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RED VISITOR Mrs. Anna Butenko, architect from Khar kov, Russia, locks over a travel folder upon her arrival at International Airport in New York. Mrs. Butenko is the only woman in a group of 14 "ordinary" Russian tourists visiting the U. S. for two weeks. Though the group is supposed to be typical of Russia, every member is a professional person. Human Error To Remain Among Leading Factors In Automobile Accidents Chicago-The car of tomor row will be super-safe, auto experts predict. Accidents will be designed out, they say. Everyone agrees, though, that one accident factor will never be done away with, hu man error. It will be as great a problem in the year 2000 or 3000 as it is now. "Despite every automotive advancement, people- not speed or unsafe conditions still will be the major cause of accidents," the National Safety Council believes. Why? "You can equip a car with all the latest life-saving devices-seat belts, padded dash boards and steering wheels that give when pressure is put on them-but you can't design out human errors and unsafe acts. "The new safety gadgets ara marvelous-and they un doubtedly help protect motor ists. But without good, cau tious driving, the traffic ac cident toll will remain high." . The toll in 1957, prelimin ary reports show, was 38,500. Injuries numbered about 1, 350,000. The cost of the acci dents was more than $5 bil lion. Consider these facts: 1. In 1956, 6 out of 10 mo torists in an accident were charged with a law violation -driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding, not hav ing right of way, following Oldest Silverton Resident Succumbs Silverton-fUPD-This commu nity's oldest resident and last veteran of the old Oregon Trail and covered wagon days died Tuesday at the Silverton Nursing home. Nathaniel McGuire, 98, was born Christmas Day, 1859, in Iowa and traveled by covered wagon to Oregon1 with his parents in 1864. He had lived here since. He was a miller by trade. too closely, improper passing, driving on the wrong side of the road, and running stop streets. And that doesn't in clude motorists who escaped detection. 2. Only 8 out of every 100 accidents involved a report edly unsafe car. Most motor vehicle accidents-about 8 out of 10-occurred on clear or cloudy days. 3. About 1,850 of the 40, 000 motorists killed in ac cidents in 1956 had fallen asleep at the wheel. "People hold the key to the traffic accident problem," the Council says. TMCA Camp for Week End Is Full Young Men's Christian as sociation officials have an nounced" that registrations for the Labor Day camping pe riod at YMCA Diamond lake camp have reached capacity. The family camping period at Diamond lake is a yearly affair. Costs this season were set at a minimum of expense for food and lodging. Twelve families have registered to date. ' At camp the families will participate in a program that includes archery, riflery, swimming, hiking, skits, songs and other camp activi ties. Highlight of the week end will be a waterfront pro gram including a greased watermelon race. TUNE IS APPROPRIATE Pontiac, 111. - (UPD - County Judge A. W. Tuesburg placed George McClellan, 24, on pro bation to the time of "Don't Be Cruel" blaring from a car nival loudspeaker outside the courtroom window. "It was appropriate music but it won't apply if he vio lates this probation," said the judge. There are still more than 8,000 miles of sled roads in Alaska. Columbia, C3ogue (Balls Among Issues Left Over for Next Congress Session By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington - Among the unfinished items left over from the 85th Congress for J2 legislative ac tion next year by the new 8 6th Con gress, prob ably the most significant for the Pacific Northwest is the bill to es tablish a Col- X. Robt Smith uuiuia xuver Regional Development Cor poration an agency that could build dams with rev enue bond financing and com plete the vast job of harness ing the Columbia's kilowatt potential. Sponsored by all Northwest senators from Oregon, Wash ington, Montana and Idaho, except for Sen. Henry Dwor- shak (R-Ida.), the bill was the subject of a week's hear ings by the Senate Public Works Committee this sum mer. Sen. Richard L. Neu berger (D-Ore.), chief sponsor of the idea in Congress, plans to conduct further hearings on the proposal in Portland and Missoula after the fall elections. Neuberger has hopes of gathering enough information to write a new bill that will be more acceptable to a wide number of groups in the Northwest, some of whom are now divided over the original bill. Another proposal left un done this year with region wide implications was for creation of a Columbia Basin reclamation account - a plan wherebv power revenues . ill:, ijj r- -Hi u'ip ti m X 1 i?MMl. - 1 PRESS CONFERENCE