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Writer Puts on Blindfold To Learn Ways of the Sightless (Editor's note: To r. In nnder- Itandinc of the blind and how they re taught to live without sight, I PI correspondent Ira Lurvey put on a blindfold and spent three days at the Blind Rehabilitation Center of the Hines Veterans Hos pital. This is the first of three dis patches telling what it was like.) By IRA LURVEY UPI Correspondent Maywood, Ill.-CPD-From the paraplegics' mess hall, up two inclines and under the whirr of the overhead fan to the squeak in the linoleum, lies Corridor B-ll-the Hall of the Long White Cane. Officially, B-ll leads to the Blind Rehabilitation Center at the Veteran Administra tion's Hines hospital. Unofficially, it leads to life. "They build one's confi dence," a patient said. "That's like building a new world." For three days, I walked the Hall of the Long White Cane and the rooms of the re habilitation center. Two of those days I was "blind." I put a blindfold on out side the hospital gates in this Chicago suburb and was driv en to the center. Wanted lo Learn I wanted to learn how a blind man walks, what he thinks, how he feels. I learned that blindness is neither a freak show nor an alien world-it's merely a life without sight. My reaction was colored, of course. I knew I again would see blue sky, green trees and ' smiling faces. I learned that a blind man's greatest loss is his anonymity. His greatest problem is mo bility. , ' I was warned by those with sight that my biggest hurdle would be avoiding bruises. It turned out to be avoiding star vation. I left six filled trays for lack of appetite. Psychologist Dan Blasche said that just happened to be Sew-Very-Easy 'I' 9096 , try iniitinH Simple to sew, and oh-so-very smart four seasons of the year! Choose nubby cotton tweed for smart separates, crepe or sheer wool for two piece suit-dress look. Of course, it's a Printed Pattern beginner-easy to cut, sew. 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Sighted orientators led me to my room, then made me retrace my steps until I knew exactly where each piece of furniture was placed. I was taken into the corri dor and led to the washroom and water fountain. The ori entation continued until I so-loed-all the way from my room to the end of the hall took a drink, walked into the washoom, rinsed my face, wiped it and returned to the room. I never was allowed to count steps. "What if someone talks to you and you lose count?' my guide asked. "Are you going to sit down in the middle of a street because you can't recall if you are up to 15 or 20?" You walk with one arm crooked in front of your face and the other trailing along a wall. Thus any object you come upon first strikes your arm. A blind man, I learned, has no super senses. He just makes use of those a sighted man throws away. Greatest Pleasure Sitting was my greatest pleasure. "A blind man never can re lax on his feet," I was told. "He always must be alert, re- News About Servicemen Army Pvt. James O. Han sen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ol iver Hansen, of Central Point, recently arrived in Germany and is now a member of the 67th missile battalion. Hansen, a launcher crew man in the battalion's Battery B, was last stationed in Red mond, Wash. He entered the Army in April 1957 and com pleted basic training at Fort Lewis, Wash. The 18-year-old soldier for merly worked for the White City Metal company, in .Med ford. He attended Prospect high school. Newport, R.I. -(UPD- Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower will end their vacation here Tues day and return to Washington. a 1 Fine Selection RCA STEREO RECORDS The Mark XHI. Deluxe portable Stereo-Orthophonic High Fidelity "Victrola." Plays all records -- new stereo and regular monaural. 3 speakers. New "Living Stereo" pickup. Auxiliary speaker (SHS13 shown), or speaker in your TV or ra dio completes stereo system. In du rable, lightweight simulated brown leather case. Model SHP13. Stereo Hi-Fi Phonograph... . 