Medford mail tribune., May 12, 1929, Page 13, Image 13

'MEIYFOTID'MA'TTJ TTtTRTTNE.' MEDFOm HQttKrrOW SUNDAY. MAY 12. 1V
TAfm.T?TVT!--
Silver Fleet Takes to Sea oh
;: Flying Deck of U.S.S. Saratoga
STOCK CARS
Conquering with astonishing !
ease practically very famous tost
hill in the Sun , Francisco bay re-1
Kion, two Durant 66 Block cars last j
week reached what officials of the;
western purant factory claim to be!
a mark never before approached In ;
western niotordom. Fifteen well j
known hills in the area around Han
Francisco were topped in high j
gear as a part of the Durant rec- t
ord makins week program.''
Driven by men whose experience I
In motor car demonstrations was '
limited to thnt required in their
daily work as members of local
Durant dealer organization.
Many Durant dealers in other
flection have wired to tne Durant
factory the rfsuliH of outstanding
performances. Among them ait
from Arizona, where all former rec
ords were shattered in a run from
Phoenix to Roosevelt dam and re
turn over the famous Apache trail,
and a high gear climb over the
nationally known Fish Creek hill.
From Butte, Mont., comes word
of a series qf demonstrations never
before wfesed in the intermolin
tnln territory. Brake tests, accele
ration ' performances, and hill
climbs featured the events in that
eliy. . '
Evry " one of the. demonstra
tions, according to Durant execu
tives, -were mado in strictly stock
cars tand,. observed, by, newspaper
men and police officers. Thousand
of motorists throughout the United
States, who also observed the runs,
hear witness to the brilliant Durant
performance,, points out (Jeorge It.
Morris, sales manager of the west
ern Duranr organization. , ,
DEVICE TO PICK UP,
1 MAIL ON 'FLY'
NEW INVENTION
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; i : Under the vinfi of a roosting I : : Vf'.'. : ' 9
: j' ; 'jC ie-bird tba lilw can pm ia . !V '
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K V: iy'TLWV j "All ashore that going
Navy derrick built for houtini v. f. tl fZVuhVA
f ' - ' . J 11 . ? ""lo Ita battle Ihml hoate.
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MEETS DEMANDS
LOW PIE EIGHT
When Royalty Goes A' Hunting
:
: piot f ritiitnrlcfl siuk, with a high
1 back and two drain boards, ha
; proved satisfactory in the majority
, of kitchens, according to a survey
by the University of Nebraska.
Tintniuj K. Jarrard. general wales
director of the .M:irmun Motor
conii'iiny. says: "This highly de
veloped automobile industry of '
ours has produced, In years jsniio ;
by, ears of( every description, priced
to ine. the ilenttndii.
"Modem met bods und modern
requirement have taught the auto
tomoliHe buyer. In common with
purchasers oC every other com mod- ,
ity. to expect a little more for hist
moony each year, and he has not!
bet n disappointed except In on.? re- ;
sped. There was no eight on the
i imiiufi www cnuiu ue duukiu mr u
I "as ill
S !
1 n u-WMtrjiir-mx
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Study of the teeth of the saber
t tooth cats, and of the Riant wolves
' that lived and died In prehistoric
j times, has shown why these anl
; main and their ft'cendantH knew
! no such thing as toot!. ache. Kx
i anilnation of teeth found In
! asphalt pits in California revealed
j that, in every case, the teeth of an
i adult of the species had only a
; scanty supply of nerves. Ah tho
i animal i:rev up, tlio root cani'l,
; which is the main route for the
1 turves into the pulp chamber of
I the tooth, became, comparatively
1 t-hut off.
AviftUng sailors
' sbow Ibe land-
going Silver
, Fleet Pitoti
kow to hanille
otor cars at
"Cv ker tie j
gun!' pipes
the boiun, anil
around tha
deck at Bigb- ,
way 1 peed go
tie silver ctrij. 1
Down to the 'tween decks baogrs go the silver can on ibe gun! aircraft rlevator.
The Pilots of the Goodrich Silver Fleet
found the smoothest and broadest highway
of their Ion? nation-wide tcur when two of
(heir cars were hoisted onto the flylvif? deck
of the navy's giant airplane carrier, Sara
toga, in Los Angeles harbor recently.
Only the regular aircraft lifting facilities
employed by tlte navy were used for this
novel expedition. A mine sweeper swung
the cars from the dock to a barge -vhich was
towed alongside the Saratoga. Here, the
giant seaplane derrick hoisted the cars on
board.
