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FORCING DRIVER By George Early this year, the Oregon Hii?hway Lifesavera' chap ters for Roseburf? and Douglas i omuy came up wn mi idea c.illinsr for driver tests Kifionia lipfnro thpv ran tret prone and bad attitude drivers ways. One of the drawbacks to such a program is the tre mendous cost. However, the Traffic Safety Division of the Department of Motor Vehicles has operating now a pro gram with the same general aim on a scale of less im posing proportions. It is the almost-unheralded Driver Improvement Pro gram. It is designed to show that a license to drive is not a right but a privilege. This privilege can be withdrawn in the interests of safety. People became acquainted with DIP in this way: They are introduced to it by a warning letter from the depart ment pointing out that their driving records indicate they have become accident or violation repeaters. If the letter does not convince them, they are called in for personal meetings with one of the department's traveling driver improvement analysts, Laurence A. Wiley or Raymond A. Clark. Suspension Posible If the drivers fail to improve their records after inter views, licenses are suspended, generally from 30 to GO days. So far this year, 12 Douglas County drivers have had their licenses suspended under this "driving record" category. The department says it now has about 15 drivers in the Rospburg area who have been scheduled for interviews in an effort to reform them as drivers. The department has contact With about 30 Roseburg area drivers each month, either by letter, personal interview or suspension. The interview's, usually lusting about 45 minutes, are held nt the department's Roseburg branch office. The program is relatively new, less than 10 years old in Oregon. It operates with reports of court convictions and accident reports filed throughout the state. Each such report is posted on the individual's driver's license folder. Generally, when file clerks note that a driver has amassed three accidents or violations, or a combination of the two, in any 12-month period, the folder goes to the DIP section for study. Unless the analysts find extenuating circum stances, the driver receives his warning letter from the de partment. ; The letter points out the violations and accidents and their possible serious consequences. It asks that he im prove his driving. Many Screened Out , The effect of these letters covers a bulk of the multi-offenders. About 80 per cent of those who receive the let ter straighten up. The remaining number continues to cause trouble and is called in for interviews and possible: special tests. Any further trouble within a year after the interview, and the department clamps down. i Oddly enough, analysts find driving troubles can rarely be traced to such things as advanced age or physical hand icap. The trouble can be summed up in two words: Wrong attitudes. Sometimes the wrong attitude is indifference. More often, it's over-confidence or the firm belief that traffic laws are "for the other fellow," the division reports. The magnitude of the repeater problem is indicated in the fact that about 10.000 Oregon drivers enter that group each year. Douglas County is fifth ranked among coun ties of the state. It is outranked only by Multnomah, Lane. Marion and Jackson. The Driver Improvement Program can't be as effec tive as the one outlined by the county OIIL chapters, but it does handle a portion of the need for accident prevention based on a budget which is not prohibitive. This is a fatal flaw in the OIIL plan. IN THE DAY'S NEWS By FRANK (Continued From Page One) asked Russia to release nine Amer ican airmen whose plane was lore- !!" '! "J... Armenia las, wee wnicinis in ine octense tie- mnA on k.m, u- j. V r parlnirnt ,n Washington sav the ! . "n.vn". ia' ?", 1" stale department has ORDERED i nchtnesl of nnr in n' Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson "'"-fiiV m rKR Vi.'v Tnv t" DEMAND that Ihe Russian, re- i 1 1 i R D F R Tl IF V K iT I ARh ease Ihe klilnamut Amer..n. I - IIAHUEK 1 HEY rALL. A bil of history: From the early tsnn'n until the end of Ihe noil's the Barhnrv pi- rates harried the Mediterranean rnmtncri'e nf all nations, including Ihe great and powerful ones. Thev : rnplurcd ships and men and HELD Til KM F'.lR HANSOM. This went on for generations. i