144.95 Matching Auxiliary Speaker 9.95 Complete Stereo Set 154.90 ON TIME PAY PLAN 15.00 Down 12.00 per Month membering, listening, feeling. "That's why he's so glad to sit down." When I'd rest, I'd suddenly see images, slide-like and fleeting. First there might be a landscape, then v it would fade into a seascape. I'd shut my eyes hard and stare at it but couldn't switch scenes at will. There was no conflict be tween day and night. When the hours grew I pictured night and behaved accord ingly. On awakening in the morn ing, it seemed to me I could feel the sun streaming through the window. I later learned it was a cloudy day. (Next: The "Cane Technique.") Grange llfews Upper Rogue Grange Upper Rogue Grange met Sept. 18 with all officers pres ent except two. A potluck supper was held before the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Don Andreson were obligated by Master Herb Carlton and were taken in as members. A motion was accepted to have a resolution turned in at the next meeting to hold meetings only on the first Thursday of each month. After the meeting a "cake was auctioned off and the money turned over to the chaplain. It was announced that the next HEC meeting will be at the home of Mabel Hanson on Elk creek -Thursday, Oct. 9. It was also announced that an interesting program is be ing planned for the next Grange meeting, Thursday, Oct. 2, and all members are urged to attend. The meeting will start at 8 p.m. instead of 8:30. Address Given for Political Donations 'Portland - (UPD - Political campaign contributors can send money to the party of their choice to the same ad dress here, whether they be Democrat or Republican. Leaders of the two parties said the idea is part of the bi partisan fund drive being conducted under auspices of the American Heritage Foun dation and the Advertising Council of America. The ad dress: P.O. Box 1958, Port land 11, Ore. Listen Tonight at Passenger Train, Freight Collide; 2 Dead, 17 Hurt Broomfield, Colo.-flIPD-A 51 car freight train slammed head on into a passenger train at the Broomfield station, just north-west of Denver, Mon day. Two crewmen on the pass enger train were killed and at least 17 others, 15 of them passengers, were injured. The Colorado and Southern Railroad, which owned both trains, identified the dead as S. W. Johnson and P. J. Loughry, both of Denver, who were engineer and firemen on the passenger train. Freight Engineer Hurt Another trainman, Fred M. Tingle, engineer of the freight was taken to Boulder Com munity hospital .in critical condition. The locomotive of the freight piled on top of the passenger locomotive on im pact directly in front of the Broomfield station. Crews using crowbars and blow torches removed the body of Loughry from the wreckage. But Johnson's body was still pinned in the loco motive nearly two hours after the collision occurred, at 6:47 a.m. "(p.s.t.). Railroad officials said a crane was en route to the scene to remove the wreckage and that Johnsons body likely would not bef removed until after the " crane arrived. Passenger Train Slowed Witnesses at the station esti mated that the freight, bound from Denver to Billings, Mont., was traveling between 40-50 miles an hour when it smashed into the passenger train which had slowed to about 20 miles an hour to make a mail drop. A spokesman said there is no automatic switch at the Broomfield cutoff and that the passenger train had the right of way. Officials said the! freight was ,. supposed to have switched to a siding to let the passenger train through on the main line but for some reason the switch was not made. The less seriously injured including four other trainmen and 12 passengers, all of whom were riding in the single coach in the eight-car passenger train. The other cars were a Pullman and six baggage units. 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WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York (UPD Once upon a time a fellow sold a bear skin before he shot the bear -in other words, he sold jit Somehow as time went on this expression "bear" was applied to anyone who sold s o m e thing short 4 mostly securi ties. , A bear is one who sells a s t o c k he doesn't own with the hope Elmer Waller of buying it back at less than he sold it for, thus realizing a profit. A bear wants prices to go down after he's sold stocks short, just as a bull wants them to go up after he buys stocks. When a short seller buys back stock he has sold short, the process is called cover ing. This covering is just like bulls buying stock in that it provides a stabilizing influ ence for the market. Bullish Sign Hence the statement that a large short interest is bull ish. We have a large one right now. As of Sept. 15 it totaled 5,646,414 shares. That' was a reduction of 158,807 shares from the total reported by the stock exchange on Aug. 15. It was a much smaller decline than expected, and hence it was termed bullish. Youth Found Dead at Portland Identified Portland (UPD The Mult nomah county coroner's office said that the young man found dead last Wednesday at the Central YMCA here has been identified as Harold George, Burgin, 18, of Walla Walla, Wash. The body was identified by a friend who said Burgin came to Portland as a student. He said the youth worked at a Portland hospital as a male nurse. ... ; Cause of death has not yet been determined. GOOD HUNTING FOR ALL Madison, Wis.