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Medford United Press Full Leased Wire JIlMrRIBUNE If United Pre -Full Leased Win Third Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1954 6 Pages ' npH ij BUICK STYLE CHANGES SHOWN The big- gest changes in the 1955 Buick cars, which go -jon display in Medford tomorrow at Skinner's ; Garage, 143 South Riverside ave., appears in the front-end design, and in the color offer ings, which include three-tone combinations. At top, the new finer grill is shown, and the picture below shows the sleek, overall design which still features the famous Buick "port holes" and the panoramic windshield intro duced last year by Buick. EXPENSIVE VOTE New Britain, Conn. (U.R) Orazio Guillaro believes his may be the most expensive voteany where. Guillaro, who maintains a street address here, has lived in Italy since 1947, but each elec tion he returns to cast his ballot. Guillaro estimated that the trips cost an average of $1,000. "It's worth it," he said. Has Republican Leanings lies Moines, la. U.R) A par akeet flew into the Polk County Republican headquarters and workers 'held it for the owner, George Marchant. But Marchant wasn't very happy. "I've been a Democrat all my life," he said, "and now t dis cover i ve got a parakeet with Republican leanings." NO OFFENSE Lexington, Ky. (U.R) Back in 1900, the University of Ken tucky football team defeated the Louisville YMCA . team, 12-6, without running a single offen sive play. Kicking on first down every time it got the ball, Ken tucky recovered two fumbles in the enemy's end zone for the touchdowns. v ft - With this tasy-meosuring spoon youll use LESS coffee and get MORE flavor when you use SCHILLING or GOLDEN WEST... because their blends of the world's finest coffees just naturally make more good cups to the pound ! Reduced Prices, Redesigned Style, Feature Buicks Skinner's Garage, 143 South Riverside ave., tomorrow will put on display the 1955 models of Buick. The cars which will be offered at prices reduced from last year, feature all-new styling and more powerful V-8 engines, plus a new variable pitch Dynaflow trans mission which improves perform ance. " The front end has been rede signed, with a grillwork much finer than in previous models. Lights are recessed. The overall silhouette gives a lower appear ance. Interiors are' offered in many color combinations of ny lon, leather and cordaveen. Bright new exterior colors are also being featured this year, in both two-tone and three-tone combinations. HP Increased Horsepower has been in creased to 236 in the Roadmas ter, Super and Century series, and to 188 in the Special series. Some of the features intro duced previously by Buick, and which have gained wide public acceptance, have been retained, including the panoramic wind shield. Power steering is stand ard equipment on two series, and is optional on all. Power brakes are optional. The price reductions amount to $140 to $464, made possible by a new pricing policy established by General Motors, which is fa vorable to parts of the nation far from the Flint factory. The price of power steering has also been reduced, from $140 , to' $107. Golor Problem' Develops in Britaisn London I0J.PJ Great Britain lenv' district of London where kinson said the government would be reluctant to tamper! has a "color problem." for the first time in history. Britons who have always prided themselves on being among the most liberal people on earth are worrying about sporadic but disturbing inci dents that have brought the word "color bar" into the head lines. For years the British tended to take a critical view of how Americans handled the problem of their comparatively large Negro population. But that was before Britain's Negro colonials began immigrating in large numbers to England. ' Near Saturation Point Britain has a Negro popula tion of 60,000 to 80,000 out of a total of 50,000,000 persons. Some authorities believe this is near the saturation point for the tight-knit British economy. But 12,000 more Negroes are arriving every year, mostly from Jamaica. Most of the new comers have been able to find jobs but there are signs that London, Sheffield and Birming ham the biggest employment centers may not be able to ab .sorb many more into thier labor forces. . Relief Favorable - But even if the new arrivals have to go on relief it would probably not discourage fur ther immigration. Unemploy ment benefits in Britain. are not much less than what the Negroes would earn for a full week's work in their colonial home lands. ; Ill-feeling toward the Negro immigrants rises chiefly where there is competition for jobs. There have also been incidents over housing, and in