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WHltE HOUSE PARTY FOR HOSPITALIZED VETS President and Mrs! Eisenhower
greet Air Force Maj. Oliver Reed of Middleport, Pa. as he is wheeled into the annual
White House Garden Party on the south lawn of the executive mansion. Ike and
Mamie entertained 791 hospitalized veterans, some bed-ridden. In white uniform is
Maj. Harold Kurth, USMC, a White House social aide.
The Family Council
Editor's Note: Tbe Family Council consists of a ndge, a. psychiatrist, a
newspaper editor, a women's pare editor and two newspaper writers. These
consult with clergymen of all faiths and denominations. Ail letters are held
la complete confidence.
B.L.T. Shes' using black
mail threats.
Mrs. B.L.T. Our son has
driven her desperate.
B.L.T. Our son, Robert, be
came entangled with a girl who
now threatens to make things
very unpleasant for our family
if he does not marry her. My
wife insists that we should per
suade him to marry the girt,
but I cannot see it. I have a
very low opinion of her morals,
and I feel certain that she was
more the culprit than Robert in
anything that went on between
them. The way I size her up, I
am sure our son was not the
first man in her life and there
may be many others.
I think it would be stupid
and criminal of me to force our
son into marrying this woman.
If there were any doubt about
her, the threats she is now mak
ing should make it clear that
she is no good.
Mn. B.L.T. I cannot agree
that the threats prove anything, j
She is obviously a very desper
ate girl, and she may be threat
ening because she cannot think
of any other way of expressing
the extent of her desperation.
We have to think of others
besides Robert. We have three
daughters, the youngest 16, and
Robert owes it to them to avoid
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ruining their reputations. If
this girl is as bad as my hus
band believes her -to be, it is
still a fact that Robert had an
affair with her and was guilty
of taking her to a crooked doc
tor for illegal surgery. If he
marries her, he may be able to
obtain a divorce some day if he
cannot get along with her, but
if he does not marry her, he
may ruin the lives of his sisters
and bring disgrace on my hus
band and me.
Th Council: Mrs. B.L.T. is
confusing two things, Robert's
moral responsibility with re
spect to the girl and the welfare
of her daughters.
. She is greatly exaggerating
the stake of her daughters in
this situation. If she forces her
son to marry the girl merely
because of a blackmail threat,
she will settle nothing. For the
blackmail threat may return to
plague her family with scandal
after marriage. It is, indeed,
likely to come in' such a forced
marriage, in the form of a di
vorce or separate maintenance
suit based on sensational charg
es. . -
The question of the proposed
marriage should, therefore, be
judged solely on ethical and
moral grounds. What are the
facts? Mr. B.L.T. hints at facts
that may justify a refusal of
marriage. But are they facts, or
merely suspicion?
This seems to be a hopeless
tragedy unless all the facts can
be brought to light and a just
decision based on them. It is
just as wrong to submit to
blackmail as it is to . shirk a
duty. Care should be' taken to
commit neither grave offense.
This family needs competent
outside advice.
(Copyright 1956. General
Features Corp.)
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Business Booming,
Tattoo Expert Says
Fortworth, Tex. U.R) Yogi
Ray Davis, who has beea tat
tooing people for 42 years, says
his business has never been bet
ter. "Everybody's going for it," he
said. "The other day I even had
a rich old dame sneak into my
shop ' and make me pull down
the shades fast so nobody could
see her.
"Then she kind of giggled and
told me what she wanted. She'd
always wanted a rose tatooed
on her left thigh. No, I didn't
tell her to go to no psychiatrist.
I just put the rose on her." .
Davis got the . name of
"Yogi" when he worked in vau
deville, circuses and carnivals.
He soon drifted into tatooing,
which he has done for most of
his life. He is 62.
'T got tatoos all over me, from
the crown of my. head to the
soles of my feet," he said. "I'd
have more, but I run out of
room."
"I got two rules. "I won't
tatoo nobody unless he's over
18 and sober. Lots of kids try
to get around me, but I make
'em show me their draft cards'.
"You'd be surprised at' the
number of women who want
heart or maybe a skull with
their boy friend's name on a.
little flag. It's real popular.
Davis and his wife Angeline,
32, have a nine-year-old son,
Ronny. There isn't much dan
ger of his changing his name,
because his father tatooed it on
him when he was three years
old.
v Davis said that one of his big
problems involves customers
who change their minds, come
back the next day and say, "I
don't like it, take it off."
"Too late for them," he said.
"They got to see a plastic sur
gean. I don't practice medicine
without a license."
