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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1919)
PAQK a THE MEND HUIXKTIK, DAILY KIHTION, IIKNI), ORKGON. HATl'RDAY, A COUNT 0, 1010 OREGON CARS ARE NEAR 80,000 HEAVY REGISTRATION IS NOTED. About 17,000 Mora Automobiles to bo KeRbitoTrd This Year Than In lOtft License Kors to Kxreed Half Million. SALEM. Aug. . An estimate "riade by the automobile department of the secretary of state's office places at 80.000 the number ot ve hicles that will be registered In Oregon by the end ot the coming year. Thin wiU be about 17.000 more than were registered In 191S when the total was $3,325. A total ot 21$ motor vehicles were registered during July, Just closed, 1851 ot them new cars and 345 ot them cars that had been registered In previous years but not previously licensed tor this year. During the month ot July last year the total number ot cars reg istered was 1709. A statement ot transactions ot the motor vehicle department ot the secretary ot state's office tor July 1919, follows: Motor vehicles, 2196; motorcycles. 150; dealers in motor vehicles, 18; chauffeurs, 21S; transfers . of mo tor vehicles and motor cycles, 1741; duplicate license plates, 184; ad ditional dealers license plates, 24 411; During the month ot July, 1918, on the basis ot the same rules tho total tees collected aggregated 814,547. There hus been rocolvod as license fees and other fees In connection with the registering nnd trunstering ot motor vehicles and ohauffeurs during the year 1919 n total ot $563,251. During tho same period in the year 1918, tho total tees aggregated 8439,480, so that for the year 1919 tho fees show an Increase over 1918 ot over $122,000. Based upon the registrations from this timo on to the end of the your during previous years. It Is not unlikoly that the registrations of motor vehicles for tho year 1919 will be 80,000, or substantially 17,000 more cars, than during the year 1918, when the total number ed 3,325. A very noticeable feature In con nection with the registration ot motor vehicles is the large number ot transfers, which undoubtedly tends to indicate the tratoo lu used cars. From and after August t ot each year, the license fees are one-half tha regular fee. During the months of August and September a con siderable number of registrations are made and licenses issued by reason ot the new models ot the various cars being delivered. USED CAR NOV TO FOREFRONT TO TELL PURCHASERS WHAT THEY GET. The statement continues: From these various transactions fees for the month aggregated $19- More Important Than Air or Gas Fire Personal Injury Theft Property Damage Trnsportatlon Collision Automobile Insurance BEND PARK CO. J. C. Rhodes Ask The Ian Who Owns One li " What will the man who has owned a Ford tell you every time? .... . It does the work. - It gets the mileage on mini mum of gas. It is not a Tire consumer. It satisfies every need. These are some of the reasons why the Ford Motor Cars are called Universal Cars. Why are more Ford Motor Cars being delivered into Central Oregon this year than ever before? Because the Ford Motor Cars are delivering everything that is being said about them. Place your order with the Cent-Ore Motor Co. ' ; Bend, Oregon 1 Honesty and tYunkncas Needed In Halo of Vsod Cars -Square Deal In Duo to lluyern for Hake ot tho lluslnos. In concentrating their entire ef forts' upon the sale ot now cars, doalers have unwittingly lei dovolop what has become known as tho used car problem. The second hand car has too often been made an out cast, something to bo gotton rid ot as soon as posstblo, and "cavoat emptor" has frequently been the motto under which the sales were made. The second hand, or the slightly used car will always be with ub. The dealer can only dis pose ot It as a genuine problom by Intelligent, and painstaking atten tion, and that Is now bolng done in many cities. The chief requirement Is to win the confidence ot the buyor. The purchaser must be told cxactl) what he Is getting. Misrepresentation or Ignorance oi what he was soiling on the part of the dealer Is probably less prev alent than It used to be, but It takes time to removo any taint of questionable practices which be come attached to a business and only the gradual winning over of public opinion through strict hon esty and utmost frankness can put the used car condition on a sound foundation. Sustained Effort Best. The plan ot having an annuul sale ot used cars has been tried with a fair amount ot success. It has the merit of bringing together prospective buyers and arousing an ntrest. Just as In tho caso of the new car, however, the show Is only one feature of a soiling cam paign and can not take the pluce ot sustained all-the-year-round effort. Another practice is the mot hod ot a single clearing house, where all the dealers In a district- sond their cars. Prices are standardized. Ef- Bcient and economical handling are easily attainable and tho 'doalers are freed from the annoyance of having to find an outlet for their used cars, while endeavoring to sell new ones. Furthermore, this plan reduces competition and attracts the buyer by presenting under one roof a wide selection of types, ages and prices. It becomes a thoroughly ef ficient lurge scale business. Let the buyers find that they can go to this central clearing house and obtain cars exactly as repre sented at a fair price and tho used car problem will vanish. There are thousands of people who do not own automobiles, but who would buy used cars'lf they only felt con fident that their ignorance of the motor car's condition and value was not going to place them in danger of being cheated. ; Elovatc the plane upon which the used car business is transacted. Inspire con fidence. That Is three-quarters of the task. In a case where a car of the make which he represents is traded in with a dealer, there is some ad vantage to both