President Eisenhower points a fin ger to emphasize a point during his news conference in Wash ington. The President said there can be "no equivocation as to the responsibility of the Federal Government" to see that court rulings on school integration are carried out. Area Students Get OSC Scholarships Corvallis-Sallie K. Greaser. Medford, and Ronald K. Han son, Eagle Pomt, have been awarded $138 partial-tuition spholarshiDS for 1958-59 at Oreaon State college. The study grants are two of a group sponsored each year by the state system of higher education for a limited num ber of outstanding students enrolled in college and for some nromisina high school graduates who will be enter ing college. Miss Greaser is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Greaser, 663 South Holly st. She is a sophomore in gen eral science. Hanson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hanson, Eagle Point, is a sophomore in general en gineering. Pilots, Airline Resume Talks Negotiations between the Air Lines Pilots association rAFT-Cim and West Coast Airlines resumed in Seattle, Wash.. Wednesday through the efforts of the national mediation board. Former mediation and ne gotiation efforts between the two factions ended in a dead lock Aug. 1, and the pilots have the right to strike under the Railway Labor act after a 30-day "cooling off" period which expired Aug. 18. Negotiations between the pilots and the company were started in November, 1957, and in December the pilots approved a strike proposition by ballot. Issues involved include wages, hours and working con ditions, a pension plan, ana agreement concerning flying the new F-27 Falrchild turbo prop airliner. A spokesman for the pilots said that in some cases West Coast pilots re ceive $165 or more less com pensation per month than other pilots of other air car riers flying the same equip ment.' v West Coast airlines, which has headquarters in Seattle, employs 88 pilots and operates in Oregon, Washington, ana Idaho. , Varsity Band to Hold Try outs, Rehearsals The high school varsity band will begin rehearsal Tuesday, Sept. 2 to prepare for the season's first football game slated Friday, Sept. 12, according to Band Director Irv Mirick. The rehearsal will be held in the high school auditorium beginning at 7 p.m., Mirick said, and new students wish ing to try out for the band should contact him at the high school prior to that time. BE SURE IT'S BRIDGET Louisburg, N.C. - (LTD -Po lice Chief William Dement has advised his men to be careful in the search for a missing pet skunk named Bridget, even though she has been deodorized. "Approach any stray skunk with caution. It might not be Bridget," said the chief. from all federal dams in the Northwest would be used to help pay for further irriga tion development in the re gion, regardless of the loca tion of the reclamation proj ects. Reclamation groups in the Northwest have promoted this, but no legislative prog ress was made this year. Field Hearings Due Another issue on which field hearings will be held in Oregon this fall is on the Wilderness Preservation bill, which would give permanent status, to existing federal wilderness areas and further the creation of more such areas in the national forests. Neuberger will head a Senate Interior Subcommittee that will hold hearings on this one at Bend Nov. 7 and San Francisco Nov. 10. Other Northwest issues that await the return of the next Congress include: -Rogue River multiple-development project field studies have not yet been completed by various federal agencies on the affects of a series of dams in the Rogue basin that would be designed to develop its full potential for power, flood control and irrigation, along with recrea tion and navigation. Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) in troduced a bill for this under taking. -Educational TV-the Senate passed but' the House failed to take up the bill of Sen. Warren G. Magnuson CD Wash.) to offer $1 million to each state for purchase of equipment for ' educational television facilities. It aroused much support from education al groups, but after clearing the Senate without difficulty it reportedly ran into fears among some congressmen that thciaid money might have to be denied southern institu tions that practiced segrega tion. Plan Stays Alive -Domestic parity for wheal -this plan of Northwest wheat growers continues to stay alive in the hopes of some lawmakers. It was part of an omnibus farm bill which the House killed .this session, but wheat growers didn't press for its inclusion in the com promise farm bill finally ap proved. -Tolls on new Columbia River bridge - if this bridge from Vancouver to Portland had been financed under the new federal highway act, it would be toll free. Congress passed a resolution calling on the Commerce