The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 8, 1923, Page 13

{ | FFFIGY ASHORE IN SAN DIEGO, _ “Qld Man Detour’ Refuses to Stay Buried Old Man Detour” refuses to be yneeromoniously dumped into the ectan to remain forever, The offigy, tn the Columbia river tober 21 when the Pacific Dighway was officially opened, reappeared jast week at San Diogo, Cal. float. ing up onto the beach, a month after he Was committed to the “Parecna in San Diego who dls. covered the figure recognized him ag the one buried at Longview last October from pictures printed {fn rious newspapers aftor the cere. 1 x: Whether or not he was given an earthen Durlal, cremated or hung In q museum, was not as ceftained from the Cullfornia dis- patch, In tho meantime, tho Automobile Cub of Washington, co-operating with the Chamber of Commerce of Seattle, is mailing out pictures and stories on the Pacific highway to 140 newspapers and 50 national magazines which have agreed to give it space. This is being done in the expectation of arousing in. terest of tourists in Washington apd in giving national {mpetus to the “good roads” movement. FEW LOWER AUTO TOPS) A special canvass among owners of open cars a year or 80 ago re- yegiéd that less than 5 per cent of jiiem lowered the tops of thelr cars/ during the summer season. we 2. SEATTLE STAR “Since this canvass,” states Rus- $6) FE. Gardner, Jr., president of the | Ganiner Motor Co., Inc, “we have} not only observed that the percent. Age of tops being lowered is becom- ing smaller and smaller, but that ‘open car owners are endeavoring to find some means of converting thelr “cara into closed cars for were driving. “We have regarded this as an in- dication that there is zight now a marked need for a type of car that embodies all the features of a regu- lar Closed car, yet one that can be} fasily converted into an open car} for summer (driving. Closed car comfort it seems, is almost a neces- sity nowadays. “We have produced just. such a} car {n our all-season touring, which | Js now on display in the salesrooms of the Smallwood Motor Co., local | Gardner distributor,” { DETOUR IS BROADCAST A bridge “out™ near Silvana this lweek necessitated a new detour in ithe Pacific highway above Everett, fit was announced last ‘Thursday. “Motorists going north and south are being routed around the high ‘way by two routes. Going north, the new routing takes the autolst from Everett to Marysville detouring to Arlington Get Out Your Wheel Chains, the § Season Is Open Rainier National Park Mecca for Winter Outings “Skittg and id tobbgadhing from the s galtaa of Patidiee Valley Inn, in the Rainier National Park, will be |in order during the winter season, starting December 15. Already the rambling, picturesque structure is snowed in to the eaves, as the picture above shows. tunnel, and the inn is newly decurated and fitted for the entertainment and accommodation, of winter weather out-of-doors hikers and motor parties, Entrance to the hotel is thru a hard-packed snow } 3 | Reports of 15 inches of snow on the | pans indicate that the winter motor- |ing season ts upon Washington and {outing in the national park. FORD SALESMEN ATTEND SESSION Prepare for * Convention of Three States Soon One hundred sixty Ford dealers and thelr salesmen attended a sales meeting at the Seattle branch of the national company last Tuesday evening. Officials of the Ford Mot- or Co., addressing the men included Chief Inspector Grady, Production Superintendent Harrison, Stock Superintendent Barnum, Mr, Bal- lard, speaking on sales, and R. W, Hines, branch manager, who spoke on the one million dollar sales cam- palgn now being conducted, Topnotch salesmen of the city addressed the meeting on sales problema. Monday and Tuesday dealers from Montana, Idaho and Washing- ton have been invited to visit the local branch of the Ford Motor Co., to attend a convention on promot- ing sales campaigns. Two hundred- Nifty aro expected. Plans for the meeting include a theater party at the Orpheum Monday night and a banquet at the New Wushington hotel Tuesday noon. re not so good for motoring. A report from the Blue mountains in Orngon shows about 6 inches of snow, with roads not yet impaasible. Snoqualmie reports a 124nch snow: fail last Thursday making a total of 15 inches on the pass. A heavy rath also fell, any day, according to the Seattle office of the Automobile Club of Washington. Conditions on the Blewett pass ap- proximate those of the Snoqualmie. But over in Rainler park, the heavy snows are being greeted with Joy. It means the annual mountain climbing and skiing season. Na tional Park inn, the Longmire Springs inn and the Paradiso Val- ley inn will all be open this season, with a bountiful supply of snow- shoes, skiis, sledges, and—what in more to the point—plenty of food for the hungry and plenty of heat for the cold. ‘The government has agreed to keep open six miles of the road this winter, from the Nisqually entrance With pit indleating that Sinu- qualmie Pass may be closed soon, Jue to the heavy fall of snow on the auto road there, winter motorists aro turning thelr attention to the opening of the season at the Rainier Park hotels and inna, December 15. many are already preparing for an Meanwhile, conditions in the mountains to the west and south driven by a high) wind. This pase ts apt to be closed | For Economical Transportation | A Washburn Chevrolet Sold the Washburn Way and Backed by Washburn Service Assures the Own- er of Complete Motor Car Satisfaction. “Look for the Gold Line Radiator” Washburn Company 12th at East Madison Terms of Course—Trades—Every Chevrolet Part Chevrolet 14,000 square feet of Service Space to the park to National Park inn. From that point winter weather outdoorsmen must tramp back to the Paradise Valley and Longmire establishments. In preparation for a big season, starting December 15, the National