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Either Ford Or Chevrolet Lead In Car Registrations Depending On Figures Used By HARRY ELLIOTT The final count on 1954 new-car registrations is iri, with both Ford and Chevrolet claiming leadership. Chevrolet made its claim on tho basis of R. L Polk & Company's standard report and Ford based its statement on a special Polk re port in which December 1953 fig ures were used and December 1954 figures omitted to produce what Ford called "net" registration figures. Polk's standard table gave Chev rolet 1,417,453 and Ford 1,400,000. New-car registrations for the full year 5,535,464, making 1954 the third best year in history. Buick climbed ta third place from fourth, Oldsmobile went from fourth to sixth. Plymouth dropped from third to fifth place and Pont iac went from fifth to sixth, with Mercury taking the seventh po sition which Dodge held in 1953. In truck registrations, Chevrolet counted 292,079 units and Ford, 267,799. Total truck registrations for the year were lower than in 1953 Five makers gained in their share of the market, with 14 los 'Serious Abuses' In Government Storage Found WASHINGTON Wl -Congressional investigators Tuesday reported finding "serious abuses" under the government's grain storage pro gram. The House Appropriations Com mittee disclosed that its investigat ors and those of the Government Accounting Office (GAO) had re ported that as a result future losses on grain held under federal farm price support operations "will undoubted'v be heavv. rnm unsat isfactory bins purchased." They said many past "mistakes" which proved costly have been re peated recently. Rep. Whitten (D-Miss) told offi cials of the Agriculture Depart ment's Commodity Stabilization Service the program appeared to be handled on "a haphazard ba sis," threatening "tremendous losses" to the government. Whitten said he intends to seek a committee investigation to "get at this at the state level" where the program is chiefly run. The investigators reported they found: Wooden storage bins have been erected by private contractors with knotholes up to two inches in size. Calking compounds used in weather-proof bins ignored govern ment specifications. Other than low bids were ac cepted for bin construction Fees paid local contractors to move grain were not negotiated on a bid basLj, "but were generally at maximum approved rates." Government-financed bins were used in some cases as auto repair shops, workshops and chicken coops. Grade Children To Participate In Tree Planting Close to 500 upper grades school children of the Lower Umpqua area are expected to take part in the 10th annual tree-planting events slated for Friday, March 25, in the Weatherly Creek burn area east of Scottsburg. The fifth through the eighth grades of Reedsport, Gardiner, Elkton, Loon Lake and Lakeside schools will take part. Preparations are under way by a committee headed by John Skaaluren who, then mayor of Reedsport, initiated the conserva tion program 10 years ago. Repre sented on the planning group are the Long-Bell, E. K. Wood and Reedsport Lumber companies, U. S. Bureau of Land Management, U. S. Forest Service, Keep Oregon Green Assn., county fire protective associations, public school admin istrations and faculties, and Low er Umpqua Chamber of Com merce. The group is requesting' 20,000 Douglas fir. Port Orford cedar and Ponderosa pine seedlings to be furnished by the State Forest ry Dept. Nursery. Planting area will be laid out on public lands, with forestry experts of the pub lic agencies and lumber companies cooperating in the supervision and instruction. A picnic lunch, provid ed by the Lower Umpqua Cham ger of Commerce, will follow the tree-planting exercise. . Until the end of feudalism in Japan the art of jiu-jitsu, was taught only to the nobility and guarded as a secret from other groups. ing. "Big Three" registrations amounted to 94.43 per cent of the total market. The Big Three share in 1953 was 90.51 per cent. The industry's "big Two" Ford and Chevrolet secured 153 per cent of the market last year, com pared with 70.22 per cent in 1953 and 64.52 per cent in 1952. A growing concentration of new ear sales among fewer and fewer' makers is apparent' More than half of all new cars registered in 1954 were either Fords or Chev rolets. "Pull-Down" Garage A garage that you drive in and "pull-down" over your car is on the market Made of new semi-permanent vinyl plastic coated nylon, the fab ric is attanced to an all-steel tub lar frame with multiple spring ac tion. The automobile is driven be tween the two center posts, which are in the ground, and then the fabric and the rest of the support ing frame is pulled over the front and back of the car. Called "Car Castle," the garage is made by Domestic Film Prod ucts in Ohio. The plastic coating is made by B. F Goodrich Chem ical Company. The garage folds into an 7 pound package, mea suring 1 ft. by 1 ft. by 8 ft. Easy On THE Brakes When a tire blows out it holds back the wheel on which it is set, causing the car to veer to the side. This happens in a split sec ond and many motorists try to counteract this veering by steering sharply in the opposite direction and jamming on the brakes To this, the National Automo bile Club says, "Don't!" Such ac tion may cause the driver to lose control of the car completely. It is better to keep the car on a straight line down the center of the road, letting the drag of the blown tire act as the braking pow er and slowing the car down to a safe speed. Only when you' feel you have the car going slow enough to have it under complete control should you apply the brakes and then do so with caution. New Model Augmenting Oldsmobile's Holi day line is the newly-mtroduced four-door Holiday hardtop sedan. Most distinctive feature uf this addition to oldsmobile's 1955 body types is the absence of any door pillars above the belt line, provid ing unbroken side vision. Detroit Notes Combined Hudson and Nash car production has hit the 1,000 units a day mark, highest since Amer ican Motors Corporation was form ed last May. By the end of the month, output will climb to 1,200 units a day, it is predicted. March production is continuing at a rate nearly six per cent ahead of the record month of June, 1950, ac cording to AUTOMOTIVE NEWS. Expansion of engineering facil ities, starting this month' and con tinuing through March of next year has been announced by Chrysler Corp. Emphasis is on enlarged and improved facilities for styling and body design groups. 1955 Lincoln and Mercury cars will have avail able a Ford-developed electronic headlamp dimmer. bales are con tinuing to go up. Oldsmobile an livered 47,109 new cars in Febru ary, making that month the biggest in its history Buick, too, said February saw an all-time record, with 59,621 new cars delivered. Nash announced its new-car re tail sales the last ten days in Feb ruary increased 40.9 per cent and Hudson said February sales in creased more than 54 per cent over the same month last year. Thur.Mor. 24, 1955The Newt-Review, Roseburtj, Ore. 5 Richard Applegare, Ex-Prisoner, Marries CHICAGO Wl Richard Apple gate, a former Medford, Ore., man who was a prisoner in Communist China for 18 months, was married here this week. The bride is the former Mrs. Barbara Hoerter, 38. of Chicago, a representative for the agent who is handling Applegate's speaking tour. 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