Show : 4A THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- R OGDEN UTAH SUNDAY MORNING 1 AUGUST 14 1955 tt— — —:—u i— - - - i OPINIONS DIFFER V f ' y offthe i -' - Revive SfrudebaCier I £ J By DAVID J WILLKIE DETROIT (AP) — Rejuvena tion of Studebaker century-ol- d vehicle manufacturer is the No job right now of James Nance president of Studebakei Packard Corp Nance has just pulled Packard out of the red— a job that took three years The Studebaker program should be accomplished in much less time he says "because Studebaker has better facilities - ' I X : h 7 t f wine barrel g and many American Indians' are having a field day with the foeefrbmf which they were barred " - V for generations y'?y The" resulting 'conditions range from ''disgraceful" to "far better than before" depending on whos talking experi-mentin- It was bell during bootlegging days and it's hell now" That re- Gallup is by far the biggest place mark by "a Gallup merchant sums of celebration The Navahos alup fairly well the Jeelings " of so spend freely for liquor at many in the Indiah country Grants and Cuba Members 'of America's largest Shiprock Mexico and New in Farmington Indian nation— the Navaho— are at some of the fringe towns in finding' out through trial and er- Arizona ror about legal drinking! ' The tepdency among people in NO SINGLE OPINION ) the Gallup area is to attribute Just as there is no single uni the unsavory conditions to 60 or versally-hel- d opinion about the 70habitualj drunkards t Navaho drinking situation there " ' MORE WIDESPREAD? is no single clearcut factual" picelsewhere on the ture It's not all black' nor all Many persons on the other hand reservation white Nor is 'it even gray Rathat scoff this figure They say ex er— a survey of conditions indicessive drinking is much more white cates —it's black here there and something else over widespread among the Navahos " r a -- t ' - than that there Ficures given on one bar — looks like after Here is what it well over 1000 miles of travel serving Navahos almost exclu tend over parts of the reservation and sively — by one man would wideof its environs and talks with to support the theory scores of people — Indian and spread drinking He said the bar has been selling 200 cases of on and around wine per week and making a 1 Navahos are unquestionably profit off Indians of $1800 to $2000 a week drinking in much Those who deplore conditions than they ever did during the the majority of Navahos are say bootlegging days 2 Some Navahos are drinking overdrinking Those on the other themselves to ruin and death side say the drinking is in the how many are doing this is per- open nowj instead of concealed haps the most controversial ques- and shows up more because Jt is tion around the reservation to- concentrated in the towns Everyone does agree thesitua day tion could: stand some I non-Indian- 'HOY PIGf Nav-aholan- d: — larger-number- well-informe- well-informe- AU-Bree- english 'flying mattress' has Inflatable wings1 lands on dime j s : p d - j d x ''LONDON (UP)— Britain today followed up its invention of 'the "flying bedstead' with the "flying mattress"—a plane r with inflatable wings you can blow up at the corner filling :' station v 'The 'flying bedstead was a platform that went straight up'' Its development is still top secret There's nothing secret about the flying mattress It was developed by aprivae firm which hopes to put it on the market for less than $3000 : The British Ministry of Supply was so impressed it or-dered six of the machines for testing and hinted it may be-- : come the British Army'is flying motorcycle Garage space is no problem Just let the air out of the wide delta wing fold it up and shoot it into the jet-power- ' ! i 40-fo-ot fuselage Fuel is no problem The flying mattress gets 20 or 30 miles to the gallon while along at a top speed of 45 miles an hour It can stay airborne at only 25 mph Landing space is no problem either It can take off in 50 yards and land on a dime The fuselage with canvas deck chairs for two locks like an entry in" the soap box derby- The wing looks like a barrage balloon and the yhole thing looks like a cross between a dirigible and a flivver plane putt-puttin-g ve says are going come more competitive "We have gone a long way toward regaining for Packard some of the prestige market it former ly dominated" he points out "We now are going after more of the market that historically belonged to Studebaker" INTENSIVE EFFORT Nance declines to discuss continuing gossip in financial circles that a merger of Studebakerpetitive" Part of the forward planning Packard and American Motors may be in the for Studebaker contemplates an But he hints that of atrongly dealer the offing orgam expansion ' a lot of intensive effort is being zation Studebaker he insists "is essential to the over-al- l program of the corporation It enables Studebaker-Packar- d to offer a Nance contends that production costs and overhead were "out of proportion with those of our competitors" when the Stude merger was ef months fected eight ago He ex plains: MORE COMPETITIVE "One of the first things I did was to cut prices on Studebaker cars to make them more com SYOILIL ©MS HURRY r n n rin (Nash-Hudso- ume resulted from its higher price schedules These n turn it from the fact said" resulted Studebaker's ' production costs were greater' than those of its Fr " PATIOS lAaaicuir : A4 mmmy f mm4 t Asks Potato Pact i Otkr CrnmtrH fitf s 3019 WasMnston Phemi 6914 UPHOLSTERING CO mm SANITONE DRY CLEANERS' NATIONAL CONTEST! 