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m IS B! (S (SI 12) a G (S) START OF A HONEYMOON Una Schmidt, 20, cuddles contentedly on the lap of her husband, Airman Daniel C. Schmidt, 23, at the home of Schmidt's mother, Mrs. Nellie Peters, in Portland, Oregon. Schmidt spent almost three years as a prisoner of the Communist Chinese, returned to the U.S. to find his wife, thinking him dead, had re married. Their reconciliation followed Schmidt's applica ;tion for divorce and custody of their 2V-year-old son. Around Hollywood Hollywood (UP.) Walt Dis ney answered the critics to his Disneyland project today: "The public likes it, it's a success" and "The crit ics must be crazy." It s been a month and a half since the cartoon king's amusement park opened Aline Mosby - at nearby Ana- heim at what most reporters and critics called one of the worst , fiascos in Hollywood history. Visitors to the park on pre view day were bogged down in a traffic jam. There were long les for the rides and not enousrh drinking fountains. The entire project was dubbed "too commercial", and "too expen- five." His Own Poll Since that premiere, Disney revealed, he's been hanging around the park and conducting "my own poll" of the custom ers. Altiough many first-nighters complained about the park, he said, "Gosh, the people think it s wonderful." "You can't please everybody," 0 Disney declared today. "I go generally by the reaction of the public. I've never done any- q thing in my life that wasn't pan ned by somebody. "I have blind faith in the pub lic. I've never consciously let -them down. There's always a certain group of critics and grip- Oers .q. I cornered Disney during a second trip to Disneyland to see how the project is panning out. Crowds still flock into the 160 acre amusement park from 20,- -000 to 25,000 a day. iiaages nave seen maae since that" initial disaster. The merry- go-round was reduced from 25 to 10 cents. More drinking foun tains and benches were added, and all but one of the rides are 'at last in working order. (p I still think the park is ex- 9 Automation Seen As 'Great Contribution' Chicago (U.R) An automa tion consultant believes Ameri can business should take the of fensive, instead of a defensive ole, in relation to automation. John Diebold told a recent Na tional Association of Manufac turers conference that in the perspective of history "automa tion will be viewed as one of the great contributions of indus try and technology." "Why then," he asked," do we find ourselves defending it?" Automation, the integration of machines with one another into fully automatic systems, has re cently caused much concern in labor circles because of the fear of unemployment. "Little has been done by man agement to- emphasize the pro mise of more jobs, better work ing conditions and shorter hours which the new technology makes possible," Diebold said. "It is here that management can shift from the defensive to the offensive." Diebold listed five responsi bilities which must be recog nized as management faces this task. They are: 1. Realistic advance planning. 2. Comprehensive retain i n g programs. 3. Job shift studies for the present work force. ' 4. Coordination of hiring with internal company readjustments to minimize lay-offs. 5. Information programs to acquaint labor with the new tnd more interesting jobs and etter working conditions which automation makes possible. Ss t By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent pensive. Disney originally in sisted the average person would spend $2 or less. But most visit ors wind up paying about $4 apiece not counting lunch or souvenirs. ."We have to charge what we do because this park cost a lot to build and maintain. I have no government subsidy the pub lic is my subsidy," Disney said. Everything Mortgaged "I mortgaged everything I own and put it in jeopardy for this .park. .. . "And as to those remarks that the park is commercial, how have I stayed in business all my life? The critics know a news paper exists by advertising why, they're crazy! "We have a lot of free things in the park. No other place has as high a quality. I stand here in the park and talk to people who come along. It's the most gratifying thing all I've got ten from the public is thank- you s. Cowbird is Sneak; Lets Others Work Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.P.) The cowbird is a "sneak? among birds, said Harry W, Hann, as sistant professor of zoology at the University of Michigan. The. cowbird lays her eggs in other birds' nests and leaves the incubating and raising of the young to the unsuspecting "hosts." This is normal behavior pattern for the cowbird, which frequently picks out a likely nest while still under construc tion. She also has no qualms about removing one of the eggs from the nest to make room for hers, said Hann. Some birds, such as