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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1957)
o o o o O S7i t i 5 i 11 I 1 ' - i 3 o OV.V I CMICC35-! , J I, 0 ii CI - O , Q , J 1 v - 5 I ' 4l 1 ry "jL o il 0 oV J5T . JAW J 5ffk M 0 x 1 inrC" Fast Super Highways Have Fewer Fatal Auto Crashes Than Older Country Roads Vtor't ;Tte: This is tlis Tut r of Tivc articles dealing with traffic accidents in the L'nited States. Br ROBERT J. SERLING United Press Correspondent New York U.P.i You're saf er when you drive on a good road. There are those who doubt that statement, contending trgt super - highways invite faster driving and therefore afe more dangerous. But the facts support the claim that a well designed road is saf er even with higher speed limits and (generally faster moving trafficT Giant toll rQ3s like the New Jersey and Pennsylvania turn pikes have had consistently low er accident rates than the na tion as a whole. This superior record didn't just happen. It is the result of these factors: The turnpikes are better patrolled with more rigid en- Gorcement of the higher limits. They are engineered for saf er driving. Their traffic lanes are wider, divided, scientifically O banked and graded with no in tersections and traffic lights. Cut Driver Fatigue They are easier to drive on and therefore eliminate one of the leading Causes of accidents, driver fatigue. When a turnpike accident does occur at high speeds, it can be a grisly affair. Yet turnpike of ficials say speed is not the ma jor factor. The Pennsylvania Turnpike, for example, has a maximum speed limit of 70 miles an hour. But a survey of accidents on the highway over the past few years showed that 75 per cent of the cars involved were going less than 51 miles per hour. California freeways last year reported 2.2 fatalities for every 100 million vehicle miles. The fatality rate for the state's rural highways was 9.39. 7 Other super highways report similar statistics. Fatigue a9 an accident causer cannot be overrated. Recently, the American Automobile asso ciation sent two cars over paral lel routes, one on a r2w super highway, the other on an older, narrow road passing through a number of towns and cities. Same Miles More Work The driver of the second car drove nearly nine hours longer, drove approximately the same mileage, averaged about 15 miles an hour slower, applied his brakes more than 1,200 more times, stopped for 164 more traf fic lights, made 454 more turns and 102 more stops for traffic. He naturally was more tired and much less alert by the end of his trip. Last year. New York univer sity safety experts put two iden tical t twins into two identical new automobiles and told them to drive to identical destinations, from Portland, Me., to Youngs town, Ohio. One twin used the Main Turn pike, the Merritt Parkway, and the New Jersey and Pennsyl vania turnpikes. The second took paralel routes on older roads, involving heavy city traffic. They were accompanied by Proposftf Beundario Berrydale Ayincaxafog Sn ,Apeompnying Reticle) By Peg y Reorganization Pleases All Sides in fisheries Debate Planning Ggaiisslsi Meeting Is (Q9A8ite gxaiiga The Medford planning com mission will consider making a recommendation concerning tft proposed Berrydale annexation at special meeting in the city hall at 7:30 p.m. Mond5y. ' The proposed annexation area is shown on the accompanying map by a dashed line starting near the junction of Highway 99 and Court st. and extending around to Crater Lake highway to connect with the present city limit.O The proposed boundary was determined at a meeting of the "lanninff rnmmissinn rnmmittpo and the Berrydale Sanitation! committee last Wednesday. Nick Gier, chairman C the Berrydale committee, said Gne Elk City district west of Howard ave. was added to and console! dated with the Berrydale dis trict by request of a citizens com mittee from the Elk City area which had conducted a house-to- house canvas. The Elk City com mittee assured the Berrydale group the majority of the citi zens contacted were in favor of obtaining sanitary facilities, Giw said. Northern Boundary Gier said the northern bound ary crossing Table Rock rd. was determined after considerable discussion of opposition voiced by Peter R. Bateman, 3088 Table Rock rd. The boundary north of How ard school was agreed upon by both the planning commission and Berrydale committees to ex clude an area of six residences