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No Motorists Dream Coming True Parking Lots Look By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent The parking industry has fin- ° ally caught up with soaring car population in many parts of the "country. , r In facf, in some _cities there are now more parking places on parking lots than there are parkers, "Lot full" signs have almost all been burned. The resulting competition to pluck the potential parker from the street is something wonder- ful for motorists to experience. Baby-sitting service for wom- en who don't want to drag their kids 'around to the stores was started by a lot owner in Sioux City, Ia. This is spreading to other cities. Not willing to take. on full responsibility for guarding a bunch of kids, a parking lot in Wheeling, W. Va, is making strollers available to its cus- tomers, : To beat his competition a Louisville, Ky., lot manager be. gan passing out balloons for the kids. A lot down the street then began giving away candy AND balloons. . In another part of Louisville a parking garage announced that it would loan umbrellas free to its customers when it rained. Several lots around the country serve free hot 'coffee to customers "while they wait for their cars on fw days. In Portland, Oré, a lot has begun offering customers spe- cial repair and service facilities, beyond washing and greasing. This idea is spreading. And down in Washington a lot operates a car radio clinic where tubes can betested and other repairs made at special prices. In a large New Jersey city a parking garage owner is study- ing a"plan to add a special heli- copter service to get his cus- tomers to nearby airports or other points. This competitive pinch, how- ever, has failed to launch any rate cutting wars. Parking your car is like checking your hat. It doesn't take long to match the sale price in fees, x In Washington, for example, rates in 'the. downtown area range from 45 cents for the first half-hour to 30 cents for the - first hour, and reduced rates for for Customers! subsequent hours. Daily rates range from 80 cents to $1.50. That's peanuts compared to New York City, where rates run from 75 cents to $1 for the first hour, $2 to $2.75 for all-day parking, ahd. about $3.50 for 24 hours. ' "In some towns there - been small rate reductions. These. developmerits are re- ported by Leonard B. Doggett, Jr, president of the National have of a string of D.C. lots, "In spite of increasing compe- tition for business," Doggett re- ports, "an investment of more than $350 million in new off- street parking facilities is plan- ned by private enterprise this year." . Since 1946 the investment in private parking facilities has risen from $1 billion to more than -$4 billion, he claims. Washington has pioneered two plans which are being copied around the country rapidly. One is strictly a good-will gesture of giving free parking on Sunday to churchgoers. All a parker has to do is show the church program after the service to avoid the fee. Glose to 10,000 persons there use this each Sunday. The other idea is a coopera- tive plan whereby downtown merchants pay part of the park- ing fee of their customers, de- pending "on the size of pur- chases, Theatres, restaurants and doc- tors and lawyers are getting in on this plan. It has helped to revive business in downtown Washington, To eliminate the familiar whine of tires as hot-rod park- ing attendants race .cars up and down 'ramps Doggett is success- fully pushing the establishment of training schools for lot em- ployes. : In an attempt to cut costs the trend in new garages is to con- struction. of park - it - yourself types. This system uses a little more space but requires fewer 'employes. In San Francisco a new nine- story park-it-yourselt use 23 employes, compared to 150 attendants needed to park the customers. It can receive and discharge 600 cars in 30 minutes, HOW TO MAKE A "BOID" SING -- Airmen of the Strategic Air Command, stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, keep their turbine- throated. "boid" in tune. Hailed as one of the most satisfactory experimental vehicles yet designed to ultize a low-powered turbine, the converted racer is nicknamed the "SACfireboid." Parking Association and owner garage - Risking Life to Break Speed Record J Why does a man risk his life trying to travel at 200 m.p.h, and more on water ? What practical use is it going -to be? Who wants to travel in a pase sengercraft at 200 m.p.h. any- way? : ' . These are typical of the ques- 'tions, asked by people when they see the name Bluebird or Don- ald Campbell in the headlines, .or see a sleek, jet-propelled speedboat zooming over a lake on a newsreel. Now those question are ans- wered by the man most quali- fied to do so, thirty-four-year= old Donald Campbell, who went to America recently and raised his own world. speedboat record in Bluebird to 216.25 m.p.h. Donald, son of racing car re- cord-breaker, the late Sir Mal- colm Campbell, has three very sound reasons why for six years he has battled on through frus- tration and bitter disappoint- ment to reach higher and higher speeds. . He gives them in his engros- sing personal story, "Into the Water Barrier", written in col laboration with Alan W. Mit- chell. ."Intially, my purpose was to win the record for British prestige," he says. "Then I be- came vitally interested in the scientific research needed be= fore a hydroplane can travel at very high-speed. Finally, I be- came convinced that Bluebird points the way to the production of a light, deadly effensive naval weapon capable of travel- ling at twice the speed of any- thing afloat to-day." Campbell says he and his team - have sufficient scientific knowledge to produce a proto- type for an M.T.B.