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Saturday. January 9, 1926—Page 3
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
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All the New* That’s Fit to Print—Since 1871.
Statesman Saturday Auto News
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Four Winners Of Auto Contest Receive $20 In Prizes
This Letter Paid 10 Cents A Word
WINTER DRIVING
NEW OLDS SIX
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boasted 30,000 for Daytons.
VELIE
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421 Congress
Auto Battery "Human," Says Expert
mobile overturned on the Austin
Waco highway a few miles beyond
he knows how.
A. E. Martin.
•206 E. 5th St.
Phone 3733
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The three most prevalent evils to be encountered during cold weather are:
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QUALITY AUTO PAINTING
Lacquer Enamel If Desired
Two Painting Systems
W/t E. 6th Street
Austin, Txas
Phone 9243
“The Bitterness of Low Quality Kills the Sweetness of Low Pries'*
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STEINER & GERRISH
Phoe 3264
206 West Fifth
JOHN F. CHURCH.
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SERVICE
EFFICIENCY
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AUTO EDITOR
TRAVIS ROADS
IN FAIR SHAPE
Why Not Give Us a Trial
Better Automobile Repairing
AUTO LETTERS
PAY GOOD PRICE
Here's Radiator Core
That Won't Freeze
IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY GUARD AGAINST THESE EVILS THE
FOLLOWING INFORMATION AND SUGGESTIONS ARE OFFERED:
recovering from injuries received
Wednesday night when his auto-
Doing only what is necessary to your car, and
doing it right, means lower upkeep.
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Two Women And Two
Men Divide Cash
Prizes In Contest.
Fiction Rates Earned
By Winners In
Contest Here.
Main Highways Good,
While Community
Roads Are Rough.
Timely Hints to Studebaker Owners on the
Care of Their Cars During Cold Weather
If You Have a Flat Tire and
You Ara In a Hurry, Dial
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Coupe Or Sedan Adds
Pleasure, Benson.
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SHOT SHOT TIRE SERVICE
2332,6739
If You Have a Flat Tira and
You Are In a Hurry, Dial
Gibbs
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GENERAL WELDING
And RADIATOR REPAIRING
HOWARD C. FROMAN
Editor
IF YOU’RE not a Davis Bros.
- enthusiast now, man. get
acquainted with the finest
Auto Service Station in
Austin.
First—the freezing of your cooling system due to lack of Alcohol.
Second—Dilution and contamination of oil in the crank case caused by
excessive use of the choke, by not changing the crank case oil often
enough and not permitting the motor to warm up properly before
putting it under load.
Third—Water accumulation in the motor base, the result of condensation,
which forms in cold weather a thickened substance called sludge. If
the oil is not changed frequently and the water drained off, the oil
passages become clogged, the strainer screen stopped and a general
lack of lubrication results.
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Lavaca Street Garage
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Phones—Day 2795Night 8310
SKILLED IN OUR WORK
And Our Work Marks Us Specialists in
Repairing
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GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING
On All Makes of Cara and Trucks
BENSON MOTOR CO
STUDEBAKER DEALERS
A good hot spark is needed for starting in cold weather, therefore make
sure that all electrical connections are clean and tight.
Racing a cold motor will not warm it up, retard the spark and let the engine
run slowly.
Um a radiator cover to allow the motor to warm up more rapidly, and also
to run at a higher operating temperature.
Use high test gasoline.
Avoid excessive use of the choke.
Have the motor base dropped and oil sump washed out at least once a
month during the winter. ,
See that you always maintain the proper amount of Alcohol in your cooling
system. In this connection the following table shows differently pro-
portioned mixtures and temperatures at which each solution will begin
to freeze.
If a battery is not properly charged, freezing will result, therefore, the
specific gravity should be frequently checked by one of the battery
service stations. For instance, your battery may freeze 1 at five de-
grees above zero if the specific gravity is permitted to run down
to 1.150.
Will Begin to Freeze
at Degrees Fahr.
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18—below zero
By MRS. CHARLES STEPHENSON,
Winner of First Prize.
In “keeping my car in condition,” I have found that “an
ounce of prevention” is worth a ton of new parts and it
isn’t the emergency repair jobs that count in the long run.
When I decided to get another Studebaker, my decision was
50 per cent merits of the car and the other 50, service given
me by the Benson Motor company for the past ten years
Earl Henry, foreman of the shop, looks after my car as if
it were his own and I have never had occasion to question
his work or his charges.
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V. O. WEED. Phone 6223.
Undertaker ana Ambulamnce.—Adv.
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99 Congress Ave.
Writes Poem To Her
Repair Mfm
By EVELYN MAXWELL HARRIS.
