Show I John J Evans and His New Oakland 32 B I I II I W 5 S I 1 V i J I fiX 5 S wr S t tS S j St LC LP I PS S S z 4 is S 5 j 4 gj t g S 'S y t f SI I P S S I if S' S L 14 k t viP v f 1 t iP Jt JQ wf l f I John Evans 52 Chicago o street Is the I proud possessor of ot the thc model B 32 32 BOak Oak Oak-i land automobile with which be ho is here hero pictured Despite his more than 74 years Mr Ir Evans E delights In driving his carr and each summer Bummer makes a mile 1000 trip into Idaho Idah and return With AVIth the exception of or a broken steering steering steer steer- ing gear ear which was caused b by driving tho the car into a a. ditch and which ac according according according ac- ac I cording to tp Mr MI Evans wa wafe no fault faull o otho of tho automobile tho car has neerI never ne I I given ghen an any trouble In the four I years It has been driven I The Tho car is still gOO good said Mr Evans and an should last me man many years to perhaps come perhaps as long IonS as I will I need a L car But If IC I do need another It will surely be an Oakland Each summer sinco I have havo had m my Oakland Mr Evans added I 1 have driven It from here to Buhl Buhi Ida and andI I have hl made two trips from irom Buhl Buhi to Spencer Ida This trip across tho the Arco Aro desert was va a a. real test for Cor the car arid and for me Tho The desert Is Js extremely rough and tho the roads bad but I have had no difficulty in fri making tho the trip with tho thoI Oakland I The trip from Crom Salt Lake to Buhl flub takes me me a little less than two days s 's I The first days day's drive finds me mc at Burl Burley Bur- Bur l Icy ley Ida a distance o of about miles from Crom Salt Lake Lak Tho The r rest si of the jo Jour Jour- rI r- r I n neV Is Just a little spin for tor the second da day 1 S Last year on the tho l th of ot May ay I left Salt Sait Lake on m mj my annual Spin The gas g-as tank lank was full cun when I left leCt At I Brigham City after acter nine fifty and ami one one- tenth 1 miles mUes of or driving I had it filled filed one one-I again and discovered that I had haG used but two gallons pretty gallons pretty good mileage I think for that distance But Dut even that is not unusual for or my regular mileage Hummer and winter over city olty streets and countr country roads runs ins from twenty three to thirty miles per galion gallon gallon gal gal- lon ion according to the tho nature natura of of the roa road Con Coming back last from Buhl Buhi to Salt Lake Lako via ia I covered the 50 miles at an average of oC 23 3 3 1 miles to to tho gallon allon In the tho four years rears that fJ driven n my Oakland I have havo bought but t. bu-t. one extra set Bet of or tires Ures and those still ha have havea a a. lot of or good wear in them Mr Evans recommends motoring to old people as a most healthful exercise and recreation Ho states that it es him feel good gives him a a. better appetite appetito ap ap- ap- ap petite petito and enables him to sleep bet bet- ter Anyone can n learn to drive the Oakland Oak Oale- land he states Before Deore I bought my car I had been in an automobile only onh two or three times in m my life liCe and I learned to drive drive- lu Iu practically one ODO lesS lea les les- les S son Mr Ir Evans E i ii fr in an rn timer old-timer In Salt Lake valley having int lived here with his family for Cor moro more than twenty years cars At present ho lie owns a a. forty acre ranch at Buhl Duhl and still is not too old to drive a team on his ranch Long years hence when the historian his- his torian sits site down to write about tho the years ears between 1900 and 1920 will the great war occupy most of oe his space No 0 It was as by no means moans the tho most im important lm- lm thin thing hi will write about the triumph ph of oC the gas en engine sino applied to vehicles Colliers Collier's sIn s In our minds mind's ojo oye we pictured PI n. n I scene In the tho grammar school of or 1930 90 I Too wo so have looked oyer Oer tho the shoulder of a scholar taking a 1 history examina examina- tion lion We c note some of or its questions question What other great reat generals g were I i there ther between 1300 and 1920 besides I General Electric and General Motors I WIly Why 11 was as Henry Ford a defeated j candidate for senator in 1918 In ten words describe Fords Ford's influence I ence on American literature and explain j briefly wh why tho the Independent his magazine magazine maga- maga zine was as surnamed Dearborn 7 Why h was there a motor car shortage shortage shortage short short- age in 1917 and 1918 Why Yh were there so many racing t drivers in America In 1317 1917 and 1918 I I land and why wh- was E dle not II among among amonA them What That was waR Pan and why I Who was Woody the Only Oaly and I Where here did he get et that stuff How IIo man frozen radiators to radiator to many date dato I are are laid at W W. Y J. J Bryans Bryan's door Vho Who was wag the most famous of ot tho the Detroit car thieves of or 1936 II i INCREASING r LOVE IOVE UP Ot OUTDOORS I I The n B B. B F F. Goodrich Rubber company compan department of or Investigation finds that I in 1919 more than 75 per cent of or tho the visitors to Yosemite valle valley Calif i drove there in automobiles A very considerable number of ot them were were I campers due to tho the fact that the gov- gov i is such a generous s host There I is It no limit to the time lime a man may j I spend in these government SO camps provided provided pro pro- II vided he hI observes observe government regulations regulations regulations regu regu- j lations and restrictions If he lie brings s II i his own outfit and provisions his stay j mn may be Indefinite There is a general I j store on each of ot these sites at which I of oC various need are sold at I prices re regulated b by lY the government and in this case certainly Washington has done well for Cor the lie prices are low I I. I PHILIPPINE nU Tire manufacturers as well vell as manu manu- manu manu-I of ot other rubber products nie looking hooking to the Philippine Islands as the i future hope 1010 of oC the rubber industry Extensive Ex Ex- 1 j I experimentation la is going on j I the Jesul results 8 of ot which ma may bo be the foundation foundation foun foun- i dation of an entirely new source of oC I j i American crudo crude rubber supply I LEADING AUTOMOTIVE IOl LEAGUE I Tile Ilie research department of oC the Automobile Auto Auto- mobile Trade Directory Director estimates I Auro-I that SI 81 per cent of ot all motor vehicles in op operation operation op- op oration In the world orl are arc registered in inthe the tue United States This is based on a total of or cars of oC which only arc in countries other than Uncle Samuels S |