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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 "
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"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
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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.
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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-
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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
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Senior Hi Stadium
Adults 1.00 Children 50
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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.
King. 89. a pioneer in the auto
mobile industry who designed,
built and drove the first auto
mobile in Detroit, died Sundav.
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