Severin Prag of the Stroh Auto Delivery Company is shown tightening a lug on a delivery truck wheel equipped with a steel-rimmed wooden tire which rolled into service here for the first time yesterday to deliver magazines for the Sunday editions of the Globe-Democrat to newsdealers.
Steel-rimmed wooden truck tires and steel-rimmed wagon wheels rolled into service yesterday at the loading platform at 1133 Franklin avenue when the Globe-democrat inaugurated a new system of delivery to solve the rubber tire shortage. The vehicles are loaded with magazines for today's editions of the Globe-Democrat.