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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

they demand is good acuity - ability to see
straight ahead-and normal color perception
The driver who hit the schoolgirl had scored
fiawless 1910 rating when he'd taken the
state acuity test. His tunnel vision, however,
hadn't even been suspected. And signif-
cantly, his record disclosed three other acct
dents, all of them at intersections.
The same affection proved even more
calamitous to 37-year- old New York sales
man who, in the eight years he'd been driv-
ing. ran down mine pedestrians, Gripping two
of them permanently, and side-swiped on
coming cars on three occasions. Not long ago,
on winding upstate road, his car toppled
over 3O-foot cliff, smashed on rocks below.
Over the Edge
NlIRACULOUSLY the salesman came out of it
with only few scratches and bruises - but
his wife died. Later at drivers clinic, the
truth emerged: restricted side vision, aggra-
waited by his general fatigue, had affected his
steering. He had wandered further and
further to the right until the outside wheels
slipped over the edge.
DR.. Leon Brody, of New York University's
Center for Safety Education, reports that
tunnel vision" is the commonest visual i'm
perfection among drivers involved in frequent
accidents. The Center discovered that So per
cent of group of chronic accident-repeaters
were plagued by poor side vision, whereas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

jammed on his brakes only split second be-
before his car knocked the youngster down.
The horrifying fact was that the man be-
hind the wheel actually wds blind when it
came to seeing objects on either side of the
road. He was victim - one of thousands on
the nations highways - of tunnel vision"
This deadly visual handicap put him
approximately at the same disadvantage
as a horse with binders.
oumay well ask why men like this "a high
way menace every bit as lethal as the drunken
speedster - are permitted to operate cars
at all. The truth is, most of our states
just don't bother to check for faulty side
vision when examining applicants for drivers
permits. The only evidence of visual fitness
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

THREE million auto drivers ride our high
defects that they're a constant threat to your
life and NINE
This startling estimate, made recently by
the American Association of Motor Vehicle
Administrators. is gimly supported by acct
dent statistics; some of the worst smash-ups
are directly traceable to vision defects drivers
never suspect they have.
Consider. for example. the motorist who
smashed both legs of a day-dreaming,
lO-year-old schoolgirl at quiet suburban
intersection. Angry witnesses loudly pro-
claimed that he must have been blind. Traffic
was light, the weather clear and dry - yet the
driver. with plenty of time to pull up, had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

only eight per cent of the accident-free driv-
ers suffered from it A study by California
licensing officials put the finger on over so per
cent; and Ohio State University found "a per
cent defective in this important visual sense.
A variety Of commonplace eircum-
stances may prevent an ordinarily COM
petent driver from seeing all he should.
Edwin D. Fletcher, MA, research chief of
California's State Division of Drivers Ii
cerses, reports that an aching tooth, inflamed
sinuses, headache, or single cocktail may
temporarily induce deficient side vision.
Continued on page 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-09-11

The startling story of ''tunnel vision'' and
other treacherous eye defects that make too
many motorists potential killers. Few know if
they'r affected, much less what to do about it
BY SELWYN JAMES
Photographs by Arthur Daley
Evening star., 1949-12-04

A correspondent asks: What is
the best period of a woman's life?
That naturally depends upon
circumstances and upon the tenn
permanent and character of won1-
an.
Sometimes fate showers all OF
It's blessings on the early part OF a
woman's life. Sometimes 1t waits
until she is old before handing her
her quoto of sugar plums. Some
times a young girl quaffs down the
cup of Joy in a single draft, and
often q woman never knows
happiness until years of expe-
rience and suffering have given
her a philosophy of life to live
by, and taught her how to make
the best of things.
It is generally believed that girl
hood is the happiest time Of a
woman's life. It is presupposed
that every girl is, beautiful and
carefree, and that life for her is a
merry-go-round filled with parties
and pretty frocks and good times.
OF course, there is an occasional
lucky maiden whose fairy god
mother does dump all of the good
gifts into her cradle. But, alas,
the great majority of girls have no
fairy godmother, or else the stingy
old Jade holds out on them and
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Annual Ball ToBeHeld

