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12 B Mounting Traffic Restricts Sport Driving in Beirut By DAVID DUCAS United Press International Beirut, Lebanon-il'Pli-Sadly, Inevitably, the fun is going nut of an amateur sport once unmatched for daring and ex citement driving in Beirut. You can still slalom the wrong way down a one-way street or scare nimble pedes trians back on to the pave ment, but it's getting harder. Gradually, restrictions are appearing. A few months ago there were only about half a dozen traffic lights in all of Beirut, and they seldom worked. Now there are many, and they work. Traffic police men armed with ticket books collect fines on the spot. In its heyday, Beirut driv ing was as fine and classical a sport as bull fighting. Now it is getting to be as tiresome as six-day bicycle racing. More Can Mounting traffic is to blame. In 1946 there were 8,000 cars in all of Lebanon, b nation with 1.5 million per sons spread around a country half the size of Massachusetts. A year ago the total of cars had soared 700 per cent to 56.000. A Beirut magazine figured out Hint Beirut's business dis trict, made up mostly of nar row, twisting streets, could handle 1.500 cars a day but get an average of 4,500. If you took all the cars in Beirut and lined them up bumper to bumper there would be about as much room between them as there is now. Despite the clutter of cars. cirut drivers achieve sur-1 prising speed. This is one of me lew places wncre tragic jams have been clocked up to 40 miles per hour. Alternating Streets To cope with the traffi problem, Beirut authorities have tried one-way streets. But a street running one way this week may run the other way next week. During a recent safety cam paign wrecked cars were propped on pedestals at main Beirut intersections with signs warning drivers about the consequences of Careless driving. By the end of the campaign, most of the wrecks had been knocked over by passing cars. Even so, considering the apparent recklessness of Bei rut driving, serious accidents seem surprisingly lew. Driv ing conditions have given most motorists and pedes trians here lightning reflexes. In Beirut, except fur a few antique trolleys, publ'c trans portation is left to drivers of "service'' taxis that tear along the winding streets and alley ways, stopping for anyone who looks like a potential fare. With plans on paper for a municipal bus system, these may disappear. Beirut will never he the same if they do. AEC ANNOUNCES TEST Wnshinfilon-MPIi-Thc Atom ic Energy Commission an nounced that the United States on Thursday fired its 3Hlh underground explosion in its current scries at the Nevada test site. The AEC described (lie detonation as being of "low yield." This means that it had the force of 20.0(10 tons of TNT or less. Ten years you'll be glad dryer Proved best in over 1 One Million American homes! .'"'I A,L iL. 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Read, of course, was an en thusiast, and many obstetri cians did not agree with his ideas. There has now appeared a hook called "The Childbirth Challenge: Commonsense ver sus 'Natural Methods' " (Vik ing Press) by Dr. Waldo L. Fielding, an able obstetrician, and Lois Benjamin, one of his patients, who gives the vicw i point of the pregnant woman. The two have written a good review of the subject, such as can be of interest not only to obstetricians who have to lalk thinks over with their palicnlsi but also to every woman who is wondering whether she should attempt to have her child without anes thesia. The authors doubt if the method is suitable ior every woman. Some are too sensitive, and hence unable to stand much pain. The doctor thinks that a woman will be wise to leave the question of anesthesia to her obstetrician. As her labor goes forward, he can fieeide what is best to do. MOMS NAG MORE London - tl'PP Mom nags more than dad and tends to pirk on her tern-nge son more than on her daughter, accord ing to an opinion survey of 1(1.000 students nindc at 500 Hntish schools. ..MgB; from now you bought a ...I. I who owns one mi mnrf ?-r a Hnnv"rn one for ju"i pennies a d:i down payment. Department VJ" Kmtrllu. i R A-, i.. M n -?1 Roundup Cnnsultant in Medirln Mavn clinic Prntessnr of Medicine Mayo Clinic Ulecliier and Tribune Syndicate, 192) In this book, the authors give information on choosing an obstetrician and on the significance of the Rh factor, and the danger of getting Ger man measles in the first six weeks of pregnancy. Will "blowing your lop" affect your blood pressure? Just what is normal blood pressure? Dr. Alvarez answers these and other questions in his booklet, "High Blood Pres sure." To obtain it, send 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Al varez, Dept. MMT, The Reg ister and Tribune Syndicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. fs Your Monev's i IsL. I 'OLD-FASHIONED' STOCK EXCHANGE (Editor's note: This ii the last in a series of three col umns on the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange) Inlaid into the floor of the part of the New York Stock Exchange where bonds are traded is a hexagon about eight feet in diameter. When a NYSE member trades a block of bonds, he must have one foot inside that hexagon, he must say out loud what bonds he is trading and at what price. Thus, as