Amateur Juggler Picks
Wrong Practice Place
Buffalo, N.Y. (U.R) James A.
Murphy, an amateur juggler,
picked the wrong place to prac
tice baton-twirling.
Stenographer for a city judge.
Murphy decided to go up to the
roof of the city court building re
cently to get in a bit of practice!
Shortly afterward, huffing and
puffing patrolman Joseph Kim
mith burst out of a door on the
roof. He had run up eight flights
of stairs to investigate reports by
persons in "nearby buildings that
a man was behaving suspiciously
on the city court roof.
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MIDAIR WIXUP p-
chutes of Chaplain William
DeVanny (arrow) and 1st Lt
Robert Pate of the 325th
Airborne mf. RgL, Fort
Bragg, N. C entangle after
jumping from opposite sides
of a 119 Frying Boxcar at
Fort Gordon, Ga. Both men
were uninjured,
Dad's Pockets Piece to
Start Spring Cleaning
By EVERETT R. IRWIN
United Press Correspondent
Chicago (U.R) Spring
cleaning time is here and the
place to start is in Dad's pockets,
according to a man without mas
culine prejudice. -
Thomas J." Rolfs doesn't go
along with the general' assump
tion of males that a woman's
purse contains the world's great
est collection of odds and ends.
A manufacturer of personal
leather goods in West Bend, Wis.,
he decided to take a good hard
look at the pockets of his own
sex.
Over a two-week period, he
asked 75 average businessmen to
turn their pockets inside-out
: "The only thing I don't find
was a kitchen sink," he said, "but
most men carry enough para
phernalia to fill one.
, "The next time a husband
pokes fun at his wife's handbag,
she should challenge him to a
duel her purse against his
pockets. The wife would win ev
ery time."
Rolfs' self-conducted survey
unearthed:
Unmailed letters:
wife."
"Ask any
Keys: A great many. "If he
can tell you what half of them
are for, he's above average."
Business cards: "Mostly' from
people he 'has forgotten."
Calendars: "Small ones, usu
ally . . . dating back at least 10
years."
Pens and pencils: As many as
three pens and a dozen pencils
per man. "Usually one of the
pens is out of ink and two or
three of the pencils have no,
lead."
Miscellaneous playing cards:
"One fellow had a dog-eared roy
al flush which was cold-dealt in
a poker game. He'd carried it
around for 10 years."
Money: Change carried loose
in one or more pockets. Bills in a
wallet or well crumpled in var
ious pockets. ;
Cigarets and cigars: "He ei
ther can't produce a single
match or he's got at least half a
dozen half-used packs."
Pipes: Such smokers are "a
breed by themselves. They
should carry handbags."
Also: Good-luck pieces "rang
ing from a silver dollar to a rab
bit's foot"; credit cards; comb,
nail file, nail clippers and some
times a mirror; glasses and case;
ticket stubs; checkbook; chewing
gum or candy; one or more hand
kerchiefs, usually soiled.
And mysterious notes that say
things like: "Meet Jbxxxk Mon.
at" Fzzl's re. Smgrna."
These notes last for months.
Rolfs said. Too valuable to throw
away.
Pair of Blue Jeans
Almost Cost Boy $20
Grand Forks, N.D. U.R)
Leigh Olson, a rural Thompson,
N.D., high school senior, bojght
a pair of blue jeans that almost
cost him $280.
.The boy put his entire sum
mer savings into the pockets be
fore his mother returned the
piece of clothing to the store be
cause it was too small.
.'Later, When Mrs. Victor Mil
lard started fishing $20 bills out
of her washing machine, she re
membered seeing the story of the
Monday. May 28, 1936
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
COLOR GIRL Beverly
Jean Douglass of Atherton,
Calif., will serve, as the 1956
Color Girl for the Naval
Academy's June Week. She
was picked by her fiance,
Midshipman Robert Salis
bury Cecil of San Francisco,
commander of the winning
Color Company.- They will
be married Junfi 2 following
his graduation.
loss in a newspaper.,, ,
The boy got. his Jnoney back.
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RUSSIANS HEAD WEST
Richmond, Va. (U.R) Five
Russian Baptist leaders left for
Chicago and Kansas City today
to attend the Southern Baptist
convention. The Russians spent
the week end visiting Dr. Theo
dore F. Adams, president of the
Baptist World Alliance. The
Russians are on a 30-day visit
to the United States at the in-
ELECTION STRIKE HELD.
Caserta, Italy (U.R) Moun
taineers of Vallelunga staged an
election strike Sunday. They re
fused to go to the polls in pro
test against the failure of au
thorities to bring electric light
to the village. '
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