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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1928)
TUS ilAt'PUN' TIMES This is General Motors I Train Schedule Changes OREGON TRUNK RAILWAY MAY 6, 1928 Effective above date the following schedule will be in effect between Bend, Redmond, PrineviUe Jet, Madras, Maupin and Portland. Both trains daily. o TO if f I .; A birdseye riew of the 124 5 -acre Proving Ground maintained by General Motora to assure the quality and value of ita can and trucks. J. Entrance to' the Proving Ground. The troop of buildings includes complete experimental and service shops, engineering efteea and comfortable living quarters for lishluit and Tinting engineers and for the driving crews. The Proving Ground person- I more than 200 men. 3. The 4-mile high-speed loop. The largest in America, made of concrete, with turns banked to permit continuous high speed operation. In addition, the Proving Ground has two concrete straight-aways ltt miles long, as level as a billiard table, and miles of brick, tar, gravel and dirt roads which reproduce every driving and weather condition. S. The hill-teat road. Test hill grades at the Proving Ground range from 7.26 per cent to 24 per cent. The grades on public highways seldom exceed 7 per cent. 4. The "oafi-rub." A depressed concrete roadway which is filled with water at varying depths to reproduce flooded roadway conditions. Here each General Motors car must prove its value ON a 1245-acre tract near MilfordMichigan, convenient to all its car and truck divisions, General Motors has the first and largest proving ground for automobiles. Here tests are made and facts determined to a degree impossible when cars and trucks are tested on the public highways. Here each new model of General Motors must prove itself, point by point, before it is produced for sale to the public. V More than 135 different tests are applied to each car tested at the Proving Ground. They involve every phase of construction and performance: power, speed, endurance, accelera tion, braking, steering, handling, riding comfort, fuel economy and so on. In three months a car or truck covers more miles than you would drive it in three years. The Proving Ground is another example of how General Motors is serving the public It is also your assurance that when you buy a Gen eral Motors product you are getting all possi ble quality and value at its price and the ad vantages of a policy of continuous improvement. Look at these values-then clip the coupon The current models of General Motors cars are briefly de scribed below, Never before in the history of the automobile industry have such performance, such quality, such com fort and such beauty been offered in their respective price classes. They have been proved &t the Proving Ground! See which car or cars interest you most, then check and mail the coupon below. You will receive complete, illus trated information, together with two interesting little books telling all about General Motors Proving Ground and just what General Motors policies are. CHEVROLET. 7 model, $495 to $715. Bigger and better than ever before. 4-wheel brake. Longer wheel base. Still more power ful engine. Luxurious Fisher Bodies. Shock absorber springs. New hood. New Duco colors. New instrument panel and other Improvements. ALSO truck chassis: -ton, (395. 1-ton, $495. PONTIAC.8modeb,$745to$875. The lowest-priced quality "six." Improved from radiator to tail-light. For example: 4-wheel brakes, new GMR cylinder head, increased power, locking device, more luxurious Fisher Bodies. Finished in Duco in new colors. ' OLDSMOBILE. 7 models, $925 to $1085. Entirely redesigned by General Motors, the new Oldsmobile has earned the title of "The Fine Car at Low Cost." Longer, roomier, more powerful and the last word in styling. Fisher Bodies. 4-wheel brakes. (All prices F. O.B.at the factoriea) OAKLAND. 9 models, $1045 to $1375. The Ail-American Six. Advanced engineering and precision construction. Longer, lower and more beautiful. Bodies by Fisher. Every con venience. 4-wheel brakes. New Duco colors. Harmonic balancer. :BUICK. 16 models, $1195 to $1995. The largest value in Buick's famous history. , Beautiful low bodies by Fisher, etaway like an arrow from a bow. Vibrationless be yond belief. Famous 6-cylinder "Valve-in-bead" engine. Sealed-in chassis. LASALLE. 16 models, $2350 to $2975. This beautiful car was designed as com panion car to Cadillac. Has V-type 90 de gree 8 -cylinder engine which has made Cadillac the standard fine car of the world. Built in Cadillac factory. Continental in appearance. CADILLAC. 26 models, $3295 to $5500. "What," General Motors asked last year, "can possibly be done to improve Cadillac? The result is embodied in the new models now on display, representing the high-water mark of Cadillac's long history. Sumptuous bodies by Fisher and Fleetwood. 