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CHEVROLET PRODUC TION DURING 1928 REACHED 1,200,000 Detroit, Jan. 14.—With thousands of the new Chevrolet sixes daily be ing placed in the hands of owners, the Chevrolet Motor Company announced officially here Saturday that procluc tion for the first ten and a half months of 1928 equalled 1,200,000 units. This figure, it was said, repre sented an increase of 180,000 units over 1927, the best previous year. Month atter month of last year found Chevrolet shattering all former production marks. Its all time record for monthly output occurred in May, when 140,775 units were produced. May stood out in the Chevrolet cal endar also because it included the greatest single day's output in the company's 16 years of history. 7,075 cars and trucks, completely finished, rolled off Chevrolet assembly lines on May 28. Coincident with the announcement of 1929 production figures, Chevro let officials at the New York Automo-' bile Show last week, were viewing with interest the continued enthusiasm that the crowds bestowed on the new salient tributes paid Chevrolet by vis iting automobile men at the show in volved the company's remarkable evo lution from four cylinder to six cylin der production in the short space of a sixes. Several ranking officials reit erated the statement made a few weeks ago by W. S. Knudsen, presi dent, that 1929 production would equal at least 1,250,CCO units. One of the few weeks. Today all nine of Chevro- ; let's assembly plants are rapidly ad- ; justing themselves to take care of the as many years the sales department cf Chev-,'will rolet at this time is sponsoring "its annual series of nation-wide sales' meetings. The first of the series, which will be extended to include 35 cities, opened yesterday in New York, Three crews, each composed of five men, all factory executives, will con duct the meetings. It is the purpose of the meetings to enable the Chevro let dealer organization, numbering over 10,000 dealers, to hear from the lips of the company's sales heads the complete sales program, peak schedules. For the fourth time in ■<»< ■ ■ • x g i I f c $ß cl ° \ I * ifl \ w $0^} V w \ We now cover DUNLOP TIRES with this SVRET\ ROND O tire guarantee ever offered can compare with this new Surety Bond, backed by Dunlop AND the American Surety Com pany. It is blunt. It says:"Your tire will run perfectly for 12 months or we stand the gaff." No matter whether failure is due to accident, or collision, or blow out, or misalignment, or stone bruise, or road-cuts, or rim-smash, or side-wall injuries, or tube pinching, or valve-tearing, or faul ty toe-in, or undcr-inflatiop. Wc will cither repair it free of charge, or you get a new tire at reduced price. N . Ot course, wc offer this Surety Bond only with genuine Dunlop«, They arc the only tires that arc built strong enough and fine enough to make possible a Surety Bond, especially one as liberal and sweeping as this is. Come in and read a copy. Dunlop's new Winterised Tire now in stock... This does away with Chains DONALDSON'S GARAGE Plentywood Montana EASY PAYMENTS GLADLY ARRANGED BROCKTON WOMAN DIES WHEN CAR OVERTURNS Poplar.—Mrs. Frank Kortan, well known resident of the Anderson com munity north of Brockton, was in stantly killed Tuesday afternoon of last week when she attempted to jump from a skidding car and it tip ped over on her. Mr. and Mrs. Kortan had been in Brockton on business and were re turning home about mid-afternoon. At a point about three miles north of town their car, a light sedan, skid ded and Mrs. Kortan becoming fright ened, started to climb out. As she opened the door the car wheels came j to a stop against the edge of the road and the car tipped over pinning her beneath it. Mr. Kortan was unable to extricate her until help arrived sometime later. It is believed that death was almost instantaneous. Mrs. Kortan was an elderly woman, very highly regarded throughout the community and by acquaintances else where. I1JTI | \TQ AITPDI W II J, I tVl IV P.K l.fl lMIl BOOSTS PRODUC TION SCHEDULES _ Toledo, January 7th.