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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959
Pages 1 to 12
IProce (DDassiffiicatoon off AutomobSfles
As Used by Industry Are Misnomers
Some Fish Found To Be Equipped Against Freezing
Detroit - (UPD - The terms
"iow-priced car" and "medium-
priced car" are used in
the auto industry today are
misnomers.
The auto industry still uses
the term "low-priced car" in
relation to the Chevrolet, Ford
and Plymouth. It uses the
term "medim-priced car" to
describe the Dodge, Edsel,
Mercury, Pontiac, De Soto,
Oldsmobile and Buick
These terms grew out of an
era when cars could be sep
arated into three fairly dis
tinct groups as far as price and
size were concerned: the low-
priced car, the medium-priced
car and the high-priced car.
There was a certain amount
of overlapping, but it was fair
ly easy to peg any car in one
of these three groups.
Out of Reach '
At the top, and fairly well
out of the reach of the aver
age buyer, were the Lincoln,
Cadillac, Chrysler and Pack
ard. The bulk of the sales went
to the Crevrolets, Fords, Ply
mouths and, perhaps, Stude
Cpakers. In between, in a distinct
area, there was the Mercury,
, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac,
Dodge, De Soto, Hudson and
Nasn.
- The gap between the high
priced group and the low
priced group was so distinct
only a person who suddenly
came into great wealth could
think of switching from a low
priced car to a high-priced
one,
But today the main differ
ence between the low-priced
car and the top of the line is
how many accessories are
standard equipment.
In 1949, the differenece be
tween a Ford and a Lincoln,
for example, went like this:
More Leg Room
The Lincoln was up to 23.2
inches longer, 14.3 inches
wider, had two more inches
of leg room and 2.5 inches
more hip room. The difference
between the power of the top
rated Ford engine and the
only engine offered in the Lin
coln was 52 horsepower, 52
per cent more in the Lincoln
than in the 100-horsepower
Ford.
Ten years later the differ
ences were narrowed consid
erably. The Ford grew 11.2
inches in overall length while
the Lincoln added 7.1 inches.
The Ford was 12.1 inches
wider but the Lincoln spread
out only 1,1 inch. The Lincoln
added only 2.1 inches in leg
room and one inch "in hip
room. The difference in horse
power between the two cars
narrowed to 18.5 per cent.
Because of the pressure
from below, some of the so
called medium priced .cars
have already fallen by the
wayside.
' The Nash and the Hudson
are no longer produced. Ford
is considering abandoning its
attempt to push Edsel into the
field by making it a small
compact car. Dodge and Mer
cury already have added
smaller versions to compete
more directly with the so
called low-priced cars. Gener
al Motors is expected to add
Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watlcins
Red Flannel ITndies' There
.Was 'Something About It - j
Grandfather was positive in
his statement that, "No bait
i in the world ' is better for
catching bullheads than a gob
of worms or a piece of balled
up red flannel underwear."
He should have been very
wise in the way of the. wild
things; he lived close to them
all his life. But surprisingly
enough, I have since discov
ered his actual information
was so cluttered up with v?hat
someone else had told him
that he refused to credit his
own observations. He accepted
too many "old wives tales" as
gospel truth.
Incongruous, that one of the
things I remember best about
my grandfather was the "red
flannel underwear. It was
such an Institution with him,
it left an indelible imprint
on me. He attributed his long
life, freedom from sickness
and retained buoyancy and
trimness of figure to this viv
id garment.
Medicinal Qualities
To grandfather and most of
his contemporaries red flan
nel underwear was more than
garment that kept them
warm in a blustery winter. It
had medicinal qualities too
He never tried to explain why
this was but "there was just
something about it that done
magical things for the human
body."
As far as just warmth was
concerned, he. conceded,
"white, pink or baby-blue
flannel" would have been as
good but it had to be red in
order to afford the necessary
benefits. "Red," reasoned
ffrandfather. was a "warm"
rnlor but also it had ' that
"little something that helped
the bodv resist disease
Grandmother shared his be
lief, too, for she treated a sore
throat with a strip of salt
pork generously sprinkled
with black pepper and held in
place with a strip of red flan
nel around the affected neck.
