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12 MAIL TRIBUNE. MtdforJ, Ortgon, Frifjy, August 29, 1958 Japanese Turning To PsycHoIogy as Next Best Thing To Air Conditioning By RONALD P. KRISS UPI Correspondent Tokyo -HTB- The Japanese are fighting summer's heat with the next best thing to air-conditioning psychology. In terms that the average, sweltering man will under stand, they are trying to think themselves cool. This is no simple feat, and the Japanese have spent cen turies perfecting an elabor ate set of gimmicks to help their mental air-conditioning systems to function smoothly. One is the wind-bell, a sim ple, charming device that cap tures the faintest breath of a breeze and magnifies it into a tinkling little sound. Al most every home and office has one. Most gardens are equipped with water spouts that release a tiny trickle of water. The constant "drip, drip" sound was used quite effectively by medieval torturers to drive their captives mad, but if you're in the right frame of mind, the dripping noise ac tually helps you to think cool. Real Cool In the doorways of many department stores and large shops, the Japanese set a Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Gov. Orval Faubus, on the school integration issue: "You know, I suppose 90 per cent of the people in the North think I am the most rabid segregationist in the South." Seoul-Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker, advising Rus sia and Red China on Formosa: "If they underestimate or misinterpret the statements of President Eisenhower and Secretary of Stale Dulles they will be sorry for it." ' Los Angeles-Madame Chiang Kai-shek, opposing trade with Communist countries: "With lime, the Irade balance each year will be increas ingly in Iheir favor since, by the employment of slare labor, the Communist bloc, through a policy of dumping, can al ways undersell the free world." Santa Monica, Calif.-Actress Margaret O'Brien, on the death of her mother: . "Molher and I were very close. II was her seventh time In the hospital. I visited her daily and came home at night." New England Area Expected To Escape Hurricane This Year Miami- (ITD -The "educated guess" of the man who should know is that New England will escape a hurricane this year, and Florida" and the Gulf coast will get one may be. But Gordon Dunn, chief forecaster at the Miami Weather Bureau's Hurricane Central, wants to make it clear that this is only a guess, not a forecast. He based his opinion large ly on the antics of the press ure and wind patterns over the North American continent and over the Atlantic Ocean. Those pressures and winds go a long way toward deter mining the kind of weather we will have each da. And recently they have been out of place, causing the cock eyed weather that had Flori dians shivering through one of the coldest winters in his tory and now sweating through one of the hottest summers. Here, in a nutshell, Is what Dunn thinks probably will happen on the hurricane front and why. Less Favorable Conditions "First of all, conditions are less favorable than average for hurricane formation," "he said. This is due to two things. The Azores-Bermuda high, a giant mass of comparatively cool air, is riding farther south in the Atlantic. This is squeezing the spawning grounds of hurricanes in the south Atlantic into a smaller area, thus reducing the-room for storm development. Secondly, the high - level westerly winds blowing from the mainland are much far ther south than usual. This means that if a hurricane does come out of the Atlantic and head toward the middle or Eastern Seaboard the wes terlies probably would push the hurricane back out to sea. "Because of this, chances of a storm hitting north of Cape Hatteras are very remote," Dunn said. "Chances it would hit Jacksonville, Fla., are less than normal, and chances it would hit Miami, in the cen ter of the hurricane belt, are probably a little less than normal." - "However," he cautioned, "this is not true for the Gulf of Mexico area." Fairly Straight Shot Neither the westerlies nor the Bermuda high will have much effect on storms brew ing in the southeastern Carib bean. If they form there, they will have a fairly straight, unobstructed shot at the Caribbean islands, Mex ico, Central America or the Gulf coast of the United States. For the last two years it has been the Gulf coast that has been taking it on the chin from the tropical monsters. Two hurricanes smacked into almost the same place on the Louisiana coast in 1957. One of them, Audrey, went down as one of the most de structive hurricanes in his tory, killing more than 500 persons and causing more than 100 million dollars