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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1927)
ir; 4 THE OREGON STATESMAN, fcALEM, OREGON EU2D-"V MOIIKirG, AUGUST 21 1127 i: VAST BOLL OF CORD USED MAKING TIRES Enough for Kite to Fly to Moon Goes Through Mil ler Plant Monthly i . AKRON, Ohio (Special) Most j.verr boy has tried to fly a kite out of sight, into the clouds some hare succeeded. Boys have eren been known to yearn for enough kite cord, and strong enough, to fly a kit to the moon. They hare wondered what it would land on there. If the cord should break. These imaginative youths could ; realize their fondest dreams, per haps, if they could have the vast roll of unlflex cord that Is used, ! in a year, in making Miller tires. ,They "could fly twenty kites to the moon with the great ball of about ;6,000,000 miles of cord that this 'company works into automobile tires, every twelve months. In other terms these miles equal about 7,500,000,000 or 22,000, 000,000 feet. v Scientists Bay that 4t Is 238,840 miles to the moon, from the earth. Enough unifies cord is made into tires each month, at this factory, to fly a kite to the moon witb plenty to spare. The circumfer ence of the moon is said to be about 8,500 miles. The cord used ia tires at this factory, during a year, would encircle the moon 700 times. The earth is nearly four time as large as the moon, but a white band of 206 strands would make a white equator line, if this great production of uniflex cord was wrapped around it. A youngster, dreaming of so much cord, would probably per mit his enthusiasm to cloud his imagination. This great mass of cc-rd weighs about 7,000,000 pounds and would require a train of about 60 tons capacity each, to transport it. Although the cord Is not large, it ia unusually strong. It has far greater elasticity than the average and is made under the direct su pervision of textile experts, to keep nto.the exacting standards. Aviation Will Stimulate Road Building, Declared WASHINGTON. The develop ment of aviation will stimulate rather than retard the construc tion of highways; the American Koad Builders association stated here in commenting on the accom plishments of Byrd, Lindbergh and Chamberlih. ; CX,-. tl" , "Great municipal landing fields will be constructed along the prin cipally travelled highways within the near future," Charles M. Up turn, business director of the road organization, said. "Aviation will serve as a supplement to highway transportation and there will be the same coordination between airplane and the highway as has been finally reached between the railroad and the highway. "For the first time in transpor tation history, the subject of avi ation and its influence on high way construction will be discussed by a meeting of road builders, when the annual convention and road show of the American Road Builders' association convenes at Cleveland on January 9, 1928. Some 30,000 highway engineers, contractors and officials are ex pected to join in a wholehearted encouragment of aviation and the construction of landing fields. ' Wife Occupies Back Seat When Wise Driver Travels It's a wise father who arrives at his destination with the original number of children that filled up the family flivver when the trip started. Bill Brown. Friend Wife and their four youngsters, rein forced by enough lunch to feed a ycung army, left for an outing last Sunday. Pa and Ma sat in the front seat and the' little Brownies occupied the rear. They had gone about a mile when Baby Bobby was reported to be among the missing. The boy had opened the door and fallen out of. the ma chine. Luckily, he wasn't injured, either by the fall or other auto mobiles, having landed in a pool where he was enjoying himself when the family located him. Brown thus learned one of'the les sons which should be remembered by family men who go on auto trips, i. e., that It is better to have Friend Wife a back seat driver than to be minus a baby. department of commerce reports. . Sales of automobiles' in the Uni ted States for replacement totaled sl,850,838or 47 per cent of the consumption in-1926. Nearly ev ery other automobile sold in the United States replaced one dis carded. Replacements in Canada in 19 26 accounted one-fifth of the total sales or about 21 per cent less than half that of the United Stafes. The total replacement sales were 30,285, while the increase in reg istration of automobiles was 11-,-956 units. . ' , v FOR GREATER' SAFETY ' Last year 8,821 j automobile drivers . were taken from the 'roads of Connecticut far varying periods because- of violation of the law. This was an increase of nearly 400 I suspensions over 1925. . This state J U tuakinK a determined effort to reduce motor vehicle accidents by j eliminating dangerous drivers. Motor Chat. Forty Per Cent of Cars Replacements, Reported WASHINGTON Two out of ev ery five cars, or 40 per cent of world production, were used to re place old automobiles last year, Irving Jl. Taylor, assistant chief of the automotive division of the McQUAtnORRIS aluminum PISTONS m . -4 . r iu . .-bv- rsut 7 M- A - Icru f- c- C. & L. PARTS STORE INC. Corner Ferry and Liberty Telephone 666 W. R. & J. H. McALVIN General Auto Top Work and Upholstering ."I5 N. Iiuidi St. I'hoiic 215:: Out of the High Kent IMsttict Quality Service Attractive Prices According -to the Springfield Republican the Inventor of the cir cus calliope died in comparative poverty. 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