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EIOHT MID? ORB (OKEQON) MAIL TMBTJNI Friday, April it. 1131 Colorful lisplay of lldsmobiles , Will Be Shown Visitors W Mo Stow Redesigned Front Features Changes In 1955 Models A colorful display of 1955 Oldsmobiles that accentuate the restyled appearance and low silhouette will be exhibited by Darrell Miller Co., in the Med ford Automobile Show, April 23 at the Medford City Park. Olds mobile's bright and attractive colors shown to advantage in the latest concept of the famou; two-tone styling that Oldsmo bjle pioneered last year, ''will be weil represented in the display. Show visitors will see a com "pletely redesigned front end on Lie 1955 Oldsmobiles, with the Oidsmobile name spelled out in chrome block letters across the upper bumper bar. Recessed headlights with chrome caps that extend well over the lens at the top and new bumper con tour both front and rear are other distinguishing marks of the 1955 Oldsmobiles. Slainless Steel Moulding Color separation for Oldsmo bile's famous flying colors two- tone styling is achieved with a stainless steel side moulding that forms an attractive design on the front and rear doors and the rear quarter panel. The body above and below this panel and the trunk are painted one color, while the roof, hood, front fen ders and space within the moulding are finished in a con trasting color. Nineteen body colors in various shades of bril liance are offered in the 1955 Oidsmobile. Inside, the 1955 Oldsmobiles also offer a wide variety of color and upholstery fabric se lections. There are 57 different upholstery choices in Oldsmo . bile's three lines of 1955 cars the "98", Super "88" and "88 Genuine leather, nylon pattern cloth, covert cloth and Moroc- ceen all are offered in attractive designs and colors to harmonize with the particular body design and color of the car. Important Improvement Engineering improvements in the 1955 Oidsmobile are less visible to the eye but they play an important part in the car's popularity and performance, ae cording to Oidsmobile officials "Rocket" engine horsepower has been raised to 202 in the "98 and Super "88", and the com pression ratio is lifted to 8.5 to 1. Other engine improvements include a newly designed com bustion chamber, higher lift camshaft and cooler operating sparkplugs. A new and more ef ficient fuel pump has been in stalled. Direct-acting shock ab sorbers mounted vertically with in the springs further enhance the riding qualities of the 1955 Oidsmobile. Tubeless tires 1 are standard equipment on all mod els. Exterior styling is given new look on the Super "88" and "88" series through adoption of the sweep-cut front fender. The panoramic windshield, which Oidsmobile helped to pioneer in 1954, provides wide angle for ward vision through the set-back corner posts. The wrap-around rear window supplies similar rear visibility. . Accessories Available Many effort-saving and com fort-promoting accessories ' are available as optional equipment at extra cost on the 1955 Olds mobiles. Hydra - Matic Super' Drive, the most proven of auto matic transmissions, is even more efficient and smoother in operation in its 1955 version. GM power steering, which increases in popularity every year, reduces steering effort by as much as 80 per cent and makes parking a pleasure rather than a chore. Pedal-ease power brakes re duce the pedal effort of the foot on the brake through use of hydraulic power to actuate the brake mechanism. A larger re serve tank in 1955 also makes three to five additional brake applications possible after the engine has stopped. - .power windows and power front seat, also offered as op tional extras on the Oidsmobile, ace actuated by electric power on the 1955 model. A two-way fore-and-aft power seat, includ ing vertical adjustment, is avail able at extra cost on all models Electric front window and four- window lifts are offered as op tional equipment at extra cost on various 1955 models. University of Miami Attitude Confusing Coral Gables, Fla. (U.R) University of Miami students and officials are quick to criti cize anyone who calls their in stitution "Miami U." They don't like to have it confused with the Miami, O., university. But the most popular "football song played by the college band is "Hail to the Spirit of Miami U." To make matters more con fusing, the university is not located in Miami, but in Coral Gables, an incorporated suburb.! V