The Day and Night Garage 1 And
A good, trustworthy place
To send my car, most any kind
The trouble they will trace..
So several times a year I send
It down anew to make.
They drain the crank, they oil and
tend
To battery. lights and brake.
They tighten nuts, valves they grind
And test it through and through.
They watch for knocks; if carbon
find
They make it run as new.
So I don’t wait and harm my car
Or have a wreck or two—
Just have it tested, keep as par:
Though old, it runs as new.
A ahmmddhe“PMONE,
HOT SHOT TIRE SERYISE
USE GOOD GAS
AND OIL
Without proper compression and
hot ignition your car will not give
satisfactory results.
Ones upon a time my car began to
lose power and to step on the gas
would stall the motor. I first ex-
a mined the gasoline,* finding a very
low grade, causing valves to car-
bonise and not properly seat. After
regrinding and reseating the valves
and changing gasoline to pure or a
light grade, my car was like new.
My advice to car owners is to
use the best gasoline and oils.
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tinued to file into County Tag Col-
lector ob Williams' office during
Friday to secure 1926 license plates,
swelling the total number of 11-
censes issued to 5472. Approxi-
mately 5000 Travis county cars
still remain to be registered, Col-
lector Williams said.
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■BREAKING IN"
IMPORTANT STEP
I purchased a new Ford touring
car from Barker Motor oompany
July 18. IMS. I broke It In M my
father taught u« boy. to brenk in a
young colt. For the first 500 miles
I never exceeded 15 or 20 mll«« an
hour. (After that is another story.
When an auto is painted, one n r A r
coat will do if the bus is oplyNew Auto Tax
If you could see the
rigid inspection that
every Oldsmobile must
(-T HAPPENS in the best reg-
I ulated radiator families.” This
is the way Dewey Puryear, man-
ager of the Austin welding radi-
ator company, speaks of radiator
freezes and subsequent breakages.
Puryear Installs the only radi-
ator core in the world that will
not break when frozen, and that
is because it is treted to with-
stand all expansion.
"In former years,” Puryear said,
“everybody thought that when he
had a bad radiator leak he simply
had to buy a new one. Now we
can fix a radiator as good as it
was when new and save the owner
at least 50 per cent.”
A STORY ON T'RES.
We left Austin for San Francisco,
Cal-, and reached our destination
without a puncture.
The tires we used on our trip
were “Goodyear” tires. I can say
for these tires that they are well
named. as they are good and will
last for years.
They were purchased from R. A.
Houston. Goodyear service station.
We carried 60 pounds of air, but
through the desert the pressure in-
creased. We drove more than 5000
miles through desert, tunnels and
canyons. It sounds like a fairy
story, but we used discretion
The secret is “Goodyear,” as the
tires are in good shape.
MRS. SHELTON C. A DRAIN
That back-yard repair job cost
a over $90, as we got the rings too
Our repair men are
experienced and give
first class service. We
do general repairing at
fair prices and turn
them out on time.
Try us. No job too
large, nor too small.
many firms help
KEEP CAR FIT.
I find that to keep my car in tip-
top condition I must have it in-
spected often, the best of motor
oils, Quaker State or other Pennsyl-
vania crudes, always let Willard
Battery station keep your electri-
cal apparatus in the best of shape,
keep it well greased, buy that Good
Gulf gas, let Hicks rubber company
watch your tires, let Joe Callan re-
line your brakes and keep the old
bus hitting on all six and then if
you want a good paint job see Cole,
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Automobile batteries are just like humans. Take that from Harry
Bouchard, manager of the Lavaca street garage, who has a “speak-
ing acquaintance** with every battery in town. And because of the
fact that batteries are like humans, “you can’t afford to treat them all
alike for ailments and you can’t rush that treatment too much.”
FALSE ECONOMY
To save a few dollars I recently
tightened a connecting rod bearing
in my Ford, having read my Ford .
manual on the subject.
This was my last attempt at doing
a skilled man's job, as I got the.
bearing to tight and burned the i
babbitt out of it and had to have
Fromme Motor company put in a
new connecting rod, the parts and
labor amounting to many times the
price From.e would have charged
to adjust the bearing in the pirat
place, not to speak of my lacerated,
grimy " ands and ruined clothes
and a whole day lost.
J. TRENKMANN, JR.
TIRES MOST VITAL,
HE WRITES,
"Tis said that a chain is only as
strong as Its weakest link; a car,
only as strong as its weakest point.
