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12 Sac J) Statecnan, Salem. OreSundar. Not. 21, 1954 GM. Ford Jfattie For Sales Volume , By DAVID I. wnJOEl AP Automotive Editor f DETROIT Vn The General Motors-Ford battle for sales volume in 1955 promises to be another siz zler. ' . . -. I ,! At different periods in 1954 these in&rial giants I accounted f for frtri 81 to 84 per cent of the Amer ican car market. They took a maj or sh?re of the export business! Their competitive fight made pret ty mmb of a two-company affair ci:l of 1954 auto industry operatic-:. : I f ': Industry sources already are : sr r '-?ting on whether this situa te" will prevail again in 1955. Of cc r:e it could- Bui many industry an' rts are saying Chrysler will r in some of its lost market vol- ' -Clirysler can regain little of.il at the expense of the smaller com- . panies without wiping out one-or more of . them. If Chrysler comes ' back on a substantial basis GM or some sales volume. t . Obviously neither' intends to liand over any car sales' to its competi tors. .. 5 ' If ";- - . At the peak of their fight this year GM was accounting for 52 per cent of fiie industry's output and Ford 32.5.' These percentages were i based on production "for the first sine months of 1934. Sales ran: only slightly' behind these figures.! Aims at Chevrolet ' ?: Ford has. made no claim that it ever expects to outdistance theen tire GM organization in factory out put. But it has been emphatic in asserting it expects to top GM's Chevrolet division with the produc tion and sales of its Ford division. So far this year these two volume producers, in the lower price field have built well over 2,400,000 carsj or more than half- the industry to taL Chevrolet, has been the indusf try's No. 1 producer and retailed during most of the last 20 years. j On the basis of past performance the odds would seem to favor Chevj rolet in the 1955 race. But few things follow tradition indefinitely, in the auto industry. Chevrolet has an entirely new line of cars, includf ing a V-8 for the competitive baU tie. ; , ; ; j Changes Made . Ford,' on the other hand, has made numerous styling and engi neering advances, and 1955; will bring in more production capacity than it has had in the modern era! Heads of some of the smaller companies openly charged during 1S54 that the GM-Ford battle was responsible for their production and sales difficulties.. . fj'l All factors presently apparent add up to the certainty the com panies trying to take business from GM and Ford will have a rough time bf it next year. 1 v-j Mergers that made three com panies out of a former half dozen undoubtedly strengthened some of the weaker small concerns. Pror duction costs were cut for most of them. Distribution facilities were improved. Eliminated also was a substantial amount of overhead ex pense. - if j j But there are some among the; industry analysts who say these moves had to be made if the small! er companies were to survive. The same analysts' still are insisting that another merger perhaps bringing together American Motor (Nash - Hudson) and Studebakerf Packard is a distinct -probability for early in 1955. jj- j Merchants, Industrial Unit to Meet -Directors of the Industrial De velopment Committee have been invited to attend the dinner meet ing, of the Downtown Merchants Association Tuesday evening at the Senator hotel and. give a progress report on the committee's work. The meeting will be an open meeting with all others interest ed invited to attend. "We merchants are very much interested In promoting Salem's development, and anxious to co operate in every way we can," said R. J. (Dick) Schlup, presi dent of the Association. "Expan sion of retail trade depends a whole. lot on increase of payrolls and of population here which new industry will bring. ; This meeting is planned that mer chants may be kept fully in formed of what's cooking in this important' community promotion." Betty Hutton Englishman Makes Money le s Errors Peopl t i x I V By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent "-' LONDON (UP) "Stradivarius violin -for sale cheap. Almost new -r Penys Parsons, hi knows; that bae man's misprint cad be another's fortune, neatly extracted that newspaper advertisement from the collection written ori bim by the fumbling fingers of writers and printers the world over. f Railroads Sue To Halt 3-jCent Airmail Plan . WASHINGTON W-Tive Western railroads filed suit in federal dis trict court Saturday to prevent the postmaster generat from; starting an air lift for first class mail be tween 20 West Coast cities , The West Coast experiment in carrying 3-cent mail by airplane is scheduled to begin, Monday. A similar experiment has been icon ducted by the Post