'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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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