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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1041 VJhore' Gars Run Thousands of K": v"::' y, r.liles VJiiEiout License Plates Two automobiles without J license plates have been aver aging 25 miles a day on Detroit streets and getting away with it, No traffic cop holds them up. jDetroiters do not know of these cars or the streets on which :they run. The pilots of these unlicensed rautos drive jn eternal darkness except for their headlights, iwhich burn constantly. The ,' beams of these headlights flash j on crystal pillars and arches I and roadbeds as the cars curve jand twist through 20 miles of streets in the great salt mine lying a quarter of a mile be-ineath be-ineath the traffic of Detroit. Few Detroiters even know that the mine exists. u Thirty years ago immense deposits of salt were discovered a thousand to fifteen hundred feet below Detroit's west. side. A shaft was sunk by the International Inter-national Salt Company, which has been burrowing under Detroit De-troit ever sinceDistances finally became so great that the automobile idea got into the company's head. The difficulty was that no road ran into the mine. The only way was by vertical shaft. So the salt company put its problem up to the Ford Motor Mo-tor Company. The next difficulty was that a regular closed car wouldn't Getting Uphill Isn't the Jol) It Used to Be fitl . - .. ., i Visitors to famous Sun Vnlley, in the Sawtooth Mountains of Td:iho, arc shown setting out from the Challenger Inn for a day of winter sports. Dog-sledding Is one of the popular pastimes in this American Switzerland. Sltcls like the cue above are drawn by beautifully matched teams of Irish setters and driven by parka-wrapped guides who look as they they mi.ht have come right out of the Yukon. The powerful Ford super deluxe sedan in the picture is as much at home in the mountain snows as the dog sled beside it. The car has a special rack on the roof to carry skiiers' equipment to the thrilling ski runs on the slopes of the surrounding mountain. Mercury Sedan for 1941 Has New Beauty, Rides More Smoothly HERE IS the latest Mercury Sedan and back of it is a story of intensive engineering, as exemplified exempli-fied in the development of still greater riding comfort. The electrically elec-trically welded frame structure of the latest Mercury line i3 altogether alto-gether new. It is 100 per cent more rigid, yet there has been no increase in-crease in weight, and the new rubber body mountings effectively i Hock off road noises. A new ride stabilizer gets in its work, especi ally on curves and in heavy cross winds, and the combination of new longer and softer springs ith more sensitive lever type hydraulic shock absorbers gives a ride without, a peer. The 93 horsepower eight-cylinder eight-cylinder engine now has new first and second ratios that step up "pet-away". The body designs include in-clude a station wagon and a club convertible with a top operated by an electric push button switch, whether or not the motor is running1. 1 1 fit into the shaft. So a couple of convertibles were sent over and the tops removed. re-moved. Then into the depths of the shaft went the topless cars. There was no need to put the tops on again, for no rain or snow ever falls in the city of salt, where the temperature is, always 58 degrees. One of the cars was assigned' to foreman Edward Yipee, who has worked in the mine since the shaft was first sunk in 1910. The other Ford is equipped as a repair and maintenance car and is used chiefly by the mechanical trouble shooter in keeping the mine's far-flung machinery in working order. Air Cleaner For Oil Bath Saves Wear on Engine DETROIT (Special) Automobiles Auto-mobiles must breathe even as human beings do. And, like humans, hu-mans, they are subject to "respiratory" "res-piratory" ills that result from the inhaling of dust and grit-laden sir, according to L. I. Woolson, chief engineer of the DeSoto division di-vision of Chrysler corporation. As a matter of fact, points out Woolson, the automobile 'breathes' in air at the surprising rate of 11,000 gallons to every gallon of gasoline it consumes. And when u s considered that in cities dust and dirt falls in quantities of from one to four tons per square mile, each day, serious consequences are possible, in the case of automobiles auto-mobiles as well as humans. 