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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1930)
I bsssbsbsd lFmKmmmmmmmmmammmm. I AUTOMOTIVESECnON QlOB Z OUTDOOR NEWS iUiW oiAnaaim, aaiem uregon. aamy Morning, reprnary 9, laaa I -t r- : 7 " : : ; . ; o I PETTI JOHN TIES NEW TRUCK LlfJE Local Auto Firm Has Agency For International Motor Trucks Here The F. VT. Pettyjohn Co. bu been appointed dealer for Interr Rational motor trucks for Mar ion and Polk counties. The line has not been handled actively here for several months and the new connection is made' at the beginning of the selling season. In connectio with the taking of the agency r. W. Pettyjohn an nounces that the International is now putting on the market a new 3-ton speed truck. DeiWertes will be limited in February, after that supply is xpeeted to catch up with demand. This truck is known as the model A-S. Model A-5 is. powered by Inter national Harvester's six cylinder valve in head engine, with a 3 5 S inch bore and a 4 Inch stroke and 279-inch piston displacement, It is set In a three-point mount ing with" rubber cushioned rear supports'. ' The cylinder block Is cast in one piece and the engine "has re movable -cylinder sleeves, two Piece head machined combustion rhamberS, seven bearing crank shaft of drop forged higb,4carbon c'aroine nickel, alloy sjegUjfBeat' treated staf icalli and dyainkalfy balanced.! Three wbeelbase lengths are offered, of 156, 196 and 210 Inches. The frame is of pressed steel channel, with a deep center section. Pressure feed lub rication is used to all main, con necting rod. cam shaft and rock er arm shaft bearings. No pipes are used, as the drilled cam shaft acts as an oil distribution' mani fold. The transmission, five speeds forward and one reverse, selec tive sliding gear type,' Is mounted i;i unit with the engine. Drop cen tered 1-beams are used for' the front axle, steel forged and heat treated. Reverse Elliott type steering knuckles are of drop forged, heat treated chrome moly- ldenum steel. Ball bearings have lieen used for vertical king pin load. In the rear a semi-floating spiral bevel gear .type mechanism i employed with a heat-treated steel driving shaft, set in a mal leable iron, banjo-type housing. The differential bearings are ta pered rollers and pinion straddle mounted on ball bearings. Wheel hearings are of the combination straight and tapered roller type. PAGE ELEVEN ENTIRELY NEW DURANT DISPLAYED ' ' L ' - 1 1 .- Running like wildfire over die country is the news of this entirely new Durant Model 6-14, now on display locally. Upper left the Four-Door Sedan. Upper right the De Luxe Conpe. Lower right the De Luxe Roadster with rumble seat. A few of the new mechanieal features are Midland Steeldraulic hraW Pyrodyne High Turbulence Engine Head Borg and Beck clutch, Stromberg. carburetor, and differential with double the ordinary number of Tiniken Bearings. 4 -f ' Z jt-A ' i i PHYSICIST IKES ELECTRON CAMERA Local Auto Dealer Urges Check Oil Cbas. Vick of the WUlys Mo tors, Inc., brings to the attention of automobile owners the neces sity of examining the oil In the crank case of their motor. Dur ing a cold weather period such aswe have just passed through the choke on your carburetor has been used much more than In ordinary weather, therefore a lot of raw fSSbline has gotten by the pistons and into the crankcase which tends to dilute the oil. Mr. Vick says that this will be much more noticable in cars that do not have crank case ventilation. The newer models are now iruite generally equipped with crank case ventilators but most of the older models were not. As it will take only a few momenta to ex amine the oil in your crankcase it will be time went spent and if yon find the oil either dirty or dilut ed with water and gas be sure to change it to protect the bearings as the old adage is still quite true that a stitch in time saves nine. Can you afford to be without the protection afforded by the $1.00 accident policy Issued to Statesman subscribers. By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Science Editor (Associated Press Feature Service) ITHACA, N. Y. (AP) If the sun should turn pale green at sunset and streak the sky above the dim, green, rainbow-shaped arches, the scene would be a per fect copy of exquisite pictures filmed by a new kind of camera at Cornell university. The