SATURDAY, February M, 1097,
these found elsewhere. The leaves
HISTORY OF FORD PLANT IS
I are then drawn for 26 minutes in
nitrate at 876 degrees,
GIVEN BY ASHLAND DEALER sodium
which Insures uniform heat and
Completion of the new Ashland
golf club on the highway about
three miles south of the city limits
will, make Ashland one of the
most popular cities in Southern
Oregon with auto tourists through
out the summer months.
This Is the firm belief ot the
golf club enthusiasts and others
who have watched the trend of
aqto traffic for several years and
who have found that a well lo­
cated golf course easy of access
to the auto tourist, is always a
strong drawing card.
The Ashland golf course has
been declared by experts to be
oqe of the finest on the entire
Pacific coast', and its completion
eayly this spring will mean that
hundreds of tourists will remain
longer in Ashland than they might
otherwise have done if. there had
been no course here to lure them.
?The Golf club is now, financing
thp completion of this sightly nine
hole course, and another drive for
members will be made after the
course is fully completed and
refcdy for play.
/Those who are backing the
pibject with their time and mon­
ey* are doing it not only for the
sport which they expect to enjoy,
biit also because they are loyal
Ashland boosters, and stand ready
to* assist a community project to
the end that Ashland might bet­
ter prosper.
The completion of the course
is'under the supervision of Billy
Selkirk, local golf Instructor, who
remained loyal to Ashland during
the winter months by remaining
here and teaching golfing to many
nqvices who are anxiously await­
ing the call to the greens. Sel­
kirk’s enthusiasm has resulted in
m|ny men and women becoming
keenly Interested In golf. ,
The success of the golf elub Is
closely allied with Ashland’s-pos­
sibilities as a tourist center for
six or eight months out of the
year, and with the enthusiasm
which is pushing this project to
completion, there remains ho
doubt but what the Adhland golf
coarse will soon prove to be one
o f the strongest and most popu­
lar In all of Southern Oregon.
Export of Autos
f Shows Big Growth
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. —
United States exports ot passeng­
er ears and trucks during the first
11: months of 1926 Increased in
value by almost 65,000,000, ac­
cording to an announcement this
week by the Automotive Division
of; the United States Department
of-'Commerce. The number of
units exported amounted to 279,-
696, with a value of 6204,206,580
as compared with 269,414 units
with a value of 6199,768.779, in
1925.
The exports for 1 ! months of
1926 included 2166,673 passenger
cars, valued at 6140.680,048. as
compared with 219,461. valued at
6167,463,314, during the same
period of 1926, and with 140,110,
valued at 6102,594.561. In 1924.
Trucks exported during the 11
months touted 62.926, with a
value of 643,636,541, as compar­
ed with 49,736 valued at 682.-
815.395 In 1925, and >6,506, val­
ued at 617,864,371, In 1924.
The Ford Motor company was
incorporated in Detroit, on June
16, 1903.
The-history of the Ford Motor
company is the outstanding mar­
vel of modern industry, a story
of achievement without .parallel.
It is only a little more than a
score of years since the Ford
Motor company was organized.
Vet .in that short time, it has
grown from a small concern
manufacturing but a few hundred
cars annually to an organization
extending throughout the world
and producing close to . #,000,00$
cars a year.
From the first modest factory
building there has grown a vast
group of manufacturing units, in­
cluding scores of other plants ex­
tending to. practically all the prin­
cipal countries in the word with
the production center in Detroit,
where the mammoth Highland
Ing out over hundreds of acres of
ground, form the world’s greatest
industrial development.
Into these gigantic plants come
dally thousands of tons of raw
materials, coal and iron from the
Ford mines and lumber from the
Ford forests, to be turned into
finished products in the form of
cars, trucks, tractors, and parts.
These materials are transported
on Ford trains, in Ford boats and
via air where Ford 'airplanes
daily wing their Way through the
clouds, carrying thousands of
pounds of Ford Motor company
mail anil freights
Embraced in this vast organiz­
ation are steel mills, blast fur­
naces, machine shops, body and
assembly plants, gigantic manu­
facturing units where glass, ar­
tificial leather, cloth, wire paper
and numerous other products are
made; great coke ovens where by
products are reclaimed, mammoth
holdings representing millions of
dollars of Invested capital.
There are more than 120,000
employes in the Detroit plants to
say nothing of the thousands in
assembly plants and branches
throughout the United States. In
addition, there are close to 10,000
Ford deaths in the country en­
gaged in distributing Ford pro­
ducts and more' than 30,000 sta­
tions for servicing Ford cars.
