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CUT $25 TO $40 Some 1950 Model Autos Priced Less Than 1949's DETROIT OB Some 1950 model automobiles are going to cost a little less than the current models. The lower price will result from the reductions being made for some automatic transmissions. The cuts aren't very great- -rcTrr $25 to $4u but many Industry observers see in them evidence of a trend toward lower car prices. So far automatic transmissions have been confined to cars In the middle and higher price fields. In the last year or two they have become increasingly popular. . The demand for them has grown so steadily that Chev rolet and Ford will have them next year. Chevrolet will announce Its de vice soon after Jan. 1 with pre sentation of its 1950 model Ford has disclosed its transmis sion, . developed in cooperation with borg-warner, will be ready nex summer. With but one or two excep tions all makes of cars above the low price group now have some form of automatic transmission. In some Instances they have been made standard equipment, with corresponding price adjust ments. ... Where they are optional at ex tra cost public demand has been so great that relatively few cars have been turned out without them. So the transmission price cuts currently . being made amount, if effect, to a reduction in the price of the cars affected. That's the view of many in dustry observers. They add that had. the $25 to $40 transmission price cuts been announced mere ly as reductions in car prices they probably would, have gained much wider car buyer interest. In all instances the reductions so far announced affect General motors transmissions Buicks dynaflow and the hydra -mafic used by Cadillac, Oldsmobile and Pontiac, as well as Lincoln and Nash under contract with GM.i Buick's cut of $40 on its dyna flow brings the price down ito $160, only a couple of dollars more than the price of the hydra matic as used on Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Nash. Thus perhaps a keener competitive fight may be expected between thetorque- , Talking About a Home? So many people do noth ing but talk about it! But If yoi really want to c.-n our home, consult me now. Personal attention. Economical terms. RALPH L RUSSELL Loans and Insurance Loan Represenative Equitable Savings & Loan Assn. 112 W. Cass Phone 913 Vcse Mothers For STUFFINESS, COUGHS of COLDS Wise mothers know how really effective Vicks VapoP.ub Is when you rub it on. Now, for amazing new relief when colds cause coughing, up per bronchial congestion, or that "stufled-up" feeling, modern mothers use VapoRub this spe cial way, too in steaml It brings relief almost instantly. Put 1 or 2 good spoonfuls of VapoRub in a vaporizer or bowl of boiling water, as directed In Use if in sfeom PHONE 1242- ' Our expert service men will help you with ony of your plumbing or heating problems. That leaky faucet or toilet is a big expense. Let us repair it for you and you will save on those utility bills. Kier-Crooch Plumbing Co. 316 Mill Street converting dynaflow type and the gear-shining nydra-matic. Certainly GMs transmission division is pouring out both types In Increasing volume. The great er production volume has been given as the reason for the price cuts thus far announced. When GM returned to peace time operations after the war it got its output of hydra-matics up to 1,1)00 units a day. Mow tney are rolling our at around 3,000 a day. Buick s dynaflow was intro duced . less than two years, ago, yet more than 335.000 units. al ready have been built. Contrary to some earlier 'ex pectation the forthcoming Chev rolet and Ford transmissions pro bably will not be low priced units. Ford has said the price will be "under $150." Chevrolet has made no price comment, but most guesses are that it will not be much under the same figure. Industry quarters have hear ed a higher powered engine will go Into ChevroletS' equipped wif h the automatic transmission. This too, has not been confirmed at the comapny offices. U. S. Scientific Research Outlays Steadily Rising WASHINGTON UP) Presi dential adviser John R. Steelman announces the government is spending more than ever before on scientific research, surpassing even its wartime expenses for that purpose. ' Figures offered . by '. Steelman and other speakers at a science industry . meeting . indicated that the government and private in terests together are spending at the raie of almost $2,000,000,000 a year for scientific research and development' work. .. 