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FT ALL WOOL DROADLOOM WILTON WEAVE "BROSETTE" Delgo Loop Pilo NO PAKKINO PROBIIM - ' i 1 10 WIST RATIS j : competitors KB NO MIMSIRSMIP baker-Packar- d pay Management has said much of the loss of Studebaker sales vol- - IFIL©R Dolgo and income-producin- ful DT'S 12 PIG' RE : improving Some of their proposed-remedieinclude: 1 Provide a temporary detent tion place — really a sobering-uspot — in which to keep drunk In dians until they are in shape to leave They would not face the courts or possible : fines ' as they do when put injjail t 2 Send the worst offenders to a workcamp where they would spend 60 days or so doing noth ing but breaking up rocks 4 Remove the ban which even now prohibits bringing of liquor onto the Navaho Reservation There are some too who advocate clamping prohibition back on the Indians They maintain that an Indian is constitutionally incapable of taking alcohol the same way a white man does! Few people feel an attempt in this direction would be success- PIG-HE- President Eisenhower's new b6ar"pig pays no attention to calls from the! hoi of "hoy pig pig—come here pig" at the PresiPa Ike received the pig Tuesday dent's farm at Gettysburg ' d Swine Assn of Glenwood Minn Glenwood from the s OFFICIALS DISAGREE 3 As has always been the case with anything concerning the Navahos the authorities don't agree Some persons feel the events following lifting of the ban on liquor to Indians are running expected paths The Indians are perhaps floundering a bit until they learn how to handle liquor these people believe but they will gradually do so and no great harm will have been done in the meantime ' Other persons see the families which alcohol is tearing apart They see a nation of naive unschooled people suddenly wading kneedeep in cheap rotgut and foresee an entire generation demoralized and betrayed by something they have never been prepared to handle The Front Street section of m " -- d M for production 7 But he say s Studebaker needs a lot 01 tnings and he Has a three-poiprogram in mind Chief item is a reduction of over head and expense Another is the installation of what Nance calls "Fair production standards in all production departments to get costs in line with those of competitors" A third item is the of Studebaker as a volume producer in thelower price field now dominated by Chevrolet Ford and Plymouth This 'Nance says will come with the realira-tio- n of the first two points of the program LAYINC OFF 1700 Introduction "of the first two phases of the program resulted in the laying off of 1700 hourly rated j Studebaker workers This reduced the 'work force" to approximately 9000 compared with 11000 a year ago It also brought t renewal of worker unrest at Studebaker This flared up ta year ago when Studebaker employes after first turning down the proposal reluctantly' agreed to take a wage cut of 14 per cent by switching from an incentive or piece work pay system to straight hourly non-producti- so-calle- old-lin- nt ': l- Nance Has Mow task: 'J Bad voir Iradiamis? APJ—The lid's " r- J' (Good GALLUP N M - full line of cars from the low planned to Improve Stnfis'nslcet to the top price models In addi Packard's place in the auto In' tion Studebaker gives the cor- dustry' : "You' know he say poration a widely known truck you don't have to hafe 10 per cent oi : line in various models" Nance makes no ' attempt to this market to make a living in hide the that many difficul the automotive industry (Thai Studebaker - Packard ' manage- ties ' were4ct encountered in build was the "historic" percentage oi ment points out that high bracket ing up the fortunes of two e the "indeoendent executives also took salary: cut companies in the eieht panies under governmental pro and that the size of the manage- months that have passed since auction controls) i "You can live on four or flvi ment group at South Bend now is the merger- smaller by 400 persons than it w One of the first big obstacles per cent with a nrooer considera to his work at Packird came tion for overhead costs was six months ago Official registration firnre was a little more than three when the Briggs Manufacturing It Co sold auto its Studebaker and Packard a division came gave to that Nance body years ago Packard from Hotpoint Inc an to Chrysler Briggs had' been combined total of Z43 per cent affiliate of General Electric Co making Packard as well as Chrys ox auto retail sales in 1954 Nance V says: "It isn't too much to exspecializing in nousenoid ap ler bodies their combined share to be He has pect Packard says SHORT-TERpliances AGREEMENT between lour and five per cent" been making money since last Chrysler carried out the Brifias March' Its current production with Packard but body rate is at an annual level of u wascontract snort-tera SAVE noriEY agreement 100000 ears Packard to had build own its Nance points out that none of plant It also completed a g the operations body new engine plant at Packard or Studebaker is asAUTO INSURANCE There have been numerous sociated with defense jvork But he makes no secret of the fact other problems including a re personStudebaker-Packar- d wants such alignment of executive v work Both companies he say nel both in Packard and Studeare in ideal position to hanole baker I Probably there will be many other changes along this defense business Says he: ' v V lint "We can do at Studebaker ex- i Nevertheless Nance after three actly what we did at Packard if in one of the toughest jobs years cowe can get the same labor he ever has tackled is op operation we have had at Pack timistic Both Packard still and Stude ard to be baker he 1 ex sw1 cM :VJa!l Avcnu3 ft ' ' - V t ¥ DRV and GtDAHCCl — ) 3 rnc— BIn1 11 23-2- C31 ! 14 UJ Hi U ' oPutJ 7 3-70- 12 Sv - ps: An to 7 pr: " |