—Production of Willys-Overland Company's Whippets and Willys-Knights will be stepped up to 1,500 cars daily from the present Daily Output Now 1.500 Cars While January Shipments May Exceed 30,000. figure of 1,200 according to informa tion given out here today by Presi dent John N. Willys. The company now has a payroll of approximately 25,000 and this force Mr. Willys states be enlarged by 10,000 within the next thirty days, January orders booked for the new Superior Whippet fours and sixes and the New Style Willys-Knight models are breaking all previous January rec ords. Mr. Willys said that at the present rate January shipments are' expected to pass the 30,000 mark, "With the introduction at the New York Automobile Show of the new Willys-Knight cars and the simul taneous price reductions on all types of the Willys-Knight Model 56, fol lowing closely on the heels of the na tionwide presentation of the new Whippets, it appears certain that we will succeed in our expansion program calling for the production of 130,000 cars in January, February and March," said Mr. Willys. "This is nearly half the goal of 300,000 cars set for the first six months and compares with a production of 73,000 units during the first quarter of 1928, or an antici pated increase of 78 per cent." Steady growth of Willys-Overland over the last few years is shown by total sales during 1928 of approxi mately 318,000 units, compared with a £otal of 184,127 units in 1927. This compares with the best previous year, 1925, when sales totalled 214,460 units. All departments of the company's plants at Toledo, Elyria, Pontiac and Los Angeles are operating day and night to keep pace with production plans while employment of skilled la borers is keeping pace with increased schedules. During 1928 Willys-Overland pro ducts led the industry in new car reg istrations with an increase of 86 per cent. ELIMINATE ALL COUN TY HIGH SCHOOLS CONVENTION URGES - : Livingston, Jan. 15.—Robert C. Elt ing of Billings was re-elected presi dent of the Montana School Boards association at the closing session of the state convention here. Other of ficers elected were: Dominic Spogen of Belt, first vice president; Hugh McGuire of Anacon da, second vice president; L. E. Rhodes of Havre, third vice president; John J. Baucus of Great- Falls, treas urer; C. H. Asbury of Hardin, execu tive secretary. Members of the exe cutive board, named at the closing session, were Thomas T. Tutty of Butte and Fred T. Parker of Hamil ton - association went on record as f av »ring the elimination of all county schools in the state. The school board members declared in their reso lution that educational requirements of the state have changed since the establishment of county high schools and regional or district high schools have grown to take their places, which provide high school to many who could not secure such education if compelled . . WILL1STON AUTO WRECKING CO. Heail and Wholesalers in Used and New auto parts A Complete of New RING GEARS. PINIONS AND WHEELS Mail orders given prompt atten tion Phone 112 Williston, N. D. 208 2nd St. WALTER P. CHRYSLER'S i m TRAFFIC TALKS SPEED AND JUDGMENT The exercise of good judgment in relation to speed is the hall mark of the careful and able driver. Un der no condition should speed be regulated entirely by the "legal limit". In othpr words, the driver should never consider that the max legal limit" is his minimum imum rate of speed. Under many conditions, the so called "legal limit" is highly danger ous—often entirely impracticable, That is because the "legal limit" is designed in many cases for ideal driving conditions only. To the driver of good judgment, anything tending to interfere with those ideal conditions necessarily cuts down the rate of speed. In cities where there is a speed law in general, there are also special subsidiary laws for congested con ters. These laws are printed with the traffic regulations which anyone may obtain. But, in suburban and country dis tricts these "subsidiary traffic laws" are unwritten. Their recognition and observance are left to the dis to attend a centralized county school. The association recommended that county high schools, as such, be dis- ■ continued as rapidly as possible to] the end that district high schools might function unimpaired. The principle of the equalization fund for the aid of needy districts was also approved by the board mem ^ ers as kav i n S proved to be of untold to needy schools. The reso ! ^i° n asked that closer scrutiny be | ^y en the financial affairs of the ap | P^ can ^ district and recommended that such changes be made in the law as will insure this fund accomplishing the purpose for which it was designed. The association will seek to secure state legislation to make it compul sory upon treasurers of various coun ties