It would tax the most fertile
imagination to try to visualize all
these‘physical aspects of the Ford
Motor company but nearly every­
one can appreciate the economic
advantages it enjoys through this
extensive organization. 'Its ad­
vantages permit the company to
incorporate the highest quality
Into its products and still sell
them at the lowest price.
However, the heat treating is not
yet finished because the shafts
come from the quench with a tre­
mendous tension or pressure in­
side their surface, due to the
fact.that the surface of each
shaft cools first when quenched
and the contracts with tremen­
dous force on the metal which
lies Inside the surface.
This internal strain must be re­
lieved or the shafts will gradually
warp and change their Shape as
this strain works out. The strain
is therefore allowed to work it­
self out by passing the shafts
through another furnace and
heating them to 450 degrees, a
process known as ‘ annealing.
This removes the internal strains
but still leaves the shafts too
hard to finish in the machines.
A conveyor now grips t h e s e
shafts in a manner which per­
mits each end of the shaft to be
dipped alternately into a vat of
molten lead at a temperature of
900 degrees. This softens the
ends of the shafts sufficiently to
permit finishing machining, but
does not soften the body of the
shafts which must withstand the
hard usage to which these parts
are submitted.
Ford rear axle shafts are bo
perfectly heat treated that Ford
cars and trucks overloaded to a
point which bends the steel axle
housing fails to break the axle
shafts. This method of -heat-
treating was developed by the
Ford Motor company and p^jfect-
ed to a degree which attracted the
attention of the United States
bureau printed and broadcast the
details of this process throughout
the country, with the result that
this method of heat treating has
been adopted by many plants
throughout the world.
This is but one of many similar
Ford processes evolved in the
ceaseless effort to build lighter,
stronger and less expensive auto­
mobiles.
Ford springs'are made of the
very finest material produced.
Each leaf is heat treated to 1500
degrees andxquenched in oil. The
forming and quenching are done
at almost the same instant on an
automatic machine of Ford ori­
gin. There are no machines like
prevents scaling.
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Ford paid C. E. Pohansoon 62,-
000,000 and gave him a life con­
tract to work in his factor^. Joh­
ansson is the recognised world
authority on precise measurement
and his system has revolutionized
all previous conceptions of preci­
sion In manufacture.
,
The Ford- Johansson gaging
system is the standard every­
where.
These
measurements
have been accepted as authentic
by the bureau of weights and
measures* of all forsemost coun­
tries of the world after many
scientific tedts.
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The Ford Motor company made
the gages for the United States,
France and England and ¿jther
automobile manufacturers thr4-
out the world. The company has
been the sole factor in bringing
the price of the automobile down
within the reach of almost every
family in this country.
Excessive Riding
Injures Canines
from this |629,129.0( was deduct­
ed to nay traffic officers* salaries-
The total number of vehicle
registrations was 1,641,611, the
largest In the history of Cali­
Since 1925 the total number
fornia.
of cars In operation In Argentina
Loa Angeles county with a to- has Increased 60 per cent each
year, and the present registration
ta 1 registration ot 646,907, re­ approached the 200,000 Mark.
ceived 61,464,096.56, the largest There is only one car for every 66
sum paid any county. San Frah- persons In the country at the pres­
clsco, with registrations of 128, ent time, as compared with a ra­
890 vehicles, received the second tio Wf-one to every six persons in
largest amount, 6292,089.45. Ala­ the United States, one to thirteen
meda county registered 129,644 in Canada, one to fourteen In
vehicles and received a net total New Zealand and one to twenty
ot 624*5,211.35.
In Australia.
Argentine^ Motor
Numbers Growing
All records for the production
of gear shift motor trucks wer^
California motorists contribut­
shattered in 1926, according to i f a net total o t $6,913,700.05
Dan Kay, local Chevrolet dealer,, toward the maintenance and re­
when the Chevrolet Motor com-l pair of the Btate highways in au­
pany built 1Q2,OOO trucks, exceed­ tomobile fees paid during 1926.
ing several thousand the best per­ Of this large sum 63,721,414.55
formance ever made by any oth­ was paid directly to the state
er gear shift manufacturer. As a highway commission for use on
result, Chevrolet becomes the state highways. The counties of
world’s largest builder of three the state received a like sum, but
spebd transmission trucks as well
as of passenger cars.
“In recognition of the achieve­
ment,” Raid Mr. Kay, "the Na­
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tional Automobile Chamber of
Commerce awarded the Chevro­
let Motor cojnpany first choice
of truck display space in the Na­
tional automobile shows in New
York and Chicago.
