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
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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
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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
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IS THAT SO
a certain critical point, the
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per cent and a cloud forms.
This cloud air keeps on going
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speed to as much as 60 miles
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Billions of water droplets
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The raindrops are made in
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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.
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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
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newspaper pressman. He has
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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. How about
lifting up the words and set
ting them down on the music
to "Sugar Time" that's in
line with what American
troops overseas always call
the U. S., "Uncle Sugar." Or
if we really want to get seri
ous, throw the whole thing
away and substitute "God
Bless America."
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