Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1925, Page 15

SECTION TWO Pages-1-6, Auto News Page 7, Churches! Pages $9, Theaters VOL. XXXV he Caspr SECOND NEWS SECTION Tribune- Herald Ads Each Tell a Story Theaters--Advance CASPER, WYOMING, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 19: r Crihine-Hierald The Casper Sunday Tribune and The Casper Herald | SECTION TWO on 25 HEAVY SNOW IN STATE CALLS TRAVEL HALT New Record Is Set for Early Winter by Late Storm By SPARK PLUG. Recent heavy snows tn practically all séctions of the state temporarily paralyzed all moter traffic and set a record for snow depth in some sections thus far this winter during the past week. Opening with a heavy blizzard Sunday which continued through Monday and part of Mon- day night, the snow drifted to such an extent on many of the highways that abandoned cars were many and minor accidents the rule. The East Yellowst highway. between Casper and Cheyenne suf- fered worst from the storm. Fourteen inches of snow on a level fell on the, road between Chugwater and Chey- enne, and then drifted with disas- trous results to traffic. Many of the drifts were more than ten feet high and made motoring practically im: possible. Several Casperites who attempted to come by motor car from the cap- ital to this city were,forced to aban- don their cars in one of the many towering drifts and come the rest of the way by rail. The trains too were among those affected by the storm und for two days were from one to ‘Continued_on e_ Twelve) Salesrooms in Casper will cause Old Santa to turn green with envy. In practically every one the spirit of Christmas stands out like a powder hause in a snow storm. Salesmen have given prospects a rest during the past week and have turned their attention to hanging little strips of this and little strips of that. Slippery streets and _ slippery places have put an end to familiar faces. ‘The people in the vicinity of Chey- enne and Chugwater learned last Sunday what it feels like to be the center of a real snowstorm. Casper automobile dealers will convene some time during the first week in January, and immediately afterward local folks will know just what dates have been set aside for them to gaze upon the early 1926 creations of the motor car industry. The law of self-preservation cer- tainly applies to pedestrians. “Do your Christmas shopping early," was ignored again as usual this year. All merchants have signs in thelr windows calling for extra help during the final four days. The New York show will find the presentation of a new car manufac tured by an established compan: which is capable of developing 92 horse power and attaining a speed of eighty miles per hour. We're pledged to secrecy folks, but you'll know before Iong. Last year more than a hundred ‘peo- ple_took magnifying glasses _ and THE AUTOMOTIVE MELTING.POT Conducted by “SPARK PLUG” searched vainly for a certain species of evergreen trees the last four days before Christmas. This year they in safely look through the big end ‘Of a telescope and still find a tree, As each city seems to herthe cen- ter of some given area, why not call Casper the “Sagebrush Center?” While we speak of Christmas trees, there are a few dandies left at the Dean Auto Supply company. Mr. Dean carried ~ large Christmas stock of practically everything pertaining to the holidays this year. Some one is presenting a show to break the monotony of holiday week. Wo doubt whether it will need any breaking. Casper has actually become a “fightless town.” Let's petition the governor for permission to stage a rousing bull battle. “This {s no bull,” sald the boys at Johnson Brothers, as they proceeded to cut up their young buffalo heifer, The one and only cure for blind- ness js sight, They can't say nowadays that the girls put everything on their backs. All was still about*the still. what was st!]l about the still? Still, There are a number of good used cars reposing gracefully at the Nash Casper Motor company. Allof them are said to be in excellent conditton find are backed by the guarantee of (Continued on 6 _ Two) No gift could possibly be more acceptable, or provide more happiness for both giver .and receiver, than a B: The cost is small when balanced against