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LA GRANDE OBSERVER Observer, La Grande, Or., Thuri., Dc. 17, 1959 Pag 9 AAA Comes Out With Driving Test To Tax Brain, Not Skill By FRANK ELEAZER UPI Staff WriUr WASHINGTON lUI'l" - The Ami'ricun Automobile Association expert to come out toon uith a wonderful new way to test driv ers. I just took the test and am pretty sure it showed I hute work, like girls, and love money. What it establishe-i about my prospects for long life in event 1 keep driving I'll never know, un less 1 get up courage to send in the papers for grading. To take this test, which is not quite ready for general use. you don't even have to g"t behind the wheel, although goodness knows AAA isn't opposed to qualifying prospective drivers that way. All you do is put check marks on some forms. The test takes 10 minutes and is based on what psychologists call a "semantic differential." That last has nothing whatever to do with the big round thing be- 'Spare Time' Of Airmen Investigated TOPEKA. Kan. UPI "It will be necessary to know what the airman does with his off duty time, whom he associates with... every detail..." The quotation was taken from a policy letter issued Tuesday by Brig. Gen. Ariel W. Neilsen. com mander of the 21st Air Division at Forbes Air Force Base, a unit of the Strategic Air Command. Some airmen at the base com pared Neilsen's letter of policy to George Orwell's novel "19M." which depicts a mythical society under a dictatorship of the proletariat. In Orwell's novel the citizens of this society are confronted every where by signs reading: 'Big Brother is watching you." Party members were so closely watched that even TV transmitters were installed in their homes so every movement could be observed. Tt Monitor Activities Ncusen s policy details a sys tem of supervision that depends upon human observation rather than telecommunications. Under Neilsen's order, person nel at Forbes will continue to function .. as J elements, flights, leaders will monitor the activities of the squadrons, squadron lead' ers the activities of the flights and so on down the line. The new policy affects both of ficers and eilisted men on the base. Learn All Details In his letter of policy Neilsen ordered element leaders to learn all details of the airman's family history; his financial status; whether he owns an automobile. "Every . details, including per formance reports, personal history statements, derogatory files, pro motion selection folders and unit files must be screened and data recorded." the letter said. In explaining his letter Neilsen said in many cases airmen were found to be "unsatisfactory in the performance of their duty and their off-duty conduct. DREW PEARSON Continued From Page 4 "We will agree to' that If you in turn do not call 20 equal to 80." replied the Greek Foreign minister, referring to the fact that the Turkish minority of 20 per cent wanted as many rights as the Greek population of 80 per cent. This was agreed. And nexj morning the two men began forking out what eventually became the peaceful solution of one of the most dynamite-laden danger spots In the Mediterran ean. Caramanlis and Greece live on top of a more dangerous keg of political dynamite than any in most of the countrics.Ike is visit ing. On one side is Communist Albania, another side Communist Bulgaria, and on a third side is Communist ' Yugoslavia though it's friendly. Shortly before Eisen hower arrived here, Caramanlis's chief political opponent, ex-pre miere Veoizclos., made a speech practically stating that Russia was ready to buy all Greece's sur plus crops and to finance all Greek irrigation and public works projects. Caramanlis has to balance this off against dwindling aid from the United States, and the bal ancing isn't easy. - On top of this Moscow has intensified its prop aganda in Greece. Just before Ike's arrival it issued a special Russian stamp in commemora tion of the Greek editor, Manolis ulcxoa of the left-wing paper Avghl, who was sentenced to five years imprisonment for es pionage. . The stamp's issue brought im mediate protest from Athens that this- was Interfering in Greece's internal affairs. Moscow offered to withdraw the stamp but re fused to tire the postmaster who issued it as was demanded by the Greek government tvecn the back wheels. The test, devised by Columbia, University psychologist Jnmes L.! Malfetli under a $100,000 grait from the AAA's Traffic Safety Foundation, is intended to estab lish your attitude toward the au tomobile. Studied Young Drivers Malfettl and others at work on the safety project developed the test after performing a deep psy chological study on 400 teen-aged drivers in Cleveland. Half of these were chronic traffic violators. The other half had good driving rec ords. It is built around 12 words, or "concepts" as the psychologists call them. It records your asso ciations or impressions about each of these words. One of the words is car. Others, besides work, women and money, include weap on, transoortation. and power. Or. MaUetti is 3 and has been in the psychology business long enough to know that anybody old enough to drive can figure the "right" answers if simply asked to rate his own concept of a car. The new test, though, can't be faked. Totters Compare Pictures As applied to each of the 12 words or concepts' you are asked to judge 10 pairs of con tradictory adjectives active or passive, clean or dirty, weak or strong, etc. You do this by putting check marks on a scale, between these extremes. That's how I un covered my hidden feelings on work, girls, and money. Fortunately, the quit givers won't care much how you rate any one of these items, even car. What they do when you're through is link up your check marks with lines and compare the the resulting pictures. The picture most nearly resembline the o;e your check