MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
FRIDAY. AUGUST 17. 1962
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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.
READY FoITduTY-
London - IIIPH - The Daily
Telegraph quoted an infor
mation officer at (he British
pavilion at Seattle World's
Fair as saying an enthusias
tic Californian asked:
"How do you audition for
the Grenadier Guards?"
Voter Registration Listed lor County
Total voter registration in
Jackson county is now 36.558,
according to the county elec
tions department.
The Democrats have 18.343
registered, the Republicans
17.311 and there are BBS Independents.
All citizens who have
moved since they voted or
registered must give a change
of address to the elections de
partment by Oct. 6. elections
officials said, in order to vote
in the November general elections.
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