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TkfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. TtrEDFORU OBEGOy. SUNDAY, FEBKUAKY 10, 1935. PAGE SEVEN ') AUTOMOBILE CODE WILL STAND UNTIL JUNE 16 IS ED! Home Building Operations in Full Blast, Palm Thatch Huts Rising on Mexican Road WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (AP) Presl cJont Roosevelt said today that the new automobile oode would stand I until the designated date of expira tion June 16. Between now and June 16, h said at hla press conference, that constant inquiry would be made Into things not clear, with a view to correcting : them In whatever new code may be adopted. Attention was called that there will be a new NRA, according to all plans, by June 16 The President aatd he was still studying a cigarette code now before him. He said In all probability the rec ommendations for the new NRA would be forwarded to congress some time next week, but no date has been selected. Likewise, he expects to send to con gress next weelt the report of ocean mall contracts with a message in cluding his recommendations for new legislation. TALENT FIRM TO CLEAR LAND NEAR GRANTS PASS TALENT, Feb. 9 iSpl) The Skeet ers brothers have taken a contract for clearing land In the Grave creeK section near Grants Pass. They will employ from 20 to 25 local men and operation will begin next week. The flrs't load of equipment went out Wednesday. BOISE. Idaho. Feb. 9. (API Ed ward Dunn, 89, of Boise, lather of Miss Agnes Dunn, secretary to Gov. ernor Ross, and husband of Mrs. Cor della Dunn, prominent figure In the Democratic party In Idaho, died here today of heart disease. MANN'S Custom-Built TRUCK BODIES Attract Attention Wherever They Go The added convenience of made-to-order bodies Is sav ing many hours in delivery time for scores of Southern Oregon firms. MANN'S AUTO SERVICE ED. MANN B. E. ADAMS 1729 X. rtlverslde Phone' 835-M AM ; - ' - f4 I 10 MEXICO CITY Beginning ntmo-t at iw American border nnrt extending to Melro City, thatch huts are common dwell ing places or the average Mexican I arm worker. In the palm country, the huts, like the one pictured, are erected of saplings and roofed nnri wnlletf with palm leaves making a cool rainproof dwelling. The path finding car passed thousands of such homes en route to Mexico City on the ran American highway. SAFETY OFFICERS APPLAUD TERRAPLANE BRAKING ABILITY Police measuring stop ping distance recorded by a 1935 Terraplnne which bettered require ments in this respect by nearly SO per cent sgV-"-.. . - Detroit Police and In surance officers con ducting rigid brake test on 1935 Terraplane which broke all previ ous records for stopping distances. Insurance and police officers of the City ol Detroit recently conducted a brake test on a 1935 Terraplane Sedan. The purpose -of the test was to com pare the ability of this new 1935 model to stop with the standard figures ap proved by the Police Department at various speeds. Reporting on the brake test, the in surance and police officers state that at speeds of 40 and 50 miles per hour the Terraplane stopped in about half the distance called for by the Police Department. This department uses figures compiled as tha result of a large number of tests made by the Bendix Brake Company. For exam ple, at 50 miles per hour the Detroit ( Police Department states that with brakes in excellent condition, the car should be able to stop tn 111 feet The Terraplane at 50 miles an hour stopped in 65 feet While tabulations of the Police De partment at 40 miles an hour call for 71 feet, the Terraplane stopped in 40 feet, 1 inch. At 20 miles an hour, aa against the police requirements of 18 feet, the Terraplane stopped in 10 feet 8 inchea- At a nameless road camp on the Pan American highway, 663 miles south of Laredo. Texas, and In the heart of the mountain construction of the road. Dec. 37, by mall. It Is 11 o'clock In the morning and we are stuck. They are blasting on the road ahead of its. It may be 6 this evening or It may be 0 tomor row evening before we get through. I am In the hut of the powder man of the blasting operations. It Is walled with saplings and roofed with grass thatch. The bed Is a frame of saplings. My typewriter rest on It. I am sitting on a box of Cla. Mexi cans, de Explosives, 8. A. Exploslvos. Pellgrosos. It means the Explosive Company of Mexico, Incorporated. Dangerous. The side of the box car ries the notation 33 kilograms (about 48 pounds) of 40 per cent dynamtte. But dynamite Is not dan gerous when warmed only by one's rump, so here goes for the story of the toughest automobile driving I have experienced In 300,000 miles over all kinds of roads and Including 17 months In France during the war In the motorized artillery. Leaving Tamazunchale, literally, the House of the Prog and corrupted to "Thomas and Charlie," 534 miles be low Laredo yesterday morning, at an elevation of 600 feet, the Studebakcr pathflned passed directly Into the beginnings of the mountains that lead to the plateau of the City ol Mexico, about 8000 feet above sea level. In twenty-five mllea to Chapul- huacan we climbed 3600 feet. The climb waa easy but the road, under construction all the way, with about 5000 men at work, was tougher than touch, yet fascinating. There was loose rock higher than the liberal axle helghta of the car. There was mud deeper than the hubs. There were sections where the road clear ance on the lower side was not more than three or four Inches. High reck walla