-type craft that could attack at about 100 knots, fire its torpedoes at ene- 'my shipping--and be off in a flash, He denies attempting to win the world water-speed record either for personal pleasure or for the love of speed for speed's sake. Little is known about the wa- _ ter barrier ofthe title--which caused the deaths of John Cobb and the Italian, Mario Verga -- because 'its technical causes de- fy solution. But, unlike the sound barrier, it does not oc- cur at any one speed -- one. + craft may meet it at 200 m.p.h,, another at 250 m.p.h. ' There are. some delightful chapters on Donald's early life, with amusing anecdotes about Sir Malcolm, and vivid illustra- tions. And thrills are liberally spattered through the pages. Here's what it's like-to be in the cramped cockpit of Bluebird, travelling at a mere 120 m.p.h, and suddenly see an obstruction dead ahead. ". .. my heart scemed to pop up into my throat; immediately in front of the bows, about one hundred yards away, a great waterlogged fencing post was floating like a crocodile. It seemed to be rushing at me... I had a jumble of thoughts: a swerve at this speed and you'll be right over. Carry straight on and hit the log and bang goes Bluebird. = "I swung on the wheel, Blue- bird reared, slid, snaked; but the log whipped by out of harm's way. Very, very frightened, I eased down on speed as the end of the lake came up . . . Still shaken, and no doubt white about the gills, I clambered out of the cockpit and on to the New Fashions for Men "GLEN PLAIDS aré back in style. British woolen topcoat features raglan sleeve, SPANISH inspired tuxedo fea- tures' waist-length jacket, matching cummersash and tle. In pisante silk, this "Janlero" comes in blue, gold and green, ASH AND WEAR sulis are news. This ome con Dacron and flax, needs little ing. | "BOB AND BING TOGETHER--For the first time in several years, the famous Crosby brothers are photographed together. Their careers have kept them apart. This picture was taken in New | York on tthe set of Bing's "High Tor," his one television ap- pearance of the season. Bob, right, who has more TV experience than "Der Bingle", dropped in lo check Bing's progress during 'the rehearsals. 3 " slipway and saw Leo's eye- brows rise slightly as he gave me a quzizical glance. "Leo, this "job's ------ dan- . gerous," As for new speed records, Campbell envisages building a still faster craft and raising the target to the 300 m.p.h, mark, He thinks it is well worth the work and expense and risk and is determined to carry on "in the hope of giving the old flag a flutter." Sir Malcolm would be proud of his son. 'Don't Fence me in' Is Slogan Here They keep a newspaper pic- ture at Kruger National Park, South Africa, of a large, black- maned African lion dozing dreamily on a bouncy, new in- ner spring mattress. It is just an advertising stunt for a local mattress compasy, of course, and lions in the Kruger Nation- al Park do not ordinarily enjoy such luxury. Nevertheless, they do come pretty close to a Utopian sort of existence which might well fig- ure in the dreams of other wild animals in less-well-sprung sur- roundings. i There are no fences there for the Tion, elephant, or giraffe, There are "no cages, no white hunters with barking rifles, no native poachers with silent, poi- sened arrows. Thousands of Af- rican wild animals live by the simple - law of the wild. And the rangers' only task is to pro- tect them. Some people call this the "zoo without bars." But it is not even that. It is simply a 200-mile-long slice of Africa up to 60 miles wide decreed untouchable in an industrializing nation for preservation of rapidly dimin- ishthg wildlife. It is a normal zoo in reverse, for here the visitor is "caged" -- tourists may travel the simple dirt tracks by closed cars, but must remain in them at all times. There are camps for night stops, but even here a curious elephant or lion has, and fre- quently takes, the right of way to amble through their midst. There is something of a gen- tleman's agreement -- provided, you leave the animals alone and stay in your car they are harm- less. Rarely do they associate automobile smells with human beings. And sometimes they lend a hand. There was the agitated motorist, for example, whose car stalled and refused to start immediately in the path of half a dozen notoriously bad-temper- ed African elephants. } The agitation was unnecessary. The leading elephant gave the fender a nudge, and another, and another. As the car jerked for- ward the quick=thinking motor- ist slipped his car into gear, the elephant gave him another push, and off he went. ' Then, too, there are the rule- breaking - tourists who leave their cars to snap lions 50 yards away, to find later when their films are developed that they include shots of another lion perhaps 12 feet from them, so well camouflaged that they never saw it when the photograph was taken. From the animals' point of view, it is all so natural here. The animals have no artificial fears. They have the sun and they find their food and drink as they always have. As one of the the _ "according to the rangers, lions rangers. said: "It's just as it should be." When you park your car in a glade and listen to the noises of the bush -- a couple of hun- dred red buck champing softly, the footfalls-of a' hérd of zebra, | the treetops gossip of a pair of monkeys, the rustle as a haughty . | buffalo arches his neck the bet- ter to look you over -- the free- dom and peace of it all sweep over you. So unafraid are many of the animals that while hippos and crocodiles remain near water, will often sit on the road edge watching the cars go by. And of our own experience we know the graceful impala buck put out "school patrols" to make sure everyone gets across the "street" safely. Lions are the most sought- after animals, and it is said that some of the younger visitors go to sleep at night counting lions instead of sheep. By all accounts, the lions are getting so used to the tourists that the one on the mattress in that newspaper pho- tograph may have been going to sleep counting cars. _ Just How Good Is Your Spelling How's your spelling? It's prob- ably a little better than it used to be, for some education. ex- perts are saying that the stand- ard of spelling is slowly but | surely rising, although ren are still better spellers than women, | You're a very good speller if you can correctly spell super- sede, paraffin, liquefy, dipth- theria, kimono, rarely, tranquil- lity and naphtha, say- the ex- perts. Here's an apparently simple sentence of nearly all one-syl+ lable words which has often beaten good spellers when die- tated to them: z Hugh, will you see whether it is'a wether or a ewe that the weather has driven under a yew of the deepest hue? Nobody has ever beaten the record of Professor David Jones, a schoolteacher -of Missouri, U.S.A., who became the world's champion speller. For thrity- three years he issued an annual challenge to all comers to spell against him. Many triéd to wrest the title from him, but in | vain. His record is 15,000 words | correctly spelled straight off the reel. 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