WASHINGTON (vP) A device
intended to permit airplanes to
drop and pick up bans of mail
while in flight, wnich if successful
is expected to stimulate progress
of the air mail, is to be tested
on. the .Pittsburgh-Cleveland ,Hir''?!
mall . v'o'Ute. -: ' ; j
The 'device will bo npproved by
the department for installation on
tho air mail routes throughout the
country If the tests prove its fenst
. hility. It would permit airplanes
J to fly at a speed of 100 miles an
nour or more wnne 1:1c nars were i
delivered or taken on. This would
mean a postal c:erk on all through
planes to sort and' distribute mall.
A two-fold process is Involved j
in ine uevice, wnicn was invenieu
by L. S. Adams of San Francisco.
The mail bags would be picked
up or dropped from the plane by
a 75-foot light steel cable which
would be attached to an automatic
winding wheel under tho plane's
fuselage. On the landing field the
device consists of a two-sided light
steel framewor, 20 feet higher, of
a funnel shape, which would he
joined together at one end and
with an open end CO feet wide.
The funnel device on the field
would have a canvas bottom which
would prevent the dropped mall
from hitting the ground or being
damaged. The mail bag to be
picked up would be placed on a
small platform at the closed end
of the funnel. The bag itself in
both processes would he attached
to a small round Iron ball oh the !
end of the cable.
Flying at an altitude of less than
j 100 feot, the pilot would guide the
mail bag dangling on tho cables
into the 60-foot opening of the
funnel. "When the bag strikes the
closed end of the funnel it would
be automatically released from the
i ro n ba 1 1 and would d ro p to the
canvas bottom.
After the bag was relexsed, the
Iron ball would enter a slot de
vice at the funnel's end In which
it would catch into tho mail con- lj
tainer to be picked up. This mail
bag as son as It was attached z
would be shot upwards from theirs
platform by a catapult. The lf
weight of the mail- bag on the 1
cable would place in operation 1 ziz
automatically the winding wheidjs
which would elevate It to the :
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Sl Are Gluttons
moderate Mini. There were sixes
and fours galore but no eights.
"In the straight eight, the mo
torist knows there Is to be found
a degree of performance, smooth
ness, f U.i hility and desirability
that is not to be had in any other
type. Hut to the average owner,
thc-so qualities were just a little
beyond his grasp, the barrier of
price stood in the way.
"I: was a perplexing situation,
particularly In the minds of hun
dreds of motorists w h o bad
watched the price of the avewtge
six drop lower and lower until it
came into direct competition with
the price nf the average four. The
straight eight, howf ver, remained
high in price. I IIiMenee supporting ibe story of
"Tho new Roosevelt, a straight (ho great flood of N.tah's time, ms
eight which Martiitm has placed in rHaled in the Jlihle. has Imm-ii un
til lower price field, has filled the covered on the site of the ancient
vacant spot in the automobile ina-i Sumeriaii city of Kisb, In .Mesopn
ket. This car -represents no radical .taoiin. hy incmheis of I tie Field
departure from customary prae- , ,M useuin-oxl'ord university cxpe-
When the Duke of (;ioiicesrerB t almost trackless sections through
Tanganyika, 'Abercorn. Lake . ltul
wn mill on to tho rallhcjut at Nibd i.
The car selected hy his royal high
ness is a" Wlllys--Knighi siv with a
specially constructed b o d y as
shown iibtive.
eanie-hunting party, wliich includ
ed fbe I'rince of Wales, nteredlm
jungles of Africa In quest of wild
beasts In their native haunts, they
di-pended chiefly on the above con
vevaneo for transportation in the
, mean, however, that In it are sueri-
ficed other requisites of the mod
; ern automobile. Other points of
construction have also been held
to established Alamion standards
j of apiieat a nee, comfort and de-
pendahiliiy."
Scientific Notes
application of known principle.
1 le asserts that it Is possihle ;o
; devise a lamp in which "lueiterln"
is burned continuously over and
over again. The resulting light w
weak but the principle is there and
j may be applied in tho future devel
I opmeut of a new means of illumin
' ation, he say.s.
I Interesting experiments with
j model ships' and rudders have been
i conducted by Prof. Charles F.
; dross, of the I'ntvtTHlty of Callfor
1 nla, in order to check accidents
I wbleh not uncommonly occur In
steering ferryboats in the slipways.
