oc-plain-dealer 1922-03-11

AUTOMOBILE SECTION VOL. XXV—NO. 185 REGULATIONS ISSUED FOR YOSEMITE The following regulations covering the admission of automobiles and motorcycles into the Yosemite National Park during the 1922 season were received at the local offices or Camp Curry yesterday. These points of general interest and vital concern to the public are as follows: 1. ENTRANCES—Automobiles and motorcycles may enter and leave the park by any of the entrances, viz., Tioga Pass, Aspen Valley, Crane Plat, Merced Grove, El Portal, Wawona and Mariposa Grove. 2. AUTOMOBILES—The park is open to automobiles operated for pleasure, but not to those carrying passengers who are paying either directly or indirectly, for the use or machines (excepting, however, automobiles used by transportation lines operating under Government franchise). Careful driving is demanded of all persons using the roads. The Government is in no way responsible for any kind of accident. 3. MOTOR TRUCKS—Motor trucks are admitted to the park under the same conditions as automobiles except that the entrance fees may be prescribed by the Director of the National Park Service according to tonnage capacity. They are subject to ALIGNMENT OF WHEELS COUNTS Not less important than the car and its equipment, the tires, the weather and the road, is the driver. The Buick makers, realizing this, are issuing some excellent instructions which drivers both experienced and inexperienced should find valuable. "Front wheels should be kept in proper alignment to get the best results in steering and tire mileage," says the concern. "Cars, when they leave the factory, are carefully adjusted as to camber and 'toe-in' of the front wheels to insure easy steering and long tire mileage, but these adjustments are frequently disturbed by car owners in permitting the right front wheel to collide more or less violently with the curb when turning around in the street or drawing up to the curb to park. It will prove an economical measure to the owner to check the front wheels occasionally to determine whether the alignment is correct. "In connection with the accompanying illustration, complete instructions are given for the checking of alignment of the front axle, alignment of the front wheels, alignment of rear wheels with front, and front wheel bearing adjustment." "The front wheels are not alone in suffering from curb collisions. Very frequently car owners, in backing into a parking space, will bump a rear wheel with such force as to throw it out of alignment. It will not take much additional time for the owner when checking the front wheels to make sure that the rear wheels also are tracking properly." "In addition to curb collisions, other factors may enter into the tail-end of the desert, why at all? But it can, and dence comes from Bob White Company for the Franklin an form of a trip through Going in by way Cave Springs and Seelers, roaming in two of which was the Camel and the other tual car nicknamed spent the first night Confidence Mill, on the ruins. Instead of leaving way of Emigrant Rose, as the Decombe two Franklins were Daylight Pass and o perhaps the most famous cities of the West. Inings, hundreds of three stories in heel forced concrete, abaements. Here was a station of unique railway, for the link up when the boom s The automobile plays most important part in the business and social affairs of the people of California. For that reason the selection of a motor car is a matter for serious consideration. In order to insure a wise choice we invite you to include the Studebaker 1922 models among the cars you consider. Judge their merits by comparison. Take the wheel, if you wish, and learn what a high standard of performance the new 1922 models have set. In order to insure a wise choice we invite you to include the Studebaker 1922 models among the cars you consider. Judge their merits by comparison. Take the wheel, if you wish, and learn what a high standard of performance the new 1922 models have set. Studebaker owners tell us that they have never before enjoyed such satisfactory automobile performance as these new models give. You can telephone us where to send the car for a trial ride. We will be glad to keep such an appointment with you. Light-Six $1275 Special-Six $1745 Big-Six $2095 California prices—war tax paid. Harry D. Riley Studebaker Distributor "A Safe Place to Buy a Used Car" Driving is Believing SCENES IN DEATH VALLEY If a Franklin "camel" can't weather the desert, why call it a camel at all? But it can, and the latest evidence comes from Bob White, of the Bob White Company, local agents for the Franklin and Nash, in the form of a trip through Death Valley. Going in by way of Barstow to Cave Springs and Saratoga, six travelers, roaming in two Franklins, one of which was the famous Franklin Camel and the other a Pacific Mutual car nicknamed the Dromedary, spent the first night in the valley at Confidence Mill, or, rather, among the ruins. Instead of leaving the valley by way of Emigrant Wash and Wildrose, as the December party did, the two Franklins were headed through Daylight Pass and over to Rhyolite, perhaps the most famous of the ghost cities of the West. Here were buildings, hundreds of them, some even three stories in height and of reinforced concrete, abandoned to the elements. Here was a modern railway station of unique design—but no railway, for the line had been torn up when the boom subsided. Leaving the ghost city after an all too brief survey the party headed for home by way of Beatty, Carrara (where a marble quarry is situated), Indian Springs and Las Vegas. Searchlight, another famous mining town, and almost a "has been," was the next place reached, the party spending the night at Carrara. At the time the Pacific Mutual—Franklin party traveled the