28, 1947 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE '48 PRICES DOWN: New Packards On Line Without Production Delay DROUGHT-STRICKEN CONTINENT: European Governments Face Winter Privation DETROIT, Sept. 27 -{A) - Packard Motor Co. announced to- day that along with the best out- put month of the year to date it had put its 1948 model line into production without a single day's stoppage of assembly lines. George T. Christopher, Packard president, described the accom- plishment as "without precedent in the industry," and disclosed that the 1948 line will consist mainly of three all-new eight cyl- inder vehicles. They will include 17 different body types, .with new "free flow" styling, four different chassis and three new straight- eight engines developing 130, 145 and 160 horsepower. Discontinued are the "one twenty" model and most of the six cylinder units. Christopher said production of some sixes would continue, mainly f o r taxicabs and for export. Prices for some of the new mod- els, Christopher said, are lower than those of comparable 1947 types. He said the new 1948 super- eight club sedan is priced at $2,665 delivered in Detroit, state taxes extra, compared with $2,747 for the 1947 similar model. The 1948 super-eight touring sedan is $2,- Vet's Checks At Post Office Checks are being held at the Ann Arbor Post Office for the fol- lowing veterans: Barrett, John W.; Barrett, Wil- liam; Jr.; Bumns, James M.; Day- idson, Wilbur S.; Garziere, Ernest H.; Gryting, Loyal A.; Hooper, George D.; Hoyt, Marian L.; Jac- obs, Manuel; Jarvis, Willis A.; Johnson, Edmund C.; Lamb, John T.; Langschwager, Fred P.; Mar- tin, William C.; Newcomb, Wil- liam W. Jr.; Ross, Dorothy N.; Smith, Dane E.; Seymour, George D.; Steel, Archie; Ufford, Wil- liam; Yaker, Charles; Zucker. The checks listed above should be picked up early tomorrow or they will be returned to Colum- b,0. Veterans should pick up the checks listed below by Monday, Sept. 30. Aliber, James A.; Bisdee, Charles H.; Bourgeois, David J.; Dorsett, Robert E.; Folkert, Mel- vin B.; Hatch, Philip N.; Jenison, Dantell A.; Landstra, Robert F.; Mitchill, Patrick J.; McCormick, George N.; Husk, Noyes G. 'Jr.; Peller, James S.; Standen, Benja- min J.; Sullivan, Roger D. (2); Van Hock, Donald E.; Worobec, Russell N.; Yates, Warren G. 690 compared with $2,772 for the like 1947 vehicle. Some prices remain unchanged. he added, while others are in- creased somewhat, particularly those which did not figure in the last announced increases. Probably the most startling change in the new Packard is the "free flow" styling, in which the lines run straight from front to rear, with no bumps or pro- trusions of any kind. None of the new models has rear fend- ers, the bodies extending over the wheels. Christopher said the new mod- els, representing "the most dras- tic change since the 'one twenty' was brought out in 1935," origin- ally were planned for introduction in 1946, but were delayed a year "because of market conditions". Not yet ready for introduction, the Packard president and gener- al manager said, was a new auto- matic transmission the company has developed. "We know what we want to make and the job now is to process it," he said. He said he believed "it might be quite a while" before automatic trans- missions are generally available. Christopher said Packard re- tailers have more than 100,000 signed orders on hand and that the number would be higher if the dealers "went after orders." He reiterated that Packard should produce 25,000 units from Sept. 1 to the end of the year and that its operators for the last half of the year should show a profit in contrast to the first six months during which it reported a loss. Packard's new line consists of eights, super-eights and custom eights and the change-over, ac- cording to Christopher, represents the "final fruits of the $20,000,- 000 program Packard studied at the end of World War IL" The new Packards, along with prices, (delivered in Detroit, state taxes extra) are: . Eights, (130 horsepower, 120- inch wheelbase) club sedan, $2,- 125 (previously $2,124); touring sedan $2,150, (previously $2,149); station sedan $3,350'; de luxe club sedan $2,350; de luxe touring se- dan $2,375. Theremwere no com- parable previous models for the latter three. Super-eights (145 'horsepower, 120-inch wheelbase) - club sedan $2,665 (previously $2,- 747); touring sedan $2,690 (pre- viously $2,772); convertible $3,- 175 (unchanged). (145 horsepow- er, 141-inch wheelbase) -seven- passenger sedan, $3,300; seven- passenger limousine $3,450; de luxe seven passenger sedan $3,650; de luxe seven-passenger limousine $3,800. There were no compar- able models for the 141-inch line. By ALVIN J. STEINKOPF LONDON, Sept. 26-(P)-The governments and peoples of most of Europe look forward to a win- ter which will bring hunger and privation to millions, an Associ- ated Press survey indicated today. As the drought-stricken conti- nent gathers in the last of its har- vcsts-officially estimated to be subnormal in most cases-state- ments from many quarters stress the need for help from abroad. America is on almost everyone's tongue. It is emphasized that the need is likely to increase when snow begins to fall. The AP's continent-wide survey indicated that shortages are expected to be most acute in 16 Western European States banded together in the Marshall Plan for economic recovery. Some of these countries re- ported small surpluses of some kinds of food which might help their neighbors through the cold months ahead, but in general they appeared to be the least able to help each other. AgriculturalrMinisters in many countries were saying that pros- pects were either just "fair" or positively discouraging, and in some regions there were predic- tions that millions will be fed as poorly next winter as they were in the most unsettled years of the war. In mid-September, with the sun still shining and the gar- dens still yielding produce, sev- eral countries were announcing substantial reductions in food rations. Many careful observ- ers said such cuts were merely a beginning of what is in store for Europe. Food is only a part of the dreary prospect. Millions will be cold because of the fuel shortage. In many parts of Germany there will be no fuel for homes except such wood as householders are able to gather from forests and trash heaps. In Sweden governmental agen- cies were able to make a precise calculation-living rooms may be heated to 6 degrees Fahrenheit if the winter is mild, 50 decrees if it is severe. In Czechoslovakia, a house- holder will be permitted to heat two rooms, and other countries were prescribing similar restric- tions. Privations due to cold and hun- ger are linked with growing con- cern over the continent's health, and country after country re- ported an increase in diseases as- sociated with malnutrition and bad housing. Typhus, health authorities' said, is sure to be a middle Eu- ropean problem next winter, infantile paralysis is alarming but apparently is being brought under control. But that could not be said of tuberculosis, which in Austria is being called the "Vienna disease" because of its prevalence in the nation's capital. Most of all, the nations are con- cerned about food. Several which have been comparatively well off -Czechoslavakia, Holland, Spain and Britain, which is pinched not only by skimpy harvests but by an economic crisis as well-are f _, reducing the rations allowed to their populations. In virtually every country the level of nutri- tion is sinking. A few countries of Eastern Eu-M rope reported they are actually a little better off than they were a year ago. Russia is supplying some grain to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other eastern lands and is offer- ing some, in exchange for other food products, to Denmark and Norway. TYPEWRITERS Office and Portable Models of all makes Bought, Rented, Repaired, STATIONERY & SUPPLIES 0. D. MORIILL 314 South State St. G. I. Requisitions Accepted M'aiistream' Offers Prizes A series of annual literary awards, offering this year four award of $150 each, was announ- ced by the editors of "Main- stream," literary quarterly. Of the four awards, two will be given for the best unpublished short story and poem or group of poems submitted by students in American colleges and universi- ties. The other two awards will go to the best story and poem sub- mitted by trade union members. MESSERSMITH TESTIFIES- George S. 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