10 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, April 7, 1959
New Ambassador
Incorporates Two
Types of Vehicles
The 1959 Ambassador V-8
Rambler, on sale at Lea
Motors, Bartlett at Fifth st.,
"incorporates the luxury, com
fort and performance of larg
er American cars with com
partness of design that affords
greater ease of handling and
parking dexterity of smaller
automobiles."
Six models, all with four
doors, are offered in the cur
rent Ambassador line, includ
ing a Super sedan and station
wagon, a Custom sedan and
yhardtop sedan, and a Custom
station wagon and hardtop sta
tion wagon.
The 1959 models are offer
ed in 15 solid colors and 18
two-tone combinations. Inter
iors, as well as exterior de
sign, have been re-styled, with
"personalized comfort" of in
dividually adjustable reclin
ing seats offered for the first
time as optional equipment on
all models.
Ambassadors are available
with standard transmission,
optional overdrive, or the
"Flash - O - Matic" automatic
transmission, as o p 1 1 o nal
equipment.
Other improved items in
this year's Ambassador are a
new parking brake warning
light and thicker brake linings
which increase lining life by
30 per cent.
Epps Suggests
Second Term for
Robert Duncan
Salem - (UPD - State Demo
cratic Chairman Dave Epps
said recently that House
Speaker Robert Duncan of
Medford has done such an
outstanding job he should
seek election to the lower
chamber again so he can
serve a second term as the
House leader. ;
. House speakers usually do
not run again for the lower
chamber, sometimes running
for the Senate-
Epps said that the Jackson
county Senate seat does not
come up for election next year
and that "I am afraid the state
will lose his services if he
does not seek office next
time."
Epps also indicated he felt
Duncan would be excellent
material for either state office
or Congress sometime in the
future. . .
.. Duncan, commenting upon
Epps' statement, said "I have
no political ambition and
right now my only concern is
how the Legislature can do
the best, job possible for the
people." He said there were
many other "very competent"
representatives who could
serve as speaker.
Optional Items
For More Safety .
Two new optional items of
fered by Plymouth for 1959
make major contributions to
ward highway safety, accord
ing to local dealers.
They' are the new Mirror
Matic rear-view mirror and
the automatic headlight dim
mer. Each is designed to re
duce the causes of accidents
at night, when the majority
of accidents occur.
Plymouths are sold locally
by Dick Knight company,
Parsons Motors and Hamlin
Motor company.
The new rear-view ,mirror
is self-dimming when it picks
up the lights of a following
car, shifting automatically
when bright lights strike it
and returning to normal posi
tion when the lights pass. Op
erated by a photo-electric
cell, the mirror can be con
trolled by a three-way switch,
"city," "hi-way" or ' off."
The headlight dimmer util
izes an electronic eye to auto
matically dim or brighten
headlights. It can be manually
adjusted to lower the beam
when an on-coming car is any
distance from 900 to 1,200
feet away and automatically
shifts back to bright beam. It
also responds to taillights of
a car 200 to 500 feet ahead.
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PRESTIGE PICKUP The Ford Custom
Ranchero, first "prestige pickup" of its kind
in the industry, is completely restyled for
1959, having the same clean, tasteful styling
of the 1959 Ford station wagons and a new,
longer 118-inch wheelbase. Crater Lake
Motors, Main and Fir sts., reports that the
nominal body length of seven feet means a
bigger loadspace for cargo of all sorts.
Volkswagens in U.S.
Top 100,000 Mark
Deliveries of Volkswagen
cars and commercial vehicles
in the United States during
1958 totaled 102,035 units, ac
cording, to VW's export divis
ion. The number is 25 per cent
of the total of 401,000 foreign
cars registered here last year.
They are sold locally by
Morse Motors, Sixth and Ivy
sts. .
Last year was the first time
that any foreign automobile
reached the '100,000 figure in
the United States, it was said
Volkswagens are sold in 120
different countries, led by the
United States, Sweden, Can
ada, Australia, Holland and
Switzerland, in that order.
Commenting on ,the effect
the manufacture of smaller
cars in Detroit will have on
Volkswagen, a corporation
spokesman said, "we feel that
if the great American automo
bile manufacturers decide to
enter this field, it will prove
the soundness of the smaller,
compact car as basic economi
cal transportation."
California leads all the
i states in the number of its reg
istered trucks.
DE GAULLE ILL
Paris-flJPD-President Charles
de Gaulle is suffering from
a cold and has postponed' a
scheduled four-day visit to
the central provinces of
France, it was announced
Monday night.
NAME GOVERNOR
London-flJPD-Maj. Gen. Sir
Julian Alvery Gascoigne, 55,
has been appointed to succeed
Lt. Gen. Sir John Woodall as
goyernor and commander-in-chief
of Bermuda, it was an
nounced today.
Oldsmobile Features Increased
Passenger, Luggage Facilities
The 1959 Oldsmobile fea
tures increased passenger and
luggage space, two complete
ly new and more efficient
Rocket engines, more respon
sive power steering, new Air
Scoop brakes on all four
wheels and other engineering
and accessory advancements.
Darrell Miller, local deal
er, reported this week for the
"Live Better by Far with a
Brand New Car" campaign,
that Oldsmobile for 1959 rep
resents the most outstanding
product in its history.
' Total glass area in all
models has been increased up
to 36 per cent to give in
creased visibility in all direc
tions. The new "Vista-Panoramic"
windshield has up to
570 square inches more glass
area and contours deep into
the roofline offering an un
hindered view of overhanging
traffic signals.
Air Conditioning
Pushbutton Type
All air conditioning and
heating controls in the 1959
Chrysler cars are of the push
button type, integrated com
pletely in the instrument
panel. '
Buttons actuate . vacuum
servo motors and eiecinc
switches to perform all ad
justments previously made by
the driver.
