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Connecticut Highway Crackdown On Speeding Produces Results Hartford, Conn. (U.R) When you drive into Connecticut a high-way sign warns: "Don't speed. Conviction means loss of license." Connecticut isn't kidding. For three months motorists in this state h a t a been experiencing an unusual crackdown on high way speeding. Traffic judges are under threat of losing their jobs if they fix" speeding tickets. Any motorist convicted of speeding gets his driving license suspended 30 days for first of fenders, 60 days for repeaters. Gov. Abraham Ribicoff order ed the unprecedented crackdown three months ago and the first returns are just in. During the three months, there were 10 less traffic deaths than during the corresponding period of 1955. 1 t Hfcs- '4 XL v " -st I ! ii :i Vrm. '-. IV Vfl i "-'.Vi VC' - 'A I - L trtrrf-lii';- n hrrrfrr" 1-,-,"Tiiiint wm NO ADMITTANCE Actor Hugh Marlowe (right) finds nimeK locked out of the Alcazar Theater in San Fran cisco by doorman C. P. Bernitt (left) as the result of a backstage battle between Marlowe and his leading lady Marjorie Lord, in th-- "Anniversary Waltz." Thelfracas allegedly followed Miss Lord's objections to being kissed too passionately" in certain scenes by Marlowe. Actor Andrew Duggan replaced Marlowe in the male lead This is highly gratifying," Ribicoff said, "but we still have a long way to go." The accident statistics also show that of the 19 fatalities that did occur last month 16 were blamed on speed ing. A Bit of Irony The governor says the cam paign will go on indefinitely. "When drivers realize we mean business and start obeying the traffic laws the number of acci dents will continue to drop," he says. "It's ironic that drivers won't slow down to save their lives but they will slow down to save their licenses." Ribicoff ordered police and judges to lower the boom on speeders when Connecticut, win ner of many national safety awards in the past, came up with a total of 320 highway deaths in 1955, an increase of 78 over the previous year. State Police Commissioner John C. Kelly calls it "the most effective crackdown I've seen in my 35 years as a policeman. You can look at traffic anywhere and tell it's moving slower." No More Dismissals Ribicoff, in discussing his war on speeding, tries to make two things clear. First, judges have not been told to find everyone guilty. "What I was concerned about was the widespread dis missal of warrants. Too many cases were being thrown out. His second concern is seeing that Connecticut doesn't get a reputation as a "speed trap." The truth is, he said, the campaign has resulted in fewer arrests for speeding. The motorists them selves are taking it easier. Not everyone is happy with the governor's program. "You just lost one vote," one motorist wrote Ribicoff. "You're a lousy guy," another wrote, "if you don't do favors you won't be governor long." Some motorists praise his idea "I used to find myself driving hell-bent for election all the time," a traveling businessman said. "Now for the first time realize what Connecticut looks ft JIM STEVENS S Height of Fashion ... Douglas fir roof beams and decking have become outstand ing features of pictorial art on the American home, new style. Pick up any one of the many fat and gaudy "homes" maga zines, architectural or popular, and the exposed beam, post and deck of west coast lumber strike the eye from page after page. The big timbers from Oregon, Washington and Northern Cali fornia forests dominate magazine views of home interiors simply because the eye of the beholder naturally rises from floor and walls and furnishings. The old time home ceiling, in most illus trations, has gone with the wind md the plaster. Young Amer ica has learned to identify Doug las fir with the roof beam. West coast hemlock has been made a DODular decking choice. So it is with western red cedar for siding, paneling, fencing and out door furniture. Homes architects of the hour have met a tidal wave of re sponse on the theme of "outdopr living," which in terms of design engineering means more spacious living, fewer traffic jams, in the daily routines of members of the family. Big wood beams are the magic key. At low cost they are now being extended outdoors from sidewalls sometimes even to the yard's wood-screen posts. Uplifting Example ... To illustrate, here's the April issue, 258 pages strong, of "House Beautiful." It is one of nine spring home-making publications on the slab table of the old boom pond shack where I beat prose from a 1909 Model Oliver Visible Typewriter. 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Roof beams extend from carport over the walk as a trellis. Huge, widely spaced posts provide for an open-side carport. Across the walk and a garden rectangle rise vertical cedar boards of the second wing's wall. Greens, blossoms and browns blend hand somely under the springtime sun. Inside, the living' room space takes wing on wood to the toof peak. The beams, made so beau tiful to see by the magic of archi tect, builder and decorator, look like Standard grade plank to a lumberman's eye. Knots and checks are beauty in the home world of today, as thev should be, for they are of the true na ture of tree growth, and beauty abides in the natural. Camera Trail . . . The pictures lead to bedrooms, past bookshelves of an inner court, to 30-foot kitchen and dining nook. Everywhere the eve is drown t obeam and deck The latter, in a page-wide color view, is uniformlv honev-hued making one wonder if it might not actually be west coast hem lock. The beams in early New Eng land tney were termed summer beams" are stained a striking shade of green. The natural char acteristics of Douglas fir stand out, modified, softened, to add to the whole picture. And the green blends well with the plant ings that show through glass ex terior walls. In short, here is just one sam pie out of a score that might be Monday, April 16, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVH Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Monaco Father Francis Tucker, palace chaplain, on the com ing marriage of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly: "God will keep them together just as the water was changed to wine." Atlantic City. N.J. Sen. Estes Kefaurer on recent Democratic campaign criticism by Adlai Stevenson: I think his statements look like statements of desperation. Jerusalem Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion in a warning to Egypt: "For every blow the Egyptian army delivers against us, we shall return two." Washington Rep. Thomas J. Dodd (D.-Conn.) on possibility of U.S. intervention in the event of war in the Middle East: "If Israel gets arms so Ihey can defend themselves, I do not think we need to send American youngsters over there." Speeding Violators , To Pay By the Foot Bowling Green, O. U.PJ Motorists will have to pay by the foot for speeding violations under a new system devised by Mayor Lorin Janzer. The plan calls for a fine of 15 cents per foot for each foot of difference between the safe stopping distance at the speed limit and the safe stopping dis tance at the speed which the motorist was driving. heiress who has become one of the Cuernavaca quick divorce court's best clients, was not ex pected to appear personally to end the latest marital ties. ACCUSED of burglarizing fashionable homes where she gave piano lessons, Thelma Politte is in Beverly Hills, Cal., jail. 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