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o itiN al, -SALKH, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1919.
PNEUMATIC TIEE
aids efficiency &; y;eas asad! a
halt ahead
Motor inn
Garage
Now Open
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Tendency Now Is for Smaller
Loads and Faster Time, Says ,
Manager F. H. Akers.
PUNCTURES ALWAYS FEARED
if Auto Storage, Auto Accessories, Expert Repairing
a special ty. ui repair worK guaranteed.
Motor Inn Garage
Formerly Halvorsen & Burns
fj South Commercial StreetOpposite Marion hotel
Phone 2125 , . Salem, Ore.
We wish
you a
Happy New
Year
And want to thank you for past patronage, and will
look forward for the continuation of the pleasant
. dealings in the future.
Lloyd E. Ramsdenl
221 South High St .... Salem, Ore. 1
CEKALDINE FARSAB THE OPERA
STAB 18 ARDENT AUTO FAN
Unruldine I'arrar, who divides Lor tul
ents between tho movies and grand op
era, has hung up an enviable record as
a cross country motorist during tho
put ysar, Acoompanied by her hus
band, Lou Tollegon, and alternating
with him at the wheel of their National
ho baa made three trips from the Al
lan lie to the Pacific.
Mrs. Myrtlo Crumbaugh of Scattlo woe
fiuod $100 and sentenced to 30 days
la JU Wednesday for unmercifully
beating her 6-yoar-old daughter.
HEMP STRING AND SOAP BEST . .
roB BTurriNQ pump box
About the best material to uso ia the
stuffing box of a gasoline pump Ig hemp
string and soap. Gasoline will dissolve
practically any kind of oil uned as &
lubricator, but is hus no effect on soap
so that sonp may bo used in place of
grouse as a ltibriciMit or in place of
rod lead in making Bcrow-joints tight.
As u celebration of his fiftieth birth
dny, Governor Williams on Huturduy
liberated "SO piihonora from Oklahoma
ponal institutions.
JOURNAL WANT ADS PAf
.jvg. v9
I f I i i l.tf i W It V
Tremendous Saving Effected In Cha.
I by Mounting It on Air Instead
of en Solid Rubber Cost
Per Ton Is Leseentd.
That the three-quarters-ton track
will eventually supplant the one-and-one-half
and two-ton types la the werk
they have been doing ; that the two
toa truck In turn will supplant the
five-ton In the service It has previous
ly been considered best adapted for,
and that the five-ton track will, save
In a very restricted sense, take the
place of all heavier types. Is the
startling assertion made by Manager
F. H. Akers' of a big motorcar com
pany.
"I base this assertion on observa
tion of work that our trucks are do
ing In all parts of the country and
In all kinds of business," said ' Mr.
Akers,. "and on the tendency that Is
unmistakable on the part of buyers
to renew their equipment with the
lighter types instead of the former
j heavy ones they considered best
Lead 8eldom Equals Capacity.
' The answer Is simple. In only a
small percentage of cases does the load
equal the capacity of, let us say, the
j two-ton truck. And In an equally
Ismail percentage of cases Is the en
i tiro load to be delivered to one place.
"In other words, the loads can Just
as well be split up Into two or three
smaller loads and thus render possible
' the ue of the lighter, speedier truck,
with the result that two or three trips
! can be made In the time It would other
' wise take to make one and at a lesser
jcost per ton mile,
"Now, If these smaller loads are to
go each to a different point or to be
distributed In small lots or packages
to several points on a long route, the
saving of time and fuel Is still
greater.
I "We used to think that If, on occa
Islon, the loud would amount to two
tons or thereabout, we must have a
truck of not less than that capacity.
Experience proves this theory to have
been wrong in fully 00 per cent of
cases.
Puncture Was Always Feared.
