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#i%.w mmw - * '*& -* * I * : TKSrsday, Norember 18. l«tt f Ford's longer, lower body style and wrap-around windshield, available on all models, is shown above in the Fairlane four-door sedan. The '5? Fords are available with Y-Block V<8 or |-_Block Six power, and Fairlane models have dual exhaust as standard equipment. FORD INTRODUCES HEW LINE IN '55 PASSENGER CARS ** Ford introduced an ' entirely Slew line -- the high-stvled Fairlaife series -- as the leader of its .four lines of 1955 passenger cars iahown in 6400 dealers' showrooms ACTOSS the nation starting last ahriday. Modern.,, styling inspired by Ipord's new Thunderbird persona! car distinguishes the new Fords. Retaining definite characteristics hvhich have won Foid style "leadership, the 1955 Fords also have a wrap-around windshield a.nd a new, lower silhouette. The kjrown Victoria -- a new model -- is the first Ford sedan under fiye feet in over-all height. . .Ford, which offered^the first V-8 engine in the low price field tin 1932 and has built 14 million V-8s since, introduces for the first time three new engines: A high compression Y-block V-8 engine of 272 cubic inch displacement and an 8.5 to 1 compression ratio. A powerful Y-block V-8 engine of 272 cubic inch displacement ! and a 7.6 to 1 compression ratio. An improved 6 cylinder I-block engine of 223 cubic inch displacement and a^ 7.5 to 1 compression ratio. Dual exhausts, which provide extra power, are standard on all Fairline V-8 and station wagon models. Ford's new high compression engine available only with Fordomatic transmission in the Fairlane series, has a four-barrel carburetor with automatic choke and special intake manifold; special vacuum controlled distributor; high compression cylinder heads and high capacity radiator. Ford's popular V-8 and 6 cylinder engines • are available with any of the sixteen Ford models for 1955. The new Ford Fairlane series, named after the home of the late Henry Ford, includes a completely new styling idea -- the Crown Victoria model. This car has an arch of chrome over the top like a tiara. It also is available with a transparent plastic roof over the driver's compartment. Like all 1955 Fords, the Fairlane models have a new concave grill composed of a sturdy chrome-plated grid. Fairlane cars are immediately recognized by a chrome trimline which starts oil top of each front fender at the headlamp and follows the curvature of the fender downward -- then sweeps along the side to the tail lights. Hooded headlamps give the high front fenders a • forward thrust look while rear fenders form a reverse angle above larger tail lamps. All the J new Fords have a flatter hood and a longer rear deck. . New upholstery fabrics, many developed especially for the 1955 Fords, are available in a broad selection of colors and patterns. , Thirty-five textile mills were con- ! tacted in the development of special woven plastics, decorator ! fabrics and vinyls created ex- | clusively"for the new Fords. They i are matched with thirteen ex- ! terior colors in single tones and I also in a variety of new and ' unusual two-tone treatments on I the Fairlane series. TURNPIKE REPORT Gov. William G. Stratton has announced that the Illinois State Toll Highway commission will review final feasibility reports on the projected 465-mile turnpike system at an all-day meeting Monday, Nov. 29, at the executive mansion in Springfield. Th6 governor added that the commission expects to offer its selfliquidating revenue bonds for sale by Jan. 1 to finance exconstruction. More than 600 investment banking houses throughout the fcountry have applied for participation in marketing the bonds, and actual building of the turnpikes should start by mid-1955, the governor said. William Wood Prince, Chicago business executive, has been inducted as a new member of the toll road commission. He fills the vacancy created by the recent death of chauncey McCormick. The Navy governs 6,700 natives oi^ the Pacific Islands of Saipan and Tinian and maintains a leprosarium there. The USS Bainbridge was the Navy's first destroyer. WORWICK'S McHenry Camera Center ' Cameras Photographic Equipment Amateur and Professional Bought, Sold and Exchanged Pholo Supplies VIEW MASTERS and REELS ' See Us Before You Buy Worwick's Studio 117 N. Riverside Drive PHONE MCHENRY 275 ?r /»- jr;/ t T' • f applause by YARDLEY He'll welcome this duo of Yardley After Shaving Lotion and Invisible Talc, which mirrors your discriminating taste in choosing the best!... 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Seventy McHenry county farmers and their wives lyere among the 5,000 present as the statewide Farm Bureau and , its "affiliated companies presented a program that featured a talk by the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson. Adoption of resolution's today and the annual address by the popular IAA president, Charles B. Shuman, Wednesday afternoon, also attracted many farmers to the meeting from the county, Viigil Smith, secretary of organization for the McHenry county Farm Bureau, said. Playing prominent roles were Miss Marilyn Lindvall, Earl M. Hughes, George C. Minot, Miss Vera Dahlgren, Carol Lou Rattray and Carol Olson. Hughes, one of the country's leading economists and an outstanding farmer, resigned from his position as director for the first to eleventh districts, to devote more time to a part time position he has accepted with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. The Woodstock farmer has been one of the key leaders in the rise of the Illinois Farm Bureau to its present eminence as the largest state farm organization in the nation. Minot, Harvard vocational agriculture instructor, was one of the men honored for tv/enty-fjive years of service to Illinois agriculture. Service includes work in farm adviser, assistant farm adviser or vocational agriculture positions.' Vera Dahlgren of Woodstock represented the district in the rural youth meet. Miss Rattray* and Miss Olson were district winners in the talent contest and competed with other district winners from throughout ttoq • state. Greater emphasis was placed on marketing efficiency in the commodity conferences, Smith noted. The dairy conference Monday concentrated " on helping farmers do a better job of marketing their product, and the advent.of bulk tank pick-up and bulk tank storage were given as examples to show dairying is making progress. 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