one trader remarked when he saw me staring at the design on the floor and the men's feet, "All other bond traders in the room can hear what is taking place. It's our 'open out cry' rule.'1 This is automation? This is antiquity, a system of auction trading going back to ancient times. On the five-story high walls of the NYSE's main hall are I two nuge annunciator oonras. wncn a nisfc tirm s tele I phone clerk wants to send a message to the firm's member I on the floor, he does so by pressing a switch which flaps a j little tablet on which is printed the member's number. The ' member sees his number on the board, goes to his telephone clerk, gets his message. If the clerk is particularly anxious I to reach the member, he agitatedly flap-flap-flaps the tablet I which presumably makes but always, of course, within gotta walk, not run rule. This is automation? This signaling used centuries ago. In the NYSE'i main hall and "gArage" are seven ticker tapes on which all transactions in stocks during a trading day are printed. These highspeed tickers are the suc cessors to the originals invented by E. A. Calahan in 1867. refined by Thomas A. Edison into the famous squarish glass covered machine. Today's high-speed tickeri are capable of printing 500 characters or 80 transactions a minute. This is automation? Yes, In the extent that automation had progressed by September lftSO, for that's the date today's stock tickers were installed. And that's why the tickers ran more than four hours behind actual transactions during the selling waves of late May and by being so late, compounded the chaos. When Keith Funstnn. president of the NYSE, and a group of NYSE vice presidents escorted me around the floor last week, I asked a lot of questions about automation vs. an' tiquity. There is no doubt exchange could be made much Consider those annunciator charmingly old-fashioned way message, but hardly the most is considering now a new system whereby members would get their messages via a type of walkie-talkie device, much as doclors get their messages phones. Or consider those "high-speed" tickeri. True, the NYSE ordered new, higher-speed tickers a year ago, which will be in operation 18 months from now and will be capable ot printing 900 characters, or about 150 transactions a minute. But while this ticker will be able to keep up with a trading volume of up to 10 million shares a day, even the yet-to-come ticker would have twice fallen 20 minutes be hind the market on May 29, when more than 14.7 million shares were traded. "We have the best engineering minds working on this problem, but they haven't come up with anything better so far," says I Or consider the fact that when a stock trade is completed, a liltle piece of paper must be sent by pneumatic tube to an operator five stones above the floor, then recorded on a ma- ! chine, which in turn puts the transaction on the ticker tape ; "This we'll improve,'- promises Funston "In the future the In ker operator may be ! wiili romp:irt electronic equipment the size of a memo pad j he'll be able almost instantaneously to activate the ticker." ! Then, Funston said. "We can't invent machines to handle the I unexpected. And you wouldn't would ynu?" ' God forbid.' s.ud 1. as I .s.nd good bye, delicately picked my way out of the litter of gum and candy wrappers, glanced hack at the mob of noisy men and decided that, alter an old- lishinnid afternoon at the NYSE, it was only fitting fv me work to teach in the Philippine Islands. She will fly to Peace Corps headquarters in San Francisco for indoctrination and then on to the Philippines. (UPI) Higher Teacher Pay To Be Sought Salem -WPP- A conference of local school officials has been told that the 1963 legislature will be asked to hike mini mum salaries, for teachers with bachelor's degrees from $3,600 to $4,000. The speaker was Cecil Posey of Portland, executive secretary of the Oregon Edu cation Association. Posey said a higher annual minimum salary also will be sought for teachers with master's degrees - from the present $4,000 to $4,800, Dr. Leon P. Minear, state superintendent of public in struction, said there must be a specific program for improv ing the financial situations of local school districts. 38TH EXPLOSION Washington -IUPII- The Unit ed States Thursday exploded another small nuclear device underground at the Nevada test site, the 38th announced shot in the long series. af Worth ' By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. the member move even faster, the bounds of the NYSE's "you too Is antiquity, a system of that the NYSE recognizes the more efficient. boards, for instance. It's to summon a broker for a efficient way. In fact, the NYSE when they're away from the Funston. stationed on the floor itself and. want machines to replace men, MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MtDFORD. OREGON Many Educational Opportunities Available for Children in Summer By DAVID NYDICK (UPI Education Specialist) Should schooling end in June? Many educational op portunities are available dur ing the summer months. Will your child benefit by taking part in a summer program? Summer education has se veral purposes such as repeat ing courses, acceleration, en richment in areas of interest, aid for slow students, and continuity for handicapped