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
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wells
pre now the sole proprietors of
the Butte Falls Shell Service.
The Frank Phillips, former part
ners, sold their share of the busi
ness to the Wells and have re
turned to Medford.
The Keith Johnson family
spent three nights camped at
Squaw lake in the Jacksonville
area. The Johnson boys had time
to get caught up on their fishing 1
and swimming.
The William L. Harris family
spent five nights at Willow
Creek dam, camping out. Mr.
and Mrs. Gene Irwin and Linda
Ellis spent two nights at the Har
ris campsite. Linda is a sister
of Mrs. Irwins of Brookings. The
Ted Reddell family also spent
some time at the Harris campsite.
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.
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Corthell, about to dig into a
portion on his plate, almost bit
off more than he could chew. A
diamond ring valued at $100
had fallen into a cellophane bag
of spinach he had purchased
earlier at a market.
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