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16 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mffor4, Or. A Sunday, Aug. 23, 1959 Maine Restricis Teen-Age Drivers Augusta, Me. (DPD A dras tic change in the driver's li cense requirements for boys and girls in the State of Maine will go into effect Sept. 1, 1960, in an attempt to cut down on the rising number of motor vehicle accidenti in volving teen-agers. The state legislature recent ly passed an act raising the minimum driving age from 15 to 17, unless the applicant has successfully completed an ap proved driver education course. Under current law, any youngster may obtain a li cense at the age of 15, provid ed he or she has passed a written examination and a road test. The new act provides that any one under the age of 17 must complete either the standard high school driver education course or a commer cial driver training school course approved by the State Department of Education. Federal Worker Insurance Pays Off Washington - (UPD - Bene ficiaries of Federal workers have collected more than 281 million dollars since the Fed eral Employees' Group Life Insurance program took ef fect in 1954. It is the largest single group life insurance plan . in the world, with 12 billion dol lars worth of coverage now in force. The government obtains the insurance through private in surance firms. Each worker who joins the plan gets a policy for an amount approxi mating his annual salary. He pays 25 cents and the agency he works for lzVs cents every other week for each $1,000. More than 95 per cent of all eligible employes have joined the plan. By June 30, 1959, a total of 53,235 life insurance claims had been paid. For ac cidental death and loss of limb or eyesight, there were 4,009 cases amounting to $19,005,-737. Penasse, Minn., is the north ernmost town in the U. S. A ' ' ft 3 4 ARRESTED State Police in Little Rock, Ark., arrested Ellis Thomas, 42, father of Jefferson Thomas, the one Negro student that attended Central High School. Thomas shown with his son, Jefferson, was picked up by police on a charge of carrying a pistoL McLEOD Many Visitors Noted Br CAROLINE HARDING McLeod - Mrs. Walter Hunt of Salem is visiting her niece, Beulah Brian, on her vacation. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Knud son of Medford were dinner guests at the Hardings Tues day, Aug. 4. Miss Helen Garman of Thorn, Calif., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ellis Hawkins. Sunday, Aug. 16, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hume and daugh ters, Jackie and Joey, and Larry Smith and Gary Ayres, spent the day at the coast. They also visited the Kober niks who have a site on Sutton lake. Mr. and Mrs. John Pflaume and son of Glendale, Long Island, N. Y., are visiting Mrs. Pflaume's brother, T. Den ninger of Trail. The Pflaumes flew to Hawaii. They will spend two weeks with the Denningers before flying back to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hume and daughters spent Saturday, Aug. 15, visiting relatives in Roseburg. Mr. and Mrs. James Smith and daughter. Sharon, of Shady Cove, and Judi Sander son of Trail spent a week fish ing at the lakes in the Bend area. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Ayres and sons, Bill and Dick, spent the week end at the coast. CHICKEN FEED Catinia, Sicily -(DPD- It was chicken every Sunday and practically every day, for that matter for Lorenzo Leonar- di, his wife, two sons and five dogs. Police said Thursday Leonardi admitted he had swiped 2,500 chickens to feed the family during the last three years. METER-MAIDS New York (DPD The New York City Board of Estimate Thursday approved a bill cre atine a "meter maid" force to patrol the city's 50,000 parking meters. About 100 women will be hired as "meter maids." The Family Council Editor's not: The Family ConncL consists of a Jndre. a psychiatrist, tare clergymen, a newspaper ed toi a women's editor and two writers. Each article Is a summary 01 an actual report, xne Family council does not give advice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Mrs. D.E. She wants him to give up a good job. Gerald E. It would be a small sacrifice to make. Mrs. D.E. - My son Gerald. aged 26, has been in love with the same girl for two years. She has dangled him on her string all of that time, evidently holding him oil to see if . anything better turns up for her. Recently Gerald landed a very mteresting job in a small city very far from our home. He asked Adele to accomnany him down there. Her answer was that she had lived in a large city all her life and couldn't stand living in a , "one-horse town." She said she'll marry him if he stays here. Gerald now wants to give un this sood iob. I