marks make under "car" shows the psychologists which word you associate - with the automobile. The proven bad drivers in Cleveland, for instance, associat ed cars with weapons or freedom from control of their parents Even I can see that is bad. Driv ers with good records tended to associate autos with transporta tion or work I can't say for sure what all the other possible associations might reveal to the eerts. But each concept was picked for a purpose. Now that I've disclosed some of Dr. Malfetti's sec ets, I don't feel guilty at all. Even when you know ail this in advance, it won't help a bit if and when you go in for the test. Because Dr. Malfetti. as a final saleguard, has sneakily rejiu gered the order of the 10 pairs of adjectives as related to each of the 12 key words. Sometimes he has also reversed 'em. Before linking up your checkmarks, to make pictures, he restores them to their original order. That's why I don't know yet whether my dentless fenders re sult from good driving or luck. I'm not sure I want to find out. John L. Lewis Steps Down To Head Off Power Struggle WASHINGTON ITI' John I.. Lewis decided to step down no as president of the United Mr-e Workers to head off a pos Mhle power struggle over his eventual successor in the U'lion Ualership. This was the explanation 'hat associate gave today for the TS-year-cId labor leader's surprise' announcement Tuesday that he is -csiRiiiiiK as I'.MW chief larly next year. They also saiil departure from office would nut silence the "thundering voice of the captain v.f a mixhty host." as Lewis one dcscriljed his role in behalf oi the miners. These (rie:uls said Lewis cer tainly would continue as a non naid trustee of the I'MW's wel fare fund. They also expect him to testify before congressional committees on coal industry prob lems. Strict Orderly Transition Lewis was said to be seeking "to insure an orderly transition" in the I'.MW leadership by lining up his successor well in advance of tlie union's presidential elec tion next December. I'.MW Vice President Thomas Kennedy, 72. automatically steps into the tup job when Lewis bows out. Kennedy was expected to run for a full four-year term as president Hut all eyes within the union will be focused on the man se lected to 1 all Kennedy's vice pres idential spot. That choice may be Bit Of Humor Inside Staid Old Supreme Court Rooms WASHINGTON it'Pl' The hu mor might not have had 'em roll ing in the aisles, but it was un usual considering the austere sur roundings. The setting was the Supreme Court of the United States. The jester was Justice Charles T. Whittakcr. The moment of levity in the court room came when the high bench issued a decision uphold ing the reversal of a jury's $25, 000 damage award to flagman Carl C. Inman who was hurt at an Akron,' Ohio, railroad crossing. Justice Tom C. Clark, deliver ing the majority opinion, Jbegao talking before Justice ' Felix Frankfurter had finished com menting on a previous case. Clark apologized.' He explained that he had "jumped the gun" like the drunken driver who ran through a stop light at the Akron intersection and injured Inman who was waving a lantern in each hand. Whittaker concurred in the opinion favoring the Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad. He added a "word of mirth" to support the view- that there was nothing to indi cate the railroad was negligent. The only sure way for a rail road to protect its flagman, he said, "would be to provide them with military tanks and make sure they stay in them while within or moving about crossing intersections in the performance of their duties. Even that might not be fool proof, joked the usually reserved Whittaker, because "something (sic i might shoot him. 1 Justice William O. Douglas took an icy view of his colleague's "attempt at humor. "fie said "the rather smart-alecky things which have been said about the case" could not disguise that- the flagman could have been put in an inherently unsafe position. SOX SIGN SCOUT BOSTON (UPI) -J Connie Mar rero. former Washington Senators pitcher, has been signed by the Boston Red Sox as scout for the Cuban area. REMEMBER WHEN male ahead of election time to bmul iik the man who even tually will succeed to the presi dency Praiws Kennedy li Lis letter of resignation. I.cis praised Kennedy to the skies. Ji'hn Owens, secretary-treasurer ol the jno.OUO-memlH'r union, is li'J and his colleagues believe that he is Mit interested in mov ing un the ladder. Tins leaves two men promi nently in the leadership picture W. A i Tony Boyle, olwut 50. an asMstait to Lewis who came fr't o( the Montana district of the I'.MW. and Michael F. Widman, director of market research and a tormer t'K) organizer in auto plants Although the race has just started, these two are considered to have the inside track to suc ceed Kennedy eventually as presi dent. Both have been working on high priority tasks for Lewis iin recent years. 915 vparc a"n Iji flr.-inril" ITinh svhmil e.-irnnrf.H ite siiennri straight basketball game of young ........... j .. , n - . v. hile the Tiger Jayvees whipped ine cove Sfi-iiiiU Miiug leam uy 23 8. DeBoie paced the winning varsity with 16 points. L. L. Snodjjrass. La Grande, was elected illustrious master of the Kcyal ana select masons ol t nion County at a meeting here. Oscar Warnock, also La Grande, was elected deputy master. Attend ing from La Grande were Dr. F. L. Ralston, C. M. Humphreys, George Cochran, Dr. C. W. Irwin irtd W. J. Nowland. ... 15 years oko, the heavy fighting reported along the German-Belgian border of the Ard nesses forest was the result of a "breakthrough" by German tank and infantry forces. The La Grande High Tigers and the junior varsity lost to Pend leton Ilich School teams in the fscashn's conference opener. Pen dleton varsity won 43-22. 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