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Show 4. 4 0 Sunday; December SUIIDAYUEHALD Most:Rddimiy;MwWaxi in Detroit NineYeManWl k - V i ... . This sleek convertible which' ftenerii Molon YfcePresldent. Harley J. Earl drives Is crowd-stopper wherever 11 roes. It look like the ear ef the future, but it's actually nine year old. Economy; CdnyeniWtend "Safety MbreT Important Than Revolutionary. Styling. . By S. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Correspondent DETROIT (NEAThe Sj& radically . new automobile " iay-man iay-man can find in this motoccapital the . one that brings whistles from the sidewalks 3 nine years old, and has put. more than' lC9t-r 000 on two speedometers.. There's nothing like it in the automobile world. Its chassis is essentially that of a '39 model Buick. It has an experimental Buick engine and a hand-tailored experimental convertible body. Though it has been driven over Detroit streets, and on both coasts, only recently a local newspaper editor rushed a photographer out when some tipster described it to him on the telephone. This mystery car is the per sonal- automobile of Harley J Earl. General Motors vice presi dent in charge of styling. Back in 1938 Earl had accumulated a lot of ideas about the car of. the future, fu-ture, too rad'cal to be tried on paying customers. So Le had this car built to see how' they were; He has been making changes ever since. The car is so low, over-all, that when Earl unfolds his . 76-inch height it lorks like a child's push-mobile push-mobile with a ten-year-old boy. It has so little clearance above the ground hat few drivers would take it off hard-paved roads. Yet the interior is so con structed that the six-foot Earl drives long distant - in . comfort The top disappears automati callyat the push of a button into a well behind the seat, whose trover open for the purpose and then closes behind it. By pushing buttons Earl can raise and lower the side windows, or - the radio antenna, or can make; the headlights head-lights Withdraw into . the fender and a disk cover their t jeaine The body has no relationship to tt ' bizarre shapes often prophesied. prophe-sied. More than anything else it resembles a doub -ended boat No reporter can get within two or three thick walls of any new models not ready for announcement. announce-ment. But from talks with -key men in the najor organizations, and comparison of Earl s car wjth the Buicks of 1938 and 1947; it is possible to get pme ideas worth betting on. Economy, comfort, convenience. and safety are the things to watch in new cars foe the next two or three years. There will be styling changes, but none so revolution ary as -the advertising will try to make you think. Manufacturers are ud a tree on : economy. They could eerily pro-4 viae a good, last, comfortable-car for less than they are . getting F-t every tune one tries to-save buyers money by leaving off some enrome and cutting out - power and speed that no one uses, the customers pass it up for the de luxe model. The cheaper car can't be sold in big enough numbers to get mass production economy Most makers are convinced that tney nave provided all the speed and acceleration that is safe -on present-day roads. Some fear they are giving too v much. From now on the manufactures who are established and not on the make will concentrate on making your car cneaper to operate, more convenient, more comfortable, and safer. : ' -- : . : Buick has announced Tl-fTiew war-develoned shiftlesi-transmi. ion. But Cadillac and Olds; Spurn w na suck ro nyaromauc. Pontlac will offer? hydromatic as an option. This leaves only Chev rolet, oi xae UM line, without clutchless transmission.' Ford has not yet found the automatic auto-matic transmission he wants, o the new Ford that will challenge Chevrolet's leadership next spring won't have this" Improvement. -As far as can be learned from Chrysler's grim-lipped pokf amen. nothing' 'revolutionary: is m the works there.; The ftewr safety rim', in, which you can blow a front tire at 70 miles an hour and keep cn rolling. is-the-' latest thing there,' aside front -an", improved brake. Both these Spell .safety--Chrysler's present watchword. . The whole trend Is. toward bodies bod-ies 'wide ' enough to- hold three comfortably .-in each 'seat. "Widfn- ing is restricted by a- few -million garage doors, many of-whica al ready are ' taking 1 a .licking with even the present. body widths. The trend also is toward moving mov-ing the back seat- in. front of the rear axle. This offers three bene fits: First, rear-seat drivers aren't jounced on the axle; second, space is provided to thicken' the 'now scanty upholstery on ' the ' rear seat1 and third this will permit a solid rear door from top to bot tom, without : ". that . troublesome cutout to fit over the rear fender, so that passengers can get in and out more 'easily and with' less menace to party clothes. Nash has introduced a. new type of body heating and ventilation, ventila-tion, and is proud of Its' overdrive. with an .automatic shift' to lower gear for passing .other cars. Hy- dromatic models , (GM) . have a similar feature. Hudson features the conven ience of a low hung body. Sluds-baker. Sluds-baker. is proud . of its unusual window-space and big car makers mak-ers are trying to cut down, too, on sight-obstructing posts and window frames. X..s' . A Clean Car For Someone 1940GHEVi SPECIAL DELU3CE;ir CLUB COUPE Radio and Heater ...