1 Steelman noted that in the cur rent fiscal year endine July 1, a record-of $1,380,000,000 is being spent by federal agencies work ing on atomic, military and other scientific researcn. That compares with a prewar situation in which industry was shoulderng about twWhirds of the nation s science bill. ' Addressng a meeting of the na tional Men of Science and Indus try, an organization sponsored By tne American council ot com mercial Laboratories, Inc., Steel man indicated that further -expansion of the. research, field may be un tolndustrv: " ' . "There is a real question as to how much farther the govern ment can go, under existing criti cal budget pressures, in extending its support," ne saia; aaaing: "I believe strongly-that the at tainment of our coals of maxi mum employment and maximum productivity, based upon expand ed business investment, win re quire a vigorous research and de velopment program supponea Dy private capital. "New industries, new products and new Jobs must be created to maintain our prosperity." Dr. Edward R. Weidlein, direc tor of the Mellon Institute of In dustrial Research, estimated that industry, the universities and other groups are spending almost $550,000,000 in the present calen dar year. Together, that figure and Steel man's total $1,930,000,000. Gov ernment officials said this is not a precise estimate of this year's science bill but Is' good indication of the present annual rate of spending. Leading U. S. producers' nf pumice and pumlcite are Califor nia, New Mexico, Oregon and Idaho. . package. Then . . . breathe In soothing, medicated vapors. Every breath eases coughing, relieves that "chokey" feeling. For continued relief even while you sleep rub It on, too. strati Rub it on, tool WVapoRuo Phone 1242-R Shower Gifts Include Hours Of Baby-Sitting REDMOND CW A night out for Mr. and Mrs. Harry T. Sly should' be no trick at all. All members of the high school foot ball team volunteered ah eve ning's free baby-sitting. A little girl said she'd tend the baby for ten hours. A group of girls gave Mrs. Sly a book with s-d phone numbers for free baby-silting. The baby wno s going to get ail this attention hasn't arrived yet. The free-sitting offers were gifts at a shower for Mrs. Sly in this central uregon city wnere neign borllness is customary.. - Some 200 women attended the shower-and provided gifts of a baby bed, crib, bassinet, layette and other articles, The young sters attended with their gifts of time because Mrs. Sly naa work ed many years with the Camp ire gins ana Blue mras, nau been physical education direetor at the grade school, and had been director of the municipal swim ming pool,'' . Mrs. Sly,' the former Nellie Johns, Is a University of Oregon graduate and taught in both Pen dleton and Redmond schools. Bricker Accuses Barkley Of Using 'Scare' Methods WASHINGTON, UP) Ac cused by Vice President Barkley of ' using "scare" tactics in the Congressional campaign, Republicans.- responded today with fresh attacks on President Truv man s program. Senator Bricker (R-Ohio) said that If he had his way the GOP would wipe out every vestige of "me-tooism" and "fight the Tru man welfare state down the line." "We've got to give the voters something to choose from be tween the Republicans and the Democrats," he told a reporter before leaving lor unio. "We're never going to win un til we come out squarely against the kind of socialism the admi nistration is trying to put over." Barkley told a , campaign launching Democratic rally i n New York City . last night that the Republicans are trying by talking about "s t a t i s m" to "scare the people away from the continuance of a constructive program which has made them more prosperous, more content and more universally employed than at any other period in his tory." "We are now being told by those who regard every tree frog as a roaring lion ana every in nocent angleworm as a SDread- ing adder that we are on the ver.ge of entering the, 'welfare stale' and that it and so-called statism are lurking around the corner to absorb the - liberties and devour the substance of the people," he declared. Copco Operating Income Increases By Million According to a statement Issu ed today by A. S. Cummins, pre sident, The California Or egon Power company reports gross op erating revenues for the 12 months ending Nov. 30, 1949, of $9,840,896 as compared with re venues of $8,771,872 for the same period ending Nov. 1948, an in crease of $1,069,024 or 12.19 per cent. Gross operating revenues for the 11 months ending Nov. 30, 1949, were $8,932,168 as compar ed with revenues of $8,045,440 for the corresponding period ending Nov. 1948, an increase of $886, 728 or 11.02 percent. Gross operating revenues for the month of November 1949 totaled $846,959, an increase of $27,715 or 3.38 percent over those of November 1948. Sales of electricity to residen tial customers during the 12 months ending Nov. 30, 1949, in creased 25.27 percent over those' of the previous period, and aver aged 4611.15 kilowatt-hours per customer, at an average cost of 1.606 cents per kilowatt-hour. Air Inspector General Denies Atom Knowlege SACRAMENTO, Calif. UP) The Army air inspector general said to have been told during the war of a "leak" of atom bomb materiel and secrets to Russia on lend-lease airplanes said he knows nothlne of Ihe incident. "I don't know a thing about It," said Maj. Gen. Junious W. Jones, commandant of the air materiel area at nearby McClel lan field. - A former army major, George Racey Jordan, announced on the radio last nicht that he learned of the shipments at the time and notified General Jones, then air inspector general. Jones commented: "I do not re call the officer in question. I have no knowledge of the inci dent or anytning like It." Character Actress Dies From Burns Sustained HOLLYWOOD. UP) Mmp. Maria Ouspenskaya, 68-year-old cnaracrer actress, succumbed Sat urday at the motion picture coun- try home from burns suffered wnne smoking