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SIX KEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. July 14, 1957 Manufacturers Claim They Have Dropped Promoting Speed in Cars Br JIM LOCKENKEMPER United Press Corraipondent Detroit w All U. S. auto manufacturers said Saturday they "have done just what we promised to do" when they agreed to drop advertising and promoting speed. The agreement, reached by the five U. S. manufacturers within the framework of t h e Automo bile Manufacturers association, has been relayed as orders to all divisions of their separate com panies, each reported. Only time and inspection of the advertisements and publicity release of the auto firms will tell whether they'll continue to hold the line against exploiting the vice for speed of the Am erican public. Ford, Mercury, Chevrolet and Pontiac reported they have dis banded their highly-paid racing crews. For several years, each of these racing teams headed by a veteran driver-mechanic and including a half-dozen top active drivers plus a score of mechanics and engineers com peted in leading stock car races and several top sports car racing events. Costly Talent It was estimated this talent, plus cost of special cars, parts and materials, transportation and factory aid. all ran into several million dollars a year for both General Motors and Ford. As one spokesman said, "ac tually, everybody's satisfied especially the independent rac ing driver who has a better chance to make a living. But the companies are saving money and l by the time they quit racing competition we had the public I so confused by all the racing ! claims that nobody knew who I won." That was certainly true, after the Daytona Beach stock car speed tests last winter, the ad vertising claims of Ford, Mer cury, Chevrolet and Pontiac made it seem they'd all won, and that NASCAR the sponsoring or ganization, had said so. Certainly the auto companies would never have gotten into speed and horsepower promo tion if this hadn't sold cars to the public. One version of how it all had started goes back to the post war Cadillac engine and its younger brother, the Oldsmo bile 88. . These two engines were ac knowledged forerunners in the high compression, high horse power field. The public liked their power, the hot-rodders lik ed their adaptability and the BUTTE FALLS School Positions Filled Br MARY JO HARRIS Butte Falls Two positions were filled at a special meeting of the school board the latter part of last month. School clerk is now Mrs. Bill Edmondson and grade school janitor and lower bus driver is Ray Chambers. A driver tot the upper bus is still unappointed. Furniture posted for bids by the school board was sold, in part, and the remainder will be offered for sale at the first meet ing in August. The school board consists of Frank Edmondson, chairman, Doug Finch, Duana Burton, Earl Remson and Hannah Dalton. Mrs. Dalton was just elected to a five-year term, which will start at the next meeting. race drivers won races with them. Start Race Then Ford and Chrysler got into the act to stop Oldsmobile and later Chevrolet and Pontiac from sweeping ail the races. Soon the emphasis was on which model car won at Daytona, Pike's Peak, the Pan-American road race and many other top stock car contests. The advertising slogans be came "Rocket Away," "The Hot One"' and "The Hot One's Even Hotter," "The Car That Cools off The Hot One," "This Baby Can Flick Its Tail at Anything cn the Road" and many more such. Actually, after giving the au to manufacturers due credit-Jor public responsibility, it also ap pears the horsepower race may have reached its peak. It's well known in Detroit that every au tomaker either has a small car program underway or is looking hard at one. The time may again be near at hand when auto campanies will sing the virtues of gas mile age and economy instead of sur ging power, squealing tires and the vanishing wisp of blue smoke. But it's doubtful Chevrolet will advertise, "The Cold One's Even Colder," or Plymouth will proclaim, "Suddenly It's 1929." Eleven County Men Al Summer Camp Eleven Jackson county men are among 200 Army reservists from four western states taking their annual field training at Fort Lawton, Wash., as faculty, staff and students in civil af fairs and military government department of the USAR school program. The summer school is being conducted