The Family Council
E41tort Not: Tht Family Council consist! of a Jadre. a psychiatrist.
svipaprr editor, a women i page editor and two newspaper wrltera. These
consult with clergymen ot all faiths and denominations. All letters are held
us conipicH commence.
Mr. J.T.W.
Into her shell.
J.T.WI can't afford board
ing school.
Mri. J.T.W. Our two older
children, both girls, are proving
quite a problem to each other,
The younger one is much more
aggressive than the older one
and is always stealing the spot
light from her. The older one
as a result, Is crawling into her
shell and living in a world of
her own.
I have tried very hard to tone
down the younger girl by ex
plaining things to her. She some
times seems to make an effort to
keep out of her sister's way, but
this self-restraint does not last
long. The first time we have
visitors at the house, the younger
one breaks out of her restraint
and takes the limelight.
The younger girl is now 15
and she has been going out with
boys for more than a year. She
Is always complaining about her
Bids Opened on BPA
Construction Work
Portland U.R) Bonneville
Power administration opened
bids Friday for construction
work on two sections of the J.
D. Ross-St. Johns-Keeler 230,000
volt transmission line and a 113,
000 volt tie line at Keeler sub
station.
Apparent low bid at $159,972
was submitted by Pittijohn En
gineering company of Portland.
The work Includes construction
of 7.5 miles of transmission line
In the St. Johns-Keeler section,
completion of clearing on 900
feet of right of way and tower
work on the Ross-St. Johns No. 2
section, and tower and stringing
work on the .1 mile Keeler tie
line.
Completion and energization
of the J. D. Ross-Keeler 230,000
Volt transmission line and the
115,000 volt terminal facilities
at Keeler substation, scheduled
for next October, will relieve
heavy loadings at Ross and St.
Johns substations and provide
new 115,000 volt service inter
connections at Keeler for Port
land General Electric and Pacif
ic Power and Light.
Keeler substation, located just
off the Sunset highway west of
Portland, will serve as the ter
minus for future high-capacity
transmission lines from The Dal
les dam and serve Northwest
Portland and upper Willamette
valley load centers.
Posted Ratio May Be
Used in Comparison
Personal property taxpayers
In Jackson county can use' the
assessor's posted ratio to com
pare the assessed value of their
property with a market or. true
cash value, according to Samuel
B. Stewart, commissioner in
charge of the valuation division
of the state tax commission.
He pointed out that simple di
vision of the assessed value by
the posted ratio will test the
validity of the personal prop
erty assessment.
For example, if a merchant
has 810,000 of merchandise in
ventory, the assessed value
should be $3,000 under the 30
per cent ratio posted for Jack
son county.
Any major deviation from this
amount would disclose an irreg
ular assessement and would en
title the taxpayer to appeal the
assessment to the county board
of equalization which meets on
Monday, Stewart explained. Pet
itions of appeal must be filed
before May 19 to be heard be
fore the board. Petitions are av
ailable in the county clerk's of
fice and must be filed In that
office.
She's crawled I lack of success with bovs. but
her older sister at 18 has yet to
have her first date. Whatever
disappointment and resentment
she may have, she keeps bottled
up inside of her.
I feel so desperate about this
situation that I have suggested
to my husband that we send the
younger girl away to a boarding
school for a year so that our
other daughter may have
chance to come out of herself.
My husband refuses to listen to
this suggestion, and I do not
know what else we can do.
J.T.W With two boys, both
younger than the girls, to pro
vide for I do not see how we
can afford the luxury of a board
ing school. It is out of the ques
tion. Besides, I am afraid that
this would make our problem
worse. It would give the younger
girl another advantage over her
sister and widen the gap between
them. I feel that my wife could
solve this problem if she did
more planning ahead to interest
our older daughter and to build
her personality.
The Council: It is practically
useless to quarrel with a family
budget, and it would only ag
gravate the tensions in this fam
ily if the budget were strained
to send the younger girl to a
boarding school. Whether she
came to feel privileged on that
account or whether she saw
through the ruse and came to
resent it, she would not be
brought closer to her sister by
this experience.
An older sister should not feel
helpless because of the compe
tition of a younger sister. Evi
dently, the parents In this case
failed to provide the older girl
with compensations to balance
whatever advantages the young
er sister enjoyed.