the robin, aren't fooled and promptly re move the egg, which comes to an untimely end. Others who ap parently don't notice a thing are the song sparrow, chipping spar row, red-eyed vireo, ovenbird and the yellow-throat. Hosts Feeds Young As if hatching the cowbird's egg isn't enough, a "host" bird also feeds the youngster, the pro fessor stated. This can be a prob lem, for young cowbirds in the nest commonly are larger than the young of the host and can reach higher and call louder for food. Sometimes this results in the starving of the host's young. Occasionally young of the host may be crowded out of the nest, but the cowbird makes no effort to throw them out. The cowbird, a member of the blackbird family, is about the same size as the red winged blackbird. The female is slate colored, and the male is black with a brownish head. For a delectable new pudding use one pound of rhubarb, which you've cooked and drained add fc-cup homemade straw berry jam and place in a greased baking dish. Sprinkle 34 cup finely crushed cornflakes on top and spread two tablespoons of melted butter over this. Bake in a moderate oven for about. 15 minutes, or until browned. Serve warm, with cream. NOTICE! Medford Ambulance Service NEW PHONE NUMBER 2-7151 Table Rock Table Rock Mr. Ullom, Central Point dairyman, and son, Donald, who has a dairy at Eagle Point, were here Wed nesday, looking for ensilage corn. Speaking of present con ditions of farmers and dairy men, Mr. Ullom Sr. remarked that the products of the man who works in the dirt are al ways the first to fall in price and the last to go up. Which reminds us of whaj Herschel Newsom, master of the Nation al Grange recently said when answering a question about 'the country's prosperity. He said that practically every segment of the national economy was flourishing except the farmers, and they were gradually going the other way. Recent visitors at the Bert Pierce home were Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Brown and three children of Harrison, Ark., who are us ing their month's vacation to tour the west coast, coming by the southern route, and return ing by the northern route. Mrs. Erown and Bert Pierce are brother and sister. E. E.. Bore, the Medford con tractor is completing a $10,000 building expansion program for Don Gardner, operator of the Midway meat market and locker plant at Four Corners. C. G. Whitney, fire insurance agent for the Central Point Grange, was a business visitor here Monday. The Dean Inglis family is new living in their new home recently purchased at Mountain View near San Francisco, where Dean is working as a construc tion engineer for the Swanson Construction company.. Stanley Lydiard, of north Med ford, one of Table Rock's worth while citizen's in days gone by, was a business visitor here the first of the week. Crews of pear pickers are at work in the local orchards, pick ing bartlett pears, which are not ripening as fast as usual. Unless families with children of school age move into the local community the school bus es loading here will be shy of their usual pick up as several families with school age child ren have moved from the dis trict since the last school term. The ' house recently vacated by the Dean Inglis family is now occupied by the Stanley Wallen family, recently of Grants Pass who have a nine-year-old son. Mr. Wallen is a foreman of a plywood mill at White City. H. W. Davissicn who once vowed he would never ride in an airplane and recently sur prised himself and his friends by taking a plane ride to Port land,, will be. the guest of honor at an open house Sept. 4, from 2:30 to 5 p.m.. at the Ray Wyatt home where friends are invit ed drop in and help him to celebrate his 90th birthday. Recent visitors at the J. S Richardson . home were Mrs. Alice Vincent, of Jacksonville, accompanied , by the former Frankie Adams of Eureka, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Roy West on of Los Angeles, Mr. and Mrs William Barton and Mr. Clif ford Morrision of Sacramento, Calif. The four ladies, Mrs. Vincent, Grace Dickison Weston, Frank ie Adams, Grace Morrison Bart on all lived in' Table Rock as young children attending the Table Rock school. Frankie ad ams lived on the farm now known as the Edwin Taylor farm, Grace Dickison Weston came to Table Rock as a baby and lived with her parents and grandparents, Charles and W. R. Dickison, who owned what is now the Hull orchards. Grace Dickison's parents owned the land now call the Table Rock Orchards, the line running west from the Modoc road to the Ray Baker place, ; containing more than 200 acres on which there are now some 15 homes. The Dickison's sold the farm in the fall of 1900 to B. R. Port er for $5,000. W. R. Dickison, her grandfather owned a 160- acre farm on the south side cf the road now the Red Skin orchard and part of the Morris