TT ' " v1 zS' , ( Ihtfy . , Unobstructed side vision, with no door-pillars to bar the way, is the outstanding feature of this brand new body type, the four-door Deluxe Holiday sedan, as presented in the 1955 Oidsmobile "98" series. The sports flair of the Holiday coupe is combined with the comfort and roominess of a four-door sedan in this new model. Conventional center posts are A Nichol's Worth of . . Comment On By HARMAN United Pratt Washington (U.R) Horns economists in the U. S. Depart ment of Labor have been exam ining the lot of the trod- den-d own behind the Red curtain. They have d i s covered a serious short age of work cloth ing among the gal lus, or over all, set in Rus sia. As a mat Harman Micnois ter of fact, there is a frightful crisis in consumer goods in the Soviet and its occupied areas. Some of the Russian editors must not have had the proper in structions from higher up. At least, the Soviet Trade Union Daily Trud, according to the Labor Department, printed a letter a f ew days ago from - a housewife, one V. Svistunova. She wrote from the Soviet city of Kishinev, hard by the Russian-Romanian frontier. The housewife wrote that she had a problem, she and her .old man. They had done some major and necessary remodeling of their home. Mr. S. thought it was time to buy some new furni ture. -"I went to the central furni ture store of the Kishinev City Consumer Goods Trade Organi zation," she said. All she wanted for a start, she told the trade paper, was some, cupboards and kitchen tables. The clerk ' looked at me in amazement," Mrs. S. said. "It was clear that the clerks in the On The Side (Distributed by King To think of dreit In every Hlht. Tis woman' chlefest duty, Neglecting that, ourselves we slight, - And undervalue heanty. Dress allures the lover's eye And graces every action. Besides, when not a creature's by Tis inward satisfaction. . Gay.. Our countrywomen continue to complain bitterly as to the wearing quality of the nresent day nylons as compared to those of the yesteryear. Their indigna tion is so great that a nylon re; bellion may break out any min ute. One youne business wom an of Manhattan says she has been, compelled to buy twentv- one pairs of nylon stockings in twenty-eight days! She savs she has tried all kinds- of allegedly neiptul hints as to hosiery pre servation and practically every type of nylon stockines on the market but always with the same results. A run in two davs or less. Boy or Girl Do you know any Barents of aU girl families? How about, all boy families? It has been claimed that an all daughter family is a sign the . husband is a great lover. However, Mark Handley, one of the world's most successful exoerts on ore- dieting the sex of an unborn cinid, once said, "Girls are most likely to be born if the husband is henpecked: boys, if the wife is dominated." f. Test --i To be considered comijetent. a London bartender must be able to mix at least thirty-two dif ferent cocktails from memory. Ask the bartender at your favor ite place how many , different cocktails he can mix without looking at the book.-1 -have heard that a New "York City bartender who can mix over twenty-five cocktails from mem ory is a rarity. Sidelights Now I have a reader in Cono- auenessing. Pa. She haDDilv says she is 69 and still has all of her original teeth! . A New York er with over fifty years' exper w 1 . This and That W. NICHOLS faahir Wrir store had forgotten the last time such and similar indispensable ihings for every family were sold." Mrs. S. went from store to store, wearing thin the only pair of shoes she owned. ' "The answer," she said, "al ways was the same." "The answer," she said, "al ways was the same." .The clerks told her that cup boards and kitchen tables were not for sale. One darkened an already dark afternoon by sug gesting there was "nothing bet ter than the kitchen floor for eating off of." The woman said in her letter that she found the Ministry of Local Industrial Production " in Moldevis, headed by VComrade Atemenenko, does not consider the need of consumers." , The U. S. Labor Department learned from other sources that the Kishinev, woodworking fac tory received a lot of orders from the City Trade Organiza tion during the last half-year. People desperately needed things like, kitchen cabinets, cupboards, -clothes - .hangers, shelves, : and other household furniture. ! The orders weren't answered. Other factories, the Labor De partment found out, had orders to produce .hatchet handles, clothes-pins?, rolling pins, stools, bed stands, and other things. None of the orders were being filled. . Mrs.' S. concluded in her letter to Trud that the Soviet doesn't want to bother with "trifles." She quoted the Red leaders as saying that such was "incon venient. It would prevent the fulfillment of the state plan." By E. V. Durling Features Syndicate, Inc.) ience as a theatergoer says he rales the Twentieth Century musical comedy composers as follows: lVictor Herbert. 