L Jilt i IkfefT. .
HOLLERS UNCLE Mercy Hernandez, a budding Lann
tvpe singing star, swings a pretty mean rhythm shaking
those maracas in San Francisco's Copacabana (left) but
when it comes to figuring her income tax (right) that's
a different story. Mercy finally got help from Uncle
Sam's boys at the Internal Revenue office. Born in strife
ridden Cuba, Mercy prefers the States, confusing tax
and alL
The Family Council
editor's note: The ramtly Council consist! of a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each
article is a summary or an actual report. The Family Council does not give
advice: It merely reports on problems that bave been dealt with by responsible
agencies and counselor
Joan F. I don't want to live
with this nose.
Mn. M. F. It's nothing to
make a fuss about.
Joan FJ I'm a 17-year-old girl
and I am perfectly miserable
because of a terrible problem
my nose. It's so big it makes me
look just awful. I never have
any dates and I don't even go
out with the girls because I am
always so self-conscious. Every
body pities me.
I want to have it fixed up by
an operation, but my parents
are against me. They are so old
fashioned they think the opera
tion might harm me in some
way and that, anyway, it's best
"to keep the nose you were born
with."
All I know is that I just don't
want to live if I have to go on
looking like this.
Mn. K. F. Joan's- nose has
become an obsession with her.
She has a rather prominent nose
everybody in my family has
' but it certainly isn't anything
to make such a fuss about.
Every other word is, "Oh this
'.ridiculous nose of mine." Every
yime she .gets, dressad upske
: says "Wnat'sv the "-use?-'Nothing
I could look well on me with this
I nose."
! I don't believe in having un
! necessary operations and I do
; feel it's always best to be nat
; ural. You can't go wrong by
; staying the:, way God. intended
WESTSIDE COOKING CLUB
The Westside Cooking club
j met March 23 at the home of
i Laurene Kellow.
! Members discussed the Easter
basket for a needy, family that
the club is " filling with food.
Mrs. Barnes told members to
bake and bring something to the
next meeting.. Marjorie Hattan,
J county 4-H age"nt; wiU .Jrisit the
I meeting and help with judging,
i Donna Delrlck demonstrated
i how to measure flour and Lau
j rene Kellow. did a demonstra
tion on howrto make Waldorf
salad.
3?he next meeting will be April
16 gt the home of the leader,
Mrs. Earnes.
Laurene Kellow served
freshments.
Mary Head
Reporter
re-
Lake Erie is 573 above sea
level but it is also about eight
feet below the level of Lake Hur
on. '
you to be. Joan is pretty enough
to have dates even with her
nose as it is.
The Council: Joan should
realize that her problem is not
at all unusual. Many teen age
boys and girls exaggerate some
physical defect, or imagined
one, as a symbol for their gen
eral feelings of inadequacy in
social relationships especially
those with the opposite sex. The
nose is one of the most popular
of those physical symbols.
Joan should realize that she
is not in a position to be objec
tive about her appearance at this
time. She ought to know that
her parents want her to look
attractive and they are better
able to judge her appearance
than she is. Her mother's verdict
that the nose is "nothing to
make such a fuss about" is like
ly to be correct.
Another thing Joan should
consider is the fact that her face
is still changing. It will take
a few years for her facial pro
portions to stabilize themselves.
At that time, it is very likely
that her nose will be much less
prominent. A nose operation at
-this-time could, distort. tiec-ap-J
pea ranee wnen she is OTacr:
Joan should also consider the
fact that not all nose operations
are as successful as anticipated.
A changed nose is not always
an improvement.
Nevertheless, Joan's parents
should realize that her troubles
cannot be lightly dismissed.
They should not restrict her so
cial problem to a moral issue
that she simply must bear up
with the nose God gave her.
She badly needs reassurance and
confidence. She should be en
couraged to find hair styles and
make-up that will heighten her
attractive features and de-emphasize
the nose. She .should
learn - how stage and screen
beauties use such simple meth
ods to disguise a feature they
don't like.
This is not the only solution.
Joan needs to overcome her self
conscioussness and should be en
couraged to participate in as
many group activities as possi
ble. She should develop skills
in which she can excel sports,
singing, dancing, painting or
dramatics. These will help her
to gain confidence and forget
about her appearance. Surgery
in later years can be reserved
as a last resort.
(Copyright 1957,
General Features Corp.)-
Is That So?
By Eugene Burns
Ranger-Naturalist
Since the beginning of time,
men and animals have fought
side by side. But never in such
vast numbers and in such a
great variety as in the last global
war with its many diverse the
aters of action in jungles, moun
tains, deserts, plains and Arctic
tundra.
As a roving war correspond
ent, I saw dogs patrolling the
foggy beaches i the Aleutians,
elephants moving two-ton tim
bers for bridges in Burma,
pound-sized homing pigeons
carrying urgent messages over
the dense jungles of Guadal
canal, cows and chickens aboard
French warships providing fresh
milk and eggs for. the crew,
camels in North Africa packing
machine guns and ammunition,
horses and mules helping build
fighter airplane strips in Nou
mea in the South Pacific.
In Italy, donkeys and oxen
were used; reindeer in northern
Europe, buffalo in Indo-China
and the Philippines, yaks in
China, sled dogs in Greenland,
canaries and goldfish in sub
marines, mice-catching cats in
warehouses, carefully - trained
falcons in Germany to intercept
our allied pigeons with mes
sages. And, after the war I was
chool Mews
McLOUGHLIN JUNIOR HIGH
Eight student - teachers from
Southern Oregon college have
been assigned to McLoughlin
Junior High classes for the next
quarter.
