Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1927 — Page 4

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State Opens Bids Today for 80.75 Miles of Pavement

DOT DIMES WILL BE GRADED; COMMENCE SOON U. S. Highways Gaps to Be Part of Season’s Program of Construction Work. Bids for paving 80.75 miles and grading 4.5 miles were opened today by the State highway department, tfohn D. Williams, director, announced this morning. This is the second pavement letting of the 1927 construction season. According to the State program, about 215 miles will be under contract this season, with an increase of mileage if finances will permit it, Williams said. United States Highway No. 30 will be paved all the way across the State, according to William J. Titus, chief engineer. The proposed plans will start at the Ohio line and continue through Ft. Wayne, Columbia City, Warsaw, Plymouth, Valparaiso to the Illinois line at Dyer, which is located near the south line of Cook Counyt, Illinois. This route is now partially pared and in the proposed plans 40.6 mi.es of pavement will close all gaps. The highway follows closely the New Tork-Chicago route of the Pennsylvania railroad. Completion of this gives a short paved route from Indianapolis to Chicago, via Highway 31 to Plymouth, thence to Valparaiso and Chicago. The paving projects are as follows: U. S. No. 41. from Schneider to Belshaw. in Lake County, four miles. U. S. No. 150. from West Baden to end of present pavement just east of Paoli; in Orange County. 10.3 miles. U. S. No. 30. from Plymouth to Warsaw. in Marshall and Kosciusko Counties. 23.5 miles. U. S. No. 30. front Hamlet to Plymouth, in Starke and Marshall Counties, 17.1 miles.*. U. S. No. 52. from Lafayette to Fowler, in Tippecanoe and Benton Counties. 25.7 miles. Grading; projects: No. 56. from just west of French Lick to end of pavement, in Orange County. 2.3 miles. No. 43 .relocation to new bridge nearing completion over Mill Creek, between Spencer and Cloverdale, in Owen County, 2.2 miles. Director Williams this morning also signed a . contract with the Seaman Construction Company of Goshen to grade 3-10 of a mile on No. 31, from one and one-half miles west of Bunker Hill, in Miami County. This is an approach grading for a subway under the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The Tail Light By Swede Swanson

Moon and Diana cars have been recently taken on by the Fanchier Motor Sales Cos., of which W. W. Fanchier is president and E. C. McChrdy, general manager. Both of these men have helped make automobile history in Indianapolis for a long time. So long, in fact, that to divulge the exact number of years might come too close to telling their ages. Harry Sharp says that the old adage, “A Flivver a Day Keeps the Wolf Away,” Is one of the best wise cracks that Shakespeare ever wrote. He’s wrong about Shakespeare writing it; it was Longfellow. Most persons would like to bring back the good old days when cars broke down every few miles, not because cars broke down every few miles, but because of those good ofd days. Sam Trotsky, famous for ‘‘Trotsky’s Truths,” and head of the Indiana Service stations, reports that February receipts were twice as large as during the same month of last year. The Fisk Tire Cos. has something to look forward to now. H. M. Hoope, tire man of Indianapolis, has just connected with the tire concern and expects to announce his new place of business very soon. Here are our spring poetry contributions from the auto dealers, believe it or not. A few more were received, but because of certain very good reasons they do not appear here. Now, if you feel sort of ethereal with the ushering in of the flowers, the bees, apple blossoms or what have you, as well as bills for the missus’ new hat, just sit down and do your stuff and pour out your heart on paper. Send it to the auto editor in care of The Times. Must be brief, like these: Flivvers on the hillside, Packards on the plain, AH of them get muddy, Spring is here again. ~ Seth Klein. Dandelions blooming, All along the way; That’s why we are yelping, “Buy that Chevrolet.” i —Harry Stone. Max Zimmerman of Buick sajd he got quite a kick out of a wedding he attended several weeks ago when the organist by mistake played “Just Before the Battle, Mother.” F. J. Swigart, well known in the automobile business in Indiana, has been appointed sales manager for Carl H. Wallerich, Inc., Indianapolis and Newcastle (Ind.) Chrysler distributors. Swigart has been connected with the automobile industry for eleven years. Homer JjcKee, vice president of the Marmon Motor Car Company, who made a trip to the Pacific Coast last month, Is expected to return to Indianapolis within a few days.

Care , Courtesy Prevents Mishaps

Q LUMBERMENS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY \ The correct manner to approach and pass a car Is described In the top photographs. The car originally in the rear remains ini its position until after the oncoming car has passed. Lower photos dhow a common practice from which numerous accidents have arisen.

