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o Passenger Asset To Driver, Magaine Says Chicago W The back seat driver has been maligned too long, according to an insur ance company publication. An article in Home & High way magazine says a passenger can be an asset to a driver. But driver and passenger should work as a team, the mag azine added, with the passenger assuming the role of "co-pilot" to point out dangers not easily seen from behind the wheel. The driver should be In charge, the article said, but should assign certain duties to the passenger. On cross-country trips, for example, the passen ger can do the map reading and read the route signs, .leaving the driver to concentrate on the road. When changing lanes, the "co-pilot" can help the driver by covering blind spots on the right. But the magazine offered this advice to backseat drivers: "Be specific about dangers you see. If you just yell, 'Look out!' you only startle the driver with out giving him any idea of what he has to avoid." And don't nag or distract the man at the wheel with needless advice. Blacksmith Not Worried About Horses Leaving Sebewairig, Mich. HP) A 68-year-old blacksmith who has been in the business almost 50 years and has never shod a horse says he is not the least bit concerned that his trade faces near extinction because Dobbin is passe. "In fact, I don't like horses," Frank H. Kaatz said. He operates one of the last of the blacksmith shops in Michi gan but considers himself a ma rine blacksmith because he con centrates on fashioning ice spuds, fish spears, gaff hooks and anchors. Dog Visits Home, But Not With Its Owner Detroit HP) Margaret Boone grimaced when a mud covered dog followed a guest into her home. But she decided a good host ess should extend hospitality to the pet of a guest, even when the dog bounced onto her sofa. When- the guest, Mrs. Mary DeMeulenaere, started to leave without the dog, Miss Boone asked: "Aren't you forgetting your dog?" "My dog?" replied Mrs. De Meulenaere. "I thought it be longed to you. It was gnawing on a bone on your front porch when I got here." ' - plill SWEEPING THROUGH CANYON, San Gabriel Mountain fire burns 18,000 acres of valuable watershed near Los Angeles, threatens many communities. (International) .o. I J : This year personalize with k Photo-Greeting Cards .tAlV"? Start with the negative from a favorite Ci tf snapshot. Then pick from the many designs avatiaoie m we new Diu-piciure siyie. Prices are moderate. Order early and A'avoid the last-minute rush. We Give S&H Green Stamps ''V ANDERS PHOTO SHOP 232 East Main Phone SP 2-5646 Zoo Director Says Feeding Don't Hurt Chicago OP) The director of suburban Brookfield Zoo dis agrees with the theory that pub lic feeding of zoo animals results in an unbalanced diet which may harm their health. Robert Bean believes visitors to zoos are missing a privilege if they've never tossed peanuts, popcorn and the like to zoo ani mals. "Wild animals don't founder on food. They know when to stop." Bean said that since the Brook field Zoo opened in 1934, he has never known any of its animals to have become sick from over eating food offered by the pub lic. However, he agrees that there are certain times when animals do need special diets and, on these occasions, the animals are placed behind glass and the pub lic asked not to feed them. The public generally is "wonderfully cooperative," Bean said. Most zoo animals like a hand out, Bean said. "Bears seem to be natural beggars," he added. "They put on quite a show." The Winnipeg river, within Manitoba to Lake Winnipeg, has a total drop of 271 feet and it is a major source of hydroelectric power in that area. The Alps mountain range ex tends through parts of the five countries of central Europe, mostly in Switzerland. German Buyer Goes On Bicycle Tour Cleveland OP) Walter A. Hamann, who left Germany on a globe-girding bicycle tour to study merchandising methods, said he found worthwhile new ideas "only in Canada and the United States." Hamann, 36, is a buyer and group-manager for a German de partment store chain. He began his tour two years ago and has cycled 26,000 miles. He expects to keep traveling for another 18 months. "I'm particularly impressed here by your services to keep the customer happy and comfor table," he said. ' "The Germany people are so conservative that they still want clerks to serve them," the mer chandiser said. o He explained that big neigh borhood shopping centers "wouldn't suit Germany because our cities aren't spread out, like yours." o Starting out with $500, Ham ann has kept his traveling fund virtually - intact by selling dis patches to a