will be given December 80 by hel
uncle and aunt. Mr.. and Mrs
Daniel w. Bell; Miss Margaret
Glenn, whose father, the Rev. DR.
c. Leslie Glenn, will introduce hel
at a tea-dance December % at
the parsonage of historic St
Johns Episcopal Church; the
Misses Elizabeth and Winifreo
MacGowan, daughters Of Mrs
Bryant S. Cooper, for whom DR.
and Mrs. Cooper will give a tea
at their home on December %;
Miss Betsy Goodloe Porter, whose
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul A.
Porter, will introduce her at a tea
dance at the Sulgrave Club the
day after Christmas, and the
Misses Helen Clark and Sue Eileen
Walker, who will make their bow
at an fashioned tea to be
given by their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph L. Walker, on Decem-
ber 10.
Sponsoring the Junior Assembly
are Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel w. Bell,
Mrs. Wade Hampton Ellis, Mr..
and Mrs. David st. Pierre Gall
lard, MIR. and Mrs. Malcolm West
colt Hill, Mrs. Robert E. Lee III,
Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm Matheson,
Evening star., 1949-12-04

The Junior Assembly OF wash
|ington has extended invitations to
it's 18th annual debutante ball to
be held at the Sulgrave Club We'd
nesday night, December 81. AS
usual the special attraction OF this
featured event in the Capitals
Christmas season will be the pres
entation of group Of debutantes.
This year nine girls have been
chosen to bow at the ball. All will
participate, along with post-debs
and other members Of the assem-
bly. in the traditional and colorful
cotillion figure to the tune OF
eighteenth Century Drawing
Room"
The group includes Miss Cor
nelia Elizabeth Bingham, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Mackay Bingham, whose debut
party given by her grandmother,
Mrs. j. Bruce Kremer, the day
after Thanksgiving started of this
winters debutante activities; Miss
Carol Cunningham, whose mother,
Mrs. James Joseph Cunningham,
presented her at a tea-dance IN
June at the Shoreham; Miss Joyce
Ebel, daughter of Mrs. Katherine
K Ebel. for whom a tea-dance
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Dorothy Dix
Hoppiest Years for Most Women
Between the Ages of 80 and ~

/ bestoWs upon them neither a rich
father nor naturally wavy hair nor
does she endow them with any al
lure for men.
So to vast number of women
girlhood is not a time of joy and
sang and dancing feet. It is a
period of frustrated hopes and bit
ter notifications and anxiety and
anxious striving and work and
worry.
Negative Happiness in Old Age
I would not say that girlhood
is the happiest time of the average
woman's life, and assuredly age,
the other extreme, is not, although
to many women it is time OF
great placid enjoyment. But this
is a negative happiness in which
one has no disappointmentS be-
cause one has no hopes: in which
one is calm and peaceful because
one is so near the end of every
thing that nothing matters.
So far as it can be settled chron-
ologically, I should say that the
happiest time of life to most wom-
en- is the period between 80 and
AZ or 43. The unhappieSt period
between 43 and so. And the Sec
ond happiest period from SO odd
to 10.
BY the time a woman is 80 she
has usually found herself. She is
either married or else she has
established herself in some busi-
ness or profession and she is at
peace with herself and the world
Her hands are full of work. Her
mind occupied with a thousand
interests and plans.
If she has children she has the
joy of having little arms around
|her neck and the never-ending
happiness of knowing that she is
necessary to them. Her husband
is still a sweetheart and too much
occupied and too hard worked get
ting established in his business
and supporting a growing family
to have time or inclination to
philander.
Then come the stormy 40s, in
which the children have grown up
and left the home nest and when
mothers house and hands are
empty. Worse still, husband has
arrived at the age of indiscretion
when he begins to think that his
wife is too old for him.
But after IS a woman passes
into period of peace that passes
all understanding. She is still
young enough and strong enough
to do anything she wants to do,
and she has the time for enjoy
ments, for travel and reading and
play that she never had before.
Men are no longer a disturbing
factor in her life. and her husband
is either so bound to her that she
couldn't lose him or she has lost
him so long ago that she has
almost forgotten about 1t. Here
is the sunshine that turns the
twilight into glory.
But what is the best period OF
q woman's life only the woman
herself knows.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Delta Gamma Plans
Christmas Proqrum

A Christmas program will be
the feature of a dessert party to
be given by the Washington Alum
nae Chapter of Delta Gamma
Fraternity at 8 pm. Tuesday at
the home of Mrs. Lloyd Harrison,
5508 Broad Branch road NV.
Miss Cynthia Phillips will be in
charge of the program. and Mrs.
G. E. Clark will he assistant host
ess. Members will bring cash dona-
tions to purchase Christmas gifts
for hospitalized veterans.
For watering her garden with
a sprinkler, a woman at Willes-
den, England, was fined So.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
Virginia Couple
Are Married

The Columbia Baptist Church
in Falls Church was the scene
of the recent wedding of Miss
Dolores Connie Slade and Mr.
Keith Carl Swailes. The bride
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
c. c. Slade of Falls Church; the
bridegroom, the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Swailes of Arlington
The Rev. Cecil H. Franks per-
formed the ceremony.
Evening star., 1949-12-04
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. G.. do
1.

