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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1928)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 1, 1928 Victory Six renturtwl rver gom o . these washes and the ear amaxeel the old resident by snaking- it -way along without a hitch aw. passing over high centers and dee- less to tay it was the first golf club he ever held In his hand, he dined royally at the new Furnace Creek Inn, a strictly winter re sort, recently opened for venture some motorists. With all of the modern pro grass, however, there are- still re mote places In Deith Valley where roads resemble dim paths suitable only to the original beast of bur den. With "Dad" as a guide, Co-Eds Seek Auto Course OLD TIMER PLAYS BEING COMPLETED Oil DEVIL'S COURSE ditcnes use veiu. LARGE EXPANSION i . i Only Four Months Required j for Huge Project; Start Operating Soon PONTIAC. Mich.. Mar. 81. '. Last week, less than four months ; after the first rattle of pneumatic : hammers signalized the com xnencement' of the latest ezpan- ; ion project of the Oakland Motor Car company, the new S3.000.000 car assembly and shipping build logs for the Oakland Ail-American Six were completed and pro Bounced ready for the installation of conveyors, processing equip went and machinery. The speed with which the build ings were erected Is belieTed to constitute a record for this type of steel, brick and concrete construc tion. The new structures provide the company with 580.191 square feet of additional floor space be sides five more railroad shipping spurs, four of them entirely with- . In the walls of the shipping build ing. The companw now haa ten tracks In its private "railroad yard." ; . Nearly all of the machinery to be used in tho Oakland assembly Will be entirely new. The old as sembly plant ceased operating on March 24 in order that a portion of the equipment then In use may be transferred to the new assem bly. President A. R. Glancy ex pects that production In the new plant will start April 2. The old assembly building will be used for material storage. Two assembly lines will be in stalled and space has been pro Tided Tor a third assembly line such as was added recently In the Fontiac Six areembly plant which parallels that of the Oakland Six. . minimum production capacity of each line in the new Oakland plant la 40 cars per hour. The Oakland assembly building Is of two story monitor type con struction. 64 0 by 640 feet. Be sides the assembly lines it con j tains an ' entire new enameling unit for the treatment of Oakland fenders and sheet metal. Exact ly as In the Pontlac Six plant, the converging lines of Oakland as sembly parts and materials will be ao synchronised that the com ponent parts of the car will be de livered at exactly the proper mo ment as the automobile progresses down the assembly line. The adjoining car shipping building , is one story high. 10? Xeet wide and 760 feet long. Some idea of the size ot th Oakland expansion project may In . gained from data provided by L. A Blackburn, resident engineer, whi ; supervised the construction work Foundation excavations and th) necessary rcrdwaf and ra!Iroa grading Involved the removal o! 101.000 cubic yards of earth. Th contractors used 24,600 cubl yards of gravel, 200 carloads o' cinders and slag, 141.000 bags cement and 3,750 tons of structur al steel. Incidentally the step work was finished in 4 3 worklnr days, an average of 87 tons pei day. In addition, 160 tons of ml llaheous Iron work wa used for guard rails, door-frames, convey or pit edgings, etc.. and 350 ton? of steel for reinforcing concrete. LjrQ' TnUnoirptia rd feet of lum 1 er was required for building con on Mi4;tM making concrete ' w-a. a. SL . . a n a k , painters usu i i.uuu )ns of paint, meat of which was applied with air brushes. The buildings contain 180.000 square feet of window glasa. The roofs carry 41 carloads of roofing ma - terial and 134 carloads of cement , roofing tile. An unique expedient was used during February when the com pany rented two Mikado type freight engines from the Grand Trunk road to provide steam heat for the completed two-story sec tion pending the addition of t 1210.000 unit to the power plan' of the nearby Fisher Body Corp.. which now is supplying fleam am1 conipresBed air to the new Oaklami buildings. The recent plant expanelo? gives' the Oakland AU-Americai Ejx""?actories a total floor space of 2.011,600 square fet, while th floor area of the Pontiac Six tat tories Is 1.44 0.000 square feet The combined floor area of the two plants Is 3.451.600 square feet or nearly 80 acres. Peerless Production Indicates High Record CLEVELAND. Ohio, March SO Peerless production figures which hare been mounting stead lly since the introduction ot the new 1928 models, snow mat av mnnth of March will probably hit new high mark for the Cleveland company. In spite ot this fact, unfilled or der from dealers and distributors rnnf Inua to Dlle up rapidly, ready they are far ahead of this !m last year. r Charles A. Tncker, general sales manager of the Peerless Motor Car corporation, who has just reiarneu from the Boston Automooua mow brought with him from the east s arrest miDT orders.- . 'Mr. Tncker Is most optimistic regarding; Peerless; and the general demand for automooues iu ' spring. "Conditions In the wheat belt and the corn belt are better than they hare been - In man: years." he says. -General buslnest fcas shown more life and better - fundamental conditions than at ar time ; for the past elht xoonhts. i- .