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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.
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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.
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schedule for Thursday, and on
Friday he will be in Ontario,
Nyssa and Vale.
The GOP candidate will re
turn to Portland late Friday.
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STROLLING ON PARIS BOULEVARD, Monaco's Prince
Rainier and bride, Grace Kelly, of films, carefully dodge
questions about stork prospects. (International Soundphoto)
BIG HAUL
Hartford, Conn. (U.R) Who
ever stole Donald Bennon's truck
got more than he bargained for.
Bennon said it contained a stove,
refrigerator, washing machine
and television set.
Young trout lives mainly on
insects but the older fish need
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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.
Belgrade U.R) Yugoslav
ia paraded its military might for
President Tito and visiting Pres
ident Gamal A. Nasser of Egypt
Saturday in a 40-minute display
highlighted by U. S.-made tanks
and jet fighters.
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