The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-16
Chevrolet Co. Parent
 Of Autornotive Child
Greatest Story of Worldly Transportation Attributed
 to Hiram Dohner, Pennsylvania Farmer

Roadster" The parent of this automotive child was the Chevrolet Motor Company.
 It made one in the closing days of 1913 that Hiram Dohner bought foh his very own from Q dealer in Lebanon whose name was Hotten- stein.
 And with this young produce of the automobile industry in his hands for the purchase prcie of SITS, Hiram set out from the little town of quentin to overcome his large problems.
 The roads were bad in those days and his job was twenty miles away at Hershey where @ big chocolate factory was being built.
 You and I, in a like situation, might have moved to Hershey where the job was.
 But Hiram didn't want to live in big town, he was afraid of them and what they might do to him in an economic way. And Mary felt likewise. They had both been born and raised within Q few miles of pastoral quentin.
 The car, the product of rising mass production to give more people personal transportation, proved Q godsend to Hiram and Mary then for 1t gave them, modest people, the opportunity to live in a hamlet where living costs were low and to work in a larger place where wages and work were more ful- some.
 What did they think about in those days of Detroit and the men who worked in the automobile fac- tories and the men who managed those factories?
 Ono look into the warm eyes of Hiram when I asked him about this and that last week was suffl- cient. It said SO much more than words.
 Nothing that the world could have given me for SITS could have brought half the happines as my car," he said earnestly. Tt gave me independent transportation"
 The dramatic thing about all this was that in 1914 Hiram. Dohner was 48 years old - and he was planning Q long and useful life.
 And. 50 was started Q quiet and simple story of transportation far fro mthe madding crowds by man and a woman and an automobile.
 Took Care of Car
 The years rolled along and Hiram took care of his car. It gave him p miles to the gallon. He gave 1t his personal attention for he lack ed money to pay for those conven- fences and he was of and in a small town where most men are handy about nearly everything.
 He carpentered and he found life good. When one job was finished the car gave him transportation to find and hold jobs in the 2S mile radius of his village.
 He had Q patch of garden, some fruit trees, chicken coop, gar- age in the specious grounds that usually surround homes in villages where land is cheap. Mary had plenty of room for flower beds, for blooming bushes and vines.
 Hiram Dohner and Mary still live in the little town of their choice.
 The same car carries him back and fourth to work. It has run 250,000 miles in 22 years. He has laid out in actual money $250 on it during that tirne-a little more than ten dollars per year.
 He has earned about @ thousand dollars a'year while he has had the old automobile that shines in the sun even now frmopolishing and good care. The income was suffi- cient for his needs in the village.
 Happy? Even the camera catches that glow from inside in the faces of Hiram and Mary as they live, 70 and 73 years old respectively, in their two-and-a-half story wood house on its half acre lot in Quen- tin.
 Mary has the loveliest white nalr ana tne most uiSarming smile that can be imagined. Her sense of huinor still holds. They both chuckle and laugh easily. What about life?
 It doesn't matter. they have achieved happiness. generally speaking.
 A man and q woman-and an automobile.
 Oh, yes. I almost forgot to say that this great story of transpor- tation was unearthed when the Chevrolet Motor Company sent me into the rolling hills of eastern Pennsylvania to interview the win- iers of the company'g "oldest Chevrolet in Use Contest" Hiram's car is the 370th built by Chevrolet. Today in Flint. Mich. theassembly line Is working toward the twelve