Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1929 Page: 3 of 4
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Sold By:—T. R. BRANDON
Clu. 4otor
Company Starts
Apprentice Shop
MICROMETERS AN^ WRENCHES
TO BE USED IN PLACE OF
BOOKS AND PENS
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pioneer days of the industry no short-
age was actually felt until recently.
Now it has grown quite apparent
throughout the industry at large.
"Chevrolet by taking this step, haa
taken the bull bv the horns. Bpc»ii*#»
of the growth of aviation and the in-
' spiration of Lindbergh the country has
| thousands of youths who have become
intensely interested in mechanics.
"Our shop is seeking just this type
of youth, and will cooperate with him
in every way to make him a finished
Flint, Mich., Nov. 6.—At Flint Mich- workman. Naturally Chevrolet expects
igan 50 picked youths between the benefit by the move, yet there arc
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s
Is Yours!
If GIVE LIGHTNESS TO YOUR HEART,
FREEDOM TO YOUR THOUGHT, COM-
MON SENSE TO YOUR WHIMS,, CAU-
TION TO EVERYDAY LIFE, AND THAT
WHICH FOLLOWS MUST BE SUCCESS.
CAUTION IS EARNING SOME,
SPENDING LESS, HAVING A BANK
ACCOUNT, KEEPING A CHECK ON
EXPENDITURES, ASKING THE BANK-
ER'S ADVICE IN DOUBTFUL TRANS-
ACTIONS. THIS BANK CAN SO SERVE
YOU.
PALACIOS STATE BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY
ages of 16 and 19 years will soon be-
gin an educational course in which
books will be conspicuous because of
their total absence. They will attend
class in overalls, and drafting boards,
micromoters, wrenches and screw
drivers will take the place of fountain
pens, blackboards and note books. Sal-
aries will supplant credits in this the
world's most novel educational plant.
It wll be an institution endowed by
Chevrolet Cotor Company, and its fac-
ulty will be Composed of hard-headed
production men with years of factory
experience. At the head of the school
will be C. F. Barth, vice president in
charge of manufacturing, one of whose
life dreams will be realized when the
first class is held.
Here it might be well to explain
that this unique training place is not
school. The word "school" is one
which Mr. Barth wants permanently
dissociated from this newest Chevrolet
undertaking. It is definitely a shop,
operated under shop discipline, and
maintaining shop hours. It is to be
known officially as the Chevrolet Ap-
prentice Shop.
There will be many features to this
novel training place, but it is doubtful
if any are more interesting or more
significant than the reason for its
conception. And no one can make this
more clear than Mr. Barth, himself.
"The Apprentice Shop is actually a
necessity,' he told his visitor last week.
"Chevrolet Motor Company, like all
other large manufacturers has for sev-
eral years past noted a decrease" in
good all around mechanics. When the
automobile industry started there was
no such shortage. The founders of the
industry were themselves super me-
chanics, and in every instance they
surrounded themselves with competent
all around men.
"The opportunities for training men
in the early days were relatively easy.
Shop forces were much smaller and
every ambitious worker had the oppor-
tunity of working at as many jobs as
he chose.
"Then volume production came along
and specialists were developed. In or-
der to get sufficient cars to the public
each man had to be master of one op-
eration. Changes about were dangerous
because precision workmanship such as
Chevrolet employs can take no chances
with the novice.
'Because of the scores of good me-
chanics who got their training in the
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have you driven,
a Chevrolet Six?
A Ride tells a
* Wonderful
Story!
Have you felt the thrill of its six-cylinder
performance—so smooth, quiet and vibra-
tion less that you almost forget there's a
motor?
Have you known the satisfaction of its six-
cylinder reserve power — ready to shoot
you ahead at the traffic light, to carry you
over the steepest hills, or to speed you
along the highway?
And do you know that anyone who can
afford any car can own a Chevrolet Six?
1 1 1
If you have never driven a six-cylinder car, it is im-
possible for you to form any idea of Chevrolet per-
formance from your imagination alone.