If this point is An old worn-out
tire, you will find, as I have found,
that there is nothing more annoying
than to be on the road and hear
the ominous him of escaping air or
feel the bump of a flat tire. Do
you want the joy. the thrill, the
pleasure, you had when your car
was* new? Then get a full set of
Firestone cords from Johnson Rub-
ber company and forget your tire
Eddy. Blow-out of a tire caused
the car to turn over and pin him
underneath. Ankenman said on his
return to Austin* He suffered cuts
and bruises on his left leg and
shoulder, and the tip of the little
finger on the right hand was cut
off.
All state highways in Travis
county are in good shape, and the
more important local roads are
passable, despite the recent bad
weather, according to information
given out by the Austin Chamber
of Commerce road bureau Saturday.
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Cameron Road Rough.
The state highways are, for the
most part, hard surfaced and not
affected by rainy weather, but many
of the dirt roads have been almost
impassable during the last week.
State highway No. 2, running
through Austin north by way of
Georgetown. Is in good condition
and safe, although an unpaved por-
tion was very slick during the rains.
The road to Pflugerville and Tay-
lor is reported in fair condition, but
the Cameron road by way of Gregg
is very rough. The Sprinkle road
is reported all right, and that to
Bastrop by way of Hornsby’s Bend
is in excellent condition.
On the highway to Manor, a new
bridge is being built over Walnut
creek, and a detour is necessary.
While the going over the detour is
slow and rough, it is possible to get
through, reports indicate.
Community roads in many in-
stances are still next to impassable,
with ruts ankle deep making prog-
ress difficult. Inability of many
farmers to get to highways over
local roads from their farms made
it necessary to call off a meeting
of the county livestock association
scheduled for Saturday afternoon, it
was said.
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When you need Gas or Oil,
when you need greasing, you
need Davis’ Auto Service.
The cost is no more than
ordinary service.
Otto Ankenman
Hurt In Crash
Otto Ankenman, owner of the
Capitol Engraving company, is
tight, scoring the cylinder wa l?.
Covert Motor Co. had to regrind the
block and fit new pistons and
rings.
Covert’s experta, with their labor
saving devices furnished by the
Buick factory, could have installed
those first rings for a ten-dollar
bill, saving me a lot of money and
a lot of walking.
Irvin 8. Cobb, Fannie Hurst and
other high-priced fiction writers
“haven’t much" on the winners in
The Statesman’s automobile upkeep
contest, for the best 100-word let-
ters paid their authors from 2 cents
to 10 cents a word. J. J. Brown,
winners of the second prize in the
contest, applied old proverbs to
automobile upkeep in his letter. Mr.
Brown's advice, along with other
winners, follows:
4m-wearing four new Daytons,
and ....
“There ain't no bumps along
Congress.”
Honorable Mention.
BY O. N. BRUCK,
My last Dodge used to miss
and back-fir. at about 35 miles
an hour speed. I worked on the
motor and carburetor with no
succ ss, then took it to Steiner
and Gerrish’s garage, where
genuine parts are used-when
available, and they workad on
the ignition system. The poor
condition of the ear wae reme-
died n little or no time. My
advice to all Dodge, Buick, and
Ford owners is to taks your car
to that garage when somethins
is wrong, for then you will
always be satisfied.
A new model Oldmobile six-
cylinder coupe, finished with the
“latest” equipment, will soon be
shown at the Bergstrom Motor
company, C. A. Bergstrom, head,
says.
The new Oldsmobile is the latest
addition to the line of models and
is sweeping the country, he added.
It will probably be used as his
strongest selling point, since it is
especially adapted to cold weather,
he intimated.
By H. T. KIRKPATRICK
Winner of Fourth Prize
Feeling a little “hard up," the
writer decided to Install new piston
rings in his Buick to save a repair
bill, at Covert Motor Co.
Expensive Repairs at Home.
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Funeral directors. Prompt am-
bulance servire Phone «IS I.—Adv.
With more than 200 letters en-
tered in The Statesman's automo-
bile upkeep contest, the auto edi-
tor passed a studious day F riday
and Friday night reading the many
entries. Mrs. Charles Stephenson
of the University of Texas library
was awarded first prize of $10 in
the contest. . '
J. J. Brown, 502 East 42nd street,
was awarded second prize of $5:
Mrs. Grace Jennings, 1212 West
Eighth street, third, $3. and H. T.
Kirkpatrick, 2400 Rosewood avenue,
fourth, 12. Checks will be mailed
to the prize winners today.
Selection of the prize winners
out of the many letters submitted
was no easy matter, and in a con-
test where there were fewer en-
trants, many who received “hon-
orable mention" doubtless would
have received prizes. The States-
man offered $20 in prizes for the
best 100-word letters on “Keeping ,
My Car in Condition.” Several let-
ters were eliminated as entirely too
long to qualify under the 100-word
limit. •
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Many Good Letters
Honorable mention in the contest
was made of several letters, which
are printed here, because of their
excellence and timely advice to
other motorists. The following let-
ters. while not among .the four
prize winners, were considered un-
usually good:
Electric and Gas Heaters al re-
duced prices. J no. L. Martin.
