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o riGHT MEDFOH (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, Auguit 12. IS57 I The Family Council Editor note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article Is a summarv of an actual reort. The Family Council does not cive advice; It merely reports on problems that have been dealt with byi responsible agencies and counselors. &.pi I don't know if my husband's affair is really finished. Ralph M. I'm trying to let the girl off by easy stages. e Sophia M. My husband and I have been married five years and have been separated for the past year. I took our 3-yfr-old son and went home to Mother's when I learned Ralph had been having an affair with another woman. Since then, I have been seeing him about twice a week and he has besged me to come home. He toft me the affair with the other woman was "all washed up" and he is sorry it ever hap pened. However, two of my friends reported they recently say him going out with this other wom an. Ralph has his explanation, of course, but I do jiot know how seriously I can take it. He has hurt me soodeeply I some times feel I don't ever want to see him again yet it doesn't seem fair to our son to make an attempt to revive our marriage. Ralph M I love Sophia and she knows it and I also know she loves me and that is the only imporant thing. This girl I got involved with Is just a kid a' little over 19, and sincerely in love with me. Maybe I was so flattered that it went to my head. She was so beautiful I couldn't resist the opportunity. She had hoped to marry me and still wants to that I told her I love my wife and son and don't want a very much, in spite of the fact divorcee. I have been frying to let this Rirl off by easy stages. She is so intense about our relationship I'm afraid she'll have a break down or do something drastic. That's why I was seen with her a couple of times. I certainly wouldn't get caught In public with her if I Intended to con tinue this relationship. The Council Our guess is that Ralph is being honest but, .oh so wrong! Because he is older and more experienced, Ralph believes he is the master of this situation. Nothing could be further from the truth. This "kid" of 19 -with "intense" feelings about him has already brought Ralph to the brink of marital disaster. While he believes he is letting the girl off by "easy stages," she is manipulating the situation in another direction. There is more than a 50-50 chance that she is the stronger of the pair. Ralph acknowledges his own weakness when he admits he is over-susceptible to flattery of a beautiful girl. He should go one step further and asknowl edge that this weakness won't just disappear without a strong exercise of his will. Decisive action now can save his mar riage and strengthen his char acter for future encounters of this sort. Ralph should recognize that his responsibility toward his wife and child is far more im portant than any he owes to the girl although he has in deed done her an injury by making himself an easy tool of her recklessness. Sophia should insist upon a 100 per cent clean break be tween Ralph and the girl and then should try to forgive and forget. (Copyright 1957. General Features Corp) f&; y ax m L- itc - - -- MmL ARRIVING IN FEDERAL COURT, Col. Rudolf Abel, 53. Soviet master spy, is in serious mood as he awaits arraign ment on charges that could carry death penalty upon con viction. Hearing was held in Brooklyn., (International) , Ca'"""V CONVICTED SPY Con fessed Russian spy Myra So ble, shown arriving at Fed eral Court in New York, was sentenced to five-and-one-half years in prison with Jacob Alb am. The judge postponed sentencing of a third spy, Jack Soble, until Sept 18. i Inflation to Continue, Steel Expert Declares Washington(lPi "Big Steel's" top financial expert told congress Saturday that inflation is likely to continue so long as wage in creases exceed advances in worker productivity. Robert C. Tyson, chairman of the finance committee of 6.S. Steel Corp.. defended his com pany's recent $6-a-ton price in crease, which was followed by industrywide price hikes. The first Packard automobile was manufactied at Warren, Ohio, in 1899 by J. Ward Packard. 'Other Grandparents' Live Modestly In English Tudor Home in Gainsville Gainesville, Fla. OPl Four of the world's most celebrated grandchildren slip in and out of this college town once or twice a year for visits with a middleaged couple who never make the headlines the 'oth er grandparents." Col. and Mrs. Percy Thomp son, whose daughter Barbara is the . wife of Maj. John Eisen hower, center their life here in their large (four bedrooms and four baths) home, the University of Florida Law School and the university's symphony orches tra. This is, of course, when Dav id. Ann. Susan and tiny Mary Jean are not 'paying1 "grandma and grandpa" a visit. The last time the young grandchildren of President and Mrs. Eisenhower were here coincided with the President's trip to nearby Jack sonville and Mayport, from where he boarded an aircraft carrier for a one-day cruise in June. At that time, Barbara moved the family down in two "shifts" Mrs. Thompson explained. She said Barbara first brought Su san and Mary Jean down and "left them with us so she could return to Washington to pick up the other two children and John. They all spent a few days with us before John left to take the cruise with his father." In Final Year Colonel Thompson at 58 is in his final year at the University of Florida Law school. I can't honestly say whether he will want to practice law when he's through," Mrs. Thompson said,, "but he's inter ested in law that's why he's taking the course." She said he's "still much too young and active to stay retir ed." Thompson retired from active duty in 1955 after 30 years of Army service which was inter rupted after World War I long enough to get his college educa tion and an ROTC commission at Purdue. The Thompsons bought their Gainesville home during World War II, then Mrs. Thompson "re turned to live here every time my husband went overseas or to war." While he's studying law, Mrs. Thompson keeps busy "keeping house, cooking, sewing and play ing the violin in the university symphony orchestra." . She said that most of the col onel's nights are spent "burning the midnight oil" over his law books. While he's hard at his studies, Mrs. Thompson spends at least two evenings a week at