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They'll Do It Every Time For THE EIGHT YE4RS THEY WENT 1HERE,FLIBBERT MO P4TSO (4tfD 4LL THE REST OF THE KIDS) SPENT ALL THEIR TIME WISHING THE OLD SCHOOL WOULD 0IS4PPE4R FROM THIS PLANET 1957 S-27 The Family Council Editor! note: The FamUy Council consist! ot a Judo psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Eacb article is a summary of an actual report.-The Family 'Council does not give advice: it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and connselors Myra N. But it happened long ago. i Martin N. Am I supposed to be happy about it? Myra N. My husband and I have been happily married 15 years and have four children. Many years before we were married, when I was a teen ager, I got involved in a stupid affair with a boy in my town. We had relations a few times before my mother discovered it and managed to break the whole thing up. I never told my hus band about it. Several months ago I got the shock of my life when tins' man turned up in our community. He is a sick and crazy person and started following me around and threatening me. He began calling up at odd hours. Of course, I then told my husband the whole story. Martin was shocked and furi ous. He has been sullen and sarcastic ever since. I have been a good and faithful wife for 15 years. It was wrong, but it happened long ago when I was very young and very foolish. How can Martin be so childish about it all? ' ' -I Martin N. Is it childish to be disappointed that the person you have shared so much with and trusted so much has been with holding a very important secret from you for so many years? I was brought up in a strict, religious home, with an ideal of purity before marriage. Myra knew this was important to me. Even so, I am not so narrow minded that I could not forgive a youthful mistake. What hurts me is that she knew my feelings and yet willfully deceived me. Myra was so determined not to give up this deception that she let this man , hang around until he gave her a real good scare. She now takes the whole On The Side (Distributed by King Critirs! appalled, I venture on the name. Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. Robert Burns Who are the world's most cap tious drama critics? I note the distinguished gentlemen who re view plays presented in New York City so described. I am not in accordance with this. My belief is that the most captious drama critics are those of London. In evidence, I offer an excerpt from a review by Milton Shul man of the London presentation of the play titled "A Hatful of Rain." Of this production Mr. Shulman said in part, "It has enough neurosis in it to drive a psychiatrist to the nearest couch. Borrowing generously from the sexual frustrations of Tennessee Williams and the breast baring of Arthur Miller, it is a composite set heaving with Oedipus complexes, father fixations and dope addiction. There are whiffs of fraternal adultery, sullen violence and a premature miscarriage to pre vent the action from flagging into normality." Please Note More. Brooklynites participat ed in World War II than natives or residents of any other bor ough across the Bridge live over 327,000 World War U veterans. Good, old Brooklyn. Briefly After lengthy discussion ' and careful consideration of all angles, a group of women all married 25 years or more decid ed that the most important fac tors in a successful married life arc- CooDeration. children and cooking . . . Gypsy Rose Lee s . first song hit was titled laa. The Bashful Sturgeon" . . . Amonf? towns in the United States having post offices, the I one with the longest name is Mooselookmegentic, Me. Asking Queries from clients. Q. What does "Sterling" on silver really mean? A. It means that the article is made of 92i per cent silver and 7Va per cent copper . . . Q. Did Clayton, Jackson . --s . . : r I H4TE TU4T fatso: I HaTE I WISH THERE D BE A FIRE AHD THE D4RNED BURN DOWN-EVEN DONT BOO-HOO LOOK, FATSO-OCR DEAR OLD 4LM4 M4TER BEIMGTORM DOWN f SNIFF-SNIFF) THE H4PPIEST MEMORIES OF i our cmildmoodksnif; OOIMO - GOIN&- GONE ITS 'LOSING OLD FPIEMR 7 (CHOKE HEARTSICK !! ;-rfs IT WAS .OF I MNC f MTVm SYNDICATE. !. tICTTS thing very lightly, but if it was so unimportant, why did she wait so long to tell me? We couldn't get rid of this man until I threatened him. I am not doing anything cruel or drastic to get - revenge on Myra. But am I supposed to go around looking happy about it? The Council: Martin is not very objective about his own conduct. He is both cruel and drastic but even more so to himself than to his wife. He is the one who .suffers most from the exposure of this se cret, but he prefers to dwell upon it and to torture himself with it. He is also taking drastic meas ures when he undermines his marriage of 15 years and jeop ardizes the happiness of his four children by insisting on playing the role of injured husband. Perhaps . Myra should have told the full story before mar riage. Perhaps she should have notified Martin sooner about the man's persecution of her. Per haps she did not tell" him these things because she knew his capacity for self-punishment and wished