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EIGHT MTDFORD (OREGON) tj 5 ANSWERING BOOS from workers at Ford's River Rouge plant. Dearborn, Mich., Wilfred Grant (center), union official, shouts: "We feel this is best possible contract we could get." Nearly 50,000 men work at this plant which was picketed in attempt to get wage increase. (International) Fast-Growing Owners Look Editor's Note: The writer of the following Is strictly Impartial. He toein't even own a motor scooter. By H. D. QUIGG United Presc Correspondent New York (U.R) Anybody got an old beat-up Dusenberg? Or maybe an Auburn or a Cord? Or a rusty, dusty Marmon 16? Don't throw it away, It's a classic. Restore it and live. There's a fast-growing club here with members in all states and in many foreign countries that looks upon modern motor car styling with a tolerant dis dain best expressed by one word, "Ugh." They call it the "bath tub, or bubble, era" of automo bile design. These men, and some women, of rugged taste for individual design, who thrill to ownership of a car of classic, vertical lines and like to commune with a mighty motor through a lever to the transmission, hark back to the late 1920's and the 1930's as the golden era of autos. They want a car with two big standout headlights, proud and alone at the prow. . . four wheels spinning bright and nude, un covered by skirts dropping down from the fenders . . . running boards, beautiful in utility. They like to feel the road through the wheel -in their hands. Mighty Nam They tremble at the mighty names of Stutz, Franklin, Pierce Arrow, Cord, Auburn, Marmon, Packard, Dupont Dusenberg, Rolls-Royce, and Kissel White Eagle. They bow at the great name of Isotta Fraschini. "The Classic Car Club of America" started in 1952 with 80 members. Now it has more than 1000. They're not worship ers of antiques. Their constitu tion specifies that the classic is one of the super-fine cars built between 1925 and 1942. They be lieve the real classics, despite their age, are right now the finest cars in the world. "A lot of us die-hard classi cists" said their president, Ar thur Perrow, an encyclopedia editor, "figure they haven't made any classics since the period bounded by 1928 and 1933. After that, the builders started in with this phony streamlining, skirts ora fenders, bulbous bod ies, superfluous metal. They covered the radiator with big metal so it wouldn't cool the car, and shoved it forward of the axle. "We're interested in the dis covery, rescuing, and restoring of a classic. It breaks out hearts to see it sit there and rot." Well Organised The club has a monthly bulle tin and a quarterly magazine The regional clubs all over the country have monthly "meets" with driving, performance, and style competition. There are three big national contests an nually, for which owners prep and groom the old beauties. They have their own language "Rough" means a classic discov ered dirty, rutsy .and falling apart. When it's been restored to perfect mechanical condition, it's "mint." An "iron" is a heavy, cumbersome, old car; an old lim ousine with hard top and four doors and little style. Instead of horsepower, they're YOU CAN HAVE A FOR ONLY ABOUT New you can have a Green Lawn with a minimum of effort on your part . . . and at a reasonable cost. Valley Fuel Co. is specially equipped to spray your lawn, flowers and shrubs with "HI -12" an odorless, soluble fertilizer. "HI -12" contains 12 essential trace minerals plus nutrients to promote vigorous, healthy growth! Call Valley Fuel Co. today . . . and have a greener lawn tomorrow! Cost for an average size. yard. (Includes lawn, flowers, shrubs), PHONE 3-1576 FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION VALLEY MJEIL C. MAIL TRIBUNE Club of Ancient Auto on New Cars With Disdain likely to say, reverently, that a certain number of "horses live under the hood." The Dusenberg Model J, dating from 1927 to 1936, when supercharged had 320 horses living riotously under the hood, more than any car made today, Perrow said. As for prices, the Dusenberg ran from $10,000 to $25,000 new. Now you may get one rough for $1000 or less and restore it for $2000 to $5000. The classic lovers exchange such informa tion by grapevine. Reflects People's Revolt Gordon Webber, the first president, believes the fast club growth reflects "people's revolt against standardized living, against all cars' looking alike, as they do now; it's a return to individuality." Webber said the complaint On The Side (Distributed by King Where is that girl so sweet, ' Of whom