AUTO, GAS TAXES ■ NET LARGE SUMS Counties Get Third of Gas Revenue of State. Estimated revenue from the State gasoline tax for 1927 will amount to about $9,000,000, two-thirds of which will be given the State and the remainder to counties for the general road construction and maintenance programs for the season. The revenue expected from auto licenses for the year is expected to total about $5,500,000.

Local Persons in the Orient

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The above photograph was taken in Singapore, federated Malay states, in December, 1925. Left to right: L. If. Keegan, Mrs. Keegan, H. M. Laib

2 AUTO OFFICIALS MEET AFTER YEAR IN ORIENT Spend Many Months in Kipling’s Famous -East of Suez’ Country Developing Automobile Sales.

After spending a year together in j the Orient, H. M. Laib, wholesale manager for the local factory branch of the Willys-Overland Company, and L. B. Keegan, wholesale manager for the F. L. Sanford Company, Dodge dealers, meet again in Indianapolis. Laib and Keegan then represented the Dodge Motor Company. Sailing from San Francisco on July. 16, 1925, they first visited Honolulu and proceeded to Japan, China,' Philippine Islands and the Federated ; Malay States before stopping very long at any of the ports included on the itinerary. They next reversed the trip and spent several weeks at each of the large cities of the Orient. While there they spent their time developing sales methods and Instructing in the financial systems for aiito dealers. Cars used in the Orient were manufactured by American, British, French and Italian concerns. Because of the lack of individual wealth in some places the light English type of car led In number. Trucking by auto was in its early stages of development and overloading was one of the problems that met the frowns of manufacturers. The lack of highways was another handicap in the development of various uses of the auto. In colonies where the Influence of the larger nations has been felt, roads are always passable land the auto industry has iiourisned in proportion to the wealth per capita. Hire cars, instead of taxicabs, are used in the Chinese trading ports and in the larger Japanese cities, as well as Singapore and Manila, Coach Sliding Seat Now Offered Public Convenience for the person who rides in the rear seat of the coach type of car that has only two doors has been catered to by the Van Auken movable seat sold by the Swisshelm & Parker Company, 642-44-46 E. Washington St. The seat has a button which releases it on a slide, to permit the occupant to move forward in his seat, thus allowing room for the rear seat pas- i senger to get out of the car.

Organize Local Auto Exchange Three local auto dealers, in an effort to simplify and centralize the merchandising of used cars, have organized and are now operating the Indianapolis Auto Exchange, located*' at 700 E. Washington St. The three men are: R. H. Losey, president of the Losey-Nash Motor Company, president; R. V. Law, head of the R. V. Law Motor Company, Hudson and Essex distributors, vice president, and Homer C. Lathrop, president of the Lathrop-Mc-Farland Company, Oldsmobile distributors, secretary-treas-urer. , Otis E. Meldahl of Cincinnati has been appointed sales manager of the new concern.

with ancient methods In competition against them. Laib says that the water buffalo is still prominent in the industrial affairs of the native, who keeps the animal under his house. Thi3 slow proceedure is rapidly disappearing in places. Mrs. L. B. Keegan accompanied her husband on the entire trip.

Interhationai Trucks Reign Supreme

In the past, International Speed Trucks in large numbers have demonstrated an exceptional ability to haul their rated loads economically and speedily. Their adaptability to this type of service has been further amplified by the addition of six-cylinder models to the line, and by many chassis refinements. The wheelbase in all models has been lengthened and frames given extra depth, strength and bracing. - With these speed truck models, there is no hauling job in this type of service that Indianapolis can not efficiently handle to the owner’s complete sa:.i*ction. For every kind of load, in any section of the country, over any kind of road, in every sort of traffic, there is an International Speed Truck which will thoroughly meet requirements. International Trucks Are Serviced by 120 Branches in the United States International Harvester Cos. OF AMERICA, Inc. BRANCH FACTORY 421-23-25-27-29 Kentucky Ave. Lin. 7391-2-3-4

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIJVILtt

Farmers Favor Western Tours Bu United Press YELLOWSTONE PARK, March 9. —Farmers as a class were more numerous as tourists in the Tellowstone National Park during the summer months last year than any other industrial or business class of workers. Drivers of 6,360 of the cars that entered the park were engaged in agricultural pursuits. The second largest number of class workers were salesmen, with 2,468 representatives.

