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EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. October 17. 1956 I Writer Returned To States Finds Salesmen Multiplied, Toughened t:dltors note: This tt the second n a series bv Robert E. Jackson, cor respondent Just returned Irnm a tev-rn-vrir iiiiinment in Europe, des cribing how America looks to him. And it would cost me 20 per I White sidewalls were show-offy. cent more in the end. I forgot the salesman. I wanted no pressure put on i In North Carolina. I bought a me. turquoise-and - ivory Chevrolet Salesmen Spied. Cried which a state patrolman can "I'd be the last man in the i spot from 25 miles on a rainy world to pressure you," each j day. It has a carload of chrome, salesman said. "I want you to i white sidewalls, automatic By ROBERT E. JACKSON United Press Correspondent New York ;U.R; When t. loft tUA I'nitort Clates un veari ago. the tunes of -South i De "appy. uo nome ana uun it . Pacific ' and the debate over : over." I It wasn t low-priced in m l don t recall where i went, i uuurs uui mc anicsuiau aacu.cu but I assure you that all the i me It was an "honest to Rosh salesmen knew. They spied on ; bargain" which stole the next me. One almost cried over me. meal right out of his kids In Europe I had said I would not have one of those monstrosi ties in clashing colors. I didn't need an automatic gearshift. The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Lacb article is a summary of ajl actual report. The Family Council does Dot give advice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Alger Hiss rang in our ears. "Pinky," blazing a trail across the color bar, was a controver gial movie. An ad hailed Holly wood own Ingrid Bergman as "guper." Skirts were long and Joe DiMaggio was known as quite a baseball player instead of what's-her-name s former hus band. Television was confined to lady wrestlers and Milton Berle. The last play we saw was "Death Of A Salesman." Others may have faded away between 1949 and 1956, but I'm here to tell you that few sales men died during our absence. They have multiplied and toughened. Buy, Buy, Buy Not only is the older genera tion of salesmen still around, smoother, grayer, sincerer than ever, but little toddlers with their teddy bears have joined the chorus shouting, "buy, buy, buy!" I have bought, bought. So has my wife. She alone could have kept the economy humming in September and October. We got the same smile and sales talk on 50 cent pair of arch pads as a $2.30 TV set. In North Carolina I chose a car. Should I buy a Ford, Chev rolet or Plymouth? All were "low" priced that is. about a thousand dollars more than I remembered expecting to pay for a car. I was ready with cash. "Did you say cash?" one sales man asked. Cash has gone the way of the five-cent cigar in America. Even if you have -it, nobody will re lieve you of it not all at once. "Cash!" the salesman ex claimed. "Let us finance it for you. A little bit down, a little bit later and . . ." mouths I wound up apologizing to the American salesman for forking up well over $2,000. M J f t&A - Ac - st-J? ,NaJS ARRAIGNMENT CONTINUED Mrs. Sonje Juznic, 26, wife of Yugoslavian Vice Consul Stanisi?us Jtiznic, ap pears in San Francisco police court with her attorney, Emmet Hayes, where her arraignment on d charge of shoplifting was continued for a week. Mrs. Juznic was arrested by a department store detective who charged the things in her large shopping bag were not paid for. Her husband labeled the charge "preposterous." Betty M. My bratty kid sister is giving me trouble. Linda M. She's just boy crazy. Betty M. My problem is my kid sister. I am 16 and she is 13. I recently started to date and she has been making a , lot of trouble for me. When I am on the telephone with a boy, she starts acting up, imitating me. She makes fun of everything I say and the way I say it. When I go out with a boy, she makes" nasty remarks about my clothes and asks me whether I didn't forget to put on my false eye lashes. We used to be good friends, but now she is so rot ten I almost hate her. My moth er tries to stop her, but has no control over her. Linda is just a brat and needs a good spank ing, but my parents don't be lieve in that. Linda M. My smart aleck big sister is the one who needs the spanking. She's gone just plain boy crazy. All she does is think about them and talk about them. We used to have good times to gether, but now it's always boys or clothes. There's something wrong with her anyway. She's so false. She's changed her way of talking and walking. She's fresh to our parents, too. She talks back all the time and they never punish her. I get blamed for every little thing and I have to do the dishes when she goes out on dates. Is that fair? She's always complaining about my attitude, but the truth is that she has turned on me and re sents me and everything I say. The Council: "We used to be good friends," says Betty. This gives the clue to her problem with her kid sister. Betty should realize that her sister misses her friendship. She looks at the Betty of today and finds an entirely different per son from the Betty of a year or two ago. This new Betty wears fancy clothes and cosmetics and . ,.,;.v. .,..- ! 6"" v,m uuja. She doesn't have the same in terest in the games they used to play together. Linda sees the clothes, cosmetics and boys as having pushed her out of the way. She's angry at them and therefore makes fun of them. Betty's parents are right. Spank ing won't help. It will just make Linda angrier than ever. Linda should realize that Bet ty is not "false." She is very natural for her age. She must wear different clothes, have new interests yes, even walk and talk differently. Even "talk ing back" to her parents, if it has definite limits, is natural. The girls' parents understand it has to happen occasionally be cause Betty is trying to gain her grown-up independence. Linda will appreciate this understand ing on the part of her parents when she gets a little older. ' Linda must also realize that she and Betty will soon be good friends again because they will again share the same interests. At that time Linda will also want to find a new way of walk ing and talking and experiment with clothes and cosmetics. She will want people to be consid erate of the fact that she is changing- and finds it difficult to become her own new self. She must now give that same consideration tp her sister. Betty can help her sister and herself if she tries to avoid ang er at Linda's "bratty" outbursts. She should try to show her sis ter she still cares for her by seeking her opinion of new clothes and telling her things about her dates. Deep do- n, Linda has a great curiosity in all of this and would like to be drawn into Betty's new interests. (Copyright 1356. General Features Corp.) Official Growing Season Ends Sunday The official agricultural growing season ended with the first "killing freeze" Sunday morning, according to weather bureau officials. Lowest temperature that morning was 32 degrees at the Medford airport. The weather bureau added the temperature may have fallen below 32 in other parts of the county. County agriculture agents said some unprotected tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beans and grapes were damaged by the temperature drop in many areas of the county. In some other warmer areas there was no crop damage, they added. Earle Jossy, agriculture agent, said there has been a "great rush" of seed harvesting in the last four days and yields have been generally good. C. B. Cor dy, horticulture agent, said this has been a good season for grapes. He explained that suffi cient concentrated rainfall has had a beneficial effect on both sugaring and coloring of tht grapes. - Use Tribune Want Ada Counties Receive State Racing Money Salem (U.R) Distribution of $7,500 in racing monies to the state's county fairs was an nounced today by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. To date each county has re ceived $10,776 from this sea son's racing revenues. Final ap portionment has not yet been made. The state's general fund has received 5331,888 from 1956 rac ing as against a total for the year 1955 of $371,057, Newbry said. AUTO DEFENDANT Los Angeles (U.R) An auto mobile "arrested" Tuesday will be a defendant in a suit entitled, "the United States versus a 1955 Buick, Riviera model." The In ternal Revenue Service claims its owner, John Henry James, used the car to take bets. ' MEDFORD Penney's Wednesday NITE 5 to 9 SPECIAL! 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