2 Qlto Harbach. 3 George Ger shwin. 4 Jerome Kern. 5 Richard Rodgers. 6 Cole Por ter. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Ts Mrs. O. O. Mclntyre's-first name Mabel or Maybelle? A. It is May belle. The full maiden name of the widow of the much beloved columnist was Maybelle Hope Small ... Q. Will you please quote the maiden's prayer once more? A. Well, just once more. This is the five star final on quoting the Prayer to St.: Cath erine, patron saint of spinsters: St. Catherine,. St. Catherine, Oh, lend me thine aid, And grant that I never May die an old maid. A husband, St. Catherine, A good one, St. Catherine, But anyone better than No one, St. Catherine. A husband, St. Catherine, v. Rich, St. Catherine, Handsome, S,t. Catherine, Kind, St. Catherine, Soon! St. Catherine. Get it Right "As a corset manufacturer and a student of the history of that garment," writes a New Yorker, "I have noticed several erroneous statements made re garding the origin of the same. Get it right! The first corset was originated by Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II of France. Queen Elizabeth of Eng land introduced whalebone in corsets. Marie Antoinette was first to use lacers. Sarah Bern hardt introduced the straight front corset. Lillian Russell the straight hips. Se They Say ; , Virgo (August 23-September 22) women make the best sec retaries. That's because they are intelligent, diplomatic, methodi cal, energetic, painstaking, shrewd and never mix love with business.: Or,- so say. the star-, gazers. - - . eliminated through reinforcing the pillars upon which the doors are hinged. Inside and outside, the new Holiday sedan embodies the utmost in glamor and luxury. Richly appointed custom upholstery is offered exclusively in the "98" and Super "88" series of this mode, representing a further advance in interior automotive design. Belgium Friends Meet At Navy Training Station Great Lakes, 111. (U.R) Two youths who grew up in the same neighborhood in Brussels, Belgium, met at the Great Lakes Naval Training station here after joining the U. S. Navy. They are Marcel A. Opden berg and Jacques F. Deneef, each 18. Opdenberg came to the United States in 1952, joining his par ents in St. Louis. Deneef ar rived with his family in 1948 and settled in Detroit. They had not seen each other since their days in Brussels un til they met in recruit training here. Como and soo the You're invited! See the newest new ideas on wheels ; : waiting for you in Oidsmobile for '55! There's style setting beauty ... in massive grille and hooded head lights ... in panoramic windshield ... sweep-cut styling . . and the unmistakably exclusive Oidsmobile color toning! It all adds up to the bold new "Go-Ahead" look I Drug Store in New York's Bovery Nov 150 Years Old; Leeches Still Available New York (U.R), Arnica flowers, scammony root, St. John's bread, juniper berries, sassafras, and leeches (squirm-ing-fresh at $2 apiece) can be had at Olliffe's Pharmacy, the same as they could at the same store when Thomas Jefferson was president. Next month the drug store at No. 6 on the Bowery will be 150 years old. It's in the same frame building, with the same marble topped counters, the same black walnut prescription counter, the same rows of huge, hand-blown specie jars, -the same red and green apothecary show globes. Still going strong, and promi nently displayed in the windows, is Olliffe's most famous product, once sold the world over "Dr. Jacob Becker's Celebrated Eye Balsam; ; Brings Instant Relief; Price 50 Cents." No Extras The store interior is quiet," dig nified, immaculate. No soda fountain. No book stands, maga zines. No phone booth. Custom ers may sit in four heavy-wood, highly-polished armchairs ' which according to store legend were taken from the tavern from which Washington started his in augural march to Federal Hall down in Wall Street. Outside, above the windows, is the firm