BEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 17. lOtt.
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RUMOR OF SPRING !
DECLARED FALSE
Contradicting the many rumora
that have circulated through auto
mobile circles, the Butcfe Motor com
pany will not Introduce a new model
this spring, according to word receiv
ed In Medford by R. A. Skinner,
Bnlck dealer, direct from W. P. Huf
stader, general sales manager for the
company. "Rumors that Buick will
Introduce a new model within the
next few months. Is entirely un
founded," Mr. Hufstader anid In his
special bulletin to all Butck dealers.
In the same bulletin the Bulck of
ficial cited the sweeping public ac
ceptance of Bulck styling and point
ed out that the present 1935 models
have one hundred definite improve
ments over the 1934 models.
The recent extension of the Auto
motive code, confines the Introduc
tion of ne car models to a period
of sixty days before or after October
1st. according to the Bulck bulletin,
and an automobile show featuring
new creations is planned for about
November 5th. ,
Sales of Bulck motor cars during
January were 16.7 per cent ahead of
the corresponding month last year.
Hufstader also stated.
At the same time, volume since the
first of the year has shown a steady
Increase, he said, with the third 10
day period of January showing sales
half again as large as the first 10
day period.
The company is maintaining a
steady production pace at high levels
for this season of the year." Mr.
Hufstader said. "We entered Febru
ary with a large bank of unfilled or
ders and look for a consistent retail
volume throughout the current
month."
The Bulck sales department has
concluded a series of meetings of Its
zone managers, covering the central,
southern and eastern regions, In
which plans were outlined for the
spring season and trade conditions
were discussed. "From throughout
the field the reports are of Improved
business conditions and good buy
ing power such as has not been ex
perienced in a number of years," Mr.
Hufstader said.
Fluhrer's New
Delivery Truck
Has Mann Body
One of the smartest delivery trucks
now serving southern Oregon people
Is the new Ford V-8 recently deliv
ered by the C. E. Gates Auto com
pany to Fluhrer's bakery.
The custom-built truck body con
structed by Mann's Auto Service,
1729 North Riverside, has a capacity
of 1500 pounds of bakery products.
Fluhrer's colors and official , signs
were used In decorating the Mann
body.
Mann's Auto Service has completed
truck bodies for a large number of
firms In Medford and other cities.
Indications are that the demand for
custom-built trucks will be even
greater this spring, according to Ed
Mann.
Gasoline Filter
Often Neglected
Although virtually every car now
has a gasoline filter, the average mo
torist falls to give this device suffi
cient attention, according to the
emergency road service of the Oregon
State Motor association. The filter
Is cleaned by unscrewing the thumb
nut at the bottom of the small glass
reservoir, usually located in the fuel
lln under the hood, and removing
accumulated matter from both the
glass and the small screen It con
tains. This requires only a few min
utes and should be done several times
a year.
For Hote that Wear buy
NOLDE & HORST
Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann
Final Stage of Tour to Mexico City Completed
im i 'f '
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Verdure clad hills of wondrous beauty greeted the Pathfinder car an It arrived at San Vlrente, G!Z mlirs
south of Laredo, Texas, on the Pan-American highway and about 13! miles north of Mexico City. San VUeute
is the highest point on the road and about 8,400 feet In elevation. The topmost point Is at the tree at the
left. The rearmost range of visible mountains In this picture Is more thnu seventy miles distant. A little
further towurd the south the hills change to seml-nrld rock formation.
MEXICO CITY. Mexico, Dec. 28.
(By mall) The Journey Is over. It
has been great In thrills and awe-ln-splrlng
In the potential the future
holds for a new and more pleasing
relationship between the two distinc
tive cultures of the Western Hemis
phere the American and Canadian,
which Is almost American, and the
Spanish.
Leaving my road camp, Culevra,
about 600 miles south of Laredo, Tex.,
on the Pan American highway, I was
at Jacala, 20 miles farther south In
an hour.' Jacala Is the beginning
of the revelation of a civilization as
old as that of Pompeii. Italy, which
It Is somewhat like. Jacala Is a town
of river rock, the round kind rather
than the hewn rock of settlements far
from rivers. Many of Its older streets,
paved with round rock, are Just wide
enough for a single car. Others, in
the newer section, but all centuries
old. are wider. Jacala marks the, be
ginning of the Improved road Into
Mexico City. The 80 miles from Jacala
to Ismlyulllpan la the new widened
Pan American highway and the con
cluding section of the mountain road.