AUTO SPEED SETS HARSH TESTS FOR MOST HEADLIGHTS Only Few Seconds Is Most Time Given in Which to Stop at Night. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., March 9. —The relationship which exists between automobile head lighting and driving speed is being studied by electrical engineers in hopes of removing the greatest dangers of night motoring. An automobile traveling at the rate of twenty miles an hour when ite headlights reveal an obstruction 100 feet ahead allows the driver 3.4 second in which to recognize the obstacle, according to a study made by engineers and reported in the General Electric Review. Assuming that one second is taken for recognition and decision, there remain seventy feet for braking and other action. The same car and driver at sixty miles an hour have an entirely different problem. The single second taken for recognition and decision would bring the car within twelve feet or within one-seventh of a second of the obstruction. AVliere seventy feet is ample for deceleration from twenty miles an hour, possibly 200 feet would be required for a full stop from sixly njiles an hour. The obstruction must therefore be first brought into view at 312 feet, with no margin of safety for momentary inattention or wror># de cisions. To produce equal visibility 'by means of an automobile headlight would require ten times the intensity at 312 feet that easily served at 100 feet.

LA SALLE SHOWN FOR FIRST TIME Burke-Cadillac Exhibits New Make of Car. Announcement is made by the Burke-Cadillac Company of the new La Salle, anew car manufactured by the Cadillac Motor Car Company, which is on display at the saltrooms at Eleventh and Meridian St < The lines of the car are slightly different from the,average car of its weight. Radiator is of the racing car type. Six body styles are offered, including a four-passenger phaeton, two-passenger roadster, convertible coupe, two passenger stationary coupe, four passenger Victoria and a five-passenger sedan. The car is powered with the V-type of eight-cylinder motor and weighs less than the Cadillac. Its wheelbase is shorter. > In general appearance the car as a whole is a departure from that of other models. I/GETS FOR STEPPERS A bill requiring pedestrians who walk on highways at night to carry a light or red reflector visible for at least fifty feet has been introduced in the Connecticut Legislature by Representative Robert E. Foote.

GOVERMENT WILL IMPROVE PART OF INDIANA::; ROADS Seven Per Cent of Miles to Be Given Financial Aid by Federal Body. Os the 73,000 miles of various types of roads in Indiana, the Government gives financial aid of 7 per cent, or about 5,000 miles. This aid usually is lent In improving or constructing roads of national Importance, such as links of the transcontinental highways. Approval must he made by Government authorities of any project before help is rendered. Indiana highway authorities expect financial aid this year from Washington will total nearly $2,000,000, it is said. 120 Cars Daily Is Marmcn y s Schedule Production, at the local factories of the Marmon Motor Car Company is increasing, according to reports from officials. At the present time, effort is being made to maintain a production schedule of 120 automobiles a day. New distributors and dealers are being added to the Marmon distributive organization at a rapid rate, some twenty-two new connections having been announced this week by H. H. Brooks, general sales director of the company.

Who Manages the Standard Oil Company? {lndiana)

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“A composite picture of the Board of Directors would show a striking preponderance of the type of man who has risen from the humblest position through sheer ability and has received what education he possesses from experience in the school of hard knocks rather than in academic circles/’ The Literary Digest gives the above account of the men who manage the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). The Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is composed of ten members— R. W. Stewart... ! 777.7.....'.. V Chairman E. G. Seubert President W. M. Burton Director Beaumont Parks, Vice Pres., Gen. Mgr. Mfg. Allan Jackson Vice President R. H. McElroy Vice Pres., Traffic Manager E. J. Bullock Vice Pres., Dir. of Purchases John D. Clark Director Amos Ball General Manager Sales R. E. Humphreys Asst. Gen. Mgr. Mfg. These men are elected by the stockholders of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) and to them is entrusted the management of the Company’s business. They give their entire time, energy and devotion to the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) and to no other. The ten men who have been chosen to direct the activities of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) have received their training largely within the organization. They know their business “from the ground up." They have worked their way to positions of responsibility through conscientious, painstaking, industrious effort. In no other way is promotion achieved in the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). Opportunities are open to all. Men are rising from the ranks constantly but their advancement always is due to personal achievement. Success in this Company is attained only through hard work and marked ability. There are no easy jobs. Everybody works. In this shirt-sleeved organization, the higher a man’s position, the greater must be his capacity for work. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has undertaken the important task of manufacturing and distributing to the thirty million people of the Middle West petroleum products of the highest quality at prices which always are reasonable and fair. This task demands hard work and the best brains that can be enlisted. The Literary Digest, speaking of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), further says: —“it has been indeed a marvel of effective commercial organization.” The reason for its effectiveness lies in the eai nestness of purpose binding its group of 29,573 employes into an efficient and united whole—an organization adequate to accomplish the high ideals of service held by the management of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) General Office: Standard Oil Building 910 So. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

MARCH 9, 1927

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