dealer and , pur chaser In having the resale made by the agency. The dealer has a vital Interest in the reputation ot his own car. He will see that It does not leave his bands .until t Is in sound con dition. He has much more rea son than has the clearing house for wanting It to make good. He Is presumably better equipped than anyone else to give the owner, serv ice, and by properly taking care of the buyer he has the opportunity of securing a possible future pur chaser of a hew car. It works both ways, the dealer having every Incentive to see that the car works properly, while the owner feels more confidence In the ability and willingness of the agency to take care of him. It Is advisable that, the car be sold with a definite guarantee, and unless the car Is quite old and Is sold at a very low price, there is no reason why the buyer should not obtain the same guarantee that is given with a new car. A guar antee has great weight with him. He likes to feel that he has the same standing at the agoncy as the purchaser of a new car, that he has the same binding guarantee and that he will receive the same serv ice. In short, it Is largely a mat ter of Inspiring confidence In the first place and then rendering' ef ficient, willing service afterward, ALONG AUTO HOW Vndor tho dlreotlon ot A. II. Ilooh ot Soaltlo, representative of the American Association of Machin ists, lociil machinists, automobile machinists, mechanics and mo nhaulo's helpers mot Wednesday evening to form a local union. Tho numbor ot the local has not been selected. At the mooting tho following of ficers were ohosou: Byron Royco, pust president; J. Bailsman, presi dent; Krnest Davis, vice president; D, L. Beeloy, corresponding secre tary; Ooorgo Roberts, treasurer; Kugone Aoloy, flnanolal seorotnry; bond of directors: E. H. Young, A. W. Bontragor and Henry Denullou. PRODUCTION IS MILLION SHORT MANY PROSPECTIVE BUYERS IN DOUBT. Tho Bond garage dollvored a 490 Chovrolet this week to J. Boyd-sten. 8hcrlff S. E. Roborts Is driving a new Baby , Qrand Chevrolet, which he purchased this week from tho Bend gnrago. The Deschutes garage Is anxious ly awaiting bids on Its now building which Is to be erected this summer at the corner ot Bond and Franklin streets. R. S. McClure, of Wulthor-WII-liams company, this week deliver ed touring cars to J. A. Eastos, N. D. Nye of Powell Butte and Ed ward Dean ot Tumalo. Tho Pioneer garuku received for sale this week one Crow-Elkhart and one Essex car. According to Mr. Royce, It will bo Impossible for him to receive a Hudson Super Six un til some tlmo next month. Put It In "THE BULLETIX." Kxniitlnntlon of Pemnitil (lives ClitHxIlU'iitiun, lo Motor Invest or Tluro Million People lluy Curs This Your. One million ponplo who hnvo the money and who "are willing to buy automobiles, will bo disappointed this year. They will' not bo ulilo to get machines. This Is the predic tion ot experts who havo estimated the motor car enpucity of the na tion nnd have a good lino on pro duction possibilities. It Is estimutvd that the present production Is one million curs or moro short of the demand. In the first quarter ot 1919, 115 leading manufacturers producod only 173. 000 cars, while In the last completo production your there wore built and sold, 1,800,000. Thero are 27,304,172 family groups In America. Klfloon mil lion peopto have Incomes enabling them to purchuso a cur rnnglng In price from 1300 to 11500. Three million people muy be considered prospects for a cur from 1700 to 11000. Two million people are In the class between SHOO and 11400. Five hundred can buy between 11500 and 12000. Ono hundred thoimjiid can buy anything they want. Automobile manufacturers are concluding a period in which a tre mendous effort litis Ilium miiilu by the nmiiuniotuioi lo supply u very Hinnll part of the (Inimimls niiiilo tip on dunlins. It was "von out of tho (mention to stai'l lo supply litis diimund before the Hint six months after Ihu war. BOILING POINT TEST VALUE OF GASOLINE The old gravity lest of gasoline reully tells nothing of Its efllolonoy tmcit uo gasolines of tho same grav ity may differ greatly lu boiling points, and boiling points are tho only true measure of tho gusollno vultto. By mixing two ruhoIIiius of high gravity and low gravity, a combina tion can be obtained which will meet whatever gravlly lest Is de sired, but such fuel would not work effectively In a gasoline en gine. When, however, the boiling point test Is used, tho refiner can be sure of maintaining tho quality of his product, nnd the motorist can be sure of a uniform asollne. Every gusollno for od service must have a gradual series of boiling points. aw boiling points are absolutely essential for starling but are useless for high power. High boiling points give power, but no motor would ntutl If only the high boiling points, were used. The full chain of bull ing points muni be presented. Only straight distilled gasoline has the necessury boiling points, lied Crown IsV well known gasollno which possesses tho full nnd contin uous chiilii necessary fur enitw start ing and full power. Dally Thought rirent ninn Ion nfli-n have greater faults than little nun ran find room fur. I junior. Put It in "THK lU U-KTIX." - ." '." ?- -f IT IS A GREAT Satisfaction TO be able to tell our patrons that we have the largest and most complete line of automobile acces sories of the best grades that can be obtained anywhere in Cent. Oregon TO be able to say that we carry for our trade the best and larg est stock of the best tires and tubes in Bend and vicinity. TO be able to advise our patrons on the best automobiles to pur chasebecause we carry them. 10 be able to tell our customers that we can give them the kind of repair service they want, because we have the machinery and men with which to do it. These things and many others are building a reputation to be envied for The Bend forage MiffiBllllilllM BBIMII