Phone 2563 —Adv.
wanted for a Sunday ride with the
beat girl, but a permanent job
means several liberal applications,
O. A. Trot. suto painter here,
says. ,
“If you only want a gloss for a
short time. It's all right to use only
one coat, but if you want a job
that will remain spic and span,
have your painter use several costs
and give them plenty of time to
dry."
Back in the old days when auto
painting was simply a job of sling-
ing paint on. Tiroff said, they often
used a torch to burn off the paint.
“Now we use a liquid that takes
the paint off smoothly and evenly
without marring the finish.”
the winter than at any other sea-
son.
“The man who drives doesn't
care a lot whether it’s raining,
blowing, sleeting, snowing • or
freezing. He just gets into his
car and goes to office, theatre, or
social affairs without special re-
gard for th® weather, distance or
time.
“And it’s a lot more fun to look
through the windows of a sedan
or coupe than to expose yourself
to the mercy of the elements,
whether you’re going only a few
blocks or to the other end of town.”
Benson concludes.
Winter mileage is the biggest
thing about your car. That’s what
Matt Benson, Studebaker dealer,
says of winter driving here.
“Th? longest miles that anybody
ever went are those traveled on
cold, wintry days and that makes
it true that your trusty car gives
you a bigger measure of value in
BEATING THE FLAT
TIRE MENACE.
Lunch packed all ready for an
auto trip when we discovered a
“flat”
“Oh Dear!” said Polly "now we
can’t go.”
“Why not?" said mother, well
just ring 2795."
In a little while we heard a chug-
ging up our street and the trouble
man was at our door.
Off came the ‘flat." On went
the spare and In a jiffy we were on
our way. The best service in every
line of auto repairing can be had
by ringing 2795, where employes
are always xpert mechanics, cour-.
teous and accomodating, the policy (
of the owner—Henry Bouchard, 1409
Lavaca. Phone 2795.
Mrs. H. A. Reilly.
By J. J. BROWN
Winner of Second Prize.
“A Light Nut Presents a Loose
Vocabulary.”
I go over my car every Saturday
afternoon and examine for worn
bolts or loose nuts.
"A Stitch in Time Saves Nine.”
I never keep a leaky inner tube
or faulty valve stem, because every
time a tire is allowed to run flat
it means a breaking down of tire
fabric.
"Oil is cheapest machinery you
can buy.”
The average car, the commuta-
tor, spindle body bolts and hangers
often suffer for want of a little
oil.
“Oil not—neither will it spin.”
“Drink lots of water—live lots of
years.” applies to the battery of
your car.
By MR8. GRACE JENNINGS
Winner of Third Prize
“It’s a Dodge!” Nut said.
It still has its "natural" battery.
Once I let it run dry. Mr. Whit-
ten, Exide man, kept it a while. It's
even better now.
Mr. Davis at Thomson’s, saved
me about $900 when I slid into
lumber truck—I didn't have to buy
a new car. My bill was $7.50.
No Bumps on Congress.
I use Mabil "A” oil and Mag-
nolia gasoline.
I ran 20,000 miles out of four Joe
GETS REAL SERVICE
ON THIS PLAN
I bought my Overland car April
1, 1922. It lias never been in a
garage for repairs or had any work
whatever. By keeping the proper
amount of air I run the Federal
tires two years and eight months.
I use Mobile oil and drain every
1,000 miles. The best repairs are
plenty of grease, oil and water with
careful driving. The batteries have
been charged one time. The car
runs as smooth as the day I bought
Why not go to the most beau-
tiful spot in the whole of Travis
county?
Do you know where this is?
Is it Hamilton’s Pool, is it the
Mount Bonnell drive? No.
None of these—and yet, it is
more alluring, more fascinating
than either of these places of
scenic interest. •
Read The Statesman’s Automo--
bile Page next Saturday for a
guide. and description of this
beauty spot and the condition
report on roads leading to it.
Learn about the beauties of
Travis , county through logical
use of your automobile.
-t Bouchard says It is a very com-
; I mon occurrence for a customer to
hurry in with a depleted battery
and want it re-charged at the close
of the same day. Often that sort
of treatment won’t fit he says, and
"because of business honesty I
often advise my patrons to allow it
to stay longer.”
A battery, when charged too
quickly, is not charged thoroughly
and is often in danger of having
the plates completely ruined, he
said. "Any battery which has lost
Its pep slowly and has finally died
should be allowed to, stay on the
charging machine something like 72
hours to insure a good, steady, and
-- solid charge.”
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