VL'hprp annpYalinn wa nnnncpri and which would be difficult to' seJug) with fenilgry (gJwer, l'that annexation was the most Gier Sid. (feasible way to obtain necessary tvCV i. 1 1; ,rv, J-r, 1 sewer facilities which must be 114 MiiUfiiy i"r; jvsi tia 1 of the north id of Houeyd feve. w o5,wn on property lines of proiSrtj) owners in tht reg d& siring nnexfition, hcid. The north bouodOry lingrom How ard ,vg west to Highway 99 follows a section line tvougn that district. The line south of Hitfiwav 99 was otenedd to include 300- foot frontage of Medford cor poration property mutual aQ'eemcnt between the corpora tion ,yid city officials since last Wednesday's meetinA Gier said, was the extended boundary east of Bear creek to Biddle rd. including t h q outdoor eater site. BsvTuQt Extension Property ownjj-i on TplS koc ra. Detween uaams ana Sling lanes had requested the Berrydale committee to extend the eastern boundary to Bear creek previously, Gier said. The area just north of Med ford city limits south of Crater Lake highway and paralleling Biddle rd. along a section of re cently annexed Kenwood-Grand-view district was added to the proposed district by request of the planning commission to pro vide a continuous boundary line for annexation. Gier said. The Berrydale Sanitation com mittee has been holding public meetings in the area and study ing pros and cons pertaining to a feasible solution to the sanita tion problem. Gier said Jhat after studying all the facts and fig ures, the committee determined installed in the district at an early date. Pamphlet Plgnrl Gier said that a pamphlet will be preparQ and distributed to all residents in the proposed area concerning facts developed by the committee and from speakers at meetings. He noted that meetings and facts relating to the sanitation problem have .been publicized pigviously. ine pampniets win oe pre pared and distributed in the dis trict aft the city council has made decision concerning a special election for annexation in the area, Gier said. Hceaf Starts tan To State Hong Kong (U.fi) American turncoat Samuel D. Hawkins, who returned to the free world Wednesday from Communist China, left for the United States today. He told a newsman prior to his departure aboard a Pan American plane, "It's g"eat to be back on this side." When asked what possibilities his Russian wife has in rejoin ing him, Hawkins replied, "I am quite sure she'll be coming to Hang Kong as soon as she gets her entry visa." Mrs. Hawkins is still in Pei ping awaiting word from her husband. Hawkins, of Oklahoma City, Okla., said he had written his wife from Hong Kong that the British embassy would get in touch with her once her entry iisa for Hong Kong is glinted. B7 D V. Dorliryg (D3tribS03 by OarOrQ &adirate. Please Sot LTV "My Bobby is a New Boy! Eott beffor K01 mor pep even dot battar in school!" BEXEL MULTIPLE VITAMINS FOR CHILDREN This f rj. 'r no. OWt .! Wf "vitamin insurance' for erowine bovs and nrk makes SURE your youngsters get ALL the vitamin necessary for sturdy growth, health, energy. Becauoe so many of today's foods do not meet the full needs of growing children, it's wise to take no chances. 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Blanche is out of fashion now None I have named as yet Are so rood as Margaret. Fmily is neat and fine What do you think of Caroline? Marv Lamb (NAMING THE &BY) Gina Lollobrigida. who is an expectant mother, recently said. '"I hope it is a girl. They are much greater fun especially when they are very young." Do the majority of mothers prefer daughters to sons? It would seem that way because many more girls are adopted than boys. Of course, it is much more ex pensive to rear a daughter than a son but perhaps the women have in mind the old rhyme: A daughter is your daughter For all of her life But a son is only a son Until he gets a wife. Borrowed Time A Californian. in stating she believes herself eligible for mem bership in the Borrowed Time Club, says when she was 16. a doctor said she had an incurable case of tuberculosis and would only live three months. She is now past 80 and is the mother of five children and has eleven grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren. She adds. "And we are all healthy and happy." Horses and Women An occasion on which a wom an can greatly endanger her ap pearance in a bathing suit and make her girdle more difficult to don is a cocktail party. Few females realize how fattening cocktails are. The most fattening ! is the dry martini which has 130 calorie. A jigger of Scotch has 113 calories: rum. 134 and gin 122. Women who wish to remain streamlined should have a limit of two cocktails per party. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Is the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York the most exclusive men's ' club in the United States? Are ; actors barred from membership? i A. The Racquet and Tennis Club is quite an exclusive oraaniza- i tion but whether or not it rates being called this country's "most exclusive club" is open to ques tion. In any event, it does not bar actors. Fred Astaire has long been a member . . . Q. Who sang ; the musical numbers titled "To- j tern Pole" and "Indian Love j Call" in the hit show "Rose Marie"? I claim it was Pearl Regay. &. You're half right, sir. . Pearl Regav sang "Totem Pole." ! However, it was Mary Ellis who sgins, "Indian .ove Call." The expenses of the weddjgg of Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly of Philadelphia amounted to 5420,000. The Prince took care of this by order ing a special isue of stamps to commemorate the matrimonial alliance. So far this special issue has shown a profit of about $600,000. Patting By "Wahoo Sam" Crawford. Bril liant and picturesque baseball star of the yesteryear. One of the two great men born in Wa hoo. Neb. The other is, of course, Darryl Zanuck, the film produc tion genius. There has been some discussion as what trio of heavy hitting major leaguers made up the original "Murderers Row." Get it right. It was Cobb, Craw ford and Veach of the Detroit Tigers. Sy At SOBERT SMITH Mail Tribunoj Correspondent Washington - A reorganiza tion of the U. S. Fish and Wild life Service, after several pain ful episodes, ha been com pleted by In terior Secre tary Fred A. Seaton to the general satis faction of both and com mercial fishing interests who fought for control of this agency. Neither group got entirely what it wanted, for Seaton suc ceeded in balancing them off under the new setu Within the Interior Department. Until last year, the Fish and Wildlife Service had been head ed by a director who was in turn responsible to one of the depart ment's three assistant secretaries, each of whom has jurisdiction over several Interior agencies. Under the director were two as sistant directors, one for com mercial fishing and the other for wildlife and game fish. Con flicts that arose between these two interests had to be resolved internally. In the last Dart of the tenure of Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, commercial fish interests won approval of a plan for cre ation of separate bureaus each for commercial and sport fish eries a move calculated to give commercial interests some of the power they once had prior to creation in 1940 of the F&WS when fisheries were handled only by the Bureau of Fisheries in the business-minded Com merce Department. Shortly after Seaton tpk of fice last summer, he heard that conservationists were up in arms over this reorganization scheme, which the White House had already announced was about to go through. Seaton, after listening to argumenlQpro and con, put the ax to the re shuffle, with presidential ap proval. Seaton then recommended a oil! pending in Congress, spon sored by Sens. Warren G. Mag- nuson ID-Wash.) and Thomas Kuchel (R-Calif.), which passed, and called for a fourth assistant secretary, whose responsibilities lay only in the fish and wildlife field; and under him a commis sioner to head the Fish and Wild life Service; and under him two co-equal directors, one for the newly created Bureau of Com mercial Fisheries, and the other for the Bureau of Sport Fish eries and Wildlife. As assistant secretary, Seaton picked Ross L. Leffler, long time head of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, and widely acclaimed by conservation lead ers. Leffler is planning an in spection tour of Northwest and Alaskan fisheries. He then ap pointed as his commissioner, Arnie J. Suomela, former Ore gon director of fisheries who had been serving as assistant director of F&WS during the McKay era. Seaton eased out John L. Far ley, director of F&WS under McKay, who had been under heavy fire during much of his four years in office. Farley owed his appointment originally to the recommendation of California bankers who wanted less strict regulations over