Park inn will be heated and lighted with electricity. Toboggan and snowshoe parties will be in order and an aute stage service will be instituted from Seattle and Tacom:. Entrance to Paradiso Vallsy inn will be thru a snow tunnel, since the heavy msows have banked up to the rorfs of the long, rambling eurectane® This ia the home of the Westlake Chevrolet Co., at 118 Westlake ave. N., which opened for business a few weeks ago, The structure was rebuilt and arranged with a large sales- room, a completely equipped stock room, offices and a repair shop. president of the company. Guy Thompson is | Oe on’ over the Lake McMurray } road to Conway. The other route fs to take the Pacific highway to the Island school house and then turn east to Arlington and golng on by way of the route mentioned to the north of Arlington, westward. Conway. To reach Stanwood, motorists are being directed to take road to Bryant, about four miles and then turn VE-IN_-HEAD | 7 Seattle Prices—t Government Tax Fours -$1,160 $1,125 Five-Passen, cer Touring . ‘Two-Passenger Rondater Five-Passenger Touring $1,545 Two-Pas + $1,520 $1,980 42,400 $1,825 Four-Wheel Brakes o joveunnnunwnnn % , % It’s easy under the $ Christmas Plan. close firmly and donot rattle, There are two rubber bumpers and a dovetail joint which take the strain off the door lock and pre- vent weaving in any Passenger Sedan + 81,735 ‘aasenger Coupe $1,030 | vd lass “ niger Sport Tour- s: m Sedan ...ss.+-. asnenger Coupe in All Models PEPE PS RS Rs TENS PS POPES Make this a BUICK Christmas a Eldridge Buick 8 Ask About It. 4 Uy TE PZIG ISIS IS IBIS ISPS ISIS TERS ISIS PSPS ISIE IS ISIE ELpripee 3777 OAR: East Pike at Harvard EA st-0842 New Downtown Store—Stuart Bldg., Fourth Ave. at University Street th Stores Open Evening 6 Until Christmas When better ai automobiles are built, B Buick will build them Imagine a motorist out for a w You ought to be able to pick him | steady out of a mob of pedestrians. For he| shop |acts and looks as different trom the regular run of walkers 5 the | automobile he drives tro | it tries to run down. What changed him #0? Tho hel-| ter-akelter of traffic, whistles of traf, fic cops, playing children, crossing [pedestrians, stopping street cars, | scooting buses, night lights, weird |signaling, elusive parking spaces, | | speed trape—and a thousand and one | annoyances, It Is he has develor ion bi rought c and aut auto habit is r women about her shopping v res lar expre clement al complex pe His featur , determined, His oye z, Deep Ines on eithe He & mouth turn down, Itles will hav ms, Peking | When he walks down the lespecially in the cr | you will invariably f | far ahead, strainin the Har }utill going full speed to a p er-| p w mine tinatio His expre | }immobile, yet his eyeballs move tf oe to right and left, as tho he nother motorist passing him. People coming toward him he see} | to pass to the right, out of habit. By the same token, gg ds up and} | passes others goin, |left. New motori ‘otten out of their habit of walk! he recog undeter | hich have past two y now doing a pro: with 10-cent fares. by their lipshod, mined manner of walking. His is the essence of the Jazz age, S| today. And as he becomes more expert enced as a driver, can flash in and out of a dense traffic line without 1 norntch, can judge distances to with. | in six inche t juat as it is stopp! n kot away 1 many a hair-raising stunt any an uld refrain from at 1ce becomes more and n be picked | , can a street car | tem }mote marked et oee sore Be © oasily nd he ¢ u ux identified by hand appe nd | fied as a motorist or otherwiso, #0 woman be placed in either y. Hers may be a trifle more Aifticult, because of. the expre iready imprinted on her feature |thru the 1 till an can be elong habit of shopping ‘ops, whether walking ¢ that there 1s conflict for she | remacy, betwee the motoring face a mixture o habits, noticeable, Bhe hugs the eurb, “Kale in mi ‘Has Your Motor Given You a Different Face? er | of but the neverthe- as it were, ‘ing’ spacer, face, And yut much at | tention to the persons about ‘her i Tap: and the tre a report mm: idee nh and Urga and ft 1 oner and 1 to bo entered in the near tu tor bus com sup dur 1 which e business WHY On we pave Binge? Have a DIAMOND NON-SKID TREAD put on yc amooth cord Wo Guaranteo 30x38, BL fot-2984 NEW METHOD TIRE SHOP 2101 WESTLAKE OPPORTUNITY Want Ads | “ht | | has been Prices on Models Here—Tax and Freight Paid Touring Car - $630 Roadster -- 625 Coupe---~- 830 Sedan ---- 990 A big attendance of winter en- thuslasts ond auto parties fw ex- pected, SPEED TRAP CLAIMED 7 Reports of a “speed trap’ at Ka- lama, Wash, have resulted in an investigation by the etate highway control department and the Wash- ington State Automobile club, it was learned at state headquarters. Re- cent reports by motorists of being arrested, haled into court and fined for speeding, have become so wide- spread, {t was reported that tray- elers out of Portland, are being routed thru Longview so that they may avoid the Kalama court. : = Verified ! ~all that we prophesied - -all that we wished for your overwhelming response to From North and South come reports of vast sales of STAR CARS, showing the immediate and universal interest aroused by our new models, From Oregon, from Washington, from California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho—from all sides we hear words of praise for their chaste beauty and charm of design. You've answered the announcement of our improved and more beautiful autox mobile in a fashion that is convincing and enthusiastic to the highest degree. We've tried to be conservative in our statements, but your cordiality now per mite—even forces us to say the Sensation of the Year is F. 0. B. Lansing, Mich. W. S. Y ALLEY MOTOR CO, Auburn C. EWING, Kent AL it SMITE V. 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