Department to submit in January a plan for reimbursing states for proj ects such as this. The price tag for all such projects would run about $5 billion. Eliminating tolls appears to depend on Congress acting to finance this cost in some way -Oregon Caves expansion- government agencies are pre paring reports on Congress man Porter's bill for a five fold increase in the size of Oregon Caves National Mon ument from 480 to 2910 acres. -Fish vs. dams-Neuberger's bill for giving the Secretary of the Interior veto power over licenses for dams issued by the Federal Power Com mission was sidetracked in the Senate in the closing days of the session. Congress en acted an Interior bill requir ing federal agencies to offer plans for enhancing fish val ues when dams are built. More action of this conflict can be expected next year. -Mining - the House in the final week killed the minerals subsidy bill after it had passed the Senate, but another go-round on this problem for western mining interests is expected next year. Pressure on the Federal Tariff Commission will also build up for relief for do mestic minerals. Oregon chrome mines will be largely shut down unless some action is taken, and Idaho lead and zinc mines will be in a con tinuing slump due to excess supply of these ores. -Timber mining Neuberg er's bill for restricting use of timber on mining patents didn't budge this year, and isn't likely to move as long as mining is suffering a de pression. It would prevent mining patentees from gain ing title to all the timber lo cated on their patented land located in national forests. It would prevent a repetition of the Al Sarena case, where patents were issued in Rogue River National Forest but thereafter only the timber on the patents was "mined." Food for Needy -Fishery extension service -the Senate passed a bill to create this service for fisher men, similar to what farmers get in latest agricultural in formation, but the House failed to take it up before adjournment. -Food stamp plan - Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) was sponsor of legislation that al most passed the House and probably will be revived next year. It would have provided distribution to needy families of $1 billion worth of surplus farm commodities each year for two years. The bill got a majority vote, 196 - 187, but because it came up under a special rule to bypass the Rules Committee, it required a two-thirds vote and didn't get it. -Timber receipts-the House a few days Defore adjourn ment passed a bill to let coun ties decide how to spend their national forest receipts, in stead of being limited to channeling the money into schools and roads. Congress woman Green had kept the bill from passing earlier, but it was whipped through by unanimous consent in the last week when she wasn't look ing. Sen. Wayne Morse and Sen. Neuberger helped block it" in the Senate by getting the Senate Agriculture Com mittee to take no action on it. -Lillie Moore museum a new bill to give this Roseburg property to the city will prob ably be introduced next Jan uary by Porter. Morse blocked this bill this year on grounds the city should have paid half the market price of the property. New Propeller Said To Increase Speed of Ships Washington-rtJPD- The Navy announced Wednesday de velopment of a drastic new propeller which it said will be as important to ship pro pulsion as the jet engine has been to airplanes. . The revolutionary ship pro peller, which uses certain principles of aircraft propel ler design, will result in ma jor increases in the speed of future ships, the Navy said. The propeller was described as "the first breakthrough of the cavitation barrier", and was said to be an advance un precedented in the past 30 years of hydrodynamics de velopment. "Cavitation" is the word used in marine circles to de scribe the vapor pocket which forms behind a fast-turning ship propeller. The faster the propeller, turns, the larger the vapor pocket becomes and the more the propeller's ef ficiency is reduced. Marshall P. Tulin of the Of fice of Naval Research, how e v e r, has developed a pro peller which uses hydrofoil principles the way airfoils are used on airplanes. Instead of losing efficiency because of the vapor pocket which forms behind it, Tulin's propeller is so designed that it pushes against the vapor as other propellers push against water and increases the speed of the ship. MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Thundar, Aegutt 28, 1931 ' 3 A SHOT DOWN BY ACCIDENT Air Force Lt Roland Svane (left), of Seattle,, smiles at the two pilots he acci dentally shot down in a mock attack near Clinton, Mo. nxuci irum avane s piane aestroyea their T-33 jet trainer, the two pilots parachuted to the ground with out serious injury. 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