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MEDFORD (OXESOlf) MAIL TXIBBHE IHUULaJl lEaaoch, Featuring fill Mew StyDiiinig,IPresents 'Complete Mew Line of (tars In Fomir Series rrldar April IS, 19SS Variable Pitch Dynaflow Gives Better Performance For 1955 Buick .presents a completely new line of cars in four series, featuring all new styling, higher compression V-8 engines, and a revolutionary new variable pitch Dynaflow transmission which greatly im proves performance. They are on display at Skinner's Garage, 143 South Riverside ave. Advanced new styling fea tures a new. front end with a new wide screen grille, new rear fenders with long, flowing lines give the trunk compartment a longer, lower look, new wheel discs with locomotive hubs and massive new taillights combined in a single bezel with the back up lights. Interiors also havje been improved with many color combinations in luxurious new fabrics of nylon and cordaveen. Performance Improved The new Twin Turbine -Dynaflow with variable pitch stator blades improves performance on on the low end and in passing. The new Dynaflow operates on the same principle as the variable pitch propeller in an airplane. 'Just as an airplane pilot sets the propeller pitch for increased engine performance on take-off, the driver, by pressing the accelerator to the floor, can change the angle of the vanes in the stator to a high pitch for fast acceleration, either from a standing start or for passing. The new device works silently and smoothly, with no jerks or Interruptions of power from the engine to the rear axle. ; For all normal operation the new Dynaflow works the same as before. Only when the driver wants the increased performance and presses the accelerator clear to the floor does the pitch of the stator blades change. 15 Body Styles The new Buicks come in 15 six-passenger body styles, mount ed on two wheelbases with two horsepower ratings. The horse power in the Roadmaser, Super and Century Series has been in creased to 236. In the Special Series it has been boosted to 188. Both the Roadmaster and Su per Series are mounted on a 127 inch wheelbase, and the Century and Special utilize a 122-inch wheelbase, the same as last year. Overall length remains the same, 216.8 inches for the Road master and Super and 206.3 inches for the Century and Spe cial. The compression ratio has been increased to 9-to-l on the Roadmaster, Super and Century Series, and 8.4-to-l in the Spe cial. Tubeless tires are standard equipment on all models, except those equipped r with wire wheels. Mew Bumpers, Headlights In addition to the new grille, the front end styling for 1955 includes a new bumper, new headlights and a new hood orna ment. The new grille and the new, wider bumper give the front end a more sturdy appear ance, yet retains the Buick iden tity. The grille itself is of a honey comb design set in a curving grille frame. Bumper bombs are located on top of the bumper near the outer edge of the grille. Leading from each of the bombs is a bumper rail which wraps ground the outside edge of the front fender, parallel with the ft t y r -v 1 : MSZttm - 0. Buick General Manager Ivan L Wiles poses proudly beside the automobile industry's latest style sensation, a four-door "hardtop" sedan. Like the two-door Riviera "hardtop" coupe Buick pioneered six! years ago, the four-door model eliminates the center posts between the doors, combining the trim, racy . lines of a four-door convertible with the comfort and roominess of a sedan. Buick will offer the new, Riviera sedan in both the Century and Special Series. Production will begin early next year. top of the bumper. A new em blem, icorporating the Buick tri color is set in the center of the grille with wings extending hori zontally toward the bumper bombs. Two air scoopers jre lo cated in the bumper directly be neath the bumper bombs. The license plate frame is mounted on the bumper directly beneath the grille. Hood Lowered Slightly The hood on the 1955 Buick has been lowered slightly by re cessing the center section. This improves appearance and gives the hood added rigidity. The hood ornament consists of four concentric rings with a "V" pas sing through them. Front fenders feature a wheel cutout with the lower portion behind the wheel swept back slightly. Ventiports have been restyled with four ports on the Roadmaster, Super and Century, which use the 236 horsepower engine, and three on the Special with the 188 horsepower engine. Previously four ventiports were reserved for the Roadmaster only. Buick's new rear fenders, with their long, flowing design, give