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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1955)
nXTEElf MEWTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, April 22, 195S 1 THE 1955 Clipper Constellation hardtop in Packard's medium priced line has new 245 horsepower V-8 engine and revolutionary torsion bar suspension. The new type of suspension which eliminates conventional coll and leaf springs to provide a smooth, level, bump-free ride is intro 1 duced for the first time in a production car. Studebalcer-Packard Meets With Success in 1955 Lines of Autos Studebaker -Packard Corpora tion, one of the automobile in' dustry's four full-line producers of passenger . cars and trucks, has launched its 1955 lines with outstanding success and Presi dent James J. Nance is confi dent that the company will greatly increase its share of the business over that done by Studebaker and Packard sepa rately in the 1954 model year. Nance, former Packard presi dent who became head of the new corporation when Packard Americans Must Stay in Charity Work La Crosse, Wis. (U.R) A Uni versity of Wisconsin sociologist has warned that Americans must not drop private charity work in the advent of increasing governmental activity in the field. Prof. Arthur Miles told the Family Welfare Association at its annual meeting here that "critics want to know why we need to support private agencies when public welfare has become one of the three largest services of government in America." The answer, he said, is that voluntary philanthropy performs an important pioneering func tion in our social and economic system. Miles pointed out that "any civilized community aware of its religious heritage will con tinue to pioneer." "Simply because there is little poverty in our midst we should not abolish" such private serv ices as relief for the needy, as sistance for the disabled, nursery schools and playgrounds, he said. Miles, who heads the Univer sity ef Wisconsin's department of social work, said that "with less than three per cent of our national income going for all types of private philanthropy, we should increase the amount of our expenditures for these services.' . . PERSONAL SERVICE Hartford Conn. (U.R) Police man Reginald J. Violette drove his patrol car straight home when the police radio .dispatch er told him to answer a mater nity call. His wife was having a baby. The Violettes beat the stork to the hospital. . and Studebaker were combined, has reported that more than 20, 000 advance orders for the 1955 Packard and Clipper models were received up to the first part of January, prior to any public announcement or show ing of the new models. The Packard agency in Medford is Cooksey Motor Co., 134 South Riverside ave. ' Studebaker's 1955 lines were introduced in October and im mediately won such enthusiastic acceptance that the company's South Bend and Los Angeles plants were put on overtime schedules in order to keep up with demand. "These votes of confidence for both the Packard 'and Stude baker lines," James J. Nance, president, said, "strengthen our belief that the public will ' al ways manifest a desire for cars that are distinctively styled and engineered." - "We are confident," he de clared, 'that our new cars will continue to capture substantial ly greater shares . of their re spective markets. .Manufactur ing economics already realized, and anticipated, from a major facilities modernization program Halley's Comet Again Heading Toward Sun Washington Halley's Comet, cne of history's notable sky spec tacles, is again heading toward the sun, says the National Geo graphic Society. The comet was named after Edmund Halley, a British astronomer who believed the comets of 1531, 1607 and 1682 were the same. He pre dicted the comet would return about 1758. It did. . Halley's Comet appeared in 240 B.C. and has returned 27 times since then at average in tervals of 76 years, nine months. The most recent trip near the sun was in 1910. The comet thus is due back in the mid-1980s. Invisible at present, it has re cently been riding the outer por tion of its elliptical course, far ther, away than the planet Nep tune. Halley s holds particular interest because it is the only known, easily-seen comet that returns, in less than 100-year periods. have enabled us to reduce Studebaker prices and to hold the line on our Packard pricing policy, but still put more per formance and luxury features into these cars than in any pre vious model year." Nance said all economic baro meters point to a greater vol ume of new car sales for the in dustry in 1955 than in 1954, and that Packard and Studebaker dealers are in a stronger posi tion to compete in every price class. First Quarter Auto Output Told With the end of the first quarter, interesting poduction figures have been announced by Automotive News. Chrysler Corporation's total 1955 output was 412,533 com pared with 182,641 for the same period last year. Ford's output this year totaled 556,712. Last year, for the same three months, the total was 468,229. General Motor's