Then- In imil Thomas Jefferson, third rresiilrnt of the infant republic of the United States of America, took the hull by the horns. He sent Lieutenant Stephen Decatur to Ihe Mediterranean with an American naval force. The enterprise thus begun was carried on until the pirate rulers of Ihe Harliary Stales knuckled un der and humbly promised lo STOP PIRACY AGAINST AMERICAN SHIPPING. Incidentally Later In hi. career Stephen IV calur alliMiderl banquet at which lie was called on fur toast. He offered this one: "Our country: In Tut intercourse With foreign nations may the ah n T I.. I.. 1 IAEA Mill Pr Sift Hi air Msnlhi, 17 M; Br Mall rar laar, lllH; n aiaatas, H.M l 4faaeat, Wit Ihaa yaai IMPROVEMENT Castillo tor all persons mvoiveu m l license renewals. tn skim off the accident who frequent Oregon high JENKINS Wv he in Ihe right; but OUR i COUNTRY, right or wrong." I pu', " L" "" WJ: I think maybe we'd belter quit Sergtinr Made Polic Chief At Cresham GHESIIAM (AP) - Larry Bar ker moved up from sergeant to police chief in this eastern Mult nomah County cilv Tuesday. He succeeded J. D. McMillin. who quit as chief June 30 after voters turned down a special tax levy in the May election. Lack of funds resulted in Citv Council decision lo cut Ihe police force from fie to four men. Mc Millin, who had been chief fie years, resigned lo look for another Job Barker, 40. hi. been with the Gresham police three years. NAMED TO COUNCIL MEDFORD (AP) - Robert I.. Baccm, . school principal, was named Monday to the City Coun cil Mavor John Snider appointed : him to fill the unexpired term of I Stanley C. Jones, who resigned be cause he changed his residence. Hal NEW YORK ijfl Curbstone comments of a pavement Plato: Are you puzzled over what to do on your vacation?.. Many men are. They know that if they go to the moun tains they will have to help the children pick wild flowers to paste in their memory books. They know that if they go to the seashore, they will have to help the children collect seashells. i ' And they know if they stay home their wife will keep them I busy 16 hours a day doing odd jobs around the house, such as repairing the vacuum cleaner,; hanging wallpaper or picking! green worms off the tomato plants! chores any strong, able-bodied j woman ought to attend to herself. If vou're in this plight, here's I an idea. Why not use your vaca tion to reform and improve your self? Most men start their self-reform campaigns on New Year's Day. This is a bad time. A man's re sistance is so low in winter that he barely has Ihe strength to con tinue his vices let alone sum mon up the extra strength re quired to abandon them. Reform Lying Down There is another factor. Vaca tion is the only lime when a man can reform while lying down. Any other period of the year he will he standing up or moving about. Iteform under this added stress and strain is almost impossible. Still another advantage to giv ing up bad habits while on vaca tion is that there is no sudden wrench about it. You are in no hurry and can improve yourself slowly and leisurely. But perhaps it might be belter to give a constructive example. Let us suppose you have gone to the seashore and want to cut down on your smoking and drink ing. Here's what you do. You stretch out on the sand and put a pack of cigarettes and a pitcher of martinis before you. You say, "I'm not going to take a smoke or a drink for one full minute." Kach day you add an other minute of wailing before you indulge yourself. At Ihe end of a two-week vacation you will he able lo go a full 14 minutes. Little Triumphs Count This may not seem like a maim- achievement, but look at it this way: If you continue this reform program on every vaca tion for 40 years you will wind up being able lo go 9 hours and 20 minutes without giving way to pep-up puff. It's the little triumphs that add up in life. Suppose you've warned all your life to play a niusiral instrument, hut never had the time to learn. You can do it on your vacation. I heard of one man who Picnic, Field Day Set For VA Hospital Patients Roseburg Veterans Administra tion Hospital patients will be treat ed at . picnic and field day Fri day. The event is being sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. Aclivities will start at 10 a ill. Vol unteers are needed lo help with ihe program. Mrs. Elifaheih llo gan. auxiliary hospital