the rear compartment a longer, lower look without ad ding any length to the car. The top fender line flows straight back to the rear wheel where it is capped by a chrome tail and backup light housing. Circular Housing The top half of this housing, in which is set a combination, tail, stop and directional signal light, is swept back with the backup light in a circular hous ing in the center. A reflector is Red Barn, Symbol of U.S. Rural Life, Being Changed Washington The big red barns, bulging symbols of America's rural abundance, are heading for some changes. Long adorning the landscape, many picturesque barns stand outmoded by . present-day effi ciency farming. When they burn or deteriorate beyond use, small er barns will likely take their place. Several reasons have been given. Baled hay needs less space than hay mows. The trend now is against a stall for every cow and toward "roaming" quar ters instead. Compact mechaniz ed equipment,1 housed in a shed, replaces work horses. Mulii-Purpose Barn Already ' some ultramodern barns have developed, including highly , functional aluminum ones. One new-type structure was spotted by an airplane pilot about 20 miles west of Montreal, Canada. He mistook its glinting surface for a flying saucer. Sil very fiber glass sections were fixed in a wooden framework, forming a 32-foot-high dome 83 feet across. Beneath it the dairy man sheltered 23 Ayrshire cattle, a year-round feeding lot, milking stalls, several score chickens and turkeys, and his farm imple ments. The red barn is no more a standard type of American build ing now than the little red school house. Red as a predominant color seems definitely passing' Green and white barns are fre quently seen sometimes gray barns. Many farmers strive to make barn and house colors harmonize. Red barns long ago became an American habit. One explana tion is that early upstate New Yorkers painted barns red, houses white and left Nature to hang a blue sky to form a patri otic color combination. Thrifty New Englanders re putedly used a wild red berry as a cheap and handy pigment so they could spend . more on white house paint. Whatever interior rearrange ments modern farm techniques bring, the huge barn that orna mented America's 18th and 19th century countryside will have a lasting place on artists' canvases and history pages. "Large as palaces," one foreigner wrote of Pennsylvania Dutch barns in the 1750s. An early 19th century visitor described barns of stone, a hundred feet long and 40 feet wide, with two floors, and raised roads up to them . . . Below are stables, stalls, pens and all sorts of conveniences. The Dutch LJke Decorations In contrast to ,the strictly utilitarian design of barns farther west, Pennsylvania struc tures offer some, highly imagine tive painted decorations. A six petal flower motif may have been a pre-Christian symbol of immortality. The spinning whorl, notable in Lehigh coun ty, is traceable to ancient Troy and Crete. The star or lily pat tern, possibly a" Cretan symbol of the sun, may date from 1300 B.C. Thrifty tillers of Pennsylvania earth deny that .these decora tions were conceived to ward off evil. Rather, the so-called "hex signs" "indicate a pride in build ings that reflect prosperity flow ing from a bountiful land, OUT OF POLITICS Cedar Springs, Mich. (U.B Miss Ella Beardslee's name was missing from the Kent county Republican ticket for the first time since 1922 in Michigan's spring election this year. Miss Beardslee, who is 83, decided to retire undefeated after 33 years as clerk of Solon township. " MAKES A JOHN DEERE TRACTOR YOUR BEST BUY! Z' o - o If f Look tender Am hood et John Deere's modem, common-sens engineering and you'll under stand why a John Deere "50," "60," or "70" offers you more of everything you want in your next sow-crop tractor., . TouH find there's more get-up end-go with these great tractors ... greater economy, thanks to Duplex Carburetion, Cyclonic Fuel Intake and All-Weather Manifold. There's greater lugging power, due in part to the greater driving force -built up by heavier two cylinder engine parts . . . greater comfort and convenience with "live" hydraulic Powr-TroL "live" power shaft and many other fea tures. Yes, you get more in a John Deere. See us for complete details and a demonstration, HUBBARD 47RAY CO., Inc. 25 South Riverside Avenue Phone 2-4011 located below the backup light just above the rear bumper. The taillight assembly, togeth er with the new rear bumper which is tailored to the contours of the rear end, gives an appear ance of grace and beauty un equalled in Buick styling. 