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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1954)
General Motors Produces 5090009000th Car ' - - - - ' , V M ...J FLINT, Mich. The 51,000,000th ear produced by General Motors rolled off the line here Tuesday. It was a Chevrolet Bel Air sport coupe, painted gold in honor of the occasion unprecedented in au tomotive history. Flint schools were closed and a colorful parade heralded the event First" GM.car produced in 190S was a Cadillac; the 1,000,000th produced in 1919 was ha Oldsmobile; the 5,000,000th was a Pontiac, which rolled out in 1926; the 10,000,000 was a Buick, of 1929 vintage, and the 25,000,000th a Chevrolet, produced in 1940.- aw f I 1 - A FLINT, Mich. First car produced by General Motors after the company was formed in 1908 was this 1908 Cadillac the first American motor car to be awarded the Royal Automotive Club's Dewar tro phy in London for-proving the feasibility of the interchanging of standardized automotive parts. Three Cadillacs were disassembled and reassembled from a common parts pool and each then was driven away under its own power. ; : ' .....,.. .,..-... New Weapons Mark Atomic Breakthrough WASHINGTON (UP) -4 The Ar my, disclosing new"break throughs" in atomic weapons re search, said Tuesday it jis devel oping an improved "Honest John" rocket with - greater destructive power and range than present ver sions. ' - j' Maj. General James T. Gavin, , assistant chief of staff for opera tions, said that the rocket, which can carry an atomic warhead, will have "better yield and range" but will be reduced in size for easier handling on the battlefield. The "Honest John" in its pres- , ent form weighs three tons, is 30 inches in , diameter, 27 feet long and has a range of up to 20 miles. The rocket already has been ear marked for use in Europe as part of the NATO. "We are just making break throughs in tactical atomic wea pons. We have a long way to go, Gavin told a news conference. Pro-McCarthy Party Forming In Oklahoma - i - OKLAHOMA CITY ( IT) A group of Oklahoma Republicans said Tuesday they were organizing a new political party tlat would be "pro-McCarthy" andj "anti-Ei senhower. j - Supporters of the new party, which will be known as' the Con sututional r party, said they . were circulating petitions to gain offi cial recognition, and had 2000 of the 5000 signatures they peed. John W. Beck, chairman of the group, now known as th4 Constitu tion Club of' Oklahoma, said it would be' affiliated with the Con stitution party, which entered four candidates in Texas general elec tion three weeks ago. j Catholics Urged To Comply With Bans on Movies WASHINGTON (ITP)-The Cath olic Bishops of ; the United States called on all Catholics Monday to comply faithfully with their pledge to shun motion . pictures which are found objectionable by the Legion of Decency. , They also reminded movie crit ics for Catholic publications that it is their primary obligation to judge a motion picture on its moral val ues. A film's technical or artistic value should be given secondary consideration, tney said. Catholics annually take a pledge to avoid films found by the Legion of Decency toibe "dangerous to their moral life." The conference said the legion condemned two of the 279 Holly wood films it reviewed this year. Of the 73 foreign films the leg ion reviewed, seven were . con- uemnea. . 2,000 Copies Of Paper Stolen COOS BAY (UP) The theft of more than 2000 copies of the Ore gon Journal was reported Mon day by the local distributor. The papers .were left at their usual spot by the delivery truck at 1 a.m. as usual, according to a police officer who witnessed the delivery. But the papers were missfeg when the distributor went to rUr them up. Additional copies were flown here rora Portland yesterday afternoon. - Rookie Cop . Credited With Saving Life PAYETTE. Ida. (UP)-A rookie policeman has been credited with saving the life of a SOyear-old man trapped by fire in a three-room house here Monday. Officer Bill Hodge, who has been on the Payette police force only a short time, rushed to the burning home along with firemen, broke in a bedroom window and pulled the lone-occupant. Frank Simmons, to safety. Simmons clothing was in flames, but Hodge rolled him in a blanket, smothering the fire. Simmons was taken - to . Payette hospital where attendants said he suffered second degree burns over much 'of his body.- - Simmons told officers he re turned home early Monday morn ing and fell asleep on'a davenport with a lighted ' cigarette in his hand. When he awoke, he was en veloped in flames. A passing motorist saw the blaze about 6 a.m. and turned in the alarm. Hodge said he. was at the fire station when the alarm came in. . ..... Simmon's brother and sister-in-law who also lived in the house were in Boise at ' the time. Mars will be much closer to the earth than usual in 1956 and 1871. TALLMAN PIAU0 STORES 395 S. 12th, Salem ' o.ooononoo C Makes air smelt U S T Ammy fnm Kath laHir lta Iom loky't lM Cltar Marty Of Sick 0MStal . fab. GUO0I? n - U r n n i l i j r i i 1 1 15 H if no n a o o for only other rates from Salem i Boston . ... ... Y . v $2.00 j Chicago . . . ...... 1.75 ' Salt Lake City . . ... .1.10 : i SeattU. . . . ..." 55 Statioa to statioa rates, aot Isclndini t, for 3 avnutes tttar 6 pj. wttWjyj ind all toy Sundty : Saw fm call by number n o ' fKifie Tetephent works to mk your telephone t bigger n'tx every day n rv n n n n n n n n n n IPear! States " Power Outlook Not Gloomy EVERETT, Wash. (UP) The future of Northwest power supplies is not entirely black, William Pearl Bonneville Power Administrator, said Tuesday. He listed three proposals for storage reservoirs in Canada, a potential six million kilowatts of new energy represented by. appli cations for projects before the Federal Power Commission, plan ned import of natural gas, and five planned ofl refineries. Pearl told a meeting of Everett service clubs that development of Canadian reservoirs would make feasible a third power house at Grand Coulee. The largest such project, proposed by the Puget Sound Utilities Council, would pro vide 10,600,000 acre feet of storage. twice the ' usuable capac i ty of Roosevelt lake behind Grand Cou lee dam. He said both public and privately owned utilities in the . Northwest the past two years "have made intensive efforts to discover sites and " prepare plans for bringing additional generation on the line. He added that "the day may not be far distant' when Puget Sound and Portland areas will become vast industrial centers, rivaling the industrial cities, of the midwest and north Atlantic seaboard." v 1 i 'V! 3 More than 308 million4 pounds of popcorn were grown in the United States last year. Dock Worker Missing in Willamette PORTLAND (UP) A Portland longshoreman was nreiumod drowned Tuesday when the five-ton tractor he was operating plunged off a dock into the Willamette river. .. . , ; - . - The victim was identified as Leo R. Wojcik, about 48. The accident occurred about S a.m. . Witnesses s'aia wojeue was at tempting to move railroad cars in to position to transfer lumber to the freighter Sea Leader at Terminal No. 1. He backed the heavy tractor to the edge of the dock to get a straight run at the cars. The clutch in the vehicle apparently 'locked nd the rear wheels slipped over-the edge of the dock. Other workers called for Wojcik to Jump but they said he appeared to "freeze" at the controls in the tractor's cab. Harbor patrolmen "called in a diver in attempts to locate Woj cik's body and to raise the tractor: Woicik. married and father- of two children, was employed by the Jones stevedore Company. Cards PAIMIST p,ychic Read your life like an open book. Past - Present - Future Love Marriage Business Sickness. Bring all your prob lems to this Gifted Lady. Hours: 10 to 10 374S Portland Road (Next Door to Nick's) am fuel ...no dirt. no odor... no ash, long burning . . . no storage problem . . . use CAPITOL LUMBER CO. 2860 N. 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