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FROMOUR HIGHWAY
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Dno Solution Galls for Sec-
; onaary Koad systems to
Relieve Congestion
; ; ' ny Jtoy d. chapim -;.KIIow
can a maximum use of oar
ilighwaya be secured with safety?
i What t'hanjcen In practice or
regulation ran be made hy the
Highway ! adminiMtration which
will eaable you and me and other
motor users to drive comfortably
and without constant interruption
when we are on the road at mo
meals of peak' travel?
.What steps can be taken to fa
cilitate the constantly growing
movement! of commodities over
the highway out of large center of
population? V 5
K How can wo bring the develop
ment of rural highways into clos
er, relationship with the transpor
tation needs of the farmer?
"These are some of the questions
stated from a motor user's stand
point, which are before the coun
try today and with a new empha
sis borne out of the constantly in
creasing uwe of the motor vehicle
which we can see on every side of
vs.
; Since the passage of the modi
fied federal highway act In 1921,
the state highway engineers of the
United. States, acting in coopera
tion .With the United States Bur
eau :of Pablic Road, have been
concentrating their resources -upon i
the development of main systems
Of roads designed to carry a bulk
of the" movement.
How well they have succeeded
Can be answered by every motorist
of ; any long driving . experience
who can testify from his own trav
el log to the gradual and steady
improvement of the highways over,
which he drives.
A But coincident with that devel
opment, not only has there been a
Yerjr'marked increase in the num
ber Of., vehicles, their types and
the uses to which they are put. but
all Of us have tended to increase
oat mileage of travel as we have
become assured in our minds that
We could venture forth safely into
all parts of the country without
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Tiling's omly
mn& only
The Pontiac Six swept into the lime
light because it came to the public rep
. . , resenting all 'the skill, resources and
" experience of General Motors. And it
, - ' . has remained in the limelight from the
very day of its introduction, because no
other car has since appeared which
, offers so much for so. low a price. v
If Either Had Been Going a -I
Wee Bit Faster This Surely
; Would Have Brought Disaster
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' Motorists should be extremely
foughfares used by street cars." Experienced motor vehicle operators
usually avoid them. Eves when there is no trolley car in sight, there
is always the possibility' of one unexpectedly coming around a corner
or out of a yard. During the winter months, when skidding Is so much
in evidence, it is especially advisable to keep off slippery rails, warns
Homer E, Niesz, vice-president of the National Safety Council, which
is endeavoring to. prevent accidents on the streets and highways, in
other public places, at home and throughout industrial establishments.
fear of getting stalled in a mud i tinuous on some of the main
bole. I stems of traffic in and between
So today, Florida 'licenses have our larger cities and exasperating
become a familiar sight in the j ly common to the motorist of
streets of New York City while j smaller communities at those mo-
fhe man from Iowa argues the ; ments when of all others he is
Question of traffic laws with the most anxious to be on his way.
California cop. At the same time j That the highway engineer is
truck efficiency has been "stepped j thoroughly aware of the serious
Hp" by the growing mileage of ! ness of the economic problem back
heavy duty highways and the
modern bus now pokes its hood
into communities which but a few
brief years ago had to depend up
on the restricted services of
branch line railroads or upon the
favor of owners of private passen
ger cars. '
The net result is a steady sir a'm j
of traffic which is practically con-
General Motors cmmlhuildit
Only General Motors could introduce
so dependable a car -because 'no other
maker has at his command the facilities
of the General Motort Proving Ground
and the combined genius of General
Motors' Research Staff and of Oakland
engineers. j
PcmriaSIx, $825 to $975. OallanJ Six, comprnim to Pontiac Six, $1025 to $129S. AHprieem
mt factory. Bodies by Fisher. Emsy to pay on the liberal Qenerul Motors Time PayventPlmm, ,
VICK BROS.,
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MILT
H!Tl MOTOR CO.. Albany. Oregon; FRED T. BILYETJ. Sclo, Oregon. CT
v.-.rJ TAYLOR. Lebanon.
ton. Oregon, i GEO.. DORR. Woodburn. Oregon; C. J. SCHREEVE & SON
Dallas. Oregon ; HARR1SBURG-OARAGE, Uaxrlsbnrg. . Oregon; JOHNSO
MOTOR SALES 'CO., CorTauiSt Oregon. :
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careful when driving along thor-
of this condition, is best evidenced
by the testimony given by Thomas
H. MacDonald. chief of the U. S.
Rureau of Public Roads before
the sub-committee of the house ap
propriations committee recently.