camera- uses electrons in stead of light, and its "sunset" views are made by reflecting el ectrons from metallic films too thin to be seen with the eye but revealing beauty In the infinitely small things - that matches n a ture's grand scale displays. This camera is the only one of its kind in the world, devised a few months ago at Aberdeen uni versity, Scotland,' by Prof. O. F. Thomson, a. young English physi cist, who is. eminent in the scien tific world. He is, professor of natural philosophy - at Aberdeen, and is at Cornell this semester as George F. Baker non-resident lec turer in chemistry Some of the electron pictures show the tarnish on copper, the kind that housewives get rid of with a polishing rag. A small piece of copper is burnished for use in one of Dr. Thomson's ex periments and allowed to lie un touched for an hour in a room of ordinary temperature and cleanliness. At the end of the hour its lus ter is undimmed, but speaking scientifically, the film of tarnish already should hare started, and the camera will show whether it has. The copper is placed In a vac uum in the middle of the camera, adjusted so that it can be moved about by holding rods. At one end of the camera is a long vacuum tube of glowing light, its energy 30,000 volts as compared with the ordinary 100 volt energy of radio tubes. This tube projects.a beam of the elec trons through the middle of the camera directly past:he copper and ending on a fluorescent glass plate at the opposite end. Their impact makes a small, round, bright green spot whose glow softly illuminates the entire glass plate. When the bit of cop per is manipulated to thrust it into the electron stream, the spot 1 (&jy with J ''AlEZX MOTOM VALLEY Model A Fordor $550 Model A Tudor $450 Model A 4 Sport Coupe $495 Model A Standard Coupe $475 Model A : Sport Roadster $450 Model A A Track Cab Body 6. speeds.- $545 Mtev -Motor -Gd Corner Center and Chcineketa TcL 1995 NEW HIGHWAY MARKINGS I -o n As an additional safety precautionary measure, the Oregon state highway department is marking railroad crossings on the main thoroughfares in the manner pictured abore. This type ox warning is said to be particularly effecttra on foggy nights when a motorist la concentrating his entire attention on the highway directly before him and may not observe the usual T post at the side of the road, The car is a Pontine Bic Six sedan. of light begins to eclipse, with all the twilight effects of a green sun setting behind the earth's shoulder. , As the electron sun sinks, green arches begin to appear above it, gradually filling the photo plate with a geometrical pattern. This pattern reveals the nature of the substance reflecting the electrons, and in this case it la copper ox ide, which laymen know as tarnish. The atoms of each substance make their own distinctive pat tern,' thereby revealing both sci entific and practical information. Prof. Thompsons aim is a new method of studying catalysts, the substances used by chemists In what a few years ago the publle wonld have called alchemy. Now catalysts are common place In chemical manufacture. They usually are small foreign particles which help to change one substance Into another near ly like it chemically, as eoal Into oil, or to make new compounds. Much remains te be learned about them and Dr. Thompson's camera Is a new tool for the pur pose. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Pers ons interested in Improving their vocabularies and reading abilities but unable to take special train ing courses, may take hope. Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, psycholo gist of the University of Minne sota, finds that intensive applica tion by college freshmen to read ing and vocabulary studies is the principal requirement for progress. This interest in learning ac complishes almost as much as special drills. He experimented with two groups of freshmen of about 100 each. One group spent all of its time in study of English compo sition. The other spent 17 min utes of each class period on spe cial drills. After several months both groups were tested for reading comprehension, memory, speed of reading, general vocabulary and Intelligence. The gala in general mental dis cipline of both groups came oat about even. Those who had spe cial drills improved more than the other group in the materials of those drills, but la the