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'Teen-Age Driver Education Program Called Best Remedy For Appalling Accident Toll By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 VP) Safety experts rate "teenage driver education as the No. 1 remedy for the nation's appalling toll of auto accidents some 32,000 persons killed and 1,200,000 Injured annually. Norman Damon, vice president of the Automotive Safety foun dation, regards the high school driver training program as "the most Important single hope for better driver performance." Damon says "there has been Fn" more postwar progress in school driver training than In any other field of traffic accident preven tion." ' Lou E. Holland, president of the American Automobile association, says "extension of driver train ing to every high school In Amer ica would go far toward solv ing the automobile safety prob lem." Holland cites a survey in Dela ware showing that untrained driv ers were Involved in about five times as many accidents as school-trained drivers. Some 400,000 students in 8,000 mblic high schools participated driver education during tne 1948-1949 school year, according to reports to the National Educa tion association. A number of parochial high schools also have driver instruction courses. Count Steadily Expands Driver instruction started in the public schools In the early 1930's and has been expanding steadily. However, it reaches only about 10 to 15 per cent of the boys and girls of an age for such training. There are about 26,000 high schools in this country. The num ber of high schools offering com plete driver education courses re cently ranged from 15 in Maine to 600 In Illinois. Practice auto mobiles used in high schools FOR UP-TO-DATE SYSTEMS Commercial Forms Columnar PadL File Folders Call D&L STATIONERS South Inf? Stephens ss3y throughout the country numbered more than 3,100, most of them lent to the schools by automo bile dealers. Systematic Instruction of young people is rated the most promis ing attack on the auto accident problem for two reasons: 1. The very large percentage of young drivers who are involved in fatal accidents. 2. Education of the annual crop of would-be auto operators pro mises widespread increase in ac cident avoidance In the years to come. What Statistics Show Accident reports from 28 states in 1948 showed that 31 per cent, or nearly one in every three, of the drivers involved in all fatal accidents were under. 25 years of age. One fourth of all auto injuries occur in the driver-age bracket 15 to 24 years. Educators recommended that the minimum total time for a complete program In driver edu cation should be from 45 to 60 hours. This would include a mini mum of 30 hours of classroom instruction and an average mini mum time of six hours per stud ent behind the wheel. Byron Price Declines State Department Post WASHINGTON. UP) By ron Price, assistant secretary general of the United Nations in charge of administration, has turned down an offer by Presi dent Truman to name him assist ant secretary of state for public affairs. On one or two previous occa sions Price had also been picked for this job, which includes direc tion of the Voice of America ra dio program and an influential role in determining State depart ment public relations policies. It was understood that the prin cipal if not the sole reason for Price's decision was that the State department job carries a lower salary. As one of the top officials in the United Nations he receives a gross annual income of $20,000, whereas an assistant secretary of State is paid $15,000. C. M. McDermotr DISTRIBUTOR FOR Tidewater Associated Oil Co. Phone 537 For Metered Deliveries of Associated Heating Oil hi V7 i mm 3W Vfl it V (NKA Telrphoto) RUSSIANS CONVICTED-Aecused of espionage, these Soviet cltlrens huddle together in the County CoTrt at Sarajevo YuSStarto. where the, were convicted and sentenced to prison at hard labor lor terms ranging from three to 30 years. The 10 defendant, (six shown : bove) immediately appealed. It waT the first time since the war that Russian dtlsen. hare been tried, convicted and sentenced la any ot the Eastern European countries. Easing Of Taxes On U.S. Foreign Business Hinted WASHINGTON, OP) The Truman administration wants to ease U. S. taxes on American business operations abroad to boost the President's program for encouraging foreign invest ment. The tip-off was given by the treasury's chief Counsel, Thomas J. Lynch, in a speech to Phila delphia members of the tax exe cutives institute. "The entire regime of taxing American business abroad should be reexamined with a view to wards eliminating any inequities which discriminate against fore ign investment, he said. Liberalizing these tax laws would be the next step in an al ready comprehensive adminis tration program aimed at helping foreign countries to increase their earnings of U.S. dollars so as to pay for their purchases in this country. One objective of the tax changes would be to spur Presi dent Truman's "point four" pro gram of private American flnan ial and technical aid to under developed nations. Lynch said the treasury, after "serious study," has come to the belief that "certain tax measures will assist these efforts to en courage private investment abroad." He listed these specific chang es in the tax law which the treasury presumably will propose to Congress next year: 1. ExemDtlne from U. S. tax all Income earned by an Ameri can aoroaa irom tne day he es tablished foreign residence. Pre sent law requires him to leave this country before Jan. 1 to get an exemption for his first year abroad. 