The chairman had asked how
long it would take to complete
the I'OO.oOO miles of highways
' contained in the federal system.
Only the economies of General
Motors' vast purchasing power coald
make possible at $825 Hsher closed
bodies of such commanding beauty, fin
ished in distinctive Duco colors, and
such unusual fine car features as 46 lb
crankshaft, honed cylinders, full prcs
sure oiling, automatic spark control, and
bronze-backed interchangeable pearings
of the costliest type.
A full year has passed since the Pon
tiac Si was introduced and the su
f)reme satisfaction of 60,000 owners
ends emphasis to the fact: There is only
one Pontiac Six- and only General
Motors couU build ill
Salem, Oregon
Dealers .-
Oregon:-SIL.VEKTUN hutok uak tu., stiver
Mr. ; Mad .nald replied,;
L?lr will never be possible to
complete 200,000 miles of high
ways, using the term 'never in
the sense of any fixed time that I
can foresee. We hope by 19 SO to
have Improved the system shown
here on these main routes and to
have further improved the sections
shut are not now adequate for the j
traffic. Our most serious ' traffic :
problem now is in the east, to find i
a method of carrying the traffic
riourul congested centers or popu
lation and the congested districts
of the large centers: that is, the
construction of by-pas roads.
roads J hat will run around mieh !
rftte as Knllmnr and Kew York. '
We have a large problem in the
elimination of grade crossings oni
main railroads and intersections'
at grade with the main hghways." n the use or cut-away chassis ana
This statement points the way j the display ha been a t enter of
to One large answer. Through ! growing Interest each succeeding
traffic carried across " congested ! var. Those previously bnilt are
city areas not only slows dpwn ' today in ne for demonstrating
the movement and irritates tho j Pnosos at tne University of
driver who is interested in getting ' Michigan, the University of Cali
on'to his destination, but it adds!'ornIa- tne Smithsonian Institute,
very materially to the congestion
of the local "movement and hence
to the cost of street maintenance,
The by-paKsJns- of through traf
fic has already been demonstrated
to b& a sound cure for the expedi
tion of this phase of travel and
while carefully planned additions
will be necessary to our-h-ighway
programs to .provide these high
ways, the cost, will be far more
than offset by the saving in traf
fic time.
-The matter of elimination - of
rail crossings and road intersec
tions at grade is coming to be one
of increasing importance in cer-v
tain areas where there is a con
stant and heavy flow of vehieles
of all kinds and descriptions.
Quring a study made of the
peak movement for any hour in
Chicago by the Bureau of PuGlic
Roads in cooperation with state
and local authorities, it was found
that 2,740 vehicles per hour were
recorded on Western avenne,
which is one of the heaviest trav
eled streets in the country, pro
viding ways for six lanes of traf
fic. In a study made some time ago
of the possible discharge of high
ways. A. N. Johnson of the Uni
versity of Maryland found that the
maximum discharge occurred at
15 miles per hour and that -for a
single line of traffic, the possible
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EXPUIMS MOTORS
Revert to Method First Used
in 1907 to Show Working
Machinery
Improving upon a feature winch
has atlractetl increasing attention
jKinee its introduction la 190", the
Cadillac Motor Car company is
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thin year ugain including in its
exhibit a cut-open chassis, the
trPPent model being Cut away 80
as to exnoe more thoroughly than !
ver before every moving part. j
The company was the pioneer j
Washington. D- C and many oth-
fer Places
j Paris
One was on display at
ris show this year and one
l.j.s been presented to th technic
al high sci oi. Ch&rlottenberji
Germany.
