The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 22

fK THIS TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE TUESDAY DECEMBER 2 1958 Street Merchants Hold "Night Owl This ed Thurs Frhi LA Raising Fund For Convention LOS ANGELES JP-A rltliens' group launches Its final drive to- day to get cash pledges It will win Los Angeles the Alaskan Air Search Ends hri I960 Democratic national ran vent loin The party has asked a 9359jKJS i tee to 0 hold the convention of the mlsMng plane Rhode was a well-known figure both in Alaska and the States ere Pledges yesterday totaled 1152000 pjf I Indonesians To Train JAKARTA Indonesia JP Indonesians will train in Communist Chechoslovakia to use military equipment purchased there the government announced today The announcement did not specify what equipment was involved in the recently signed technical assistance agreement It apparently applies to MIG let tighten and Ilyushin Jet bombers Officer Conducts Annual Rescue Drill With Duck WEST ORANGE NJ A-Po-lice Sgt Thomas McDonald and a duck named Daisy have held their second annual disaster clinic on Vincent Pond spontaneous and unrehearsed Daisy as she did last year spent the night on the pond's froaen surface after it proved too slippery an obstacle between duck and shore i McDonald and Andrew Olson I and conventional transmit planes: Daisy's youthful owner finally and to small arms These have got the duck back with the aid been purchased on easy terms i of weighted ropes and a cornmeal from Prague in the last month lure The United States is supplying I "Not again!" was McDonald's light weapons but no warplanes only comment when he saw the to the Indonesian army many of land-loving duck's predicament Crucial Dimes March Set In January With a new and greater chal lenge to meet Pierce County March of Dimes leaders are preparing for the most crucial drive In the organisation's disease-fight' big history Frank GUllhan cam' paign director said today The 1959 March of Dimes which will be held in January will seek funds to support the expanded program of the National Foundation which sets up a broad attack against arthritis birth defects ana virus diseases as well as continued aid for all jjollo victims needing help Gilli- A plea for volunteers to assist a cam palm headquarters was made by Mrs James Law cam- by 1 good to tfaekk ifoa ap me ANCHORAGE Alaska Ths most extensive air search in Alaska's history has ended The last two planes assigned to the hunt have been ordered back to regular duty The great search began Aug 30 when the amphibian flown byi regional Fish and Wildlife Service Director Clarence Rhode 34 disappeared In the Brooke Range north of Fairbanks With1 him were his son Jac 21 a Uni- versity of Washington student I and Stan Frederic kson 34 FWS game management agent at Fairbanks They were on a routine game Inspection flight! As many as 20 private Air Force and FWS planes were in the air at times during the long search No trace was ever found PIE- CHRISTMAS whose officers have UR military schools attended Upon yesterday's rescue the 1 date Daisy went home with Olson paign chairman who printed out that extra hands are urgently needed to prepare supplies for the forthcoming drive Those will ing to help are asked to call March of Dimes headquarters and leave their names 98 7" 18i 29 led ImmmIi piVNVifmiua DOLLS Ml VarieflM DOLL DRESSES CARS lu TRUCKS 'C PREPARE FOR DIMES DRIVK-Pleree County March of Dimes leaders arrange the window display at campaign headquarters IN Pacific Ave in preparation for the IBM fund-raising drive to be held In January Shown left to right are John Rians local chapter chairman Frank Gillihan campaign director and Mrs James Law campaign chairman The IBM drive will seek funds not only to combat polio as in the past but arthritis and birth defects as well it HAVI CHRISTMAS CARDSI it HAVI GIFT WRAPPING I WE Secretaries Accountants Stenographers Bookkeepers and other office omoloyos are now in terrific demand in business and government offices BAT OR NIOMT SCHOOL APKOVID MR VETS RAN ANB RTATI RIHABILITATION TIAININO BUSINESS COLLEGE BEUTEL 10 STORE OPEN EVEHINGS tltfc oad Sts Pkeae MA 7-0M2 ROUT AS 1010 to St Spotlight on Olympia Establishment of Motor Vehicle Department to Be Important Issue Before Legislature P3DTH By JOHNS Kiwi TribuM Capital Bunas OLYMPIA Legislators who have taken the time to study the situation believe that one oir the most important recommendations that will go to the 1959 Legislature from the viewpoint of cut- findings cannot be detailed In an article It can be stated briefly that over the 37 years since the State License Department was created the motor vehicle functions have grown from a small side show to the main tent The basic functions of vehicle registration and driver examining were delegated more than 20 years ago to other agencies and have never since been returned to the department Some broad basic conclusions are that while Washington has been placed first In the nation by the National Safety Council for its comprehensive traffic safety legislation its traffic record of deaths and injuries is constantly getting worse This also despite the fact that the 1957 Legislature increased the appropriation for the State Patrol from $7 