500 color combinations to choose from. FRIGIDAIRE The Electric Refrigerator. General Motors ' has applied the processes . which have made the automobile available to every family, to the production of electric refrigerators. Frigidaire is the refrigerator made by General Motors and it is now the world's largest selling product in its field. DELCO-LIGHT Electric Plana. Provide the conveniences and labor-saving devices of the city for the farm. Electric light and power plants,' water pumps, etc. Used in more than a quarter million homes. For the convenient purchase of these product, General Motors offera-the standard low -cost G MAC PlarX. GENERAL MOTORS CLIP THIS COUPON1- GENERAL MOTORS (Dept. A), Detroit, Mich. Fleas send, without any obligation to me, your Illustrated Information about the particular General Motors product or products I have checked at the right together with your booklets The Proving Ground" and "Principles & PoUdes." CHEVROLET PONTIAC OLDSMOBILE OAKLAND buick : LaSALLE CADILLAC FRIGID A U'Ui 'LJ DELCO-LIGHT Nam Address - w w w I ?? n mo. lus uauy Bend Ar 7-30 A. ML" Redmond - 6-32 A. M. PrineviUe Jet. 6-11 A. M. PrincviUe 7-30 A. M. Madras 6-00 A. M. Maupin ' 2-33 A. M. Portland Lv 9-00 P.M. Tickets to Spokane and east can be routed via Port land. . - Consult acrent for details. Folders at O.T. Ry, ticket office J. C. Wright, E.W. Griffin Trav. Psgr. Agt Agent G1G0N IBiffl ST. Crtlfiil Oroa tot No. 103-Daily 8-15 P. M.Lv 8- 49 P. M. S-51 P. M. 7-30 P. M. 9- 50 P. M. 11-57 P.M. 6-10 A. M. Ar mm SSJBIt Cullings From "Kcmpy" Eleven hundred dollars? I got married on eleven dollars and lost money on it. Don't be stringy with your wound, Duke, Father loves exclment. In my church all the choir rooms are going to have shower baths for the soloist. I'm not a plumber by trade. I'm an architect. KaU may not live forever. I can receive them 1 am the par ent ' c Ji y- V f it the dmdest times f..!nt, Ma. I d'-n't own anything but a dollar and a half and my wrench. Criterion Happenings Criterion has experienced some ul winter weather the past week, j w' h plnty of snow, rain, and hail j n evidence. I - K -hvin end Ira KidJer motored to ! ''"' rinn Sunday, Lruipitiif Mr, Kid- - . us. to ;hu Duus ranch, where he helping with thes pring plowing. Eluc ribbon winners from Criter ion at the county track meet were: M.inpM Arpling, Theodore Kirsch, nod Clarence Hunt. I'uilcr S'.:;niur vititcd at the Appling home last week. Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Hunt left for Portland early Spunday morning to attend the funeral of Mrs. Hunt's brother-in-law, Mr. Steve Hannah, who died very suddenly Saturday, April 21. Otto Horrling visited at the P. J. Kirsch home Sunday evening. 4 Supt A. E. Gronewald, Mr. Wiley, and Mr. Kirkwood of The Dalles and P. Kirsch and son, Theodore, and Harry Rutherford of Criterion made up a fishing party that fished in rwp creek Sunday. All reported a full basket. Mrs. Earl Patrick was t dlnnar guest at the Appling horn last Thursday evening. . Claud Wilson of Bakeoven spent , Sunduy at ths horn of his brothar, D. D. Wilson. Arthur Appling spent Sunday In Maupin with Estel StovalL Mr. Shoemaker and Mr. Harding, of The" Dalles, were in Criterion laat Thursday, trying to mH sham In the Dsyvillo coal mines, which will Ire opened UD in about thirty day. All machinery for operating said rolnee in now on the ground. Those who attended the Tygh Valley track meet were. D. D. Wilson ftad family, P. J. Kirsch. and family D. L, Rutherford and family C A, Duus and family, Mr. Appling Ar thur and Margaret, Centviere and Clarence Hunt and Ed. Herrllng. II. M. Greene is busy plowing on his Criterion ranch. Ernest Kirsch missed several days of school last week on account of ft severe cold. Two large bands of Connollys' sheep passed through here last week. George Lane la empoysd at the EJ. Hwrrling ranch. We hope that the club boye iuncst Kirsch, John Sluaher and Franklin Renlck wilj all get to go to Corvallis some day, for they all worked like beavers selltaf pop corn, soda and ice cream a we track meet for the summer school fund. Leslie Troutman and Gayle .Muyhcw also helped some. WERNMAnit SHOE STORE Shoes and Repairbj Wasco Coanfy Excfaiic Shot Stor Ws for tha Uenarai RepftMtqt hoi yrH The i ) we. ZELL'S FUNERAL SERVICE Undertaking and . Embalming AMBULANCE SERVICE i Call Maupia Drug Store Phona-34S Wilson Painting Co. House and Sign P-A-I-N-T-E-R-S-l PAPER HANGERS and DECORATORS Call, Write or phone, Times Office. Maupia, Oregon. Your Watch Haywire? If it is not doing its work brine it to The TimB tffittt and Mr bemmea will sand GUY A. 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