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-:.
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': 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
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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.'
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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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WASHINGTON (UP)
Rome Daily American will be dis- j
tributed at military posts in Ger
many for 30 days to see if demand
for the paper there warrants con
tinued distribution.
. The Defense' Department Friday
told its Army commander in Ger
many to have the paper distributed
by Stars and Stripes, 'the Army
publication which. acts as distribut
ing agency for. many newspapers
and periodicals at military lnstai?
lations. 1
Ray Vir Den, publisher of .the
Rome Daily American, had pro
tested that Stars and . Stripes re
fused to handle his paper. 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. Heerman, president ottne
American Hospital Association
said the 20-story building devo
ted to hospital affairs, is being
made possible through a gut ot
land offered by Northwestern
University on which the hospital
a ..--,.
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