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Dodge Four-Door Lancer for 1957
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EXTENSIV E STYLING CHANGES from front to rear give
the 1957 Dodge the distinction of having more outstanding
improvements than any new model in the company’s his
tory. In the Custom Iioyal four-door Lancer hardtop shown
above, the striking rear fenders accent the styling theme
for the 1957 Swept-wing Dodge. Duo-level front bumpers
afford complete protection and also serve as a grille. Over
all height of the Dodge Lancer hardtop has been reduced as
much as five inches. Glass area of the new hardtop model
is 53 per cent greater than last year.
Suzanne Is Queen
Of Youth Center
Benefit Dance
Suzanne Fagerstrom was
crowned queen at the Youth
Benefit Dance Thursday evening
with ^ total of 74,600 votes, and
she chose Vernon Carlson for her
“king.”
Runner-up was Mary Jo Swan
berg with 64,700 votes.
The queen was dressed in a
white formal and she and her
king were crowned with lovely
blue and silver crowns.
All seven contestants were pre
sented with costume accessories.
The presentation was made by
Larry Galvin.
Music was furnished toy local
musicians including Rudy Wil
liams and Tommy Tremaine of
the Breakers, Louis Green of
AFRS, “Rich" Richardson, Carl
Ahwinona, and Chet Kirt, all of
whom shared in making it a good
dance.
The TV set which was given
away at midnight was presented
to Willie Brown, owner of The
Theater.
As The Theater had offered
free passes for a month to the
recipient of the TV set, if given
to someone who had supported
Gay Weyer, the Theater’s entrant,
the Browns are instead giving a j
month’s passes to the seven queen |
contestants and their would - be !
kings. They are also being given
passes to the two shows this
weekend: “Green Fire” and
“There's No Business Like Show
Business."
The Youth Center Committee
express appreciation to the com
munity for the support given as
well as to the many sponsors who
contributed so generously to maka
the benefit a complete success.
Total receipts will be an
nounced on Monday.
MARTIN AND LEWIS WILL
HAVE SEPARATE SHOWS
NEW YORK, UPI—NBC-TV Has
announced Dean Martin and Jerry
Lewis will have their own sep
arate shows on the network this
season and for the next four years.
The comedy team broke up re
cently and the two said they
would go their separate profes
sional ways.
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Volkswagen Continues to Have
Startling Success on World Market
By MARY HORNADAY
Staff Correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
WOLFSBURG, German y—
Volkswagen, the snub-nosed little
auto on which Hitler spent $10,
000,000 to develop for the German
people, continues to have startling
success in the world’s export
market.
Many have referred to the
worldwide popularity of Volks
wagen as a “craze,” but company
officials say that if its popularity
were unsteady it would be found
in big numbers on used-car lots."
Actually, Volkswagens command,
at least on the American second
hand market, a proportionately
higher price than any other make.
Six Months' Wail
It is still necessary to wait
about six months for delivery of
a new Volkswagen in the United
States and twice that long in
Hamburg, Germany.
Due to its aircooled engine that
will neither boil nor freeze, it is
equally at home in the steaming
jungles of South America and in
the intensely cold winters of Can
ada.
The neat little Volkswagen
trucks are now becoming a famil
iar sight in the U.S. The trucks, in
six models, are coming off the as
sembly lines at the rate of 250 a
day. German thoroness does not
Senate Committee Enroute
To Hawaii To Conduct
Communist Investigation
WASHINGTON, Wl—Sens. Olin
D. Johnston (D-SC> and Butler
<R-Md> left Tuesday for San
Francisco, enroute to Honolulu,
where they will take part in a
Senate investigation of Commun
ism in Hawaii.
Harry Bridges, West Coast
labor loader, has threatened to
call members of his International
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse
men’s Union HLWU) off their
jobs for mass demonstrations in
Honolulu against the inquiry.
Johnston and Butler, members
of the Senate Internal Security
subcommittee, planned to sail Fri
day from San Francisco aboard
the naval transport Morton for
Honolulu with Sens. Welker iR
Idaho) and Watkins (R-Utah) to
conduct the hearings.
The inquiry is scheduled tenta
tively to start Nov. 30, with sub
committee chairman Eastland (D
Miss) expected to fly directly to
Honolulu to conduct preliminary
closed door hearings earlier next
week.
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allow a Volkswagen to leave the
assembly line without careful in
spection and even cleaning and
polishing. A half-hour trial run
for each motor obviates the neces
sity of breaking in below the nor
mal 68 miles an hour cruising
speed.
What Do They Do?
A staff of 800 is continually
working on styling here at Wolfs
burg, but since the style of lhe
Volkswagen has not changed rad
ically since it was first designed
by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche prior
to World War II their colleagues
comment: “We often wonder what
they do.”
Hitler dreamed of a Volkswag
en for about 1,000 marks, or $250,
designed primarily “for the ordi
nary, hard-working citizen still
unable to afford a car.” Herr Dr.
Heintz Nordhoff, Volkswagen’s
general manager, hit on a price
about four times that, thus giving
himself financial leeway for
worldwide expansion.
Recently Volkswagen has in
troduced the Karmann, a new
luxury coupe that sells for $900
more than the “people’s car.” The
coupe, introduced for the first
time at the 1955 German automo
bile show, was so popular that ar
rangements were made at once to
double the anticipated maximum
output at the factory.
Factory Without Owner
Strange as it may seem, Volks
wagen is a factory without an
owner or shareholders. Tho the
West German government is the
trustee of the plant here, its nom
inal owner is still the Nazi Labor
Front, which before the war col
lected more than $70,000,000 in
worker savings on the strength of
Hitler’s unfulfilled promi. e to
produce a people’s car “costing no
more than a better-quality motor
cycle.” Recently new legal diffi
culties have developed in getting
Volkswagen’s status settled be
cause of Nazi fortunes involved in
the former Labor Front.
After this is settled in the West
German courts this month, ihe
Bonn government will be free to
decide whether to nationalize
Volkswagen or turn it into an or
dinary company.
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