by the Santa Barb ara, Calif., USAR school. The Jackson county men are Lt. Col. Marion B. Caster, route 1. box 489-B; Maj. Clement H. Ault, -route 1, box 224; Maj. Ernest J. Lathrop, route 2, box 190; and Capt. William H. Nay lar, route 1, box 209-C3, all of Central Point; Lt. Col. Edward P. Barnett, 425 Ardmore ave.; Lt. Col. Vincent P. Bevis, 711 Waverly; Lt. Col. Boyd E. Pudge, 108 Highland drive; Lt. Col. John G. Crawford, 835 East Main St.; Lt. Col. Franklin H. Van PeltL 64 Rose ave.; Maj. William J."' Thompson, 1836 Woodlawn drive; and Maj. . Ar cher H. Watson Jr., 109 Laurel St., all of Medford. POLITICAL POWER Burbank, Calif. (IP Mayor Edward Olson, recently speaking nt a Republican-sponsored rally for Gov. Goodwin Knight, re marked: "I'm probably the only Democrat here." Just then, a fuse blew, the lights went out and the microphone went dead. ITse Mail Tribune Want A4 Reece Protests Woman Going With Porter on Two Trips Washington OP Rep. B. Car roll Reece protested Saturday because a Latin American spe cialist of the Library of Con gress, a woman, accompanied Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) on two recent trips to Latin American countries. Both Porter and the woman's superior in the library's legis lative reference bureau 6aid the specialist, Mrs. Rosita Bennett, accompanied the Oregon House member in an official capacity as expert researcher and trans lator. Feuding Over Opposition Reece and Porter have been feuding over Porter's opposition to the Trujillo government of Dominican Republic. Porter wants the United States to with hold foreign aid from any Latin American "dictatorship." In a statement in the Con gressional Record, Reece accused Porter of advocating "the vio lent overthrow of certain gov ernments." He went on to say that Mrs. Bennett traveled with Porter on trips to Puerto Rico and Costa Rica. Porter's office and Mrs. Ben nett's boss. Director Ernest S. Griffith of the legislative refer ence bureau, said this was in error. The trips were to Costa over my head, and now he criti cizes me for making sure I have an expert provided by Con gress," Porter said. Porter told a reporter that Reece "knows there are prece dents" for a congressman taking a library employee on a business trip. "He knows It's done." Porter said. "And he could have asked me if he wanted to know who paid the expenses." Porter added that on the trip to Colombia, he and Mrs. Bennett were accompanied by A. Robert Smith, reporter for Oregon newspapers. Rica .and Colombia, they said. Griffith said he authorized : Mrs. Bennett to make the trips. I Porter was invited to Costa Rica ; and Colombia to make speeches. Porter, who does not speak ' Spanish, asked the bureau for someone to accompany him as translator and researcher. Assignment Given Soi, Griffith said.he gave the assignment to the bureau's Latin American specialist, "the only one we have," Mrs. Bennett. Griffith said such assignments are 'not unusual. He said it is the bureau's duty to serve mem ber of Congress "in a profes sional capacity." Since it has no traiael funds, however, out of towm trips must be financed by someone else, he said. Porter's secretary. Jack Bil lings said no government funds wre involved in the trips. He said the Colombian trip was fi nanced by newspaper groups and that to Costa Rica by the host country. Porter said Reece's charges sltowed "the lack of any argu ments with merit" against Por ter's proposal to cut off aid to Latin American dictatorships. , "To me this is rather ironic Woranp Vo has hppn pri1iri7inp I ine for getting into something COMPARE -THEN BUY! GLIDDEN PAINT Is the CHOICE of Millions! Yes None Can Compare With Glidden Paint for . . . 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Tha Harris's, the Irwins and the Reddells spent the day of the Fourth boating, picnicking and swimming. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jolliffe and son, Chipper, and Larry Jolliffe also joined the group the day of the fourth. Medford Corporation woods and railroad operation has been shut down, as the result of a strike by three truckers against a trucking contractor, since June 26. Thi disaereement did not arise from any dispute between Medco and its employees,' or Mnlra a nit th union. It is against Austin L. King, Medford trucking contractor, who has been hauling logs ior aieaco nhnve Butte Falls. The strike began as a result of a dispute over the rehiring of truckers employed by King, and employees will not cross the picket liie estaonsnea h th. three truckers above R,itt Falls. Truckers are Page Stauffer, Butte Falls, Norman Caldwell. Camp White, and John Zimmerlee of Shady Cove area. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Horn and Emoire. Ore., vis itor! with the Claude Moores Mrs. T. Murray and a number of other friends while nere. int Horns are living in Ashland this summer .while Horn attends Southern Oregon college. Mr. and Mrs. Charles (Red) Capello and family motored to Lake of the Woods to spend the Fourth swimming and picnick ing. The Capellos had only time enough for their picnic when they had to rush their daughter, Mis Jeanette Capello, to Med ford to their doctor. Miss Ca pello was treated for an ab scessed throat and is reported to be much improved this week. Guests in the Page Stauffer home over Fourth of July week were Mr. and Mrs. Cal Peyton of Klamath Falls. The Virgil Conley family spent their July 4 vacation at Elgin, Ore., visiting Mrs. Con ley's parents and brother, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Wood and Jack Wood. While there the group spent a day at Willowa lake picnick ing and swimming. On their re turn trip the Conleys stopped at La Grande for short visit with Mrs. Conley's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Grant and son, Mike. Mr. and Mrs. Burell Facey and daughters spent their vacation at Brookings, where they spent some time ocean fishing. Mr. and Mrs. Henry (Hank) Tygart and children spent seve ral -days at Brookings over the Fourth as guests in the home of Hankes parents, Mr. and Mrs. F N. .Tygart. The Tygarts' daughter, Sherry, remained in Brookings for a week to visit with her grandparents. Several families from Butte Falls spent the better part of their vacation camping out at various lakes in the area. Guests in the Randall Perkins home were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Santos and daughter, Carla Ann of Yrek. Mrs. Santos is a sister of Randalls and the Santos made their visit during the week of the Fourth. The Richard Haviland family spent a short time in Butte Falls recently while in the area visit ing his mother and friends. Rich ard is a former resident and is now in the San Francisco area working in electronics. t- i . i , u . u - 4; u. jLrtny mob minim iiic iiiai uap- tismal service ever neld in a local bapistry was held in the Butte Falls Community Bible church. The Rev. Howard Simmonds assisted by the deacons, Albert Hofmann, Louis Crammer and L. V. Berck, baptised six young people. During the service Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Leatherman sang and were accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Howard Simmonds. Members of the Mt. Pitt club held a regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Randall Perkins Thursday evening July 11. Due to a pre-scheduled game of tne Bluebirds several members were late arriving. This meeting was birthday night ' for Mrs. Burell Lacey. Members honoring her were Mrs. Jolliffe. Mrs. Hank Tygart, Mrs. Virgil Conley, Mrs. Gene Irwin, Mrs. Trudy Buttram, Mrs. Don Jolliffe, Mrs. William Har ris, Mrs. Randall Perkins, host ess, and Mrs. Keith Johnson. Mrs. Johnson was a guest and will soon join the Mr. Pjtt club. Tk Rpv and Mrs. John Fuiten and family spent part of the : Fourth of July vacation at tneir district headquarters at Brooks, Ore. The Fuitens attended camp meeting there. The Rev. and Mrs. Fuiten will conduct a Youth Camp at Camp Twn above Butte Falls, for As semblies of God of southern Ore- gon. This camp will commence ltil, is Visiting in the Dan McKeen , home are Mr. ana Mrs. can Hawkins and family of Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Hawkins is a sister of Dan. The McKeens and Hawkins nlan tn visit Wills Woods, an aunt of Dan and Mrs. Hawkins,; at Coos Bay tnis weenena. Sympathy is extended the Duane Burton family upon the death of an aunt at Duane's who lived in Carney. Neb. The Bur tons have made the trip back by auto for the funeral. Duane's aunt was killed in a farming accident. DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH Inglewood, Calif. iW Bob Corthell, about to dig into a portion on his plate, almost bit off more than he could chew. 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