Smoothness! No rumble in the body—no tremble in the
steering wheel—no vibration to loosen windows and
doors!
Flexibility! Power that flows in a silken stream—and
never a trace of ' 'lugging''!
Quiet! Hardly a whisper from the motor. You can
drive it for hours without the slightest noise fatigue!
But why try to tell you the story v**ien only a ride can
give you the facts? Come in. There's a car waiting
for you . . Now!
The Roadtter, $5IS; The Phaeton, tSUi The Coach, fSfi;
The Coupe, $5*3; The Sport Coupe, ti43: The Sedan,
ft?5: The Imperial Sedan, tS93; The Sedan Delivery, tS93;
Light Delivery (Chaaeit only), 1400; IH-Ton Truck (Chaa-
„< only), $543; tyi-Ton Truck\iChaeeia with Cab), ttSS.
All price* t. p. b. lactory, Flint, Miehifan.
Consider the delivered price well u the U»t <f. o. b.) price whea
comparing automobile value*. Chevrolet delivered price* includa
only authorized charges for freight and delivery, and the charge for
any additional accessories or financing desired.
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Bay Chevrolet Co.
PALACIOS, TEXAS
A SIX IN THE PRICE RANGE OF THE FOUR
no strings attached to the course. If
th# yougster graduating from our
shop feels that he wants to go else-
where, the company will put no ob-
stacles in his path.
"We feel, however, that we will be
able to make a position with Chevro-
let sufficiently attractive to keep the
majority of these young men with us.
But this is solely up to us.
No requirements other than the ap-
prentice have mechanical ability arc
necessary. Whether or not the appli-
cant has a high school education does
not affect his chances for getting into
the apprentice shop. It makes this dif-
ference, however, on the length of the
course. Men who ore not high school
graduates will be required to complete
10,029 hours, approximately four years
of training. High school graduates will
be expected to complete the training
in two-thirds this time.
The apprentice will work 50 hours
a week and will be paid from the out-
set with regular increases in salary
until the course is completed. A new
building is being constructed to house
the undertaking It is to be one story
and be CO by ICO feet in dimensions.
Inasmuch as all the first applicants are
Flint youths they will reside at their
own homes.
HELPING TO
BUILD TEXAS
To shelter campers at White Rock,
the Dallas Railway and Terminal Co.
has presented to the city ten old street
cars.
Trains on the Santa Fe's Orient ex-
tension from San Angelo to Sonora are
operating as far as Christoval and will
be to Sonora in December.
A million-dollar cracking plant at
Iraan, Pecos County, is being built by
the Humble Oil Co., which already
owns one such plant at McCamey,
erected at a cost of $2,000,000.
Lubbock has purchased an airport
of 640 acres four miles north of the
city and will improve it. Practically
every ambitious town and city in Tex-
as has provided some kind of airport
facilities.
Pittsburgh glass manufacturers are
studing the silica sands near Denison
as a source of supply for a new plant
at Monterey, Mexico. Many Texas
counies have silica sands available in
inexhaustible quantities.
Under the "calamity" clause of the
State Constitution, Texas has given
away tax money that during the life
of the tax exemptions will probably
total $15,000,000. Every coast county
except three — Harris, Jackson and
Chambers—has either total or partial
exemption from state taxes.
Wise County, whose diversification
ideas have prospered many of its
farmers above the Texas average and
which has a considerable income from
dairying, truck and poultry, cashed
in this year on some of its experi-
mental vineyards. Planted three years
ago, returns ran as high as $200 an
acre from grapes, according to a De-
catur dispatch.
The Rio Grande Valley is to have
what is claimed to be the "largest as-
paragus farm ir. the world." With 160
acres already planted, 850 acres more
are to put in this succulent "grass,"
according to the Donna News. Started
in 1927 the first crop was sold last
spring and part of it was the first
fresh asparagus on the market in the
United States. Some of if brought $1.25
a pound and the average price was 45a
a pound. Average production was 600
pounds to the acre.
