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SPOKANE. Wash , Feb. 6 (AP) ously defeated by the whitman Mis- by defeating the Walla Walla quintet,
The Oonrs bnsketbnll team, prevl. I slonarles. turned the tables last night I SI to 45.
TEN YEARS OF AUTOMOBILE PROGRESS
THOMAS D. CAMPBELL
Operating World's Largest Farm
Predicts New Tire Market
JfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, JIEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1936.
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In the foreground is the 1926 Pontiac not a "Silver Streak," but quite a beauty in its day.
The new '36 Pontiacs in the background are the latest models in the line and show what
steps have been made in car design in the last decade..
TOLL OF TRAFFIC
IS Li LARGELY
TO BAD MANNERS
Civil War Between Driver
And Pedestrian Must End,
Says Governor Hoffman
--Protective Needs Listed
NEW . YORK (Spl.) Peace In toe
civil war constantly wsged. between
autolsts and pedestrians 1 being ur
gently sought today by Oov. Harold
O. Hoftman of New Jersey, former
motor vehicles commissioner, as a
means of reducing the "ghastly toll
of motor accidents."
Standardization of traffic laws gov
erning motor vehicles and pedestrians
tllke Is sorely needed as the first step
towards obtaining this peace. Gov.
Hoffmen states In an article written
tor the American Magaslne, but. he
adds, regulations must be "psycholo
gical as well as physical." People must
be taught good manners; they must
learn to think on their feet, he says.
The governor even seriously advocates
"sleeve lights" for those who walk
t night.
"Current warfare between those In
cars and those on foot Is responsible
tor 87 percent of the oe.000 city traf
fic accidents In the United states In
the last three years and for millions
Of broken collarbones, lractured ribs,
gashed faces and all the rest of the
bloody Inventory of the traffic acci
dents," Gov. Hoffman writes.
"Death moves on unthinking feet
In the face of red lights. It steps
Irom behind parked cars. It straggles
across the street In the mlddlo of the
block. It walks with Its back to on
coming traffic on dark highways."
Nation-wide standardization of traf
fic laws for walkers and riders might
readily be brought about by accept
ance of the model code recently pro
rosed by the national conference of
ttreet and highway safety, he de
clares. This code alms to simplify
and bring order out of the confusion
of a thousand and one conflicting
traffic regulations In the various
communities. Walkers and riders have
equal righta under the code but such
tights must be exercised with care.
"But we need 'consumer accept
ance" of pedestrian regulation," he
adds. "We've got to sell ths Idea to
the community on the basis that
everybody benefits by It. In other
words, we are faced with a sales and
advertising problem."
Oov. Hoffman reveals that rrvey
show that whereas or e pe' .-ent of
the motorists will run through a red
llcht. from S5 to 75 percent of the
pedestrians will walk through a stop
signal "with utter disregard of the
accepted rules."
"rive out of every eight pedestrian
killed are guilty of one of three ma
jor blunders." he continues: "cross
ing In the middle of the block. Jay
walking diagonally across an Inter
section; or crossing against a red
I'Eht.
"This Is bad business. Indeed, we
all believe It so thoroughly that It Is
the venr lesson we hammer Into our
children dav after dsy-o effectively
that the Juvenile fatality rate has
declined each year since 1929. The ad
truth that we don't practice what we
preach Is Indicated by the fact that
In ten years the adult fatality rate
ha Jumped 132 percent.
Commenting on the sueecstlon that
has been made that speed-governors
be flsfed In all cars or that cars be
built with less speed. Oov. Hoffmsn
insists "It l hlsh time somebody
si:ijented that pedetrlans be rebuilt
also."
"A car traveling 30 miles an hour
rsn kill vou as dead a a car speed
li g si. slstv If you walk In Us path. '
be observe!.
'Clinic On Wheels' Tells What's Wrong
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'THE "clinic on wheels," iliua- car. The service man Is shown
trated above is an important testing the ignition. Engine, elec-
part of the service equipment in trical system and radio tests of
most Ford dealerships. Developed every useful sort are made by this
by the Ford Motor Company and Ford laboratory test set The find-
a manufacturer of electrical instru- ings of the device keep repairs at
ments, it is able to diagnose with a minimum cost, as there is no
positive accuracy nearly all the ills waste effort in hunting for the
which may befall the modern motor cause of obscure troubles.
Wheat King Sees All Farm
Implement on Pneumatic
' Tires in 5 Yean
When Thomas D. Campbell, Amer
lea's largest raiser of wheat and in
ternationally knon farm expert
talked to a grout of Firestone men
In Los Angeles recently, he con
firmed the views of Mr. H. S. Fire
stone regarding the farm as an out
let for tires, according to (Name of
Manager) of Firestone Auto Supply
& Service Stores.
"For the past several years. Mr.
Firestone has pioneered the farm
tire field, developing tires that
would give traction, wear, and econ
omy nover before known on these
operations," (Name of Manager) re
ported. "On his own homestead
farm at Columbiana, Ohio, Mr. Fire
stone has every Implement equipped
with pneumatic tires. Thus he has
been able to lead the way In bringing
a real 'Farm' tire to the farmer."
Mr. Campbell, who bas drawn at
tention in national and nternatlonal
arm conferences and vast columns
of publicity because of his large
operation, is a personal friend of
the tire executive. He bas been con
ducting tests of Firestone Ground
Grip tires on his wheat farm at
Hardin, Montana, through the past
summer.