delimited the high side. A tumble down might have been any where from a few feet to ft few thousand. Hugging the high wall too closely would mean scraped fenders or broken wheels, excepting that the Studebaker la made so sturdily that I doubt that one could break a wheel. The real character of the drive can .be gained from the fact that In five hours of continuous driving time and three hours of waiting tor blasted rock and landslides to be cleared away, the net progress was 35 miles five mile an hour. This was high gear for a total of leas than a mile for the entire 35. About half the remainder was In second and the other half In low. At times Z crept over the rutted, blasted rock. as rough as plowed ground crosswise, at less than a mile an hour. The Studebaker aueceasfully met a teat that will be of first hand Interest to every American motorist. It la the newly patented front end construction that replaces the stand ard front axle the Independent pla nar wheel suspension. The front end met In the 35 miles more genuine abuse than all of the Btudebakera tn all of the United Statea wilt meet In the next five years, and met It triumphantly. At times It waa push ing loose nnd Jsgged rock ahead of It. Occasionally the rock piled up as If in front of a road scraper and had to be extracted by hand. I clip ped off at least a hundred surveyor's stakes and pushed tons of mud aside. ow the front axle looks like a stick that had been gnawed by a c.ug. It looka like a bud caw of t.ma 11 pox with the pit marks of rocks. But it never faltered, never sprung and now, with a more severe test than would be Imagined could be given It, stands triumphant and shock proof. Good as gold. HURRY UP! Road open for ten minutes. Then another blast. I slam my belongings together, pell mell, and rush through. Then, from the vantage aide, watch several hun dred pounds of dynamite tear a wall of rock out of the mountainside. This story la now being finished In Mexico City one day later. Leaving the nameless camp, I pro ceeded to Chapulhuacan and went merrily beyond, but not for long. Just one mile beyond a work truck had gone over the roadside and was hanging dlezlly with a drop of sev eral hundred feet Imminent. It waa 4 o'clock In the afternoon. Too late to wait for the truck to be balanced, the road repaired, and then to go on. t got Into the car to back It up a mile to Chapulhuacan. The road su perintendent would not let me. "Too dangerous. he aald, wt will hav (Continued on Page Ten) Announces Erhie Calkins As Dealers for Reo Cars and Trucks Look at these fine trucks before you buy . . . Get Ernie Calkins' prices . . . Compare Eeo's ability, economy and sturdy con. struction. SPECIAL TERMS AND A , COMPLETE PRICE RANGE SOUTH 2i2t FIR ST. PHONE 377 I NTIC The First Lot of CHRYSLER AIRSTREAM i Sixes and Eights (Touring Sedans) With the Large Built-in Trunks, Will Be On Display I TODAY- J 1 Chrysler Leads! Others Follow! g 1 ARMSTRONG MOTORS INC. 1 ' MEDFORD So. Oregon's Largest Chrysler & Plymouth Dealers KLAMATH FALLS A new auto parts house, Mcdford Auto Parts Co., will be opened on East Main street near the Bear creek bridge some time next week, accord ing to V. E. Nolan and O. B. Wilson, owners. The new parts houBe will carry a larce line of nationally advertised I brands and will be strictly a whole- sate house, selling to garages, ma chine shops and large Independent firms and large corporations. In the event that any person wishes to buy merchandise retail, the sale will bo made through a local garage, accord ing to Wilson. The two men are both from Marsh field, where Nolan owned the Nolan service station and the Motor Inn, and Wilson was an employe of the Safeway Btore. After Investigating all of the towns In southern Oregon and northern California, they decided to move to Klamath Palls but, after In vestigating conditions In this city, decided this was the beat location In the state. Both men moved to Medford with their families a month ago. se Mall Tribune want ad The Sensation of the Auto Industry The New 1935 iiliiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiliiililiiiiiiiiiiililliiiiiiiiiiiiilllliliiiilliiiliiiiiiiliiiliinilili , - .X' atS-im nffll laoaoj . nai' whH bau Price in Medford Fully Equipped Only .00 For the 5-Passenger Touring Sedan With Spacious Luggage Compartment, Powerful 6-CylInder Motor and S m art Streamline Body. Safety Glass Throughout. SEE IT AT OUR SHOWROOMS TODAY! WALTER W. ABBEY, Inc. 123 SOUTH RIVERSIDE. PHONE 303 T Sedan D.llv.rr, $515 VS (107' WhMlbui) V Holf-Ton Pick-up,. l6S JrAJV As outstanding in operating economy as they are in price AGAIN in 1931. the in XI siotent demand for Chevrolet productshasmade Chevrolet the world's largest builder of trucks as well as of passenger cars. And now Chevrolet offers still greater values the highest quality Chevrolet Trucks ever built and the lowest-priced trucks you can buyl They are big rugged dependable trucks. They are powered by six-cylinder valve-in-head engines which use very little gas and oil. Duy one of these Chevrolet Trucks and you buy fine, dependable, economical haulage service of the world's lowest price! illO CITEVRfUET MOTOR COMPANY, DETROIT. MICITlCAN Compare Chevrolet's loiv delivered prices and easy G, Af. A. C terms. A General Motors Value 1 .IT CU'IM-Ton High RocM TV." lik .A. I til'- ! " Holt-Ton Pick up with Canopy, $499 !12'WliKlt) ifl.ionChtmanauB.ioujv-"-- -M (, tn ,. Pria, , um mk.. 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