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Medford Unfed Pre-s Fuil Leased Vira Tribune United Press Full Leased Wira Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1956 Pages 1-6 The Family Council Editor's Note: The Family Council constats of a Juare, a psychiatrist, a Bewspapcr editor, a women's pace editor and two newspaper writers. These consnlt with clergymen of ail faith aad denominations. Ail letters ara held an complete confidence. MRS. O. W. I must leave my alcoholic husband. O. W. If I go back to AA I can stop drinking. MRS. O. W. Before we were married five years ago, my hus band told me he had once been an alcoholic, but hadn't touched a droy in three years. During the first year or two of our married life he stayed on the wagon, but after I became preg nant with our first child, he started to take an occasional drink with the boys on the way home from work. I never objected because I feel that a man has to relax and ;njoy himself with his friends a bit, and since I was going to be more tied down at home, he would have to entertain himself without me. But then he start ed going on real benders and was on one the entire week I was in the hospital to have the b?by. His benders have been get ting worse and now that I have a second baby I feel that I must leave him for the children's sake. My mother is willing to take care of the babies and I'll go to work. He keeps promising to quit drinking and go back to AA if I don't leave him, but I don't trust him anymore. O. W. I know that if I go back to AA, I can stop drinking. I've done it before. My wife talked me out of going to AA meetings in the past because she said I had her and didn't need them. She called them a bunch of drunks, but to her someone who drinks but doesn't belong to AA is just "having a good time." She resents my friends from AA and seems to think there is some disgrace attached to belonging to such an organization. I love my wife and kids and want to keep them. THE COUNCIL Life with an alcoholic is certainly more than difficult and it is all too easy for the non-drinker to be self- righteous and feel abused. It is also too easy to overlook the fact that there is such a thing as the non-drinking "alcoholic' who goes on his own kind of rampage temper tantrums. tears, sulking and several other varieties of personal tyranny Behind the drinker, there is often this non-drinker, who und er the guise of helping him drives him to the bottle. Mrs. O. W. may be such a person. With all the publicity that has been given to the prob lem of the alcoholic and the work of Alcoholics Anonymous it is hard to see why she lightly trea'.ed the matter of an "oc casional drink" on the part of a former alcoholic and why she insists upon looking in such distorted way at the organiza tion that has helped so many, including her husband. If it is true that she told her husband he didn't need AA be cause he had her, the pattern becomes clearer. Here is a pos sessive woman, who resented the only other important relation ship in her husband's life. Un consciously, perhaps, she want ed to encourage his weakness to make him more dependent upon her. On the other hand, she was preparing to shift her dom ineering impulses over to her children and leave her husband without any prop. O. W. appears to be realistic and to have some understanding of himself and this weaknesses. but Mrs. O. W. understands neither her husband's problems nor her own. Before eonsider- ing the dastic step of breaking up her home she should get to know AA and many of the fine people in it. They may be able to give her some of the insight into her own nature she so badly lacks, as well as a deep ened understanding of others. (COPYRIGHT 1956, GENERAL FEATURES CORP.) On The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. Inc.) A handsome, wealthy, distin-j guished 48-year-old British Ba chelor repeatedly said he lived alone and liked it. That he had no desire to marry. Being an en thusiastic amateur cook, he en gaged an interior decorator to design a "Bachelor Kitchen" for him. The decorator was a wom en. To make it brief, the engage ment of the bachelor and interi or decorator was recently an nounced. He proposed to her in the kitchen she designed. Just one more incident that proves the claim of our horses and wom en experts. If a woman, with a sound husband hunting tech nique, makes up her mind to marry a mart there's nothing he can do about it but just say "I surrender, dear" and bow his head to the yoke. He can't win. Women'! place Am asked who first said "wo men's place is in the home." Couldn't say. Anyway, the claim continues to get a terrific set back. Seventeen million women in the United States have jobs. And 44 per cent are married. What are the principal reasons so many married women go out to work? I think a major reason for it is that most women don't like to be always asking a hus tiand for money. They want a pay check of their own. Queries, from clients. Q. I claim billiards originated in Egypt. Right? A. Wrong, sir, Shakespeare is responsible for that erroneous belief. In his play had Cleopatra say to her lady-in-waiting, "Come, let us to bil liards. Charmain." The fact is that billiards originated in Eng land in the 14th century, more than 1300 years after the death of Cleopatra . . . Q. Who play ed Tarzan first. Johnny Weis muller or Buster Crabbe? A. Weismuller was the sixth to play Tarzan. Crabbe. the seventh. The list of Tarzans in the order they played the part is: 1. Elmo Lin coln. 2. Gene Jolia. 3. P. Tabler. 4. James Pierce 5 Frank Merrill. 6. Johnny Weismuller. 7. Buster Crabbe. 8. Herman Brix. 9. Glenn Morris. 