In spite. of the best efforts otitic
pitots. the boats often fail to enter
tho slips cenira'lly. Professor CIrOss .
discovered lhat, in most cases, tho
rudder with its area low in the
water, showed a more decided ten
dency to alter tho course of the..
ferry than did tho usual type of
rudder with its area nearer tho
surface.
tier,, an engineering ami manufac
turing achievement lhat has been
ma lie possible by the application
of , quality production principles
and up - to - dale mnuuiacdirliig
economics.
.- "Uerause the Roost 'Veil, has a
si might eh; in motor dues not
dhion.
i P.apid color printing of pictures
tivusiniued by ratlin has been nc
; cciiiplisbcd by an eastern inventorT
; lie employs a heat -sensitive, wax
i coated pui'i'. ovepr which a hot-air
; brush is passed, the jets being
actuated by radio Impulses. The
i hut air melts away -the wax. malt
: ing a pattern that corresponds to
! that on the original photograph
! being sent.
Will man be able to duplicate
the firefly's light? $n the opinion
of Dr. R Newton Harvey, of
Princeton, some form of "living
light" may be produced in tin?
sclent isl's laboratory tbroiu;li 1h
res-i
m mm nmmw
If' Tt 3Ur7 i
To tell if the kitchen sink is at
the proper height, the housewife
stands before it and places her
palms on l he bottom. If she can
do mi without stooping. Iho sink
i'i properly adjusted. The one-
One of the most interesting of .
j Thomas A. Kdison's Inventions, Is
a clock that never ticked a second
, or turned a wheel, and yet it is one .
: of . his many successes. It now,
stands on the mantlcplece of his
laboratory building, which has.
i been moved to Deftrborn, Mich.,
from Ft. .Myers Flu., for Henry
Kurd'A American .museum. Tho
j clock face is simply the oross-soc-
I Hon cut from a smalt log und Is
; without numerals or hands. . The :
1 pendulum that hangs but never
' moves, ends In a boh similar to the
face, hut smaller. Rings on tho
face and the pendulum are proml-
nent and suggest the true function
of tho 4 lock, which was to remind
the workers that they were not lo'
be regulated by hours or minutes
' but by results. Popular .Mechanics!
I Magazine.
For Mileage
H ' ORKEI.EY, Colo. (fl-WoniPn'
are In completo control nf tho sis
town of Grover, Colorado, 00
mllpe northeast of horo. ; szz
At the Kprln;? election the nnpn
lace, which numbers about &00 j
oouls, named Mrs. A. Lower j
mayor and g'avo her , a board of
women trustees. ' ' siz
" ' The Issue was between tjo wets z
and the drys. Tho wets were so r
strong with the men that no mem-
ber of the "strong" sex would run
on a dry platform.
So the women named their tick-' zzz
M, did the campaigning and won
the election. The only man re-
malninB as a holdover trustee rp- .
signed and his wlfo was appointed
In his place.
PRAOL'E. WP) Czcchoslovakln ! p
this year celebrates tho loooih n- !
nlversary of Vaclav, kins of Ho-
hernia, D08-H35 . 1). Il-sldi-s being
the national hero he is a saint f :
he Homan Cntbollc church nml!
flu the legendary center of the
Christmas carol of "Good King
iecaslaus,""
The kind of tires you want are the ones that don't
know they've traveled at all when they have seen
five, ten, fifteen and twenty-five thousand rough
and tumble miles. We sell Firestone Gum-Dipped
tires that you can ride on ever any kind of
roads, and keep traveling cn indefinitely. Low
pressure balloons with sturdy, non-skid treads.
All standard sizes and makes.
Older Tire S
ervice,
Inc.
Restless? . . . Nothing like "new green," bads and flowers and a Warm
sun to stir that restless feeling . . . and that means it Won't he long before
you hear the Call of tlie Open Road . . ; Be ready car in shape, tires
and battery ready for any trip, and your camping outfit complete with
everything mat Will contribute to your greater comfort and pleasure.
let Western Autd'help you
greater enjoyment''
ro your trips
Wherever you plan to go, no matter how many are going, and regardless ot
whether it is to be a short trip or a permanent camp, we can equip you at low
cost, with tried and proven equipment that will assure practically the comforts
of home. The wise camper takes plenty of equipment, and he saves on.it at
"Western Auto"', .'. more than 150 stores to serve you I .
