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o o o o o o O g1 O SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Highway Hypnosis Fastest Groving Accident Cause Chicago TO "Highway hyp nosis," a new peril for motorists driving on superhighways, is now regarded as one of the fast est growing causes of modern expressways accidents. An article in Aim, employee publication of the Allstate In surance Co., says the easy driv ing conditions on straight, wide and high speed expressways tend to lull motorists into drow siness and a state of dulled re flexes. Fatal single car accidents have shown the greatest increase of all types of traffic accidents in the last 15 years, accounting for more than a third of all traffic fatalities in 1956. As expressway driving lulls drivers into free wheeling calm and a false sense of security, they may lose the power to ad just to the simplest changes in driving conditions and become physically and mentally unable to cope with an emergency. With the new federal high way act calling for 41,000 miles of expressways in the next 16 years, learning to shake off highway hypnosis may become a life-or-death necessity. What to Do Here are some suggestions: 1. Pull your car off the pave ment and rest at the first sign of blurred sion, heavy eyelids and staring or glazing eyes. 2. Start your trip well rested. Fatigue deteriorates your entire driving ability. 3. Move your head and eyes constantly and don't focus sharply on any object unless it's necessary. 4. Stop frequently and eat Hi-Lite ..IN THE History V ha r maty by ED HALL of -I The housewives of the eai4 colonies brought with them their knowledge, rem edies and herbs from their native countries. They plant ecQherbals in the new eoun- try but they also used a num ber of native herbs, thus bringing into the medical field Indian drugs some of which are still included in the Pharmacopoeia . . 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Revelation and O Compact HASSOCKS $12.95 FLOOR & SALESMAN SAMPLES small meals instead of one big one just before or during your trip. 5. Try not to drive long dist ances at night when the danger of hypnosis becomes much greater. Darkness relaxes some drivers too much. Keep your in strument panel lights turned down to reduce their hypnotic glare. 6. Vary your speed frequently and don't follow the same car too long. 7. Wear loose fitting clothes and keep fresh air circulating in your car. 8. Play the radio but avoid continual slow music and change stations frequently. Occasional bursts of singing out loud and whistling helps. 9. Try to avoid sun glare, a major factor in inducing eye strain and fatigue. 10. And keep thinking of how you would react to emergency conditions. Radical Changes In Punishment at MacLaren Started Woodburn OP) Some radical changes in punishment methods at MacLaren school for boys are being put into effect here. The school's new superintend ent, Amos Reed, said today the end had come for such punish ments as "squats," "on the bones," leg irons, handcuffs, kangaroo courts and bowing to employees. Reed explained that "squats" consisted of having a boy do knee bends until he fell or faint ed. He said "on the bones" was a command for a boy to lie on his knees and elbows for long periods. Stale Shares Blame Reed, who came here from Illinois two months ago, said the administration was not entirely to blame for the school's drift ing into reformatory methods. He said the state shared the blame and that harsh punish ment methods were "despera tion moves" to handle boys who should have been in the inter mediate penal institution now being built near Salem. Reed said he wants to keep MacLaren a school with a "home type" punishment and that boys who need maximum security should be moved to stricter institutions. 'Piker Chasing' Gone Another fault Reed intends to remedy is piling up restrictions against a boy for as long as 18 months so that the youth feels he has no reason to abandon his rebellious attitude. Also gone will be "piker chasing" which consists of hav ing boys supervising other boys. Not all persons agree with his punishment philosophy, Reed admitted, but he expressed con fidence that it would work and improve the institution. He has had experience heading both training schools and reforma tories in Illinois. WISCONSIN APPLES Madison. Wis. (IP) Wiscon sin's 1957 apple crop has been estimated at 1,176,000 bushels according to the state Depart ment of Agriculture. Leading va rieties include Mcintosh, Delici ous, Jonathan and Cortland. NEW COMBINES ELEGANCE AND EFFICIENCY Reg. $fLQ95 1699S Special 109 Price NEW NEW Reg. Price $4995 $19.95 $24.95 $29.95 Phone SP 2-4998 1109 North Riverside Ave. Wednesday, December II, 1957 American Painting History Told in Time Book Venture New York IP New art books are crowding dealers' shelves as certain a sign of Christmas as Santa Claus. One of these glossy books is the first publishing venture of Time, Inc. "Three Hundred Years of American Painting" by Alexander Eliot, art editor of Time magazine. Time calls it the first book on American art with all reproductions in full color. The book contains 250 such reproductions, ranging from such pioneers of American paint ing as John Singleton Copley to such contemporary abstraction ists as Robert Motherwell. Its 328 pages represent the work of 40 persons who assisted Eliot in research, editing, writing and reproduction. Time ordered 300,000 copies in its first press run, increasing the number from an originally planned 150,000 copies after re sponse to promotional