To take care of the fast-growing
demands ineident to the rapid growth
of Houston and vicinity, the Houston
Lighting & Power Co. spent $3,600,000
on its Deepwater plant during the
year ending Aug. 31, installing an ad-
ditional turbo-generator and making
other improvements besides extending
its street-lighting system to a num-
ber of smaller cities. The Deepwater
plant has 100,000 kw. generator ca-
pacity and carried a peak load re-
cently of 97,000 kw. Additional 50,-
000 kw. capacity is soon to be pro-
vided in the plant.
Extension of the citrus fruit area
northward from the lower Rio Grande
valley is partly responsible for the
estimated increase of 1,500,000 in cit-
rus trees in the past year. Orchards
of Webb County are coming into real
bearing and Laredo expects this sea-
son to ship its first full carload of
grapefruit, oranges and tangerines.
When all the citrus orchards in the
Texas valley are producing, Texas will
no longer be third in citrus fruit pro-
duction, and it may be first within the
next few years, as the demand for
Texas citrus fruits is growing as the
public learns to appreciate their su-
periority.
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Chevrolet Six
Uses Little Gas
On Long Drive
REV. G. W. CASQUE AVERAGES 22
MILES PER GALLON ON
10,618 MILE TRIP
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. fl.—Paying high
tribute to the economy and perfor-
mance of the low-priced automobile,
especially as a means of long distance
travel, the Rev. G. W. Gasque, Rector
of the Episcopal Church of the Incar-
nation, today recited some of the ac-
complishments of his new six cylinder
Chevrolet coach on a recent 10,618
miles loop tour of the westerrn half of
the United States, during which he av-
eraged 22.3 miles to the gallon of gas.
Accompanying Dr. Gasque on the
seven weeks adventure wero Mrs. Gas-
quo and their young daughter, Anna
Lee.
The long trip was made on schedule
time so that the minister could fill
speaking engagements in prominent
Episcopal churches along the way. The
route led from Atlanta to Chicago,
by way of Nashville, Evansville, and
Indianapolis, thence across the north-
western states to Seattle, down the
Pacific Coast through Portland, San
Francisco and Los Angeles and back
home across the desert country of
Arizona and New Mexico.
A highlight was the climb of Pike's
Peak over a tortuous roadway that
stretches 13 miles along the mountain
nidc. Dr. Casque reports that the car
carried its party to the summit with-
out faltering and without heating the
motor. Many other cars attempting
the climb were forced to halt along the
roadway to cool off before continuing,
he said.
Dr. Gasque kept an expense book
of the trip, whieh discloses interest-
ing facts about the performance of the
car. Having been newly purchased
when the trip began, the car was not
extended during the first 500 miles
of driving. During this period it av-
eraged 18 miles to the gallon, the book
showed.
When the car was broken in, how-
ever, the gas mileage was greatly
improved. For the entire 10,618 miles,
! which included driving in cities and in
1 open country, the Chevrolet consumed
47G gallons of fuel, an average of 22.3
miles to the gallon. The gas bill on the
trip was $107.18. Sixteen and one half
gallons of lubricant were used, costing
$22.25. The minister's book showed no
expenditures for mechanical repairs.
WHICH ISN'T
"The play isn't at all true to life.
The wife continually asks for money."
"Which is quite natural."
"But she gets it."—New York World
CARANCAHUA
Mrs. F. G. Clark was a Sunday
guest at the Slaikeu home.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Abraham and
Bobby Jean spent Sunday with rela-
tives in Olivia.
Gladys Frankson, who is a High
School student in Palacios, spent the
week end at home.
Rev. Stearns, the Methodist pastor
at Palacios, will preach at the church
next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Several crews have been at work on
the roads in this community the past
week and havo improved them very
much.
Large crowds have been at the Ca-
rancahua Beach Club since the opening
of the hunting season and good suc-
cess is reported, many bagging the
limit.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Frankson and
children and Elsie Martin and Arvid
Loc visited at the Richard Holman
home in Houston Saturday, Sunday
and Monday.