4-H Club Applegai Club The Applegate Sewing Susans met at the home of Anita Rose mus, April 20. President Betty Jean Nielsen called the meeting to order and the minutes of the last meeting were read by Sec retary Dona Brown. Karen Newman and Mary Sue Freemantle gave a demonstra tion cn how to pull a thread in material. On May 17, our club will have dinner and spend the afternoon with the Antelope Sewing club. Our leader told us that the Sacred Heart and Community hospitals were very glad to get the Easter baskets, which we made at our last meeting. The baskets were to be put on the breakfast trays Easter morning. The meeting adjourned and refreshments were served. Gwen Krouse Gwen Krouse 'Turboprop1 Engines Open New Chapter in Aviation Washington Bridging past and future, a quiet new giant of the skies is opening a chapter in North American commercial aviation. Nicknamed "turboprop, " the aircraft sucks in air like a super sonic jet but uses the powerful blast of hot gases to spin a pro peller. Compared to the piston engine with myriad parts churn ing up and down, the hybrid motor has neither vibration nor deafening sound. . Trans-Canada Air Lines re cently inaugurated service be tween New York and Toronto in British-made turboprops, the first to span commercial sky ways in the United States. Capi tal Airlines awaits delivery of the first of 60 turboprops on order and plans to give travelers a taste of such flight in early summer. New Life in an Old Body In appearance the turboprop fits into the family of familiar streamlined transports. Its de sign is a cousin of the pet plane that bulleted military fighters and bombers into a new era of aviation. - , "The turboprop is 80 per cent propeller and 20 per cent jet,'' aviation engineers say. Inside the engine, compressed gas fires onto blades around a large wheel, the turbine. .High speed rotation of its shaft turns the propeller that pulls the plane. Unused exhaust gases shoot from the engine's tail, giving the craft an extra push. The propellerless jet plane, by contrast, depends entirely on the thrust of escaping gases, op erates best at high speeds and high altitude, and eats fuel voraciously. Widespread com mercial use of jets still lies in the future. , . Designers claim these advant ages for the turboprop as a prac tical, everyday work horse: fas ter, quieter, smoother flight than a piston plane offers; quick take-offs; . easy maintenance. It uses more fuel than conventional planes, a disadvantage said to be offset by its speed and abili ty to lift heavier cargoes. An American Accent The turboprop destined to speed passengers between Amer ican cities is a product of Vick-ers-Armstrongs, a British firm that built the famous .wartime Spitfire. The new skyliner packs four long, slim Rolls-Royce en gines that develop 1,400 horse power each, with an extra 365, pound jetthrust. Other features are its range, 1,700 miles; aver age speed, 320 miles an hour; passenger load, 40 or more per sons " Although British-made, the imported turboprops have a strong American accent. Gor don R. McGregor, T-CA presi dent, says: "We put our ideas to Vickers, and they flew a Euro pean model to Canada. We flew it all one winter out of subzero Churchill (northeast Manitoba). The engines performed wonder fully. The airframe and cabin were something else. We wanted better heating; improvements in the fueling, and modifications to use gssoline instead-of kerosene, as was being burned in Britain." The advent of turboprops, in the jet age,, kicks new life into the time - honored propeller. However, it's the jet age's whirl ing turbine that bosses the blades. DOUBLE TROUBLE "South Bend, . Ind. U.R) One of Mrs. Cecil Van Dusseldorp's one-year-old twin daughters swallowed several aspirin tab lets, so she rushed them to a hospital. When she got there, she couldn't remember which twin needed the treatment. Both got their stomachs pumped out. Dead line for Sunday Classified tr t noon Saturday.' Phoenix an- . Phoenix Mrs. John Q.Stewart Jr. and new baby son, Joel David, came home from a Med- ford hospital this week and both are doing nicely. The Stewarts' have two other children, other boy and a girl. Avis Bisseger, a senior tt Rogue River Academy, is going with the senior class of the Academy, to spend the week at Walla .-Walla College, College Place, Wash. There will be nine in the class making the trip. Avis is seventeen and will grad uate at the end of the school semester. .... Mrs. A. Bisseger has been sub stituting at Rogue River Acad emy . in the grades this week and will also be there the first of next week. Mrs Florence Drake went to Portland the first of the week to enter Providence hospital there for medical care. Phoenix Garden club held its flower show Sunday, April. 