feel it would be a serious mistake. This job promises to be a steppingstone to a better fu ture and he has worked hard for just such a spot. A girl who isn't willing to make a small sacrifice for her hus band isn't worth much. Gerald E. - Right now it seems to me a smaller sacri fice to give up the job I want to get the girl I want. I can alwavs find another job, but it isn't so easy to find the person with whom you feel like spending the rest of your life. Anyway, I can understand Adele's point of view. I al most went bats when I spent months in the Army near a small city. When you are used to the life and tempo of a metroDolis. it isn t easy to get used to a small place out in the middle of nowhere. Adele has a good job here in the city. She couldn't get anything like it in the place we'd be going. We'd have to sDend a couple of years there. She isn't the type of girl who could be happy stuck at home all day. Why should she make the sacrifice when I am willing to make it? The Council: Gerald's will ingness to sacrifice and to adapt himself to another per son's needs speaks well for his readiness to marry. How ever, Adele's unwillingness to do just that speaks the op posite for her. A marriage based on an "if" may just as well be lad en down with a stone that will sink it the minute it gets off to sea. Adele could just as well have said, "I will marry you if you assure me that everything will go exactly right the way I like it forever afterwards." Her an swer is that of a little girl accustomed ' to demanding bribes for what others want her to do not that of a woman reaching out for the new life she desires. In our opinion Gerald can't win with such . a girl. She seems to be just the type who, in. a few years, will blame him for not having gotten as far ahead in his profession as she would like. At that time her song will be slightly different something like, "I wouldn't have married you if I had known things would be like this." Gerald would be wise to try to free himself from the strangle hold of such an at tachment. H should take the job, try his wings, meet other girls. He may soon find that he has made no sacrifice at all, but rid himself of a mill stone. (Copyright 1959, General Features Corp.) Bill To Finance Armed Services Construction OK'd MAITRE D'HOTEL DIES Paris - (DPD - Albert Blazer, 76, widely - known maitre d'hotel of the swank Paris restaurant, "Chez Maxim's," died Thursday after a long illness. Washington (DPD The Senate has approved 89-0 a $1,428,178,700 money bill carrying funds to finance con struction activities of the armed services at home and overseas. The measure calls for spending about 9 per cent less than President Eisenhower budgeted. It was, however, somewhat larger than the bill approved by the House. The bill stirred a minimum of debate in the Senate. Another Milestone The Senate action was an other milestone along the road to congressional ad journment since the construc tion bill is, by custom, one of the last money bills to be ap proved before adjournment each year. - The measure was $135,021, 300 under administration re quests for defense building in the fiscal year which started last July 1. The bill was sent to the Senate floor Thursday by the Senate Appropriations Com mittee. . The committee re stored $143,176,000 of the $278,187,300 which the House had chopped from the admini stration's proposal. Approval by the commit tee was an aditional $12,219, 000 for National Guard proj ects beyond the $11,000,000 total proposed by Eisenhower and approved by the House. Hospital Fund Restored Among the funds restored was $26,173,400 for construc tion of military hospitals at 10 Army, Navy and Air Force installations. This compared with the administration's re quest for $33,308,000 and the House's denial of funds on grounds the costs exceeded those for civilian institutions. In approving the increases, the Senate committee steered away from criticism of the sort expressed by the House Appropriations Commi ttee. The House group chopped the administration's request 18 per cent and accused the De fense Department of "piece meal and short-range plan ning." ... v- Vacuum Cleaners To Keep Missiles Clean Fort Belvoir. Va.-(Science Service)-Vacuum cleaners de veloped at the Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratories here should keep missile systems clean enough to satisfy the most demanding white-gloved ser geant. Dust and dirt in the complicated Nike, Corporal, or Sergeant missiles could cause the missile to misfire. Fort Belvoir said. The light weight, powerful -vacuum cleaners developed have three-quarter horsepower mo tors, operate on 115 volts, and are single phase. 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