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Chevrolet Orders Equipment To Make Smaller Automobile Detroit - (CPD - At least one auto maker will be partly tooled up for "trial run" pro duction of an American small car by the end of December, according to auto industry suppliers. The men who supply ma chine tools to the automobile manufacturers reported that the Chevrolet division of General Motors already has placed orders for equipment to be used in production of a small car. Chevrolet asked for delivery of the equip ment during December, they said. , This Indicates Chevrolet could kick off the 1960 model year with its small car at a date much earlier than had been previously' reported. These reports had said the auto companies might intro duce small cars in the fall of 1959. But the machine tool suppliers said their orders in dicated Chevrolet will not wait that long. Ford Plant Small Car Ford also is getting ready to turn out a small car, the suppliers said. But it is not as close to the production stage as Chevrolet. Chrysler seems to be making no over tures toward the small car field, apparently content to let Its wealthier competitors take the initial gamble. Not even Chevrolet and Ford are fully convinced yet that an American small car will be a success. But an economist for one of the "Big Three" said: "It's beginning to look as If we'll build the thing even though we expect a flop." , Ford and Chevrolet are try ing to keep costs low on the "trial runs' of small cars by reclaiming old machines from stockpiles. Both plan to limit initial production until the small cars prove salesworthy. Suppliers reported Chevro let's small car engine lines at Massena, N.Y., will be tagged for production of about 70 units per hour. Ford plans production of about 150,000 units annually at its Lorain, O., assembly plant, they said. Chevrolet's all - aluminum engine will have six cylinders in a horizontally-opposed po sition, three on each side, a system which is more effi cient but less powerful. It will be air cooled, eliminat ing the need for a heavy water jacket and further in creasing economy. Engine in Rear On the Chevrolet the en gine will be in the rear, but the Ford will keep its in front, the suppliers reported. This means Chevrolet styl ing will resemble the Renault Dauphine while Ford will use Thunderbird styling. Both models, if they reach the public, will be larger and plusher than European small cars but smaller and more stripped down than current American models. The wheelbase of the Chev rolet will be about 104 inches, almost a foot and a half more than the Dauphine, and Ford will build on a 106-inch wheelbase. Both will experi ment with greatly simplified two-speed transmissions. Suppliers report that the manufacturers are likely to make their final decision on whether to actually produce the small cars after they get the public's reaction to new styling and some small econ omy moves in the standard 1959 models. The Family Council Editor'! note: The Family Council consists of a Judje, a psychiatrist, (fere clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers Each article 's a summary ot an actual report. The Family Council does am civ advice; it merely reports on problems that nave been aeail Barbara B. - Paula should play dumb. Paula S. - I want to be loved for what I am. Barbara B. - I am 26, have been married four years and have two children. My sister Is two years older, In an I am and still single. I am very eager to see her married. Paula is a very superior girl in looks, intelligence and education. But I feel she shows her superiority a little too much and probably fright ens men away. I have tried to tell Paula that it wouldn't hurt to play dumb. After all, it is better to make this sacrifice than to remain single. Besides, Paula Is too critical of others. She won't even go -out with a man who isn't wonderful looking and terribly brainy - and those are few and far be tween. s Paula S. Everyone seems to be ganging up on me, tell ing me the same kind of thing -play dumb, don t be so fussy etc. I can't aeree at all. I think marriage is a very precious thing and if I have to hide myself and pretend to ha something I'm not, the whole beauty of the relation ship is gone. I want someone to love me for what I am. am not conceited about my IO. but I want to be liked for it as much as for my face nrt figure I try not to be overcritical of people, but I can't help my tastes. I find it very disagree able to go out with men who are not attractive and I lose patience with those who are silly or slow-mirided. I "think it's better to be single than to marry a dunce. Th Council: As she states her case, we think that Paula is perfectly right. The ques tion is, has she stated her case correctly?