you once so sweetly sung. When the flames of a mighty heat Filled your heart and fired your tongue? Ah, those flames no longer burn. Cold and dreary the heart they fed. This song is but the urn Of the ashes of a love that's dead. . Heine. Are Italians better cooks than Frenchmen? There seems to be a great difference of opinion as to this. Anyway, Monsieur Edgar Faure, Premier of France, dines regularly at the San Fran cisco Restaurant in Paris. That is an Italian restaurant staffed by Italian cooks. Asking Queries from clients. Q. I claim the first film theme song was written for a silent film ti tled "Mickey" in which Mabel Normand was starred. Name of the song was "Mickey." Right? A. There were theme songs be fore "Mickey." The first was for the film titled "Peggy" in which Billie Burke was starred. Name of that song was "Peggy." It was written by Victor Schert zinger. Q. That guide to hotels and motels in the U.S.A. which accepts dogs as guests is called "Touring With Towser." Why Towser? I have heard of dogs named Fido and Rover but never Towser, A. Towser is a name given to dogs for several hun dred years. Samuel Pepys, in his immortal diary, recorded he had a dog named Towser. Phobias What is your knowledge of phobias? Do you know what cindrophobia is? That is a fear of men. Jane Russell once ad mitted she suffered from andro phobia. Hers, however, is just a mild case. She does not suffer in the presence of one man. But when near three or more men she gets nervous. Incidentally, most women born under Pisces (February 21-March 20) suffer from androphobia. Or, so say the stargazers. Falling in Love As for falling in love, and having that love reciprocated, being good for a young woman's health, the case of Elizabeth Bar rett Browning seems to prove it, before Elizabeth met Robert Browning she had been a chron ic invalid of the shut-in type for Friday. June 10, 1955 against modern cars is that "they're too heavy, gross of line; squashy on the curves, tires squeal; don't have the road- ability and durability of the clas sic, don't have the workman ship." Perrow puts it this way: "Mod ern cars are too full of gadgets, too easy to operate. It's like sit ting in a living room and push ing a button. We like some move ment. We like the gear shift on the gear box, like the feel of shifting the gears, when you get to know your own transmis sion." Classic owners like to make their meets family affairs. They put a lunch hamper, and the whole family, in the phaeton on week ends and let the finely tooled engine rasp throatily across the miles. By E. V. Durling Futures Syndicate, Inc.) 20 years. Two months after she eloped with and married Brown ing she was climbing mountains, when over 40 she gave birth to a son. Over There To hand is a British magazine advertisement in which a suit of clothes is. announced as being for sale for "ten guineas." There is no such coin or note in the British currency as a guinea, Hasn't been for 150 years. Yet it is still used to quote prices Why? The price one guinea rep resents is equivalent to $2.94 in our currency. Another curious custom the British stubbornly adhere to is quoting weight by the "stone." For example, it is said, "he weighed 16 stone, eight pounds." A stone equals 14 pounds. Why not just say the man weighed 232 and not com pel people to indulge in mental arithmetic unnecessarily. Briefly Are you interested in char acter analysis by handwriting? Do you know a woman who dots her "I's" with circles? That in dicates unusual creative skill Or, so say the handwriting ex perts ... As for wedding, ring inscriptions how about: "Jamais deux sans vous," which means "never two without you." Sidelights Confirming the claim of color psychologists that pink is a color having great powers of male at traction, a feminine subscriber says that while wearing a "wat ermelon pink blouse" she had six proposals of marriage . . There certainly is a wide variety of weight reduction diets. Judy Holliday is said to have reduced her weight by 25 pounds on a diet of nuts and watercress. FAILS IN DELIVERY New Orleans (U.R) Char les Eckleman tried to deliver a fire to the firemen but had to turn in an alarm anyway. He roared up to a fire station with the back of his city trash truck ablaze only to find the station's equipment away fighting another fire and had to turn in an alarm for help from elsewhere. California fishermen harvest ed $72,000,000 from the sea in the 1952-53 season. mmm If Grange Resolution Favors Building Hells Conyon Dam Klamath Falls (U.R) A reso lution favoring the federal con struction of a high dam at Hells Canyon has been passed unani mously by delegates to the 82nd annual convention of the Oregon State Grange. The resolution, into which was incorporated 10 separate poli cies on the controversial issue, was passed yesterday with very little discussion. Grangers said there were four reasons for favoring the federal project. 