children. Various types of programs exist. Regular courses are of fered by local schools. Spe cialized schools for concentra tion on interests or specific help generally are available in many cities. Specialty sum mer camps serve many needs. Individual tutoring has gain ed popularity. Must Consider Child Which type of summer in struction answers your pur poses? Before this can be de cided, the most important consideration is the child. Children vary in ability, in terest, physical condition, social development, emotional adjustment, and family needs. These variables should be considered in your decision. Udall Approves Dam On Columbia River Washington - (UPI) - Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall has approved construction of Wells dam on the Columbia river between Chief Joseph and Rocky Reach dams. The elementary program is not geared to a regular sum mer .school. The philosophy emphasizes total develomenl with the child as the center of instruction. Summer instruc tion tends to be in the areas of Grass, Brush Fire Caused by Children A five-acre grass and brush fire about 4 p.m. Wednesday at Corey and Foothills rds. was caused by youngsters playing with matches. Cen tral Point rural firemen re ported. Rural firemen were assist ed on the blaze by a state forestry department crew. State forestry department patrolmen called to a gras and debris fire back of the Lithia Drive-In theater south of Talent yesterday listed the fire as "railroad caused." A spot grass fire caused by a smoker was put out alon? Hil singer rd. yesterday by a fire warden who had srone into the area to Issue a burning permit. KHRUSHCHEV'S PROMISE Hundeoara, Romania (UPH Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev told thousands of Ro manian workers Thursday that within 10 years the So viet Union will surpass the United States in total indus trial production. IMF WTO DON'T BE A LITTERBUG! Don't leave a litter mark in your favorite park. Land every litter bit in the near est litter basket. Or take trash out with you to the litterbag in your car. That's how you can help keep streets, playgrounds, highways, waterways always litter-free. That's how you can help cut the high cost of littering: $50 million last year just to clean up major highways. Don't be a litter-bug-ever! That's how you can help KEEP AMERICA CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL reading, math, cultural sub jects, and recreation. In con trast, the secondary school emphasizes specific courses concerned with definite sub ject matter. Offerings of for mal courses are increasingly available. Varying Degrees Many private or organiza tional camps offer varying de grees of instruction combined with a regular athletic pro gram. Individual or group tutoring is available through i clinics or interested teachers. iThese possibilities should be ; evaluated in relation to your expectations. j Let's take a look at the stu jdent in respect to the avail i able services. Which student will benefit from some type of instruc tion? Children with physical dis abilities appear to need con itinuity of instruction. Lapses I tend to cause retrogression, lit is advisable to participate in some program which will Kennedy Fuel Oil Offering' the best in: Oil Heating Equipment Fuel Oil Oil Burner Service Dial 773-5896 MEDFORDiMWTRIBUNE maintain educational develop ment. An evaluation of the child's reactions, during the regular school year, will give some indication of the advis ability of a full oi- a limited program. Important Factor The demands of the elemen tary school are not always met by additional instruc tion. Growing up is an import ant factor. Before involving the child in summer instruc tion, you should carefully weigh the values of a relax ing vacation centered on rec reation and club type activi ties. The, structure of the secon dary school program requires the successful completion of specific courses. While one or more courses may be com pleted in a summer, remem ber the possibility of strain and pressure. The student who is having difficulty should be carefully evalu ated before deciding upon the extent of his program. The mm student who hi interest and i Innkine for enrichment could benefit substantially. Not A Maehlnt In total, a human being is not a machine. You do not "shovel" information Into the) hmtv and end UD With fully developed individual. The child is a complex wno re quires interest, maturation, and a variety of experiences in order to learn. Look closely at the chances for success or failure befora planning summer instruction. Summer school is not a pun ishment but an aid. Be real istic about your child's abil ity. Examine his needs as a child and as a student and you may find you have al ready made your decision. APOLOGY Many of our flood cut Corners wort unablo to buy alt of their paint needs during our recant paint salt. Wo aro sorry we did not anticipate such a tremendous vol ume of paint purchasers. Now we are pleased to announce the same low, low prices will pre vail for the nest 10 days. A huge new fresh stock has just been received so you won't be disappoint ed. Please come in soon and see why we say "Bruce Bauer outsells all other paint dealers be cause Bruce Bauer under sells." BRUCE BAUER LUMBER CO. 765 S. Riverside Medford 3B to ue my lefj and walk home.
