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U MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfotd, Oregon. Sunday, March 1. 1959 Many Drivers Do Not Take Advantage of Law Aiany Oregon drivers do not take advantage of a 1951 law which permits right turns against red lights, after first stopping, Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin remind ed motorists today. Under the same law motor ists may make left turns against the red lights when enterting one-way .streets aft er stopping, he said. Such turns can be made at on red" sign specifically pro hibits the move, he said. Champlin explained that drivers who fail to take ad vantage of the law do so out of ignorance of the law as much as the fact that they cannot break the habit of moving only on a green light. Habit Not Dangerous Although the habit is not dangerous, the chief added, it does, however, slow traffic au locations unless a 4 no turn and add to downtown conges tion. Drivers who received their licenses some years ago should occasionally check some of their old habits when it comes to traffic, he said. Among the bad driving hab its which can prove to be deadly include failing to make complete stops at stop signs; not using the rear view and side view mirrors often enough; backing out of pri vate driveways without checking closely enough on both foot and vehicular traf fic which might be in the way; and changing ' lanes without signalling. Snider Endorses Wildlife Week Medford Mayor John W, Snider has endorsed stimulat ing public action to bring more conservation into the school program as the goal of 1959 National Wildlife Week in Medford. National Wildlife Week will be observed throughout the country March 15 through 21. Mayor Snider pointed out that National Wildlife Week should demonstrate the im portance of making conserva tion, as it affects day to day living and the present and future welfare of the nation, a part oZ the learning experi ence of young people. Proper care and protection of natural resources, he said, can not be provided without the support of an informed public. He urged all citizens and public and private agen cies to further the objective of Wildlife Week by helping to assess and publicize the need for conservation train ing in the schools so that the education of young people can be expanded through pub lic understanding and support. Air Charter Service Formed at Airport Formation of Valley Avia tion, an air charter and. air craft brokerage firm, has been announced by Lyle Es telle, former manager of the Rogue Flying service. Valley Aviation is operated from the Medford airport ter minal building and is the au thorized dealer of Piper air craft here. The company is using a Piper Tri-Pacer for air charter and taxi service, and plans later to furnish a Piper Comanche for such service. Traffic Shows Increase in Area Average daily traffic for January at four highway loca tions in Jackson county show ed an increase over January, 1958, the state highway de partment has reported. On Highway 66, five miles east of Ashland, 812 vehicles were recorded for the average daily volume compared to 701 for January, 1958, an in crease of 15.8 per cent. An increase from 418 last year to 464 this year, an 11 per cent increase, was recorded on.Highway 238 one mile west of Ruch, the department re ported. Traffic on Highway 62 four miles south of Shady Cove increased from 1,100 last year to 1,223 this year for an 11.2 per cent increase, and the average daily volume on High way 99 two miles south of Talent showed an increase of 9.8 per cent from 6,013 last year to 6,600 this year. The figures are compiled from permanent automatic traffic recorders on rural highways, the department noted. Statewide highway traffic increased 1 per cent during January, 1959, compared to January, 1959, traffic. Traffic counts are taken at 72 loca tions throughout the state. Urban traffic trends show ed an increase of 3.8 per cent during the same period. Prominent Chinese Faces Jury Trial San Francisco- (UPD -Prominent San Francisco China town businessman George W. Yee will face a jury trial March 30 on charges he con spired to smuggle $100 mil lion worth of narcotics from Red China to the West Coast. Medford Employee At Short Course Corvallis-Raymond S. Fish of route 2, box 445E, Med ford, is enrolled at Oregon State college this week in a special ewage works opera- Luis siivi t lulu be. ne is a Medford city employee. The short school training program is offered at the col lege each year as a service to cities, sanitary districts, and private u t i 1 it y companies. Purposes are to promote eco nomical and efficient opera tion of sewage works systems and to reduce hazards to pub lic health incident to the dis posal of sewage and indus trial wastes. Sponsors with the college's school of engineering are the Oregon State Board of Health, Oregon