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Show "j . , ' S WOMEN PILOT FIVE CARS OVERLAND TO VALE, ORE., IN NASH DRIVE-AWAY , - J For the first time in the history of the boundless west women automobile pilots have demonstrated their grit and ability to drive high-powered cars over the ruts and rocks of Utah, Idaho and Oregon, in a regulation drive-away stunt, for a distance of 500 miles. Heading from left to right, the drivers shown In the photo are: E. C. Propst, manager' of the auto sales department of the Vale Trading Co., Vale, Ore.; Miss EUa Brosman, Miss Maude Brosman, Mrs. Jack Kisbey and Mrs. Emma Fiser. Crew of Vale Trading Co. Ready for Run to Oregon. Woman's grit and ability to perform the feats of the sterner sex were put to the test last week, in what is accounted ac-counted the first big automobile drive-away drive-away from Salt Lake, when the caravan pictured above, consisting of three Tash touring passenger cars and two roadsters road-sters were taken overland from the Nash distribution headquarters, where Manager C. J. Simpson presides, at 39 West 1'ourth Sou.th street, to Vale, Ore., the home town of the Vale Tading company, one of Oregon 's largest mercantile mer-cantile organizations, a concern that lists every known article of commerce, from a hairpin to a Nash auto or the mighty Nash four-wheel drive quad. The shortest route from Salt Lake to Vale is by way of Twin Falls, Idaho, then to Boisfl and over the Snake river, by way ,of Ontario, Ore., to Vale, a quiet, prosperous little city, snugly nestled in the foothills of the fertile river valley. At Twin Falls the caravan cara-van appeared in a street para'de. to the delight of many spectators. II is a drive of 500 miles "over ordinary dirt roads, the kind that taxes the muscle and sinew of anyone, male or female, and the fact that the Vale Trading company selected four women pilots to accompany Manager Propst in bringing the big. expensive. Nash cars to the home city, does not indicate that an attempt to play up the drive-away was intended on the contrary, the women shown herewith are among the best Nash drivers in Oregon and were selected for their well-recognized qualifications, quali-fications, and for no other reasons. This first Nash drive-away by women portends future stunts of similar class, when perhaps the caravan will consist of several times five cars and a. correspondingly cor-respondingly larger number of fair pilots at the wheels. Women are beginning begin-ning to take their place in the fields of commerce, made vacant by the requisitioning requi-sitioning of the country 's man power to check the aspirations of the Huns, at home and abroad, and among the many things that they do amazingly well is the driving of a passenger car or a light truck. Since the coming of -Mr. Simpson to the local territory the impetus given to the sale of Nash motor-powered vehicles in the intermoimtain section has increased 100 per cent. He has been ably and consistently backed up in his efforts by a mighty factory organization organ-ization with national and territory ideals, that place it among the foremost motor vehicle manufacturers of the world. With thousands of tracks to build for : the national government, the Nash factory fac-tory has so organized its factory, so regulated its waning man-power that it is able to give all its branch concerns at least a limited number of power wagons and passenger cars to meet the heavy demand that has sprung up all over the land for Nash products. |