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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1926)
: ,10 TO DID 1600 CAflS DAILY New Building to Be Erected for Manufacturing Porn . ttatf Sixes Soon ... - S- 'tremendous, building and expansion program announced re cently by the Oakland Motor Car company looking toward the building of 1 QOO Pontlae Sixes and 600 Greater Oakland Sixes dally actually got under s-way- this last week when A." R. Glancy, presi dent and general manager of the company . turned .the first spade ful of sod. In the presence of of ficials' and'; department ? beads, for the. construction of the gigantic new separate factory for manufac turing Pontlafe. Sixes--rv;;K'i Mr. Clancy announced that final cost figures for this new building program call for : the expenditure of $7,600,000 Instead of 5,000, 000 "as flr?t-announced and also for the completion of the build ings ' Ja.nuary.lsM i There will be .nine ' acres ". of basement under the gigantic as sembly plant alone, which Itself will be a. quarter, of . a mile long. In thi whole plant there will be approximately 30 acres of floor space under, roof. An excavating company has already I begun the st n pendous .task cof moving 350, 00 cubic yards of earth at the rate ' of 100,000 'cubic feet a month. Actual construction oper ations are "scheduled to get under way-in three weeks. - At Shipley the ladles of Salem have satisfied themselves that they caa get the finest spring and sum IB er frocks, coata and dresses ever shown la tola city. ) RUIUTtnAXITES k. i a inevTotei cnassis, nitea wun ryf . special "library body accom- r iiodatlng hundreds of books neat- aijr Biiaii&cu wit BuriTra, is emeritus ita ixth year af service. with the vanston, TIL, public library. "The portable library; brings , literature to the suburbs during summer month's when schools are closed. ' . X. H. Moore. 235 K. HIgnf St. apartments, and atore where you' can get high quality furniture and furnishings for every; roem In your house. , 4) ! Although most neonle feel that j tire- covers are most valuable as A a protection from raini snow and 'Vt these factors are negligible as ' , ,oipared to sunlight itself. Rub- I her cracks and oxidizes In sunlight .1 and for this reason monufacturers wran tires with heavv naDer dur- J log. shipping besides as.a "protec- non against : scratches ana airt Cobb it Mitehell Co.. lumber and building materials for every purpose. Get estimates, look at quality of material, then you will order. 34S S. 12th St. -; () .--T - :" . .. . ' It Is a well - known fact that motorists considers'the tire cover merely as a decoration though in actual fact It 'shields "the spare tire from the. sunlight. rVhich its well known as a destroyer of rub ber, and ' to get the greatest, pos sible service from spare tires XTC engineers advise the. use of tire covers.-' , . ; :i1 Berlin-Dancers Showing . , Charleston More Favor BERLIN, (AP) The Charles ton Is just beginning fo assume proportions of a ballroqnf craze In Berlin, one year after being Im ported from the United States. The Dancing' Masters' Associa tion has announced that the res erve of dancers "has- at last' been broken down aud that by - VCbar lestoniqg" they no longer feeMhey are putting on an exhibition per formance. -. - . - r.; The Charleston is none too ton ular! on the stages Five'hundred members of the Wandenroegel, a New Youth organization,; recently precipitated a riot when they de manded that Miss -Wickl . Werk meister be. "thrown out'"f or do ing the "heathen dance. "; Shouts "Do you call that art; filled the theater. Scores of fist fights de veloped. Police stopped the show and cleared the theater." , SUNDAY MORNING; AUGUST 22,- I 0 -1 t M ' f t- 1 Own Hand in "Worth -Wood - ST. PAUL. Minn., (AP) Clinching her Job by a daring capt ure of two illegal, hunters Mrs. Florence Stukel. one of, the few women game 'wardens, .is in the Minnesota Jake , country , making life miserable for Betters, dyna miters and other illicit fishermen One cold wintry day last winter this Intrepid woman tracked' a pair of "poachers? from the scene of their kill deep In the woods to their automobile parked along an isolated road.' 1, When the driver refused to halt Mrs. Stukel fired her revolver at a rear tire and punctured it. . sha vara a ..ov ular post with the state warden force arter conviction of her cap tives, j . , f Mrs. StuTcel. a widow, quickly graduated from an office position to field work. Now she fearlessly scours the lake country surround ing a one-room cabin headquarters which she built. Her companions are Miss' Marian Colby, another woods enthusiast, an,d her dog. ; ' Bonesteele Motor Co.,' 474 S. Com'K. has the Dodge antomobtle tor you. All steel body. Lasts a lifetime. Ask Dodge owners. They will tell yon.