orchestra practice. No Social Life 1 "We've just been too busy to pay much attention to so-called 'club life,' " she said. "We don't belong to any social clubs, and w spend most of our time eith er studying, playing bridge or just visiting with our friends." The Thompsons live alone in their English tudor home, leav ing much of it closed off 'unless we have company." Mrs. Thomp son, consequently, does all her own house work and cooking without the aid of any servants. In addition to Barbara they have one other daughter, who is married to a McKinney, Tex., radiologist, and two married sons both of whom continued in the Thompson military tradition. One is a second lieutenant in the Army, while the other is a captain in the Air Force. Like Barbara's famous in-laws, the Thompson's are Republicans; two sets of grandparents are dif ferent in one respect: "The colonel doesn't play much golf . . . just if some guests want to play and can't find anyone else to play with. He hasn't the time." !s That So? Did you know that. . .the snow mouse or collared lemming lives farther north than any other rodent. With the exception of a small Siberian hamster, it is the only rodent which changes its brown summer coat to one of snow-white in winter. Besides, it is the only mammal which sheds its toe-nails annually. The third and fourth claws on the front feet grow excessively long and MMSIOPPFD Embarrassment and an inferiority complex can easily come to your child through the bed-wetting habit. Your child will not necessarily outgrow the bed getting habit the habit can be life-long, as ,'housands of adults can testify. No intelligent parent should ever take -such a gamble with their child's future. N1TE-DRI has -proved to b the safe. NATURAL I and intelligent way to end the bed-wetting habit . . . 1 iuj'.jujr wiu cuaujr. For FREE Inform-a tlon, without obllra- g tien. just c&U. 4j . r nite. ! KE 2-3732 r Mali Conpoa ? XITE-DRY CO. 1224 S. W. Morrison Portland S, Oregon Name . ....... Address City Age ... Phone . broad in winter and are replaced by normal claws in April or May. Quite likely the long claws are for digging in ice and snow. Our pestiferous house mice and rats are European imports: they arrived in the United States about the time of the American Revolution. The wood mouse of Europe taught the Dutch hyacinth grow ers a valuable lesson in horticul ture. Like this: the growers no ticed that certain hyacinths in stead of blossoming in the usual way, made innumerable bulblets and in a few years, hundreds grew to perfection 'where there had been only one. Examination of the bulbs when they first failed to bloom revealed that they had been gnawed to the heart by mice. Learning quick like Dutch erowers now in crease the supply of valuable hyacinths by slashing the bulb to the heart with a knife and cutting numerous cross sections. This same little mouse makes one of the world's most broad- minded mothers. Frequently sev eral families will live in one bur row and in what seemingly is one nest. Under these circum stances, the young accept milk from any one of the mothers which happens by. The female multimammate mouse which may have up to 12 pairs of breasts averages about a dozen babies. This African mouse may have more mammary glands than any other mammal except the domestic pig which may have 28 in all. There are. several wild mice that sing. . .but reports of house mice -singing is another matter. When experts have examined such "singing mice" carefully, they have usually discovered traces of abnormal conditions in the nose and throat. The sup posed "singing," therefore, is nothing more than a bronchial disorder or asthmatic condition. Hands Like Monkey The marmoset tree mouse of Indo-China has hands like a wee monkey with an opposable thumb for taking a firm hold of tiny branches and picking up seeds and berries. Perhaps the biggest of all rats is the African giant rat which has an over-all body length of three feet half of which is tail. Fortunately, it is an inoffensive, good-natured animal, feasting on fruits, seeds and berries. Outside of bats, the rats, and mice are among the very few placenta mammals which reached Australia in early days. Proba bly theyound their way to this long isolated land mass aboard I t By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist floating trees. Or possible, prim itive man took them there un wittingly. , The nest-building rabbit rat of Australia which has long ears and a blunt nose and sits hunched up like the familiar bunny, builds huge brushwood houses. Often times several dwellings each containing a fam ily will be grouped together to form a little town, suggesting some sort of community activity. The houses are so well con structed that even Australia's wild dog, the dingo, cannot break in to devour the young. (Copyright 1957. by Eugene Burns Released by McClura ' Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the 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! co Medford Mail Trib une, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Three Car Pile-Up Hurls Three Persons Portland (IP) A three car pile-up about a mile west of Rooster Rock state park on the Columbia river waterlevel route Sunday injured three persons, sheriffs deputies reported. Taken to Providence hospital were Leon B. Newall, 58, The Dalles; Stella Ridgeway, 64, The Dalles, and Mrs. Ruth Piatt, 36, Estacada. Newell had facial cuts; the Ridgeway woman, a passen ger in Newell's car, suffered an ankle injury, and Mrs. Piatt had "undetermined" injuries. Deputies said the accident was a multiple rear-end collision. Ditch Cave-in Kills Plumbing Contractor Cathlamet, Wash. (IB Lloyd D. Ross, 46, Portland, a plumb ing contractor, died of suffoca tion Sunday. The accident oc curred at the Washington State Game Department fish hatchery construction site about ZVz miles north of here when a ditch in which concrete pipe was being laid apparently caved in on him. Sgt. Larry Grimes of the Washington State patrol said Ross had been alone at the Bea ver Creek site. INSECTS WASHED FREE Detroit (IB The Detroit suburb "of Ecorse had the clean est mosquitoes in Michigan Sat urday. Public works employee, Ray Wolfe, was flabbergasted when his mosquito spray truck started blowing bubbles Friday. Then he realized he had poured 50 gallons of liquid soap into his spray tank instead of mosquito killer. 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