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As We Live Budgeting Gives Feeling Of Personal Security To most people, a budget means a provision for financial ecurity. They believe that to be e c onomically i n d e pendent and to main tain a degree of financial se curity, it is es . " " sential for peo ple to have a budget and to live strictly by this budget, no matter how Dtt. Hiulook large or small their incomes. There is no question about the fact that a budget is essential to economic security. Most peo ple, however, do not realize that it is a large contributor to psy chological security and, as such, plays a definite role in the psy chological well-being of a per son. When independence and sue cess depend upon the use of money, as is true among civilized peoples everywhere and at all times, then the person who is economically secure can feel confidence in his ability to main tain his independence and to do the things he wants to do, pro vided they are within the budget he has planned. And, with a mar gin of safety in his budget, the person can take the chances that are often an essential step to i success. Takes Joy Out of Life Mai.y people feel that living according to a budget takes the joy out of life because it requires constant watching of the pen nies or even penny-pinching. This, unquestionably, is true if Three Bomb Blasts Shake Cyprus City Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Three bomb blasts shook Limassol to day, critically injuring a young Greek Cypriot girl, and British authorities imposed a new and stringent curfew on the seaport city of 75,000. The blasts in the downtown area injured several persons less severely. ' British troops" already were carrying out a house-to-house search through parts of the city where a British civil engineer was killed and a Greek Cypriot woman wounded in a blast of gunfire Sunday. A week end curfew was lifted Sunday, but the British authori ties clamped one back on today when the new bomb explosions came. The curfew means virtual house arrest for the 75,000 resi dents. Irish Premier Given Welcome on Return Home Dublin (U.R) Irish Premier John A. Costello returned to Ire land from the United States Sun day. He dashed from the airport to the General Post Office to take his place on the saluting base for the annual Easter com memorative parade. He told reporters he felt a "bit tired" after his three weeks in the United States but he look id fit as he acknowledged a rous ing reception from the crowd. Indian Socialists Call For Resistance Movement Calcutta, India (U.R) The Indian Socialist party has call ed for a state-wide non-violent resistance movement with Hindu untouchables to win for them the right to enter two Hindu Temples in the Hindu city of Banares. Despite a government act end ing the untouchable caste, thej iwo tempies won a temporary injunction against members of the caste. ' - i T-i 4 1 ELIZABETH HURLOCK. PH.D. the person cannot see beyond the petty and momentary annoy ance of having to stop and con sult his budget before he spends money for something that has won his fancy. When, on the other hand, the person can see beyond his nose and realize the valuable service his budget is in making him eco nomically secure, then these petty annoyances lose their sting and he ignores them. The end result, in the form of a feeling of security for himself and tlij members of his family, far out weigh any minor annoyance that life regulated by a budget can cause him. At no time in life is the psy chological value of budgeting as great as it is when one approach es middle age, with the prospects of retirement and decreased in come just around the corner. The person who has lived ac cording to a budget can face the declining years of his life with a feeling of personal security that will make these years among the happiest of his life. LETTERS FROM READERS Sense of humor: "Are people born with a sense of humor or can ihey develop il?" P.D.J. (A) Everyone is born with the ability to laugh. But what they laugh at is a matter of learning. Some people find one thing funny while others see nothing funny in it but can see the humor in other situations. One of the most important things in learning to laugh and to find things funny is not to takes one's self too seriously. People who are impressed with their own self-importance rarely are "able to cultivate a sense of humor: Financial help: "Should a brother who is well-off be ex pected to help his nieces and nephews when their father doesn't try to hold down a job? My husband is always helping his brother's children and I maintain thai does not give the father a sense of responsibility." R.F.G. (A) Are you sure that your brother-in-law would develop a sense of responsibility toward his family if your husband did not help out when they needed help? By the time a man reaches the age of fatherhood, he is not likely to become a responsible person if he has been irrespon sible all his life. If it were not for your husband, the children would be the innocent victims of their father's irresponsiblity and this, I am sure, you would not want to happen. Looking forward to retire ment: "My husband, who is in his late fifties, is always talking about doing this or that when he retires. I am afraid he is building up such a rosy picture of retirement that he will be in for a rude awakening when the time arrives." H.P. (A) Many men, women too, look forward to retirement as eagerly as your husband is doing now. If they have interests that can occupy their time and enough money to carry out these interests, they do not have the rude awakening you are con cerned about. (Copyright 1956, General Features Corp.) Plan To Bomb Algeria Dam Said Uncovered Algiers (U.R) French police said today they had': uncovered a nationalist plot to blow up the Oued Fcdda dam and flood the populous area around Orleans ville, a city of 32,500. The city is 105 miles south west of Algiers. The police statement resulted from an Easter weekend rounds up in which ten Nationalists were arrested and 87 sticks of dynamite and several huge bat teries were discovered. 