million to $12 million and added substantially to the numbers of patrolmen Wed Thuur Only 227 852 sq yds Beige Brown Green Gold Extra htavy all-wool Wilton Abstract two-tono design for traditional or modern furnishings Rsg 1495 69 sq yds Beige Brown down the mounting toll of highway injuries and deaths and reducing automobile insurance rates will be one that calls for establishment of a Motor Vehicle Department This recommenda-was given the approval last week of the Legislature's interim Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Highways Streets and Bridges of which Rep Julia Butler Hansen of Cathlamet is chairman What would be involved in establishing such a new department? Basically all motor vehicle functions would be centralised in the Motor Vehicle Department under one responsible head or administrator Removed from the present Department of Licenses would be the professional licensing functions performed which nave no relation to motor vehicle supervision Washington is the only state which combines professional licensing for some 45 different professions with Its motor vehicle licensing Probably the two moat Important moves in the re-organization would be to consol Mate in the Motor Vehicle Department the driver-licensing section of the State PatroL which la not now a function at the uniformed patrol taff but of civilian employes and to provide -civil service status and therefore Job security tar employes of the Motor Vehicle Department with exception of a director Yew at Study The recommendation resulted from more than a year's study of motor vehicle administration in this state including both intensive field work in this state and examination of motor vehicle departments in other states The research was directed and much of it done personally by Prof Edward Brown executive officer Department of Policy Personnel Relations and Production of the College of Business Administration university of Washington The findings are con-tuned in a printed booklet of 119 pans which makes most Interesting reading Obviously all the wool 12-ft widths High-low Wilton two-tono design All' Reg 119! 'fc 64 sq yds Beige and Green Till WED THURS FBI Fosltirii Net Happy The driver licensing force civilian examiners now in the State Patrol are unhappy people There is lack of coordination between the examiners in the patrol and the license department The State Patrol la not criticized in the report It states that a study made of the conditions in other states shows that enforcement can go only so far A permanent effect of the enforcement problem can be developed only through a post-licensing driver improvement program which utilizes the violation and accident records of the enforcement program Professor Brown concluded that the failure to maintain the gain in highway safety that had been ariiieved in this state in previous years has been In considerable part due to the failure to expand the post-licensing control of drivers in relation to the growth of the traffic accident problem Civil service status is recommended because of the high turn' over in personnel in the present department of licenses Of a total of 372 employe! there were 149 terminations in 1957 a 401 per cent turnover Frequent changes in top administrative positions have characterized the department for many yean Between January 1957 and July ISM there have been two dlrecton of the license department three assistant directors two administrative assistants two administrators of the motor vehicle division three administrators of the dtviiion two administrators of the liquid fuel dtvirion and three administrators of proratlon and reciprocity design You will bo amazed All-nylon hand-finished tweed at Its wear Reg 1095 BX 2-8666 1118 So St 117 sq yds Turquoise Nutriu Beige High-low solid color textured carpet Popular pattern you haws soon Reg 1095 452 sq yds Beige Gray Sundulwood All-wool tight-woven textured pile carpet In tweed or plain colors Reg 895 124 sq yds Gray or Beige Cotton tweed carpet The most wsar for your money In this price class Reg 4J5 Compared te Oregon If you need a companion take SONUS OFFER! HEAVY 32-ox HAIR PAD Reg 125 sq yd ALL-RUDDER PAD Rsg 250 sq 177 yd Cb sq- the neighboring state of Oregon John Herrick who heads the driver license division has 26 years of service to his credit Edward Syrlng second in eommanr has been with the division for yean Both men came up throui the ranks Oregon bidden tall has a department of motor vehicles aa do 19 other states We have no way of foreseeing what the 1959 Legislature will do about the recommendation for a motor vehicle department But if it does not like thla approach to more traffic safely it had better do something Traffic deaths have passed 300 for the year It is getting to the print where some drivers cannot afford to buy Insurance at the rates charged And still the insurance companies say they are losing money at the rates in effect Actor Flees Formosa Tax TAIPEI Formosa JP John Cfi- DUS Ofm IB UANTta 10 PURCHAM OP CAVff DURUM THU SAU NO MONEY DOWN Tunnn PAY FIRST actor-magician vert sailed the nigh i off For ipso ASPHALT TILE By Armstrong Dark Colors I es i Medium Colors join our popular Christmas Club Beta! 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