While the final results of these
tests between tractors equipped
with Firestone Ground Grip Tires
and steel lugged tractors have not
been computed as yet, Mr. Campbell
was sufficiently Impressed with the
demonstrations to go on record with
the following statements:
"I think It Is only a matter of time
'till the farmer will demand machin
ery equipped with pneumatic tires."
"Farmers will demand tires for
these reasons; 1. Economy of opera
tion. 2. Saving to machinery. 3. In
creased mobility of tractor.
"i maintain that every vehicle on
the farm, with tbe exception of the
plow, needs pneumatic tires and
that tires will pay for themselves in
2 or 3 seasons.
"Our tests show an approximate
saving of 17 in gas and oil alone
for pneumrtttc equipped tractors.
"I found In going over the last
census in Washington that there are
In the United States approximately
24,000.000 farm vehicles resdy for
pneumatic tires. That Is about the
same number of 'automobiles we
have In the United States after 25
or 30 years of development.
"I learned It takes more power to
plow the farm land in the United
States within season than It does to
operate all industries combined, in
cluding transportation. This was In
regard to gas and oil consumption
If true of these, 1 can see no reason
why It would not be even more true
-if pneumatic tires.
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Thomas D. Campbell
"The thing that surprised us dur
fug tests between steel-wheel trac
tors and those equipped with Fire
stone Ground Grip Tires was the
fact that the oil came out In much
better condition in pneumatic
equipped machines.
"By using a dynamometer, we
learned that It takes 28 as much
power to pull a tractor over plowed
ground with pneumatic tires as II
does to haul the same tractor
through the same ground with oral
nary lugs. That is a tremendous
saving.
"Pneumatic tires will increase the
life of farm machinery 60 by
eliminating vibration.
"Nothing under the sun could
make us change from Firestone
Tires."
Mr. Campbell dwelt particularly
on the subject of pneumatic tires
lengthening the life of farm machin
ery 60 by eliminating vibration.
"Up 'till now, the main argument?
for rubber tires on tractors have
been economy of operation, speed
and mobility. Our tests show tire
equipped tractors will hare longer
life. One only has to look at trac
tors out of use In corners of fields,
to realize that cost of upkeep after
a few years has been too heavy
With the development by Mr. Fire
stone of the Ground Grip Tire, I be
lieve much of this depreciation will
be eliminated."
Mr. Campbell closed his talk with '
a statement that he felt the twe
greatest things coming out of the
depression are the application ol
pneumatic tires to farm implement
and air r 'ir.
protographic and identification work.
He played Important parts u a state
witness la the Jordan, Manning and
Meyerle murder trials here aa well as
the Bonanza, Chlloquln and Central
Point bank robberlea.
Hla future plane were not announced.
TWIN FALtS, Idaho, Feb. B. (AP)
Brief iunerai services were held
here today for P.. Clyde Beach, 39,
pioneer Lewlston and Twin Falla bus
iness man, formerly of Pendleton, who
was found dead In hla hotel room
here Sunday night.
Ose Mall Tribune want ade.
Good manners as much as anything
would relieve the problem, he be
lieves. "There seems to be something
about getting behind a wheel which
makes many men and women churl
ish bullies," he writes, adding this
attitude Is an Important accident
breeder. "So long aa the driver and the
walker are at loggerheads, each has
a grievance to satisfy, each seizes
every advantage of the other, neither
will give quarter. The upshot, as you
can see for yourself in the average
community, la the pedestrian brazen
ly daring the driver to hit him and
the driver Just as brazenly daring
him not to Jump I Bad manners, of
course,' on both sides."
"Although the peak of the day's
traffic la reached at about 6:30 p. m..
after which It rapidly declines, the
peak of the day'a fatalities (for the
country as a whole) comes around 7
o'clock in the evening. The pedes
trian's chances of meeting death after
dark are four times greater than In
the daylight, when the traffic la In
finitely heavier."
Gov. Hoffman has found that 85
percent of pedestrian fatalities In
New Jersey occur after sunset, and
Is of the opinion that "we need
twentieth century Illumination to
supplant the colonial glimmer which
po many communities now call atreet
lighting."
"Those who do much walking after
dark will do well to adopt the grow
ing custom of arming oneself with a
hand flashlight." he continues. "If
no flash Is available I'd buy myself
several of those reflex buttons they
use on trucks and road signs the
kind that reflect a car's lights back
to the driver and I'd wear one on
my right sleeve and one on my coat."
Gov. H;ffman s objective la the goal
recently set by the safety congress:
a nationwide reduction of 35 percent
In traffic fatalities by 1940,
"No single angle of the problem Is
to susceptible to such quick results
aa the pedestrtlan phase," he con
cludes. "Just think, If we put this
objective across, we ll have In 1940
no leae than 12,800 friends and neigh
bors alive who now nave the finger
of death upon them.
"Our objective. In a nutshell. Is
less aiony leas misery less crape
by 1940."
Klamath Deputy
Sheriff Resigns
KLAMATH "ALUs. Feb. 6 (API
n't McMillan, deputy sheriff here for
the last five years, today announced
hla re;g:ist on M -Mlllin has been
prumoenl in puUca orciea for lua
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