10. Lex Barker. II. Gor don Scott Horses and Women Do flat-chested women have on the average more children than those who are somewhat bos- omy? Do the flat-chested femal es present a more fashionable appearance than those with Mansfield-Monroe - Russell type measurements? A feminine sub subscriber with a small bust measurement claims they do. In the turbulent 1920s to be in fa shion a woman had to be flat chested. Is that fashion being revived? I am informed there is now being offered for sale a bra called "The Diminisher" which guarantees 'to reduce the bosom by one third! Please Note Am growing weary of refer ences to Grace Kelly as "The Bricklayer's Daughter" who mar ried a prince. It is a disparaging manner in which to refer to bricklayers. Bricklaying is ac tually more of an art than a trade. Some of the world's most brilliant men have been brick layers. As for example, the brick layer who for 18 years was Poet Laureate of England. I am refer ring, of course, to Ben Jonson. Sidelights It was none other than Alfred Hitchcock who said, "The public goes to the cinema for escape and relaxation, not for intellec tual exercise" ... in Japan chil dren are classed as being one-year-old at the date of their birth. Their age is figured ap proximately from the date of conception. Get it Right "Gone with the Wind" is the most successful film ever pro duced. Second is "The Birth of A Nation." So I note it claimed. That's wrong. The most success ful of all films is Cecil B. De Mille's "King of Kings." "Gone with the Wind" is second. "The Birth of a Nation," third. r V 16 . X ;f 1 1 s S Bomb Hoax Forces Airliner To Land Elko, Nev. (U.R) A United Air Lines DC-6 "Mainliner" made a three-hour stopover last night because of a bomb scare which turned out to be a hoax. The plane was ordered to stop here after the airlines' San Francisco office received an an onymous phone call warning that there was dynamite aboard. "My wife is aboard that plane and there's a dynamite bomb in the luggage," the caller told the UAL clerk. The plane, which was flying non-stop from San Francisco to Chicago, put down at the clos est base, which was Elko. Aboard were 63 passengers, in cluding 22 members of the San Francisco Ballet en route to Corning, N.Y., for a perform ance. Before landing, pilot J. W. Nelson jettisoned the gasoline, because of the short runway. The passengers were told why the plane landed. They remain ed calm and left the plane quiet ly. Police and postal authorities began removing the baggage. The airliner was removed to a distant part of the field for the search. No explosives were found. The plane resumed its flight at 11:18 p.m. (PDT). Firemen Rewarded For Saving Dinner Marion, 111. (U.P.) Firemen who usually get only verbal thanks for their efforts got a more substantial reward yester day. They battled a dining room blaze in the Hotel Marion for an hour just before a church group was scheduled to dine. Then they were given the din ner they helped to save. McKay Plans fo Resume Campaign Portland (U.R) Doug McKay, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator, plans to resume his campaign through eastern Ore gon next week. Paul H. Hebb, McKay's cam paign manager, said Saturday former Interior secretary would be in Pendleton Monday night. He will visit Meacham, Kamela, Perry and La Grande on Tues day. The following day McKay will be in Island City, Elgin, Wallowa, Enterprise and Joseph. Union, North Powder, Haines Replacing Bad Tubes Cures Most T.V. 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Phone 2-2111 Court and McAndrews Boy Adventurer ... A teen-age midshipman who sailed with Capt. James Cook in 1776-1779 to the North Pacific Coast was to play a powerful part in the development of the region. He was George Vancouver, born in 1758. He first sailed as a naval cadet-seaman of about 15 on Cook's South Pacific voy age of 1772-1775. On Cook's North Pacific voy age the teen-age" ship's officer continued his self-education in navigation, English writing and other book subjects. So began the making of George Vancouver into an immortal cap tain of the ocean sea. Vancouver made his name as a fighting sailor after his second voyage with Cook. As a lieuten ant in Admiral Rodney's fleet in 1782 the youth won honors in the devastating defeat of the French by British seapower in the West Indies. Late in 1790 Vancouver was commissioned a commander. The North Pacific situation, rising from the growth of the fur trade, was in conflict between the Eng lish and the Spanish. An agree ment was made to keep peace. Vancouver was ordered to com mand an expedition to the North Pacific and put the agreement to work with the Spanish auth orities there. First Brewing ... At Port Discovery Vancouv er's two ships, the Discovery and the Chatham were the first to anchor on the southern shore of Juan de Fuca Strait. There was much work to do. A member of the Chatham's crew in his journal: "Opposite to where the ves- torge Air Force Planes Sideswipe; Land Safe El Toro Marine Air Base, Cal. U.R) Two large Air Force planes, a C-45 and a B-26, mir aculously missed tragedy Satur day when they sideswiped each other in a minor air collision but managed to make safe em ergency landings here. The plane crews, both com prised of only a pilot and co pilot, escaped injury when the two aircraft from the Long Beach, -Calif., Air Force base brushed against each other at 5,000 feet while on a routine training flight. sels lay a low point of land run out, where there was an excel lent run of freshwater. Here the tents and observatory were set up, and there being plenty of spruce pine here a party from each ship was sent on shore to brew spruce beer for the ship's companies. As this beverage was well known to be a great anti scorbutis, the people were al low 'd to drink freely of it in lieu of their grog. As the Chat ham was very open in her up per works the Carpenters of both vessels were employed in caulk ing her." You Can Have It . . . By such evidence our story sets the brewing of "spruce beer" as the initial forest product brought forth by white men on land that is now within the bor ders of Washington state. The product was made by boil inc of spruce twigs and leaves with molasses or sugar and fer mented with yeast according to the common formula of the i time. j Spruce beer has never been acclaimed as a popular bever age. No doubt many in Vancouv er's crews complained about it as a substitute for the grog ra tion. But like Captain Cook be fore him, young Vancouver miss ed no opportunity of fortifying his sailors against the scourge of the Seven Seas in those days the horror and dread of bone devouring scurvy. Vancouver kept up the health of his crews and his ships. His great painstaking voyage of dis covery and survey of Puget Sound, Hood canal, Grays har bor, and the Columbia river, went on. Within a year the great British captain would be accord ed rights by the Spanish Cap tain Senor Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra of joint occupation and use of North Pacific lands and waters. And Great Britain, in turn, was to grant joint occupation to the United States. 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