road from Carrara to Las Vegas it was not in particularly good shape, due to the floods that had occurred, but from Las Vegas to Hesperia the road was found to be in unusually good shape, and just to try it out the 42 miles between Fenner and Amboy was negotiated in a trifle less than one hour by the Camel. This, when it is realized each car carried three passengers and considerable baggage, making a load of more than a thousand pounds, was excellent time for a desert road which at its best has numerous chuck-holes, snaky nuts, and other physical hazards to offer the motor car. In all the party covered 900 miles in the course of the week spent on the trip and had exceptionally good fortunes with the tires considering the rocks, salt pinnacles, etc., that were encountered. One puncture for each car was chalked up—and it was the first time the Franklin Camel was forced to have a tire changed or any of its wild and wolly exploring trips. Those in the party were: C. I. D. Moore, Roy S. Hougland, D. C. MacEwen, and Douglas E. C. Moore, vice-president; Inspector of loans, assistant secretary and assistant attorney, respectively, of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company; Arlon Putnam, photographer, and R. L. Larson, advertising manager for Ralph Hamlin. CAR SALES IN JANUARY TOTAL 219 FOR COUNTY Complete registration figures for January in Orange county of Motor Registration News show sales of 203 passenger cars and 16 trucks, or a total of 219 cars. This compares with totals of 41 for Imperial county, 4 for Inyo, 212 for Kern, 3231 for Los Angeles, 94 for Riverside, 156 for San Bernardino, 266 for San Diego, 23 for San Luis Obispo, and 98 for Santa Barbara. Figures for various cars in the county are shown. SAN DIEGO BOG WILL BE PAVED Every auto owner in this part of the state who has occasion to stray from his own fireside, at some time or other travels the coast route. Good news is here for those who do. According to an announcement just made by the touring bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California preparations are under way for the paying of the mud bog on the coast highway near San Diego. This has long been a sore spot on an otherwise pleasant tour along the ocean for thousands of eastern visitors—almost as bad, it is pointed out, as the famous corrugated highway. Complete registration figures for January in Orange county of Motor Registration News show sales of 203 passenger cars and 16 trucks, or a total of 219 cars. This compares with totals of 41 for Imperial county, 4 for Inyo, 212 for Kern, 3231 for Los Angeles, 94 for Riverside, 156 for San Bernardino, 266 for San Diego, 23 for San Luis Obispo, and 98 for Santa Barbara. Figures for various cars in the county are: 17 Buicks, 7 Cadillacs, 1 Chalmers, 1 Chandler, 27 Chevrolets, 4 Coles, 15 Dodges, 6 Durants, 3 Essex, 71 Fords, 1 Franklin, 2 Hudson's, 3 Hupmobiles, 11 Maxwells, 1 Nash, 4 Oaklands, 1 Oldmobile, 1 Overland, 4 Packards, 1 Paige, 1 Reo, 15 Studebakers, and 5 Willys-Knights. In the entire states, 6,694 cars were sold, of which 2,309 were sold in the 47 northern counties and 4,385 in the 11 southern counties. Of those sold in the 11 counties, 3,984 were pleasure vehicles, and 401 trucks. In the northern counties, 2,081 pleasure cars were sold and 228 trucks. Next to Los Angeles county, largest sales were in Fresno, 286; San Diego, 266; and San Francisco, 483. BOB WHITE WINS HIS GOLD WATCHES The Bob White Co. was awarded one of 10 Howard gold watches, given by President H. H. Franklin of the Franklin Motor Co., for the sub-dealers throughout the country who most exceed their apportioned number of cars sold in November and December. The local agency stood seventh on the list, and with an Oceanside, Cal., and Pueblo, Colo., agency was one of the only three agencies west of Ohio which got one of the 10 prizes. The Anaheim agency bested its allotment by 150 per cent. A Nash four-cylinder touring six was delivered on Thursday to T. J. Cox of Placentia, a bicycle and car rent dealer. FOR WORLD With all the equipment of Russian manufacture a radio station is being built at Moscow that will be in direct communication with all the large stations in the world. Three more Fordson tractors were scheduled to arrive this week at the agency of George Dunton. Thus far Dunton has just about kept pace with the demand for the machines and no more. Ford owners here are eagerly looking forward to the Ford Educational Library, designed especially for schools, which will take the place of the Ford Educational Weekly motion pictures. Farmer owners of Fordsons are waiting to see the way the tractor is controlled by a new device while the driver of the farm wagon or manipulator of a farm implement is at a distance. The end of spark plug trouble is seen with the discovery that if a plug is not tightened down into a cylinder head while the head is hot, after the plug has been removed there will be no difficulty. The diameter of the spark plug at that time is slightly enlarged. A new Ford purchase plan has been evolved by means of which the prospect makes weekly or monthly payments over a given time until the total has accumulated equal to the first payment required, when the car is delivered. The plan already is in vogue in Los Angeles on pleasure cars and it is expected to be put into effect similarly for Fordson tractors or Ford trucks. One might say that the prospect could save the required sum anyhow, but he doesn't, any more than he would in place of insurance. The plan is designed to enable persons with small salaries to get cars. DAYLIGHT PROJECTOR One English invention is a motion picture projector with which pictures can be shown in daylight, its screen absorbing all light which falls upon it from in front but transmitting that from the back. BEGINS NEW ENDOWMENT A drive for $3,000,000 additional endowment has begun at Stanford. NEW EXIDE BATTERY HAS DOUBLE LIFE The best battery that money can buy is the new Double X Exide, says the Ennis Electric Service, which has just put in a complete line of them. The feature of the new battery is a combination wood and rubber separator which prolongs the life of the battery 100 per cent. Hence the name chosen. The Exide people always have put out a good battery, but this latest product of its inventors is an achievement which, the manufacturers believe, will last for years to come. STARR IS NAME OF CHEAP DURANT WASHINGTON, March 11.