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j Camera Glimpses People and Planes On Program IJCITY KEEPS STEP
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AKRON, Onto., Aug. 4. There
h nothing more romantic in thin
city of tire manufacturing than the
siiiell of .rubber and the wlht of
thousands of tire bplng loaded
into freight earn and truck to be
nent to all parts of the world.
In the short period of seven
years, tlre hove changed , the
habits of a nation.
The public wa jouncing around
on the oJd-fashioned high pressure
tires in 1S28 when the Kirefltona
Tire end Rubber company offered
the original balloon tire. Auto
mobiles were summer luxuries and
the mam of the people were pedes
trians not motorists.
The balloon tire changed the
picture. The automobile became
an all year 'round necessity. Farm
ers now were Able to drive into
the shopping centers and city
dwellers were permitted to move
into the suburbs and the country
with a minimum of time spent in
traveling.
In these seven years, Firestone
development has gone to such an
extent that tires now cost only b2
per cent as much as 1923, they
have 60 per cent more material
In them and they give four times
the mileage with one-tenth the
trouble. .
Slow America has 20,000,000 mot
orists, -
.Economies in tire building and
distribution arp continuing to make
prices lower without- cutting qual
ity,, according to Firestone offlc-ialsV-
i"'.' V '
Firestone' has established offices
in all ,t he primary rubber markets
of . the world. Rubber romps
Htralght from the grower to the
Firestone factories. Work Is profit-easing
rapidly on ' Firestone's
1,000,000-acre plantation in I.i
hefla. - The fabric used In Flre
otone tires is manufactured In the
company's own mills In New Bed
ford and Fall River, Mass.
The erection of factory branches
and '-warehouses near Firestone
dealers has saved millions of dol
lars .that formerly were wasted In
small shipments, Firestone officials
now announce.
"It- is not enough to apply the
economies In building quality trees
in the most efficient tire factories
in- the world," executives stated.
"Economies In distribution are now
bringing the dealer and the manu
facturer closer. We. are able to
well at -lower prices without cut
ting the quality of our tires,"
5 -The local Firestone dealer Is
Rod Waters of Firestone Service
Htores, Inc. '
.
liy Kk'lmrd Maxnark
NEW YOKK Lflhd pirates
cruel reckless robbers like' their
brothers In crime, the river pirates
Infested the American wilder
ness just after the revolution.
The story of these plrutes now
In told by Hobert M. Coatos, a
Now York writer, In "The Oulliiw
Years."
It Is an historical account or
fantastic depredations un the
Natchez Trace, where traders
came back from the New Orleans
market, and the Wlldornoss Hoad,
where immigrants came Into Ten
nessee and Kentucky from the
east.
Those Terrible llnrprs
. Most terrible of all were tho
mad, fiendish Harpes: Big Harpo
Mlcajah, and Utile Harpe
Wiley, who raged out of North
Carolina,
,. With a harem of threo women
these two brothers terrorised tho
territory around Knoxvllle. From
petty thievery they developed Into
Insatiable murderers, horrible sad
ists who killed out of blood-thirst.
: Meeting a lone traveler In tho
forests they would slay and rob
him. then rip his body, fill It with
stones, and sink It In tho river.
Usually they tomahawked their
victims. ,
Their most funtastlc stunt was
driving a victim, Btrapped to a
horse, off a cliff to his death. For
this they were oullnwed by tho
murderous outlaws of tho Ohio
river.
Finally His Hnrpe was killed by
a fellow named Htolgal, himself a
suspicious character who hrul
1 Don't Miss
The Airport Dedication and
Air Circus am!
