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Working Women " Blamed for Drop In Birth Rate Las Angeles (U.R) Ameri can women nay be cutting down on the national birth rate by acting as "men by day and wom en at night," a psychologist warned here. Dr. Richard Centers, of the University of California at Los Angeles, said the problem is one of a "social transition" in which housewives0 and mothers work as well as bear children in order that middle-income families can keep their economic footing. But the transition may back fire, he admonished, because women are being torn from their "biological destiny." Naiuiel Rejection of Role Competition in the business world for the average house wife, according to Centers, re sult in a natural rejection of the normal feminine role of house wife and mother. "This may lead to frigidity and from a long range point of view could contribute to a de cline in the national birth rate," he said. And the lure of the typewriter as opposed to the dishpan is pre senting a problem for husbands as well, Centers added, be cause working wives come home to a set "routine" lacking the glamour of an office and the one-time "breadwinner" has to pitch in with the household chores. "They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hado Z?W FORTY TABLES TO CLZAA WW I'VE WATCHED Mf UP, AHD SHE STARTS OM WIS BUS-GAL WORK "TT73s: I TWE 0E WUERE 7WE GUV HfJ 1 THAT'S THE , - HUH? S AitT MAD A OlAKCT 7 SAME HJMK OF PlE- lUsfci J7- WEy.' WAIT v V TO WA FoRK UP J I A'-LA MODE SHE UPf,X DiMY I ri 7 1 SRB8ED FROM ME f7 1) ' MS BED OM THEM f VmY NAPKIhJvf WUD61U4ltB! woFMtlYooDx tSTJia STEVENS 4-H Club News 4-H Forestry Club The Valley View Forest Rang ers met April 30 at the home of John James of Talent. At the meeting we had all six members present. We had election of of ficers, who are president. Leon Small; vice-president, Robert Rosenbaum; secretary, Jimmy Scott, and reporter, Lorna Chap man. After a short business meet ing we hiked for wild flowers, for our exhibits at the fair. No difinite time or place was set for the next meeting. There will be an announcement put in papers regarding the time, date and place. Lorna Chapman Reporter Oregon Newspapers Receive Safety Award Chicago U.P.) Two Ore gojn newspapers were among 241 recipients of the National Safe ty.. Council's. 1854 public - inter est award for exceptional safety it was announced today. The award winners included the Oregon Journal and the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier. WATER RISES Hartford', Conn. (U.R) The Tolland Aqueduct Co., which has 56 customers, has been giv en authority to raise its water rates for the first time since 1877. Sandwich and Cook ... The first logging on record in the Douglas firs of the North Pacific Coast was done by the firm of Sandwich and Cook. The senior partner was Lord Sand wich, a high official of the Brit ish government in the famous year of 1776. His junior partner was the great navigator. Cap tain James Cook. Cook was one of the few Englishmen who were able to fight their way up to high place from the ranks of common labor in those days. He was born in 1728. His fa ther was a farm hand. The fam ily home was a mud hut. The boy was apprenticed at 13, ran away to sea, soon earned a mat's rating, and when he was 27 he joined the navy. He was self schooled. In short order he won command as a navigator of peer less gifts. The fame of Captain James Cook grew with two world's voyages of exploration. On the third he sailed his two ships up the Oregon - Washington Coast and sailed into Nootka Sound. The shore was that of a vast island that was in time to be named for one of Cook's- lieuten ants George Vancouver. Douglas Fir Masts . . . 'The Spaniards and. Russians had stolen in along these shores, raiding and robbing and enslav ing the poor natives, suffering a few deadly reprisals by the In dians in return, and stealing out again. Captain Cook played the part of an honest guest with a good host. He was able to trade for bales of furs. Also, he was free to refit his ships with Douglas fir masts, cedar planks and other West Coast lumber. Cook's flagship was named the Resolution. His tender was the sloop, Discovery. Here is the picture Philip Parrish paints; in his book of true stores, "Before the Covered Wagon." "The two ships lay in water too deep for anchorage, so they moored to trees close to the shore. An iron forge was set up on the shore and the masts were unrigged. Tall Douglas firs were, on this occasion, first cut by white men to be made into masts . . . 'Trade continued brisk. It .was a pleasant April (1778) for the crews of the Resolution and the Discovery. The semi-tropical veg etation, with fir trees large enough to build a cabin in a stump, pushed down to the water's edge." Furs and Firs for China . . . The work went on. The Dis covery sailed away, with a hold full of furs that started the Northwest American fur trade with China. Her new masts withstood the storms of the Seven Seas through many years of world voyaging. Captain George Vancouver re turned to the region in 1792, with a new Discovery built in 1789 as his flagship. It was also called Discovery. He used native timber to refit all his ships. He knew it well. The trade in fur for the man darins of China boomed, most of all in the rich skins of the sea otters. Phil Parrish quotes one authority for a figure of 48,000 sea otter skins taken from the Northwest in the four years, 1799 through 1802. The trade's peak year was 1801, when 16 ships carried fur cargo 15 of them American, one English from the North Radar Scientist Bounces Swindlers Reno, Nev. (U.R) The first scientist to bounce a radar beam off the moon is now helping to bounce would-be swindlers in this city's gambling halls. The scientist, W. E. Osborne, has used electronics in both feats. In 1941, Osborne was a mem ber of he Council of Scientific and Industrial Research at Syd ney University in Australia. As part of the group's research into the properties of radar equip ment, Osborne and his colleagues actually sent a radar beam across 240,000 miles of space and re ceived its echo back on earth in 2.6 seconds. The achievement was a matter of record some five years before the U. S. Signal Corps at Ft. Mon mouth. N. J., duplicated the feat in their "Project Diana" experi ment. After the war, Osborne came to this country, became an Amer ican citizen and went into the manufacture of electronics equip ment. As head of the Pioneer Indus tries Inc., of Reno, Osborne makes scintillation counters for use in uranium prospecting and closed circuit television units, which are used by gambling houses and banks to keep an eye on all parts of the building with out being detected. Pacific Coast. Then the Russians were keeping to Alaska and the Aleutians, and the Spaniards to California. No doubt many of them bore new fir masts, serving to demon strate the values of the region's timber to the Chinese. China was an open market when timber trade began to move across the Pacific. It was good while it lasted. X V Aw- v sr . ' No weary, withered "cukes" at Safeway 1 Our are perky and flavorful, crisp-meated as a new apple. Chosen in the field by Safeway buyers, these cucumbers are cooled during shipment oy air flowing over ice. Sleek and satisfying; for salads and hot-weather sandwichec Per pound only I ..and cucumbers are just one of the inviting fresh fruits and c vegetables featured this week in the Broduee Srade Luce laradfi at y All your money La&on any item tbafc cfeesrit Western Pacific Seeks " To Enter Other Business San Francisco (U.R) The Western Pacific Railroad Co. will ask its stockholders to ap prove a proposal allowing it to engage in business other than transportation by railroad. The company said yesterday it will submit the proposal to stockholders at the annual meet ing on June 29. Tuesday, May S, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE 'Barefoot Conlessa' Unfit for Catholics Rome (U.R) The Catholic Cinematographic Center has ad vised that Ava Gardner's much publicized movie, "The Barefoot Contessa," is unfit for Catholics, Vatican sources said today. The sources said the CCC. a Catholic action organization, gave the film its most severe rating, "EEE." 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