The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951 Page: 22 of 48
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6.6 MILLION CARS, TRUCKS i
In Spite of Restrictions, Auto
Industry Exceeds Expectations
19«9 by shout 350 thousand ve-
hicles. The record is 7,916,000 ve-
hicles built in 1950
By DAVID J WILKIE
Associated Press
Automotive Editor
able to get the fifth tire separately,
at a higher price and the ban was
lifted soon after it got into congres-
DETROIT — Surrounded by the
toughest restrictions since World
War H the nation’s auto industry
exceeded aU its engineering, pro-
duction and merchandising expec-
tations in 1951.
SALES CLIMB
SA ■ THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
10-6 Abilene Texas, Monday Evening, Dee. 24, 1951
THE ROAD RUNNER
By HAMILTON WRIGHT
Engineering - wise the year in-
troduced power steering end
brought improved engines snd
braking systems and more and
better automatic transmissions.
When final production figures
are tabulated — probably in Feb-
ruary — it will be shown 1951 fac-
tory output came close to 6,000,000
ears end trucks. That makes the
year second largest for production
hi the industry's history. It tops
That the merchandising division
also had its second best year is
indicated in the fset field stocks
of unsold new vehicles were at
their lowest level in three years.
The year brought a modest eas-
ing of credit restrictions, allow-
ing installment buyers U instead
of 15 months to complete pay-
ments But it also brought sever-
al price increases, so that in many
instances monthly payments went
up instead of down.
There was also a highly unpopu-
lar and short - lived ban on the
delivery of spare tires with new
cars. But every ear buyer was
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sional discussion.
There were restrictions on how
much material of virtually every
kind the car industry may use.
limitations on the number of auto-
matie transmissions it could build.
The major control, of course, was
that fixing production quotas for
each car maker
Ahead of the. Industry lies an-
other year of uncertainty The auto
makers come to the year end with
defense orders on their books, but
only a very small part of them
actually at the delivery stage. An-
other year probably will elapse
before arms output by the auto
companies resebes a substantial
volume.
ENGINEERING -BANS
For the industry engineers the
year ahead probably will be one
of postponement. Government con-
trols will require deferment of
several new engine introductions
of the V - 8 type and of higher
compression ratios. Hitting these
projects is the Istest National
Production Authority order ban-
ning delivery of new machine tools
sfter Feb. 1.
The ban, however, will not af-
fect production of current models,
which msy have to be continued
into 1953.
The auto makers expect to build
f million passenger cars and about
a million trucks In 1952. But they
probably will hsve to scratch hard-
er than ever for the needed ma-
teriala.
Some economists have said that
total will meet market require-
manta next year. Industry sales
chiefs say the passenger car vol-
ume will be at least a million
unite short and that a scarcity of
new ears will appear before mid-
Court Cases, Marriage Business
Keep Snyder Justice Davidson Busy
up, especially infraction” of the
driving drunk law.
“That Big Spring highway was
known to us officers when Big
Spring was formerly wet as the
farm-to-beer highway’ “, Merritt
said.
County Judge Edgar Taylor was
opposed to the issuance of 9150.000
in county warranto for construction
of a new jail. He says Scurry coun-
ty voters several months ago voted
down a bond issue for a new jail.
Taylor has advocated construction
of another story to the present
court house for the Jall. However,
one of the largest in West Texas,
Judge Taylor said.
The county puts up $300,000 and
jail should be in the court house
er not farther than across the
tuedl from ShLonen to and from D. H Cogden $100,000. Cogdell has
the court room. ’Much manpower agreed to pay one-half of all the
is now wasted by having to “oath charity ease expenses of the insti-
er prisoners, he told The Road tution, Taylor said.
The D. M. cogdell Memorial' The plans for the hospital have
Hospital which Scurry County with been sent to Austin for federal
Federal aid will construct will he approval- .
year.
HOPES FOR 1952
One of the big hopes of the In-
dustry’s engineering division at the
start of 1952 will be that it will
be able to find a satisfactory sub-
stitute foe copper used in radia-
tors and ignition systems.
There is no prospect for more
copper for the car makers and
there is little chance of increased
vehicle output until they have
found some new metal or alloy to
do what copper alone-has done
heretofore in motor vehicle opera-
tion
SNYDER, Dec 24. - A couple
stepped into Justice of the Peace
W. C. Davidson's office on the
second floor of the Scurry County
court house to get -hitched up
The Road Runner asked the
judge: "How many have you mar-
ried since you became JP in
1945?"
"Just 214!” he replied.
Since the oil boom the JP said
business had been really brisk in
the marriage lines. However, he
said the new Texas physical exa-
mination requirements have sent
msny couples, unwilling to wait a
week, scurrying over into New
Mexico.
He thinks there ought to be a
law of uniformity in the states.
Judge Davidson has really kept
busy since the boom. And while
the rough element that gets fined
in his court is dwindling as oil-
field development is reduced, he
informed The Road Runner that in
November he accepted fines from
forty defendants, mostly for speed-
ing snd drunkenness. Esch fine
averages shout 914
Recently he lined a Negro boot-
legger $63, with costs, for speed-
ing The* Negro ran a road block
set by the State Highway Patrol on
the Big Spring road west of Sny-
der. When signaled to stop, he
slowed down almost to a stop, then
gave his car a spurt of gas and
swept up the road, with the patrol-
man in pursuit But the patrol
brought him to a halt and found
that the cause of his fright was
msny cases of beer concealed in
hie csr.
"Red” Green snd Bill Zimmer-
man sre the Stste Highway Patrol-
men stationed here, working out
of the Abilene District Headquart-
ers. Green Was formerly stationed
at Stamford. Green says the
" hottest road" to patrol out of
Snyder is the one leading toward
Lubbock.
Sheriff IJoyd Merritt says boot-
legging is slackening off in the
Snyder srea. Imposition of heavy
he foresees the construction of s
new modern court house in the
next few years and is sure that
the jail should be oo the top floor
. . The present inadequate and un-
The officer says now that Big safe jail is about two blocks away.
Spring has voted whisky and beer It has been condemned by several
back he expects business to pick grand juries. Taylor believes the
fines and sentences to jail terms
seem to have been very effective.
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