Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1926 — Page 20

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TIRE FIRM IS PAYMENT PLAN ‘Pay as You Ride’ System Is Aid to Motorist. * It does not take much thought to remember the day when touring in an automobile on a vacation trip was periodically interrupted by the changing of tires, due to punctures. Conditions have changed until it is longer necessary for any one to start on any sort of a trip without the proper "rubber.”’ The Union Tire Company, Georgia and Illinois Sts., has originated the “pay as you ride quality tires” plan, which has proven a great help to the motorist who does not find it convenient to make a full payment for a tire. George B. Medlam, the presidentT says that since the first of the year more than 1,000 buyers have taken advantage of his system. TIRE STANDARDIZATION Automobile tires, which now show a large variety in size as manufactured, could be reduced to a few standard sizes, says George J. Burger, secretary-treasurer of the National Tire Dealers’ Association. Burger says that there are twentythree different sizes of balloon tires being made and forty-six out of ninety-three makes of cars using balloon tires have their needs supplied by only three different sizes. SIGNALS AND MOTORISTS "If motorists will give one another the proper signals at the right time there should be a reduction in accidents,” says L. R. Palmer, of the National Safety Council. "Many accidents are caused by one driver not knowing what the other motorist is going to do.”

Equipment for Two Touring Following are the materials for a touring party of two: Poless umbrella tent .. $40.00 Tent bag 1.25 Gasoline stove 13.50 Mattress 6.00 Trouble lamp 2.75 Folding chair 3.95 Camp stool 1.00 Ax 75 Shovel 00 Folding water bucket ... .25 Tow rope 1.45 Two 2-gal. desert bags .. 4.00 Four blankets 9.00 Dish pan GO Two frying pans 2.25 Coffee pot .35 Two stew pans 1.00 Four enameled cups ... .80 Six enameled plates 1.00 Paring and meat knives . 1.50 Bottle iodine 25 Roll adhesive tape .75 Absorbent cotton 25 Egg carrier 25 Ball of twine 25 Hanging mirror 25 Can opener 10 Six large safety pins ... .30 Total .....$94,20

Tourist Stop for Drinks, Lunch and Rest at CONFECTIONERY Li J\ IJ . FOUNTAIN GREENSBURG, IND. West Side of Cotirthnimc Sqnftre

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STEAMER TRIMBLE Largest ferry boat between Cincinnati and Louisville. Connecting link between Indiana and Kentucky. When in Madison take a trip across the "Beautiful Ohio” on the Steamer Trimble and view the picturesque scenery of Kentucky. This is the short route from Indianapolis to the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, Boat crosses river every 20 minutes on schedule. Your patronage solicited, Kentucky and Indiana Ferry Cos. MADISON, INDIANA

Owner of North Shore Hotel Is Veteran ‘Pro’Auto Driver

Herb Lytle, proprietor of the North Shore Hotel, Tippecanoe Lake, is probably the oldest living professional auto race driver. His experience dates from the infancy of the automobile industry. Lytle, with a then youthful partner, built his own autos in the early days around 1900, raced his own cars, which astounded the world with a speed of five and six miles per hour. While Lytle, in a little barn shop in Detroit, was building his first racing car, only a block away was Henry Ford, his friend, busy constructing what later became the “flivver.” Lytle's first auto had no radiator cooling system. His companion drove it while Lytle ran behind and threw bucketfuls of snow on the engine to keep it cool. Step by step Lytle built cars. He associated himself with all the pioneers of the auto industry, knew them intimately and worked and raced with them. From six miles per hour to twen-ty-five, then to thirty, then to sixty

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miles per hour in a speed demon in which President Roosevelt rode with him and said the equivalent of “step on it, Herb,” waa a long tedious grind of fifteen years of mechanical improvement. Lytle kept making his own racing cars, grabbing off frequent prize moneys. Roosevelt evaded his personal body guards to take the sixty-mile-per hour ride with Lytle. Then came Lytle's invasion of Europe. With his car, the marvel of the age. ho astounded England, where the law required two heralds to precede down the road and announce the coming of the speed demon at ten miles per hour. Horses shied. Women fled. A member of parliament employed Herb to drive him on his campaigning and the crowds the auto drew elected him again to parliament. For this Herb drew a tidy sum of about SI,OOO, sold his car and set sail for the good old U. S. A. after an absence of two years. He continued in the racing game. Held a

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| score of world records for speed and distance. Took part in the first aOO- - mile race at Indianapolis Speedway. Figured in a half dozen smash-ups. Sustained broken legs, arms.' etc., and in one dirt road wreck Lytle was picked up apparently dead. He had been thrown a distance of 209 feet from where his skidding, speeding car upset. There was no hope, said physicians. But Herb, now the genial, smiling mine host at the North Shore Hotel, famous for its cuisine, lingered and survived. He raced some more, but Tippecanoe Lake and Kosciusko County won his heart. Now-he entertains his friends and patrons of his quaint hotel. He don’t mention auto racing. But after we had dined there scores of times we finally stumbled upon two monster scrap books. They contaned hundreds of letters. From Henry Ford, Duryea, Durant, President Roosevelt, Haynes, Apperson and the pioneers of the auto industry, to foreign potentates, members of parliament, a photo of the king of England riding with Lytle in his mysterious steam wagon. Hundreds of newspaper clippings, showing Lytle's name in five-inch type, heraldng his setting of new world speed records, photos of his auto crashes, a diagram of his 209-

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HUNGRY TOURISTS! SHot Missouri Style Bar-B-Que Qi Sandwiches With Spanish Relish Home Cooked Chicken Dinners, 4 SI.OO Per Plate 4 Good Eats—Soft Drinks P . P A Rest Camp for Tourists <■> Barker-Griffin Bar-b-que On State Highway No. 1, 10 Miles South of Kokomo

MAY 27, 1926

Gas Tax Affords Big Income Hi/ XI t Venice WASHINGTON. May 27. Nearly $150,000,000 was paid in gasoline taxes in 1925 by motor vehicle operators, according to the Bureau of Public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. This is an increase of 83 per cent over the total for 1924 and four and one-half times the total in i 923. The increase is the result of the wider use of motor vehicles, adoption of the tax by a number of Stutes which had not previously resorted to it and higher rates of taxation by other States.

foot toss from his wrecked car and myriad others. Next time you go to the North Shore Hotel, ask to see the prized scrap books. Herb probably won't talk, but he'll show you his wild baby ducks, he'll tinker with the motor of his motor lx>at launch with a loving touch which recalls that his hands and brain built motors which set world records for speed and astounded the world.