nXTEElf MEWTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, April 22, 195S
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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
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