-hMt congestion likewise
nr9 treated with mutton-tal-
low, bear or goose-grease, but
always covered with a large
piece of red flannel, -mere
was just something about red
flannel," she said.
Tenacious Dye
Just what tenacious dye was
used back then to attain the
redness of the cloth was no
concern of grandmother, but
whatever it was it was nearly
indestructible, for after winter-long
washing with strong
soft-soap or even a compound
containing lye the garments
still retained much of their
original color, even though
they did look a little anemic.
This faded, yet still visible
red color was supposed to pos
sess that peculiar something
thatrattracted bull-heads to
grandfather's . fishing 1 i n e.
Neither he nor the bull-heads
he pulled from the muddy
waters of the little ponds and
lakes, had then established
the well known fact that
these bottom dwelling fish
with horns living in the dark
mud, are colorblind or at best
Diinaea Dy tne murky en
vironment in which Nature
ordained them to live; or per
haps even then, grandfather
was away ahead of his time,
and there really was some
thing besides warmth in red
flannel underwear.
(Released by The Register
and Tribune Syndicate. 1959)
Columbus Could 1
Have Tasted Beer
New York (UPD Christo
pher Columbus may' h a . e
been the first European ever
to taste American beer.
The explorer's son, Her
nando, disclosed this in an
account of his father's ex
plorations quoted in the his
torical archives of the U.S.
Brewer's Foundation.
The son reported that Co
lumbus, on a return voyage
10 years after he discovered
America,-purchased from In
dians on an island off Central
America "a sort of wine made
of maize (corn) resembling
English beer." -
Columbus liked it and
bought several more jars as a
treat for his crew, the son
reported.
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smaller versions of its medium-priced
cars next year for
the same purpose.
WU1 Settle Back
Introduction of the economy
cars by the "big three" this
year has, in effect, left them
with offerings priced below
the cars which were once ap
propriately called "low
priced" models.
Many auto industry sources
feel the auto industry will set
tle back into its old price cat
egorization when all of the
shifting caused by the econ
omy car boom 'is over. They
feel the., concepts of various
cars will be shifted through
the use of smaller versions
such as those already coming
out in the Mercury and Dodge
lines.
Once this shift is completed,
the economy models like the
Corvair, Falcon and Valiant
will become the "low-priced"
cars, the smaller versions of
the current "medium-priced
cars" and the current standard-sized
"low-priced" cars
will become the medium
priced group, and all above
that level will be known as
the high-priced, or luxury,
cars.
Los Angeles (Science Serv-
ice)-Some fish seem to have
a built-in supply of anti-f reeze
to keep them from freezing
in cold weather.
Discovery some years ago
of an antifreeze-like substance
in the blood of supercooled
shallow-water fishes of Heb-
ror Fjord in Labrador led a
group of scientists to make
an expedition to this fjord
last March m hopes of find
ing out more about what the
substance actually was. A
more recent discovery that
some frost-hardy insects use
glycerol in high concentra
tions as an anti-freeze and
supercooling facilitator also
added to their curiosity.
M. S. Gordon of the Uni
versity of California here;
B. H. Amdur of Harvard Uni
versity, Cambridge, Mass.,
and P. F. , Scholander of
Scripps Institution of Ocean
ography, La Jolla, Calif., told
the International Oceanogra
phic Congress meeting in New
There are 3,000 species of
lizzards in the world.
York of their findings in Heb
ron Fjord.
Below Freezing --
By fishing with hand lines
through holes in the ice in
six to 30 feet of water, they
caught large numbers of two
species of fish, the shorthorn
sculpin and the fjord . cod.
Both the temperature of the
fish and that of ; the water
were a few degrees Fahren
heit below freezing.
Once caught, the fish were
taken to a heated laboratory
where samples of drained
blood were centrifuged. Ser
um or plasma samples were
frozen and anlayzed at home
laboratories.
: These tests showed that the
amount 'of anti-freeze added
to the blood of shallow-water
fishes is variable. The extra
blood concentration does not
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