to transfer interests earned on moneys belonging to school districts entitled to such interest, pointed out in the debate that interest on disrict school funds has previously been transferred to the general funds of the counties. Segregation of the state schools for the deaf and blind and the feeble minded was urged by the board mem bers. In passing the resolution ask ing the state legislature to separate the two state instituions, the associa tion declared that Montana is the only state in the union in which those phy sically handicapped with either deaf ness or blindness are placed in the same school with those who are men tally deficient. Miss Elizabeth Ireland, state super intendent of public instruction, de livered the principal address and oth er speakers included W. K. Dwyer of Anaconda, Mrs. George Hirst of Lew istown, Fritz Roll of Great Falls and It was J. D. Wallace of Butte. President Alfred Atkinson of Mon tana State college at Bozeman spoke on "A State Fiscal Plan." KILLED BY HIS OWN GUN Brooklyn, N. Y.—Harry Oswell, 22, accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting. Both barrels of his gun were discharged in his breast when the trigger caught on a loop in his shoe string. Anaconda—Local dairy plant is be ing extensively remodeled. ToÀ3^ MOST IMPORTANT GROUP OF MOTOR CAR OUTERS Certain American people arc getting on in the world. Many of them are just starting. But they're headed up the ladder. Their ideas of luxury and beauty expanding. They want finer homes, finer furniture, finer automobiles. are During the past three years, hundreds of thousands of these progressive Americans have been buying the Pontiac Six. Some of them have bought it as the first car they ever owned. But to most of them, Pontiac has represented the first big step up from the lowest priced field. For this progressive group, Oakland has now created a brand new Pontiac Six. It repre sents an even greater advancement over every thing else in its field today than the original Pontiac represented in 1926. It will take its buy ers farther than ever up the ladder of motor quality in one step. Watch for the car i ; »3 J m4 if * mW h m JÜL.4 ► w l ►a K » as $ ►: à at »145 F t,a. b, factory O. M. DONALDSON, Dealer Plentywood, Montana In many. cretion of the motorist, many accidents, neglect of the oO servance of these unwritten laws is the cause of misfortune, A few of the conditions which the driver with good judgment can recognize as unwritten law are as follows : A choppy road full of 'pot i( holes . Unfamiliarity with the route ana the necessity for finding and read ing ALL road directions. > Unusually heavy oncoming trame and bad gutters, Single "S" or double "S" curves, A high road crown and slippery pavement.^ Pedestrians who happen to be using the road as a pathway, Farms with house and barn sepa rated by road. An asphalt road bed, rain, poor tire tread and autumn leaves, The forepoing are onlv a few of manv situations which might render the "legal limit" a hazardous under taking. In other words, use good judgment. FEDERAL OFFICERS RAID SC0BEY JOINTS turn their Bands to most any useful trade » and some of the places visited ,ooked afterwards as though each of the officers had practiced his individu al trade » to the great inconvenience of the victims. Federal Officers, Assisted by Local Police Wipe Up Wet Goods Estab lishments—Six Arrests Made. _ 1 Scobey,—In a series of raids featur- ! ed by a gas attack at one of the al- j leged rum shops, six federal officers and the city's two policemen, Hale ' Nelson and Geo. Johnson, made the Four places were raided simultane business of selling liquor at Scobey a very hazardous one and at leas ttem porarily dried up the local places. deliberation for the task in hand. For I ously and the officers report a fair amount of evidence was obtained at each and as a result Tex Barnes, Hen ry Norby, Mike Ward, Emil Pomar leau, Jack Dudley and Lester Flick were arrested. The latter was soon released but violation of the federal liquor laws were charged against the other defendants. Seven Gas Shots It would seem that the officers se lected for the raids were chosen with a federal man must now also show ability to obliterate all signs of illicit booze business wherever he finds it. For instance, the genial Ted Winters was formerly a plumber; J. H. Melvin was a blacksmith; Pat Gould a sharp shooter; Harry McGee was a butcher; George Johnson a carpenter; Otto