- , , . 4; Let us prove how near perfect tion our tires are by showing jovl. Tire cover free with each tire pur chase. Malcolm's Tire Shop, 205 North Commercial, ' " () KIker Auto Co., yorry at Llb rt.St. Autos stored, and bought and sold. Cars washed day and night. Low prices and service will make long friends. ' () i . ! First Vintage of Wines ! ; Hungary's Liquid Asset KUDAPEST. (AP) Among IT : gary's most valuable iiquld" a- tt former Comm Issioner-Cen- .frul Jeremiah Smith found, were - 0,000,000 bottles of the finest iLfinfeage wines, which the Covern 'lnent was willing to sell at one fourth thejr former prices Among these were a million bottles of the famous Tokay wines, produced onr in Hungary, which could have been bought for a dollar a bottle. Before the war Hungary , was a great wine-producing and con ! suralng country. Its citizens drank freely of the delicate, amber-colored wine from .the slopes of the ifaned Tokay mountains. Cut the riroat.war brought an end to 'all s i conviviality, and the averasrn igarlan Is now content to drink Grovtli of Closed Cars Lrinked to Buick History NEW YORK, Aug. 21. The growth of the closed car is closely ly linked with the history of the Buick lotor company, - -! First one must go .back to the 1914 period. At that time people thought the motor car had reach ed ;-: its senlth. Valuen were -believed to 'be nearly perfect and it appeared i to many that ; automor bile sales had reached the satura tion point, that prices could nev er be reduced. . This was' before the war when materials and-wages were flower t and ; the 'dollar was worth nearly twice as much as it is today. ' . . i In 1314 the'Bulclc Motor com pany built one closed car, a coupe, a strange looking affair, described in the catalogue as "a closed car of magnificent' appointments, every detail complete nothing left to be desired. It had a 112 Inch wheelbase, four cylinders and 35 horsepowerv. It sold for $1800 from the factory. In contrast ii. the present, a 4-passenger, 6-cy-Hnder coupe, selling for I14C5. which has a horsepower of 75, a SLOW DOWN .WHLH T0U COME TO AUTO SENSE Y.r Saleq Super Yung & Eckerlln j g RAINY WEATHER , . Tough time to change tires on' the road. Better drive In often and have us look 'them over and take care of them for yori"J This low. costing service will; please you. - You 'Only pay for what you get. DRIVE IN OFTEN hivice Station S S S v High ami Ferry Streets 1 ' ; s ' ? 1 f - . ' . t x ' 11 , '' 'I . y , 7- : I u J T ' - ' - . -. ' i -' - . i i - BRICK WAREHOUSE :l Coal and Dry Wood at Reasonable Prices Crfiting Local and Long Hauling - rJoving 143 South Liberty v - ; ; v Telephone 930 ame - priceless jealoUsly ana met erore oneia t J - Dodge ; Brothers have Jc'ept ,the .faith. V v5- : J Year-after yearlheir motor car:hastcon- , . : tiriued to mature into a better and better - - .product. .. V. v . .1 'V 7 . ;j Beauty has been added to dependability, V Comfort and silence to beauty." Endlcs3 ' ; refinements, have been made, arid. the - basic sources of Dodge Brothers quality. maintained in every detail. , : r .. As a consequence, the NAME Dodge ; . Brothers is even more valuable than the ; ; great Dodge Brothers plant itself, and eminently worthy of the public confi dence it everywhere inspires. . . The public may resl' assured that a , Good Name so priceless will - be safe ., guarded jealously, by. those who hold its ' . destinies in their hands. 5 : Sport Roadster . fll50 Conpe Touring Car . . 