'fe uJvY I W - TO LEAD WORKSHOP Miss Lillian Swanson (left) of Ontario, Canada, and Mrs. Emma Davis (right) of Portland, will direct workshop sessions Tuesday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. for the Rogue Valley Sunday School association meeting at the Medford Assem bly of God, 1108 West Main st. The Rev. Clynton Crisman is chair man. The sessions are being held in conjunction with the Spring Sunday school convention of the Rogue Valley Sunday School as sociation. Tonight the Rev. Dr. Vernon Grounds, president of Den ver Seminary, will address the association at 7:30 p.m. on "The Usefulness of the Useless." At the Tuesday sessions Miss Swanson and Mrs. Dais will give special emphasis to training and materials for the Vacation. Bible school. Wood Roofs for Korea American service men are contributing much from their military pay to stave off hunger and cold from war widows and orphans of South Korea. .The city of Kunsan is a center of refugee assistance. This is a good place for loggers, lumber men and plywood producers to lend a hand to our sailors, sol diers and marines, to help house war refugees through the pro gram of the American Friends Service committee. Cull logs will serve and so will economy dimension lumber and boards, and plywood peeler cores. There's a little lumber yard at Kunsan, with a mill that will cut logs up to three feet diameter. A nice temporary home from a South Korean family's point of view can be built for right around $200, the Friends Service committee says. "Rammed earth" blocks provide the walls and base. Windows are made from the stout, trans parent plastic linings of pow dered milk barrels. Boards and dimension are required for roof ing and roof framing. Each rammed-earth family home can be finished to the top with 750 board feet of lumber. Story of a House It could have begun with a squad of American soldiers in Korea. Let's say it started with a Sunday school primary class, here in the U.S.A. The children were given coin cards. They were told that just one nickel would buy three large rammed earth blocks for the wall of a new Korean house, that the price of an ice cream cone would buy six blocks and that five cents earned every day for 100 days would amount to S25, or enough to buy all the 1500 "landcrete" blocks for a house for one Korean family. This $25 was the first cost for our house. The Korean govern ment contributed the' land, the home site. The war widows and their children provided the labor for erection of walls and the ba sic labor for making heat tun nels under the floor, with fire place and chimney. The roofing and roof framing were last, and were all-important. The earth walls would last two years, perhaps more, if pro tected from " rainstorms. To re peat, it was distinctily emer gency, temporary, housing. So economy grade lumber was spe cified. The families teamed up on each house jobs. A group of ten mothers and their children worked on each house. They laid My Mom Says e FOODS ARE FRESHER VARIETY IS LARGER EVERYDAY PRICES ARE LOWER o CLERKS ARE MORE FRIENDLY AT THE MEDFORD'S DOWNTOWN SUPER MARKET If You Arent Trading At The Groceteria You're Paying Too Much 1 3 block upon block to raise the walls of a house 17x13 feet, in side the walls, with height of seven feet. Then came the roof, a roof of wood. 4,000 Widows Among the Kunsan area refu gees there are 4,000 widowed mothers who need temporary homes for their families, food and clothing, and finally guid ance and assistance in earning an income that will keep the family together. When you think of so much good being done with cull logs, economy lumber and plywood peeler cores, and maybe wonder about it, think also of the good being done with goats. The goat is no comic animal to the South Koreans. Every widow who has been given a goat has kept it as a regular source of nutrition sometimes as a source of income too. The female kids are given to other families, to be reared into milk producers. Similar livestock projects have been started with pigs and poultry. A bean-curd business, a sewing shop, and a laundry are exam ples of private enterprise among the war-ruined refugees of Kun san. Looks like a mighty good place to ship a few jags of econ omy roofing lumber with For eign Operations administration doing the shipping free. Any such contribution would be de ductible, too, from corporate taxable income. Easter Breakfast Flight Fatal To Four San Bernardino, Calif. U.R) Four persons on an Easter break fast flight were killed yesterday when a private plans crashed 10 miles northeast of here. The pilot apparently ignored a warning that weather was bad for mountian flying. Killed in the fiery crash were the pilot, Ronald B. Silver, 25; his sister, Sandra H. Silver, 20, both of Alhambra, Calif.; Margo Lee, 20, Beverly Hills, Calif.; and Sal Divner, 20, of Los An geles. Sheriff's deputies said the four were warned at the El Monte Airport, where the plane was rented, the weather was bad in the direction of Apple Valley, their destination. Silver said they would go