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Performance and Mechanical
Excellence of Auto is
Delight to Buyers
Trained by their profession to
be critic! buyers of all mechan
ical units, the purchase of four
new Century Eights and one Cen
tury Six by designing engineers of
the Boeing Aircraft company of
Seattle, one of the foremost air
craft organizations In the United
States, is considered by Bert Rob
erta. Pacific -Coast representative
ofthe Hupp Motor Car Corpora
tion as one of the mos-; worthwhile
endorsements that a car could ob
tain. The new Century models rere
the purchased by Charles N. Mon
teith. chief engineer of the corn
pa ay, F. R.'Canney, Robert J.
Minshali. J. Kylstra and Thomas
A. Endres, who are enjoyed by
the aircraft builders In the capac
ity of technical experts on airplane
design.
"I have always been im-!
pressed." said Chief Engineer
"Monteith, in speaking of his re
cent purchase, "With the perform
ance anrd mechanical excellence
of the Hupmobile. and in buying
the new Century Eight. I felt as-
sured of a maximum value and de
pendability.
Discussing the demonstrations
made for the aviation experts.
Roberts said. "The precise crafts
manship, the excellence of mate
rials, and the Tigidity of Hnpmo
biie construction were points that
swung the decision of the aircraft
engineers. The aviation type car
buretor, which combines much
that has been learned in years of
aviation motor construction en
sured them that Hupmobile accel
eration would be boih sure and
economical."
SNOW CLOSES ROUTES
The various routes across the
Rooky mountain? east of Salt
Lake City and Spokane are still
closed by mud and enow and will
not be dry enough'to carry traffic
until the first part of May, accord
In? to the Oregon State Motor as
sociation. Motorists who plan to
drive east must travel by way of
the National Old Trails route or
southern route. This route has
Its western terminus at Bakers-
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field or Los Angeles but a great ume. Both the four and the six
many motorists, during the past ! are equipped with the new "Fin
wituer, have traveled east overjger-Tip Control," which consists
the Old Oregon trail to Salt Lake j of a button in , the center of the
and then south intersecting with j steering wheel placing all the
the National Old trails at The Nee-, function of starting the motor,
die. Arizona. operating the lights and sounding
in he NEW
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whicb opemza aUr, ligbn tad horn.
TpHE larger bodies of the new Su-
perior Whippet Four and Six
afford more spacious interiors, with
extra head room, leg room and
. elbow room.
The beautiful and ultra-modern design
of the new Superior Whippet makes
it the style authority in both the Four
'and light Six classes. Many tasteful
refinements include longer lines, higher
radiatorand hood, chromium-plate and
Lindy and
Tht. nirtitm. tabra t Ambassador IMvieht Morrow's estate to
Anue Spencer Morrow, daughter of the ambaasador, and her fiance, Ool. Charles A. Lindbergh, about
to enter a Bakk sedan. Note that Lindbergh's arm is in a sling, the result of the mishap at Valbuena
Airfield, when he and Miss Morrow went for their first air Jaunt orer Mexico City.
Whippet Sales in 1928 Set
New High Records for Gars
Although Whippet sales from
month to month in 1928 set new
j njgh records for Willys-Overland,
sale of these four and six cylinder
products in the first quarter of
the current year show an increase
of 33 per cent over the same per
iod of 1923, John N. Willys, pres
ident, said this week at Toledo
This unusual high sales volume is
attributed to the Immediate wide
public acceptance of the new cars
which" bring to the' low orics field
a new standard of style and per
formance usually found only in
the higher priced cars.
With this marked increase In
Whippet sales in the first quarter
over any similar period in Willys
Overland history, executives point
out that the company's car build
ing schedules for the present year,
which call for a record output. Is
fully justified.
It is pointed out that both the
Whippet four and the Whippet
six. la addition to setting new
style trend i,u body design, color
combinations, and fitments, also
Includ edistinctive mechanical im
provenfeuts that have been Impor
tant factory In the high rales vol
ty of
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SUPERIOR
sweeping one-piece full-crown fenders.
The taster speed and pick-up of the
new Superior Whippet result from a
higher compression engine, giving
more than 20 added horsepower.
Low consumption of gasoline and oil,
and dependable performance, insure
exceptional operating economy and
minimum service costs.
WILLYS-OVEaUUJD, INC., TOUDO, OHIO
Allred-Billingsley
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the horn at the finger-tips of the
driver. Since these ears were
first shown, this feature has at
tracted the widespread attention,
not only of the pnblie bnt the en
tire automobile industry as well.
With the wheel base of both
the four and six materially in
creased, it has been possible to
design the bodies with longer and
more sweeping lines anl at the
same time provide iscreised
roominess in .the; ; interiors 'for
driver and passengers. '
The new Whippet Six, holding
the classification of the lowest
priced six in the world with a
seven-bearing crankshaft is said
to show more smoothness, power
and speed than any other six ever
produced by the Toledo manufac
turer in the lower price ranges.