material indicated lively interest. Time expects to sell at least 200,000 copies by Christmas. The aver age best-selling art book sells about 25,000 copies before going out of print. Time's venture ito the book business began about three years ago when Eliot, who has long held that one of the "most un sung things in the world is American art," told the maga zine's art director, Michael Phil lips, that the time was ripe for a book on the subject. Careful Checking Eliot explained that since 1951 the art section of Time has print ed 1,069 color plates plates whose quality would be en hanced by slower printing and liner paper than a magazine allows. The result was that within a few months, Eliot began work on the text, which he said would emphasize the artists themselves their lives, philoso phies and working methods. Eliot turned this early materia into a Time cover story, but re turned to his project in the sum mer of 1956 backed by the full resources of the magazine. When the proofs of all the color papers were completed, Phillips planned to send them to museums and picture owners to check against the original paint ings. Instead, Phillips went him self, covering 25,000 miles in 10 weeks, checking reproductions against originals and sending corrections to the engravers. A Chicago firm, R. R. Don nelley & Sons, handled the job of printing and binding, some of which was hand-processed. By Nov. 1, the book was ready for distribution to stores throughout the country, and Time staff members were able to sit back with the hope that, in Eliot's words, they had "set the record straight about Ameri can art." WINS CASE Fargo, N.D. OP) Ned Nation, a laborer from Starks, La., de clined to have an attorney when he was charged with auto theft. "I am perfectly capable of repre senting myself," he told the judge. Nation cross-examined the two prosecution witnesses and rested his case without testifying himself or presenting any wit nesses. The judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to hold Nation and ordered him freed. (S&H GREEN STAMPS) 95 JOHNSON POLISHER 39 95 SPECIAL $19.95 HOOVER . . ........ $19.95 SEVERAL OTHER MAKES $12.95 HURRY While Stocks Are Complete A Small Deposit Holds Until Christmas BUDGET TERMS INSPECTING FORMOSA'S FIRST East -West road is President and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek of Free China. The 190-mile highway, cut through 10,000-foot mountains, will be ready. in 1959. More than 11,000 men, including Chiang's soldiers, are doing the work by hand. (International) The Hollywood Scene Hollywood OP) TV under goes its first hour-and-a-half long commercial next week when a young husband and wife team appears in a drama based on their own project to aid homeless Europeans. The show, "Play house 90," amounts Vernon Scott to a gigantic plug for "Help Homeless Euro pean Land Program a project to aid refugees. Don Murray and his wife, Hope Lang, purchased 130 acres og land in Sardinia to resettle refugees in Italian camps. The idea was approved by the UN which contributed additional funds. CARE is supplying food until the first crops are har vested. But the project may fold un less the youngsters raise more money. Murray, a pacifist and consci entious objector, spent two years in Italy as a sacial worker dur ing the Korean war. Since then he has dedicated himself to help-1 ing the derelicts of Europe.' "Our community on Sardina is a pilot program to relocate 15 to 20 families in a self-support ing community," Hope said while her husband rehearsed for the CBS-TV program. "We began on a shoestring. Now we need help. "We've spent all our own mon ey to get things going. We bor rowed on our salaries for this TV show to meet payments on the land. We haven't even been able to furnish our home yet," she smiled. "We're not complaining. Don and I want other people to join in giving funds to continue the work. Evenutally we hope to re locate all 50,000 refugees in Eur ope still living in camps." A far cry from most young ac ting couples in movietown, the Murrays are deeply religious and dedicated to their cause. Neither are able to put their iBJSkurjpa cm! THE ZENITH "DIPIOMAT" SLIP-ON HEARING AID Worn entire ly at the ear. Plugs i n stantly into tiny, light weight ear mold. THE NEW ZENITH EYEGLASS HEARING AID The world's most attrac tive hearing aid Styles for men and women. There's nothing hard-of-hearing friends or loved ones will appreciate more than the gift of hearing at Christmas. Let us send a gift certificate and make all arrangements. 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Salem district represen tatives said they had been asked for pay boosts of $30C for teach ers, plus an increment increase as well. Other districts said they had not yet discussed the im pending budget but "had heard" that teachers were planning to ask higher salaries. The possibility of holding bud get elections earlier in 1958 to avoid what is expected to be confusion surrounding rural school budget elections under the new law was discussed. Districts represented at the meeting were Corvallis, Med ford, Coos Bay, Grants Pass, Roseburg, Eugene, Springfield, Salem and two from Albany. Warm Springs Junction Toughest Driving Spot Salem OPl Toughest spot to drive in Oregon today was at Warm Springs junction where silverthaw was forming and chains were required. State highway officials also advised that spots of ice were on highways at Government Camp, Willamette pass, Chemult, Pendleton, Meacham and Austin. 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