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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1962 Domiciliary Men To Get Big Dinner White City Members in the White City Veterans Ad ministration Domiciliary who are unable to spend Thanks giving at home with their fam ilies will have all the tradi tional feasting that goes with the American holiday, C. T. Jackson, director of the Domi ciliary said today. Turkey and the trimmings will be served in the Domicil iary dining room, and on trays to those who are confined to their beds in the infirmary, he said. The Domiciliary has bought food by the truckload to pre pare the dinner 800 pounds of turkey, 300 pounds of pota toes, BO pounds of cranberries, olives, and relishes, and huge quantities of other foods. In addition to the feasting, religious services will be of fered during the day at the Domiciliary, Jackson said. Winema Forest Sells Two Timber Tracts Klamath Falls - Harold Cole of Oakland, Ore., and Lovencss company of Malin purchased two timber tracts sold by the Winema National forest this week. Cole paid $6,412 for 450,000 board feet of blowdown tim ber in the Wocus sale. Jack Weimcr also bid on the timber which had an appraised value of 55,782. Loveness paid the appraised price of $29,012 for the Long Prairie sale of 3,020,000 board feet. Both sales are located on the Choliquin Ranger disttrict. I Newest Section Of Trans-Canada Road Taking To!! B 9 BIG HANGOVER Nursing a gigantic hangover is four-year-old Edward Taylor of Vancouver, B.C., a compulsive drinker who downed 10 ounces of rum and a half a glass of beer in rapid order while his father was out of the room briefly. Edward was treated at a hospital for alcohol poison ing. It was his second drunk. He guzzled a quarter bottle of rye when he was a year old. (UPI) Ottawa - il'Pl' A short stretch of the Trans -Canada highway - nicknamed the : "killer strip" because 45 per jsons have died on it since 1 1957 - is proving that Can ada's roads are becoming too good for its drivers. ! The 32 mile, two-lane strip just east of the capital has been the object of great con cern since it was widened and smoothed to Trans -Canada specifications. After 43 deaths, numerous i injuries and nearly $500,000 in property damage, Ontario highways department officials have come up with only one explanation: bad driver judg ment. When the rash of fatalities began, some reports blamed them on driver hallucination drivers being blinded by the sun a few hours before dusk, or the light playing tricks with a driver's distance judg ment. But the statistics piled up by Department Safety Officer T. E. Mahony suecest that the I fniThina( inn nf mridnrn ltiili ways and high-power cars are too much for simple humans. Mahnny's two-year investi gation has shown that most of the accidents occurred under j ideal driving conditions. I More than half were during ; daylight, almost 40 per cent jat night Tile sun-blind theory j is tossed out by the statistics I which show only six per cent of the accidents occurred at I dusk or dawn, j Almost two-thirds of the ac cidents were on dry pave ment, with only 16 per cent I in the rain and 21 per cent on ice or snow. ! Three - quarters were on straight stretches of the road. A surprisingly high 34 per cent of the fatal accidents in volved only one car, while about 60 per cent involved two vehicles. Mahony also found that one third of the fatal accidents in volved drinking. A majority of the drivers involved were Quebec drivers using the top flight Ontario highway in preference to Quebec's sub standard highway, which runs along the other side of the Ottawa river. Although the speed limit is 60 mph, the road is construct ed for 80 mph and there is no doubt many drivers operate at the higher rate. But drivers, unless alert every second, are incapable of driving safely at The Portuguese equivalent of Santa Claus is "Pia Natal," or Father Christmas, but he is regarded only as an agent for "Menino Jesus," the child Jesus, who is actually respon sible for Christmas gifts. Real Estate Tax Levies on Farms Show Increase Traffic accidents take 30, 000 lives in an average year. Washington - IUPII - Farm real estate tax levies in 1961 generally payable in early 1962 - totaled SI, 329, 500.000, up 6.3 per cent from 1960 levies, according to the Agri culture Department's Econom ic Research Service. The levies of 1962 are ex- The Fashionette- "Quality Is Not Expensive" the most0" Dresses , H,tf Si Jr.. R9- formal coektttt .. . nmsses orient'' 5" paamas Short " . velveteen Coats Car Coats c..;t vVoo eaters . Scott'"" ' " SHOP FOR EST U I Buy Now! V 1 $2 :SPUS WOOL COATS REDUCED SIZES 8 TO 18 WOOL SUITS Broken Sizes-Values to $69.98 s 241 SILF SKIN PANTIES AND GIRDLES SHOO Values to $7.95 tl ONE GROUP ITALIAN KNIT DRESSES Broken Sizes VALUES $ TO 39.98 25 00 ONE GROUP DRESSES Broken Sizes Jersey, Matte Jersey, Cottons $088 216 ONE GROUP FORMALS REDUCED Values to $34.98 S198L$2298 "cJSsf The Fashionette 1 LADIES READY-TO-WEAR cross From Craterian peeled to increase to about $1,409,000,000. This would bring taxes per acre of farm land to $1.38 compared with $1.30 in 1961, and an average of about $1.06 in 1957-59. Property Rising ERS said farm real estate tax levies comprised 6 per cent of total production ex penses in 1960. In general, the proportion of total production expenses accounted for by farm real estate taxes has been rising since 1944. The 1961 percentage is the largest since 1951. These levies were California, $150.3 million; Illi nois, $126.5 million; and Iowa, $107.6 million. Taxes per acres of farm real estate in 1961 were higher than in 1960 in every state ex cept Rhode Island, which showed a small decrease. The greatest increase, 59 per cent, was found in Alaska. Six oth er states showed increases of more than 10 per cent. In 28 slates the increase was from 5 to 10 per cent, and in 14 it was less than 5 per cent. As in recent years, 1961 taxes per acre of farm real estate averaged highest in New Jersey at $10.16 and low est in New Mexico at 15 cents. In 16 states the average tax per acre was more than $2, in 13 states it was between $1 an $2. and in 21 slates it was less than $1. Variations among states in average tax per acre reflect differences in the value of farmland and the relative value of improvement, as well as the role given to the prop erty tax in state-local fiscal systems. Thus, in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, where taxes per acre average highest, the property tax occupies a rela tively important place in the tax structure. In addition, ag riculture in these states is characterized by small, inten sively operated farms having high values per acre and large average investments in improvements. high speeds in high-powered Mahony admits this could cars, highway officials say. ! be an answer, but doubts it Give a motorist a perfect would ever be done. Drivers set of conditions and he lets himself relax so his reactions are not as good." Mahony said. One answer might be to let the road surface deteriorate and construct more curves into the road to keep drivers alert. will just have to learn to han dle modern roads and cars, he said. Instead, the Ontario provin cial police have stepped up their patrol of the stretch, watching for speedsters and careless drivers. I The ultimate answer for the Trans-Canada between Mon treal and Ottawa may be a four - lane highway. This would cut down the number of head-on crashes, but still would leave the alarmingly high incidence of motorists dozing off and running into the ditch. At the moment the high- time being motorists will have to learn to cope with the modern road if they want to stay alive. The highway safety council, also alarmed about the killer strip, admits a lower -grade road would cut accidents. But one official said the volume of cars today requires modern way's traffic volume does not highways that will carry large warrant four lanes For the I volumes of traffic quickly. I y ssk v & JA Ktir-KA'i' J:,:-.' 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