place. The Morrison family owned the land now comprising the E. E. Robinson farm and part of the Edwin Taylor farm, the dwelling being situated in al most the same place as the pres ent Aubrey Titylor home. The Smith-Vanderpool wed ding held Aug. 12 at the West Side Church of Christ in Med ford was largely attended by friends from this district. Both young people are well known here, having been a part of the community, its school affairs, social life and activities since their childhood days. Ernest, since returning from Korea where he served with the 45th Infantry division, has completed a course in electrical repairs at SCIENCE AT WORK Br DELOS SMITH United Pre Science Editor New York (U.P.) A scientific way to relax is to Lie flat on your back on a fairly hard bed with a small pil low under your neck with a smaller one under your knees. Have your arms at your sides, with the elbows half bent, the hands half closed. Have your knees slightly separated and all joints partly flexed. Now think of your shoulders. Think that they're opening out wardly. Next think of your arms think they're falling away from your shoulders. Now think your back is sinking through the bed. After that, think your legs, knees, and feet are falling out ward by their own weight. Think of the dent your head is making in the pillow. Now, think of your eyelids closing of theif own weight, then of your face hanging by the cheek-bones, then of your jaws hanging loose. Do all these things by turn,- giv ing each one about two minutes of thought. Then start all over again. Meanwhile, breathe by letting the chest wall collapse of its own weight with each expiring breath. Pause for two seconds before drawing in the next breath or as long as you can comfortably. "Get a feeling of general re laxation, letting all the joints give a little more with each out going breath," said the doctor Who was prescribing this way of relaxing. "This (way of breathing) should be done six times. Note the train of sensa tion in the limbs usually heav iness followed by lightness or 'floating'; faint, transient pins-and-needles in the hands; feeling of warmth, passing up from the extremities. A pleasant, torrid day-dreaming state generally en sues, and any tendency to direct thinking should be deliberately diverted into a day dream."- The doctor, a Briton, Ronald A. B. Rorie, was instructing Brit ish practitioner in what to do about patients who suffer from uncontrollable anxieties and so have continuing episodes when Oregon Tech at Klamath Falls. Lois is majoring in physical ed ucation at SOC. They are at present living at Phoenix, Ore. A host of friends will be wish ing for their happiness and suc cess in any venture they may take. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Richard son attended the funeral of the late Ralph Foster in Ashland on Tuesday. Mrs. Kosterolos and daughter Penny who have spent the last tour weeks visiting relatives here at the Robert Sage home left Wednesday by way of San Francisco for their home in Boston, Mass, DELICIOUS & HEALTHFUL e kS Br DE10S SMITH United Pre Science Editor it is all but impossible for them to relax. Rorie did his instruct ing in the pages of the British Medical Journal. Watch Concentration He took the relaxing exercises from a standard British work on the medical management of preg nant women, and there the exer cises are designed to lessen mus cular and mental tension in child birth. Among anxiety neurotics, "many of the more intelligent patients benefit" from them, he said. "Muscular tension is re duced and a calm state of mind induced which often leads to sleep." This writer showed the pre scription to three American "doc tors who said they ought to work for anyone, provided not too much mental concentration was employed in jumping from thoughts about arms to thoughts about the back, and so forth. Incidentally, in the last 10 years in Britain "the general practitioner has become aware that a large part of his time is taken up by patients suffering from psychoneuroses," Dr. Rorie said. But only the most obvious cases get any treatment, beyond a prescription for a sedative, since under the British system of state medicine, the general practitioner is hard-pressed for time. Roller Skating Helps Polio-Crippled Girl Akron, O. (U.R) A seven-year-old Akron girl has discov ered her own therapy for crip pling polio. Barbara Louise Etter walks on crutches with a heavy brace on her left leg, but she discards the walking aids and dons roller skates twice a week. The determined little girl was an experienced skater before she was crippled with polio last July. During long months of con valesence she reminded her mother that she would be back on skates soon. Just after Barbara left the hos pital her mother, Mrs. J. J. Dahl, spoke to doctors about her daughter's wish to continue skat ing. The medical