"That old bugbear, the puncture,
was always uppermost In buyers'
minds, and they did not stop to realize
that in city service the percentage .of
punctures is so small as to be practi
cally negligible. , '
"The thing that has brought the
pneumatic tire to the front Is the tre
mendous saving effected in. the chassis
by mounting It on air Instead of on
I solid rubber. There has never yet
teen found any substitute so cheap of
so resilient ns air, and that, of course,
is the basic principle of the pneumat
ic tire.
"Today many tire experts contend
that everything up to five tons will
ultimately be carried on pneumatic
tires, and I find they agree with me
that the five-ton truck will be the max
imum capacity required save In certain
; restricted classes of work such as
i hauling conl or stone.
J "Just as the tliree-qunrter-ton truck
Is rapidly supplanting the two-ton ve
hicle In service which the two-ton
truck formerly performed, so the two
ton truck is now supplanting the four
end five ton truck In the heavier serv
ice, "The snme principle holds smaller
loads delivered in quicker time and at
lesser cost per ton mile."
Elgin
IS
ia.iMfcr,Uli
We wish you
A IIArPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
We will continue to serve you in looking after your
Storage Batteries
ITS NO TROUBLE TO US
Even if your battery gives you trouble.
Auto Electric
Shop
41S Court St.
Degge & Burrell
d .-Jap'
Xti i I,
HELPS MOVE CRIPPLED AUTO
Piece of Timber Fastened to Rear
Wheels Prevents Machine From
, Slipping Back.
A piece of timber, fastened with
ropes to the rear hubs of an automo
bile, Is a great help when It must be
moved by hand, and by one man only,
writes Bonar W. Balfour of St, Cath-
ffTTHrv ,os-'
The Use of the Starting Crank and a
Self-Adjustlng Stop Block Makes
Hand-Propelling Easy,
erlnes, Ont., In Popular Mechanics.
If the transmission mechanism is not
Injured, the easiest way to propel the
car Is often by the use of the starting
crank. Put the car In low gear, and
relieve the compression by opening
pet cocks or removing spark plugs.
With tho timber behind, to keep the
enr from slipping back, the Job will
then lose most of Its difficulty.
.They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."
KIPLING.
For eighteen months while our factories were huilding war trucks the
Designing, Engineering and Executive Staffs of the Elgin Motor Car Cor
poration were preparing for peace and reconstruction.
They designed, tested, refined and perfected an entirely new automobih
new in design from radiator to tail light a car that retains the notable stur-.
diness and light weight which won for the Elgin Six perfect scores and high
est honors in every one of the many gmelling endurance and economy con
tests it entered during the past three years.
New Elgin Six cars have received many thousands of miles of the most
strenuous and exacting trials under every conceivable condition, and haa i
more than satisfied our highest expectations.
The car buyer of today is confronted with a choice of three purchases. He
can choose a before-the-war model, or a hastily designed and hurriedly con
structed car, or the New Elgin Six a car that looks and acts the Motor
Thoroughbred you would expect from an organization of master motor car
men -men whose past achievements have given them leadership in the indus
try' Write for literature describing and illustrating the 36 improvements and
refinements which have placed the New Elgin Six a full year and a half
ahead. Ask for Bulletin No. 36, containing Inside Car Information in terms
you readfly understand.
EC1N MOTOR CAR CORPORATION, ARGO, ILLINOIS.
Lee L Gilbert
Factory Distributor
156 S. Commercial St. Phone 361 Salem, Ore.
"See Me At The Auto Show"
Gate Opens Automatically.
Barriers extending along the ground
pi a 1 from one or both sides of a recently
x none patented roadway gate enable an auto-Ba-aaBaaaBm
' mobllist to opea or close the gate
merely by running his car over them.
GOOD ROADS IS TO
BE 1919 SLOGAN
Road Districts , Are Voting
fecial Twes. Highway
Commission To Pave.
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t The year 1919 will be a great road
building year in - Marion county, ac
cording to Win. J. Culver, county d
master. In the county 32 road districts
havo levied a special tax and this mon
ey with what tho state highway com
mission expects to do, added to the
county wok will make 1919 the ban
ner year for roadbuilddng.