relation ships between white girls and Negro men. . ' . " . The West Indians are being victimized in many places by rent profiteers, often their -own countrymen who have moved here earlier. A near riot broke out in a London suburb when white men objected to' colored men talking to white girls. In some districts pubs have barred Negro customers. Front doors of Negro houses r have sprouted insulting slogans. The tensest area is the "Little Har- immigrants are packed six or more to a room in slum apart ments. For the first time Scot land Yard has ordered patrol men in the neighborhood to walk only in pairs. Communist Threat Government circles are wor ried about the activities of Com munist agitators. Communists have been seen meeting immi grant ships to give comradely" advice to the dark-skinned new comers. - In a discussion of the prob lem in the House of Commons, former socialist cabinet minister John Hynd said Britain must bear part of the responsibility for the Negro immigration be cause conditions in Jamaica and alsewhere which prompted the colonials to leave "were allowed to develop under our control." Colonel Minister Henry Hop- Man Finally Gets Delivery Service y Lewisburg, O. (U.R) John F. Lock has a mail box in front of his house on Rural Route 2 after trying for 52 yearsto get delivery service. Lock, 74, i said that during the 52 years he has been trying to have a rural route extended to where he lives he walked or drove 6,250 miles in his almost daily trips to a mail box. ' Lock said the route was estab lished in 1902 and that he had tried since to have it extended the 1,056 feet to his home. , "We felt that we should have had the extension 20 years ago but always failed- in our at tempt," Lock said. Lock got action in June when he wrote his congressman, Rep. William McCullough then wrote to the Post Office department's regional office in Cincinnati, which sent the matter to the Cincinnati district office, which investigated and approved the extension. The Navajo Indian reserva tion is about four times larger in land area than the state of Massachusetts. . with the right of Britons to move freely in the commonwealth but it was possible the srovernment might be "forced" to control immigration. " Meanwhile newspapers report more and more cases indicating a rising feeling of discrimination against the Negroes. In one Lon don district recently a white washed sign appeared myster iously on the side of a building during the night. It read: "Keepr Britain White." . ' ' 0 COMING MONDAY TUESDAY! : at'"';;:'t. 1 27 CENTRAL AVE. erpnnrc- )mzDj u" gj " mourns WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK Wia BUILD THEM A bright new freshness greets your eyes . and tells you: Buick' s done it again. You see it in the bold distinction of that gleaming Wide -Screen Grille. You see it in the rakish sweep of the rear-end contours. You see it in the whole fore-and-aft newness of fleet-lined grace that marks Buick the beauty thrill of 1955: ' New horsepower up to 236 You learn more when you get the power story. Up to new peaks go the horsepowers of every Buick V8 engine a walloping 188 hp in the low-price SPECIAL a mighty 236 hp in the CENTURY, SUPER and ROADMASTER. And it's new, more responsive, far abler ' power you can literally feel as you go. But even bigger Buick news for 1955 is something more than style and power: It's what the "variable pitch propeller" now has done for Dynaflow Drive. Up goes performance and gas mileage too When you find it necessary to push the pedal to the floor board, you do more than call on the greatest high-compression V8 power in Buick history. You do what a pilot does when he heads his plane down a runway. ;vl; ; ; You do in oil what he does in air you cut down take-off time by using "variable pitch Pro pellers." -; ' In this case, the propeller blades are inside the Dynaflow unit. But they're engineered to ' swivel or change their "pitch" just like plane , propellers and with the same result: one pitch for getaway, another pitch for gas-saving fuel efficiency. ' And what you get in the way of instantaneous safety-surge with absolute smoothness, you can only believe when you feel it. ' This you have to try Of course, we want you to come and see the trend-setting new Buicks look into the betterments in gasoline mileage that add new thrift to these spectacular cars. ' y . But this year, "seeing" is only the beginning. So while you join the crowds viewing the iew Buicks this week end, make a date to get behind the wheel as soon as yon possibly can. We promise you the thrill of the year. , . Stsnd4 ob Rotdntittr, optional tt txtrt cost on otbt Smith mm NOW Or DISPLAY 143 SOUTH RIVERSIDE PHONE 2-6265