If the older gif 1 is too reserved
to confide in her parents, it be
comes necessary for the parents
to draw her out by demonstrat
ing their interest in her. This
sometimes requires subtle and
indirect approaches. These par
ents could be helped enormously
by an outsider who had the op
portunity to observe this family
on an informal basis.
It is very much to be doubted
if this maladjustment can be
cured simply by toning down the
younger girl or sending her
away. The problem goes much
deeper than that and entails the
relationship between the older
girl and the parents. Somewhere
along the line, this girl got to
feel that. her parents were not
close enough to her.
(Copy-tight 195B. General
Feature Corp.)
flicks Promoted in
Forest Service
Vernon E. Hicks has been pro
moted to chief of the timber in
ventories and management plans
in ;the forest service, Portland
regional headquarters, timber
management division, Regional
Forester J. Herbert Stone has
announced.
Hicks, who formerly served
as assistant chief in the depart
ment, replaces Howard Cook,
who was recently promoted toj
the north central region.
Hicks has been in the region
al forester's office for the past
515 years. He has held several
positions on the Monongahela
National forest and was trans
ferred to the division of fire
control in the Pacific Northwest
region in 1937.
He served in the Rogue River
National forest in Oregon and in
Washington.
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Sunday. May HS
V MTDrORD (OREOOH) MAIL TRIBTTWe iren
RECEIVES EAGLE Ralph Large, left, receives, the Totem of
the One-eye Eagle of the Crater Lake Area council from the senior
patrol leader of Boy Scout Troop 91 in Dunsmuir, Calif. Large,
son of Mr. and Mrs. George Large, is senior patrol leader of Troop
41 of Medford. A total of 25 scouts and five men made the 200
mile round" trip last Wednesday to start in circulation again the
Eagle, which had been held in Dunsmuir about two years. The
Eagle has passed among council Troops 55 times since it was
released Feb. 14, 1939, by James K. Hoey, Medford professional
engineer, who originated the Totem.
Ellsworth Speaks
At Mock Convention
Pullman. Wash. U.R)
Congressman Harris Ellsworth
(R-Ore.). kicked up Washington
State College's first mock polit
ical convention here Friday
night.
In his speech to WSC students
taking part in the convention, he
called the Eisenhower adminis
tration one of "peace, prosperity
and contentment.'
"America is looking to the fu
ture with new confidence . be
cause of the accomplishments of
the Eisenhower administration
in the past 3V4 years," he said.
During his talk at the bi-par
tisan student convention the del
egation from Missouri walked
out.
Ellsworth delivered a bitter
attack on what he termed a gi
gantic "brainwashing" project
initiated by the Democrats. He
said: "No matter who the Dem
ocrats nominate if they can
stay together long enough in
their thinking to nominate any
one he will not be .able to
campaign on the record of the
Truman administration."
Ellsworth said the Democrats
would like to forget that.
The Oregon Republican call
ed the GOP party the "trua par
ty of the people"" and the nation
today is enjoying an unheralded
real-money prosperity.
Flood Waters Recede
In Prineville Area
Prineville U.R) Flood
waters were receding rapidly
here Saturday and authorities
said the worst 'of the spring
freshet appeared to be over.
There has been no rain for
several days and cooler temper
atures has slowed the snow melt
run off. The spill-over from Och
oco reservoir was still high but
the stream itself had dropped
after wiping out two bridges in
Prineville with flood-driven de
bris. Residents of a trailer camp
who were evacuated earlier re
mained at temporary locations.
No homes were imperiled and
water that had surrounded about
30 houses had receded.
Magnesium is the lightest of
the commercial metals.
Suit Filed in Court
On Mine Ownership
W. A. Darling, C. J. Howe and
Erie C. Annes Sr. have filed a
complaint in circuit court con
cerning ownership of Luck Boy
mine near Rogue River.
Defendants in the casa are
Richard W. Swacker, S. L. Ju
lian, Ernest R. Gilstarp, G. S.
Holmes, L. Ivan Dow, Ivan E.
Shumate, Lester L. Sibley,
Charles Propp, Clyde L. Brower,
Stanley Smith, Archie C. Bell,
Henry A. Mayfarth and their
respective wives.
