Originally Published in The Longview Daily News on January 1, 1947 . The W. P. Hurst Motor Company, founded in 1931 by Walter P. Hurst, has kept pace with the growth of Longview by offering an ever increasing variety of machines and services to its customers in Longview and surrounding territory. This company is the dealership for the well known International and McCormick-Deering line which comprise trucks, farm tractors, farm machinery, dairy and refrigeration equipment. The line of Interantional trucks is complete from the 1/2-ton pick-up to the new West-Coast models of up to 90,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating. This new line of extra heavy-duty models was developed for on-and-off highway work in mountainous territory, and for heavy oil field service. Each truck model of this complete line is available in various wheelbases; a variety of gear ratios and such optional features as tire sizes, two-speed axles, increased cooling capacity, increased braking, power brakes...