Mrs. Andrew Calhoun Pickens,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt Whitney and Mr.. and Mrs.
William Bradley Willard.
Mr.. James T. Clark is chairman
of the Executive Committee of the
assembly and Miss Laura Belle
Evening star., 1949-12-04

Wyatt is vice chairman. The
other members include Miss Flavia
Lee, secretary; Mr.. Jack G. van
Deventer, treasurer; Miss Polly
Norment, Mr.. David B. Nicholson
and Miss Mary-Stuart Montague
Price, former chairman.
Evening star., 1949-12-04

Ceremony Held i,
Miss Marcella Lapkoff, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Lapkoff. and Mr.. Elliot Ellison,
son of Mr.. Daniel Ellison Of
Philadelphia, were married re-
Gently in the Beth Sholom Con-
gregation. Rabbi Harry ]. Kauf-
man oficiated.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29
Taft-Hartley Law Test Of Loyalty

iContinued from Page One) age. On that point he suggested that reporters wait and see how it works out.
 Mir. Truman'S news conference discussion of the issue of party loyalty went beyond--if it was not in actual conflict with-earlier comments of Democratic national chairman J. Howard McGrath.
 Discussing yesterdays confer ence with Democratic party and Congressional leaders, the Presi- dent said that Democrats are those people who support the Democrat ic platform.
 He described the platform as the law of the party.
 MT. Truman said he regards the vote on the pending bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley act as one of those tests of party loyalty.
 Support of the platform should carry through after the election as we'll as during the campaign, the President said. He added that he stands squarely behind the plat form and expects other loyal Democrats to do likewise. The platform contains Demo cratic pledge to support the enact ment of civil rights legislation Southern opposition to MT. Tru- mans proposals for anti-poll tax anti-lynching and anti-job dis crimination split the party wide open in the last campaign. Mr. Truman's news conference statement left a question in just how much say on federal jobs will be given to Congressmen who jumped the reservation last fall.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29
Stranded Cars And POcketbOOks All A Myth

FAIRBANKS, (P)-Reports that the Alaska Highway is sprinkled with stranded motorists who are both out of funds and out of jobs were branded sob stories" today by Lieut.. A. P. Brandt of the Ter ritorial highway patrol.
 He just returned from TolI Junction, chief checking point for highway travel.
 He Scoffed at reports circulating here and at Anchorage that the road was cluttered with broken down cars and wallets.
 He denied rumor a dozen au- tos were stranded at Tok and said the checking station figures there failed to confirm an Anchorage report that southbound traffic out of Alaska is almost as heavy as northbound.
 Brandt said no cars were strand ed at FOX ana hlghWay patrols heard "only a few cases where people short of funds failed to make it to Alaska" on the 1923 mile route from Dawson Creek, B. C., to Fairbanks. Brandt said that since spring traffic began April fl, an average of 20 to 25 cars daily were check 1 ing through northbound. Of these, about five more head for Anchor age than for Fairbanks. Southbound traffic has been aV- eraging ten vehicles daily, includ- ing trucks on regular cargo shut ] tie runs.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29
Endurance Pliers
 In Fine Shape

FULLERTON, Calf. (P) - Bill Barris and Dick Riedel agree it's wonderful to have and to hold the world endurance flight mark, but; We'll never try it again." says Barris. Roger " echoes Riedel.
 The weary pair had planned to leave with their wives for a beach hideout after their l,008-hour ae- rial ordeal which ended Tuesday But friends and well-Wishers staged big party that night in a hotel.
 And the airmen, their legs still wobbly and partly deaf from lis tening to the Sunkist Lady's six cylinder motor for six long weeks couldn't disappoint them.
 Both men were declared to be in excellent shape after bringing the plane down on municipal airport here at 11:45:5O am. PST Tues day. A crowd of 5000 including their families, greeted them.
 It was their fourth try at the endurance record. Nearly l2 days earlier they broke the old record of 726 hours, set 10 years ago by Wes Carroll and Clyde Schliepel of Long Beach, Calf.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29

