1) Watch the car in front of
you, and also the car in front
of that one. Veteran truck driv-
ers make a practice of driving
“1,000 feet ahead” to spot
trouble before they get to it.

2) Work at training yourself
to automatically watch the left
front wheels of coming cars.
They’ll quickly give you a clue
to any abrupt turns or swerves.

3) Always look for an “out”—
a place to dodge into if you have
to make a sudden swerve. This
can become automatic, too, with
pratice.

4) If you are over 40, have
your eyes checked twice a year;
otherwise, once a year. Eyesight
changes, but so gradually you

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acuteness,

5) Remember that the high-
way people are not kidding
about those posted legal speeds.
They probably know the road
better than you do and set speed
for ideal conditions. Slow down
if weather is poor, or heavy traf-
fic. Driving too fast for condi-
tions is the single most com-
mon cause of accidents.

6 Fast driving at night is
strictly for the tired - of - living
types. You just can’t see far
enough ahead to take care of
emergencies.

7) Stay far behind the car

ahead, particularly if the road is

slippery. The old rule of one car

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The workman at the lower right faces a Herculean task of
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silt from the lock which is 730 feet long and 80 feet wide.

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driving

length for every 10 miles of
speed is fine on city streets,! but
make it a lot more on the open
road.

8) Seat belts are a good deal.

We once saw a small sports
car that crashed through guard
rails, hurtled end-over-end down
a steep embankment and off into
a woods. It stopped upright with
the two occupants shocked into
unconsciousness, but uninjured,
because seat belts had held them
in their seats.

9) A driver who has had only
two drinks is twice as likely to
have an accident as one who
hasn’t touched a drop, according
to studies. Alcohol tends to give ©
you unwarranted confidence in
your own» driving, but at the
same time it throws a wrench
into your judgment, reflexes and
eyesight.

10 Keep your car in good
shape. Also, keep the inside
neat. Stuff piled on the back
shelf can block. your view to the
rear—and bombard you in the
event of a quick stop or ac-
cident.

11) Who’s got the right-of-
way? It’s really not worth ar-
guing about, at the cost of arms,
legs, heads and hundreds of dol-
lars worth of smashed-up auto-

12) On the long, level
stretches keep watch on the
speedometer. After long hours
of steady driving, motorists
often have the illusion that the
car is going slower than it really
is.

13) Don’t stop suddenly if
you can avoid it. Then you won’t
get hit from behind. If you plan
to turn, get into your proper
lane well ahead of time. That
gives other drivers a chance to
get around you.

—GTA Digest

Science notebook

side by side

R. P, Oliver, a professor at the University of
Illinois, testified before the Warren Commis-
sion that President Kennedy was a collabo-
rator with the Communists and that they
murdered him when he planned to turn
American.

J. $. Wallace

HE CAPTAIN of the Inveraria would have lost control —
of his ship if he found out that the guest facing him
at the table was at the time a cleaner in St. Michael’s -

Hospital. Another guest was a graduate of the University
of Maryland, a third of Johns Hopkins. |

Every day of our voyage there was a questionnaire,
the one answering the most questions winning a small
prize and some prestige. One day the doctor asked the
engineer from Maryland what he had replied to the ques:
tion: Who invented printing? “Benjamin Franklin,” said
the engineer. :

“That’s what I answered too,” said the doctor. “We 4
must have been wrong.” q

I haven’t smiled at their ignorance since I discovered ©
what some of their professors are like, Oliver, for ex-—
ample, who revealed himself in the quotation above. Sole
on the basis of it I can deduce quite a little about his
beliefs.

He BELIEVES ostriches hide their heads in the sand
when frightened.

HE BELIEVES King Canute was serious instead of
showing up his flatterers when he ordered the tides to
stand. still. See

HE BELIEVES your hair can stand onend. whe
frightened, something like the Indian rope trick. And that
your hair can turn white overnight. 3

HE NO LONGER believes that the earth is flat, but is
convinced that it will soon be flat broke unless the te
rible taxes on the upper income! brackets are reduced.
(This, by the way, explains why he can hold his present —
job and his present opinions).

HE BELIEVES that when Great Britain, Germany,
France, the United States, etc., invaded China at the time
of the Boxer Rebellion it was to save the white mission-

aries there and not to divide up the country.

Now for my private questionnaire: what do you think
he believes about the American-Belgian-British invasion of
the Congo? A thousand dollars for the correct answer;
providing at the same time you hand me a winning coupon
from a package of Peter Jackson cigarettes. q

Attack from outer space?

By KENNETH YOUNGER

OME scientists have recently
‘put forward a fantastic
theory for the hitherto un-
explained discovery of huge, ex-
tinct Siberian mammoths found
standing, frozen and preserved,
in glaciers.

According to this theory the
mammoths were the victims of
an attack from outer space.
Calm down and don’t look for
an invasion from Mars. The “at-
tack” was not made by rational
beings from other worlds.

The suggestion is that long
ago a meteor or cosmic body of
unimaginable proportions
smashed into earth to form Baf-
fin Bay at the north-eastern
edge of Canada.

This collision, with effects
more devastating than thous-
ands of A-bombs, caused a col-

~ particles.

lossal column of steam and
spray to shoot up into the air.
When evaporating the water
cooled. Huge clouds of snow
swept out of the area where the
crash took place and snow fell
in areas where it was perhaps
seldom seen before and it fell
in tremendous quantities. Thus,
it caught the mammoths in their
tracks.

While this theory is probably
fantastic, it does come. out of a
study of something happening
all the time — the meteoritic
bombardment of the earth by
milions of particles of cosmic
matter. Most of this bombard-
ment is in the form of dust or
Occasionally larger
pieces hit the earth and some-
times the size is phenomenal.

For example, just over 30
years ago it was established
that a crater 180 yards deep in

Arizona was caused by a Mf
teor. The Chubb crater in U
gava is even larger. At the tu!
of this century the Tungus @
tastrophe in Siberia was sé
hundreds of miles away as
flash explosion. It left behil
vast stretches of flattened #
burned out forests.

Scientists estimate that abd!
10,000 tons of matter are add?
to the mass of the earth ea¢
year, 7

But at the same time
earth gives up mass in the fol!
of light helium and hydrog®

atoms which escape from
atmosphere. Thus, over the @
countable ages the earth ©
gradually giving up its light®
elements and becoming enrich®
with heavy elements — ir!
nickel, silicon and others.

January 22, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page