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I Parking Meter Patrolmen Have Their By H. GREG NOKES Mail Tribune Staif Writer .The parking meter patrol man is not a popular man, and he knows it. Everybody hates him - old ladies, young ladies, cab driv ers, merchants, newspaper re porters and so on. If ali o humanity has one thing in common, it is the de sire to cheat the parking me ter patrolman. i: Few moments are as satis fying to the average citizen as those times when hereal-. izes that he has succeeded in parking at an expired meter without getting caught. Few moments are as frus trating to him as those times when he returns to his car and finds a little yellow en velope glaring at him from, under his windshield swipe.. The experienced parking meter patrolman knows that the average citizen will pay a $15 speeding fine almost without protest, but that the same citizen will rant and rave til his ears turn purple before he'll pay a 50-cent me ter ticket. It all adds up to the fact Medford SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 VERTICAL PERFORMANCE In this artist's sketch, a military transport plane capable of taking off and landing vertically was envisioned by a Republican Aviation Corp. engineer." Aerodynamicist Elliott Kazan told delegates to the Institute of Aero Space Sciences that such an aircraft would be a practical means of meeting logistic and troop- 25 varieties and colors 1"" 1 '- t - Fine 2-year field-grown i - 'WlttjSy'' mr'H' .. rcse bushel m your 'hoie siskSikS?" T ' ifST ' " var'e,'et colors. GUARANTEED to grow or " .AfiK.i yovr money cheerfully refunded ' sSlSCMr N 1 Superroot All bushes wrapped in wEs! ROSE BUSHES Sphagnum most with attractive ij Vlfyij REG' ',0' eove Hurry 'n an' gtezJr tf nap up these grand BUYS.. PT 51? Each I I I OPEN FRIDAY & MONDAY vy Ttauj&gnnM co. ? Jj that the meter patrolman is engaged in a constant and sometimes vicious battle with many segments of humanity. He is trying to do his job; and everyone else is trying to stop hirm -, - ' It is a lonely battle; he is greatly outnumbered-. And, it, requires all his skill and know-how if he is to hold his own. ' ... Most people ignore the fact that the meter patrolman had nothing whatever to do with the invention or installation' of parking meters. ' Most .- policemen, in fact, have a great dislike for park ing' metersland' would rather be engaged in. a running gun battle with a merciless killer than handing out parking me ter tickets. i. . . But' someone has to do it. 'One of Medford's finest was reminiscing the other day about some of his past ex: periences as a parking meter patrolman. Experiences, most ly,' that, he would like to for get.', '. This officer was, to his great delight, relieved of this duty -several years ago. Our friend cited the down town merchant-and his employees- as among the craft iest of foes the meter patrol man must deal with. And, he noted ironically, it was the downtown merchant for whom parking meters were originally installed. In pre-parking meter days, he explained, downtown merchants and his employees would park their cars all day long in front of a store-usually a competing store-leaving the potential customer no place to park. v The parking meter was de signed as a means of prevent ing, this. Most meters in the downtown- area have a one hour parking limit, meaning that a motorist can park his car for just one hour in any parking space, and no longer. If he decides to stay longer, he could tie cited for overtime parking. v The average downtown merchant did not take kindly to this, and when he spotted a meter patrolman ticketing his car, he would ask the pa trolman how he could be so sure that this was the same Tribune carrying requirements at forward air bases where facilities are limited. Powered by six turbo-jet engines, the trans- port would achieve vertical rise through lifting fans in each wing. The VTOL transport would be capable of alti- tudes of up to 3,600 feet and would have a ferrying range of 3,000 miles. (UFI Telephoto) car Wat haa been parked there an hour earlier. Chalk Mark , The resourceful meter pa trolman then devised the sim ple, but effective, "chalk mark." Then on his next time round, if the car was still there, he would ticket it. But, the merchants were not so easily beaten. They would simply go out and rub the chalk mark off. .. Consequently, the patrol man then began putting chalk marks at inconspicuous places on the car, such as inside the exhaust pipe or under a fend er. Again the merchants rose to the occasion. Once every hour on the hour they would run out of their stores, jump in their cars, speed around the block (risking a . speeding ticket), and park right back where they were in the first place. This is where the battle line lies today. But; it leaves the meter patrolman wonder ing just how it is possible for the merchant to be making any money if he spends so much time trying to gyp the parking meter. Another Side to Battle There is another side to the meter patrolman's never ending battle with the merch ant. The merchant will leave his ON FBI'S LIST William Chester Cole, above, describ ed as a vicious and brutal armed robber, has been added to the FBI's list of "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives." Cole, 22, was serving a life term when he and s i x others escaped from a prison camp in Fort Myers, Fla., by sawing through prison bars with a smuggled hacksaw. (UPI Telephoto) Portland Advertising Man Receives Honor Portland -IUPII- Donald Os tensoe, .32,, has been named "Advertising Man of the Year" at the Oregon Adver tising ' club's fourth " annual Gold Ribbon Awards banquet here. MAKE IT A WEEKEND Pick up an Extra Carton 1 VjNh' mm Problems Too car parked at an expired parking meter until he sees (or hears, as is the case with the motorcycle patrolman) the officer coming. Then, and only then, will he put a penny in the meter. Our friend countered this maneuver with a technique that could .be called "write and run.". He would look down a particular street and read the license plates of as many cars as he could see that were in violation, and write all the tickets ahead of time. ..