It has received Its first coat of rock
ballast and the steam roller. It Is
wide enough for three cars side by
side. On the straightaways a speed
of 50 miles per hour Is comfortable.
On turns, and It Is almost all turns,
better slow down to 20. Mexican en
gineers, and they arc first rate with
even the entire world In competition,
have developed a perfected style of
banking the road. It is so well bank
ed that the Studebaker Pathfinder
followed around the turns with a
mere suggestion of pressure on the
steering wheel.
En route to Ismilquilpan from Ja
cala we passed the highest point on
the road. Sin Vicente, 8400 feet above
the level of the sea. The view from
it Is majestic. It Is a wild heaving of
mountains, different from the Rock
ies in the fact that the torrid zone
climate and rains make a verdure
that maintains a thick green growth
on the moutainsldes. There is ev
erything from grass to pine trees .
not the majestic pine of mountains
In. the United States, but a long
needle medium-growth pine.
At Ismlqullpan we hit the paved
road and a new type of country. It
Is 1.1 at and semi-arid with mountains
In the distance on each side. The
mountains are of the rich, red to
purple sands and rock of our Ari
zona country. On each side of the
road, stretching back for miles, the
maguey cactus Is cultivated. The
maguey castus Is the plant from
which tequila, the national Mexican
hard drink is distilled. A little about
the cactus and the drink.
The maguey is quite like the top
of a pineapple. Its leaves are long
and spiked at the end. They are like
the pineapple In character only. In
size they are ten times as big. reach
ing a normal length of 'ive feet and
an extraordinary leiigth of eight feet.
Theleaves or arms are a dull hunter !
. green and seem to thrive on bar
sand.
Tequila, as a finished product, runs
from clear to a light brown. It Is a
liquor that ranges from 40 to 70 per
cent in alcoholic strength. It Is
probably more nearly like gin than
any other American drink but is
slightly more stick than gin and
smoother.
On from Ismlqullpan and even be
fore It, we pass abandoned monas
teries and nunneries and churches
magnificent In their stone boldness
and domination, and dignified beyond
telling with the marks of age moss,
chipped rock and crumbling roof
arches of stone masonry.
On Into Mexico City. The speed
ometer registers 2448 miles from
South Bend, Ind., as we meet the
police escort that Is to take us Into
Mexico City. Blythe Morris, of the
Commercial Metropolitan Co.. Stude
baker dealers In Mexico, relieves the
driver of the wheel, and In we go. As
we pull up to the Hotel Imperial the
speedomter registers 2453 miles, of
which 764 was put on In Mexico.
The Mexican consul at Chicago told
me the road with Its detours was 761
miles. One of us Is three miles out.
The Studebaker thus becomes the
rirst scout car in the world to travel
the new Pan American highway from
Laredo, Tex., to Mexico. Others have
tried at other seasons and failed. Fall
ure was not their fault. The Stude
baker wns right In season, right In
native sturdiness of the car and so
thoroughly equipped with credentials
that the way was smoothed where it
could be.
If I can tell Americans anything
out of my experience it is this.
Visit Mexico. Living Is about one
third to one-half in cost to what it
is on the American side of the line.
For the next several months. If you
come by motor from Laredo, Tex.,
you can come only ns far south as
Tamazunchale, S34 miles below the
border. In that 534 miles you can
see a brand new world. Indians whose
tradition and language antedates his
tory on the American continent. Jun
gles and dwellings that might well be
In the heart of Africa. All kinds of
wild game, large and small, and an
open season all the year around a
pleasant, kindly, fine people. But you
will have difficulties with the lan
guage. Very few speak the American
lingo.
The road is barred to tourists south
of Tamazunchale so don't try to get
through. Even If they let you, you
would, only come to grief. From Mon
terey. 150 miles south of the border,
I have been in light clothing and
shirt sleeves continuously and have
never been too cool, and only on a
couple of mid-days In the direct sun
uncomfortably hot.
Let me close with a salute to the
National Highways Commission of
Mexico. It Is doing a magnlicent Job
that will be complete In about a year
and sufficiently complete for tourist
travel this summer.
OF 1926
Winter Resort Mayor De
clares Living Costs Only
Slightly Increased; Hotels
30 Per Cent Over 1934
MIAMI, Fla. UP) Not since the
boom days of 1626 has Miami en
Joyed such a record flow of tourists,
according to Mayor E. G. Sewcll. The
hotels, railroad and steamship lines,
travel agencies and business houses
report an Increase of over 30 per
cent above last year, which was then
nn all-time record, according to
Sewell. This exceeds by nenrly 60
per cent the volume of tourist traf
fic during the boom days of 1925
26. The city's record of closo to one
million and a half visitors In 1934
brings America's fourth largest In
dustry, the tourist business, back to
its normal rating. Sewell said.
