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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1937
Page
5
Journal readers meet the second chapter of the "Story of Irving" featuring a man to watch. The narrative teases further installments and hints at developing details about Irving’s life and decisions.
Washington county reports 2428 autos registered for 1937 with 275 trucks and about 250 more cars than a year ago. Two weeks remain before delinquency penalties take effect. Recent registrations include Helen Harvey’s Chevrolet De Luxe touring sedan and R L Lytle Jr’s Ford deluxe 2 door touring sedan.
Local Phillips dealers say ten employees received the National Safety Council President's Medals for saving lives using the Schaefer Prone Pressure method of artificial respiration. Through first aid training and safety meetings, ten people remain alive who would have been lost otherwise.
Phillips Petroleum offers the Meritorious Safety Award for employees who save lives by artificial respiration, controlling external bleeding, or risking their own life. The Rouge plant at Ford Motor Company features 2 miles of track, 19 locomotives, and 1,387 freight cars.
The article notes that many Ford engine components are manufactured to watchlike precision. Piston pin diameters may vary by only three ten-thousandths of an inch, a tolerance ten times finer than a haw thickness.
Ford runs manufacturing and assembly plants across England Germany France Holland Belgium Spain Ireland Denmark Italy South Africa India Australia Malaya Japan and seven other foreign countries, reflecting a broad international production network.
Dispatches describe an escalating security effort as private travel halts on the highways and rail routes. Convoys lead, with Ford V-8 pickup patrols and armored escort trucks, while rail pilots precede trains to deter Arab raiders and safeguard transport.
Chevrolet reported December new car sales of 101,286 units led by W E Holler as demand rose 21 thousand from a year earlier. Truck and used car totals were 17,516 and 148,163 respectively, signaling stronger American buying power and a larger market for new cars.
The Ford fleet totals 300 ships including seven ocean going vessels.
Mrs Zetta Averill of Aberdeen Washington bought five Studebaker cars in thirty minutes just before the Hawaiian Clipper flight from Alameda on October 21 Each car with radio heater and accessories was to be gifts to friends and relatives Miss Hoffmann Aberdeen office worker received a car as a surprise and kept quiet throughout the episode Several local recipients received vehicles including members of the DeLong family of Portland and Mrs Sadie L Clark Aberdeen Also noted are a Ford V8 team winning a test in Germany and Ford wages paid since 1903 totaling over three billion dollars.
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