JUNEAU, (P)-A jury of nine men and women was selected yes. i terday to hear the S1 1,250,0O0 dam. age suit of the Juneau Spruce Corp, against the International LongshoremenS and Warehouse mems union CCIO) and its local { here.
 Opening arguments were deliv- cred and witnesses were to be called tomorrow. The corporation charged union picketing forced closing of'its mill.
 The case is believed to be the first major damage action against a labor union in Alaska. The legally involved conflict be- tween the corporation and the union has had developments on two other fronts. Picketing has kept the mill closed for a year. The national labor relations board recently held that the long shoremen were not justified in their claim to certain jobs which are now filled by members of the CIO woodworkers union. The jur- isdictional dispute led to the pick eting.
 The NLRB advised the long shore union 1t would institute court action in Juneau if it did not cease picketing in disregard of the NLRB decision. In turn, the long shore union filed suit in federal court in Seattle in an attempt to get court order against the ex- pected NLRB filing of an action against the union in the court in Juneau
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29
Bandits Murder QuezOn Family In Philippines
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One) Quezon. . Incomplete reports here said the party was moving through mar row gogrge of the Sierra Madre mountains 88 airline miles from Manila when a burst of machine gun fire riddled the first two auto mobiles. They carried Mrs. Que zon and her immediate party. The attack came between 10 and ll:30 am.
 Constabulary troopers returned the fire. There was a sharp fight in which the troopers suffered three dead and seven wounded.
 The remaining members of the party were forced to retreat and raced back to the village of Ban gabong, where constabulary rein forcements were called.
 Later at the scene, of the am bush the constabulary found the bodies of Mrs. Quezon, her daugh- ter, Maria Aurora (baby) Quezon and the mortally wounded Felipe Buencamino, III, husband of Mrs. Quezon's youngest daughter, Zena- ida.
 Mrs. Quezon was beloved by Filipinos for her charity work with children, for leading the suf- frage movement for Filipino wo- men and as chairman of the Phil ippine Red Cross.
 Quezon served the Philippines as their first elected chief of state. He spent most of the war years in Washington where he and Mrs. Quezon were close to the late Pres ident Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 Quezon died of tuberculosis at the end of the war.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29
Truman Believes Russians Acting
 In Good Faith

Continued from Page Onel have made known their willing ness to join such meeting, once Berlin conditions are restored to normal.
 What they are trying to nal down now is the point that Russia does not insist on suSpending the organization of communist Western Germany pending the session.
 The Brit.sh-American-Fre n C h inquiry was presented to Soviet deputy foreign minister Jakob A. MeIik in New York Wednesday by American ambassador Philip Jes- sup. Jessup read a memorandum on the policy of the three powers to Malik and gave him a note to forward to Moscow. They met in a conference which lasted 90 min uteS.
 Late in the day Jessup returned to Washington to report to secre- tary of state Acheson and other American policy makers and await the next Soviet move. That could be a long time coming. But many authorities here believed the Soviets would respond prompt ly. The three power note is report ed 10 have asked the Soviet gov ernment to declare officially Whe- ther it stands firmly on the block ade lifting proposal released by the Tass news agency in a Moscow dispatch Tuesday.
 This proposal represented Rus s!a as being willing to abolish the restrictions on surface tranSpOrta- ton between Berlin and the west ern zones of Germany. In ex- change. the Russians were said to want a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers council to dis Cuss all outstanding German is- sues involving the four powers.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29
ARMY PLANE MAKES FORCED LANDING

A small army plane was dam aged when it made forced land ing on the ice down the coast. The plane was brought to Nome and taken to the Marks Air Force Base on Wednesday.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29

Father Murphy left Wednesday for visit to Catholic Missions on Seward peninsula and plans to be gone for a few days. Clement Boucher accompanied him on the trip which was made with Willie Foster.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29
The Sportsman Club met las

evening at the Arctic Sheet Metal Shop and elected new trustees for the coming year. Those elected were Gus Steinwandle, Walter Girkland, Bill Munz, Ben Hynd- man, and Bill Milhouse.
 Plans were made for complete organization and drawing up of charter, constitution and bylaws.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29

Human beings see best when the entire field of vision has about uniform luminosity.
The Nome nugget., 1949-04-29
Juneau Spruce Co. Sues Union

Continued from Page One) sisting Juneau attorneys for the union.
Evening star., 1949-09-25
FBI Academy 10 Open
Retaining Session