At the show not only the tech
t.ically trained but many who
know little of mechanics and to
whom the enclosed parts have
been a complete mystery, are in
the throngs which surround the
chassis and listen to the demon
stration. Three new chassis have been
built and are being shown in the
east, central and western portions
of the country. They are finished
in black, with the combustion
chambers and the inside of the
exhaust pipes and mufflers done
in red. A storage battery con
total would be 2640 vehicles.
In other words. Western avenue
with its six lanes was discharging
c.nly at the approximate capacity
of a single roadway and the rea
son for this Was in the constant
interference of cross currents of
traffic and other obstacles.
In a light movement, this inter
ference would not be serious, but
v-ben the delays of a heavy travel
are reckoned together with the
fact that travel may be actually
limited because of this restriction
of facilities, the problem becomes
one of immediately civic impor
tance. In such cases then, we have to
consider whether the time is not
here when it is no longer feasible
f:om the standpoint of public in
terest in adequate transportation
facilities to content ourselves with
roads at grade.
Has not the time come when in
order to keep the traffic moving
(and that Is the hub of the whole
question) trunk roads must be
constructed without grade inter
sections which will permit of - a
constant and a safe use of all of
the lanes of traffic- provided for
i the builder ;
In this way and. only in this
way can these main trunk roads
. e dedicated to the uses of traffic
ruber thar. for storage uses which
is the actual result-of obtruding
ol-tacles into. the. . lane whether
they be moving or stationary in
character. -
Pending these- changes, which
iire-only necessary, as I have point
ed out In .cases of be a vy move
ment whre fortunately they , will
pay for the.mselvejb in the "savings
so effected, the subject of regula
tion is one which requires a care
ful analysis. Urst in the Interest
ef safety. and second to promote
i he flow of. traffic, two things by
the way which usually go hand in
hand.
'Lighting control is now in evi
dence in most if not all of our
cities. The effects of this control
ii damming the flow of traffic art
of as much importance as their
effect in sorting out the move
ment. Control cannot be sol rigid
as to simply serve as a traffic bar
rier. It must permit of the most
conomk: use or the highway if it
Is to be effective. The snbject is
'fine deserving of close study.
Finally with respect to our rur
al movement, there is evidence on
all sides of a closer relationship
letween the different forms of
transportation and of a rapidly
growing use of the "motor vehicle
as an agency in distribution both
by the farmer and the city user.
Back of our main federal and
sttte highway systems,' there lie!
the secondary and tertiary sys
tems which are far greater in
mileage, than the heavier roads,
p it bough they carry a much small
er, movement both in volume and
density-
In the main hese roads will
not require anything like .the de
cree of improvement essential to
the. backbone system but there, is
a constant necessity tor their re
pair and upkeep and even for
iurthor improvement. - i j -
Work goeipn apace, in bringing
these highways Into service as It
does on the. main system, but the
tatk Is not so centralized and con
stantly there- is a greater varla
tion in , the .efficiency and in the
methods used; . . ... ..;
The public monies involved In
this task, are large and conse
quently there is need- fort a con
stant examination Into the. pres
ent-day administration, its proced
ore and the result obtained in the
public JntreaC.
4- Like the other phases of our
read, problem, this one is grad
ually being met, and as 1926 clos
es - it can be conservatively stated
that everywhere our; road admin
istrators are meeting these ques
tions honestly and vigorously and
with "Very' real results. f ,,f y.
cealed In the gasoline tank pro
vide power so that all parts of
the engine, transmission and rar
bxJe assembly may be seen in op
eration. ' ' '
-) From the front of ihe-crank-ease
to the first, universal Joint
behind "the tansmtasionv- ccwh
rearlyonetfcird t the 'casing has
teenj ntt Swajr?5 AcomplefcC! " and
h a r'H-iew" isOgiveh Vir all working"
pait-t. from the oil strainer in. the
iH'ttom of the crankcase even io
trie spark - plugs '-and carburetor,
vl-ich are . also snown m cross
svtion. The four pistons in jme
block are shown complete with
tbir connecting rods and the
M-arinn which hold them in plac?
on the frankhhaft. So great is the
cut on the transmission case that
every gear is shown, explaining,
t titer than words the story of
Cadillac workman-hip and trie ;
transmission of power from the j
tngine to the rear wheels.
