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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1920)
1UDAY, DECKMIIKR 124, 1020. THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON I'AflU TIMf 3h$m-m$mm Lexington "Minute Man Six" and Cole "Aero-Eight" f America's Two Foremost Cars oth Cars Now in Stock CL McWilliams 36 Main Street Across from Baldwin Hotel BBMSM8MIBsKjrvgT'jpTsyyaM"i Fine Steels form the Sinews of a MAXWELL Everything that is huilt to en dure must have fine sinews. A great ship, a giant locomo tive, a huge bridge, a gigantic Building. Search for the sinews in a Maxwell and you discover' new steels, fine steels, special steels, steels manufactured to Maxwell's own formulae. Steels, for instance, that make possible that rare combination of extreme lightness and brute, strength. For a Maxwell is "made to be light in weight. Its mission is economic transportation. Any superfluous pound to carry around means so much more cost of operation, j But the great problem was to 'get steels of rare quality and crreat streneth. They are found in a Maxwell in axles, shaftings, gears, frame, crankshaft, connecting rods, etc., etc. They equal, pound for pound, the steels to be found in any car made. Costly as they are, they repay their price many times' over in the lifetime of a Maxwell. They save. They pay divi dends of satisfaction. They make friends. They are responsible for that rapid rise of Maxwell the world over. Nearly 400,000 now in use"; 100,000 more in process of construction; and fully 40 per cent of those who have de cided upon a Maxwell as their first-choice car will not be able to get one this year so over whelming is the demand fox this remnrkahla car. . GARAGE i E IN IS WT THIS STATE "It might bo woll for Oregon ronil official to keep till" furl In mlml when expending what remains of the twenty million appropriated for highway Improvement." ' Hudson Cars Hold Contrast (Continued from rago 1) HE FOR DRIVERS IN TH UUUNTKT i Tho itnto of Oregon linn adopted a road Improvement policy which, be came of tho vast mlloiiKo and enor mous expenditure- Involved, It ro cotvlng attention from those Inter ested In highway comtructlon In all pnrta ot tho United States. While there aro many angles for tho itato official! having the highway work In charge to consider, Judging from tho oxporlcnco ot other, an Important factor ia In relation to tho traffic the roadi will bo ml tod upon to bear. It It pointed qui by P. C. Atwell, of tho Mack-International Motor Truck corporation, distributors for Mack trucks, that hundreds ot mil lion of dollar hare been ipent on highway Improvement In various part ot tho country which' later was found to have been largely wasted, slnco the road proved but tempor ary expedients. Highway engineer flvo year ago could not oven approx imate tho traffic ot today and It Is probably true that today cannot In dicate future need However, It I advisable, In Mr. Atwell' opinion, to calculnto these needs a closely a ptuilblo. "From all past experiences, would It not bo more ndvlsabln to build less mileage of greater permanence than vast mileage pf less durability?' asks Mr. Atwoll. "Tho roads of Callfornla hnvo a national reputation, but Indications aro that this reputation I not going to survive many years. "Highway engineer rocently made a survey of California' highway and a road engineer ay that Call- lom.ui. roaus ore urn minimi, iirui- ,. . f ... .. ... . . - .- . ' "' " " "" e.i ami poaran in inn counir-con-.,.. f ,,,, ,,.33 nnd , cw smoring mo amouni 01 money M-Ip,,.,,, cabriolet As Iter, llrother Jasper has remarked: "The world do tnovol" from un glaro. An exterior rear vision mirror itlvo 11 view of traffic condition In the wnko of the car. Tho window are lowered nnd raised by revolving lift, In tho rear of tho top aro two Jeweled dome light nnd a clock I et In front ot tho driver. Detail I (Vmplrto Uphold also, ono ot tho first of the model 11-33 ever turned out and tho second model that ever left tho Hud son factoryi It Is really earlier than the true model 1133, as thl was what la known a a "test model," consisting merely of tho chassis and exactly what wn necessary for It to bo driven and no more. In tho acat Is shown C. W. Iowls, now coast ser vice manager of the Hudson Motor Car company. l.owls entered tho service ot tho IVtrolt car builders In the fall of 1909 and In various rapacities has been with thorn ever since. Ho work ed through with every Hudson model built until he came to tho Pacific coast In 1914. HI territory extends from tho Itockles to tho I'nclflc ocean, tho Dominion border to tho far south. Tho car forming the subject of the Illustration wus turned oer to l.owls a few days before Christum In 1910, with Instruction to "take It out and seo If It enn easily bo broken up " Hnow covered the grounds, so the and tawls made hi test. Ho smiles and ljwls mane nts test. He smiles when told of his Instructions, assert ing that tho engineer knew the only feasible way of "breaking It up" was to set It In front of a mall train or run It 01 cr u precipice I A city motorist In the country sometimes feels nbout ns much nt homo ns tho proverbial pig In tho parlor, particularly If he ha done all hi motoring In town. , Ono ot the greatest fault of tho nverngo city driver when ho take a (rip along country roads I his In ability to correctly Judge the rate ot speed ot horse-drawn vehicle along tho road, l-ou II. Hose, Chalmers dis tributer for northern California, bo llevcs. , "Ho used doe the average city-bred driver becomo to gauging the speed of motor-driven vehicle that he fre quently has difficulty In adjusting his Ideas of speed when he get out In the country where the horse drawn wagons nre met with mora frequently," say Hose 'Unless the motorist watches him self he Is likely to find himself In volved In serious difficulty as a re sult of this natural falling A driver will become accustomed to figuring on passing vehicle mining at least better thrill ten or twelve miles an hour. When n wagbn lumbering along at less than flvo miles an hour confront him ho finds It difficult, usually, to reconstruct his speed esti mates "The best thing to dn I to go slow nnd tnkn no chances Above all, look out for two horse-drawn vehicle passing cch other Klghl out of every ten times, and It used to bo ten out of orory ten, the two driver will pull up for a moment to ex change n word of greeting, nnd they don't always leave room for a speed ing automobile to pais through be tween them," 5? pended on them. They woro spokon ot a mora shells or n veneered sur face which could not wlthstnnd traffic needs. Fortunately for Cali fornia, climatic condition aro less severo than In most state, so tho veneered road will last longer than In othor place; nevertheless, tho neighboring itato snmo day will Vmt (I.KANINO HIM UK I'l.URS. Dig. bright and brceiy that des cribe tho coming Auto Hhow. It has been said thnt tho city of Klamath Falls can show more dif ferent model ot far than any other nwaken to tho mistake of building city of Its lxe In tho northwest. Also, roads primarily for mileage ratherltbn per rapltn ownership li nboo the than for durability. usunl average Ono of tho simplest and at tho same tlmo handiest home-made de vice with which the motorist may equip himself Is a clothespin wiper for cleaning spark plug. A piece of old cloth wrapped around the ordin ary blfiirated clothespin doe tho tVlck. It I suitable when soaked In gasoline, for removing carbon from such plugs ns may tin dismantled j k::K:::H: t f f t t Y t i Better have your tops repaired or a new top put on. Upholstering neatly done. Bevel Glass of all description wmmmmmimmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmm Shasta Auto -Top Company XJ .1.' Corner Sixth and Walnut Phone 176-J HOWIE '&&b&&&p&&&&Mi&A4&