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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY. AUGUST 17. 1962 m Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc. Traffic Judge Uses Unique Measures To Impress Violators FROM MY FRIENDS' - THE LONDON Santa Monica, Calif. - (ITC -Traffic violators who come be fore Municipal Judge W. Blair Gibbcns get the "blood and guts" treatment in his per sonal campaign to reduce auto accident fatalities and injuries. Judge Gibbens has insti tuted some unique measures in lieu of what he views as inadequate and ineffectual, fines and jail sentences, j He ordered a young woman j who was caught going 74 ! miles an hour in a 35-mile ! zone to spend five hours at I an emergency hospital and take notes on traffic casual ties. Film Showtd j lie showed about 100 viola tors a film called "Signal 30" which, in sound and color. made bv Ohio State Police. IGibbens reduced their fines I room, and the film showed Whiff of Ammonia j by S5 when they agreed to : truck driver .trapped in his The violators who viewed see it. One elderly woman col-: cab and burning to death, the movie last week were not i lapsed as screams from the The woman said her husband compelled to do so. Judge sound track filled the court-; died in a similar accident A 3 gency hospital, was visibly shaken when ambulance at tendants carried in a bleeding many years ago. .drive again, she said as fire- and bruised motorist whoso Another woman ran from men gave her a whiff of am-1 car had gone over a 150-Ioot the courtroom, pressing a monia. I cliff. handkerchief against hen Lis Kielskov, ordered to I "I bet I'll never speed mouth. "I don't think I'll ever spend five hours in an emer-1 again," she told newsmen. 'GOD SAVE PRESS U. S. Government officials charged with the responsibility of protecting and maintaining confidence in the U. S. dollar might well as they read the London newspapers these days be muttering the British proverb, "God save me from my friends; I can take care of my enimies." For the attacks in the British press on our U. S. dollar in recent weeks have been nothing short of vicious. The con temptuous attitude Britain's commentators are taking toward every effort we make to balance our international financial accounts, stem the drain on our gold reserve, hold the dol lars value wnere it has proudly remained for over 28 years depicts the horrifying results is almost incredible, considering this is the press of our ! of high speed auto and truck closest ally. The eagerness with which the British corre-; crashes. spondents seize on every adverse statistic as an indication I He ordered another group that we can't hold the dollar and will be forced to devalue it ' of violators to go with a de is, as usually mild speaking Under Secretary of the Treasury tail of police and street clean Robert Roosa said out loud the other day, "resorting to des-' ers, who mop up after an auto perate contrivances to create" alarm about our dollar. The j wreck. downgrading of every bright stastic arouses the suspicion that I Judge Gibbcns. 61, has been the commentators want most to be prophets - and don't care ; on the bench only about eight wnai evil tney do to the whole free world in the process. The attacks have been contestant and it's almost a sure bet they'll mount in intensity between now and mid September, when the world's top financiers gather in Wash ington for the annual meetings of the International Mone tary Fund and the World Bank. This sort of pressure on a currency already being sniped at is commonplace before these meetings. It's not inconceivable that the alarm hcing fed by the press reports most of them unfounded and the rest wildly exaggerated on the adverse side - could increase the drain on our gold, particularly from such large holders of dollars as the Germans, the French, the Swiss, the Belgians. Certain ly the speculators will be breathing hard during these next few weeks. Why? What are we doing about it? .The "why" is a familiar story. For years, we have been spending more money abroad than we have been taking in from abroad and running a big deficit in our balance of payments. As a result, our foreign creditors have built up huge claims in dollars against our gold reserve and, as the banker of the world, we pledge to honor all claims of our foreign creditors in gold on their demand. Our gold hoard has been shrinking steadily. If suddenly there was a con certed run on our reserves, we couldn't possibly pay off all the claims in gold. This is the background for the stories that we'll solve our nrohlems hv raisin? the nrirp nf pnlH from ii.t nresnnt. X.lfS-an- nunce level - which would be devaluing tthe dollar because I Affanrlf Rafnri Dauiia there'd be less gold in each dollar. j HIICIIUj DCJIUII KClllC Says a London Observer writer: While European bankers I -p,p Medford park and rec believe that "given time and adequate help, the dollar prob-1 reation commission attended Iem could be overcome, few expect these to be forthcoming, i a baton twirling revue at Sentiment is working against the dollar." Hawthorne park Wednesday Says a Sunday Times correspondent: Although the U. S. j anr) incn adjourned to city resents questions about the dollar, "Europe will have the last nan for its monthlv business word" and the world price of gold will "no longer be pri-! meeting m.rily determined in or by the U. S." Abm,; ,S() attended Says a London Dally Telegraph commentator. There ,s a , the ba(on prngram al the k "fundamental lack of confidence in the three systems of gold, wnicn was directed bv Gavle dollar and sterling" and "to defeat speculators is not to pro- N(,snrjm "ciass instructor. The viae any Kina oi cuie ii.r mis lu.m.niuiiiii ' activity lasted about one hour ivieanwnne wnai are we aoing aooui imsr we nave launched a major program to slash the deficit in our in ternational accounts - and it is being reduced, We have entered into an unprecedented series of agreements with the free world's central bankers to combat speculation. President Kennedy has pledged again that we "are not going to devalue." We are informing the London press with admirable restraint that devaluation could hardly be done by a stroke of the President's pen: it would take an act of Congress, and Congress is no more anxious to do this than the President. We are also making it plain that we can balance our ac counts any day we wish just by slashing our defense spending overseas and our foreign aid which should be a clear warn ing to our critics that if they try to force our hand they might bitterly regret it. The affluent society of thp United States in 19B2 is hard- months hut he's attracted lot of attention with his cor rective measures. "Conventional sentences by those judges who give two or three days in jail are not ac complishing their purpose," he said. "I don't believe fines accomplish anything either. I don't consider the purpose of a traffic court is to raise funds. I think the purpose is to convince the violators of the error of their ways and help make the streets safe." Gibbens, a practicing law yer for 38 yearsbefore he was appointed to the bench, said that traffic citations for moving violations have shown a 10 per cent decrease since he began his measures. He said he plans to hold a public showing al Civic Auditorium of "Signal 30." the movie jCily Park Group At the commission meeting Park and Recreation Director Robert L. Haworth relayed message to the group from Mayor John W. Snider. The mayor has asked Ihe commission to undertake three specific tasks in addition to Us regular functions: -To sucgest a name for thp newly acquired park sile along Bear creek. To make a study of lepn age recreation needs in the Medford area. To' represent the city ad ministration in cooperating ly the war-devastaled economy of Britain when she devalued j with the Bear Creek Develop in 1949 - and to suggest a similarity is malicious. As an : ment Committee of Medford. Englishman said in the 15th century, "God save mp from my i Temporary Chairman James friends. ..." I Sullivan appointed various members of the commission to work on the new assignments. 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