“The honor bestowed
each
year by the manufacturers’ asso­
ciation on the company doing the
largest volume of business the
preceding year.
Action of the
chamber this year is seen as a
testimonial to Chevrolet’s leader­
ship in the gnotor truck business.”
We Insure
This Tire
for one year against stone* bruises, rim
cuts, blowouts, accidents or any road
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PHILADELPHIA, — (UP) —
Over indulgence in Joy-riding by
dogs whose owners have automo­
biles, has resulted in epidemics of
conjunctivitis and rhinitis, it has
been revealed through experi­
ments at the University of Penn­
sylvania’s Veterinary School.
Conjunctivitis, Prof. William
Lentz of the Veterinary Faculty
explained, is inflammation of the
mucous membranes of the eye
socket, and rhinitis is inflamma­
tion of the membrances of the na-
sal passages. Both diseases at­
tack motoring canines who ex­
pose themselves to a constant
rush of air for long periods, Dr.
Lentz said.
Boston bulls, Pekingese and
spaniels, with their large, pro­
truding eyes and flat noses are
far more susceptible to both dis­
eases than are their long- nose
brethren, such as the sètter, col­
lie, and police dog. The ordinary
mongrel, without m o t o r i n g
friends, is virtually Immune from
the diseases, Dr. Lentz declared.
No Wonder Thev
Appear Pained
- LONDON, — King George had
modern springs put in his royal
carriage and on February 8,
when he went to open the new
session ot Parliament, he had his
first comfortable state ride during
nearly seventeen years of his
kingship.
The big state carriage, of gold
leaf and plate glasB, in which the
king rides on formal occasions,
has for years concealed the works
of a wheelbarrow under Its or­
nate body.
Many people have wondered at
the strained expressions of the
King and Queen during their pre­
vious trips in it. The reason Is
that, while they have tried to
smile graciously at the cheering
crowds, their teeth have been
rattled and their bodies racked
by the jarring of the springless,
carriage.
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hazard and it costs no more.
WHY
TAKE
THE
RISK?
Trade in Your Old Tires
for new insured tires and ride in safety. We carry
a com
ear lir e s and Tubes.
Tire Changing, Repairing and Retreading
AVE GIVE YOU SERVICE
MADDEN’S TIRE SHOP
70—74
North Main
_ Phone 90-J
Ashland, Ore.
Tidings Ads Brina Results
Treating the Steel
An excellent example of the
Ford heaf treating methods in
some respects years In advance
of the usual methods, is found
in the way they treat the rear
axle and drive shafts. Ford rear
axle shafts in a semi-machined
state are neat treated continu­
ously.
They roll by gravity
through electric furnaces between
two layers of electric elements
which raise the temperature of
the shafts to 1470 degrees Farqn-
heit, the coalesence point of the
materials from which they are
made.
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Rolling out from this oven at
the rat« of 400 revolutions per
minute, plunges them into a caus­
tic soda solutloa held at a tem­
perature of 65 degrees. This is
called quenching.
Thia shaft is now many times
as strong and tpugh as it was be­
fore going Into the furnace.
K /W Crankcase
r
service
O il changed while you wait, ».
The crankcase is drained, cleaned and re-*
filled with pure oil—the only thing you pay
f0F‘
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Don’t forget—for good smooth running,
your oil should he changed after every 500
I a o
Just a few more short weeks and golfing will start
on the new Ashland Golf Club course. Interest is
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Cliff’s .Tire Shop & Service
Station
! E. Main
'
Phone 125
Fill ’er Up!
GASOLINE,. OIL
the exhibits and style seview
Opening at Armory next week.
And done so much easier and quicker than
you do it yourself—without any (charge for
labor.
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Golf equipment and golf clothes will be featured in
growing keener day by day.
T h e G o lf C lu b Wi
M ore M em bers
This is an invitation to the’ people c i Ashland to
join this new club. Our membership rolls are still
Attend ^the Auto Show
and beep your tankfull of
Union Gas.
open. We want to make this course the
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Courteous treatm ent and
prompt service are always
a t your command.
Most Popular in Soufnern Oregon
It will be a pleasure to
serve you.
We need the cooperation of all enthusiasts. Attend­
A Blanket of Protection,
U N IO N
SERVICE
STATION
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Let tu write your Anto Insurance Policy,
First and Main Sts.
Yco and Banister
Citizéns Bank Building
ants at the golf booth will be glad to explain details.
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