I Don't Miss
the Delicious
CHINESE
and
American Foods
at the
J. N. CAFE
27 South Front St.
Upper lc-rt Scfly V. Hull. Mcdfonl nlrimrl Kiiix'iinUMiilt-tit. mill stale I'luilrnuui of Ami-i-lni n lx'irlmi Acninaiitlcs roniinlttce, who will
aft as (tenernl flutlrtimn of Ilia Mcclfoiil nlrxn-t ilitllciilloii .Moniley. I'ppcr iIkIH Now Uii klu-i'iV moil iiplane nlHiiil to Inml on new $120,
000 air teriuinnl. CVnler Administration hiillilliiK and liiuiKiir at Inml porl. Center rliclil "Miss .Med fi)rd," Units club bounty queen, who
will preside over Amorunn Is-glnii ilnniv In Imuran- Moudiiy uiiihl. Iimver lim'lntf lloim-t -I0-B-4 plnne. ready to take off October 2 ror
Inlllul mall movement from new terminal with 15,000 pieces lH'urlng -ih-cIii! caiiit'lliillou slainp. Inwrt niu shows Modfoid's cenlnil lo
cution on I'ncirtc Airwuy.
shielded them, tt was a crime or
vengeance, for they hail Hlain his
family. -
Utile JIarfle escaped. Iater be
was to be recognized lu tile band
of Samuel Mason, a Virginia born
soldier who turned highwayman
In the Intense' physical envlron
mct of the wilderness. Mason
was killed hy his own men for
the rewnrd on his head. Wiley
Harpo was legally executed.
Then there was John A. Mnr
rell, stealer of skives, who fan
cied himself a Napoleon of band
itry, dreaming of founding an
empire of piracy. He, loo. was
a ripper. His' fate was to turn
completely mad in the state peni
tentiary iit Nashville. .
Other hlkhwaymen of Ameri
ca's own dark age cut a bloody
pnth through Coates' book. It Is
a vivid, startling story.
Midsummer Heading
Krnnk Harv's biography of
Owar Wilde has Just been pub
lished in a new one-vdhime, un
expurgated edition ... A 7ri-cent
reprint of "All tjulet on the We'd-
I
ern Front" nlso Is out and It eon-; walker and drug addict unwitting
tains the excerpts excised fromjly from a sermon against these
the previous t-ditlons. j vices In "No Bed of Itos's," n re-
The mental degeneration and - constructed diary of "a lost soul."
physical deterioration of a street-1 And "The Thrill of F.vlt" is an
TJ
Horn Telephone & Telegraph Company
0 of Southern Oregon
i HIS company is proud of
the fact that it is serving
such a progressive and air
minded city as Medford...
The dedication of Medford's fine
$120,000 airport tomorrow will
mark a new era in the develop
ment of the southern Oregon
country and will give this city an
important place upon the air map
cf the Pacific Coast.
other exciting collection of real
crime stories by 11. Ashton-Wolfe,
former assistant to Bert i lion, the
finger-print man, who makes the
police records read lik' fiction
(Continued on Page 6, 8tory 1
and also held the distinction of j
being the first to fly to Klamath !
Falls.
The new owner cracked up . a
j-hort time later by crashing Into
a grandstand, but luckily no fa
talities resulted. It made Its reg
ular Medford landings on the ;
fJore field and for a time landed I
en the' l,umsden tract near the!
California Oregon Power company!
warehouse.
In 1920-21 forest fires presented
a problem and government planeai
were placed In patrol use, flying
over mountain country daily from)
a base established first on 'the I
(lore field, following a few land
ings on the J. O. 'Liove tract near
crntral Point. The Oore prop
erty was not used lont; until the i
forest planes established their
base on the Lumsden field, whii-h
was used for approximately n
I year. t
First AiriMtrt.
As a ronsequence of tlie avia
tion activities and the realization I
that the new mode of transpor-1
tntion was to take a prominent
place in the advancement and I
growth of the community. Med- J
ford established the first airport,!
In Oregon in 1922 on the site
of the present county fair grounds j
acting. In conjunction with the j
United States forest service. 1
Dedication ceremonies were held
that vear and it was naimdj
Newell Barber field in memory)
of the won of Dr. and Mrs. ( M.I
itnrhpr iHMed in nHion in France.
The dedlcntion attracted throngs!
t' the field, not much more than
n level piece of ground with no I
conveniences of any kind estab
lished, but It was the first airport
in the state and considered ade
quate to meet the needs of that
day.
