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o Wednesday, Somber 12. 1953 MEDFORD (OREfMN) MAIL TRIBUNE THREH Firecracker Di&clor of Public Information National Safety Council Are you, perchance, the ad venturous type? Do you $?arn for the unusual, the new sno different? Then you may find just what you are dreaming of in the odd happenings rounded up by the National Sifjty Council in i's annual search for frak acci d&ij. Wou'you like, for example, to toss a time bomb back and forth with a gopher? 5r to be gjiot by a moody dog? Or by a deer? 0 WoS.d you care o sm"ke a firecracker instead of a ciga- 0e' e- O Orowo.! you prefer to have a hor( ri'n into your car? Cophar No fool Those agd many other dizzy doings w e turned up by the Council. To-wit: 0 The gophio that kept peering farmer Paul Thomas, of Las Vegas, Nev.. l i fool. When. Thomas shoved a lighted coni i. mon bomb down the gopher hole, the gopher shoved it right back. Thomas fnnticitJIy hurled the bomb 5 ay It landed near his barn, explnpd and burned up 2 ' tors of hay. The gopher, loved every minute of it. ' . j You can i.-rd!y blame the dog that shot John Eeyreis in Pav,--' -fipe City. ,cL. ?'tcr all. Bfcyreis, the city dog catcher, was taking ' The Familv Editor mite: The Family Council eon-mi of a Judge, a psvchiatrlst, thrre clergyman, a newisapfr editor, a women'!, editor and two writers. Each rt,r5 mmary of an a?rial report. The Familv Council doe not five dviAaV it merelv reports on problOn Lhat nave been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. O Mr. L. F. brother should . manage for weeks afterward, fiaht for is clil'iren. I want In hp a pnnH f;1hpr to Mr. H. T My ex-wife knows what'a rteTit far them. . Mri. LPF :y Sjthar and his wife were divorced five years I ago and giave bothsince Semar-1 ried. My brother's children by " til first marriage aren'Wv 9 : 3I 10 jrs gld. o My brother has visiting0 pri vileges a.l isgsupposcd to have the tgree c:ifalri for cyie mSnth every summr. Jhg first few summery, his ex-0vife odid Sot send tne youSSestoboy because she said hewas too y$jj. Then ahe diD't senrJPoc- oWiest girl because she saia the child vaisn'i weloLasP suftrner she didn't send any,-jOf the children because she claim! there wasca polio epidemic i oar area. g" My(rother has given in qufet lyeach t!e. t feel that he shouldQfraist upon his0 legal rights. tlguryes his children, but h is not doing hiscjli.- hy tliein i a father. Mr. HOT I feel thaf my ex wife is a goodmothernd I:re spectQier judwnent of whafe is ritfit foT theghildren. The man she cjias itirffed secais to love the children Slid thej" are devot- ed to him. 3 o i lave my chil&en. frut I don't vsintio'tujU" them wpart notion ly. The children are not very 0 happy when theyisit with me, although my wjfe anciI do our bwt to plan gStS time forhem. There is alway$ca strain and my ex-wlf says tiiey irp diff itviU to i J . . a SfSttrkling 1 957 itiodel Ct Christmas lives In the heart j of a boy or girl fc g whole life time . . the magic mornin wPen a dream cqenes true. Ake this that thQStmas with the proudest bicycle on th rfcdg, a feature crowded 195 Columbia-BuMt Therm-O-Mati fame, built-in Proteefo-lock, full-pro tection chain oyara? built-iijj kick stand, duo-toPe fiS'C" cgd all rhf other quality features found only in a bicycle by CS'umbia, made by America's oldest manufacturers of bicycles. Modals for everyone . . juviiiles?motob".e and ligrSveights. SIMCI 1(77 . . . White's Cycle Shop 36 South BarHett o O Makes Poor Smoke; Gopher Objection in Odd the pooch to the pound to shoot him. Riding morosely in the back of the panel truck, the dog look ed meditatively at Beyreis' shot gun, reached out a paw. dis charged the gun and shot the dog catcher in the foot. Hunter Drawi Firtl Blood Neither can you be too harsh on the deer that shot Ed Stanley, of Wed Heights. Nev. For hunter Stanley had drawn the first blood by shooting the deer. As Stanley bent over his prey, the deer gave a lusty kick, hit the rifle and bang! Down went Stanley with a bullet in his knee. Patrolman Fred Golden of Tallahassee. Fla , is glad his pants aren't as good a shot as a dog or a deer. He was holding the 'trousers with one hand and brustfing them off with the other when a loose pistol bullet went off in one of the pockets. It missed hirp. In Knoxville, Tenn.. Golden Gibson reached absent-mindedly for a cigarette stuck a two-inch firecracker in his mouth and