to spare him. Nevertheless, perhaps Myra was all wrong. Martin has a right to a reasonable degree of indignation and a heartfelt apology from Myra. Beyond that, what does Mar tin want? He. does not appear to require proof of Myra's fidelity since marriage and he has no other fault to find with her. Sullenness about something that cannot be undone is indeed childlish. Martin should put an end to this petty nagging, swallow his disappointment like a man, do a bit of silent suffering and then put the whole thing out of his mind. (Copyright 1957, General Features Corp.) By e. v. Durimg Features Syndicate, Inc.) and Durante ever appear to appear together in a film?, A. Yes, sir. In a very entertaining film titled "Roadhouse". Helen Morgan was in it, too. I wish they would revive it on tele vision. Husbands What is your husband's great est defect? That question was put to thousands of French women. The majority answer "egotism." Next In line was that the husband didn't shave enough. After that was "too much interest in sports." Only 13 per cent of the French wives questioned complained of in fidelity. Literary Nolo If you are beginning a writ ing career, don't become too much' discouraged by rejection slips. Keep writing! Fannie Hurst had 37 straight rejection slips, 21 from the Saturday Eve ning Post, before she sold her first story. Hot Baths Tokyo has over 2,000 public baths. In these" over a million Japanese bathe daily. The Jap anese bath is an extremely tor rid affair. It is so hot the aver age American couldn't stand it. In view of the Japanese enthu siasm for excessively hot baths, it is interesting to note that rheumatism is almost unknown in Japan. About 95 per cent of Mon tana's coal output is cut and loaded mechanically. Buv At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Fines, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 By Jimmy Hatlo NO-GOOO OL SCHOOL, 1 EVERy BRICK IN IT THING WOULD 'CftJ IF BRICKS BURN VEU! WOULOMT IT BE FUN IF THERE WAS AH E4RTUQU4KE A)i' IT WAS 60HE vJDMORROW? BlT LISTEN TO THEM WAIL WHEN THE 3R F4CT0Ry . IS FIN4LLY RAZED FOR PROGRESS'S OtfWMPD M4RCH- LIKE A DE4R J I'M LIKE . .J) PAOT ME - Vrirr V38 i CTIlVn Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Since Julius Caesar received word by homing pigeons of Mark Anthony's heroic defense of Mutina (now Modena) in 44 B.C., for almost 2,000 years man in battle has entrusted his life to this timid, fragile-seeming feath ered lifesaver. In some instances, even the outcome of great battles have been decided by these cour iers of urgent appeal. Typical of the emergency mes sages carried was one sent by Captain Maitre at an advance outpost. "The rain has made it impossible for our couriers to get through the lines," he wrote to his colonel in the capsuled message carried by Blue Hen 3-257-15. "My soldiers have had nothing to drink for three days except the water in shellholes. I have never been able to use my telephone. I ask for water, food, ammunition, and more pigeons. Maitre." Typical, too, was the way this combat hen persisted in deliver ing the urgent appeal. She got through with both feet shot away. Other pigeons have re turned with bullet holes through the breast; when their wings were damaged, some have even walked home! That was in World War I, so one naturally wonders: "In to day's mechanized warfare with field telephone, TV, and walkie talkie, surely the role of the homing pigeon is doomed." Don't you believe it. In World War II, more than 1,500,000 homing pigeons were called to he colors and accom panied German, Russian, British, Japanese, French and American troops into battle. And they car ried SOS messages by the thous ands from torpedoed cargo ves sels, from submarines, and mighty battleships, from jeeps and command cars, from para trooper dropped in isolated areas, and from advanced command posts, from all -kinds of planes bombers, patrol and fighters. (From the faster planes, the birds were "tossed" in an open paper sack so their feathers would not be ripped away by the airstream. The bag, in time, falling away to free the sheltered bird.) Isolated Examples Of the many examples in World War II where pigeons served man better than ever be fore, let's consider a few isolat ed examples. When British land ing barges inched, with com mandos, silently toward the beaches of Dieppe to carry out one c-f the war's most daring, dramatic raids at a time when radio would have been, an open book to the enemy, homing pig eons brought back to Lord Mountbatten's staff just what conditions were being met by the hit-and-run invasion army and how to meet the unlooked for resistance. When Field Marshall Mont gomery pursued the fleeing Nazis across the ' Libyan desert of North Africa, the advance tank corps kept in touch with the troops in the rear with hastily-sketched maps of the sur rounding country and indicated mine-filled areas which the faithful birds carried often through clouds of yellow sand. Carried Word of Crew When a bomber was shot down in the English Channel, a pigeon carried back word of the plight of the crew on tlv . rubber raft and they were .saved within hours by a