-HIPB-Bow and arrow deer hunting season opened in Wisconsin Sunday and hunters did very well, bagging 192 deer. Game war dens did almost as well, mark ing the season's start with 71 arrests of hunters, all charged with hunting in a closed area and trespassing. BY RCA If one runs down the list of stocks in which there is a short interest, he can get an idea of the issues that bears think ought to go down. It should.be noted here that the poor bruins have been very wrong for a long time. They just haven't been able to pick stocks that will de cline for the simple - reason that the stock market has been rising steadily. This time they: seem to think the low, - priced auto mobile issues are too high and should come down. They think General Motors is too high too, but aren't so sure about Chrysler because they reduced their short . interest in that stock. Also Ford. They increased their , short interest in Bethlehem Steel and reduced it in United States Steel. The latter with its 298,489 shares short is the most heavily sold issue by the bears. Utilities - Evidently the bears think Townsend's Affa i r With Princess In Forthcoming Book New York -flJPD-'A contro versial new book about the sensational - Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend love af fair says their story may yet have a happy ending. "The Peter Townsend Story," which will be '- pub lished in this country Thurs day by E. P. Dutton, purports to tell "the true facts" behind the palace romance. The author, British-journalist Norman Barrymaine, says Margaret, 28, and RAF Group Capt. :. Townsend, 43, are "still deeply in love" and have not given, up hope of marrying. : There's No One Else Barrymaine, a friend of Townsend, also says that in October, 1955, before her "no marriage" announcement Margaret told the divorced commoner who served as her late father's household . aide that she would never marry anyone else. Barrymaine says the princess still feels this way. While biding time, he adds, Margaret and Townsend .want to go on seeing' each other as often as possible. . ' "I think the princess and PORTABLES - . A - ' CONSOLETTES I OR CONSOLE STYLING The Mark XSI. Handsome conso lette Stereo-Orthophonic High Fidel ity "Victrola."9 Plays all records : -new stereo and standard monaural. ' 2-in-l amplifier. 3 speakers. "Living Stereo" pickup. Auxiliary speaker. . 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Another is the vast wealth waiting in vestment on the bull side buying side- of the market. The shorts insist the mar ket must fall some time. In that one can predict without too much risk they are right. But the big question is when. Townsend " are ; only anxious that their love and friendship should be established in such a way that it is accepted by the. court, the church, Parlia ment and the public," he writes. Barrymaine also suggests ttfe couple might even be seen together at royal events. Controversy Stirred The book, published in Britain Monday, has stirred up . a pre-publication newspa per controversy. One British paper said the book's effect will be to destroy Townsend's relationship with the princess. Barrymaine has written that while Townsend objected to the book, he read it and made no comment about the ac count of the history-making romance. Barrymaine said that while his association with Peter did not really begin until early 1956, when Townsend consult ed him on plans for writing a book about his world trip, he felt himself qualified to write "The Peter Townsend Story" because of his status as a. newspaperman and friend of Townsend. 174.90 v MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Ore.. As m in Mademoiselle Fleet. Neat. Ever so soft. A real know-the-score Joyce. Note the point-after toe . . . the smart sideline stitching ... the mere flash of heel that is obviously ready for an end-run around the stadium, the campus or just around the block. first string YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT INVITED Main and Bartlett Streets 7 IV 0! 4hoe pdon Tuesday. September 23. 1938 I JOYCE'S "FIRST STRING" MAKES THE POINT mm .95 Phone SP 2-6428 71