- "Then," he said, "I would take a deep breath and run down the street as fast as I could go, . pausing only long enough to put a ticket tinder each windshield swipe. It worked. But, the downtown merch ant is not the only member of society that presents a con tinual challenge to the meter patrolman. There is the teen-ager who thinks it funny to stay about one car ahead of the meter patrolman and put pennies in expired meters just as the patrolman is getting ready to write a ticket. He-Man Type There is also the he-man type who parks his car at a meter, gets out, kicks the meter until he, hears some thing break,' and then goes on about his business. Of course, this is the same gentleman who comes to the police station a. little bit later, complaining about all the b r o ken parking meters in town. And, there are the people (usually women) who park their .cars at a meter, and Knowing they will be gone for more than an hour, they leave some additional change on top of the meter, assuming the kind- hearted policeman will put it in for them in stead of giving them a ticket. Now, if the officer puts the money in the meter (which they used to do), and the me ter still expires ana the wo man is cited, he is accused of stealing the money. . Or, if he doesn't (the pres ent policy), he is accused of being thoughtless and incon siderate. Or, then again some- Principals To Talk With Recent School Graduates Corvallis-Principals of Ore- eon hish schools have been invited to Oregon Stale cot lege Feb. 11 for conferences with their recent graduates on high school preparation for college and on college progress, and problems. OSC started the interviews nine years ago to help spot and correct weaknesses in the college's orientation program for new students, and to help the- high schools evaluate their college preparatory programs. Findings over the years have prompted significant changes and improvements in both the college and high school programs. The interviews were start ed on an eight-school experi mental basis, but the plan met with such approval that the number has steadily in creased. This year, some 60 high schools are expected to be represented. . Under ' the program, the principals or their representa tives have individual,, volun tary interviews with their former students. Talks center around the student's apprais al of his high school training in relation to his needs in college, and his comments on the college's counseling and orientation programs that are designed to get students "off on the right foot" in college. After the interviews, the high school representatives and college officials review comments and recommenda tions made by the students. Dallas Norton, college per sonnel coordinator and act ing director of admissions, is in charge of the program. College students from the va rious high schools help ar range the interviews for their principals. Little Rock is on the Ar kansas river. It also has six lakes. . SOCIABLE body else might take the money and the officer will be accused of being a thief any way. There are others. It would be extremely easy for a meter patrolman to de velop a persecution complex. He can't help but feel that everyone else, with the pos sible exception of his wife and children, is against him. And he may be right. If there ever is a meter pa trolman who is loved and ad mired by the general public, it would be highly doubtful that he is doing his job. So you see, it's just not in the cards for the parking meter patrolman to be a popu lar man. Finney's FIRST TIME! DURING OUR I ;; ; WsB ISjl .SPRING COTTON EVENT 'A-B'SlI Brentwood ' .. Cottons to a new low WOVEN COTTONS IN CHAMBRAY, PRINTS, GINGHAMS, PLAIDS AT A NEW LOW BUDGET SAVING PRICE! It's the fabrics Penney's put into these that makes them such fabulous buys. And, we also carefully monitored the making and finishing, "guided "the styling of ' these easy-care fashions that go from chora to store without ever telling their price tags. New Spring shades. Juniors, misses', half sizes. More iicobuioosi values at il l! i v m i iii uv.w-m i aimhi if l. Accidents Blamed New York, N.Y.-About 92, 000 persons died as the result of accidents in the United States in 1960, it is reported by statisticians of the Metro politan Life Insurance Com pany. Last year's accident toll was about the same as that in 1959, but was about 1,500 more than in 1938, the statisti cians point out. However, when account is taken of the increase in population, it ap pears that some progress has been made in reducing the ac cident hazard. Provisional fig ures indicate that the accident death rate last year dipped slightly below the all-time low of 52.2 per 100,0(10 population established in 1959. Motor vehicle accidents For 92,000 Deaths were responsible for the loss of approximately 38,000 lives last year, or a few hundred more than in 1959. This rise reflects the increase in the amount of travel; the motor vehicle accident death rate per 100 million miles of travel in 1960 may set an all-time low of 5.3.o Accidents in and about the home took 26,500 lives last year, an increase of approxi mately 500. 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