Educators tell Solons to Leave Proper
Driver Training Methods to Teachers
By J. W. DAVIS
WASHINGTON Of) — Recently
the National Education Association
came out against the practice of
state legislatures requiring high
schools to provide driving train
ing.
At first glance, this looked some
thing like opposing good manners,
good sportsmanship or good health.
It wasn’t at all. The NEA, an
organization of teachers and school
administrators, has no objection to
boys and girls learning how to
drive safely.
What happened was this: An
NEA-sponsored report said the role
of the legislatures is to set forth
general goals and provide finan
cial support. It said decisions on
what to teach should be left as
much as possible to local school
faculties.
An NEA spokesman said the rec
ommendation was adopted because
some state laws require courses on
such things as communism and
state history and several states re
quire high schools to provide driv
er training.
The American Automobile Asso
ciation, which has pioneered in
the work, reports that youngsters
who have had driver training have
fewer accidents and traffic law vi
olations than those who haven’t
had it.
Aviation Liaison Job Cut
JUNEAU IT> — The resignation
of Frank E. Wright as liaison offi
cer for the State Division of Avia
tion at Juneau, effective Oct. 31,
was announced by the State De
partment of Fhjblic Works yes
terday.
Fhablic Works Commissioner
Bichard A. Downing said Wright’s
position was eliminated under a
recently completed reorganization
of the Aviation Division, which
has its headquarters in Anchorage.
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The Automotive Safety Foun
dation puts it this way:
“High schol driver education of
fcrs a tested opportunity to im
prove the bad accident record of
the teen-ager. The program is on
a plateau and needs aggressive sup
port so that more youngsters in
more schools can have the benefit
of training.
“The under-20 group has about
6,400 accidents a day at an esti
mated cost of about $1 billion a
year.
“They account for only 7.1 per
cent of the licensed drivers but
6,600 of them were involved in
13.2 per cent of the fatal accidents
in 1962.”
Last year about 3.1 million young
people reached driving age. Of
these, 1.31 million, or 42 per cent,
were enrolled in driver education
courses. The percentage has been
| about the same since 1955.
As the nation’s population in
i creases so will the number of driv
ers. However, the number of young
' drivers will increase more rapidly
j than these in other age groups.
It’s a sobering thought to any
one who witnesses wild driving by
young people, or has to pay the
extra-high insurance rates that
such driving demands.
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Legacy of Sight . . .
ANCHORAGE UP) — Aji Anchor
age mother who was unable to
give her own son sight apparently
has made it possible for a Sitka
woman to see her four children
and two grandchildren
But Mrs. William Spence, who
donated her eyes so a corneal
transplant could be performed on
Mrs. Arthur Littlefield of Sitka,
will never see the results. Mrs.
Spence died two weeks ago at
Providence Hospital, a victim of
cancer.
Before her death Oct. 8, Mrs.
Spence, 51, donated her eyes for
Mrs. Littlefield’s surgery. The op
eration was performed the same
day at the Alaska Native Hospital
here.
The results of the operation
may not be known for two months,
according to the surgeon who p* r
formcd the corneal transplant. He
reported yesterday that his pa
tient was in satisfactory condition.
Mrs. Littlefield, 49, has had
vere corneal scarring since child
hood/' hospital officials said. She
has spent her life in shadows —
seeing only fuzzy outlines of her
children and grandchildren.
Mrs. Spence's own son. Elbert,
has been blind since birth. Accord
ing to his father, Elbert learned to
live with his blindness which sur
gery cannot help.
Now 30 years old, Elbert oper
ates the concession stand in the
Alaska Court System building
here.
Both Mrs. Spence’s husband and
son are proud of her last act of
kindness.
Following her lead, he also has
willed his eyes so they might some
day aid another blind person.
How Come Red’s Happy?
HOLLYWOOD W — The tele
vision world is supposed to be
fierce and frantic as a spawner of
ulcers and nervous breakdowns.
So how come Red Skelton is
so happy?
The raucous redhead is starting
his 14th year in television, his
second season with a full hour, and
he’s never been so content. The
reason is that he has discovered a
way of life that suits him.
Red has joined the Hollywood
celebrities who live in Palm
Springs. He spends five days a
week at his desert home, comes to
town on Wednesday and Thursday
to rehearse and tape his shows.
“As soon as I get to the Los An
geles city limits and see the wall
of smog,” said he, “I shut off my
lungs.”
Desert air breathes better for
many reasons, he said.
Red’s an eight-hour worker —
a week, that is. He figures that’s
the elapsed time it takes him to
put together his hour show.
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