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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
The Wapinitia project, juniper
division, about 30 miles south of
The Dalles in Oregon, would
cost $553,000. The juniper divi
sion is all that is included in the
Wapinitia project report.
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