in bed at 1 apartment earlv Thursday. Her physician, Dr. Marlon Dakm, said the second and third aegree Durns were directly sponsible for her death. NOW. It the time to talk about Irri gation equipment. Phone 652-J S. W. Miller 1202 W. 1st St., Roteburg He will call and figure your Ir rigation problem, this It a free tervice. Woman Who Heads. Concert Bureau Happy Because. It's Losing Money , By HAL BOYLE v . NEW YORK P) Jean Tennyson runs one of the world's biggest concert bureaus and is quite happy because it is losing money. Some 300 top singers and musicians-work for nothing on her programs, arranged to entertain disabled ex-servicemen In 130 vet erans hospitals across the country, -' : Her list of artist" Include Lily Pons, Margaret Truman, Ezlo iia, utur nUDensiein, ans u,uuj3 atviiuiuui. - "We started out . with strictly "But now we have Benny Goodman, choral groups even a ma gician.";.. -.' - . ! ' ': v '. Like many another American woman at war's end, Miss Ten nvson. an ex-Vanities star and operatic soprano, was grateful to the; men who had fought. She wanted to do something to show her gratitude-but what? ' VI was told that musical ther apy was helpful to the 1,000,000 veterans in lospnais, sne re called, "so I decided that was the field I could help in best." With symphony conductor Leo Stowkowski and a few other friends she organized the artists veterans hospital programs in 1947. 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I I . i fl eSV n a rtVfNl rsM I d il n I A long - haired performers," she said. certs herself and pays all ex penses of the operation. When ever the seasonal tour of one of the artists on her list' brings him near a veterans' hospital, she a ranges in advance for him to ap pear there, too. And he'd bet ter not plead wearinss or laryn gitis when she gets on the long distance phone. For a cheerful blonde she can be mlghtby stub born with lazy singers. "But most of the artists have been very cooperative," she said. "Only two out of more than 300 have turned us down and I'd rather not talk about them. Once an artist sees the effect he has on those shut-in vets he usually wants to- come back and enter tain them again." When one singer was forced to cancel an engagement at a Chicago hospital, Jean flew out herself and kept the date. Her office files are full of lct- j. """""" .- - J L L T !L I J L!! III Hawaii Will Get Greens For Christmas Season PORTLAND. UP) Hawaii will get the traditional holly, mistletoe and evergreen trees in times for Christmas. The annual yuletlde shipment left here Friday night aboard the ship Hawaiian Banker. Included were 100,000 Christmas trees, fruit, turkeys, ducks and 60 head of l?v VHA The trees are expected to retail at about $2. The ship's crew will have to care for the trees mean while, washing off salt spray at intervals. ters from doctors praising the programs for their therapeutic value to patients, some of whom are mentally as well as physical ly sick. "After Claudlo Arrau finished one of his piano numbers a vet sighed 'That's beautiful,'" said Miss- Tennyson. "We learned la ter they were the first words .that boy had spoken In months."' i A letter from a Dallas, Tex., hospital said: "Today Jarmila Novotna came to our ward and sang for, us. I can't tell you how important that hour was to us." The letter was signed by a blind veteran. Miss Tennyson expects to op erate her concert bureau Indef initely. "We must realize," she said soberly, "that we aren't go ing to haye fewer veterans in our hospitals as time goes on. There will be more and more." Mon., Dec. 5, 1949 The News:Rview, Roieburg, Ore. 1 1 Disappearance Of Girl Still Baffles British LONDON, UP) A withered red rose and a trayful of cig arette stubs were the only clues British authorities had today to the mysterious disappearance of a pretty pajarha-clad girl from a south-seas liner. The plrl wn wVyesr-old GWeu da McCallum of Sydney, Austra lia, who was last seen In her cabin late on- the night of Oct. 30 as the Orient liner OrCades steamed from Sydney - to Mel bourne on Its way to London. When the ship docked here last Wednesday, ministry of trans port officials were called to In vestigate the shipping company's report that Gwenda met "death by disappearance." . Alister Cameron, 30-year-old British civil servant in Fiji, said Miss McCallum came aboard at Sydney without money and stay ed "either accidentally or delib erately" until after It sailed. He had met her at a Sydney hotel. He said he paid her fare as far as Melbourne. FINPS TOURISTS LIKE IT LOS ANGELES UP) Despite smog, traffic and Mickey Cohen, the tourists who spend some $4, 000,000 annually in southern California are going home hap py, says Don Thomas, director of the All-Year club. He learned this by mailing tourist questionnaires after they returned home. The r e p 1 1 e showed, he said, that attraction! offset any minor irritations. . "Southern. California has drawn an average of 3,000,000 visitors a year since the war," Thomas said. "Thg b nealrly twice the prewar figure." Ths rime paper Is derived from the Latin word rapiu. . Advertisement , . ;. New Hearing Device .' Hoi No Receiver'' ' Buton In fear' Chicago, 111. 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