first quarter total was 1,044,398. In 1954 it was 706.319. American Motors total for this first quarter was 49,002: last year it was 26,761. Kaiser's total was 4,345. A year ago at the end of this per iod it was 5,278. Studebaker - Packard's first quarter total for this year was 62,518; last year it was 36,772. Total cars for the first quarter of 1955 was 2,129,508. Last year the first quarter ended with a total of 1,426,000 cars produced. WRONG NUMBER Hartford, Conn. (U.R) A wrong number cost Charles Evans $35. Evans pulled his wallet out to get a number while making a call from a pay tele phone booth. He placed the wallet on a shelf and dialed. It was the wrong number. Evans stepped outside to check the telephone book and in the mo ment he turned his back some one grabbed the wallet.' Automotive engineers report that an oil filter will remove a pound or more of dirt and sludge from the oil in a car dur ing 5,000 miles of driving. Helser Charges May Be Dropped By Modification San Francisco (U.R) Fed eral Judge Louis E. Goodman has indicated he may dismiss the Securities & Exchange Com mission action against the J. Henry Helser company if the Portland, Ore., investment firm adjusts its practices. The SEC seeks a permanent injunction against the company for fraudulent and misleading practices, but Goodman said he felt an injunction was far too strong an action. Should Bo Supervisory He said that the restraint placed on the Helser company should be "supervisory rather than punitive." He offered a five point program by which Helser could modify its opera tions and suggested that oppos ing counsel work put an agree ment for presentation in court today. The program included: 1. A complete disclosure of the type of service Helser ren dered to its clients. 2. Full explanation to clients of the nature of the firm's op erations, especially its use of credit in dealing with securities on the stock exchange. Avoid Overinvestment 3. Amplification of the com pany's system of monthly checks to its clients. . . 4. Direct avoidance of en couraging clients to overinvest with the company. - 5. Amplification of the per iodic statements of the status of the clients account. "It is my vtetv that the court would accept the undertaking of the defendant and continue the case for a reasonable period six to eight months," Good man said. "If there is complete compliance the action then could be dismissed." Grange Live Oak Grange With all officers present, Live Oak Grange met in regular ses sion April 14. The degree team with Howard Miller as master and Cassie and Joe, Golding as stewards, conferred first and second degrees on Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. R C. Whitacker, C D. and Ray Blaine. The agricultural committee re ported that poultry prices were down; hogs were up 75c to $1; cattle market steady. Canneries are paying more per ton for pro duce than last year, and very little activity noted in the wool market. The legislative committee cau tioned members to. study the cur rent measures in the state sen ate, particularly those on taxa tion. Frank Zuleger, past master of Leedy Grange in Washington county, was a welcome visitor and spoke briefly. 4 H.E.C. will hold its annual Mother's day breakfast on May 8. Cemetery clean up day will be May 14. , Mr. and Mrs. Bill . Ganthier and. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brooks served delicious pie and coffee during the social hour. The tapering wing covering of a modern jet aircraft is 10 times thicker than the aluminum sheets used in World War H fighter planes. Take the Key and See. . . IM HORSEPOWER PACKARD "POUR HUNDRED" with. Torsion-Level Ride Smooths the Road ... Levels the Load Hart's comfort you've dreamed of . . . and a ride to set you dreaming! It's the new-Packard Torsion- Level Ride a new system of suspen sion eliminating conventional coil and leaf springs to give you comfort un equal ed by any car, on any road. In othor can, twisting forces due to wheel shocks are transmitted to the frame. You submit to the resulting ' pitch and bounce ... the car is sub jected to wracking of frame and body. But with Packard Torsion-Level Sus pension, these same twisting forces are transmitted along the new torsion bar system, and absorbed before they can ' reach either frame or passengers. And ' an ingenious power-controlled levelizer automatically compensates for changes in passenger and luggage load. All this is yours plus the tremendous power of the new "free-breathing" V-8 ' engine developing 275 horsepower in the Caribbean and 260 in all other models. Plus, too, the smooth response of the new Packard Twin Ultramatic actually two transmissions in one. All this in a setting of magnificent luxury and beauty. See and drive this one new , car in the fine car field. "Ask the Man Who Owns One." We Invite you to Take the Key and See . . . LET THE RIDE DECIDE COOKSEY MOTOR CO., Inc. Winning new mends on TASTE ALONE own Beer Have you tried a really light, smooth, mild beer lately? 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