in damage. Poor Eyesight Said One Of Basic Crash Causes - Chicago How's your eye sight? If you drive a car the con dition of your eyes should be of great concern to you, nat urally. Yet, according to a professor of opthalmology, poor eyesight probably is one of the basic causes of traffic accidents. About 35,000 drivers in mo tor vehicle accidents in 1956 were reported to have defec tive eyesight, according to the National Safety Council. Add to that the number of acci dents that result from blocked vision, and you can see just how important sight is to mo torists. In more than a million auto accidents in 1956, not being able to see clearly was a con tributing factor. In about half of the million accidents, ob structions on the vehicle most important of which were rain or snow on the wind shield were factors. Highway obstructions such as trees, bushes, buildings and signboards were the culprits in more than 200,000 of the million accidents. How can the problem be solved? , 1. Don't drive if your eye sight's so bad it can't be cor rected with glasses. 2. Reduce your speed 5 or 10 m.p.h so you'll have more time "to spot hazards ahead. larae chunk of ice atop a stand. The ice often is sculp tured in the shape of animals and surrounded by cool-looking sprigs of leaves. The theaters do their part too. At Tokyo's Kokusai Theater the "Atomic Girls"- billed as the hottest things in town when the weather is cooler cavort amidst water falls, gushing streams, ponds and occasional thundershow ers. The traditional Japanese Kabuki Theater also offers summer plots with plenty of water but the Kabuki has something even better to chill the audience ghost plays. Nearly every summer pro gram includes the "Yotsuya Kaidan," a spine-tingling dra ma written during the 18th century. Sad Story - The beautiful heroine, in ghastly succession, is poison ed, finds that her hair is fall ing out and her' face growing disfigured, as a result, stabs herself and watches helpless ly, in her last moment, as a giant rat chews her newly born baby to death. That's not the end of the horror, either. She becomes a ghost and, after learning her husband has poisoned her and killed her father, haunts him until he dies in a final, agony drenched scene. The Japanese also have a few other techniques for beating the heat. On the theory that if you whack your self over the head with a hammer your headache won't seem half as , bad, many of them take summer baths where the water is just under the boiling point. They emerge bright red and sweat for hours after ward, but the explanation is that since it's indisputably cooler outside the bath, then the bath is refreshing. DENYING everything, Mrs. Horace Dodge II, wife of auto heir, is awaiting trial in Los Angeles on uspicion of battery and drunkenness. Corvallis Man Dies in Rescue Corvallis (UPD A Corvallis millworker was drowned Thursday as he attempted to rescue a six-year-old girl who was drifting into the main channel of the Willamette river while she sat in an in ner tube. John Gallaway, 28, appar ently stepped into a deep hole as he waded into a Riverside lagoon near here in an effort to pull the girl to shore. The girl, Linda Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Jones, was pulled to safety by witnesses. Gallaway was caring for five children picnicking, be side "the river when the 'girl called for help. After about 25 minutes of grappling, the Corvallis. fire department recovered the body. All efforts to revive Gallaway failed. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Gallaway, and a sister. TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Ralph Peterson, 318 West Jackson st., was taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Med ford Ambulance service about 11:50 a.m. yesterday for treat ment of head injuries and lac erations suffered in a mishap at Timber Products company. Lake Chad, Africa, covers from 1Q.000 to 20,000 square miles, according to the season. jMobfljiMi Distributer mi TO BURM Let Us Fill Your Tank Now Medford Fuel Co. Tel. SP 2-2111 Court & McAndrews OI7DC MEDFORD . wd . I I. . . I e CHILDREN'S (2nd Floor) FAMOUS MAKE TEE SHIRTS & SHORTS Slightly irregular. Navy, red, yellow, brown. Sizes 2-6X. Regular 1.19 and 89c. NOW 21.00 BOYS' 8? GIRLS' SUMMER PAJAMAS Girls' sizes 10-14, boys' sizes 2 to 8. Regular 1.98 and 2.93. NOW : Vz Price CHILDREN'S SUMMER WEAR Shorts, blouses, pedal pushers, shirts, dresses. coats. Values to 10.98. NOW . Vz Price o DOMESTICS (Lower Floor) PRISCILLA CURTAINS c:l I J a ii ri riHr ri if iss . nnrrnn. rn vn n ; . St. A. 'iJI ' ' "I ' s'-l M. sizes 48 x 45 to 48 x 81. 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