Patrol planes continued to land
there until the service was dis
continued. The pilots, mechan
ics and others connected witTi
the patrol work made their head
quarters on the' field and when
the service was discontinued, New
ell Barber field was deserted ns
far as airplanes were concerned.
Not long after .the dedication, the
county fairgrounds were estab
lished on the site.
Air Mail Somes.
Aviation development was slow
in Medford, until the Pacific Air
Transport company designated
Medford ns n scheduled stop. Bar
ber field was improved with the
construction of a narrow runway
and In September of l!2(i the
first air mail flight was made.
The only air mail field in Oregon
was . located at . ;Medford at that
time. The local airport was the
nit u nil Intermediate stop between
San Francisco and Portland, andj
when aviation continued to de-
velop, other ships began to land I lion. Kuth Klder landed there ;
there, including quite a numbera short t line" later, as did Kddie 1
MOTORDOM'S
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FIKTT TYY ATT
STANDARD 6-14
4 You, too, will acclaim the
newDURANT"Motordom's
Masterpiece" when you drive
it. You will be thrilled by its
smooth power and effortless
speed. You will marvel at its
low price.. YOU CAN BUY
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Asiottaitd Press Pnoit
Edith Foltz of Portland, Ore., Virginia Ogden of Seattle and Dorothy
Hester of Portland, Ore., (left to right) well known aviatrixes, took
part In the Pacific Northwest reliability flight to arouse interest in
aviation. . .
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of transient government planes. (
I The. field waf tnr irom guuu, ;
hut it served the purpose.
The !
, l ulled States army
miml-the- f
world" fliers had landed there
when the flight was in prom-ess! State, was a frequent visitor,
six years ngo, two years before j Wallace Beery, movie actor, flew
the nir mail.- They stayed here; here two years ago on a fishing
evernlKht and " appeared at the; trip. When more and more' pri
opening of the Craterian theatre. vate planes flew in and out and
The West Coast Air Transport 1 aviation business continued to
company named Medford as u grow, the need for a new nir
rt gular stop. ' but found the old j -tort and better facilities became
field at the fair grounds inade-j more apparent.
quate for their needs, and after The Pacific Air Transport' main
having run off the narrow gravel- tained a hangar, its office, radio
led runway and becoming stuck in station, in charge of George John
he mud on numerous occasions, I S(jr1i 1UU quarters for pilots. One
the company moved its field to or two K0soline companies had in
Montague. ; stalled service units. The Sander
I-'icld Outgrown. ! Aeronautical school was estab-
Th National Kurd Reliability j lished on the field and engaged
Air tour with a scoVe or so planes,! in. student instruction and pas-I'li-luding
Sehbe and Brock, trans-1 senger trips.
Atlantic fliers, Kddie Stinson, John ! . William Uosenbulm started with
Halderman, ilot for Ituth Klder'the ny mail as mechanic with the
and many other famous pilots, first flight and is still engaged at
rinded on' the old field two years i the new airport. Arthur Starbuck.
ai;or and found It too small for It. Cunningham and H. Miller are
comfort, adding Impetus to the among the early pilots1. Cunning
move for a new airport. j ham und Starbuck were pilots
Colonel Charles Lindbergh was! from the beginning. Pat Patter
a .visitor at the port two years j on also began duties but fog in
ago when here on a fishing and the mountain country near Talent
business t rip. and while he re-! claimed his life a few months
fused to condemn the airport,"
;ave it no word of cominenila-
Many mechanical advantages
never before offered in a car
selling in the DURANT price
class. . Durant sturdy all-steel
body. . Durant designed Red
Seal Continental motor. Tim
ken bearings used throughout.
Midland steeldraulic brakes.
Full force -feed lubrication. '.
DELIVERED HERE
FULLY EQUIPPED
VERY tOW FIRST PAYMENT
lg3ww-.-
Itickenbacker, World War ace, and
v mKu-y jvui., 4.wu.
located then at Vancouver aud
the first pilot to make a dawn
to dusk flight across the United
later. Seely Hall was then . as
now, representative for the Pacific
, h Transport, but now Is also
field manager at the new nirport.
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