-We doubt it. When "everyone" tells Paula to play dumb, they are probably using the terms a little loosely. They really mean "stop holding your IQ like a sword in front of you- it terrifies people." We don't believe mature, Intelligent men favor dumb girls, but we do think they resent playing the foil to a woman's mental swordplay. It is worse than frightening. It is usually terribly boring. We do not think that Paula Is really conceited about her IQ or anything else. Actually, she lacks self-confidence. Her need for the "wonderful look ing and terribly brainy" man is a search for some glory through which she can prove her own worth. In this frame of mind Paula cannot possibly embark on any successful marriage. Men who want a complete and happy relationship in marri age will sense that Paula wants to use them in some way and will avoid her. A man with outwardly desirable characteristics, but with some vital inner lack, could fall into Paula's trap, but the re sults are not likely to be satisfactory. The answer for Paula is not to play dumb or to give up her judgment and marry a dunce, but to use her in telligence to uncover her own deepest feelings, to recognize that her own value comes from within and to learn to give something of herself to others. She will then see that others are nicer to look at and listen to than she has suspected. Copyright 1958, General Features Corp.) Children Must Be Six fo Enter School County school officials are reminding parents of young children that state law spe cifies children must be six years of age prior to Nov. 15 to be eligible for admission to school. The schools do not have to admit students with birthdays after that date but local school board policy some times permits entrance of children whose birthdays fall as late as Jan. 1, if the chil dren meet physical and men tal maturity requirements, of ficials said. Permission for these tests can only be obtained from the local school administration, it was reported. All schools require a birth certificate at the time of registration, and physical and dental examina tions are necessary. Medical forms are available in the county health department of fice in the courthouse. MEDFORD Price 10 cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist The mountain beaver, or Sewellel as he is more widely known, isn't actually very much of a mountain enthusi ast, and he isn't even a beav er. Instead, he is the connect ing link, or thought to be, between the squirrels and beavers. He looks like a diminutive, tailless beaver, however, sometimes attaining a length is -7W-1 r so Girl Helps Friend To Recover Speech Pietrasanta, Italy-dTD-After 14 years as a mute, a young man here recently recovered the power of speech through a "miracle" worked by the girl he loved. The first words uttered by 22-year-old Mauro Genovesi, who was struck dumb at the age of eight when his fam ily's home was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid, were: I have come back." He spoke them to Maria Ciambrelli, the girl who had told him several hours before, "I don't want to marry a mute." Maria wasn't being cruel. Doctors had told her that Mauro lost his ability to speak because of a shock and that another shock might give him his voice back. So she decided to supply the shock, by rejecting her sweetheart and telling him: "When you can talk, come back to me. I will be wait ing." , of 16 inches, who likes to live along the sides of gulches, or even on the slopes of foothills and ridges, provided he is near running water. Further more, the only part of the world in which he is found is the coastal areas of the Pacific northwest, sometimes as far south as San Francisco Bay. He isn't known very far east of the coastal ranges. He isn't often seen by day. His poor vision and acute hearing make the night more suited to his needs. So it is then that he is most likely to leave his runways to hunt the vegetation on which he feeds. Sometimes, as many a farm' er has learned, that includes the produce of the truck garden, but generally he is content with young shoots, buds and bark. He is extreme ly industrious in the way he gathers his food. He works at it rapidly, as if time were far too short. In fact, he is so obsessed with the possibility of starvation that he is for ever gathering far more than he can use. Pushed Outside That is why, if you ever come across one of the war rens in which he lives, you are likely to find a pile of decayed vegetable matter heatied ud outside an exit from a runway. He has push ed it outside because it has spoiled and is -no longer fit for mountain beaver consump tion. Because a vast labyrinth of tunnels sometimes connects the homes of his colony, some people think him