The fast is, good roods is in the air
and there is no doubt but that almost
every memibcr of the coming legisla
ture is in favor of some law that will
give Oregon better roads.
During the past year, 29 road dis
tricts in Marion county voted a spe
cial tax for good roads, Mr. Culver
said, and the money was ia addition
to that set aside by the county court
for the betterment of roads. The mon
ey so raised has been used to gravel
and macadamize roads and the tax has
varied from one to 10 mills on the as
sessed valuation of the property 'in a
road district.
The Cedar Camp road district above
Silvertoa raised $9000 by special tax
and the district expended this Bum in
adition to the regular road apportion
ment of $3800.
Road district No. 69 south of Mt. An'
gol placed a special levy of $1260 and
this with the regular tax of $1500 was
used for Ibetter roads out of Mt. An
gel towards Silverton.
iBoad district No. 10 at Mt. Angel
raised 'by special levy $3300 and with
its regular apportionment of $2200,
used the $5500 in the improving of the
road from Mt. Angel towards Wood
burn. Koad district No. 49, north of Mt.
Angel district put on a special tax of
$3000 and this with its $1H00 was spent
on a continuance of tho road between
at. Angel and Woodburn.
Itietrict No. 8 at Woodburn raised
$2700 by special levy and with the
$2000 regular tax spent the $4700 in
part continuing the road front Mt. An
gel to Woodburn.
As a result of the four road districts
combining and putting on a special
levy for read the same year, there is
a continuous good load from Salem to
Woodburn, driving from Salem to Sil
verton and then one mile west and
then en to Mt. Angel and Woodburn,
ten miles of graded and macadamized
and gravel road.
Tho Crooked FiBger district bov
Scotts MilU nut on a snec.Ul tax of
$4600 for good roads and expended
this in addition to its regular tax of
$1600. This was used in putting in a
continuation of the main road from
'Scotts Mills to the Crooked Finger sec
tion. Culver says that daring the year
all gaps on tho road between 8tayton
and Mehama have been completed and
graveled and that today there is a good
road between Salem and Mohama.
Tho Talbot district, m the Oregon
Electric in the south part of the coun
ty, by donations of its citizen and
help by the county, graded and. iin
proved the road between Talbot and
the Beima Vista ferry.
The Pacific highway leading both
north and south in the county from Sa
lem is graveled and macadamized. On
the north of Salem, the state highway
commission promises to put in 18 miles
between Salem and Aurora exeepting
a gap of four miles immediately north
of Salem.
South of Snlcm, the rough part of the
highway through the Boscdale district
is to be re-graded and Improved tki
coming spring. Towards Liberty, going
from f alem wi(th the exception 'it?
aibeat three quarters of a mile south
of the city limits, there will be a hard
surfaced road extending to Liberty.
This district voted 10 mills for ronf
improvement in 1917 and five mil In
in 1918 and the work will be done this
spring.
Last of the city is a good read to
Silverton and through that city on tho
i Marquum road to Jack bridge aerotnj
"Butte creek to the touwy line. :
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The assurance of material for quantity
production of Buick cars enables the
Buick Motor Company to establish the
following prices on the various Buick
models, effective January first, 1919.
These prices will.not be changed during
out present dealers' selling agreements.
Three Passenger Open Model H-Six-44 - $1495
Five Passenger Open Model H-Six45 - - 1495
Four Passenger Closed Model H-Six46 - 1985
Five Passenger Closed Model H-Six-47 - . 2195
Seven Passenger Open Model H-Six-49 1785
Seven Passenger Closed Model H-Six-50 - 2585
Buick Motor Company, Flint, Michigan
Pioneer Efcilders of Valve-in-Head Motor Cars
fiffn I Wilcnn 388 North Commercial Street :
JLW J. If llSOIl Salem, Oregon
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