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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1929)
FAUE FOURTEEN The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sanday Morning, Angnst 4, 1929 th history of th Industry. In the De Soto Six unusual Talue for a moderate .investment Is found, a graphic example of the Increase in the automobile dollar." Tbe public acceptance of the De Soto Six Is evidence that the public has appreciated the value it offers for a low expenditure." TWO AVIATORS KILLED DEW ITT I.owa, Aug. 2 (AP B. M. Greely and Howard c. Gibson, both of Oma'ia, Neb.. wer killed when an airplane piloted by Dixon crashed near here tonight. Read the Classif ied Ads. SSI 1 NO DUDES HERE J -W rfzy. tjAY DDI If! m BUrS MORE VALUE Fifth Summer Session Will Draw Delegates From Many Sections ''-BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) A symposium of world thought on the cooperative . farm movement .virtually will be gained when the American Institute of Coopera tion holds Its fifth summer ses sion on the campus of Louisiana university during August. The Institute Is expected to draw leaders front all over the world In the movement of agricul ture to help Itself through coop-, erative production and market ing." " Arn'the United States this move, meat has been accelerated by the appointment of the federal farm hoard, whose members are ex pected to attend the general ses sions opening July 29 and con tinuing 10 day?. It will be the first time the south has entertained such an im portant gathering of leaders In the cooperative movement. ' CO. Moser. of Dallas, Tex.. Is chairman of the institute, and the speakers include R. A. Ward, gen eral .manager of the Pacific Coop erative Wool Growers; Nils A. OL sen. ehlet of the federal hureao of ' agricultural economics, and ' many other prominent figures in 'agriculture. - ' , CvC. Teawe. Santa Paula, Cal., president of the California Fruit -Growers Exchange and the Cali fornia Walnut Growers', associa tion Is expected to attend with other members of the farm board. Teague originally was on the pro rram with several others who have withdrawn with their ap pointment by President Hoover to th hoard. - While the general sessions last ; only 10 days, other sessions con tinue to Aucr. 24. '" The meeting will provide ample J time for academic courses' and sectional conferences. There also will be special con ferences lasting five days each week for teachers of vocational agriculture aad : a non-credit - course in memtrhlp relations of cooperatives which will place par- - ticular stress upon local prob lems. The general sessions will close with an automobile tour of Louis iana rice -and sugar plantations land a visit to New Orleans. Previous Institute have enroll ed from 370 to JE0O persons, in cluding delegate? from- Canada , and nine European countries. The Institute, incorporated un der the District of Columbia, is supported Bolely by voluntary cou- trlbutlons. Its chief purpose Is to collect .and make available knowledge concerning th? cooperative move xnent in America and other lands. Read the Classified Ads. Riders of the Dude Ranches of the West have bo place with thee cowpunchera whose ananal Rodeo season begins In July and August The spectacle of these annual affairs staged In true Western faah Ion as shown above brings visitors from all parts of the country. Notice bow A cowboy has roped the young lady In the Pontiac sport coupe. Although ft costs 18 per cent nose to live today than it did in 1914, the purchasing power of the automobile dollar has '. in creased 13 per cent in that peri od, according to leading ctatls. tlciansv r . "By contrast with 15 years ago, the $1,000 spent for an au tomobile today buys exactly 11, 130 worth of car," said L. G. Peed, general sales manager of the De Soto division of Chrysler Motors, in a recent Interview at the company's head offices at ; Detroit. "Cost of living figures pre pared by the National Industrial Conference Board, Inc., a short time ago, show the dollar has fal len to 2 cents in purchasing power during thlst time. On the other hand, there has been a marked increase in the value of the dollar invested in the auto mobile, the computation of the car dollar's purchasing power be. lng arrived at by dividing the an nual production Into the total an nual value of output in the in dustry. It is particularly Interesting to note that in terms of staple farm products, the car costs the II iaxmer irom sa 10 ex per cent less today than in 191 3A In other words, the exchange value of wheat, corn, cotton, woolW beef for motor - vehicles has become from t one and a third to two times as great. "The new high standard in val ue is a direct result of modern scientific manufacturing meth ods. Due to these methods it has been possible to build finer cars and offer them to the public at lower prices than ever before in r1- Investigate Our Recaping Service Before Buying Your New Tires j ; ; -r-7"- r j "W Heard Along Auto Row (Continued from Page 9) Nestor, zone sales promotion man ager, and" A. E. Smith, Chevrolet dealer at Madero, California, spent several hours Friday afternoon at the Douglas McKay Chevrolet company. Mr. Siemens, well known busi ness man of Dallas, was in Salem Friday afternoon on business con nected with the Valley Motor Co. Mr. Benx, or the Bens Spring company, Portland, wa8 a busi ness visiror at the Valley Motor company Thursday evening and Firday morning. " During the past week, Loder Bros, have opened a new used car lot directly across from their showrooms and sh'ap oil Center street. Since they entered the au tomobile business In Salem this spring, their stock of used cars has so increased as to necessitate more display room than the shop and parking spaces . which were formerly utilized for this part of the business. Dave Johns, Stayton Hudson-Essex dealer, spent Wednesday morn ing at State Motors. Peter Jensen, 565 S. 21 St., had poor luck last week. He bought a new Ford and before it had been driven more than nine miles had a repair bill of eighty-five dollars to pay as the result of a collision with a truck. A member of Jen sen's family, was trying tout the new car when the accident occur red. Jensen himself was thrown against the windshield and would have been badly cut had it not been for the unbreakable shield which Is one of the features of the new Ford. As It was he was slightly bruised and the wlnd-i shield which is leaning against the wall in the Valley Motor sales manager's office is rather splint ered. 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