the pleasur motor car will bring to those you love. etter Buick. e this better If you are thinking of giving a Better Buick for Christmas, it would be a good idea to make your selection soon. have it waiting at your door when the sun comes up, on Christmas morning. We will BUICK MOTOR CO., FLINT, MICH. Division of General Motors Corporation CASPER BUICK COMPANY 132 NORTH WOLCOTT PHONE 2260 WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM Notes On Amusement Offerings For Coming SECOND NEWS SECTION NO. 20 If It’s Motor News— | It’s Here! -© Week Denies He Led Auto Theft Ring Charles Kurfees, under arrest in Wichita, Kan., is declared by police to be chieftain of a ring of auto thieves who have stolen 700 cars in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado. He denies it. There are 40 men in the gang, it is alleged. British Losing 3 Grip on Rubber “Great Britain's monopoly on crude rubber and her‘ubility to con- trol and manipulate the price, are definitely going, never to return,” declared Wm. O'Neil, president of the General Tive & Rubber com- pany, in a recent address at Akron. “There are signs that rubber will be grown in many new regions along the equator all the way around the world, and among other countries Brazil looms again as a source of some quick relfef from the present crude rubber shortage. The Brazil- jan relief can be made immediate, for she has the rubber trees already growing in her forests and jungles | and the price for a‘long time will be high enough to interest her workers CLOSED CARS DUE FOR GREATER POPULARITY DURING COMING YEAR “Nineteen twenty-six will be greatest closed in the tory of the ind Whisenhunt, the ar his for Casper “Although the purchasing power of the dollar has steadily decreased until it now buys only 60 cents worth in comparison with 1913 gen- eral living standards, the automotive dollar will, bring greater 1926 than ever before. “Mechanically the automobile of today is afar better car than that of even three years ago. “It 1s now possible to bu: ity-bullt four door sedan money than the touring car parable quality in 1922." Cold, Disagreeable Weather CALLS FOR STORAGE Alcohol and Glycerine WE HAVE THEM ALL ALCOHOL, per gal. GLYCERINE, per gal. ____--_____ $3.95 Dead Storage ___.____ Live Storage ___-_ Live Storage (delivery) 424 W. Yellowstone value in! | | | TRAFFIC WEEK WHOPAYS THE COMPETITION WILL CONTINUE: | t e a i COUNTRY? ee Bie } L ||More Mergers in Prospect for Coming Year, fotor vehicle ta | Nouv Rivhih} ~ 30, ¢ x ¢ ee woe omucle taxes aise! SaY Exhibitors Assembled at Gotham to : Total ~ a - ~ 7 Motorists and Pedes-| 7s! Msbyay ! aechicetnent Lay Plans for Annual Show a ° 7. ES Caled) Ake } | trians Profit by State ile federal ex } —_ ry nditures for roads, Instruction 124 ens cee 400,541,0004 | higher priced we Amount of. highw EDU Das | Overia. ba: oc vee By BEN G. KLINE. Dill financed hy nth [ANEW IONE, fie cc ants | taxicabs. W ys mater yim BAN FRANCISCO, ‘Dec. “19, , | er receipts than mo- | mobile industry in 1926 will be in| creased the taxicab department in Somat TENA St te ee val Ie ST re o0.o00¢ | feWer hands, with competition keen ent years. torists and pedestrians have peer |PFopertion of railway | aivba atudtisiioct reCeTRR teat ete lee eee ene: ren coud treated to a period of courtesy, with|» taxes for highway lually rotiring from the in 1896 and the plant has been in ineieictldie en atranin purposes t| 8 That was the conclusion | continuous operation 27 years to, children ‘during thelr’ firat- we Revenues of | drawn by automobile men now here,| ‘he first Stearns Knight car was % from motor y Drepartr the autom > show. | turned out in 1911. George W. Book in school as to how to take their BI 400.982.0007 | They based their conclusions on the | er acquired control of the compans seats and hold their hands, has been |* Dighway pi 400,982,000 i the ; inet nip Raye aed eave beneficial to the well-ordered traffic | Amount of a Dodge oars outa regorttor sen cn | rom Drank B. Stearns in 1917 and In this city by the Golden Gate. bills pald by rail ige cars would rang m $50 to} it was from Booker that Willys pur. But a week of kind instruction is| Tad taxes 3.6% | 5 ipaatipa) sah eauled?ae sap ae BUEN 1 1 1 anoiah | fin ce ho iets ; * ; *) ‘The Grant, Templar and Rollin itera pames Ha mee ee Motor Vehicles Executives of companies going In| cars, once made in Cleveland, have and dep wallete? aie, Abin 8141 0008 quantity production do not v Aad out of existence, the latter the Dodge cuts with particular S ‘ being subjected to ruder"¢arme % ,ooo¢ | the Dodge cuts with ‘particular | riiing a petition in bankruptey a of medicine— tags and arrestg in + 79,784,000F | tit Dodge prices, with the exception | (°™%, Weeks ago. place of friendly admonishment. A | Municipal - «15,000,000 | Pont loess prices, v seer xception | the Chandler and land com @oubled traffic force has become | Personal Prop ~ 90,000,000+ | °f ae, adjustme eine ast oat at pany reported as planning to suddenly “hard-boiled,” but in spite oe other tending oroduee ened | merge. ‘This would be a natural of this fact, the results of the week 441,000* | hae uctions in the last. sis | Mover since ‘the two companies are of education are seen in greatly re-|——— sonte auctions tn the last six) controlled by nearly the same inter duced traffic violations, proving that | Bureau Internal Revenue, |™0" ests and it unnounced at the both’ motortits ana watkers ater easury Department Announcement that the control of|time the Cle. 1 company was sponsive to a little egucation. Bureau of Public Roads, Depart- | ‘Ne F. B. Stearns company, of Cl formed that the consolidation would Out of the experiment has‘come a| ment of Agriculture land, had been purchased by John | be effected when the time wa propl demand for an independent traffic Facts and Figures of the Auto-| 2); Willys and asrociates, indicates | tio commission. divorced from other | mobile Industry. ne revisions which huvebeen' gong |, It is certaln that will see Hanches of svhe yathicipelt ¢ : : jon in the industry, Mr. Willys has | spirited bidding for business in the ment, and steps are under way to Compiled by National Automobile} not yet made known his plans for | low-priced field. About a half dozen realize this. Such a’ commission, Chamber of Camme: from Bureau | the development of the ns com: | light sixes selling under $1,0 will after intensive study, is expected to |° Public Roads figures. pany but ft is understood in Cleve- | be introduced at the New Yark show. Yaterially réduce accidents. in the} {From Interstate Commerce Com-| land that operations will be Incréds-| President Ross W..Judson, of Conti “adVieer sones,”, which a coroner's | mission figuros. ed. Somo believe the plant will be|nental Motors, said today his com ieitfane Ka Mirendy? vevenied. oe devoted largely to the manufacture {pany has completed negotiations with ped fas = = Why not an Essex for Xmastiof the Knight motors for yse In! (Continued on Pare Four) BILLY SUNDAY OWNS NEW WHITE TRUCK When Billy Sunday closed his re- cent fall campaign in Portland, Ore., and went 70 miles east of there to his ranch at Hood River, Ore., where he spends his summers and occa- sional holidays, he took along his latest “pride of joy"—a new White | truck. | The truck, secured through the Portland district office of The White company, is a two-ton model with a body built to the evangelist’s spect- fications, “a bed about two-foot sides for hauling sacks of potatoes and grain and slats about five feet high for hauling hogs and cattle.” The name, Sunday Ranch, fs lettered on the sides. The White replaces an 11-year-old truck of another make. ———— Overland Boasts Of Youngest Salesman | more ¢ out from Toled f lylwood in one of the Overland ixes Through the soapy wet mud of Missouri and other western states | this boy piloted his mother safely through the 3,000 miles of all kinds of roads, arriving in Los Angeles with an expenditure of only $97 for and off during the long trip. Today, after handling this Ov land Six for more than 8,000 mi the boy, Gordon Allen, is fast bec m: ing one of the high-powered auto. mobile salesmen in southern Cali fornis $1.00 $9.50 $12.50 The Lee Doud Motor Co. Phone 1700 f Just Arrived A WHOLE CARLOAD OF HUPMOBILE SIX SEDANS They will be delivered soon, so avail yourself of this Wonderful Opportunity To view this popular New Six. OUR SALESROOM IS OPEN ALL DAY UNDAY Joe E. Mansfield, Inc. 328 South David St. Phone 346