representa tive said. The new program'has been add ed lo the 'A Voluntary Services aclivities. On the second and fourth Fridays of each month Ihe Rose burg Woman's Club has been pro viding music in the main dining room during lunch hours. Ijst week. Mrs. Clyde Carstens enter tained Ihe patients with piano mu sic. County Court Signs Order Vacating Short Road County court has signed an order vacating a short length of road east of Sutherhn dedicated several years ago but never used According to the order filed Mon day with Charles G. Doerner. coun ty clerk. Ihe 30-foot wide strip lies between lot one to II In block , one. and lot one to II in block two i of Plat N Sutherlin L.nd nd W ater I Co. The Summit Boyle- mastered the zither in this fash ion. During each vacation he sec retly learned all Ihe notes that could be played on l'a strings. After 25 years he took his zither to the office Christmas party, and surprised everyone by playing "The Moonlight Sonata" in a way thai left even the boss in tears. Actually, if a fellow just doesn't rush if, there's no vice he can't give up or art he can't learn on a vacation and return a better man for it. One final virtue of this system. Nothing wearies one sinner more than seeing another in the throes of repentance. Your friends will be grateful whether you succeed or fail that you spared them the boredom of watching your one man reform wave. If you must be finer fellow, learn how out of town. Good Points Of American Education Omitted, Assn. Delegates Told Monday CLEVELAND (AP) Ameri can education has failed to pub-! licize its good points. The presi-i dent of the National Education Assn. told delegates here .Monday night. ' "It appears to be imperative. ; if schools are lo have Ihe effect ' described by most of our people, ihal we should teach more people bolh in and out of school about j the function of the American 1 school' system." said Dr. Lyman V. Ginger, NEA president. Dr. (iinger, dean of the college of education at the University of j Kentucky, gave the keynote ad dress at the first general assem j hly of the NEA. The convention, gathering 15.000 delegates and vis i itors, opened Sunday and will con- linue through Friday. I Oregon Man Named ( III oilier business Ewald Turner, of Pendleton, Ore., was named president of the department of classroom teachers of Ihe NEA. The classroom teachers include 1 80 per cenl of Ihe total NKA mem bership. In another action Monday night. I the Associated Press was honored ; for distinguished coverage of eilu ; cational news throughout I h e country with a "School Bell" : award. Singled out was G.K. Ho i denfield. the AP's education writ er, who accepted the award. Other awards went to the Sat urday Evening Post, ttcdhouk, Look. Ladies' Home Journal, Business Week and Popular Sci ence, the Columbia Broadcasting System. American Broadcasting Co.. National Broadcasling Co, 1 Ihe New York Times and Parade. ; Sunday newspaper supplement, j Television station KP1X. San Francisco, also was riled. NBC i " ! Alaska University Will Open Its Doors In 1960 ANCHORAGE. Alaska (AP) -Alaska Methodist University will open its doors to its first students in the fall of 191. The first spade of dirt for the ; first building, a classroom admin istration building, was turned over j Sunday by Dr. Donald F. Ehnghl, president-elect, and Bishop A. taymnnd Grant. Portland, chair man of the board of Irusiees. Con struction will begin as early as possible next spring. Bishop A Frank Smith. Hous ton, Tex., president of the dii- j sion of national missions of the i Hoard of Missions of the Method-' , isl Church, presided at the serv ice and Bishop Grant performed the art of dedication. The unneisiiy will be the first church-related liberal arts school , in the territory. Kidder Attending Special Session Of VA In Oakland Robert Kidder. Roseburg Veter is Administration Hospital chief of special services, is studying hos pital procedures at the VA Hospi tal in Oakland, Calif. ! He will be at Oakland the en I tire week. Particular emphasis is; (being placed on the Oakland hos-i pital's special service department, i Clifford Sma,ll. Roseburg VA hos-i pilal press officer, said. Purpose! of Kidder's trip is to study tech-' niques and exhange ideas. James Donachie, assistant hospi-i j tal manager, recently returned, i from Palo Alto, Calif., where he at-i j tended