Office Depart ment since October; 1953, between several 'cities in the .Southland East , j1 The five railroads contend the air 'lift of egular first class mail is "unlawful, void and beyond the statutory- authority bf the postmas ter general. They, are: f Atcheson, Topeka And Santa Fe Railway Co. of Chicago, Great Northern Railway Cp. and Northern Pacific Railway Co., both of St Paul, Minn.: Southern Pacing Co. of Saa Francisco, iiand Union Pa cific Railroad Co. bf Omaha. : The petition said they may be forced, if the air lift is permitted, to seek permission to abandon sev eral passenger trains because' of uneconomic operation. ,, Ihterriipt Hells Canyon Group Still for Hi gh Dam j PORTLAND W I- The National Hells Canyon Assn., elated by the recent election of two Oregon Democrats to Congress. Saturday reaffirmed its position in favor of a high federal dam at the Snake River site."-"- - - . ? The organization, holding its second annual meeting here,, also announced its opposition to a pro posal by a group of four Pacific Northwest private utilities ' to de velop the ..Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley sites downstream from Hells Canyon; on the Snake. A treasurer's report showed the association has spent more 1 than $84,000 since June,' 1953, most of it fighting the Idaho Power Com' ' pany's plan for development, of the l Hells Canyon site,S v. , ii A lean and cynical Briton with a sharp eye for the errors that creep into modern publications. Parsons had twice before made the best seller lists with his books on garbles.' 1 In His Own Mail ' j i 1 Parsons considers a "garble! any misprint or unwieldy gram mar which - gives a sentence ari ffrt not intemAaA hv tha vrrHo I. He finds them even in ais own correspondence like this note from a tailor: i j "You may imagine it is impost sible to obtain a serviceable suit at this price. Buy one from us and be convinced." , ;M Parsons likes all garbles but he has a few strong favorites. One of them is this letter to a London newspaper: ; . ' j "Mr. Jones is wrong to suggest that I support the; rich against the poor.jTo me. Christian there is.no class v distinction that idea wait largeIyiconcocted by the working clashes." , ; j He lso treasures: . -! ' j "The font so generously present ed by Mrs. Smith will be set in position at the east end of the church. Babies may now be bap uzea ai ootn enas. A Good Policy . And this testionial "My husband took an acridem policy with your company and in less than a month he was accident ally drowned. I consider it a good investment , . - - ;? And this weather report: i "Tomorrow we may expec strong northeast winds reaching a gal in exposed places. i $ And this news disnatch: 1 "About 3 ajn. fire broke out in the back part of the premises of Messrs. Blank, sausage and potted meat makers. Several horses wer( rescued." i ' s And this advertisement: ; ; "Don't kill your wife with work. Let electricity do it." i Parson found this in a provin cial paper while he was technically on nouaayt . si Miss-Tnk sang with great feeling: 'Oh relieve me of all those endearing young charms. Hearing Set on Bias Cliare Against Judge WASHINGTON tf SenLanger (R-ND), - Saturday invited Atty. Gen. Browneli and UJS. District Judge Luther W.-Youngdahl to a Dublic hearing on Tuesday to in vestigate "the conduct of the De partment of Justice in filing ' an affidavit of bias against the judge. Langer? chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he was acting at the request of Sen. Hen- mngs (D-Mo) Langer appointed himself, Hen nings and Sen. Wiley (R-Wis) as a subcommittee to handle the con troversy. .; Also invited to attend was U. S. Attornej' Leo A. Rover who filed the unusual action against the judge in federal court here. Youngdahl had dismissed part of a federal indictment against Owen Lattimore, Far Eastern spe cialist accused of swearing' falsely that , he was not a 'sympathizer with Communism. Rover later obtained a new .in dictment against Lattimore and then asked Judge Youngdahl, for mer governor of Minnesota, to disqualify himselL Youngdahl overruled this re quest as "scandalous" and the Justice Department later an nounced there would be no appeal Retirement LAS VEGAS.. Nev. (UP) Bouncy singing Star Betty Hutton insisted Saturday she still was in retirement despite the fact she re placed injured, entertainer Sam my Davis Jr. in a nightclub show. The energetic blonde, who tear- fully retired from show business only 12 days ago, appeared at the Last Frontier nightclub Friday night as a substitute for Davis, who was injured seriously in a traffic crash. j Davis, one of i the nation's top nightclub performers, underwent surgery late Friday to save the sight of an eye after his car col lided with