Wadell, Hecker and Hale Nelson car. At the "Dirty Shame," where an in genious door that would have held off the Bolivian army failed to respond to the "Open Seasanme" one of Uncle Sam's searchwarrants, the officers al so showed a little ingenuity and shot the place full of gas from their guns, which will apparently deliver either lead or smothering fumes. The pants, among whom were a few cus tomers, soon decided that moon was not as essential as fresh air and the door was opened. After confiscating what liquor occu evi <tence they could find, the officers also I j t°°k the cash register and the door I a nd then demolished the fixtures. "Little Shame" Tioo. While the wrecking crew was busy j a t the first shame, the "Little Shame I | i Was receiving similar treatment. The i Beer Garden" where Tex Barnes found in charge, met the same fate. The "Dove Cot" a more pretentious I establishment, appropriately yielded couple gallons of wine to the officers who were obliged to force an entrance as there was no one in charge at the Î time at the place. was î a search Do It All Over Again Next morning, before the v. arrants could get cold, the officers made the rounds again and, to their surprise, found the managers discour ! a S e( i n ot at all, but instead were get ting ready to recuperate their losses., The officers again showed* their handiwork. That afternoon, just to show that j they reallv meant it, the officers cull i ed again end, according to reports, made quite a thorough job. Four axes wielded by husky officers soon found entrances and crashed repeateuiy in to fixtures and equipment. CHANGE IN FARMS DUE, FORD AVERS Need Complete Revolutionizing, He Writes in Newly Published Book. Says Huge Corporations Will Raise I'°°d Supplies ol the Nation Groups of Farmers Will Combine. or New York, Jan. 9,—A world in which no one smokes or discusses pro hibition, where farmers no longer farm and housekeepers no longer cook and where machines take care of the drudgery is outlined by Hnry Ford in his book, "My Philosophy of Indus try," just published. "The great problem in the home today," the Detroit capitalist points out," is too much drudgery. We shall soon find a way to do much of the cooking outside and deliver it in a hot and appetizing condition at meal time at no greater cost. The old farm is likewise due for a big change, according to Mr. Ford. "Farming needs to be completely revolutionized," he said. "Large cor porations, whose sole business it will be to perform the operations of plow ing, planting, cultivating and harvest ing, will supersede the individual far ™ er » or groups of farmers will com bine to perform their work in a wholesale manner. This is the pro per way to do it and the only one in which economic freedom can be won." Some phrases picked at random from "My Philosophy of Industry," include: "Machinery is accomplishing in the world what man has failed to do by preaching, propaganda or the written word." ft "The man who cannot think is not an educated man, no matter how many college degrees he may have quired." "The youth who can solve the money question will do more for the world than all the proessional sol diers of history." "In common decency the liquor ac Jfcr Economical Tramportmticn »1 S' i m j O fie Outstanding Chevrolet of Chevrolet History • u fix in the price ranqe of the four J represents 4 years of Development and over a Million miles of Testing Years ago, the Chevrolet Motor Company designed and built its first experi mental six-cylinder motor. This far-sighted step was taken because Chevrolet engineers knew that the six-cylinder motor is in herently the most perfect ly balanced motor —the ideal power plant to meet the growing public de mand for greater reserve power, faster get-away and, above all— smooth, quiet performance. During the last four years, over a hundred six-cylin * der motors were built by Chevrolet engineers and tested on the General Motors Proving Ground. Day and night, through winter's cold and mer's heat, the incessant testing went on—until the present motor was de veloped and finally pro nounced correct. At the same time other Chevrolet engineers were perfecting other parts of the chassis. And another great automotive organization—the Fisher Body Corporation—was devoting its gigantic sources to the creation of the finest, sturdiest and most beautiful bodies ever offered on a low-priced automobile. 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