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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1928)
2 , -. . - THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 19Z8 "MB"M"BaeeMMeMaeaeBMf6eEEEMeeEEMSMSMei-aEE - " 1 ' ! H llinil HflT lin linm I - 1? I "Theroad mtp U helping to-natei vibration. Tha uaa of tMai ylubtl tiU Aliiubtl) A Buick-Load of Beauty it Six Air Pumps Distribute Air of Large Factory At Akron, Ohio tf xw .... f - .: . It ,V AKRON. O.. March 17. "Hot air" is not Included in the more than 200 nees to which compress ed air is applied 'In the factory at a trnn where Miller tires are made. Miller tire engineers smile nH Miir too that It is not a "hot air" atory that 2,880,600 en bic feet of air is used every .24 hours in the manufacture of rub ber product. They say that Its nothing to "blow about" that one Un furnishes air at thte rate of 2.000 cubic feet a minute and an other at the rate of 300 cubic feet a .minute. However, they assure u that a tropical typhoon would be as a gentle xephr if ail the air used at this plant in a year were bunched together in one blow. Six air pumps furnish com pressed air that is distributed for many uses -over a factory oi 2 okii nt floor mace. The lines that carry air at a pressure of 300 nnunda ner souare inch supply rreat presses that must operate with snappy action. Only air at high pressure will do the work e-xew Tork manded of tnese prerees. North Carolina steel molds that bare been i"ieajXorth Dakota with tires for vulcanising are 0hlo snapped together with compressed i Oklahoma air, thousands of times each work- I Oregon lng day. I Pennsylvania Air supplied by the pipe line Rhode Island t 100 Dounds pressure to tne south Carolina miare inch is used for many pur- South Dakota .. i i other than nnating iubct iennessee make America a 'map-reading na tion." TRIUMPH OF MOTOR INDUSTRY (Cootiaad trom tf 1) rubber motor mounting has iron for Star the reputation of being the smoothest four cylinder car In the world. Bendix four-wheel brakes ar" standard equipment on the new Star. This brake assure Star , owners of tne utmost saieiy m modern traffic conditions, -jne beautiful, roomy Hayes-Hunt bod les hare been designed. 1 Star now offer. In the two-doori'oor-wheel brakes of the Star were ! recently aeciarea legai sedan, the largest closed car for In all utitM and It Is interestlnr to note the world's lowest price. That is tnjlt Benalx four-wheel brakes claimed to be the greatest value are also standard equipment on ever offered by anj. manufacturer! many of the most costly motor of motor cars. Scars built in America. The power plant of the new Star! Dealers in those cities where is the improved, high-compression Red Seal Continental motor. The Star has established biut record era In other cities have taken for power, endurance, low fuel many orders for early delivery by consumption and hill-climbing 'the use of photos of the different with the Red Seal Continental mo-' Star models. Salem Automobile, tor. I Star an3 Durant dealers here, an- The motor of the new Star laltkipate large sales as a result of completely suspended in rubber by! the display now on their sales use of the Masury patented rub- floor, and they promise early de-l ber motor mounting. This ellmi- livery. PIONEER DEALER RECALLS TESTING (ConOam from pr 1) ferent from the roads in those days as the can which are making the trip today are different from the cars we were using then. "Now It is a great popular route driven for the most part over the finest of- concrete highways. through a section which is world famous for Its crops of dates, cantaloupe, grapes and almost every known variety of fruit. "In 1912 it was a trackless des ert waste. The Franklin which wnn th toat in 1912 was one Of the Star appeared at auto howthe f,m io ug6 tne lnduCe4 draft report unusually large sales. De1" j air-cooling system. The route was over fair roads until ge wot a little way beyond Pasadena and then the struggle with the desert began. "The water-cooled hoys went out ahead, several days before the race, to plant barrels of water for use when the motors started to boil in the 100 degree plus tem peratures. 'All of us wore baseball masks to keen the meeanlte and buck thorn hashes from scratching, our eyes lout. Tires were deflated to half pressure so that wheels would not sink In the sand. "Banning, Beaumont, Indio, Coachella, today populous town, were- spots on the Sahara-like waste. . "Springs on the cars were tied down with iron straps to keep them from breaking. The first day took us to Yuma where we ferried across the river, at 100 feet above sea-level, on the most! nondescript ferry. That night we ?iept under the cars to prevent tampering. "In the morning we started out on time allowances established by our arrival the night before. The dragf to Phoenix was a counter part iof the struggle of the day before. That year, a sudden cloud burst in the mountains along the Colorado river started a Ires in the Agua Frier river an;! crossed on the railroad treat i.- place of fording the stream, t:,. we' went .through hub deep in to the finish at the Phoenix r. grounds. Two laps around fair grounds race track an 1 race was won. "Many 6f the boys who tt. ' that race have since-made not, records on the race trark called it my last race and kept to selling ever since. "The Franklin which wor. a notable record, we lert v front of a restaurant wher- went to eat and when we outfit was gone. It has i . , been heard of since. "Today, especially at th: of the year, when I son -,, .make the trip for the plea ,r the scenery, I recall with . siderable amusement, the ripor the course the first time' I co, it," The young women dxasd orer ChlaBuick Sedan are MaorJc KtaseTs Vane inf Utfrut iwt , nw na Ik taof the anjOTJcotnpny, and the ca r belongs roMrs. janeuavta, wnonascnargecf cne company wardrobe. Mrs. Davis recently bought the Bukk from the Howard Automobile Company at Los Angeles, ana the tea shown here have been riding In relays ever since. Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico 169,677,000 the paved streets of our larger poses Texas . . Utah ... Vermont 12,720.000 4S.722.000 408.300.000 39.S54.000 892,800,000 219.583.000 88.641,000 770.801.000 251,462.000 130.885.000 684.097,000 51,436,000 101.772.000 87,975,000 148.f52.000 591.447.000 41.278.000 33.532.000 Virginia 166.782.000 Washington W. Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming . . Total . . . 203,421.000 101.396.000 313.586.000 26.218.000 11.563.490,000 and tires tor Inspection and teats The molds in the great vulcaniz ing department, that is known as the "Pit" in factory parlance, are -i a mw,A riried with air. after IIVAUCU the "cured" tires have been taken from them. Steel dust tnat nas i.t in the molds wnue Btcuiu"'1" . art Mini riettiltru iuw . . . ii o r hrusn uaea w " wlth MQTnRINR PRflVinPQ a Va n in w II iruui " , ... w . ..... aivwivi-w compressed air. it serve. i nnmhr oi usee oi mosi " of service ana power that ls appliea to me maiuiv u-irviwus uer tnis J.uwu.- . - .. a nnn .ii.i l t i ture of Ures in the Miner piam. mue nignway system, each "u a neaaway or only nnmr- rTtunXDnC i aooui rorty-nve yards KKii . p- lanunnuti i uii .. w i "isiiwij uiueajre iifrnrps ar a. SET IN TWO UHUUra pit blsleading. For while the (Coat.t4 fro P.f D -sar-u, uuieage is impressve, lu" iota, or only 600.000 hla tvoe of automobile In a prlcel miles of surfaced roads outside belo COURSE IN HIST0RVJ (Continaad from pc 1) ran re below tnai " ...j- Knlght Special Six and the Wlllys- Knixht Great Six. This demand is met by the new Standard Six in the Willys-Knight line. P A Botable indication of what is heing done in the construction oi Knight sleeve valve plants recent ly, is shown in the fact that 26 European manufacturers have come to this type of engine fol lowing the expiration of the knight patents in Europe. Up to the expiration of these patents In Europe, there were only a few markets licensed to manufactur a Knight sleeve valve motor. Present . builders include the makers of the highest priced auto- mobiles In the world and the Knight sleeve valve motor has been the accredited power plant for the official cars of European nobility for many years. cities. This begins to look as if our highways were approaching location of events of world Inter est. The American Automobile As soclauon, in citing this current tendency, says that It is due in large measure to the excellence of the-modern road map and its part In educating the public to the val ue of this form of showing routes and locations in a graphic manner, Says the A. A. A.: "Whether Lindbergh wings his way southward, or the explorer carefully picks his way through the ice fields of the frigid north there is a growing desire to follow the route on a map. This is strik- ingly shown in the manner in which newspapers are turning to the use of maps showing the loca uon or important national and world events. in me Mississippi flood area. in new England, at the time of the trans-Atlantic flights, as well as those across the Pacific, maps were successfully used to give the country an idea of the damaged territories and routes. The motorists in turning to the use of route maps instead of nick ing his way by road signs, became convinced of the value of locating nut one and scenic points in ad vance of trips, and this aroused a desire to use maps in connection with the happenings of the day. LIGHT ENFORCEMENT NOW BEING URGED (Continaad from pI 1) proximately 2.5 per cent of the cars tested had satisfactory head lamps. "Some forty anti-glare devices are now official in the majority of the states where motor travel is dense and where safety campaigns are fostered. ' "How eliminate the headlamp evil? By an organised drive to rid the roads of those who per sistently operate cars with imper fect headlights. By the enactment of standardised laws, remembering always that good laws are useless unless enforced." GASOLINE USAGE, SHOWS GREAT GAIN (CoatiBaoi trom pf 1) dian, Iowa, Maryland. Mississi ppi, New Mexico,' Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia they are still sub ject To revision when the final gas oline tax reports are published. The gasoline consumption in the various states as made public by the American Road Builders' association for 1927 from figures furnished by the American Petrol eum Institute and. the various state departments was as follows: Gallons 147.225.000 41,227.000 99,394.000 1.017.181,000 129,750.000 169,952.000 34,271.000 57,804,000 t47.9ll.000 192,262,000 4S.S4S.000 760,960.000 S4T.78T.000 S24.S26.000 S70.618.600; 113471.000 161.198.660 74,711.000 lll.7lf.000 S14.T26.40I 691.172.000 116.686.666 11S.S71.666 S8S.Slt.006 '61.041.000 State Alabama ....... Arizona Arkansls ........ California Colorado Connecticut . Delaware Disk of Col. Florid Georgia .. Idaho , Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas ...... . Kentucky ..- Louislsna ...... , Maine ....... Maryland . . . . Massachusetts r Michigan ........ 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