destroyer. For that matter, in a single eight-month period, homing pigeons carried 320 such Royal Air Force emer- Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Some Changes Made In Unemployment Law Salem HP) Wider coverage, increased tax schedules, higher benefits for some claimants, and gency messages and despite buck ing storms, or worse yet fog, which birds loathe, dodging bul lets, avoiding hawks and owls, 96 per cent of these 320 messages went through' to British lofts to save lives. A .truly incredible wartime performance. And it accounts perhaps, why even that great American expon ent of mechanized warfare, Gen eral George S. Patton carried 500 small pound-sized feathered couriers when he crashed' through the German lines with his mechanized columns. They were "insurance" and -when emergency cases arose, he used these gentle birds to carry his frantic messages for help! (Copyright, 1957, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia American, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the 1 best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal- craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. OF I -V to?."- 'A - ... Your glass of Blitz beer... bright symbol of the Cascades. For Blitz captures the clear mountain sunlight... the cool shade of the forests... the refreshing ripple of streams ... in every satisfying sip. Pour yourself a Blitz . . . bright and cool . . . and you 11 removal of minor restrictions on unemployment payments were among significant changes .in Oregon's unemployment insur ance law by the 1957 Legisla ture, according to the State Un employment Compensation Com mission. Two bills passed in the clos ing days also allow the invest ment in branch office structures of certain federal rebates of ad ministrative funds. Test Seen in 1959 v While the entire series of amendments was designed main ly to increase the trust fund, which as being declining almost steadily since November, 1948, this build-up probably will not be tested until early 1959 after an entire year under the revised law. Status of the reserves Aug. 31 will determine employers' tax rates for the following year on a sliding scale from 0.6 to 2.7 per cent. Based on current payrolls, the new tax schedule will bring in about $22,400,000 in 1958 while other income is estimated at $1,900,000. Payments during, the benefit year that will end June 30, 1957, are expected to pass $24 million. The new maxi mum of $40 a week in effect July 1 may increase this figure nearly $2 million. Surplus Hoped , "We are hopeful that the amendments will' bring about a surplus by 1958 for only the sec ond time in 10 years," comment ed the new commission chair man, Mrs. Cecelia Galey of On tario. "But the change in the computation date from June to August holds back some higher rates and may delay the build-up ENJOY A GLASS THE '.''" j i mi r , 7 .1, - i i, nun i.i .. ... know the pleasure of life in our Monday, May 27, 1957 Slate Rests in Beating Trial Portland HP) The state rested its case here late Friday in the child-beating trial of Glen Denessen. The prosecution rested after introduction of a disputed state ment which Denessen signed be fore police officers last Novem ber after his arrest on a charge of beating his 13-year-old daugh ter Janet. The defense entered vigorous objections to introduction of the statement or portions of it. Den essen testified in chambers, away from the jury, that county police had suggested if he didn't make the statement admitting the beating that his wife would be implicated and her children taken from her. Sheriff's deputies later denied Denessen's charge from the wit ness stand. The portion of the statement admitted over defense objections was in Denessen's handwriting and admitted he "used" a dog chain to punish the girl and had 'spanked" her with a small stick. Concluding state witnesses had testified they observed wounds and bruises on Janet's body after the alleged beating. Defense has contended the girl suffered the marks in a fall from a bicycle. trend. Workers unable to find jobs are entitled, to at least a minimum income. Many commu nities would suffer extremely without this unemployment in surance program. comueHC las? w mirr-wtitxioan J MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Egypt, Britain Seek New Trade Relations Rome OP) British and Egyp tian experts are trying to work out a formula for new trade re lations between their two coun tries. But the bitterness of the Suez invasion hampered their efforts. The experts Saturday went through the second day of an expected 10-day series of con ferences, to discuss the financial problems which grew out of last fall's British-French inva sion of Egypt. Egypt was understood to have put forward a demand for rep aration for the losses suffered during the invasion. It also asked that its sterling account GRADUATION CARDS Tell them yoa f: care enough to send the very best . . . see our com plete selec tion now. I own Cascades. 7 rojsrftrrr-rnnvrq v mams, MS a-.- JiVB'iiii.Tf of roughly $77,480,000 frozen by the British be freed imme diately. 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