Gravy Train
Hits Dead-End
For Car Dealers
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28—
.(AP)—Automobile dealers trek
king homeward today pondered
some one-two punches they may
not have expected to hear at their
national convention here.
Speakers from their own ranks
told them:
They are in the dog house pub
licly.
They have a “tremendous” pub
lic relations job to do.
They don’t know how to sell cars,
or have forgotten.
For eight years they have been
riding a “gravy train” that has
reached a dead-end.
The time is past when they could
sell any old used car even without
dusting it off.
The day of salesmanship has re
turned—yes, the buyer’s market
has arrived.
Dealers, speakers, the executive
committee and the convention
heaped on credit curbs the blame
for declining sales.
One of the final acts of the con
vention was to approve the action
of its executive committee in ask
ing the federal reserve board to
liberalize its time payment rules.
A car buyer now has from 15 to 18
months in which to pay the bal
ance. The dealers would like to see
this extended to 24 to 30 months.
Plans for an intensified highway
safety campaign were formed. This
would emphasize rapid extension
of high school driver training.
Classified Ads
A thinking driver doesn’t drink;
a drinking driver doesn’t think.
FOR SALE — Hallierafters S-41G
Receiver, $30.00—75 meter phone
transmitter—$15.00. Phone 3242
R. 75
LOST—Coat at the Veterans Me
morial building Saturday. Will
the person who took my coat
please exchange it for their own ?
Call 940. 74
WANTED — College students for
part time work selling. Selling ex
perience not necessary but pre
ferred. Should have car. No in
vestment required. Interview Sat
urday between 9 a. m. and 11 a.
m. Snyder Specialty Co., 172 W.
Broadway, phone 489-M 74
LOST—Girl's wrist watch, near li
brary—Nancy Chase 1307 74
FOR SALE—Remington Rand Por
table typewriter. Used one term,
$55.00. Save 25% of new cost. See
Jack B. Lively, room 6, Fenton,
between 1 and 5 p. m. 74
FOR SALE- 41 Stude. R & H Over
drive. 47 motor $950. See at M &
R Service. 11th and Mill. 75
SKIERS—Attention: ’48 Chev. Sta
tion wagon. Equity—$1800., 5,000
miles, all accessories. Ph. eve.
4439-W, 1924 Onyx. 75
FOR SALE - 1947 Chevrolet Fleet
line Aero Sedan $1915. Ph. 1853-J
77
FOR RENT Attractive Room for
male student East side on bus
line. Call 4471-J 75
LOST — Identification bracelet by
by Jack Bronson, 110 E 14tlx 75
Be as good a driver as you think
you are.
Never mind who's right. Walk so
you’ll be left.
A driver’s hand out—makes a
good turn.
Press Superintendent Enjoys Work
By Gerald Berreman
“We’d rather be overworked
than have time on our hands,” that
is the attitude of the University
press, as expressed by Superinten
dent Fred A. Beard.
Mr. Beard, a busy, yet soft-spok
en man, who even in his work has
time for a friendly interview, can
usually be found working around
the press, or in his small office
adjoining the main press room. As
superintendent, Mr. Beard likes the
atmosphere and gets along very
well with the printers and students
working with the Oregon press.
He says that in spite of a few
“rough 'spots” at the first of the
year, the press and the student edi
tors’ relationship is “tops.” "After
all,” he stresses, “the press is just
as interested in putting out the
Emerald as the students are. It’s
our paper too!”
The trials of a college press press
are nothing new to Mr. Beard, who
accepted the post vacated by Mr.
Robert C. Hall last Jftne. He has
been in the printing business since
1917, and in that time his experi
ence has been with college presses
almost exclusively.
Schools at which he has held po
sitions include Drake, DesMoines
university, and Iowa State college,
at which he spent twelve years.
Recently he held the position of
superintendent of the University of
Chicago’s large press.
The Oregon university press is
the smallest one with which he has
worked, but is “the fastest grow
ing one” he has seen. He sees, “a
tremendous future, with nothing
ahead but go,” for the Oregon
press. The press, which in cooper
ation with the smaller Oregon
State college press does all of the
printing for the state sytem of
higher education, has been almost
doubled in capacity over last year,
Mr. Beard says.
Spending his first winter on the
west coast, with his wife and fam
ily of a teen-age son and daughter,
Mr. Beard is impressed. Neither
the cold weather nor the housing
situation seem to phase him, as
they have many native Webfoots.
The University has provided him
with one of those dandy little pre- j
fabs on Agate street, and, “the
weather,” he says, “is better than
the rain we were warned of.” West
ern people are more democratic
than those in the central states,
Mr. Beard, a native of Iowa, be
lieves. He finds that here no one
notices that he lives in a pre-fab.
Back there it would have been con
sidered a disgrace.
He and his family have crossed
Oregon two different ways, “ex
ploring” as Mr. Beard puts it. With
these and the local surroundings
in mind, he has come to the con
clusion that, “Oregon is the most
beautiful place on earth—I would
n’t leave for anything!”
Planes Thrown
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weather eased the threat of major
floods.
In southeastern Montana aerial
searchers reported spotting a herd
of 5,300 cattle standing in deep
snow and apparently unable to
move on the Tongue River Indian
reservation.
Pilot John Lynch said after a
two-hour flight over the 200,000
acre range that no downed cattle
were visible but those standing in
little groups apparently had not -
been able to move "for many
hours.’’
Thirteen Michigan communities
were without power and 21 were
left without long distance telephone
service. Drifting snow threatened
to close some secondary roads.
A halt in recent steady rains
and a forecast of colder weather
relieved flood fears along the swol
len Ohio river in the Cincinnati
area. Downstream in southern Illi
nois, however, where 1,000 were
made homeless by overflowing
Ohio river tributaries, the situa- -
tion still was serious.
California Still Cold
Cold weather also continued in
the northern Pacific states. Rain
fell in New England. Seasonable
temperatures prevailed generally
in the southwest and Gulf states.
Congress is working on plans to
boost by another $3,000,000 the cur
rent fund available for relief in 10
western states. The senate author
ized these additional funds Thurs- „
day. However, house action on the
senate authorization must wait un
til Monday for formal-considera
tion.
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