sign: "Wm. M. Olliffe, Chemist and Druggist. Est. 1805.." Actually, according to the present proprietor, Herbert M. Wilks, there is some indica tion, that the store was founded 27 years earlier, just two years after the Declaration of Inde pendence. At any rate, it was moved in On Special OispDsiif sitt fllfci 8th and Ivy - SATURDAY, 19S5 OMmebtt Supw 'If. DARRELL niLLER GOnPAny, 415 S. Riverside May, 1805, to its present spot on the Bowery, a street which at that time was way ug town and tree-shaded.' Wilks, who has been with the store since 1922, when he started as a clerk, is a hustler who wants it known Olliffe's never intends to live in the stale past. He runs a mod ern, efficient prescription busi ness. .,' ' . Old-Time Remedies It pains him no end when old herb customers. come in and ask for such old-time remedies as juniper berries, lemon balm, or gelatin rubber. But he keeps such things in stock and makes infrequent sales. "I have to be nice to such cus tomers, but I let them know that I don't believe in catering to sen timentalists," he said. "I get a lot of tourists in here too. I tell them that we're proud to have preserved physically such a piece of history but that we are a modern store." Olliffe's is one of the biggest retail leech dealers in the coun try, selling several hundred a year, Wilks said. He buys the leeches from an importer (Span ish and Italian varieties) and keeps them in a jar in the refrig erator. A few summers back a rookie from the Boston Braves entered Olliffe's sporting an aw ful closed-eye shiner which med ical science had been unable to open. He asked about leeches. Wilks applied one to the eye. Before long it was open and de shined enough to allow the rook ie to play against the Giants. Own Medicines . Olliffe's still makes about 10 of its own medicines "proprie HefiAqr Covp& "Go-Ahead1' In power and performance, too, Oidsmobile steps far. ahead with the greatest "Rocket" Engine on record! It's Oldsmobile's new "Rocket" 202 . V. now delivering 202 horsepower with an ultra-high, 8.5-to-l compression ratio! Don't miss the Show ... and don't miss the big stars . . . Oldsmobile's "Rocket" Engine cars for 1955! Also on Special Display at YOUR OLDOr.lODILE DEALER PHONE 26209 taries" they're- called. Such things as Olliffe's cough" mix ture, Olliffe's old fashioned lini ment, and that celebrated bal sam of Dr. Becker's the formul la a deep, dark secret purchased from Dr. Becker's 70-year-old son in 1874. Such things as Dr. Barrett's St. Vitus Dance rem edy and Dr. Olliffe's epileptic mixture can no longer be ad-, vertised as such. :i Joe Schenck, the movie mo gul, once-clerked at Olliffe's, as did a man najjied Mike Sween ey. Mike, who worked at night and patched up local dandies' eyes and noses damaged during discussions in nearby barrooms, gave his name to the ages- legend has it by being the man who . inspired a single phrase: "Tell it to Sweeney." SCHOOLING BY PHONE ' Ansley, Neb (U.R) Two grade school girls, both stricken with polio, are continuing les sons via telephone. Darlene Rookstool, 12, and Connie John son, 10, have telephones in their homes which are direct lines to their school rooms. 9 Slabs and Rough Blox Green 9 Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood Big Double Load or Single Load MEDFORD FUEL CO. Tel. 2-2111 APRIL 23 look! 1955 OWubl KMr-fifM Mm HaMm? 'm x . y : r - - m i Alcoholism Study Encouraged in Contest Chicago (U.R) An inter collegiate oratorical contest, with state and national awards, will be sponsored by the Nation al Christian Temperance Union to encourage young people to study alcoholism. Mrs. Glenn C. Hays, president, said state contests will be spon sored by state branches of th WCTU in interested colleges and universities. State winners, she said, will be eligible to enter the national competition. The contests are to promote research among young people on the harmful effects of drink in all spheres of life, she said. The national winner will be awarded $150, with $100 and $50 going to second and third place winners. r Kent, O. (U.R The boxelder is the chameleon of treedom. It is really a member of the maple family, but it has' a strong re semblance to the ash, according to Martin L. Davey, tree expert. For many years, it was not gen; erally accepted as a maple: How ever, it will produce a sap from which sugar can be made. Court & McAndrewt mm 31 nnvi "ROCKET soa BiiiilliiB) "' Zpi. A Gmmri Matan Vrfm;