State Sanitary Au thority and League of Oregon Cities. Hew Requirements Listed by Air Force New requirements have been announced for aviation cadet training, according to MSgt. Carson W. Campbell, local Air Force recruiter. Until recently, two years of college were mandatory, but because of the heavy demand for flying officers, the require ment has been eased to allow high school graduates to enter the flying program, he said. Single men between 19 and 26Vi years old with a diploma from an accredited high school may be eligible to enter the program. Graduates of the ca det program receive a second lieutenant's commission in the Air Force Reserve with a rat ing of pilot or navigator. Additional information may be obtained from Sgt. Camp bell at the Medford post office building or by telephoning SPring 3-4943. carpet your whole home with Flourish for so few dollars a month! Flourish has its ups and downs, and they add up to three-dimensional beauty. 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For last 40 years or so most of the writing on mental disease has been done by devoted di sciples of some leader like Freud, Jung, Dr Aivare Adler or Rank who every year sat down at his desk and spun out theories of the origins of mental and nervous diseases. Naturally, these theories were unproved, and many of them could not possibly be tested or proved. Many were so stupid and im probable and even laughable that they would never have been published if they hadn't caught the fancy of the lay public. Certainly, most of these theories should never have been published in a sci entific journal. Now, at last, a new type of psychiatrist is appearing on the scene a real scientist, a man trained in laboratory technics. He is studying the functions of the brain in ani mals, in healthy men, and in mentally sick men. He is find ing drugs which, when given to a healthy man, cause him in half an hour to become psychotic for perhaps a day. The new type of psychiatrist keeps working with able drug chemists who are constantly producing new medicines which either calm an excited brain or stimulate a sluggish and depressed brain. Studying Menially 111 The modern type of psychia trist now is studying mentally ill persons with chemical methods, searching for nervous poisons in his blood and other body fluids. Dr. Linus Paul ing, one of the world's great chemists, received a large grant from the Ford Founda tion to study mentally retard ed children. We know of at least one type of mental re tardation which is due to an inborn defect in body chemis try, and now the search is on for other similar defects. ; I have just been reading of studies recently made in New York by Drs. Loring F. Chapman and Harold G. Wolff. For years, Dr. Wolff and his associates have been pioneering in this field of studying nervous and mental diseases with exact labora tory technics. Now, Chapman and Wolff report that they have been finding chemical peculiarities in the cerebro spinal fluid which surrounds the brain and spinal cord of persons with certain nervous diseases. As yet, they do not know whether these changes are the cause or the result of the disease in the brain. Discoveries Excites Hop Particularly interesting to psychiatrists will be the dis covery that the cerebro-spinal fluid of schizophrenics con tains an abnormal amount of a protease a ferment which affects the chemistry of pro teins. As yet, no one can pro phesy what this discovery will lead to, but all such discover ies excite hope. For one thing, they show what many phy chiatrists have long suspected, and this is that in some cases of schizophrenia we are dealing not with a normal man who in his infancy was mentally injured by seeing his parents naked, or some thing like that. No: We are dealing with a man who in herited something wrong in the chemistry of his brain and perhaps his whole body. He would seem to be much like a diabetic who inherited a de fect in the pancreatic cells that make insulin, or like a man with gout who inherited a defect in some part of Ms body which normally gets rid of uric acid. As soon as we doctors can be sure that some mental and nervous diseases are due to an inherited defect in body chemistry like diabetes and gout out the window must go the pseudo-scientific mum-bo-jumbo of many of the psy choanalysts. Instead, the new modern and scientific type of psychiatrist will be searching for drugs which will rectify the insane man's brain chem istry, much as insulin cor rects the defective body chemistry of the diabetic The world does move! Radar Demonstration Set at Roundtable Patrolman Duane Franklin of the Medford police depart ment is scheduled to discuss and demonstrate the opera tion of the city's traffic radar set tomorrow at the weekly Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable. 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