Production of all Whippet mod
els, four fours and sixes, has been
maintained at high peak since
their Introduction with the con
tinuous increasing demand for
these cars, indicating that capac
ity output will have to be main
tained to meet the volume of or
ders from the field.
This hign production Is being
maintained, not alone at the To
ledo frlant, but at all other Willys
Overland factories In Pontlac,
Mich., Elmira, N. T., Toronto,
Ont., and at the new assembly
plant which was recently opened
at Los Angeles.
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Motor Company
OREGON STATESMAN. Salem,
CuernaTaca, Mexico, ahowa mm
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While safety bureaus and police
departments throughout the na
tion are directing their efforts to
prevention of accidents, the en
gineering brains of the country, in
automotrre laboratories behind
the scenes, are co-operating In a
silent but equally effective cam
paign Jo wards the same end.
"Leavrng aside the human
equation and the tendency of
drivers to be careless, the margin
of safety from a mechanical point
of view depends almost entirely
on the principles of quick accel
eration and perfect braking pow
er," according to W. L. Anderson,
local dealer for the Do Soto Motor
Corporation, a division of Chrys
ler Motors.
"Spring and early summer
again bring the perils of the con
gested suburban highway to driv
ers with cars that are not equip
ped with the best brak'ng devices
and engines that will not pick up
quickly in an emergency. The
perfect brake is the first essential
of safety flashing acceleration,
where the engine immediately re
sponds to the touch of foot on ac
celerator, of almost equal import
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New Radio-Telephone Sta
tion is Installed in Oak
land Airport
The first scheduled communi
cation by radio-telephony with
aircraft la flight will begin next
week when the department of
commerce plant at the Oakland
airport goes Into operation. Com
pleted at a cost of $10,000 this
United States department of com
merce station is ready for short
wave radio-telephone, broadcast
ing of hourly weather reports, giv
ing radl-equipped planes weather
information and Informing them
of landing conditions at Important
airports ' along civil airways.
The. Oakland radio station Is
the first of a series of radio, tele
phone broadcasting stations to be
established along the transconti
nental airway. Others will be at
Los Angeles, ' Fresno, Medfbrd,
Portland and Seattle on the coast.
For the transcontinental airway
east the first station will be con
structed at Reno, Elko, Nevada,
and Salt Lake City.
24 Hour Service Available
Twenty-four hour weather re
porting service, seven days a
week, pUpBSd, over JhU system.
Teletype machines will be con
nected all over the system. Weath
er reports gathered by govern
ment weather bureaus will be re
ceived at the broadcasting sta
tions on these machines and tele
phoned by radio to planes in
flight.
Department of commerce radio
stations will operate in connec
tion with airport weather bu
reaus; both systems government
controlled after July first. These
plants here were first established
by the Guggenheim foundation.
Mail planes on both the coastal
and transcontinental airways will
be radio equipped within 90 days,
and all air transport companies
are planning to radio-equip their
passenger carrying planes.
, For the past few weeks a radio-equipped
Chevrolet coach has
been traveling the adjacent roads
to this new station testing the
equipment to be used.
SHIP 42 WILD TURKEYS
Curry county received a ship
ment of 42 wild turkeys from the
state game farm at Corvallis last
week. The bird3 were released on
the Macleay farm, north of Wed
derburn and on the farm of Elmer
E. Miller on upper Pistol river.
More than 100 of these birds have
been planted in Curry county dur
ing the past year and it is report
ed that they are thriving.
RADIO
MESSAGES
T TNTEL you have driven the
U new Nash "400" with the
Twin-Ignition motor, you can
have no adequate idea of how
much pleasure it has added to
motoring.
Here are some plain, unvarnished
facts and figures which may serve
to convince you that you owe
yourself a ride in a Twin-Ignition-Motored
Nash.
With Twin Ignition instead of
single ignition (two spark plugs
per cylinder firing simultane
ously, instead of one) higher com
pression is practical, and a much
more efficient combustion of the
gases is accomplished, r
The result is that the identical
Nash motor, by actual test, pro-
THE NEW
LEADS
IKXPORTAlfT "400" FEAT VISES -A0
Twin-Ignition motor
12 Aircraft-type spark plugs
High compression
New doable drop frame
One piece Saloo fenders
365 North
Only 15 Per Cent of State
Highways Remain Unim
. proved According to Coan
"Only XI per cent of Oreron'"
highway system Is unimproved."
stated Ralph Coan, director of the
Oregon State Mofor association in
a recent statement.
"The close of the year 1928
rounds ont the 12th year since the
adoption of the state highway plan
and program of 1917," continued
Mr. Coan. "In that period high
way improvements have followed
each other in rapid succession in
all parts of the state until at the
present time, on the state high
way system of 4,368.3 miles,
hate been improved and only
6 4 4.S miles remain unimproved.
