?" Thi Question wtf asked by the Bone steel Motor company, local Dodge Brothers dealer s he looked. up from a paper on which ' he had been figuring. '"Dodge Brothers. Inci, are now building 1500 vehicles a day. Each car measures, let us say, 15 feet from bumper to buiaper. If we should allow 35 feet as a safe- driving distance between c&rs on the road, this would make an un broken line of cars 75,000 feetiy' long. "I have not boen able to find a road map which gives the mileage across Canada and through Buf falo down to New York City but T have just checked the distance from a railroad time table. "If the distance by road from BANK OFFICIAL 53 YEARS SPRINGFIELD. Ohio. Gen. J Warren Kelfer, who was speaker of the house of representatives of the forty-seventh congress, has started upon his fifty-third con secutive year as a bank official He has been reelected a director of the Lagonda National Bank here for -the fifty-third time and president of the institution for the forty-fourth year. ! f I I i.'l H 1 To Appreciate Oldstnobile'c Lowered Prices Study the Car TOURING ROADSTER COU PE 4 COACH H SEDAN .'1 t 1060 I175 I120 1145 DELIVERED AT SALEM ' i. ' I Seven months ago Ohlsmobllle lowered prices as iu(h a tU60. Today, after other manufacturers have ad justed their prices, Oldsmohlle values challenge cora parfson more than eve before, i For Oldsmobile has not sacrificed one whit of quality to secure the advantage of low price.' Indeed, the thousands who have come to see and drive the Olds mobile, have been attracted by its even higher quality and greater beauty I v'::;ilT;i-'v';! - ;- The act that the majority of all who have seen and' driven the. Oldsmobile have bought it, shows how con vincing Oldsmobile performance is. ':The enthusiasm of owners is emphatic proof of the quality which keeps that performance continuously fine. Come and see the Oldsmobile amL verify Its quality. Drive it know Oldsmobile performance. You will he amazed toi find what .Oldsmobile prices can buy In Oldsmobile. , 1 . : ' ! . ir-rri Tli car illustrated la I th :DIjUX Coacb. ; llSifi nalivared t 3-Pi . " . ; CAPITOL MOTORS !. . . BIDDY BISHOP, Mgr. rhonc 26 : : , 370 North High Street "if jr -why you will prefer a f Nv 1 1 Rickenbacker 6 or 8 riM"5fa' T Fua. PhMtaa - S1TSS IPuPhMtw - S7SS 4 Paa. fUadatar - 17SS 5 rtMb Crap Sadait ISM 4 Pw. Ct RdtW 1S2 5 ra. Broufhun - ISM SPM.Sd4H . - SMS T Pmmrn. Sxian . X1M 4 Pm. Mm Coup ISM Vmrtieml "Eimkf Prk t rM. PliMtM , . S21M IPuhPliMtm - - II SO 4 PaM. Roulitw - SIM C PaM. CoupaSadan MM 4 Psm. Coup RoMlthr X3M 5 Paaa. Brourbana - ? tM S Paa Sadaja , - S49S 7 Paaa. Sadau ' - S5M , 4 Paaa. DaLua Coup IMS , t.0.h. DatrmUptmt tmm Kickenbscker is thoroughly modern, incorporating ail the latest engineering refinements. Best quality of materials used in motor, chassis and body. Best quality of interior fittings, hardware and upholstering only is used in all Rickenbacker models. Best grade of Spanish, leather in open models and best grade of silk mohair in all closed models. One of the most distinguished and most beautiful cars on the road. In a class by itself in performance. A chassis identically in construction and material with that used by Cannon Ball Baker when he made such a long list of road records i last year. Control system is so simple, so easily operated that women find these cars delightful for their use. Rickenbacker 'steering if positive, and without the .lightest effort on the part of die driveri " ' Rickenbacker roads so well, steers so easily, and rides so comfortably ; that the car drives all day without H the slightest feeling of fatigue.' Come in today and let us give you a demonstration. - : F. W. Pettyjohn Co. 365 WOaTHV N. Commercial . i ja - . .' ' - 10 Q O 12 O I? OF ' ITS' NAMC betrdlt "across" Canada to Buffalo and ' down - the i Laokawanna trail to New .York City- Is no greater than the distance by rail I figure that. if, their entire production at their present, 1560 car per day rate were spaced oat 35 feet apart a few hours less than 45 days would "be required to make a line which would be required to make a line which would reach from the factory in Detroit to Central Park. "So great has been the demand new, Improvements aaC at t:.-'.. -tonishing reduced pri" -tjcr-y' Is to be understood that the r,-ut of production is to be sti.l i.ir'lw-r increased In order that there may be sufficient cafs to supply the in creased needs of dealers during the coming spring mons." Placed ten feet apart on tl e Paeifle highway, tho Chevrolets sold on the Paffi.- cof.t 't if-tr. would reach from for the cars with their: important Mexican border. These are the days you'll use that Bicycle) " See that it is in good repair WE DO : BICYCLE REPAIRING at a reasonable cost to the owner New Bicycles -gSS?: LLOYD E. RAMSDEN I 387 Court Street ' ' nd ThI Leads the World in Motor Car Value $995 iA' DootCaU to laapact C W. Nuh'i ecwaat motor mt MceMfdM AJ-a Door Sadaa outatandla ci tba S10CO fiakt f Announcing tjMjsm- 15 Special Six $1) AND .Advanced Six $ t ! 4-Door Sedan F. OaLB. FACTORY j j ,'' .- . j. . v F. O. B. FACTORYi presentation of . , j Now we are inaugurating the first local these sensational new Nash models -r-the Special Six 4-Door Sedan and the (Advanced Six 4Door Sedan - Nowhere can you find more impressive examples of value-giving than these jatest Nash achievements --priced ' : at the lowest figures Nash has ever placed on cars of their respective types. The richly distinctive I T ' 'I II It .1.1 Structure and appointments bodies are identical in design, ' ; -, With -their luxurious Chase Velmo Mohair seat uphol stery and their other select fittings, these cars the largs? at $1525 f. o. b. factory and the more moderate sized at $1315 f. o. ba factory represent the greatest values Nash has ever built 1 , , ! - t j ,- i '- j. (' J ; "v."- ; ' . 1 . -S ' Furthermore, scientifically engineered motor refine ments have endowed them with vastly finer, smoother and quieter performance throughout the. entire range of speed and power plus sparkling responsiveness and flexibility , , I" ' " f:'- lt , ".' ' , ;'. ';; Both models have air cleaner,' oil purifier- and gasoline filter, as well as four-wheel brakes, full balloon tire3 and five disc wheels,1 included at no extra cost. f t! I, PRICES SpecUd Six Serto: Touring,1135 Roadeter, $lil5; Coupe, 3 1J65? Sedan' $1215? 4-Door Sedan, $3 15x 4Door Special Sedan, $1445. Advanced Six Series Tour! ing,$1340; 7-Pass.Touriog, $1496 Sedaa. $142$ Road.ter. $1475; 4-Door Sedan, $152 SjVictoria, $ 1 790; 4-DoorCoujc, $ 1990, 7-Paw. Sedan, $2090,.o.b.ocr. Kifkwooq Motor Company t t f J 1 311 Ndrm Commercial l': iato .his tzmit i r . " i. i , .... - - - 's A ! i"