a social ani mal. His actions in captivity, the surly way in which he treats others of his kind, don't indicate it. The most likely explanation of his living in warrens is simply that it is the nlace where the easiest digging is that is nearest to a suitable food supply. Though the Indians relish ed his flesh as food and used his fur for clothing, he has not suffered so much in re cent years from white men. In some areas, he has even increased enough to be re garded as a pest. (Released by Mcciure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my Convicts Used To Test Sunburn Pill Tallahassee, Fla. (DPD Convicts at the Florida State Prison were used recently as guinea pigs in an experiment to determine if a new pill will prevent sunburn. All the convicts got out of it was a partial tan and a few dollars from Bristol-Myers, which conducted the research with approval of the State Cabinet. Dr. Gunther H. Frey, assist ant medical director for Bristol-Myers, said 12 inmate vol unteers, admitted to the pris on hospital for other diseases, were used in the tests. The company hoped to de termine the efficacy oi an oral sunburn prevention medi cation, especially for those with fair complexions. Before giving its approval for the project, the cabinet was assured there was noth ing in the drug that might be harmful in any way. 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Each will emerge richer than when she began the trek up the beauty contest trail The top winner stands a strong chance of finishing her year-long reign at least $50, 000 higher on the economic ladder. She will start with a $5,000 scholarship, and go on from there. Accounts Fattened But all the girls already have had their bank accounts fattened as a result of their participation in the search for the most beautiful, most poised and mtost talented miss of the year. Many of the entries are old hands at the contest game, having won prizes for every thing from raising pigs to dressmaking, and beauty titles that include "Miss Blockbuster." "Miss Favorite Freshman" and "Queen of the National Date Festival." Miss Lenora S. Slaughter, executive director of the pageant, estimates the girls already"have won a total of more than $250,000 in schol arships just working their way through the preliminary panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on .nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous ref erence work in a handsome Sealcraft binding'. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to :1s That So! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. steps on the road to Atlantic City. "Miss North Carolina," Bet ty Lane Evans, 18, of Green ville, leads the pack, with $4,250 in scholarships. Betty is a church organist. Her father is a church elder. Her mother is a former beauty queen. Running a close second in the scholarship derby is "Miss Texas," Mary Nell Hen dricks, 22, of Arlington, who at 18 was the youngest school teacher ever employed in her home town. She has piled up $4,000 in scholarships, which 6he hopes to use for a master's degree. Cities Represented Every state except Mon tana and Wyoming will be represented In the five - day competition, which begins Tuesday, Sept. 2. In addition, there will be "Miss New York City," "Miss Chicago," "Miss District of Columbia," "Miss Hawaii" and "Miss Canada." They will primp their way through a week-long pageant that will require them to look pretty on ornate parade floats, in evening gowns, at the breakfast table, in bathing suits and on a stage. In the last event, some girls will sing. Some will dance. Some will play the piano. One plans to give a little talk on fine art. Another will strum her own compositions on a uke lele. The contest "old - pros" among the girls includes Lee Thornburg, 21, Birmingham, "Miss Alabama," who won a trip around the world to en tertain troops as a result of an NBC national talent com petition. There also will be Donna Juanita Riggs, 20, "Miss Ari zona," of Phoenix, who was homecoming queen at junior college, and "Miss California," Sandra Lee Jennings, 18, of Riverside, who has been 20- 30 Club Queen, Diamond Jubilee Queen, Queen of the National Date Festival and Queen of the County Fair. "Miss Idaho," 18-year-om Bonnie (Bon-Bon) Leila Baird, a Heyburn music teacher, has won 75 blue ribbons in coun ty and state fairs for 4-H club Scotts t SALE saves lawn $ $ $ Right now! this, fall the best time to put new life, new beauty into your lawn SALE SAVE! 