2. Delay imposing V. S. taxes on "foreign income of branches of domestic corporations until it (the income) is returned to the United States." The purpose would be to encourage American firms to reinvest their foreign earnings abroad. 3. Let corporations take into account the "overall result of foreign operations" in figuring credits against U.S. taxes for the foreign taxes they pay. Now, loss es Incurred In one country te duce the credit for foreign taxes Beat Old Man Winter to the punch this year! ORDER YOUR ASSOCIATED HEATING OIL WOW D o I M 'I Jl - Jt SUV r t m . i ' I ii i ir ... .1 I. . ,.i . w . . Don't put of! ordering your Associated Heating Oil supply and risk even one day's discomfort when "Old Man Winter" ar rives. Make sure of your supply right now and enjoy indoor winter comfort from the start of cold weather. Associated Heating Oils in any grade are blended and refined for cleaner burning, maximum heat output and greater econo my. Call your local Associated distributor or your nearest Tide Water Associated office for immtdiatt service. Remember, Associated Heating Oil means efficiency, comfort, economy. A$$o I SIB I paid on profitable operations in another country. 4. Ease the requirement that domestic corporations must own more than a majority of the vot ing stock of foreign subsidiaries before being allowed a credit for "foreign taxes imposed on their profits when received as dividends." Prince Charles Recovers From Acute Tonsilitis LONDON. (JP) Bucking ham palace disclosed that Prince Charles is recovering from acute tonsilitis. A palace statement said his temperature is now normal and no complications are expected. Three doctors have at (ended the year-old son of Princess Eliza beth for the last several days. His mother, who Is visiting her husband, Prince Philip, in Malta, has been kept advised of her son's progress. Queen Elizabeth has visited her grandson several times at Clar ence House, the home of the princess, during his illness. Prince Charles, who is next In line to his mother for Ihe throne of England, was one year old on Nov. 14. This is his first reported illness. Oily Nose Drops Can Cause Fatal Disease Of Lung WASHINGTON UP) Long lime users of oily nose drops and sprays and mineral oil laxatives are running the risk of a some times fatal disease, the Ameri can Medical association has been told. Dr. Theodore Winshlp of Washington said the oily medi cines are not poisonous in them selves but they can get Into the windpipe and be passed into the lungs. This, he said, can result in the formation of a hardened, sinewy tissue in the lungs a condition known medically as "lipid pneu monia." . ' In severe cases, Winshlp said, death results from asphyxiation. Delegates to the association's meeting heard from Winship after a history-making session, highlighted by the establishment of compulsory membership dues Wed., Dee. 14, 1949 The Newi-Revlew, Roieburg, Ore. 3 to establish a fund for the AMA'j campaign against "socialized medicine" and other activities. The $25 dues are expected to bring in $3,050,000 a year. With legislative issues out of the way, the delegates turned to strictly scientific matters. Win shlp reported on studies he and associates have made at Wash ington's Garfield hospital. "Lipid pneumonia has been found most commonly in those who have used nose drops or spray over a long period of time and also in those who have taken mineral oil for constipation re peatedly," he said. "The third most common cause of this disease is forced feeding of infants." He said forced-feeding may cause the Infant to vomit, thus pushing certain material in the food into the lungs, 'The most dangerous element in this material," he said, "is either one of the fish oils or but terfat from milk. Even small amounts of either of these oils cause a violent tissue reaction in the lungs. "When the oil is repeatedly in troduced into the lungs, death usually results." Forest fires each year destroy enough pulp size tree to pro duce 3,250,000 tons of newsprint enough to supply every news paper In the U.S. for one year. New Location Dr. George L. Nicholas ; Veterinarian (' C.aduate of University of Pennsylvania Is now located at ;' 804 Garden Valley Road Treatment of all domestic animals. Emergency hospital for small animals. Phone 116 While-U-Wait Service We Use the Best- Biltrite Soles and Heels. There's a sole and heel to fit your particular occupation. 340 N. Jackson Street Roseburg Phone 425-R i." 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