1. It would tie in with the Northwest power pool to insure needed power. 2. It would serve as a large storage basin to regulate the flow of water in the Columbia water shed. 3. It would help supply cheap power for agriculture and indus try, thus increasing the number of available jobs. 4. The dam eventually would be a source of revenue for future government operations. A resolution for the establish ment of a veterans medical I school at Oregon State College I was tabled after Dean F. E. Price of the college told delegates it would be too expensive for bene fits received. Cat Loses Nine Lives In Spectacular Flash Nyssa, Ore. (U.R) Curiosity got the better of a cat here Wednesday, causing him to lose all nine lives in a brilliant elec tronic display that cut off power to some 1000 Idaho Power Com pany customers. The housecat apparently wan dered into an Idaho Power switch tower here. Seconds later an electric arc was started that crackled through the tower and broke down insulators. Service was disrupted for more than an hour over a large rural area of Malheur county in Oregon and Payette and Conyon counties of Idaho. fCSne but witn ANY airline pilot will tell you that J one big reason for the modern plane's greatly increased cruising range aloft is the variable pitch propeller. To get off the ground, of course, the pilot needs plenty of acceleration, for take-off and climb. So his propellers must "bite" into air at a certain angle for utmost performance. But once the plane is at cruising alti tude, great power acceleration is no longer needed fuel efficiency is. So the pilot switches the pitch of his pro peller blades to high-economy angle and gets a lot more mileage from the fuel in his tanks. Gilbert Mack New Gold Hill Principal - Central Point Gilbert Mack has been appointed principal of the Gold Hill elementary school by the board of school district No. 6. Mack has served as princi pal of the Sams Valley school for the past four years. Mrs. Mack is a primary teach er at Sams Valley. The Macks have two sons, David, a sopho more at Crater High school, and Herschell, a freshman there next year. William Brewster, a graduate of Pasadena college, California, was elected to a position in the Gold Hill elementary school. Other action by the board in cluded authorization for the school clerk to call for bids for two 60 passenger school busses, with an alternate bid for one 73 passenger transit-type bus. A $350,000 bond issue was sold to Blyth & Company and the Medford branch of the U. S. National Bank of Portland at an interest rate of 2.8897. The money will be used for construc tion of new grade schools in Cen tral Point and Gold Hill. Oregon Woman Held As Robbery Suspect Portland (U.R) A woman held in connection with an $86. 000 bank robbery in Jackson ville, Ala., last month has been brought to Portland to await the completion of legal proceed ings to return her to Alabama. Ellen M. Martin, 46, of Idaho Falls, Ida., was arrested Monday at Roseburg where she had gone to visit a relative. She was held in lieu of $50,000 bail. Joseph Santoiana, special agent in charge of the Portland FBI, said two men have been arrested at Clearwater, Fla., and another person was arrested in Las Vegas, Nev. During the robbery, two men forced the bank cashier to take them to the bank while two others held the employee's fami ly, according to the FBI. noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for monaay; ouier aays d.oxj previous aay. ujith four Doors f nvwv - shown h,re ,. -WHEN BETTER Around Hollywood . Hollywood (U.R) Work-l men are hammering 10 hours a day on the biggest "set" for a television pro gram but it's a race to get it finished on time. The "set" is Walt Disney's $15,000,000 amusement park, Disney land, which will be unveil- Aline Mosby ed July 17 to the nation's TV viewers on one of television s biggest "spectaculars" a 90- minute program featuring Art T.inkletter. Irene Dunne. Davy Crockett (Fess Parker) and 5,000 press members and civic big wigs. Rut with the ABC-TV show barely five weeks away, Disney land park still is in the building stage. , Walt Disney is allowing the press a bumpy jeep-driven tour of the establishment, and