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O $0C MEDrOF.D (OREGON) Key Claimed Significant Symbol Of Helplessness in Mental Cases 7 DELOS SMITH United Pres Sciene Editor New York 'J A director of a 1 QOO-bed men'al hospital re ports that simply giving some pa tients keys to keep and to use will bring about an improvement in their mental conditions. No other places, not even pris ons, probably, are more thor oughly locked and keyed than mental hospitals. Ye', as Dr. Aron S. Mason said, "almost ttdmplete silence is maintained ' a&oiit thoe locks and keys. "To the mental patient, the 1iv m the most significant sym bol of h. helplessness." said Mason. ' It is viewed as token of the whole structure of power and responsibility in the mental hos pital " HHP&I -.o ' ""4r( mil i J? t . - i , UJ 111 I piji WW Mill 1 Iwn 1 1 t&-$ "TWKT COME IN ALL SIZES June Tuma, five-foot, nine awl ft-haif-inck blonde from Louisiana, towers over Jane WacUn erf Due West, S. C, who's a mere four-foot-eleven. Tb tvo girls are the tallest and shortest of the National CorSeys Queen contest finalists competing at the Belmont Plats Kal.fi m New York. The nation's 30 finalists will go to Astmrj Pa, N. J. for the final judging and crowning. Stock Market Setback Of Last Week Normal Ira Advancing Moves Sr ELMSl C. WALZER United res Financial Editor New York W The stock market, like business, has been point? through a rolling readjust- " V"3'Jl2' ment with the iavora Die moves out weighing the unfavor able, according t o market men. Last week's setback was seen as a nor m a 1 interrup- Eimer Waner tion to a series of advances in the averages a breather, as some described it. It is noted that the market has performed just as many of the experts said it would. They an ticipated and were right that there would be a high degree of selectivity. 713 Issues Advanced On June 11 when the indus trial average rose 5.72 points, a total of 713 issues advanced, while ?M declined and 218 held unrhanged. The next day there was a small rise and 504 issues rose. 437 de clined, and 250 held unchanged. On the 13th. the industrials rose 1.92 points and gains and losses were exactly evenly divided at 4fi!? with unchanged issues at 241. On Monday of this week when industrials hit their high since Aug. 17 at 513.19 more stocks declined than gained 417 to 506 while 254 were unchanged. The Washington discussions on the budget and the money situa tion brought the tight money problem to the fore and played a part in She decline. The relatively low volume, however, indicated to the finan cial district that there was no widespread unloading of stocks at this time Many in the street considered the decline but an interlude in the market's rise. Some Cause to Worry However, it was pointed out that if the industrial average should be depressed below the 500 level there rrjght be some cause to worry alvut a further, more vigorous setback. Wall Streeters continue to hope for a rise in the railroad if MAIL TRIBUNE ' Heads VA Hospital Maon is professional services ; d. rector of the Brockton, Mass. Veterans Administration hospi ! tal. There, as in other mental i hospitals, every room, every ! closet, every cabinet every cu ' bicie o receptacle of any kind ' has its lock and ! corresponding ! key. I Certain Brockton patients are ' given keys to rooms in which i they can carry out their assign 'ments in "industrial therapy." Although the hospital was open ed in 1953. ' no untoward inci dent has resulted from this poli j ry." On tiie other hand, "we ; have observed marked improve j merit in some patients when they are given the recognition and re- issues which it is felt could be the tonic the market needs at this point. The rails, however, haven't cooperated with the hopefuls up to now. In a short time the compari sons with a year ago in many lines will show sharp gains be cause of the steel strike in 1956. iThis will not make the current 'situation any better but it will look a lot better to many who don't delve too closely into the statistics, it is held. So far this year the market has adjusted itself to tight money, declining copper prices, poor car-loadings comparisons, oil cut backs, and narrowing of bond stock yield spreads. Eugene Man State Commander of DAY Salem il? William Manley of Eugene was named state com mander of the Oregon Depart ment of Disabled American War Veterans at the group's annual convention which closed Satur day. Mrs. Pearl Zeek of Newport was named commander of the auxiliary. Other DAV officers include Emmet D. McCarty of Ontario, junior vice commander: George Yeoman, Portland, chaplain: Dorr Quayle. Portland, treasur er, and Thomas Van Laningham, Oregon City, adjutant. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Finton, Klamath Falls, will serve as senior vice commander for both groups. FINGER TOO FAST Toledo. Ohio IP Ernest Halter's trigger finger proved faster than his draw. Halter said he was practicing his draw in a field with a .22-caliber single action frontier gun when he pulled the trigger before getting the gun out of his holster. He suffered a leg wound. i NAVAL CHIEF DIES I London IP Sir Louis Henry j Keppel Hamilton. 67. chief of I naval staff of the Common i wealth Naval Board fronl 1948 I and a hero of both world wars, died Saturday. Monday. Jun 14. 1957 sponsibility of handling keys," Mason said. He looked forward to a day when locks and keys are used in mental hospitals in the same way they are used in homes "main ly for the protection of proper ty." He thought that more and more "the concept of custody and control" was dying out among mental .hospital adminis trators and more and more they were accepting the "trend of the open hospital." Some Hospitals Open An "open hospital ' is one in which there are no locked doors, and patients may come and go as they please. The advocates of this practice still are in a minor ity in psychiatry but definitely there is a "trend." Mason said that at Brockton almost half the patients are in unlocked wards and their num ber has doubled in the last two years. A basic premise of the "open hospital" advocates is that if mental hospital patients are given to understand they are in capable of assuming responsibili ties, they will react by being thoroughly irresponsible. On The Side By E. V. DURUNG (Distributed by King Features Svndicate. Inc.) A dominating factor in the sensational success of the musi cal show titled "The Bells Are Ringing" is the performance contributed to the piece by the highly versatile Sidney Chaplin. I knew his uncle whom he is named after very well. That Sidney Chaplin was an extreme ly clever fellow who never achieved the fame and fortune his talents called for. He starred in a feature comedy film titled "The Submarine Pirate." His success was so great that it wor ried his brother Charlie. So Charlie paid Sidney S75.000 a year to stay off the screen. Charlie wanted to be the only Chaplin in the limelight. Quaint Food Who eats fried bees? How about fried grasshoppers? I noted both these items offered for sale in cans in a Madison ave. food shop. Imagine a man coming home from the office after a difficult day's work and saying to his wife: "What's for dinner, darling?" And she an swers, 'Fried bees." Other quaint types of food offered in this same shop are rattlesnake meal, quail eggs and lily bulbs in syrup. Asking Queries from clients. Q. In what New York restaurant is the best chance to see the most celebrities? A. "Toots" Shor's. And you don't have to be a celeb rity or a V.I. P. to get" service there. "Toots" plays no favor ites ... Q. So you keep on say ing the husband should wear his wedding ring on his right hand. The etiquette experts say the left haiid is correct. How about this? A. 1 repeat. Wearing a ring on the left hand is a sign of submission. Wearing one on the right hand is a sign of au thority. The wife agrees to obev so her ring goes on the left hand and her husband's on the right. As for the etiquette experts, practically all of them are women and therefore prejudiced. They think if a man wears his wedding ring on his right hand he might take the matter of his authority tod seriously and make things difficult for his wife. Asides How familiar are you with the works of Honore de Balzac? Ever read his highly interesting and instructive book titled "The Physiology of Marriage. A Book For Brides and Bridegrooms. Prospective and Veteran"? . . . In Midtown Manhattan can be seen more beautiful and well dressed women than in any sec tion of any other city in the world. Not all wealthy women either. New York business girls are now- said to spend 25 per cent of their weekly salaries on clothes. Please Note Speeding down Fifth Ave. 1 saw a young fellow on a motor-1 cycle with a very pretty blonde i young woman clinging to the rear scat. When a girl will go motorcycling that way with a man it is an indication of real ! love. Before "Buddy" Rogers i and Mary Pickford were mai ried they went motorcycling in : that fashion. Now they have , been happily married for 20 , vears. I Patents According to the law onlv things that have "utility" can be , patented. That is things that serve a useful purpose. It was 1 this requirement that is said to ! have prevented the gambling machine known as the "One -Arm Bandit'' from being pat ented. However. I notice in the most recent list of patents granted one has been issued for a "horse handicapping slide rule." So. perhaps the powers that be are becoming a little more