-. ". .mil mini i i TllsV n . "Dad" Fairbanks Travels In Dodge Brothers New Victory Six Michigan. State College Co-Eds Petitioning Professor O. W. Hobbs for special automobile engineering course. Following the lead of the grow ing number of men college gradu ates who are selecting the automo tive industry for their life work, a group ot co-eda of the Michigan State College Is seriously consider ing the place women may attain in the industry. With this In mind, 18 of the co-eds have petitioned the college faculty to extend the course In automotive engineering o the girl students. For the past two years the Oldsmobile factories. Which are oca ted three miles from the State college, hare been open to a select ed group ot college graduates leaking training in the industry. The success of this plan, together A'lth Increasing adoption of worn- -n to new places in the business .vorld. no doubt has been an in fluential factor with these Mlehl- ;in girls. The policy of Oldsmobile offl--ials has been to encourage youth. The introduction of youthful deas, working with the mature Judgment of experienced execu ives, will, It is believed, maintain lie progressive spirit which has .eat u red the Industry and brought t to its present eminent position. With this idea the Oldsmobile fficlala nearly two years ago no- wbo desired to enter the automo tive Industry. Scores of senior students were Interviewed and a selection made. A schedule of activities was out lined for the students. They were employed for periods in the vari ous divisions of the factories. When this educational phase of the mechanical training has been completed the students were rout ed through the service department and later sent to the various Olds mobile retail branches. At these places they were trained in retail selling, business routine and wholesale contracting. The majority of these students more than made good and several have gained responsible positions la Oldsmobile or other General Mo tors units. A second class of stu dents, selected last spring, now are undergoing the same training. In addition to opening these op portunities for college graduates, employes of Oldsmobile also may obtain a four-year course in auto motive engineering and kindred subjects at the Flint School of Technology. The course is so ar ranged that the student is self supporting during the four-year period. The course is open to Oldsmobile employes who hare the necessary qualifications, through the Oen- ified several universities that lt'eral Motors Corporation's affllia vould make places for graduates tion with the Flint school. The course consists of 24 weeks a year spent at the Institute, 26 weeks at practical shop experience at the Oldsmobile factories and two weeks' vacation. Four weeks are spent at the school, followed by four Weeks at the factory, this al- teratlng during the year. Whether women are destined t) become automotive engineers and executives Is problematical at this time, but the action of the co-eds ot Michigan State is indicative of a trend in that direction. The accompanying picture shows Mildred Wan ge man, of East Jor dan, Michigan, presenting the pe titlon of automotive engineering instruction to Professor O. W Hobbs, ot the Department ot En gineering. Professor Hobbs has charge of the automotive engineer ing classes at the college and is co-author of the text book "The Gasoline Automobile" by Hobbs, Elliott and Consalivsr. The girls desiring the automo tive course are Thelma Estslle. Virginia Dell, Ruth Watstead, Al berta Wochhols, Violet Hamer, Florence Tower, Irene Leavengood, Virginia Lanxun, Katherlne Lynch, Dorothy Hlllman, Dec! Watklns, Sabine Henderson, Doris Bullock, Katheryn Van Aken, Barbara Bake, Margaret TelbartL Florence Nugent and Miss Wangeman. All liv eln Michigan, which may ac count for their interest In automobiles. sw - ti'W I JOE VVIUAMS BSSSSSXSBBBBClBSSSBBESlBBBSVBSlBBlBaSSBVBBBBBBSllBEBllBl JOE WILLIAMS The Battery Man" See him today-He'll save you money and give you service thatsatisfies Such names as R. J. "Dad" Fairbanks, "Death Valley" Walter Scott, the late "Shady" .Myrick and "Shorty" Harris, are as com mon to prospectors in the famous Death Valley region In California as names like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are to true Americans, declared ErrieBt Bon- steele of the Bonesteele Motor com pany. Dodge Brothers dealers for Salem. "Dad" Fairbanks, like the oth ers mentioned, has saved more peo ple from the terrible death in this district caused by heat and lack of water than he could keep track of. The number Is well over one hundred. Some were found too late and were burled on the spot. "They are pretty bad off," says "Dad," "when their tongues get black, and a man then will kill himself If given too much water. Ton hare to give him a little at a time." Things have changed, however, since the days ot '98, when Fair banks first entered the country. "I ased to think IB miles a day with a team and 2 K miles a day on foot over the Funeral Range (the mountains skirting the east side of Death Valley) was pretty fast travel, but today, in this new Victory Six Dodge, we are rolling off the distance the team could go in less than half an hour. This new Dodge sure rides smooth over these desert roads." "Dad" has watched civilisation creep Into Death Valley. The pro cess has been pretty cautious in this region, but steady, although the modern tourist confines his bold and free movements to the winter months when the thermo meter stays below 100 degrees. Normal summer heat is seldom under 130 degrees. The old timer is a modernist, however, and when the Victory Six party suggested a game of golf on the Deril's Golf Course he never blinked a weathered eye and agreed. He stepped boldly up to the 284 feet below sea-level gov ernment bench mark, which was used as a tee, and with driver in hand, took a mighty swing and sent a perfectly good golf ball bounding out across the very same salt pinnacles that in former years had caused both his pack animals and his own feet great hardship. Just a mile below in 1907, "Dad" had helped bury- Jim Dalton, team r driver for a borax company, who had perished on the desolate waste. After the golf drive, and need- VICK Bl MOTHERS Telephone 108 : c mm 3 Storage - Fuel - Transfer We do not only furnish large clean vans for moving furniture and experienced fur niture movers, but sell first class Utah coal, briquets, and dry wood. Crating Local and Long Hauling Moving Give Us a Trial. 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