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Monday, Auguit 12. IS57
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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.
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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)
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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) ,
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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
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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
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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
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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. '
A half pint of ice cream can
furnish a fifth of the calcium
needed daily by an adult as well
as good-quality protein, ribo
flavin and vitamin A.
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