German newspaper and by working in a Colombo mineral water factory and in Singapore and Sydney depart ment stores. His travels have taken him through Germany, Austria, Yug oslavia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran West md East Pakistan, India, Burma, Thai land, Malaya, New Zealand, Fiji and Hawaii. Boat Operators May Get $2 Million Back Chicago (ID The nation's boating operators will have a chance to collect as much as $2,500,000 in refunded fuel tax money from the government this year. The estimate was made by the Outboard Boating Club of Amer ica, a national association of boating enthusiasts and manu facturers and sellers of marine equipment. The association estimated that about 250 million gallons of gaso line were consumed from July 1, 1956, through June, 1957. It was pointed out to members that the highway revenue act of 1956 boosted federal excise taxes on gasoline from two to three cents a gallon, with the increase earmarked to help finance the new federal highway program. However, the bill provided that the one-cent increase was refundable if the fuel was used otherwise than in a highway ve hicle. This includes gasoline used by motorboats, the OBC said. Camels are essentially animals of the arid deserts and have a great aversion to water, only with difficulty being persuaded to cross even the smallest stream. The panda is a member of the raccoon family. The word "panda" is said to be a corrup tion of the native Nepalese name when means "bamboo eater." Thurso ay, Nevemke ga, IMF Nuclear Power Group Mot Known Among Local People worle s population, the united Chicago m Not many per sons have heard of the Nuclear Power Group, Inc., or, for that matter of Grundy County. Yet, this group in a relatively ob scure Illinois county is making history in one of the most excit ing adventures ever undertaken in the field of peacetime atomic science. Grundy County lies some 50 miles southwest of Chicago. Here, eight companies, including utilities providing electric serv ice in 12 of the 48 states, have banded together to form a co operative enterprise known as Nuclear Power Group, Inc. Their purpose is to build the largest all-nuclear plant in this country, the Dresden Nuclear Power Station. Dresden, which is now under construction, will occupy a 950 acre site at a point where the Kankakee and Des Plaines Ri vers join to become the mighty Illinois. Ready in I960 ' At its completion late in 1960, Dresden will harness and put into action atomic energy to add 180-000 kilowatts to north ern Illinois' reservoir of electri city. Main contributor to the Dres den project is Commonwealth Edison Co., which will pay 30 millions of the 45-million-dollar contract price plus site and over head costs. Although Commonwealth Edi son will own and operate the full-scale nuclear power plant, all members of Nuclear Power Group are participating in its design, planning and' construc tion. Dresden's makeup is some thing from a science-fiction magazine. Although the turbine room is like that of most power plants, the reactor will be en closed in a sphere - type steel building 190 feet in diameter. Engineers say conventional coal-fired generating plant the size of Dresden would burn about 1,700 tons af coal a day, or about 600,000 tons a year. Yet, a 60-ton core loading of slightly enriched uranium is expected to last six years. o Private Funds In other words, Dresden eventually will use 10 tons of uranium fuel a year to do the work of more than 600,000 tons of coal, or about 10,000 carloads. To make the project even more interesting to taxpayers, Dresden is being paid for entire ly by private funds. No govern ment subsidy is involved. As for the "why" in Dresden, Commonwealth Edison explains: "With only six per cent of the States produces shout hlf of the vorld's energy and industrial output a major reason why we enjoy the highest standard of living the world has ever known. 'cAbundant electricity has been the lifeblood of this pheno menal achievement, ad th4 mand for more po-r is wt itb creeinf. By 175, it's estimated thfC the United States will bfj usinjf) nearly four times as much eltio tricity as today." Thus Dresden. Cork trees live 300 to W years and may be stripped evr$ 10 years or so. Th bast com mercial varieties of cork ftre oe tained when the trees are 40 50 years old. for a merrier Christmas give PRINCESS GARDNER PERSIAN PRINCESS 111 'ifkrCHED ACCESSORIES Gahna Cowhide. .. gleam studded! Christmas white and popular colors. " " The Continental French Purse. Roomy, feather-fined - -coin purse. Pick-A-Bill slot. Chirga-PUte pocket. 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