Practical Tents at Pleasing Prices
...s.
Formerly Exchange Tire Co.
Riverside at Jackson
Phone 520
Light
W eloht
Auto Tent .
moat
popular
with hunt
ers, tour
ist!! nnd
n Hbernien,
SI.o 7x7,
with plen
ty of hendroom. Heavy white canvas, door flap
and 3-ft. back wall. Just tie Mnp over car.
Kplcmlld value ut our low price; with 2 Jointed
poles und pegs $6.64
Auto Tont 7x7 j waterproof khaki weather
cloth. $9.85
"Palmetto" Tent . . . 7x10 ...$14.56
"Palmetto" Ten! . . . 10x10 $20.40
"Bureh Nifty" Umbrella Tent. . .10x10. .. .$41.85
f
Good Bedding Better Trip
Tho experi
enced enmpor
k n w h the
vuitio of pound
fl t r rniiouH Xiy
d;iy. iki pro- v.
pared! B
Folding Camp Cotf, hurt) wood fro mo, fit roup
cover... 4,2.95 and $3.85
All-Steel Folding Camp Bcda . . . hold two
05-95 and ?0.E5
V.'atorproof Pcncho Mattre. . .popuhir wli h
expe riwi'T'd airip-in . . . douhlu lxrd l.o, 57.95
Cotton Mattreca Pads. . .ftitiKlo nzv .$3,95
, ittDn Mflttren Pads. . .louh)e m1j G.C5
Tick Pillow, kapok flllrd $1.15
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Al'i Biby Aula
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Pat ntt ttrtlni,
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Lirricri. Lan-
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Take Table and Chairs
Folding Tabloi, Ibrht vet '.
Htrur.K $-1-35 and $5.85
Camp toolt, h.inHvfi'xl franteH.
cirn'JK HeiitM 70c and 90c
Camn Stools, with folding
liiulti $1.15
Luzy Back Chjiri.... $3.25
Cozy Camp Chair, with ;rni
v.. $3 95
Foldinc Auto Chair, nieful
rnuneii $125 la $1.65
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GOLFERS
Good Tires Are Most Important
No matter what car you drive, thero 1b , a
"WoMtfrn Auto" tiro that will serve you sntis
fuutorlly and economically. J
Deduct Trade-In AUowancm Front 7if
Low Pricmm
VBSTKTtV fMANT
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tnsly ftltttf, t...
29x4.40 Balloon. .
30x4.50 Balloon. .
29x4.75 Balloon. .
30x5.00 Balloon. .
31x5.00 Balloon. .
30x5.25 Balloon. .
31x5.25 Balloon. .
30x5.77 Balloon. .
32x6.00 Balloon. .
33x6.00 Balloon .
Standard Vew Center
ltlbbrd Tread Traction Tread
.$ 6.25. ,
. 6.95.,
... 8.30.,
. 8.95.,
. 9.35.
. 10.25.,
. 10.55.,
, . ,
. 13.75. ,
. 13.95.,
.$ 7.45
. 8.25
, . 8.95
, . 10.25
. . 10.65
, . 11.80
, . 11.95
. . 12.65
, . 15.60
. 15.95
AtU for Low PricJt un Size Not Shown
Check Over Your; '
Electrical Equipment
Don't let bad Spark plugs, igni
tion cubles, eta, spoil your trip
or cauae needless ana vexing ae
luy. Cieck everything; carefully
and replace doubtful items at a
aavln. at "W eat ern Auto.".
TRADE-IN Your Old
Battery on a New,
Guaranteed "Western
Auto" Battery
Install a Wirarrl or a WasUrn
Giant, and leave trouble behind
1'ow.r und dependability al
prices made lower by our Trade
in Atlowunce. A Battery for
every oar, for .every uae, tor
every purne.''
4
Biltmore Slip-On
Back and Seat
Covers
will protect your
upholstery,
And Now for Dinner t Take Plenty of Films t
Camp 8tovoa ffnsollno burning.
Unit rooif llki; viiir ruliKf fit
lioine , '.$3.SS to $12.50
Aluminum Cooking Kits pot-j,
p:i.'ri, piulc, (.-li;., r,-r lour
In year.i to come, the pkHure
Mufy ot your trip will recall
initny happy houm. Jut "ffhor)t"
rythlnir . . . tho m'irn the ht.
tr . . . ami do It. ilh "Ajrl'a"
alt-wt'athcr llltn-. AtMy trHit.
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