-. -. - Clean Throughout WASDEN PICKING ON HIM NEW ORLEANS UJ9 C. E. Davidson reports that in nine months bis radio supply shop has been burglarized nine times at a loss of $3,000, chiefly in radio Push-button top pops up. Export of Wheat Set By Anderson SEATTLE, Dec. 13 (U.PJ Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson today said the United States can export 300,000,000 bushels of wheat to Europe next year without having to reduce its own normal -consumption. Anderson told a press conference confer-ence here that the 900.000.000 bushels of wheat which would be left over" after the huge foreign aid shipment "is more wheat than has ever been used in one year in this country under normal con sumer demands. SUSPECT RELEASED SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 13 01PJ Salt Lake City police have re leased Robert Herren, 40-year-old truck driver who last week asserted as-serted he killed a brother-in-law during a family fight in Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, O., in December, 1937. Detectives said that a check with Cincinnati officials failed to furnish any support to Herren's story.' sets. "The smash a new glass window win-dow as fast as I can put it in," he complained. Extra Funds i; Asked For 4 Four Protects WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 U.R) The budgetv bureau r today.- a;ked congress . for '$29,373,000 in extra funds for-this fiscal year .to tide over .four, major retdama.ion. pro,-jects. pro,-jects. . I -, v', .v.i'J.u,: The bureau asked for 1 1,725,-000 1,725,-000 for the Columbia Basin pro ject;: $10,700,000 for the Central Vauey project; $4,150,000. or' tne Colorado - .Big ' Thompson?: and $2,800,000 for the Davis , dam. . House ' appropriation 'subcom mittee- hearings-on.- the 'request were to start immediately. The- four projects lis'.ed by tee budset bureau are those On which Reclamation Commissioner; Michael Mich-ael Straus has said -rwork either had been halted or soon, would he for' lack of funds. ' . -'' In a Jetter fronr James 'Webb; budget bureau' director, to Presi dent. Truman recommending that he seek a supplemental appropriation, appropria-tion, Webb said the i added funds were needed to continue. , wofk on the projects this fiscal year, to award certain -additional gmall contracts on them,, and w insure the early installation 6f -three mere- turbines and. generating units at Grand Coulee-dam in the power-hungry Pacific northwest. Chairman Ben Jensen (It, Ia.l, of the house appropriation subcommittee sub-committee on interior, scheduled a hearing on the measure even though members will have budget bureau estimates only in wrat he described as "rough form." He said he hoped the measure could be enacted by a congress whose leadership plans to haye members out of Washington ana starting home by Dec. 19. "We will try to get a supple mental appropriation approved at this session," Jensen said. "At least, we will try to get some money for those projects on .which work already has been stopped and for those on which work will stop before we could do anything for them hext session." Those projects have been identified by Reclamation Com missioner Michael Straus as the Central Valley. Columbia Bssio, Davis dam and Colorado Big Thompson. Gl Students Seek Allowance Raises SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 1 30JJ!) Veterans groups at the state's three universities today were on record as favoring a nationally planned drive to convince con gress that former servicemen at tending college need increased subsistence allowances to meet rising, costs. A meeting was held recently of the student leaders of the Uni versity of Utah, Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College and Brigham Young university to discuss the subject. The results of the con ference were reported here last night by Blaine E. TwitcheU, university oi utan student body president. 4 BitjsKV.eFighter;XoKesP.ff From; Carrier "IT iFire Chief 'U- ListsYule Safety Rules S--1 ;'.- --- i i-", .... Q,i3AyM . - f 1;: :y ! tWaring th8rst,tirae that yrBritlsh; jet aircraft with tatt wheel-type tmdercarriage landed on1 a wp f tieck.'ft Nene fighter plane is pictured during tests in which it successfully took off and landed .ozt timt fromiHMS Illustrious, v Looking on are the plane's builders, military and naval ob-. ob-. V . 1 1 '- '-. 1 servers and members of the carrier's crew. TeleVisibHBIbTo'Rad CLEVELAND, Dec.". 13 (U.R) ..-i Television will have no, place for many established radio stars, Joseph Jo-seph ' Gerl, . president of Sonora Radio and. Television Corp said today. Speaking before the Kiwanis club here, .Gerl said that "radio stars who have ideas of continuing continu-ing their popularity in television may as well forget' It. With the exception of. singers and -'musi cians now on radio television demands de-mands fresh talent and new types of presentations. . . He said television requires a certain technique which most radio ra-dio stars are unfamiliar with. Four 1 simple ilire safety' rules can '. safeguard Provo homes from1 YuleUde . disaster, ..." Fire Chief' r "The' Christmas season : brings- special Jliazards,r iChjef Dickaon iempnasueo. . iuacn . year j.unris.wt mas trees start tires in thousands t of homes. Christmas lighting,- is4 responsible- for rmatty ' other' haz-:-aids and' blazes. Dwellings, stores; and; clubs, are all -:. menaced bjr flimsy decorations made ot Ham-si mame material.: : -, .. n Fire Chief Dickson offers four-r; suggestions Vto eliminata-or re duce seasonal.-:, hazards- - vMakst -sure the, tree is solidly placed, toj mvuiu upset, xweep ure iuna,i ui viu wiwi m laciwue tw: iur I resistance, inspect Christmas tree,, lights ' for frayed wires or -loosa. sockets. Bemember to put.ChrlsWr mas. tree lights out before going; w unit ; - - .- iris j- ' The; chief also reminded Iclubr managers and operatora-of public I Siaces to guara against jtu. ire A any , crowded . public, buildings, may lead, to panic, where, exits- are inadeauate to take care of toi l many people. in. a hurry.. Aisles and exits Should be kept unob--. structed. Fire Is an uninvited- 1 1. . A ' ' zone in New Orleans is the. only,, one in the Untied States where-private where-private businesses may operate their own activities. - . 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