Cars of the Chrysler and
Imperial division are among
those in the "Live Better by
Far with a Brand New Car"
campaign. Hamlin Motor com
pany has models on display at
Eighth and Front sts.
Thin Rooflines
All models are marked by
their thin rooflines, with in
creased passenger compart
ment roominess and. comfort.
Rear seat passengers have
over an inch more leg room
in the Dynamic "88" and
Super "88" series. Trunk
space has been increased up
to 64 per cent.
A completely redesigned
body and wide-spaced four
beam headlamps set in a full
width grille of anodized alum
inum, give Oldsmobile a new
"Linear Look."
Among functional styling
touches are the new rear deck
handle and the platform top
of the rear bumper.
Matching the 6tyling are
Oldsmobile's two responsive
and economical , Rocket en
gines, Miller reported. Both
are "smoother, and, quieter,
having longer cylinder bores,
new reinforced aluminum
pistons, connecting rods with
greater bearing area, larger
intake valve and a more rigid
crankshaft.
Ride and cornering char
acteristics of the 1959 Olds
mobile have been further im
proved through use of a
stronger and wider X-member
frame; new, wider tread both
front and rear; new double-
acting front suspension; and
new rear springs with wider-
base rear, suspension.
ELEVEN MILLION PLYMOUTHS-Special ceremonies com
memorating automotive and economic progress were held at
the end of the assembly line when the 11 millionth Plymouth
was built at Detroit. Harry E. Chesebrough, left, general
manager of 'Plymouth division, agreed with other veteran
auto men in some observations comparing the 1959 car with
the first Plymouth, built in 1928.
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No matter what your age . . . there's a
new thrill awaiting you. The thrill of driv
ing home in your own brand new 1959
automobile.
For many happy tomorrows for you and
your family there's no better time than
TODAY to visit your Medford automobile
dealer's showroom and choose from one
of his many "specials.'
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Everyone Said To
Have Capacity To
Cure Own Cancer
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
Excelsior Springs, Mo. -(UPD
- Every human being has
within himself "the capacity
to cure his own cancer," Dr.
Charles Higgins said Friday.
He and other scientists dis
closed progress in their ef
forts to learn how to manipu
late this capacity to the full.
It is hidden within the en
docrine system of interdepen
dent glands which secrete a
host of chemicals that regu
late man's development,
growth, reproduction and bod
ily functions, in the opinion of
Higgins, who has earned
world fame for his pioneer
ing discoveries of their rela
tions to cancer.
Tool Disclosed
He disclosed the discovery
of a new, easily used tool
which could bestow a magnif
icent benefit on the female
sex. The tool is a way of get
ting at the secrets of mam
mary cancer which kills more
women than any other.
The tool is a particular
kind of rat whose female
never develops a mammary
cancer spontaneously. Hig
gins and his associates at the
University of Chicago have
learned how to inflict that
cancer on these females 100
times in every 100 tries.
He said 40 per cent of
these cancers were found to
depend on the secretions of
the endocrine glands for their
existence, which ,60 per cent
are independent of those se
cretions. This is also, rough
ly, the proportion of human
mammary cancers which are
dependent or independent of
those secretions.
These rats are thus living
laboratories both of how
mammary cancers begin, how
they can be dealt with by
manipulating the extremely
complex chemistry set off and
regulated by endocrine secre
tions, and finally cured.
Put Through Cycles
Higgins disclosed that al
ready his laboratory has rats
which have been put through
that cycle, from cancer-free to
cancerous and back to cancer
free. A few which had mam
mary cancers have been cancer-free
- cured, that is - for
a year. A year in a rat's life
is equivalent to 30 in a wom
an's. Manipulating human endoc
rine chemistry presently is
second to surgery as the most
effective way of dealing with
GOP CHANCES GOOD
Washington-UPD-Sen. Ken
neth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) said
the Republicans have an "ex
cellent chance" of winning
Hawaii's governorship and
two of the three congressional
seats it will have as a state.
He returned from an eight-day
tour of the Hawaiian Islands.
First all-iron American rail
road bridge was constructed
in 1845.
human mammary cancer, but
surgery is effective only if
the cancer has been detected
in its earliest stages, before
it has spread out into the
body:
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we've come a long way
If you don't believe you can "Live Better by Far With a Brand New Car," take a look at
how auto comfort, performance, safety, durability and value has increased over the years:
The snazzy model shown above probably carried a price tag of about $690. Average
hourly earnings for the factory worker were 56 cents. It was necessary for him to work
1228 hours to earn the purchase price.
Today's hourly worker, at the national 1958 average of $2.13 an hour, need work only
1048 hours to earn the price of a full-size car. This is 180 hours saved . . . and look
how much more car you get today:
If you carried luggage with the car above, in all likelihood it was carried on the running
board; there was no trunk. Luggage space on most new '59 models amounts to well
over 30 cubic feetl
Considering performance, there is little comparison. If you were lucky in the old days
you had one horsepower for every 55 lbs. Today's average six has one horsepower for
every 25 pounds, and the new V-8s give you one horsepower for every 15 pounds!
Today's new car lasts more than twice as long, will cover five or six times more miles. "
Glass area has doubled many times, and so has brake lining. And there are more than
60 items of standard equipment on today's low-price car that were not even available
30 years ago.
Your favorite new car dealer cordially invites
you to visit his showroom this week. Let him
show you the latest advances in engineering
and distinctive styling.
Stop longing . . . start living! Get over to your
dealer's and start driving the most carefree,
trouble-free car ever built. You owe it to
yourselfl
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