lit it. From his hospital bed he an nounced he had given up smok ing. House Hiti Car Roger Cole, of Alpena, Mich., wishes people who drive houses on public highways would stay on their own side of the road. Cole's car was parked on the shoulder of U.S. 23 when a house-moving crew approached. Council my thilclren, but I don't think insisting upon seeing them is in their best interests. Thy were so young when my wife and I sep- a?ated that they do not really know me or love me. When they get oMer, perhaps they will un derstand The Council: It is possible that these children's mother was right in the individual cases in which she withheld one or more ofthe children, but the father clearly indicates that he has not accepted these occasions as mere incidents, but feels that his ties with his children are weak, and appeals ready to relinquish them entirely. Mr. H. T.'s deside to avoid ! tearing the children apart emo tionally is understandable, but it is possible that he is going too far in his self-sacrifice too far for both his own and the children's happiness. Right now these children find it hard to accept the iact that they have two fathers. Their loyalty is divided. This divided situation, however, is a Iact of their lives. If their real father appears to reject them, it may himplrfy ttiings for the moment, but such a rejection could be come a breeding ground for un happiness in the future. In any case, it is very unlikely that the children will "understand" when they get older if stronger ties are not .established now. Mr. H. T. is losing his children and should be aware of it. It is possible that this father feels awkward about displaying affection, to his children, but it is more important to do this than to "plan good times." It will do these children no harm to know that their real father has a deep, abiding love for them. Mr. Ha T. has to make a vital dicision and frankly assume re sponsibility for "it. He has to "decide whether to reject his children or whether to play his role as a father by. insisting on his" legal and moral rights. He begs the question and fools him self when he. reasons it is best I for the children that he let the situariw drift. (Copyright 1956, General o Features Corp.) ABACUS ADDICT Gra,nd Rapids, Mich. (U.R) Grand Rapids traffic engineer Jerome D. Franklin figures out multiplication and long division problems, traffic counts and sin gle sequence formulae with an aharus. "It's faster than a slide rule." he explained. Need Extra Chrislmas Money? SEE US NOW! LOANS TO 51,500 Crater Finance Corp, 135 Pine Street Phone NO-4-1273 CENTRAL POINT, OREGON Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. No Parking Problem! The side of the house clipped, the side o" Cole's car. I In Dallas, Mrs. Edward Lee , Cowart investigated a noise in I the bedroom reported back to : her husband. Honey, there s a ! car in your bed." There was, too! j The auto had missed a turn in a skyscraper parking garage next to the hotel where the Cowarts : lived, leaped six feet through space and crashed through the ! wall of the third-floor bedroom, j No one was injured, but Cowart ! made the car get out. J Mrs. Loretta Lewis, of Char i lotte. N.C., considered herself lucky to be alive and conscious when her car landed at the bot tom of a 50-foot embankment alongside a railroad track after plunging off the highway. She felt even luckier a few seconds later after a train roared by, side-swiped the wreckage of the car. and Mrs. Lewis found she had escaped a double danger with only a broken arm and a few bruises. Patrolmen Injured No one was injured when four cars piled up in a collision near Des Moines no one, that is. un til Patrolman Elmer Van Note, investigating the crash, slammed a door on his finger. Mervin Seamster. a butcher in Richmond. Va., was understand ably confident as he took on the assignment of carving the turkey at a food dealers' banquet. But before he could even disjoint the drumstick, he cut his finger so severely he had to turn the job over to his wife. Mrs. Mary Hastings Bradley, author and big game hunter, sur vived six African safaris with out injury. But in the calm of the trophy room of her own home in Cricago she tripped over a lion's head and broke her arm. The lion had been shot by her hus band, without accident. Many a golfer shoots a birdie, but not as literally as 12-year-old Rick Pickard, of Baldwinsville, N.Y. Playing his first golf game, Rick