Mrs. Vird Anders is in Houston for
an operation. Her many friends tind
neighbors hope for a succcsgfaL one
and rapid recovery. Her mother, Mrs,
B. F. Smith, is keeping house for her
while she is away.
MAYBE HE WAS LAZY
"They say the wrist watch was in-
vented by a Scotchman who objected
to taking anything out of his pocket."
"What!
A weather I bureau ?"
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Buna* at Gcmral
Motors Proving
Ground, at Mil ford,
Mich.
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formanct in heavy
rain. From actual
photograph.
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piitoirafi if a
car itinj IntiJ
on sntwj roads.
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ISITORS to General Motors' 1168-acre Proving Ground marvel at the
sight of a complete weather bureau and ask what it is for.
The answer is that in the testing of cars every possible factor that
might affect a car's performance is considered by General Motors'
engineers.
So precise are some of the tests that even the difference between a
sunny day and a partly cloudy day—or between a north breeze and a
south breeze—is considered.
With each day's record of the mechanical tests applied to a car on
the roads and hills of the Proving Ground is included a report of the
exact weather conditions prevailing. The engineers then can know
how weather affects performance, and can have a comparable record so
that every car tested is given an equal opportunity to prove itself
under exactly the same conditions.
Advance models of all the cars listed below were proved at the
Proving Ground before they were introduced to the public. Read
about them; then clip and send the coupon.
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'A car for every purse and purpose
CHEVROLET. 7 models. —
$695. A six in the price range of the
four. Smooth, powerful 6-cylinder
▼alve-in-hcad engine. Beautiful
Fisher Bodies. Also sedan delivery,
light delivery chassis. lM» tonchassis
and \H ton chassis with cab, both
with four speeds forward.
PONTIAC. 7 models. $745 —$895.
Now offers "Dig six" motoring lux-
ury a; low cost. Larger Lhead engine;
larger Bodies by Fisher. New attrac-
tive colors and stylish lines.
OLDSMOBILF.. 8 models. $873 —
$1035. The l ine Car at Low Price.
Now ofters further refinements,
mechanically and in the Fisher
Bodies. Also eight optional equip-
ment combinations in Special and
De Luxe line.
MARQUETTE. 6 models. $963 —
$1035. Buick s new companion car,
designed and built by Buick. Six cylin-
ders. Fisher Bodies. Its price puts
Buick quality and craftsmanshipwith-
in reach of more families.
OAKLAND. 9 models. $1143—
$1375. Oakland All American
Six. Distinctively original appear-
ance. Splendid performance. Luxur-
ious appointments. Attractive colors.
Bodies by Fisher.
VIKING. 3 models. $1595. General
Motors' new "eight" at medium
price. 90-degree V-typeengine. Strik-
ing Bodies by Fisher. Unusual ap-
pointments, also optional equipment
combinations.
BUICK. 14 models. $1225 —$1995.
Three new wheelbases, 118-124-132
inches. The greatest Buick of them
all. Many new mechanical features.
Fisher Bodies with new lines.
LaSALLE. 14 models. $2295—$2875.
Companion car to Cadillac. Conti-
nental lines. Distinctive appearance.
90-degree V-type 8*cylinder engine.
Striking color combinations inb««»-
tiful Bodies by Fisher.
CADILLAC. 26 models. $*295 —
$7000. The Standard of the World.
Famous efficient 8-cy Under 90-degree
V-type engine. Luxurious Bodies by
Fisher and Fleetwood. Extensive
range of color and upholstery com-
binations.
(Ail Prices f. o. b. Factories)
ALSO
FRIGID AIRE Automatic Refrigera'
tor. New silent models with cold-
control device. Tu-tone cabinets.
Price and model range to suit every
family.
DELCO-LIGHT Electric Plan*—
Ig Water Systems. Provide all electri-
cal conveniences and labor-saving
devices for the farm.
general!
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