another auto on U. S. Highway 66 near San Bernardino, Calif.1 r The eye surgeon at San Bernar dino's Community Hospital said it would be five days before it would be known if Davis' sight could be saved. i ,-. ' ; After Friday flight's show, Miss Hutton said, "I ! filled in tonight only because of Sammy. I meant what I said about retirement and I'm going to take care of my two kids. I was a replacement only for tonight' However, in true Hutton style, she wisecracked "Wow! This is the shortest retirement in the his tory of show business." Davis, 28, was en route from Las Vegas to Hollywood Friday when -his car collided with one driven by Mrs. Helen Basse, 72, Van Nuys, Calif. J about two miles north of San Bernardino. t Davis' companion, Charles Head, 39, suffered a broken jaw while Mrs. Bosse received only minor injuries, j 100 Million Planets in Universe Probably Adapted Jo Support Higher Forms of Life Man Arrested After Accident ..... ! A Salem man escaped injury Saturday when a car went into a ditch near Aumsville ' but he was later arrested bv state notice and charged with being drunk on a public highway. Robert Wayne Beal, 36, of 1365 N. 5th St., was booked after of ficers observed a car in a ditch one mile south of Aumsville on the- West Stayton road, police said. Beal posted $100 bail at the Marion Countyj sheriffs office and was released. French Committee This brought a sharply worded I memo from Youngdahl, who saidj knowledge the charge of bias was lO otUdVi AlCOhol wimoui suDstance. i j Rover replied that the govern ment's position "has been stated" in the affidavit of prejudice and "any additional tatement on my part would be inappropriate' SHAVERS f-.i Soviet Sends Bureaucrats Back to Work PARIS (UP) -The government has established a "High Commit tee, of Study and Information of Alcoholism in .line with Premier Pierre Mendes-France's campaign against . alcoholism, it was an nounced Saturday. - The committee, made, up of six to 10 experts, i will V gather all available information on alcohol ism and then propose to the gov ernment measures to diminish the importance of the prague," the official journal said. C PATIENTS. 4)TK ' ! HELSINKI, Finland () Six id- mates of a mental institution near here burned to death Saturday in a fire started by an overheated oven. II LONDON (UP) Moscow Radio announced a new purge Saturday: It's back to work for Soviet bureaucrats. - i The Soviet government disclosed it bas launched wholesale firing of paper pushers in overstaffed government offices ' because - of "muddle": in the swollen bureauac racy. ' ' . There is no unemployment prob lem for the formei; bureaucrats, however. They are being dircctd to work on "state farms in the re claimed ' areas, logging points in the northern areas, in Siberia, in flu, TT1 rA k Vf, -Cat ' 'Moscow Radio broadcast ih news in the form of a dispatch in today's issue of the Communist Party newspaper Pravda. It "was the most comprehensive attack yet launched on the often mentioned plague of a top-heavy soviet civil service. I Pravda listed a series of abuses and said, "AH-this taken together . . . requires great expenditure and is embarrassing for the state. Therefore, it announced, "The Communist Party and the Soviet government are carrying out im portant steps." The steps, it made clear, include the wholesale firing of bureaucrats and sending them I elsewhere to work.' ICUPPERS All nationally Known Brands in Stock r Guaranteec! Repairs i On All Makes i Capitol Cutlery Company 47 Ferry St. I Ph. 4-7464 . m . 'HAS SELECTED. Salom Sandjfi 6ravcl Co. To furnish all base and road gravels and ready ' mix concrete: for foundation and patios, r ' 1 Salem Sand & Gravel Co. Sand Gnval Cement Silt Heavy Hauling Bulldozing; Excavating 1405 NO. FRONT STREET ; SALEMi OREGON . . TELEPHONE 3-94CS By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter NEW YORK U -4 Is there 'life like ours on other planets, some where in the starry; universe? For ages men have wondered. Now from astronomers comes reason to say, "Yes; probably." "We are not alone,", in the uni verse, says Dr. Harlow Shapley famed Harvard University astron omer, for probably there are 100 million planets which could! sup port life in high forms. . -i . . He has made what he calls 'a skeptical or low ; estimate,! this way: , . ' ..' . ! r Our sun is a star, and it .has planets. You can't assume every sua or star has planets. So, . on the safe side, assume that only one in every million stars has; any planet or family of- planets.j " Next, assume , that only:ohe of every thousand of all these f am-; ilies of planets has one planet with , the right conditions - to sdpport life. That means not being too close or too far from its sun; hav ing the right kind ; of orbit and rotation, and of course an atmb- sphere. . . ; One In Every Billion So - now you're assuming only one ia every "billion stars, could nave the Jcind of planet to support life, if - . ; , ; - .;- Then suppose that life actually develops to high forms on only cue in every-thousand of those. That's saying there could be life like ours or pretty high fonns, or even higher forms, for only -one of every one thousand billion; stars in the universe. ' f i Well, there are still enough stars so then would be 100 mil lion of the suitable planets. Dr. Shaolev estimates. ! i Our sun and earth are. part of a huge family or galaxy of stars, the Milky Way, estimated to con tain 100 billion stars. There are literally billions of other Milky Ways er galaxies, each with -billions of stars, f - 'j' ' The indications are that "the life phenomenon! is widespread and of cosmic significance," Dr. Shapley has written. And, he adds, there's no reason to assume that man or the animals or birds on earth "are the best that biochemistry and star shine" cab produce. Space travel may someday per mit us to visit other planets in our own solar system to see if there is life on Mars, or t else where, j More Complex Problem But to learn whether other: stars have planets like ours, or planets with life on them, is quite another thing. - j ' j v For even the stars which are nearest to us are so distant that it takes years for their light to reach us. .Yet light travels 186 thousand miles a second iin a year (a light year) it has! sped about six thousand billion milesJ , The very nearest star to us Is 41-3rd light years away. That's a long round trip even if space rock ets cculd travel at the speed of Kghf. , .v! Present techniques in astronomy can't answer whether nearby stars have planets of about the earth's size. The stars are too bright, and any small pull by planets on their motions is difficult to measure.. 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He claimed this violated the rights of a free press. -, j Assistant Defense Secretary Fred Stolen Vehicle Found Wrecked . Statesman News Service MILL CITY -4 A 1949 Chevrolet station wagon, stolen Friday night from Mill City, was found wrecked four miles west of Santiam Junc tion on Highway 22, state police reported Saturday. : Officers said the vehicle, owned by Harold Waller of Forest Grove, bad been overturned in a ditch. TbeA. Seat6n ordered the 30 - day trial perjiod in a telegram to Gen. William IM. Hoge, U. S. Army com manderjat Heidelberg, Germany, But evidence has been found for a huge planet circling around a. star, named 61 Cygm, which is about 11 light years away. ice speculations are cauea to mind by Dr.- Shapley's latest de scription to the National Academy ; of sciences of ine gaiaxy wnicn is nearest to our own Milky way. Magellanic Cloud - This is the large Magellanic cloud, visible only from our South ern Hemisphere, it and the small Magellanic cloud are about , 170 thousand light years away from us. . i ' ! ? "-. Many galaxies are spherical, or spiral shaped, or have star arms like pinwheels. The large Magel lanic cloud, though, nas an irregu lar shape. . From various studies. Dr. Shap ley now thinks the large Magel lanic cloud is a very young or embryonic galaxy.: In time, he f says, these irregular galaxies tend i to become spiral shaped, then j spherical, : ' I Our own Milky Way has spiral i arms, and seems to be a middle-' : aged galaxy. Th6 large Magellanic . i cloud is perhaps only a few mil- 1 lion years old as a galaxy. - The age of ur universe, by the way, now is esumatea at snout ; five billion ..years. i The large Magellanic cloud has -one big claim for fame and at tention it possesses the bright est star known to man in the uni verse, Dr. Shapley says. The starJ Is S Dora'dus. It is. one million ' times brighter than our sun. 'And S Doradus is apparently only about one million years old about the same length of time . that man has lived on earth, the -astronomer adds. " , - .. ; Is there some planet, at a re-: spectable distance from S Dora dus, which is stirridg with life, on which life like ours will de velop? : : ' t ' - - ' - Explorers Plan Long Journey PARIS! W Two African ex plorers Schuyler Jones of! New York and Keith Lawson of Mel bourne, Australia are fitting out a heavy duty truck for a year's photographic jaunt, iacross Africa, Arabia, Iran and India. ; ir Leaving next week, they expect to cover about30,009 miles, mostly over untracked desert. A couple of years ago they made a similar truck trip across Africa from the Sahara to Capetown. CENTER PLANNED CHICAGO (INS) A new five million dollar medical center will be built on Chicago's lake front. Ritz E. 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