In their complaint, Darling,
Howe and Annes claim absolute
exclusive and unqualified own
ership of the 20-acre mine which
they claim to have located on
Sept. 10, 1921, and relocated and
amended on March 21, 1956.
The complaint states the de
fendants likewise claim right,
title, estate, lien and interest to
the claim. The plaintiffs in the
case are seeking a decree of own
ership and ask that the court
bar the defendants from assert
ing claim of ownership.
The U. S. quartermasters
corps is the world's largest buy
er of textiles.
John H. Tizekker
for
ASSESSOR
Jackson Co. Republican
fjwlfft '' btmmm n Mum
Ha has worked In the
County Assessors office
in '46, '47 and '4 when
efficiency, Integrity and
a fair and just tax to all
was the key note. He is
a conscientious candi
date that knows the
duties and responsibili
ties of the office of
county assessor, making
him -well qualified for
the office he seeks.
Paid Adv. Tizekker for
Assessor Committee
Three Drown as Plane
Plunges Into Ocean
San Nicholas Island, Calif.
(U.R) Two Navy men and a civil
ian were drowned near here Fri
day when their helicopter plung
ed into the ocean.
A fourth passenger was res
cued by a helicopter from the
Oxnard (Calif.) Air Force base.
He was taken to Port Mugu
where his condition was report
ed as good.
The identity of the crash vic
tims was withheld by the Navy
pending notification of next of
kin.
Chamber Agricultural
Committee Votes for
Genessee Route Here
The agricultural committee of
the Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce last week voted to
recommend to the board of di
rectors that it advocate the so
called Genessee route for a pro
posed new highway freeway in
the Medford area.
The committee, in its written
report to the board, pointed out
that it had considered the matter
only from the standpoint of the
agricultural factors involved. It
did not consider the relative ad
vantages and disadvantages of
the two proposed routes based
on other considerations.
The Genesee route cuts
through the lower east side of
Medford. The Hillcrest route
skirts the eastern city limits. A
decision on which route will be
chosen will be made by the state
highway commission following
a public hearing here May 24.
Asked to Make Study
The chamber board has asked
its highway committee to make
a further study, and report back
to a special meeting to be called
before the public hearing.
Or Walter Adams Dies
In Pasadena Home
Pasadena (U.R) Dr. Wal
ter Sydney Adams, former direc
tor of the Mt. Wilson observa
tory, died at his home here Fri
day. He was 79.
The internationally known as
tronomer was credited with
proving Einstein's theory of rel
ativity with his observations of
a companion star of Sirius.
He helped build and operate
two of the world's largest tele
scopes, Mt. Wilson and Mt. Palo
mar, both in southern California.
productive purposes which can
not help but affect the general
standard of living of a rapidly
expanding population."
The agricultural committee
listed four reasons for its recommendation:
' 1. The Hillcrest route would j
divide valuable economic orch-:
ard units into economically un
feasible parcels of land; 2. This
route would create additional or
chard operation difficulties on
divided units with respect to ir-1
rlgation and the lack of access
from one unit to the other with
equipment for spraying, prun
ing, cultivating, etc.; 3. The
right of way creates an addition
al loss of acreage involving 50
feet of working space for equip
ment on either side of the 200
foot by-pass right of way; 4. Due
to Increased use for home and
business sites, highways, parks,
airports, and other ventures, ag
ricultural land as a primary na
tural, resource is being lost, for
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GENERAL MOTORS TECHNICAL CENTER
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The 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Villa In the dramatically beautiful lobby of the new Styling Section at the General Motors Technical Center J
We cordially invite you to visit our showroom this wk to celebrate the formal
opening of this great institution and to see and drive the magnificent 7956 Cadillaci
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heralds a new era of automotive advancement
and development. No ordinary manufacturer's
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in the industrial arts and sciences. More than
ten years in the building, it occupies over 330
acres and employs four thousand engineers,
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We hope that you will visit our showroom
to help us celebrate this historic opening . . .
and to see, inspect and drive one of the most
brilliant examples of General Motors progress
in styling and engineering the 1956 Cadillac.
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: ; . in everything that makes a motor car a joy
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We will be happy to see you at any time
to give you the keys for a personal demonstration
drive and to acquaint you with some news
about cost and delivery that we think you will
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We'll be looking forward to seeing you!
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143 South Riversida Medford Phone 2-6264