Duncan Motor Will Hold Formal Opening PUBLIC INVITED TO VISIT FIRM MAY 16 AND 17 New Garage, New Car* To Be Seen As Firm Holds 'Open House' Duncan Motor Company, Ford dealer here, will hold a formal opening of its attractive home cn West Main street tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday, it was announced this week by the oWners Frank B. Duncan and Charles A. Conley. The public Is invited to visit and inspect the recently com pleted structure, one of the largest garage buildings In Western North Carolina, and to see the new re-styled 1947 Ford automobiles which will be on display on the show room floor. Carefully planned for the purpose It Is designed to serve, and modern in every detail, the structure has floor space to taling 10,400. It fronts 80 feet on Main street, and Is 130 feet deep. $50,000 Invested The plant represents an In vestment said to exceed $50,000. Most of the materials that went into the building, the ow ners said, were bought In Frank lin. And, they added, all the work was done by Franklin la bor, with minor exceptions. The one-s^ory building Is constructed of tile and brick, with a steel frame. The floors throughout are of concrete, and the entire building is equip ped with flourescent lighting. Begun about a year ago, It has had to be built somewhat piecemeal, like most structures erected during the critical shortage of building materials, but the finishing touches were put on a few days ago, with the decoration of the interior and the removal of the offices to their new location In the building. Show Boom Well Lighted At the front, on the east side, is the show room, the ?walls of which are chiefly win dows. The show room is large enough to accomodate three cars. At the front, on the west side, in the section of the build lng formerly used as a service department, are the service station and tire and accessory departments. Just to the rear of the show room are the offices and parts department, and just back of them Is the service department. | Adjoining the service depart ment, but In a separate divi sion of the building Is the body and paint shop. Finished In White and Green The Interior of the show room, offices, etc., is attracti vely finished in a color scheme of white and green. Mr. Duncan took over the Ford dealership in Franklin In 1940, opening a place on Palmer street. He was joined shortly after by Mr. Conley, and they : have been associated in the {business since. I They operated at the Palmer street location until May 1945, when they moved to the present location in the smaller struc ture that stood there. Water Problems To Be Topic Of School At Coweeta Fore?t A school on watershed man agement, which Is expected to attract foresters from the Chat tahoochee, Cherokee, Pisgah, and Nantahala National forests, will be held at the Coweeta Ex periment Forest station, near here, May 14 and is, it has been announced. Marvin D. Hoover, forester In charge of the Coweeta Experi mental forest, and Dr. C. R. Hursh, of the Southeastern Ex perimental station, Asheville, have Just returned from a tour of the southeast, on which they conducted schools on soil and water problems of the region, based upon findings at the Co weeta forest. Checking erosion and main taining forest soils long has been recognized as a major factor in Increasing the yields of timber for harvest, it was pointed out, but in recent years the subject of water supplies for cities and towns, and for factories moving into this region has become in creasingly important also. The Coweeta forest is opera ted as a laboratory for the study of forest and farm prob lems in relation to soil and water, and its work is consider ed so important that it was one To . . . DUNCAN MOTOR COMPANY Our . . . Congratulations on The completion of their New Homa and on their Formal Opening REA AUTO SUPPLY Automotive Part* and Equipment Telephone 10S2 442 Depot Street Aiheville, N. C. \ ? ? V ? Genu Take Over In Tests Of Luxury Liner ii Electric and electronic robots have virtual supreme-command roles in the new Martin 2-0-2 twin-engined luxury airliner, termed one of the most com of the few experimental forests in the country to continue in operation during the war. pletely instrumented air-planes ever to be flown. Now in the second phase of flight-testing, over a total of 87,000 miles, the plane is so automatic that the genii prac tically fall all over themselves in making recordings and de ductions on a wide range of flight, efficiency and safety i factors. | More than seventy techni cians spent most of their work ing hdurs for six months in in strumenting the 2-0-2, for which the electrical wiring alone stretches to more than live miles. The entire forward end of Its cabin, for Instance is a maze of wires and tubing, much of it terminating in a huge bank of 87 dials, each j recording something that is happening in a different part j of the plane Keeping tab on that labyrinth of instruments is a 35mm. camera which exposes a frame ! of film at regular intervals, giving a permanent, visual re cord of what has happened A mile or more of the film will have been exposed by the time the flight tests are complete. "Today's flight testing." tech nicians point out, "is a far cry from thfe 'seat of the pants' method employed 25 years ago? but it's producing faster, safer and much more comfortable airplanes for the transport of the world's people and goods" DAY AND NIGHT WRECKER SERVICE ? Duncan Motor Company operates a 24-hour Wrecker Service, and the photograph above suggests how well equipped it is for that service. The picture is of a 194(3 Holmes Heavy Duty Wrecker, mounted on a new Ford chassis, recently put into service by the Duncan Company. This wrecker, being heavy duty equipment, enables Duncan Motor Company to handle the big wrecks, as well as the smaller ones. It's wrecker service is available at any hour. (Adv.) You're Invited lo OurVpen House" " Featuring Todays finer FORD ? P.S. Till the Ford in your future arrives, remember to bring the Ford in your present "back home" to us for Genuine Ford Servicel DUNCAN MOTOR CO. * I ? ' \ ? Franklin, N. C. Phone 69