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THURSDAY. MARCH 2, 1961 8 C i-a -? TV-' W - rh $f ''kx?ly MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. Quick Thinking May Cause Scrambled Handwriting MILD LION March, they say, comes In like a lion, goes out like a Iamb. But If the blustery month is as mild as this lion cub, nobody will mind at all. Billy Madigan, 7, of Rosevillc, Mich., was less Interested in old sayings than In young animals. He found both lion and the lamb, from the menagerie of the Detroit Zoological Park, gentle and playful as kittens. (UPI Telephoto) New York - (UPD - If your Income tax refund is late in arriving this year, you may have only your poor hand writing to blame. If friends and relatives com plain they never receive the letters you claim you write, there is a strong chance that the postal employees could not read your Sanskrit and dump ed your mail Into the dead letter files. Illegible handwriting also has been known to delay the filling of department store or ders and cause pharmacists to misread doctors' prescriptions. Handwriting cripples are so numerous that the University of Wisconsin has been con ducting an extensive survey under grants from the Parker Pen Co. to try to straighten out some of the kinks and snarls in the average person's script. Until the early 20th Cen tury, handwriting was an art that was cultivated carefully in schools and homes. The first blow to legibility was the widespread use of the type writer. Then came the second, when penmanship instruction in public schools was dropped as a depression money-saver. Added to these blows, ac cording to the University of Wisconsin researchers, were the introduction of several basic handwriting systems. To day, it is estimated, there are about 19 different handwrit ing systems, Instead of the single Spencerian script of the 1900's and the "Palmer Meth od" of the next few decades. So-called progressive educa tion brought the widspread teaching of printing instead of longhand to children, on the theory it was easier to learn. All these factors have added up to a most horrifying jumble of illegible words and num bers, the Wisconsin research ers discovered. They esti mated that a million dollars a week is lost by business and industry in scrambled orders, lost deliveries, clerical mis takes and other forms of in efficiency traceable to unread able writing. The Illinois Bell Telephone Co. alone found it lost nearly $50,000 a year because oper ators had scribbled toll call charges in hieroglyphic-. Several department stores have introduced experimental classes In penmanship for em ployees. Other companies have issued orders to workers to write legibly, or else. , The root of the trouble is that people think much faster than they can write. There fore, the swifter a person is, the worse his scrawl. College professors and top executives have been found to be the No. 1 offenders on the graphologi cal scale. Basic Tip The average individual thinks at the rate of about 250 words a minute. But he cannot write faster than 25 words a minute and still read what he has set down. The Wisconsin handwriting Jk v.. ,U. U y 1 peachb,oom DGCOriltOr COjOrS N0W' br'8lllen yw labh with a bouquet ill fillG 0ccorator co'ors so an luxurious Powder Room Facial Tissue in four fici'il tissue 8marl new Paciflc tints plus pure Pacific wliitecreaied for Powder Room by famous color consultant Faber Birren to add a fresh note of fashion. It is the first major achievement in tissue color since color was introduced. Enjoy the West's finest facial tissue, the West's favorite new colors now in striking new Powder Room packages at the West's best stores. Mad expressly for th West by Pacific Coast Paper Mills, Bellinghtm, Washington, a division of Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Co. . y Pb- IS? 1 IJ L Dm vvj Matching decorator color in heavenly soft Powder RoomToilet Tissue Six beautiful Pacific tints to accent and harmoniza with towels and tiles experts claim that anyone can improve his handwriting, if he really tries. Here are some basic handwriting tips they passed along: -Test yourself to see if your handwriting speed exceeds 25 words a minute. If It does, slow down. -Practice writing the trick ier letters slowly. A, E, R, and T are the most difficult to write. Also practice with let ters such as A, G and D to make sure they are fully closed. -Watch for "twin" num bers. The numerals 1 and 7 should not look anything alike. Also beware of 3, 5 and 8, which often look alike when written hurriedly. -Sit properly when writing, with shoulders slightly for ward and hips back on the seat. Face the desk squarely with both forearms on it. Keep both feet flat on the floor. v- -The paper should be slant ed slightly. The Palm of the writing hand should be down and the wrist should be held as flat as possible. Hold pencil or pen an inch above the point. -Never press down while writing. Hold the pen or pen cil jignuy or me writing will be cramped. A few minutes a day of such practice may bring dramatic results. Even you, at lone last. may be able to read your own writing! Suggestions Pay For Slafe Workers Salem-mPD-State employees won $345 in February for of- lering time-saving suggestions to various state agencies. Among the winnine Dronos. als were a new police radio code, new audit and fuel tax refund procedures, a new mail answering system for motor vehicle inquiries, and travel schedule list for shi. dents. Winners were Inez Fortnpr Dayton; Nancy Lay, Portland; and Jeanne Hopkins, Gleason Young, Bernard McDevitt, Harold Bacon, and Merrill Gould, all of Salem. Drain Holdup Brings 10 Years Portland-fllPll-Donald Kelso, 35, has been sentenced to 10 years in Drison fnr th Jan. 25 holdup of the Drain branch of the U.S. National bank. Some $2,400 Was nHtninari In the holdup in the northern uougias county commnnitv Kelso, arrested two days aft er the robbery, had pleaded guilty. He was apprehended Dy a state policeman whn stopped a taxi in which he was naing near Drain. Hangings Made Legal By Posting Notice M Paso. Tex.-flJPH-Puhllr. nangings In El Paso some 100 years ago weren't '-official" until a notice was posted on the side of a biu cottonwood tree in the settlement's mar- Ket place. Marriages, births and more normal deaths also were dis played on a plank nailed to the "Notice Tree" which serv ed as the area's first news medium. Eventually the "No tice Tree" was replaced by newspapers, and rumor has that the cottonwood was chopped into firewood. But today another tree stands in the same spot in Pioneer Plaza as a historic marker. J 2.5 Million Own Public Corporations Burlington, Iowa-(UPD-Near- ly 12'4 million people are the owners of America's publicly-held corporations, ac cording to the latest census of shareowners sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange. This is more than double the figure of 10 years ago. The average shareowner has an Income of $7,000 and Is 35 years of age. Well-Head Price of Crude Oil Dropping New York-WPD-The cost of finding and producing a bar rel of crude oil in 1958 was 35 cents higher than the value of the oil at average well-head prices, according to the U.S. Bureau of Mines. And today, while costs have continued to climb, the well head price of crude oil has dropped still further. MARRIAGE-GO-ROUND San Antonio, Tex.-OT-Jus- tlce of the Peace A. A. Sea maan lost no time getting down to his traditional duties fter he took office. 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