17. A good turnout and a plentiful supply of flowers, considering the weather, were reported. Mrs. Kathryn Stancliffe is to leave April 22 for Portland to attend a state convention of Delta Kappa Gamma, teachers' honorary society. Mrs. Stancliffe is president of Epsilen chapter of the society in Jackson county. While in Portland she plans to visit Mrs. Florence Drake, who is at Providence hospital there. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Furry left the first of the week to visit friends in Sacramento, Calif. . . Lieut, and Mrs. Gary A. Den zer arc parents, of a daughter, Patricia Jeanne, born April 20. This is the Denzers' first child. Lieut. Denzer is a pilot in the 79th Air Rescue Squadron sta tioned at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam and will not be home until in September. He is the son of Mrs. Kathryn Stan cliffe and Frank W. Denzer of 16 Western Ave. in Medford. Tripod' Fish Found To Hove Apendagpes Washington Until recently scientists were wrong about the use of appendages on the "tripod fish" , or Benthosaurus. Two spines trailing from the fish's flanks and its long wirelike tail were hitherto thought to be fila ments floating behind the fish. However, National Geographic Society photographs now show them to be almost legs certain ly props or crutches. The fish "jumps" on these props along the bottom 7,000 feet under the surface of the Mediterranean Sea. "THANK YOU" NOTE Westport, Conn. U.R) . A Bronxville, N. Y., woman sent a letter to state police thanking them for arresting her son on a speed charge. "The summons to court was worth more than all the preaching I could ever do," she explained.. TIME TO ACT Chenoa, 111. 0J.R5 Mayor elect Theodore Hoselton told his police force today "we've got to do something about this crime in Chenoa" after his roofing firm was burglarized for the sec ond time in four months. Zoologists in Alberta, Canada, use helicopters to trace migra tory habits of buffalo. Hovering low over the herds, aircraft crew members "brand" the animals with squirts of paint from a gun. (Z (Bos sum o&afo IP Want to do what a pilot does when he clears for take-off? Want to feel the pulse-quickening thrill that comes of giving the gun to a high-powered automobile with the world's first airplane-inspired transmission? Want to try Buick's Variable Pitch Dynaflow the spectacular new wonder drive that's the talk of car makers and car buyers alike and the drive that's sending Buick sales soaring to new record-breaking highs? Well , sir be our test-pilot guest at the wheel of a "55 Buick and let today's Dynaflow do the honors. .When you press the pedal as you normally would, you move ahead in velvety smoothness, getting plenty of miles from each gallon of gas ... Because twenty propeller-like blades inside the Dynaflow unit, spinning in oil, have' an angle of "pitch" for top economy like the modern plane's propellers when cruising in the air. But comes the need for emergency acceleration, and like a pilot does for quick take-off and climb you switch the pitch of those Dynaflow propellers for action, just by press ing the pedal all the way down. Instantly, you get full-power tx$rcostmotbsmt. response for split-second getaway, or fofia sudden safety-surge to get out of a tight spot on the highway It's a response thrilling beyond all previous . experience because -there's never been anything like it before jn any car. And we'd like you to try it along with the walloping new V8 power, the cruiser-steady ride, the fine handling ease, and the true big-car roominess that are all part and parcel of every Buick. Can you come in today mis week, for sure and test pilot the hottest Buick yet built? Dynsfiow Driv is stmuUri o SLodimdSttr, optiond . Local Dellvermd Price of the 1955 Buick SPECIAL S-Door, 6-FatMflfw Man, Model 4S (illustrated) k $266900 Optional equipment, accessories, state and local taxes. If any, additional. Prices may vary slightly in adjoining communities. Even the factory-Installed extras vou may wont ere bargains, such ast Heater & Defroster $1170; Radio & Antenna $92.50. SaSSi r MJITON KRLI STARS KM SUIOC-S Sw Suicl-Bwl Skew AIucmm Timdw WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES All SUILT SUICK Will SUILD THEM DRIVE FROM FACTORY SAVE UP TO $l8g00 See Your BUICK Dealer SEE THE 1955 BUICKS Including the 4-Door Riviera at the Auto Shew In City Park April 23 SKINNER'S GARAGE 143 SOUTH RIVERSIDE PHONE 2-6265