men agreed to give it a try. Barbara then started the long weeks of exercise with skates until she is now able to skate for half -hour periods twice a week and even do some tricks on skates. ' Weekly checks at the hospital keeps nurses and doctors in con stant surprise. One physician re ports that the child's weak foot muscles have been strengthened to such a degree that she may eventually drop her crutches and braces and walk normally. He said Barbara's success with the roller skating therapy might provide equal success for other polio-crippled children. Moh emy meal pwthj UJllkn SI I Ml At Your Favorite Fountain and Grocers Sunday, August 28, 1955 Jolene Kay Lake In nationwide contest, Mus cular Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc. selected Jolene Kay Lake, ZM, - of Seattle, Wash., as its 1955 Poster Child. Jolene,. a victim, whose pretty likeness will appear on a mil lion posters, is now aiding in campaign to enlist 500,000 vol unteers for house - to - house Thanksgivin; Week March for Muscular. Dystrophy to raise funds for research into fatal dis ease afflicting more than 200,006 in U. S most of them children. Government Favoring Low-Income Oldsters Chicago (U.R) Government at all levels is moving to meet the housing needs of low-income persons past their prime, accord ing to the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. The association cited the fol lowing instances of activity in this field on the federal, state and local levels: On a single day, 11 U.S. Rep resentatives introduced bills in Congress calling for a program to house elderly persons of low income. The Public Housing Adminis tration has approved a new proj ect for San Francisco, in which about 80 per cent of a total of 216 units will be set aside for older tenants. A bill was introduced in the New York state legislature to re serve for the aged a certain per centage of all state-aided hous ing. In Massachusetts legislators considered a proposal to raise the amount of state aid to hous ing for the aged.. The common council in Mil waukee asked the local housing authority for information on the housing needs of. older people. In Detroit, Mich., the housing commission sponsored a survey of 243 public housing tenants in their late 60's. The commission seeks to set up a recreational ICECREAM MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TIfl Last Member Clipper Fleet San Francisco U.R) The last member of the historic Cape Horn fleet lies permanently at rest today, fit as she was the day she was launched 69 years ago. But if won't be an uninter rupted rest for the old Balclu tha, better known as the Pacific Queen. As a "living" maritime museum, the three-masted iron shin's decks will echo the steps of the tourists in the twilight of her career. Under tow, she crossed San where she had undergone exten sive overhaul and refitting for a vear. Nearly every maritime in dustry in the Bay area contrib uted money or facilities to the renovation of the old ship and 18 maritime labor unions do nated free labor. She is the property of the San Francisco Maritime Museum As sociation. Renamed A 56-vear-old New Hampshire woman who had been aboard the ship-in 1899 rechristened her the Balclutha in berthing cere monies at Pier 43. She was Mrs. Inda Frances Dunn, daughter of Captain Alfred Durkee, fourth master of the ship. The shin carried the name Bal clutha when she sailed out of Glaseow. Scotland, where she was built in 1886. The 253-foot, Kindergarten Set For Jacksonville Jacksonville A kindergarten for children five years of age will open the week of Sept. 12 in Jacksonville, according to Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Kesler, operators. The buildine is located near the new grade school on Huen ers lane, and will be open for inspection this week. Mm. Kesler will head the school. 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Most Flavors Available In Pints, Quarts Vi Gallons, & Gallons o Take time to listen to "Paul Harvey and the News," each weekday at noon, over KYJC. "Hopalong Cassidy" battles for law and order' in the old West, each Wednesday, at 7 P.M., over KBES-TV. of Historic Exhibited 1.862-ton ship drew her first duties in the lucrative heavy grain trade 'round-the-I&rn Sbm California to the United King dom. In 1899, she lost her Union Jack registry through sale to three San Francisco companies. The Balclutha's new owners put her on a lumber run to Aus tralia until 1904, when she join ed the Alaska Packers' Associa tion fleet and was renamed Star of Alaska. On Exhibit She was among the last sail ing ships on the Alaska route and then retired to Alameda Creek in 1929. Frank Kissinger, a showman, purchased the ship for $5,000, 000 in 1934 and exhibited her at West Coast ports under the name Pacific Queen. 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