the American College of , ; Hospital Administrators Conference at Stanford University. Latest methods in the use of! drugs were among matters discus-! sed at a recent meeting 01 va hospital direcors of professional services in Oakland, Calif. Dr. J. A. I.anspa, Roseburg VA hospital chief of medicine attended this meeting. Although the local hospi tal does not have the position of director of professional services! filled. Dr. John A. Doerinc, hospi tal manager, appointed Dr. Lanspa lo represent the Roseburg hospital at the conference. and CBS also won awards in the radio field. ! Nothing Taught of School It is an amazing paradox. Dr. Ginger said, "that in a country where schools have such a power ful impact not only on that coun try but on the rest of the world almost nothing has been taught about the school and its function." Voicing a strong defense of the nation's school system. Dr. Gin-' ger noted that education has giv en the United States the lowest percentage of illiteracy of any large country in the world. The U.S. figure of 3 per cent is bettered only in the small Scan danavian countries, he said. Replying lo critics who say schools are stressing quantity I rather Ihan quality. Dr. Ginger said that with about 6 per cent of the world's population, the United States had trained 216 per cent of the winners in Ihe 57-year history of the Nobel Prize awards, i $63,000 At Stake Next For Elfrida On TV Quii NEW YORK (AP) When El frida Von Nardroff and Robert Leicester return to NBC-TV's "Twenty-One" quiz show next week $63,000 may be riding on Ihe outcome of their game. The two contestants played their fourth and fifth tie games Monday night. The sixth game will he for $3,000 a point differ ence in their scores. Thus, a 21 0 victory for either contestant would be worth Sitf.oiKt. So far. Miss Von Nardroff has racked up $253,500 on Ihe show Ihe largest amount ever won by a TV quiz show contestant. If Leicester, a New York City educator, defeats her. his win nings will he subtracted from hers, and Miss Von Nardroff will be eliminated from the show. Senate Passes Measure Sharing Atomic Secrets WASHINGTON ( AP) Senate passage sent to President Eisen hower Monday the bill lo share U. S atomic military secrets with friendly nations one of his major requests for the 19."8 session. The measure, embodying the greatest relaxation of American atomic secrecy requirements since the 1916 McMa'non Act. per nuts freer exchange of bolh weap ons information and materials with this country's allies. The Senate completed congres sional action on the legislation hy accepting a conference report In voice vote.' The House passed it last Friday. Fireworks Laws Save Many Lives, Statistics Show BOSTON (AP) Here's a na tional safety record for motorists to shoot at this long Fourth of July weekend: Total dead and in jured no more than 10. with most of the casualties in the in jured list. unrealistic? Maybe. But that's the total casualty toll expected this year from fireworks accidents on tins independence Day weekend, according to Percy ougoee, general manager of the National lire Protection Assn. Before major progress was achieved in fireworks safety regu lations, the July 4 fireworks casu alties frequently approached 8,(100 in dead and injured. Bugbee said Tuesday. the fireworks law drawn up by the NFPA was the chief factor," he added. His nonprofit technical and edu cational organization, which is re sponsible for the national fire codes, takes explosives and fire works largely out of the hands of amateurs. This culminated years of safety campaigning. Now, 29 slates have adopted the model law in its entirety, and 12 other states have partial statewide regulation. Only seven, including Nevada and Texas, leave the fire works problem to local regulation. Once, Bugbee said. 25 per cent of all persons in institutions for Ihe blind were there because of fireworks. Georgia Pacific Given Extension Of Timber Contract JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) The Georgia Pacific Alaska Co. was given a three-year extension Mon day of its preliminary purchase contract for 7'j billion board feet of timber in Ihe Tongass National Forest near Juneau. The company asked the U. S. Forest Service in May lo grant a five-year extension. It said a slumping market made it imprac tical at this time to go ahead with plans for construction