I found 2,500 workmen sawing and plastering in a busy attempt to finish the park. , TV viewers first will see Dis ney himself driving a bright yel low train with six cars that run around the 60-acre amusement park. Then the cameras will show viewers the entrance, a replica of an 1890 town. Startling Castle It features stores and the world's largest bar dispensing four can-can girls for grownups and soda pop for youngsters. This section is nearly finish ed. So is a startling grey brick castle with a real moat and blue turrets that form the entrance to the "Fantasyland" section of the park. Behind the castle workmen are building rides in the form of Peter Pan and Snow White characters. Only the wooden frame is up for the filmed ride to the moon in the "Tomorrowland" section. Workmen also are finishing a $150,000 Mississippi river steam boat that will cruise on a non leaking artificial river. In an other section of the park a des ert has been planted where cus tomers can take a stagecoacn ride. "Disney is finding a way to paint the sand so it will look 1 .N' J That's why Buick's new Variable Pitch Dynaflow is such a sensation across the nation. For the same aviation principle that brings this two-way magic to the modern plane is now found in the twenty propeller-like blades whirling in oil inside the Dynaflow unit. ; Just by pressing the gas pedal way down, you switch the pitch and get instantaneous getaway response or safety-surge acceleration. Just by easing up on the pedal, you change the pitch to high-economy angle and get new and better gas mileage in all normal driving and cruising. AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WW BUILD THEM- By ALINE MOSBY . United Press Correspondent like a painted desert," my guide explained. "The park will be 85 per cent finished by the pub lic opening two days after the TV show." " Located, at Anaheim , The park at nearby Anaheim, where many of Disney's regular TV shows will be filmed, orig inally was a flat ranch of 12,000 orange trees. Bulldozers moved 350,000 cubic yards of dirt to build islands, rivers and even a "snow mountain" where icy pipes will create snow drifts on which the sunshine-bound chil dren can slide. The streets still are dusty ruts and many of the buildings are unfinished. But in a ware house filled with "props" are merry-go-round horses dressed in King Arthur style. Rubber al ligators to fill the "Adventure Land" lake lie on . the floor. Stagecoaches await thousands of tourists who are expected to visit the park daily. ABC-TV is rolling out 22 cam eras for the initial telecast a record for a live TV program. "For the finale on the TV pro gram we'll show a thousand kids running over the moat into the castle," said the guide. "Why, we had 9,000 people trying to get into the park on Sunday. We sent them away with a pamphlet telling about the opening." Dead line for Sunday Classified is Monday: other aays 5:30 oreviousday Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Before You See for yourself the fun and relaxation a new Wurlitzer piano will bring to your mm (Buy' homel Should you decide to buy, all money paid for rental will be applied to the purchase price. Purucker Piano House 111 North Central ' Phone 2-5702 It's a spectacular and sensible achievement this new Dynaflow Drive a brand-new thrill and a brand-new thriftiness. And with it goes the might of record high V8 power and the level luxury of Buick's all-coil-spring ride and the spacious roominess of Buick's broad interiors and the host of other advanced features that add to Buick's brimming value. Come in and try what is very- defi nitely the performance thrill of the year and see for yourself why Buick sales are soaring to all-time best-seller highs. Dynaflow Drill is standard on Roadmasttr, optional at txtra tost M otbtr Stria. Two Airmen Perish In Automobile Wreck Condon (U.R) Two Air Force enlisted men from the state of Washington were killed ' early yesterday when their auto mobile went out of control on highway 19 between Condon and Arlington. The victims were Airmen Pe ter J. Love, Bellevue, Wash., and Henry O. Syverstad, Seattle. They were stationed at the 636th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron here. ' Syverstad was killed instant ly. Love died later at a hospital at Heppner. Wapinitia Project Construction Urged Washington (U.R) The Reclamation Burean has sent a report to Congress recommend ing construction of the Wapini tia project in Oregon, the Inter ior Department said today. 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