'Respiratory" ills, as far as automobiles are concerned, include scored and scratched cylinder vvalls, bearings and other moving parts, according to Woolson. for even the tiniest particles of dust, dirt and grit are abrasives, capable capa-ble of biting and digging into ihe hardest steel. To protect engine parts from harmful dust and dirt, De Soto has, in effect, equipped all its 1941 models with a device which is comparable to the mask filter which humans wear when dust storms prevail. The device, standard on DeSoto this year, is a filter known as the "oil bath air cleaner." It literally lit-erally washes dirt from the air which it sends through cleansed to the carburetor. More Vision, Bigger Body, Softer Ride Featured in New Ford Line Phono Poles Protected From Idle Whittlers ' r t II, MORE VISION for drivers and passengers is one of the first things remarked by those inspecting inspect-ing the new Ford V-8 line, Ford designers have gone still further away from the tendency in recent years to limit the view from a car's interior. This Super DeLuxe Tudor Sedan is an especially rugged body, but with lots of daylight Inside. In-side. A two inch longer wheelbase, and newly engineered stiff er frame, bigger body, softer springs find sensitive shock absorbers give a degree of passenger comfort in front or rear seat that critics agree is remarkable. There i3 also increased in-creased head room. - MEMPHIS. Tenn. r.R Traveling Travel-ing salesmen coming in from rural towns in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee report that town ship authorities have found means to thwart telephone pole whittling by loafers. They say that the poles are being be-ing wrapped with wire from the bottom to a point higher than men can reach. One town reported that three telephone poles had been cut down by men who carried pocket knives to whilttle in their .spare time. Shelter Built for $2 Saves London Family LONDON U.n Seven lives were sav?d by a shelter which cost only 10 Fhilli.igs to build when a high explosive bomb fell only three feet nway. The full blast of the bomb hit it, but it still stands on the edge of a huge crater. The walls were pushed in, but the occupants were unhurt. The shelter consisted of a hole in the ground roofed with corrugated corru-gated iron and lined with planks. PACIFIC DIVISION GAINS .The Pacific division California, Oregon and Washington showed the largest percentage of increase of any of the regional divisions in the 1940 census. The increase in these states was 18.8' per cent. The South Atlantic division was second with 12.9 per cent. New England was the smallest with 3.3 per cent. The annual diphtheria death rate has been decreased from 43 per 100,000 population in 1900 to 1.5 in 1939, reports the census bureau. GREATEST INCREASE The states which showed the greatest percentage of increase in population in the 19 10 census were Florida, New Mexico, California, Nevada, and Idaho, according to the census bureau. The District of Columbia,, however, exceeded the percentage increase of these states. AUTO ACCIDENTS The census bureau says that almost twice as many people die from motor-vehicle accidents as from the following causes of death put together: typhoid and paratyphoid para-typhoid fever, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and malaria. CALIFORNIA GAINS Although it was third among the states inpercentage of population popu-lation increase in the 1940 census, California recorded the the greatest great-est absolute increase. Its increase was nearly 1.200,000 as compared with nearly 800,000 in New York state. The trend in the death rate from respiratory diseases is steadily declining, based on census figures. Ford designers have Increased the front seat width by seven inches in 1911 models. "Five inches of width were added to the rear seat above the arm rests. Forestry is one of the three leading primary industries of the Dominion of Canada. ... .. " A " " ' a-. i M ' f . 4 i - s J - - P7 "TV-, fTFWTl I : - I . . , .'J . '" ' i 11 (MmMWf. SMI Yes, Sirl We mean just that when you buy a Used Car from us you get a PAUL VINCENT General Manager 1110 With a Lifetime Guarantee REGARDLESS OF AGE, MAKE, OR PRICE! ONLY TELLURIDE CAN OFFER YOU THIS COPYRIGHTED PROPOSITION! HERE IT IS! Ironclad, Written, Signed, Mutual, Lifetime Guar an-tee an-tee with each car, regardless of Make, Model, Age or Price. This Guarantee Valid while car remains tilled in buyer's name. 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