of a pulp or paper mill in southeastern Al aska. P. D. Hanson, regional forester for Alaska, announced Ihe exten sion after his return from a series of Washington. D. C, conferences. The company, a subsidiary of Ihe Georgia Pacific Co. of Port land, Ore., ndw has until July 1, 1961, to qualify for final award of the timber purchase contract. Negotiations point to the signing of a 50-year timber contract be tween the government and the company. The extension agree ment calls for construction of a plant in the Juneau area not later than 1964, if qualification condi tions for the final award are met during Ihe next three years. The company owns a proposed plant site on Douglas Island, about 15 miles from downtown Juneau, It obtained the preliminary award lo the timber rights three years ago. Unless Ihe extension had been granted, the company would have lost its preference rights to the timber, it already has paid an initial stumpage fee of $25,000, and has posted a $75,000 perform ance bond. Gov. Rosellini Promises Alaska Washington's Aid SEATTLE (AP) The State' of Washington will do everything possible to assist Alaska in her ' initial steps to statehood. Gov. j Kosellini said Monday night. "We in Washington state feel that Ihe Pacific Northwest and Alaska stand on the threshold of a great economic destiny." Ro-j sellmi said here as he welcomed the Senate's action to admit the! territory as Ihe union's 491 h stale. I The governor also said slate hood for Alaska will be of "im mense benefit to Ihe development ol wasnington. Congratulations also were voiced by Irving S. Smith, president of the Seattle Chamber of Com merce. He pledged "continuing support of Ihe Seattle Chamber lo Alaskans in their efforts to de velop the new state's vast eco nomic potential.'' Largest Flag Owner Has Two Years Before Worry DETROIT (AP) Owners of Ihe world's largest flag figure they have almost two years to worry about adding a 49th star for Alaska, and by that time the problem mav have doubled. The flag. 235 feet long and 104 feet deep, is owned by the J.L. Hudson Co. Department Store. It is displayed only on Flag Day, June 14. and only when Flag Day falls on a weekday. Its next sched uled appearance is June 14. 1960. Spokesmen say the 51? feet high stars for the flag cost about $2,000 to have installed. The problem is figuring out an arrangement for Alaska's star, and for a 50th star for Hawaii, should statehood also he granted to that territory. TO BE DISCERNING liiS&iip Ije (Efjapel of tfje aae ROSEBURG FUNERAL HOME FUNERALS Phone ORchord 3-4455 Oak ond Kane St. Roseburg, Oregon Adequote Free Parking '! -Peter Edson j 1 1' SB-Siii mS WASHINGTON - (NEA) - The new hassle over who gets to the moon first the Army, the Air Force or the Russians if only the beginning of a lengthy rhubarb. Before anyone approaches t h e moon, crashes into it, goes around it or photographs its back side, there are bound to be many fail ures and disappointments. There will be many lest firings, ays Dr. Herbert F. York, chief scientist of the Pentagon's Advanc ed Research Projects Agency, be fore a probe is placed even close lo the moon. Going to Ihe moon has been an ambition of Dr. York's since he was a boy-prodigy astronomer at age nine. Though he is only 36 to day, he is still probably in the class of people "born 30 years too soon" to ever get to Ihe moon. So the next best thing he can do is shoot at it. WHITE HOUSE and Pentagon first announced last March that five lunar probes had been author ized. Two by the Army's Ballistic Mis sile Center will use a modified Ju-piler-C rocket. Three by the Air Force will use Thor and Vanguard first and second stage rockets, with a third stage still under develop ment. First launching should be made this fall. But whether Air Force or Army gets the lead will depend on who's ready first. Eight million dollars have been allocated for this year's 'work on these projects. For next year, 72 million have been requested. The services don't consider this enough. But the taxpayer can well ask what he gets for his 80 million. Is this just at stunt? Is it some thing lo win back American pres tige, which was lost when the Rus- Thinking It Over By Robart L, Ditffanbachtr, D. D. (Written for NEA Service) Our quandries slow up our mak ing of decisions. A certain amount of confusion in the mind may be an aid to making folk