Housing Survey.
Miami has Just completed a sur
vey of housing and living condi
tions, the mayor said, which shows
that there still can be accommo
dated another 50.000 visitors with
out any material congestion. It
showed thousands of rooms In well
appointed apartment houses and pri
vate residences as low as $7 weekly,
and In many hotels from 2 to 95
dally, according to Sewell. He said
Miami can accommodnte 150,000 vis
itors at one time. "There ls.no rea
son why a winter visitor in Miani
cannot find what he wants In the
way of living accommodations and
at a price he wants to pay if he will
only look around and do some shop
ping." Mayor Sewell said. "We have
more medium priced hotels and
apartment houses than any other
winter resort city in the United
States.
Plenty of Room.
"Miami is well able to take care
of all Its guests this winter. A great
majority of Florida's visitors are
coming on a 10-day or two-week
trip, which gives Miami a quicker
turnover In tourist travel than ever
before. Fifty per cent of our tour
ists are coming by automobile, spend
ing a week hero, live days louring
the reft of the state, and the other
throe days or so en route.
"Current rumors in the north that
Miami's prices are sky-high are not
true. Our rates are 10 per cent less
than they were in 1028-29 and 75
per cent less thnu they were In 1925.
The Increase In rates over last sea
son averages around 10 per cent, an
Increase that is due to rising prices
under government codes in all directions.'
STRIKE VOIE 10
membership against their wishes.
No violence marred the day. as
guarded workers went to and from
their posts. The Argonaut mine
superintendent announced 100 men
nre now on the payroll there, while
25 are wr.rking at the original Ama
dor mine.
Dinner and Dance
Central Pt. Grange
Scheduled Feb. 22
rniitrlliuteil.
Again on Washington's birthday.
February 22, Central Point Orange
will put on one of their famous
dinner dances. This time offering a
little bit different menu roast
chicken with dressing and all the
trimmings, done up In good old
country style, and topped off with
dessert of home made apple pie
with whipped cream. When we say
that Central Point Orange cooks are
preparing the dinner, that is recom
mendation enough, as most of you
know.
Now, don't think Just because we
are offering such a lovely dinner
for such a reasonable price that the
evening is anywhere near through.
All diners are invited to stay as
guests of tho Grange and enjoy an
evening of dancing.
Orange hall will be open at 6:00
and serving will be from 6:00 to 8:00.
The dining hall and tables will be
decorated In appropriate motifs and
designs and again you will meet the
charming waitresses whose uniforms
will carry out the Idea of celcoratlng
Washington's birthday.
We are sure that everyone who
attended the Armistice Day dinner
dance at the Central Point hall has
been looking forward to attending
another such dinner and now the
opportunity has arrived. Don't forget
folks, the Central Point Orange hall.
Central Point, February 22. Your
friends will all be there so we In
vite you to come and Join them.
You will find the prices advertised
In this Issue.
JACKSON, Calif.. Feb. 16. (AD
Striking gold miners, ordered to
"move on' from their picket lines
by deputized sheriff's aides with
bristling shotmins, voted once again
to continue their strike In a closed
meeting late today.
Filing out of the meeting sober-
faced, the men declared they had
voted unanimously to "stick it out."
after a talk by A. J. Harder. Sacra
mento attorney for the mother lode
miners' union.
Harder, who came to the meeting
today accompanied by a bodygunrd
of six Sacramento longshoremen, an
nounced he will propose to mine
owners and the American Protective
league, citizen organization, that
mine workers be allowed to vote
secretly on whether they wish to Join
the union. Harder challenged the
claim of the owners that mine work
ers were being pressed Into union
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In Driving Depends Upon
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Brakes Affected
By Car Position
Motorists sometimes wonder why
the brakes on their machines some
times appear to grip wheels unequally
under various driving conditions,
even though the brakes are properly
equalized, according to the Oregon
State Motor association.
The position of the car on the
road has a great deal to do with brak
ing effects. It was explained. Some
roads are crowned, and unless the
car Is In the exact center the weight
distribution Is altered sufficiently to
change the brake equalization.
The reason for this, the associa
tion pointed out. Is that the wheels
on one side of the car will be sup
porting moro weight than those on.
the other side. And tho wheels that
are carrying the least weight will
naturally lock end slide sooner than
those which are carrying the heavi
est load.
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