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iX MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Friday, April 25, 1958 Trucks Outselling American Cars in Foreign Markets By JIM KLOCKENKEMPER U.P. Automotive Editor Detroit (W The American car is falling flat on its over size chassis as a world trade ambassador, but workaday American trucks are highball ing down foreign roads in in creasing numbers. Only about three per cent of America's car production is being exported, but last year, nearly 20 per cent of the trucks built in the U.S. went to other nations. Auto industry experts agree the reasons America isn't get ting a share of the world car boom non-U.S. car sales are expected to match U.S. sales in less than 10 years are obvious: Small Ones Cheaper All the small, economy cars are made abroad and these are preferred in nearly all foreign countries because of lower purchase price, op erating economy and narrow roads. Many foreign countries don't have the dollar exchange for American cars anyway. 'The only way American com panies can compete in the world market is to build the cars at overseas plants," said a Chrysler export official who has studied the situation. The dollar shortage would block truck exports too, ex cept that in overseas truck sales. Uncle Sam is footing most of the bill. In 1957, 205,634 trucks (compared with 160,632 cars) went to foreign countries and Herman P. Sattler, Chevrolet trucks assistant sales man ager, estimates most of them were purchased with U.S. for eign aid. Sattler, who has been in the truck business for 30 years, said the fact that "trucks are not luxury items but are bought for hard-headed busi ness needs" makes truck sales different from car sales. "Truck sales should be a better barometer of things to come in our own industry than cars," Sattler said. To most people, trucks look about the same year after year, but Sattler said there have been big changes over the years. Economy of opera tion is the main competing factor, so each company has "beefed up" its engines, frames and chassis. Truck en gines may be built on the same design as car engines, said Sattler, but such things as valves, valve seats, rings and pistons are different to give longer wear. Quigg's Thoughts for Springtime: New York's Temperament Mellowing? Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Edltor'i Note: The following rnrit article on the thunder show er won the writer, K. M. Swearin en. 26S White ave., Chico, Calif., the weekly award of the 30-volume aet of the Encyclopedia Americana. Other readers are invited to try their hand. How often have you looked at the sky on a hot summer afternoon and seen the snow- white tops of cauliflower clouds plowing upwards through the blue? Sometimes they look almost like a pile of cotton. On other occasions they are almost black. There is thunder, light ning, rain, and at times what seems like a draught of fresh air blowing from the thunder head. What causes these things to happen? When air close to the t iiiiii i pi, ill MnjipTTr-nnnnij VOTE FOR EVE HI YE Republican For Y0U1 State Representative Natural resources are our price less heritage, and Jackson County is richly endowed with vast forests and fertile farm lands. Eve Nye believes that they must be care fully protected and wisely de veloped in the long-range interest of EVERY citizen. Lumbering, agriculture and rec reation are Jackson County's fore most industries, and each depends much upon planned developments to assure MORE JOBS and a FULLER LIFE for the people of jihis area. EVERY wage earner and taxpay er has a stake in the far-sighted conservation and use of natural re sources. A vote for EVE NYE is a CAPPIIIARH lartrcrvn voie m ' County's and Oregon's heritage! Paid Adv. Eve Nye for State Rep resentative Committee, Eugene Thorndike, Chairman, 55 South Berkeley Way, Medford. earth's surface become quite warm it is unstable. Hills and mountains causes the warm air to rise farther, faster, Being warmer it is lighter and rises rapidly, much as oil rises through water. But as the air rises it cools, though at a slower rate than the surrounding stationary air. When the cooling reaches IS THAT SO a certain critical point, the relative humidity reaches 100 per cent and a cloud forms. This cloud air keeps on going up, sometimes boosting its speed to as much as 60 miles an hour. Billions of water droplets form the clouds. From 100 to as many as a million cloud droplets are required to make one raindrop. The raindrops are made in two ways: Cloud droplets in the top of a cloud may freeze. They hit other crystals and fall, gathering mass on the way until they become rain drops. Another way is simply by collision. Bigger cloud droplets hit smaller one and sweep more of the smaller along with them. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ments with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life na ture adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set oi this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new sub missions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Eight Local Men Get Journey ma nship Salem Eight Medford men have been awarded the state's certificate of journeymanship by the Oregon Apprenticeship Council. Ronald Johnson, Ernest C. Nelson and Glenn F. Willford take journeyman rank as plumbers upon completion of five years on-the-job training under supervision of the Jackson-Josephine County Pipe Trades committee. Dale C. Durbin completes a four-year training course with the Bausch and Lomb Optical company to become an optical technician. Completing their four years apprenticeship with the California Oregon Power company are William W. Lay ton and Herbert W. Nelson, es timator draftsmen, and Roy L. Stuart, power house operator. Donald M. Wetherbee takes his journeyman standing as a newspaper pressman. He has been apprenticed to the Med ford Printing company in a five-year training program. By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York OP) Sudden flurries of springtime thought: Can it be that New York's testy temperament is mellow ing? A friend of mine who When camping, be sure that all camp fires are out before you leave. If you can stir up the ashes with your bare hand, the fire is out so suggests the Boy Scouts of America. had not been here for 12 years got into town the other day for the publishers convention and after sampling our wares for a few days deposed as follows: "Maybe it's the recession, or something, but this place has changed markedly in one respect. People say 'thank you' now when you tip them. This goes for waiters, bell boys, bartenders, and even taxi drivers. The place is much less frantic and more polite "I was riding in a cab when the driver became annoyed at a policeman for what the driver thought was discrimi natory traffic direction, but instead of yelling about it, as in the old days, the cabbie said: "He must be a young cop; when they get older they don't do things like that.' " Someone told Wilbur, our office grouch, that a former New Hampshire disk jockey had more-or-less eloped with Grace Metalious, author of the well-known "Peyton Place," a novel somewhat Loaded with gamey lovey-dovey. "You mean," queried Wil bur, "that The Disk ran away with The Spoon?" Two self-taught artists have opened one-man shows here. One is a former prisoner at San Quentin, who was parol ed last month. The other is a cobbler. The one taught him self to paint in prison. The other was inspired in mid cobble. The moral here seems to be: keep pounding away, whether at stones or soles; art is long last and prison time is fleeting. Rep. Herbert Zelenko (D N.Y.) says it ought to be eas ier for Americans to sing their national anthem. He in tends to introduce a bill in Congress for the adoption of a new, more singable version of "The Star Spangled Ban ner." altered so it's well with in the vocal range of the av erage person. Here's an idea. 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