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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1929)
16 The New Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregori, Sunday Morning, February S, 19t9 declines are striking, but in con sidering their significance from the standpoint of railroad finance, it should be considered that the development of the automobile in dustry has helped to swell the freight revenue," INTERESTS GET BEACON SITES Richfield Obtains Locations Near Eugene, Roseburg and Grants Pass AVERAGE RATE "As compared with conditions in 1920, the passenger revenue of 1927 declined 34.2 per cent, the number, of passengers declined 32.8 per cent, and the number of passenger-miles declined 28.2 per cent," says the forty-second an Interstate Commerce commission finds that the motor rehicle busi ness la helping to Improve the freight receipts of the rail lines, though passenger revenue is lighter. nual report of the JL. C. C. "These LOS ANGELES, With nine of the projected 36 huge Richfield Beon beacon towers completed Actually a fourth of the luminous chain which will interlink with light the Pacific coast, Mexican and Canadian international bor ders work is to be started at once on three more, it was an nounced here today by Bert Heln ly. general manager of Highway Communities, Inc. These three new locations are Visalla, Santa Paula, and Casti.ic, the latter a Ridge route commun ity at the Intersection of the state highway and Santa Paula boule vard. At Visalia the tower will rise at the municipal airport. This is the first of the three new ones which will be finished. First In Oregon During the last week, it was an nounced. Max Gordon, property buyer for the interests Involved Highway Communities, Inc., Rich, field Oil company and Electrical Products corporation, obtained sites at Grants Pass, Roseburg. and Eugene, all in Oregon. These are the first sites acquired outside of California. Ideal service stations, catering to the comfort of the motorist, have been completed at the baoo of the neon beacons In Caplstrano, Palm City and Beaumont. Similar stations, beautifully designed in New Relief Map of trie United States AUTO RELIEF MAP ySLsJ DOCTORS INDICATED BY V ( HOSPITALS O UNDERTAKERS - SI i - i The above map should be of Interest to tourists as it gives the location of doctors, hospitals and undertakers throughout the United State. The National Safety council suggests that it may be use ful in rase of accident or sickness to those traveling. BATTERY PRICES Tl Closely following a general re duction in prices on all Western Spanish mission style, are under Glant and wear-well tires sold by construction! at Santa Rosa, Chular and Livermore. The next stations plannpd. ac cording to William Cotrel of the Richfield Oil company, will fbe at Merced, Santa Maria and Paso Itobles. the Western Auto Supply com pany stores, comes another an nouncement of a general price reduction on Wizard storage bat teries. With this new, reduced price The ''Great Richfield Way" he- schedule in effect. Western Auto Iween the two borders will repre- stores now offer Wizard batter- fent in its entirety Including ies at the lowest prices In the ideal roadside hotels, service and history of the company, states comfort stations, and beacon tow ' the Western Auto store. "Twenty ers- an expenditure for 36 road- to thirty per cent more power tide motor villages of approxi- has been developed in Wizard tnately $10,000,000. batteries," explained Mr. Clark. Plans for the hotels are being "The new oxide combination de completed by Merrill & Wilson, veloped by our engineers gives architects. No announcement has Western Auto batteries this add- yet been made as to when the first of these will be started. Aviation experts of the interests involved, assisted by George A. Killer, representing the U. S. de partment of commerce in charge cf aviation, are now giving careful consideration to various types of aerial beacon guides. They are seeking the best type to place atop each neo tower so that night fli ers always have one or more of these.blarlng beacons within sight. ed power. This extra power as sures hotter, fatter sparks, com plete combustion, less carbon and longer motor life. " "In addition to this increase In power, our new oxide combina tion permits more rapid recharg ing by the -automobile generator, makes the battery stand up longer under severe strain and assures quick starting regardless of wea- Western Auto's guarantee of sat isfaction. "Even with this new, reduced price schedule in Jiffect the Western Auto Supply coinpany stores will continue to accept old, worn out batteries as part pay ment on new Wizard batteries at any one of our more than 160 western stores." Hudson-Essex Is Leading Importer Of Sixes Abroad During 192S Hudson-E3sex ad vanced to the point where it was the third largest builder of motor cars In the NY A. C. C. ranks, and, consequently, it occupied third position at the national automo bile show. Figures released by the Auto motive Trade commoseloner In Paris showed Hudson-Essex to be the largest importer to Europe of six cylinder cars, and that more than one-third of the American cars sold In England were Essex. Combined Hudson-Essex produc tion for 1928. was 282,307 cars, and the company expects to pro duce a quarter million 1929 Production schedules for the first quarter call for 109,000 1 cars CIVEM Slow Speed on Unfamiliar Roads Lowers Mileage tor Hours Run ther conditions. These great the largest quarter In the corn battery values are backed by J pany's history. j New Body fStyles Of Essex Relieve Driving Strains Practically all of the new mod els embody features designed to reduce driving strain. Notewor thy among them is the new Essex which Is equipped with an auto matic choking device. This in noation eliminates a g o o d deal of the annoyance usually experi enced when driving in winter weather. Instead of constantly choking his motor after starting it on a cold morning, the driver of the new Essex need only pull out the choke button half way and from then on the choking action is en tirely automatic and closes when the motor becomes thoroughly warmed. This is accomplished by means of a balanced butterfly 1 valve on the air intake which con trols the amount of air taken into the carburetor. The valve is opened gradually by the force of suction as the speed of the motor is Increased, providing the proper fuel mixture when a steady driv ing speed is attained. TRAIN KILLS TWO ATHENS. TexaB. Jan. 1 (AP) Two men. Doc Boyett, 58, ard Mac Duff Larkln, 17, were killed today when a freight uaiu 'iutk their automobile a', a rosmng near hero. mmmmmmm 1 'Wbsm'-ma.', t'-i mu mu i. jh i mj i 1 I mm (&mif? mm m m mm m fe,. & ArtiAASSM Mxxt-r-m,. m&g i w -VC .vw1' . . U2LUU13 u liLPuB mm- n ' ' Mmm i n am n jHtMV.'m . vr."W - ?:i, Vra AKRON, O Tests recently con ducted here Indicate why the av erage motorist on long trips trav eling forty-five to fifty miles an hour, , whenever possible, Is able only to maintain an average speed in the lower thirties. The test showed that while a driver may maintain a top speed as great as traffic regulations per mit while on rural roads, his aver age for the day will fall at least fifteen miles an hour under that figure. t Cars in the Miller tire test fleet were equipped with a device that indicated: the miles per hour the cars traveled at all times, the num ber of stops and the length of ! time forlevery stop. Although It' was to the driver's interest to cov- j er as many miles as pccsible the j cars stopped seven times each 12 hours for a period of seven or more minutes for each stop. When they stopped for less than 6even minutes the stop was not counted. Practically ; no difference wag observed between the average day : and night mileage, although the j cars traveled over familiar roads' both day and night. Highest aver. ; age speed was made between the hours ofllO and 11 o'clock both; day and night; althoguh the higher average was not great. The differ- i ence in amount of traffic on rural j roads at various hours of the day j and night made little difference ' in the average mileage. j It was! shown that out of the! twenty-four hours cars were either j idle or traveled at a speed of leso than twenty-eight miles an hour 28 per cent of the time. Included in this was time required for meals and for changing drivers, and for making minor repairs on the road. As these tests were conducted on well improved roads with which the drivers were thoroughly fa miliar it Is easily understood why motorists on long trips over unfa miliar roads will maintain an aver age speed much lower as compar ed to their top speed on straightaways. Motor Freight Aids Rail Income I.C.C. 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