The work done by the commission
to date consists of 728.3 miles of
pavlnk, of which 178.3 miles are
of the cement concrete type and
51S.0 miles are of the bituminous
type; 107.1 miles of bituminous
macadam; 1,194.4 miles of oiled
macadam; 2,347.1 miles of rock
or gravel surfacing; 39.1 miles of
re paving; 453 miles of resurfac
ing and 141.6 miles of regrading.
These figures do not include the
forest roads on the stat? system,
which are constructed under the
supervision of the United States
Bureau of Public Roads, which re
ports a total of 442.3 miles of
crushed rock or gravel surfacing
and 503.0 miles of grading.
There has been constructed on
the state highway system within
TO KILL
Members of the Oregon State
Game commission are giving ser
ious consideration to the problem
of decreasing the number of cou
gar within the state and undoubt
edly plans will be worked out
which will bring a great increase
in the number of "deer killers"
that are bagged annually by hunt
ers. When It is realized that a
cougar kills approximately 50
dear each year the Importance of
making a strong campaign of ex
termination Is acknowledged.
More cougar have been killed In
Oregon this season than in any
other for a long period of time
but at that the animals are on the
increase and are annually killing
many more deer than are bagged
by hunters during the open sea
son. It Is believed that If substan.
tial prizes In addition to the reg.
ular 825 bounties were offered,
hunters an increasingly large
number of cougar would be killed.
WIN
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duces 22 more power than
with single ignition, 5 miles per
hour more speed, and gives yon
2 extra miles of travel from every
single gallon of gasoline you buy;
In fairness to yourself, don't buy
any car today, until you have
driven the brilliant new Twin-Ignition-Motored
Nash "400."
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THE WORLD IN
Hoadatlle and Lovejoy shock
absorbers UwlmimJUub mmmttmtq
Aluminum alloy pistons ibiwlMO
7-bearing- cranEshaft (iWhrrwl pirn)
Bijnr centralized chsnis lubrication
F. W. PETTYJOHN CCU
Commercial Street
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ths Crater Like National park 3
miles of bituminous macadam
and 12 miles of oiled macadam,
this work baving been 'inanced
by" a special appropriation of the
feedrai government. In addition,
there are tome counties which
have graded or Improved sections
of state highway with their own
forces Or by contract, of which
this; department does not have a
record, . To be added to the total,
also, ard'the state highways with
in Mnltndmah county and through
Incorporated cities of more than
NEW
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got behind
They
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the facts, and bought Buicks
Come, make the driving test as thousands
have done. Find oat for yourself whv this
epic car's performance is fully worthy of
the astonishing record of winning more
than twice as many people to Buick as any
other car priced above $1200!
BUICK. MOTOR COMPANY, FLINT, MICH,
,rv DM f Ceutrl MoUrt Corporation
SERIES 11
$1220 to $1320
$1195 to $1250
$1225
Sedans
Coupes
Sport Cars -
These prices t. o. b. Buick Factory, special equipment extra. Butch del$v
trtd prices inclxdt mmly rtsonbl charges for delivery and financing. Conren
ieafl terms can be arranged on the liberal G. M. A. C Tune Paymeni Plan
Consider tb deltvrrod price spell ms the list price when
compMring muUmebile tmlues.
OTTO J. WILSON
388 N. Commercial Telephone 220
TTbeo Better Automobiles Are Built i i( s Buick Will Build Them
ADVANCED SIX
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400" AMBASSADOR
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MOTOR CAR VALUE
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Salon Bodies
Torsional vibration damper
World's easiest steering
Electric clocks
Short turning radios
WE SERVE?
Telephone 1260
2.500 population, which have -01
their own work without assist ,
from the state.
Considering the added niii.-
but noting the fact that
roads have been ro k surflL
the rock surfaced roads have i
paved and oiled, the pre em
(us of the state hichway Kyf
is: 895.4 miles of pavement' :
per cent; 112.0 miles of bitii
ous macadam, 2 6 pPr ,
1.03S.8 miles of oiled maca:
25.1 per cent; 1.383.7 niil.-
crushed rock or gravel surf i
31.7 per cent; 233.8 miles Rr-; .,
and ready for surfacing. 5 ; I
cent; and 644.6 miles uninip-uvc.;
14.8 per cent. There have ;
503 bridge or standard .1,
over 20 feet in lensth con, :
ed by the department on f , .,
highways during the 12 year ,. -.
iod of its activities.
BUICKS
Showrooms
this week
the wheel, got
SERIES 121 SERIES 129
$1450 to 11520 $1875 to $2141
$1395 to $1450 $186? to $1871
$1325 $1525 to$1550
Longer wbeelbases
Nash Special Design front
and rear bumpers
Exterior metal ware chrome
plated over nickel
Oearvision front pillar posts
C4-2I 113
233 Center Street
Telephone 1460