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
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sential for peo
ple to have a
budget and to
live strictly by
this budget, no
matter how
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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the ground. But U.S. consumption rises steadily. It's now over
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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
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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.
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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