067 ' . ,' Hi&n Delivered , ' . fioio 1081 BONESTEELE MOTOR CO. i " -J . , " 1 474 South Commercial . ; Telephone 423 "f t lJ J GI 4a.) W- saJ U L 3 Lr i w X "1 " 3 120-inch wheelbase and every modern improvement. Even a greater comparison Is shown id the '1911' closed car. That was a 40 horsepower, 4 -cylinder, r7-passenger model, with a wheelbase? of122 inches. Its cat alogue ' description read, ; "The first Impression is pleasing to the eye and' suggests beauty and class. The simple elegance o( finish, and graceful lines have, never been equaled. Today it would be a cumbersome thing; topheavy, and overloaded with accessories." It sold for S4 000. ' . In 19T4, Biiick built Its first six-cylinder touring car, called the "finished automobile." It had 48 horse-power, very little , extra equipment and sold for $198!;, The highest . priced open car that Buick guilds today, the model 55, is 75 horse-power, Jias a 1 2 S-lnch wheelbase, four-wheel brakes, bal loon. tire-, .extra .sport equipment YOUR CAR plus OUR WORK ' . for comfort arid appearance makes your car just like new, , ; u A set of our Enclosures on your open car :";gives you sedan comfort. : ' WSS?r' LAQUER Our Paint Shop is spoken of as f 4 I'One of the Best in the West" 'lJ ', Let us make your car new. Only , experienced workmen employed WE REBUILD WRECKED CARS " ' Open or Closed Models , . -,;?-- . ' , - - -.. - . , . v'-;Tops Glass Washing Greasing p t t. Painting Storage Tire Service Gas. Oil Woods Auto Service Co. T. C WOOD, Mgr. Phone 809 Oregon Salem and Rella-for only $1S25 factory. During " 1915 no closed cars were manufactured. The demand r was .'all for open modeis and with the approaching war, a closed 'car seeni a-useless luxury," . - - f Today, however," the closed car has become so popular "that of Uuick's '16 'model.. 12 ki. closed type ' . tu The Man'i Shop saves you a tf rt dollar bill on every quality eutt. Shirts, hats. .. ties, : cofiara. lllz'.t grade clothing, rnrfeft t'.ll'.: , long wearing. 416 Ktata. ( visit the anSGOia , . . . .. Wonderful caverns within a mountain of marble. ; ' Hotel accommodations at the Caves. 1 50 Miles From Grants Pass via the , Redwood . Highway . Well Say It Ig Unusual We lake in your old equipment and give you new Miller Balloons . , AXD Wi: REALLY PAY VOU von Yovn old tirf.s, Tinnis AND WIIKKLR - f r For All 'Autos Wearing Size 29x4,40 If we were to publish the allowance we will give on your old equipment, everybody wouldsay we are crazy. Drive iip and ask us. ; . '. "WE LOVE TO CHANGE A TUXET Miller Tire Service Co ' "RUSS SMITH 197 South Commercial . Phone 313 - 1 11 """ .. " '1 I I . . : ; : . 'TpkrP7r A- ):- v. n . o - i rTTT!S "TTTn yT TT TT M-T7- TT A T t7 '-- - -. -.'i, . r ' , r r . ... . . I - m t - - I f - I 1 - I v t I ...1 1 ' ' I M I -' W f M . I .-5 A . 1 ... - I W 1 . Good . : Ms a Kemmmm p see . i I 1 - ... 1 BONT. rniss -seeing this :New Your first favorable impression of Paige Brougham-r-newest of smartness . and comfort will be the hew-Paige models. Yon will further enhanced once you rtake the , wonder how a' car so fine can be - wheel of this remarkable car and sold for only $1295 f.o.b. Detroit learn at first hand how easily it - - ? - - : ' - handles how quickly it accelerates v The beautiful. Brougham body is how safely and surely it stops larger than most sedans. Its interior, (with Paige-Hydraulic 4-Wheel is roomier. : Enter or leave the rear brakes) and how speedy and , seat from either, side without dis- powerful it is how economicaL turbir-g those in front. Five adults : lowered with an' ultra-modenv, relax comfortably on deep-tufted highly-perfected Paige-built motor cushions Hie mart Jines of this I yOVi will find this car sc leader in Brougham are enhanced by a finish performance in any company. Ask of rubbed, waxed and polished lac- for a demonstration it will nor quer ia two pleasing tones of gray. obligate you in any way. . Features of this lSew Paiges Improved Paige-built Motor, none more modern nor better lubricated Full High-Pre are Oil Feed to ell Rotating Parte, including wri.t pla; cam shaft, auxiliary shaft and tappets Counterbalanced Crankshaft SUent C hain dm ' ins, with automatic takeop -Air Cleaner AllMets l Oil'Lu bricated UnlTersals -Springs 54 Inches lon Shock Ab or bers BalloonTiret - Palje- Hydraulic 4-Wbeel Drake ? i . t tfi I- Bearlnss -Saw blade Steel, Uht Acting Clutch thort Throw, Easy Gear Shift Coincidental Lock Auto matic Windbield Cleaaer Dash Gas and Heat Indicator " Stop Li Lt Dome U'.t i 4 J - - -i is "'VrV. ' . ,' 7 i ... : .- ) ..V.VA v v, , Trumm Motor Car Coiii':r;:y ' 349 North Gcmmerciar Street Tcler:!:cr.2 CZ'J r or even plain water.