The 1949 retraining session Of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton National. Academy will con-
vene tomorrow with more than
500 graduates Of the FBI school
in attendance.
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director,
said that outstanding law en-
forcement officers from all over
the country are returning to par
ticipate in the series of panel
forums which will cover all phases
Of police work.
The restraining session will con-
clude on Friday at the same time
that the graduation exercises for
the And regular session of the
academy is held. At the cere-
monies Vice President Barkley
and Harold M. Kennedy, United
States District Judge Of New York,
will speak.
Evening star., 1949-09-25
I'd. {. Area War Dead
Arrive on Pacific Coast

Seven District area war dead
are among the 925 returned to the
United States from the Pacific
aboard the Army transport Pvt.
Joseph F. Merrill, the Army an
nounced today.
The servicemen originally were
buried in military cemeteries in
New Guinea. the Philippine
Islands and Japan.
Nearest relatives have been no.
titled of the arrival of the ship
and will be notified again after
arrival of the bodies at the re-
gional distribution centers of the
Graves Registration Service.
Four Washington men and
their next of kin are listed by the
Army as:
S/Sergt. Rufus B. Dillon, James
H. Dillon. 2148 o street NV;
Sergt. Charles B. Hall, Miss Mary
Hall. 466 Massachusetts avenue
NV; Sergt. John Kirkwood. jr.,
Mrs. Fern Kirkwood, CO Mrs.
John J. Ghilardi. 1925 Rhode
Island avenue NV, and Sergt.
Marvin Newton, Courtney New
ton. 1472 Clifton street NV.
/ Three war veterans from nearby
Evening star., 1949-09-25
Slightly Deafened?
Thousands Now Helped
BY Small Hearing Aid

People who hear ordinary
conversation, but who have
difficulty hearing in church, at
meetings, in the movies and
other public places, do not
want to be burdened with
bulky, cumbersome hearing
aids. Thousands of such peo-
pie are now being helped by a
small, compact hearing aid
manufactured by Western
Electric.
Called the Model 65, this
all-in-one instrument is the
smallest ever made by West
ern Electric. 1t weighs only
six ounces, including batteries,
yet Is amazingly efficient. It
can be worn all the time or
only when needed. Its small
size makes it easy to slip into
a handbag or pocket when
not In use. Those interested
in getting more details on
Model 65 should write for a
free booklet to
Evening star., 1949-09-25

Virginia and their next of kin
are:
Pfc. Harry Drumgoole, Mrs.
Sarah Jane Drumgoole, Culpeper;
Seaman &c Billie T. Harris, L.
Marion Harris, Waynesboro;
Sergt. w. H. Quesenberry, Guy E.
Quesenberry, Fort Belvoir.
Evening star., 1949-09-25
MU Psychiotry Chief Named

BALTIMORE, Sept. "a (P1.-Dr.
Ellis Finesinger. Johns Hopkins
University graduate, has been
named to head the department
OF psychiatry at the University of
Maryland Medical School, begin
ming next January.
Evening star., 1949-09-25

Forum to Meet at 'Y
The International Crossroads
Forum will hear John w. Young,
New England leader in the break
fast club movement speak on
Wealth and Poverty" at 8 am.
tomorrow at the Central YMCA,
1885 G street NV.
Evening star., 1949-09-25

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Evening star., 1949-09-12
Johnson Claims Harmony
With Acheson on Tito Aid
Rx the Assoeiafsd Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 12.-Secretary
of Defense johnson says that all
is peaceful between himself and
Secretary of State Acheson.
There had been reports that the
two had differed over the. ques-
ton of sending steel mill to Mar
shall Tito of Yugoslavia. Mr..
johnson denied this yesterday in
a transcribed radio discussion with
three Illinois members Of Con-
gress.
IT am not worrying about the
present decision on the steel mill
going to Tito" he said. We'll take
look at that a year from now
and see how things go between
Tito and Stain.
when Dean (Secretary Ache
SOM and I disagree, as we some
times do, we sit down and out OF
the talks there comes agreement.
- The stories in the press that
we have had these fights that
threaten the integrity Of the ad-
ministration are utterly without
foundation"
The Illinois House Of Members
participating, all Democrats, were
Representative O'Hara, Represen-
tative SABBATH, and Representative
Mack. ','.
Mr.. johnson told Mr.. SABBATH
that he would supply a list Of
officers who have resigned to take
lucrative positions" in private
industry when more pressing
things are DONE"