THE OnGON STATSS31ANSAL3r.' OREGON
SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 192G
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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
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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
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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
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VICK BROS. REPORT
CAR SALES GROWING
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"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
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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?
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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
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FOUR EXPEDITIONS
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lowered Prices Study the Car
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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
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rhonc 26 : : , 370 North High Street
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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.
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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 ' '
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Leads the World in Motor Car Value
$995 iA'
DootCaU to laapact C W.
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Announcing tjMjsm-
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F. OaLB. FACTORY
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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
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Structure and appointments
bodies are identical in design, ' ;
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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
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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.
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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.
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