Students and their supervising
teachers are as follows: Leon
McDougall, Mrs. Dorothy Sutter;
Bob Myrick, Miss Annette Gray;
Bill Seymour, G. Gordon Morris;
Ron Maurer, Mrs. Eula Foley;
Ray Thiess, John Reed; George
Brady, Donald D. Davis; Wil
liam Wiggs, Mrs. Louise Davis;
Wallace Parmale, Mrs. Marvel
tipped off bats were captured
in Carlsbad caverns to put the
torch to Japan's industrial and
war centers.
Horses Mustered Out
And now during the past
few months we U. S. Army is
mustering out its horses and
mules; retiring its pigeons; and
virtually halting its dog-training
program.
Apparently, technological pro
gress has caught up with the
pack mule, dog and carrier pig
eon. But before we dismiss them,
let's take a look at what hap
pened during the' last war.
Never have animals been
drafted in such prodigious num
bers and as you may recall,
the age of mechanization was be
ing hailed with great fanfare.
To be modern, troops had to be
meicliaDizedj..Butwere they? And
ae-4hey itodoy-4fi'- other " coun
tries? From what I hear, Russia
still has more than 1,000,000
cavalry; hundreds of thousands
of trained dogs even para
chute-trained dogs; and in the
far north, reindeer.
Let's take a look at the World
War II totals. Six thousand four
hundred elephants were drafted
in Burma the largest number
ever mustered for war duty.
(Hannibal's well-publicized cam
paign over the Alps mustered
but 50 with one surviving the
campr'gn.) The Finns and Rus
sians used more than 100,000
reindeer in the Arctic regions,
principally in the Murmansk
area. At least 250,000 were used
in all theaters.
Even ' the Japanese used 25,
000 dogs which had been given
to them by their Axis partner,
Adolf Hitler.
Some 1,500,000 pigeons were
mobilized. More than 2,500,000
horses and mules. It may come
as a rude surprise to many a
western armor division-minded
militarist to know that despite
the publicized Panzer divisions,
the Germans turned up with
800,000 military horses 75,000
for transport, the remaining
725,000 for cavalry. Russians
usee more than a million with
more than half a million cavalry
Colored Television
Possibility Eyed
Television station K B E S is
working on the possibility of us
ing color sometime soon, accord
ing to Everett Faber, vice pres
ident of the Southern Oregon
Broadcasting company.
He spoke at the noon luncheon
of the Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce Roundtable at the
Jackson hotel.
Faber gave a historical sketch
and discussed future plans of the
broadcasting company,, which
own KBkS-TV. rne company
has duplicate stations in Eureka
Calif., and Klamath. Falls, he
said. They were established after
1953, when the Medford station
was organized.
Faber said he did not know
when color television would be
introduced in this area.
Pointing out improvements of
KBES-TV, Faber said the station
has increased its staff to 30,
added a research man and im
proved its cameras and other TV
facilities since 1953.
During the historic Berlin air-
left, which started in 1948 when
Russians blocked land and water
routes to Germany's divided
capital, Allied planes ferried
2,325,500 tons of food and fuel
to the city.
before the war was over.
Over 50,000 camels of which
10,000 were used by Russians
In round figures' ' during
World War II 4,406,400 ani
mals were used. Add to this 2
000,000 bats making a grand
total of almost 6,500,00 animals
(Copyright, 1957.
by Eugene Burns)
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Standard reading tests were
given to all students on April 2.
The girls of Mrs. Jo Anne
Henry's physical education
classes have completed the bas
ketball tourney. The third pe
riod ninth grade winners were
captained by Barbara Tyler
Karen Sabin led the eighth
grade winners. These teams
played off, and the victorious
ninth graders then played the
champions of Mrs. Jeanne Nel
son's classes, which were the
fifth period eighth graders. The
ninth graders won again and
TuMdar. April 9. 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
were declared champions. Mem
bers of the squad were Barbara
Tyler, Charlene Highland, Kath
McKay, Pamela White, Karen
Stansbury, Cecile Bell, Peggy
Kieth, Sharon Laing, Pam Wat
son, Linda Slessler, Judy Faul
kerson and Kath Larimer.
The band and orchestra play
ed a concert at Howard school
on April 5.
Certificates have been receiv
ed from the National High
School Poetry association, in
recognition of original poetry
written by ninth grade students
in classes taught by Miss Gray
and Mrs. Sutter. The poems will
be printed in an anthology of
high school poetry.
Students having their poems
accepted for this publication
are Carl Leard, Loretta Cooksey,
Don McCurdy, Oralee Gardner,
Lonny Allen Daugherty, Barba
ra Donahoo, Marilyn Conner,
Dan Oldham, Gary Fields, Ken
neth Hall, Sheri Cherry, Bar
bara Couch, Howard Kennett,
Susie Reule and Doug Wasden.
The poem "Night" by Howard
Kenntt received special mention.
The freshman track team
went to Grants Pass on April 5
for a dual meet.
Two practice periods have
been scheduled for the tennis
club members. Earl Rogers is
coach and sponsor for the group.
George Sloniger has started
training the golfers. They prac
tice at the Rogue Valley Coun
try club.
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Watertown Abattoir Co. had to
shut down because of a shortage
of horses. The company had been
slaughtering between 6,000 and
7,000 horses annually.
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