teed off on the third hole, hit a bird in flight, and killed it. Falls Into Quarry Eugene Cromwell, of Milwau kee, was uninjured when his auto swerved off the highway. He stepped out to survey the wreckage, fell into a 50-foot limestone quarry, and broke his arm. Ralph and Cecil Mason are brothers and live near each other in Covert, Mich. So it was not surprising that they ran into each other on a wintry day last January. The trouble was. each was driving a car at the time. Leroy Henderson, a janitor at the Wyoming statehouse, Cheyenne, had always felt he was a pretty good window pol isher. But he never realized how good until, just after diligently cleaning a window, he saw some boys running through the state house lawn, stuck his head out to yell at them and. poked it through the spotless pane. It is doubtful, of course, that Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the U. S. Senator from Massa chusetts, ever had any serious intention of trying out for var sity football at Harvard. But she is less than ever so inclined since she broke her ankle playing touch football with her brother-in-law Teddy, a Harvard end. Zipper Breaks Arm When 4-H Club girls rnodeled self-made dresses at a style re view in Salina, Kan., Sandra Shilling wore something no other model had a sling. Sandra broke her arm when a zipper stuck on the dress she had made for the exhibit and she gave it a yank to loosen it. The dress won second prize. The sling didn't place. Richard Fleming, Woodland, Calif., had a good reason for momentarily losing his head while driving. A woodpecker was pecking away at-it! The bird, a family pet, was in the lap of Flcmins's son when it mistook the elder Fleming cranium for a .tree and went to work. The car left the highway and rolled over twice. Neither of the Flem ings was hurt. The woodpecker found itself a tree. One of the big things in base ball is to use your head. And that's exactly what pitcher Chuck Trosper did in a game at Lansing, Mich., when a batter hit a screaming liner straight Call or Come In Today! Salary Auto Furniture at him. The ball hit pitcher Trosper squarely on the fore- head, bounced high in the air j and was caught by the first base- man for a putout. On Wrong End Benjamin Morris became so annoyed at a tree limb blowing against his house in Kansas City that he got out of bed in the middle of the night, found a saw and climbed the tree to cut off the branch. A few minutes later he was back in bed again a hospital bed. You've guessed it. He was on the wrong end of the They'll Do It Every Time (: Y, yon g.t this noAxmlly o M?hJ tiMjt SmhMt&L -C i ';( vertised KNIGHT OFFICIAL if Fa f-J.. in tfflj rf fOlI 1" ' LA .quipm., free win, is J r7J.00r f OuMW lC23? lTt fu GT An - Pc. Tool. Tenni, EnmW.. tVjvJLi iABLP TtU,.- 00fL XLVjTff Z2 H V A A yrrf QSXhchtt 5) ELECTRIC 3 Ways to JOHFISTOH STORES 112 South Riverside limb when he did the sawing: After 10 years and 750.000 miles of accident-free driving, Lou Murdock of Maywood, Calif., was given an award by his insurance company. He ac cepted it in the hospital. He had broken his leg in a fall down a flight of stairs in his home. James R. Clark, of Palatka, Fla., had gone through his driver's license test with flying colors and, with Examiner Earl Gore as passenger, pulled trium phantly into the parking lot. He hit a car. It belonged to Gore. SPECIAL SALE at JOHNSTON STORES . . . DRIVE Buy... COME IH -TELEPHONE Mishaps License postponed. Two-year-old Jeffery McGuire should have been the dryest boy in Cleveland, but he wasn't be cause of his tears. That was the day he crawled into the family laundry dryer and his young brother obligingly flicked the switch. Mrs. McGuire, making the usual rounds to see what her sons were up to, found and re scued Jrff in the nick of time. Handy Package In Chicago, Earle Heffley cut himself while opening a Christ mas package he had received in By Jimmy Hatlo TODAY 3-3619 the mail. He found it contained a first-aid kit. On an icy highway near Rich mond. Ind., Hrs. Pauline Ellison ! crashed into a truck, was thrown : from her car, and cozily aid : securely skidded 200 feet on her j briefcase. i And it wouldn't be a vintage ! vpar fnr nHit arriripnts if a ppr- NEW SHIPMENT Tiny Terri Lee Dolls and Tiny Terr! Clothes Tonka Suburban Fire Pumper s ,v H AVI YOU HEARD? V1 ft The TOY 317 EAST JOHNSTON' STORES, Mtdford. Orpg. 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