broadminded in judging what serves a useful purpose. Luncheon To Honor Scholarship Holders Ashland Honored at a spec- ial luncheon Tuesday will be i tiie Oregon Shakespearean Fest ival scholarship winners. Host for the annual luncheon is the Ashland Chamber of Com 1 rrrerce. This season's festival I group includes 28 winners, hold : ing scholarships in acting, tech nical and box office work. Each of the scholarship people will be the personal guest of a chamber of commerce member at the noon event, which wili be held at the Elks club lounge The company members will in troduce themselves to the group, tell their hometowns, and state what role or position they currently hold with the festival Boy's Body Recovered From Drainage Ditch Portland W The body of Jack "Rinky" Kramer, 6. was recovered Sunday in a drainage ditch southwest of Portland In ternational airport, near his home. Multnomah county police sair' apparently the boy drowned while fishing Saturday. The common tongue of Egypt is the Arabic. 1 f' e-vi -:"V ''r- ..- r tf; J !r-" tyt -'f J8 & SIMM 11 J It i '1"-"" d&&:m lilt 1 1 ) VI AT SS il I I v & im 1r i-t-SV ft " l"Q ft Defense for Commercials Is Old Experiment By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York T? A new. work able defense for TV viewers ; against boring TV commercials ! and tedious TV performers is to ! conduct a scientific experiment i while waiting for the horrors to exhaust themselves, i You don't have to be a scien i tist to conduct this experiment. I You just sit there in the dark i room, directing a steady stare j not at the brightly lighted screen, i but a foot to the left of the screen. j Then you jerk your eyeballs I rapidly to the right, in a sort of j twitching movement. This I twitches your vision rapidly across the screen, and the twitch should be halted abruptly a foot to the screen's right. Bush Off Image Execute this maneuver correct ly and you'll discover you've brushed an image off the screen and suspended it in thin air to the right of the set. It stays there only a few thousandths of a sec ond, but is it there. That's the beginner's experi ment. As you get good at it, you can start your twitching arc far- rS:1t"- ill live W. - - ' ..-t- 1 v sSjs&f 4? TV Viewers Against ther to the left of the screen and ' end it farther from the right, i Then you can suspend as many as four images in a row. This is a TV viewer's defense I which now is being tried out by ; a growing number of scientists. ; They got the idea from an Eng ! lish colleague, T. G. Crookes, Four Persons Saved As Boat Capsizes Newport, Ore. 'TP A 14-foot boat capsized near the Yaquina bay jetty Sunday but the four persons aboard were rescued by the Coast Guard. Rescued were Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Van Hovel and Virgil Soule, Vancouver, Wash., and Jeanette Scalbeck, 21, Portland. A tower watchman saw their small boat overturn and a Coast Guard motor lifeboat on patrol outside the bar was called by radio. Two members of the life boat crew jumped into the water to rescue the two women while the men were pjlled to safety by a lifeline. Spectacular HOW Aerial and Ground Displays Senior Hi Stadium Adults 1.00 Children 50 YMCA CAMP BENEFIT Published in cooperation with the Medford Y.M.C.A. by the Bakers of . . . SMS FINE VARIETY BREADS who both originated it and work ed out the science of it. The phenomenon is not new, i of course. If you look at a light ed picture in a dark room or at a movie in a dark theater and jerk your eyes away, your retinas will retain for a flash of time, blurred streaks of light. Not As Wholes It is blurred light because the lighted picture comes upon the retinas all at one time, and so do the individual '"frames" in the film of the movie. But the "frames" of TV reproduction don't come onto the screen as wholes. The "franrfs" form top to bot tom with a speed which the eyes are incapable of detecting, of course. The speed of the twitch ing eye when co-ordinated with the speed of the forming "frame" brushes the intact "frame" off the screen and hangs it in the air. Crookes found that the best distance from the TV for the ex periment was six feet. At a clos er distance, the string of sus pended images overlap. At six feet they are separated with spaces between. If JULY SeerJ Growers Voting Cn Producer Commission Salem IP Growers from Salem, Albany and McMinnville areas began voting today on whether to form an Oregon high land bentgrass seed producers commission. Polls will be odcii from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday. Two thirds of the registered produc ers voting must favor the pro posal for passage. AUTO PIONEER DIES Rye. N.Y. ilP Charles B. 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