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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1928)
THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1928 . 5 '3 I i ,1 s4 i J TniUM READY SI I 0CEM1 WATER I Open Road Beckons to Campers Cesar Pipe Line Installed and Thus Fresh Water Insur ed for Bathers NEWPORT. May 19 (Special) 'The vacation season will open at this resort with the grand op ening of the Newport Natatorinm today and tomorrow. Warm wa ter will make the swimming a real 'delight. The large dance hall, has be en espescially pre pared for ttie summer and fine Basic will be furnished. The Thomas Brothers band, of Salem, will supply the music and conduct U dances during the summer. The swimming pool has been remodeled and put in first-claas condition. A new pipe line ha. been installed and o insure fresh water all of the time. Man ' arer C. H. Bradshaw smiled with pleasure when the pump wa started bringing the ocean water to the pool. The Grill will be open this year as usual and the very best ol meals served. Newport is expecting the lar est and best season in the history of the town. The bathing beach Is in-better condition now than at wvtiy time last year. Already a good many people have been on thes cene and all are thoroughly enjoying themselves. HEADLIGHTS OFTEN CAUSE ACCIDENTS (Continued froa page I.) peak of the theater traffic is wheel. The A. A. A. statement con tinues: "It never occurs to the average motorist that aside from the safe ty in properly adjusted headlights there is a factor of economy re siting from a saving in the vari .pns units of the car. If headlights re out of focuij, they fail to il .-laminate the path ahead to good advantage and the owner may re sort to the use of additional light ing devices, which ni cold weather may help to overload the battery. There is, in addition.,. much slow ing down and change in the car peed where headlights glare and -approaching drivers are in danger of colliding. This occasions ex cessive use of brakes, throttle and steering wheel. "The first step is to learn to check up on the adjustment of the headlights at least once month more often it the car is kept in public garages, where it may be pushed around by headlights. The process need not be compli cated, and application to any traf fic bureau of A. A. A. motor club, will give the motorist information as to method of adjustment and be will find a willingness to co operate in having the lights tested." ..., , 1 'ST V 5 4-" " ! Ooim'I UtU look iavitinf? Spriagtim is camping time aad rnaay a scan like tkis will b enacted soon, aecordinc to tka Western Aato Sopply Company, who famished the campers with the K)ipaeat shown. The tare of Spring is in tk air and tka desire to load tkc automobile witk camp iaf oqnipmeat and head for tbe kills is kard to resist at tkis season of tk year. lights if the metal connections o: top of the battery feel warm to he band. 5. Keep battery securely clamped in position. driving on American tracks, but hands of their second or third participation in some of the speed owners. In other words. 15.000 - classics of Europe. Twice he has made the long journey to tbe Monza track at Turin, Italy, to CARE OF BATTERY HELD VITAL NEED (Continued f rem pere 1.) charged). You must feed i electricity either from the gener tor in your car or let the USI service station do the charging when needed. The USL battery man if asked to examine your bat tery will gladly tell you when thi' iS required. The charging rate should fit 'aihe service; for instance, a sales man driving 100 miles a day may eed a charging rate of only 6 to S amperes while a physician driv ing 10 miles a day may be unabl to keep his battery charged witl rate as high, as 16 amperes. In winter the battery Is cold which makes, the circulation o- diffusion of electrolyte slower Tbe battery la therefore leas effi dent in winter, and should not be e spec tedto-respond as rapidly a 'In summer. At the same time th engine is cold and the oil stiff, aU of which 'makes more work fo tbe battery which if not kept in healthy condition will soon be come exhausted. Therefore, it i. advisable to have the charginp rate of the. generator increased for cold weather driving. All sach information will be given and necessary adjustment made .when you visit the USL ser vice station. AroM Vibration and Overkrevtirift- Make sore your battery is well bolted securely to tbe car so tha ' it can suffer no vibration. . In the summer time, particu larly on long drives see that it does not become overheated ar this developes disintegration of the active material In the plates and rains the separators. Turn on the lights if the metal conduc tors on top of the battery feel warm to the band. USL. batteries seldom overheat because they have greater vol ume of acid between the plates. This keeps USL batteries cool ev-r-a in summer driving and ac reunbt for the well known fact that USL. batteries, require less fillin- with water than do others. -Ten Command nv-wts ' for Oner 1. Itegisler your battery with li- nearest USL Service Station r.l bin five days of ear purchase. 3. Add distilled water t- bring . level of electrolyte ? in - each - cell enc-half above plate tops,- every two weeks in summer, or every aaonth la winter. - 3. Keep terminals and Aground" connections clean and tight and terminals creased with Tasellnev ' . Corroded or loose terminal onnect!ons cense ft . per cent f the troable fa starting. j .-- 4L Avoid OTerheaHnr th haH trry om lonr drhra. parUenlarly I l. hot weather. Tin en the t. Avoid placing tools or metal i compete in the European Grand m top of battery. J Prix, the foreign race that is corn- In tightening at terminal pro-i parable to the Indianapolis event tect the other metal Darts from i n his first start in a strange land tccidental short-circuit by cover I be was leading by a comfortable mg them with a cloth, blow-out iatch, or other non-conductor -of jlectricity. 