objective. However, uncertainty delays ac tion and .postpones adequate prep aration for action. Most of our difficulty in making order out of .chaos is that we are , too independent. We try to weigh I everything in our own human ways. ! We try to reach strictly human de-1 cisions. We fail to unravel the tan gle of our minds because we do not call for help on the Power (hat is higher than we are. God alone can unscramble many of our quandries. He alone can help us break out of the lightening cir cle of confusion which surroiinii us. Not only can we hope to obtain help from God. but also we should expect to receive it if we turn to HIM in faith, believing that tie will give us aid. God will make or der out of our human chaos if we give Him a chance. Closure Of Post Office Would Net Big Savings WASHINGTON (AP) A rec omniendation that the Post Office Department close its Holland, Ore., office to save about $1,625 a vear came Monday from Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore). Under Norblad's proposal the Holland office, would become a rural station of the Cave Junction, Ore , post office. The current operating cost of Ihe Holland office. Norblad said, is $2,225 a year against receipts of $413. Conversion of Ihe office to a rural station will result in a saving of about $1,625 a year and the rural station will give the local residents satisfactory service, Norblad said. DO DO you desire to hear the Gospel at it was preached in the first century?? DO You tire of the inventioni and digression, of mod ern religionist.?? DO you wont to know what the Bible really teaches concerning your duty to God?? The Church of Christ Meeting on Suksdorf St. in Winston, Oregon, Invites You to Hear WALT HUDSON: GOSPEL EVANGELIST Each Evening at 7:30 June 29 July 9. For further information or transportation coll OR 3-7617 sian sputnik beat ui into space last October? Is this essential for U.S. national defense? Can the expense be charged off to scientific re search? And is this trip nec essaryas a preliminary to con quest of outer space? THERE HAS BEEN a lot of fanciful science fiction on using the moon as a space platform for spy ing on Russia, or as a launching pad for retaliatory missiles. Use of the moon as a battleground for World War III has even been men tioned. Dr. I.ee A. DuBridge, president of California Institute of Technol ogy, says that the proposed con quest and occupation of the moon hasn't the slightest military value. This eliminates Ihe national de fense angle. Roy W. Johnson, director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, says the first lu nar probes will carry no instru ments. That takes care of the sci entific research angle at the be ginning. Dr. Walter Dornberger of Bell Aircraft, who headed Germany's V-2 program, says the lunar probes are justified if they add to the na tion's prestige or if they make the American people feel better. (There's nothing like keeping the taxpayers contented.) But Dr. Dornberger takes a dim view of going to the moon just for stunt purposes. , Since the moon has no atmos phere, an A-bomb would make no dust cloud. It would only 1 e t loose a lot of radiation that would make impossible later measure ment of the moan's natural radia tion. .SOME SCIENTISTS believe that spares or germs with the proper ties of primitive life may have drifted to the moon from outer space. The lunar scientists don't say they're going lo hit the' moon first time. What they say they're doing is "determining our capahil. ities of exploring space, in Ihe vi cinity of the moon." There's a difference. Fear can be mastered by Christian Science Fear in some form is Ihe foe we all have to conquer fear of sickness, lack or failure, old age or loneliness. There are many doors through which fear tries to enter. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy has shown count less thousands how lo over come fear. It does so. not in terms of human psychology, but of spiritual understanding, as the Bible teaches. For Science and Health shows what God really is, and how anyone can find and feci his God given freedom in every need. Srienct and Htalth may hi read or botrowid at any Christian Sctenct Readint Room. Stnd f3 for a copy postpaid. Christian Science Reading Room 714 S. E. Rose Street Ojpti 10:30 to 4:30 Except Sunday and Holiday YOU L. L POWERS Licenstd Funtnal Dlrtctor