duck baiting , for their hunt clubs. J Under Suomela, two career j men were installed: Donald L. j McKernan, former head of Alas-' ka fisheries, to head the Bureau 1 of Commercial Fisheries; and j Daniel H. Janzen, former head I of the F&WS office at Minneap-' olis. to head the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. Their as sistant directors also are from F&WS career ranks. Commercial fishing interests grumbled over scrapping of the reorganization plan which they had fostered, but they are not displeased with selection of Suomela, whose spe cialty is commercial salmon fish eries. Conservationists were pleased with Seaton for scrap ping the original plan and selec tion of Leffler, but have mixed feelings on Suomela. Their view was indicated by a statement by Sen. Richard L. Neubcrger (D-Ore.) the conser vationists' chief spokesman in Congress, when he said he would support Suomela's nomination, but he wished he had had some wildlife experience. A leading conservation spokesman put it this way: "Conservationists gen erally feel that since it's the top job in the F&WS, it's good to 1 have a man who has been active in the field as Suomela has heen. There is considerable unhappi ness on the part of wildlife peo ple. But most feel happy, be cause, at least, he is a fisheries conservation man." psychologists who were to give them tests at the end of each day's drive. The one driving on the older roads collapsed from fatigue three hours before the first day's run was completed. This was a dramatic demon stration of what the nation's new 41,000 mile interstate system will mean in terms of driver comfort and safety. One federal official has estimated that thi new network will cut highway fatalities in half. And the Auto mobile Safety Foundation re cently claimed that improve ments even on older highways can reduce accidents by 40 per cent. The foundation cited a study madeof a narrow, 18 foot road stretching for some 200 miles. It ad a whopping accident rate of 230 wrecks for every 100 million vehicle miles traveled. The road was repaved and widened to a minimum of 22 feet. The accident rate in the next year dropped 39 per cent. More First Year Crashes However, virtually every turn pike built in the United States has had a higher accident rate during the first year or two of its operation, compared to suc ceeding years. The reason is ob vious: As motorists get useo. to driving on high speed roads. they get into less trouble. A super highway can be de ceptively dangerous to anyone not used to fast driving. One troublemaker is "highway hyp nosis," being lulled into drowsi ness by the very smoothness and ease of a super highway. That is why the new interstate system will deliberately place gentle curves, rolling hills and even carefully-planned scenery at strategic intervals to keep motorists alert. Such planning has made the New York State Thruway one of the pleasantcst roads to travel as well as one of the fastest. 1n Portland, it's the DANMOORE HOTEL A Home Away from Home. All rooms remodeled and refurnished . . Free Garage. Free T.V.'s in most rooms. TABU DINNER HOUSE Now Features: NICE THICK CUT CLUB DINNER STEAKS '2 65 PLUS SMORGASBORD Made Desserts C. Home and Oven-Fresh Bread..... You Furnish the Occasion We'll Furnish fhe Cake 305 SOUTH RIVERSIDE MEDFORD PHONE 2-2870 TARDINESS GETS DIVORCE Detroit (U.F) Mrs. Jean ! ernment Priest has given up hope that Middle Eastern nations.' Doctrine Faces Loss Of Aid Stipulation Washington (U.R) Sen. John : F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said today ! a proposal by fellow Democrats to strip a $200 million aid pro- j viso from the Eisenhower Doc-1 I trine would "embarras our gov- J and dismay friendly . her husband will return from the store. She obtained a divorce Thursday after telling a. judge that her husband went to the store in 1919 and never came back. TUNNEL TOTAL Boston U.Ri A total of 8, 448,151 vehicles passed through Boston's Summer Tunnel during the first eight months of 1956. This was an increase of 453.772, or 7.8 per cent, over the same period in 1955. Senate leaders pressed for a vote late today on the proposal, by Sen. Richard B. Russell (D Ga.) and others, to cut the $200 million aid clause out of the doctrine resolution. The outcome could be close but administration backers be lieved they could defeat the Russell amendment. 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