Portland.- Portland. " " Electric
Power company will spend nearly
$2, 000. 000 for 1927 improve
ments. -
Mr. Car Owner;
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Tires in this sale represent some.: of ' the most popular makes
GOODYEARS, C.
Tires on this
THE HOUSE OF TIRES
Invite tjs to your next Blow Out
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Byoffering the Improved Chevrolet at new low
prices, Chevrolet has proved again that it leads
the world in giving value. "Lower prices cri every
model! And every model improved by new
smoothness and snap, new comfort,roadability,
and riding ease! All have bodies finished in
lustrous Duco; and the prices of all include
modem dii-speexltrammissiQnpeedometer,
Alemite lubrication system, balloon tires and
Fisher Bodies on the closed models, and many
other modern features. Never before did new
low prices establish such new. high values!
and you buy the Improved Chevrolet on the
easiest terms ever offered. On the Chevrolet
6jc Purchase Certificate Plan you may pay as
little as 5 down and then add to that sum
whatever you choose each week, earning in
terest at 6 until you have accumulated the
delivery down payment. Cbme; in 1 Let tis
explain how this is the simplest, safest, thrift
iest plan ever devised for buying a car.
4-;NeWAC AirCJeaner
new At uu filter New Remote Control
New Coincidental Lock Door Handles
Combination Ignition,
. and steeriag Lock New Tire Carrier ..
New Radiator " New, Bullet-Type: "
New Duco Colors Head Lamps " .
New Gasoline Qauge New Hardware
NEWTON
FALCON
BUT
BASIS
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President of Company; issues
;Statemont:6i;.PoliGy for :
OKTHOlTv Mlcb.-. ( Special
That the new FalcotwKnight will
be a Vnatity'bullt '.motor, car; was
confirmed- by .Johns)V,-Nichols, Jr..
president of ie : FAlco? t Motors
Corporat ion." In a .statement given
out in which h.eaid. tPuWtc-Preference
U veryS definitely toward
the slee've-valve engine. , ;
"The nrivilese "of elng the first
manufacturer to bring., beforo the
public the marked benefits of a
K'nio'.it-enined ear. Belling in the
lower nrlce ranire."mark the FaU
con Motor;corpbration with out
standing advantages. -
The entire policle of this.comT
pany w ill be built upon the de fin-
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30x3J2 Premier Gord ....
30x3J2 First Grade Fisk Cord. ..
3 1 x4 Premi er Cord l-. .... . -
" 32x4 Premier Cord 71
29x4.40 C. T. C. Balloon ...1 .
30x4.75 Goodyear Balloon
Other sizes priced proportionately
sale carry the standard
SMITH WATKINS
Economical Transportation
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CHEVROTET
'EVERYONE TALKlNqX
tie xouboimu twit, w wo KTriuaa-
entlyl successful, 'av manufacturer
must have ai dealer "body 'that u
financially happy
seCthcf, re2yP:i InSdbwmano ana
tor car lndastry naveeoniiamea
this in the judgment of the men
in this organisation,
i "In the selection of our execu-
tive personnel, in the organ Izatfo
nf our manufacturing faclliti j
and In the nuuaing up pi onw
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nancial structure, these thil
have been the guiding principf
- ''Satisfactory progress Is beint;
made In the.' organization of our
dealer personnel and In the de
velopment of our manufacturing
acuities, indicating that we win
be able to start deliveries earjv in
the spring. . - )
- "Basing onf anticipations oin
puplication of what has- happened
in Europe," airice-ihe-'evpiration of
the: patents on -the Knight sleeve
yalve' motor abroad, we anticipate
'a general public trend toward this
type of" powerplant. In Europe
this -ear, six new chassis offer
ings were equipped "with sleete
valve motors. ..
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lioaaster ..b7U
Coupe .....$777
Coach ........:.$746
Sedan :.$849
Landou i.:: :..$S99
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New Heavy One-piece -.
Full-crown' Fenders ' -
New .Running Boards "
New Brake and Clutch
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