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Some of the girls have been fraternity queens and flower festival queens, and one, Diane Chloe Albers, of St. Paul, "Miss Minnesota," was p"R ice County Dairy Princess" and Miss Centen nial Minnesota." "Miss Nevada," Judy Kath erine Wads worth, 18, of Sparks, won an "I Speak for Democracy" contest. Anne Sylvia Henderson, Spokane, "Miss Washington," has hit a contest jackpot of sorts. Her titles: "Miss Block buster," "Miss MGM," and "Miss Spokane-Hydroplane of 1958." Cradle To Grave Philosophy Said Worrying Some Oil Men Elmer Walzer ed oil and By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York-(UPD-This cradle to the grave philosophy is worrying some oil men who fear that one of these days we'll lose the s p e c u lative urge needed to gamble on new oil dis coveries. Her bert B. Seel ey, president of Texam Oil Corp., an in depend ent, non - integrat gas producing company, operating in Texas and' California, admits he does some worrying on this score. He isn't worrying about his own energies, which are overflowing as he goes back and forth from the East Coast to the West Coast where his company presently is drilling for oil in Hollywood not too far from some of the movie lots where oil is flowing. "Since the oil industry, more than any other indus try, has been and is being built by people willing to gamble their money and time to find oil, the main worry in the industry is that men of this caliber will not be avail able in the future," he says. "It is easy to see that the trend today is toward the philosophy of being taken care of from the cradle to the grave. "This philosophy in many respects has limited one's ob jective as well as one's initia tive, both being necessary at tributes in the oil industry. "Should this trend contin ue, the oil industry has some thing to worry about." Only Worry But that is about all the Texam Oil president finds in the worry list. He doesn't thing there's too much com petition from atomic energy, which still faces many prob lems and costwise doesn't rate against oil for fuel. And he finds no shortage worries either. He likes to answer this with a quote from an American Petroleum Insti tute booklet: "We have found enough oil in the last 58 years so that today, in spite of our increas ing use of oil, these reserves are over ten times as great as theyjwere in 1900., There is no way of telling what greater quantities are still to be discovered." He also notes that almost from the birth of the oil in dustry, the cry has been that we are running out of oil. So far these fears have not been realized, he says, and adds there is every prospect that for many years to come we shall continue to discover new oil deposits at a much greater rate than they are taken from the ground. He bases this prediction on the fact that there are a great many areas in the U.S. where geologists believe oil may pos sibly be found. He believes the Middle East situation can be resolved when the injured feelings of the parties concerned are healed. His company is watch ing progress on oil possibili ties in Alaska but not doing any leasing there at this time. Noting the success of Tex am Oil Corp., he believes that the place of the small oil company in the economy, while it may be precarious at times, is a definite asset to the nation. With the oil industry costs what they are, particularly in exploration, Seeley believes that the small oil companies may be charged in the future with the major responsibility of oil exploration while the, majors do the marketing. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport I Vodka m lllllll ...the name that makes it better VHj 80 AND 100 PROOF . 100 NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN GORDON'S DRY GIN CO, LTD, LINDEN. K. J. Distributors: Porrott & Co, Son Francisco, lot Angeles, Portland, Seattle Among the leading low-priced three . . . CHEVY COSTS LESS IN ALL THESE POPULAR MODELS! There's nothing like one of these Chevies to give you a fast case of new-car fever. But, low-priced as they are, you're likely to find your self sold on one before you've even considered the cost That's because Chevrolet Is the only honest-to-goodness new car in its field new to look at, with a beautiful new Body by Fisher; new to ride in, with two completely new suspension systems; new to drive with a wider-than-ever selection of sngines and a soEd, road-snug Safety Girder frame. Yet all the V8-powered Chevies shown here plus six even lower priced 6's cost less than any comparable models in the leading low-priced three. Talk it over with your Chevrolet dealer: , America's best buy ' America's best setlert BASED ON UST PRICES FOR COMPARABLE V8 MODELS. S' ( Air 4-Door Sedaa W Air 2-Door Stdan ttl Air Sport Coop rfAfr Bitcoyae 4-Door Sedoe) liscoriw 2-Door Mow' fvry window of every Chevrolet h Sofefy PJo Got. See it CWy Stow. Sunday night oa NBC-TV and e Meetty Chevy Showroom oa ABC-TV. 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