—The three hundred and forty-eight dollar car which W. C. Durant promised three weeks ago that he would unveil in Washington today is on exhibition in the Connecticut Avenue showrooms of Harper Brothers. Mr. Durant and a party of friends and associates, including his son, R. C. Durant, president of the Durant Motor Company of California, arrived on a special Pullman car to be present at the first showing. "The new product is so known as the Starr Car, and is to be manufactured by the Durant Motors, Inc., under contract with the Starr Motor Co., which control the distribution of the car in the United States and its possessions," said Mr. Durant. "The Starr Car has created a great deal of interest among those who have seen it. They did not think that it was possible to build a car which embodies so many features of the higher price classes to sell in competition with the lowest priced cars heretofore on the market. It has a four cylinder Continental Red Seal motor, and the touring car is built to carry five passengers in comfort. Mechanical features include a disc clutch, selective sliding transmission with three forward speeds and reverse, Timken bearings in front and rear wheels, together with a Timken axle, and Hotchkiss type drive shaft. The "Tubular backbone," an exclusive Durant feature, is incorporated in the frame, giving strength and rigidity to the body." AUTO ASS’N FAVORS SHOW The Dealers' Craft of the Orange-co Auto Trades Ass'n is honored in favor of participation in the California Valencia Orange Show, to be held here May 28-30. It proper rates for space can be given, it was decided at the meeting in James, Cafe in Santa Ana, last night. Harry D. Riley was instructed to confer with the directors of the show and find out what inducements were offered. It is hoped to have a dealers' show. Bob White president, presided, and about 60 dealers were present. The dinner began at 6 o'clock and the discussion followed. The Call of the Road campaign occupied most of the meeting. The event is annual in May under the auspices of the Calif. Auto Trades Ass'n. The dealers themselves will finance the campaign as last year, and the individual advertisements of agents and dealers will be supplemented by sign boards and window cards, for which associations as a while will pay. These committees were appointed to get in touch with the dealers in each city and solicit funds: For Anaheim, Charles H. Mann and William Goodrum; Fullerton, Frank Taggart and W. J. Wickersheim; for Santa Ana, O. H. Egge and Fred Schroeder. higher price classes to sell in competition with the lowest priced cars heretofore on the market. It has a four cylinder Continental Red Seal motor, and the touring car is built to carry five passengers in comfort. Mechanical features include a disc clutch, selective sliding transmission with three forward speeds and reverse. Timken bearings in front and rear wheels, together with a Timken axle, and Hotchkiss type drive shaft. The "Tubular backbone," an exclusive Durant feature, is incorporated in the frame, giving strength and rigidity to the body. Body of the Starr Car is of full streamline design, with a high hood and slanting windshield. It will be produced in all popular models. It has semi-elliptic springs, vacuum feed gasoline tank, and is electrically equipped." Since the announcement was first made three weeks ago, many conjectures concerning the new car have been current throughout the country. The Starr Car, as was expected, is something of a sensation, because it contains so many features that are not possessed by any other low priced car. Mr. Durant has promised quantity delivery by June first, but declined to state which if any of his five plants would be used in its manufacture. CURRENT FOR LIGHT Current for an electric headlight of German invention for bicycles is provided by a generator mounted on a front fork and driven by friction of a wheel against the tire. VULCANIZING WORKS INCREASES STOCK The stock of the Anaheim Vulcanizing Works has been increased to a size and variety which the concern has never shown before. New equipment has been installed in the battery department, and the firm is prepared to look after any and all concerns. Business is good, particularly in the tire repair business. The cost of tires is going up, however, and prospective buyers are advised to stock up before the advances are on. Production costs are rising, and retail prices are bound to go up, too, the firm is advised. Plain Dealer for Good Job Printing. Instantaneous response from the Buick MRVALVE IN-HEAD FORWARD MARCH. TE way the powerful Buick Valve-in-Head motor “steps out” and responds to the throttle is a joy to Buick owners. There’s no lost motion and when you give Mr. Valve-in-Head the “Forward, March!” he just gets up and goes. A mighty good feature that. On the open road, in traffic, on hills, everywhere you drive, there’s always a time and place where you require a quick, sure getaway. That’s where Valve-in-Head leaves them all in the rear rank. ANAHEIM AU Wm. GoodrumNY ANAHEIM Buick Distributors for Northeastern Automobiles WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILD THEM.