north to Santa Barbara instead, the airport officials said. For Best Results Use Tribune Want Ads -fA Jay Gould Heir Dies at Age of 78 Juan-Les-Pins, France !U.R) Frank Jay Gould, 78, who in herited railroad millions from his father, Jay Gould, and par layed it into an even greater for tune by helping to develop the fabulous French Riviera, died yesterday in his Riviera villa. Gould had been bedridden for the past 13 years with uremia, asthma and a liver condition. He was the youngest of Jay Gould's six children and inher ited an estimated $40,000,000 chunk of his father's giant es tate, built on rail speculations. Frank Gould had lived in France since before. World War I and in vested Jiis money in gambling casinos and hotels. He was credited with playing a large part in transforming the French Riviera from an obscure coastal resort to an international playground. City Vehicles Limited By Lack of Licenses Toledo, O. (U.R) Subur ban Perryburg City vehicles are ordered to stay within city lim its now that the deadline for new Ohio license plates passed. The reason no tags. - Mayor Lloyd Meiderhous said the license applications were mailed late. He expected it would be a few days before city cars are back in legal operation. Standard America's Specially designed "swamp buggy" carrying oil geologists into a Louisiana wilderness SWAMP BUGGIES, snowmobiles even helicopters are used by Standard's geologists, who seek petroleum throughout the free world and in 33 U.S. states. Our search never ends. Last year, in the Western Hemisphere alone, Standard invested $134 million in exploration, drilled 107 test wells. We added nearly three times as much oil to reserves as we brought from the ground. But U.S. consumption rises steadily. It's now over 9 million barrels per day and expected to increase i within 10 years. So in 1956 we'll again invest many millions in explora tion, drill scores of new wells seeking the oil youll use tomorrow. Includes operations of affiliated companies in the Eastern Hemisphere Monday, April 2. 1958 Development Urged The Dalles (U.R) Sen. War ren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.) Sat urday advocated a six-year pro gram for the development of Columbia basin projects with an average expenditure of $116, 000,000. Magnuson is chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on public works. The Washington legislator is making a tour of Columbia river basin projects. Magnuson predicted that ap propriations for public works in the Northwest this year will re ceive more favorable treatment in Congress than they have the past few years. He said that both the House and the Senate have completed hearings on North west projects and are in substan tial agreement. Projects coming before the appropriations committee and included in Magnuson's remarks are: The Dalles dam, $50,000,000; McNary dam, $7,000,000; Ice Harbor, minimum of $5,000,000; Chief Joseph, dam, $16,000,000; Hills Creek dam, $2,000,000; Cougar dam, $3,500,000; dredg ing at the Columbia bar $1, 300,000. A three-step program for im provement of Columbia river navigation facilities also was ad vocated by Magnuson. The Washington senator spoke in fa vor of modifying Bonneville is exploring oil reserves STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA puts petroleum progress to work tor yom In Columbia Basin locks to increase the width and length, the establishment of a 27-foot channel from Vancouver to Bonneville dam and also a channel the same width from Bonneville upstream as far as The Dalles. Ex-Cambodia Premier Warns on Ending Aid Siemreap, Cambodia flJ.R) Outgoing Premier Prince Noro dom Simanouk warned Sunday his country may pull closer to the Communist camp if U.S. aid is withdrawn and South Viet Nam and Thailand continue to blockade Cambodia. Simanouk announced his Peo ples Community party will meet about April 20 to decide Cam bodia's position towards the United States and whether the strategically located kingdom should remain neutral. Japanese Fair To Show Products of America Osaka, Japan (U.R) New products of American agricul ture and industry will be exhib ited and demonstrated at the International Trade Fair open ing here Sunday, it was an nounced today. ' Use Mail Tribune Want Adi The Community's Biggest Marketplace 40 countries to keep the highest in history ProgresM In the West means 4Va million more cars by 1956 1965 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TTVS Columbia Flood Threat 'Emergency' Washington (U.R) The three Democratic members of Con gress from Oregon said Sunday that the Columbia river flood threat is an "emergency" situa tion which should be met with "emergency measures." Sens." Wayne Morse, Richard L. Neuberger and Rep. Edith Green made the statement in a letter to Lt. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis Jr., chief of Army engi neers. The Oregon Democrats said Sturgis had remarked, in a pre vious letter, that his authority to undertake preparatory work is "limited." They said they are "deeply concerned" that the Army engi neers corps might limit its sur vey and recommendations to items "strictly within its pres ent authority and responsibil ity." For example, they said, dike and fill installations near Port land which are not under Army engineer jurisdiction are points at which flood waters could break through. Financial ar rangements for additional work might take "a considerable amount of time," they said. They urged that the govern ment take emergency steps, in cluding "any feasible works not within the jurisdiction of the corps." ' 1965