general functions trained both improved at the same rate. By carrier you should receive your opy of The Statesman not later than 6:30. We guarantee carrier servioe. Tlieineed the lbs NO MATTER how mechanically perfect your car no matter how responsive -your brakes yon are traveling on dangerous ground if your tires are of Inferior quality. Equip yonr car with Firestones the tough est, longestrweariag tires on earth and know that wherever you go, your tires will carry yon with greater safety and economy than any oth ers yon can buy. SS2rrg! .... . ". .Mi1 y':" f- 5THB STATIOIf jmil A CLOCK U Invito Ua To YpqrNcxt Blow-out Phonpu STUDIES ill IDE OF BUB DESOTO EIGHT IS IN GREAT DEMO The demand for the new De Soto straight eight, following the exhibition of the ear at automo bile shows throughout the coun try, has brought a heavy volume of orders to the factory in De troit and established a fresh pro duction record for the first month of the rear, ft is announced by Ia. O. Peed, general sales man ager of the De Soto Motor cor poration. Beginning with the first presentation of the car at New York, orders running to tralnload quantities have been sent in by both the eastern and western sections of the country. These new orders for the straight eight, which is the low est priced eight in the wrold, are responsible for carrying the total production of eights and sizes for the month well beyond the corres ponding month of 1121, when the six alone was produced. The ear ly demand for the new eight, which is a Chrysler ereation pos sessing all of the fine perform ance characteristics of the six. plus the added power and im provements of the new motor, un isteel body and other features, is also ample proof that public fa vor is turning to eight-cylinder automobiles. I "DaT Soto production for Janu ary this year was 20 per cent higher than it was for January, 1929," Mr. Peed says in an ad vice to W. L. Anderson, local De goto dealer. , Firestone Expands : Line of Products The Firestone organization has added to their lines of manufac ture .in recent months, said Jim .Smith of 8mtth and Watkins, lo cal Firestone dealers. To their well known lines of tires and rub ber goods they, have- added bat teries in both "standard" and "supreme" grades, and brake lin ing. The two grades of batteries appeal to two price classes, one is for heavy duty and the other a cheaper grade. 'i "Now that winter is over," said Smith, "it is a good time te test batteries and hrakes and be ready tor the spring driving season.'' Willys Motors Co. Henry Lzicar 515 South Commercial St. Chas. H. Vick - . ; t i The New Whippet Four. Four door Se dan, fully equipped at $745.00, at Sa lem, is on display on our show room floor. This is the lowest priced Sedan on the American market and is a qual ity car throughout. Very economical in operation, making between 25 and 30 miles to the gallon of gasoline. It has a full force feed, oiling system, si- j lent timing chain instead of gears. These features are seldom found in cars of this price. We invite you to look over our display of cars. You can look without buying. Why Buy Without Looking? Our shop service is second to none. Let us overhaul your motor' and have it ready for another busy season. Our shop foreman has been with the Willys Overland line for years and is very com petent to handle all repairs. Yours for service, WILLYS MOTORS INC. JT f 7 i-n.-T- j--' ( J :"l!:'.::u:i:ia:r-:::::n:n:.T:r-:: f.-u "J-:; xrrTT:::a-:-.::Jrr:r:r: - r;ipfff:?; J" -.1 tl- ni. " - - z - J6" 3tt t A J r--t EvEtm'l I ERE .THROUGHOUT THE VEST THOUSANDS PAID TRIBUTE Throngs surged through salesrooms of Durcnt dealers everywhere to inspect the marvelous-ly-engineered, Entirely New DURANT 6-14. Everywhere praise was loud for the great list of median icaJ superiorities . . . particularly for Midland SteeJdm&c Four -Wheel brakes, Pyrodyitc high turbulence bead on tbc DuranUdesi7ed Continental Motor, Strembers Car buretor, Borg & Beck Clutch, heavy frame doubly rein forced at load points, extra large axles, and a new dl3er ciy wi& double & ordinary ri Yoa will not be atitomobjle-wise until you have Impeded and driven this Entirely New Durant Uuthas swept West since its introduction to motorists one PIICES STARTING AT . l. O.B. LANSNO, MXKOAM TKEW6RIDS G2SATZST AUTOMOBILE VALUE WATCH. 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