7. Keep open flame away jattery. 8. Have battery recharged by i service station if specific grav ity of electrolyte falls below 1225. (The gravity at full charge is 9. Have the battery stored with - a service station or re charged regularly if idle in win ter. A discharged battery will freeze in cold weather and a bat tery once frozen fs generally useless. "Go to Bill Maruna's authorized lTSL Service Station in case of trouble. -- ' THIRD MARW0N 68 ENTERED TO EVENT ; Y (CeaUnae freai pegs 1.) hat the "last shall be first." Simultaneously witfi the fUIn of the additional entry. Cooper announced that Peter Kreis and Johnny Seymour had been nomin ated as drivers of the first two cars. No driver ha tor the third Marmon sneciaJ and it is not likely that additional driving talent will be, selected hn- meaiately since Cooper himself is vorking with the other members or the Marmon team to prepare the cars for the 500-mile event, Kreis is one of the younger school of drivers whose exper ience includes not only extensive margin wnen be missed a tarn and piled his car up by the track side. Last year he was third in the big contest. It was in Kreis car that the late Frank Lock hart won the 1926 Indianapolis race when Kreis was forced to the hospital by illness and Lockhart, an exercise boy on the car, took it to the post and brought it home a winner. I Seymour, selected to drive the second car, holds practically ev ery, existing speed record on mo torcycles, although he has never J cumpeiea in major automobile races. On the same Daytona Beach where Lockhart recently met his death. Seymour traveled 13f2 miles an hour on a twin- cy linder cycle and 112 miles an boor on ' a single both world's straightaway records. His first big motorcycle race was tat Ii0 when he was second to the famous Ralph Hepburn in a 300-mile contest on a two-mile track. Hepburn, I ncklentally-, was brought to the automobile speedways from the motorcycle iracas oy cooper a few years ago. USED CAR fOUND TO BE IMPORTANT (Ceattaasd from page 1.) 000 motorists are now riding in cars that were purchased on re sale. Eliminate the used car from the market and a goodly share of those millions would be denied the use of a car, while most of the 10,000,000 remaining would be driving automobiles that do not measure, up to their ideas of style simply because they could get no trade-in allowance and would refuse to scrap their cars with unused value remaining in them." 1 CAnEUS TO FORMER D1YS tourists show that tbe ase of heavy camping eqetpsaeat ks de creasfag. while mere motorists are using their cars for sleeping pur pases as .well .as for transporta tion. : This Is retrning to the way of tbe early pioneers. 'who traveled in their covered - wagon by day and at night the women, children and aged used It for sleeping.- the hardy men blanket ing down under tbe wagon. Even these ragged people knew the dis comforts, not to speak of dangers. accompanying sleeping on or near the ground and not fully protect ed from the weather. The inveterate automobile tour ists came to tbe same decision and last year saw many makeshift and ingenious arrangements individu al touring families had evolved to permit comfortable sleeping inside their cars. The demand for equip ment to fill this need has result ed in several devices being pat ented. A special equipment has been designed for the Oldsmobile two- door sedan by John A. Lange, president of the . Autoberth Com pany, which concern 3 located near the Oldsmobile factories in Lansing, Mich. One of the strik ing features of this Oldsmobile autoberth is that, when not in use, it occupies practically no space1, is out of sight and in no way detracts from the appearance of the car. The berths are made of alum inum alloy, combining the utmost in strength with light weight and compactness. They are fastened securely to the inside of tbe roof of the car. Celling upholstery hooks over the berths and forms a top similar to the ordinary car top upholcstery. The berths weigh but 14 pounds and occupy only 1 Vt inches of head rpom. When the berths are lowered. which taeks lees than two min utes, the ceiling upholstery forms curtains for the side windows. By clever designing the berths rest on the floor of the car, eliminating any danger of injury to seats and npholatery. Two berths in a ear approximate im size a doable bed. They cam be lowered and made up witbont aeceseity of passengers leaving the car, a decided advan tage in stormy weather. Devices of this type are proving a boon to motor tourists. It sow bemjf possible to travel for weeks withut trailer or luggage on run-board. DON PHASER LOSES HOLLYWOOD, CaL. May 18 (AP). Dick Hoppe, Glendale. CaL, veteran, won the decision over Don Praser, Spokane, Wash., junior welterweight, after 10 rounds of lively going here to night a YELLOW PENCIL VYTXHTHB BAND HoveYbur Scribhlines jnalyze3 Old Time "Forty Niners . Modern Style Travel Across Continent in not bow own automobiles. "Of some 25,000,000 passenger cars now registered in the United States it is estimated that approx imately 0 per cent are in the America Is returning . to the covered wagon days. Most' of the millions who will trek across tbe continent this summer win emu late the "forty-niners" by using their vehicle both for transporta tion and sleeping quarters. For several years automobile touring baa been steadily Increas ing and this year it 'Is estimated that a third of the population will take to the highways and by ways during vacation time. And many of them will travel lighter and more comfortably than here tofore. Reports from national parks and other centers of interest for a car to be proud of wherever you go Whererer the Bigger and Better Chevrolet is driven, it is singled oat for attention and comment. Its low-swrong bodies are built bj Fisher, with all the mastery In design and craftsmanship for which the Fisher. name is famous. 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