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Highway Building Program Plus Sign For Stock Market V7T Elmer Waizer Br ELMER C. WALZER New York IP) One of the big plus signs for the future of the stock market, as Wall Street Vj'il views it, is the V' 0 , . . xeuerai n i g 11 w a y building program. So far the program hasn't produced the activity that the market men had antic ipated when the federal highway act of 1956 was passed. That's mainly because of the high cost of raising municipal funds to match those of the U.S. Treasurery, it is held. But the plan is slowly develop ing and it is expected to gain momentum in the coming year. This year's market was hurt by the cuts in federal expendi tures, notably for defense. Any increase such as the highway program would produce would be seen as a real market aid. Expected To Mushroom The whole road plan is ex pected to mushroom into a giant construction project which will boost employment and make good business for a vast number of companies in many lines of in dustry. Estimates are that by 1970, the grand total for highways will be boosted to $100 billion, not including maintenance. That's a cumulative total, of course, and a big one. The Alex ander Hamilton Institute said that even taking the minimum figure of around S50 billion it represents three and one-third times the total expenditures for the Public Works Administration during the depression years, 17 times the entire investment to date in TV A, and 79 times the cost of building the Panama Canal. Not too many years ago, the economy got a big lift when the government paid a soldier bonus that is dwarfed by the road pro gram for one year. Hence the feeling that when it really begins to perk, the economy and the stock market will benefit. The American Petroleum In stitute has figured out who's go ing to pay for the roads the users of the highways will pay, says the institute's "Tax Econ omics Bulletin." The government, the bulletin notes, is merely shifting the fed eral taxes on motor fuel, motor vehicles and other automotive products from the general fund to use of highway construction. The bulletin records that the average tax on house brand gaso line has now reached a record high at 8.86 cents a gallon with the price of gasoline excluding taxes less than two cents a gal lon higher than it was in 1949. ILLINOIS VALLEY Nedrow Moves to Baker By HELEN BOTTEL Cave Junction Ed Nedrow, Soil Conservation Service engi neer, who has been working in the Illinois valley and Gold Beach areas this summer, has been transferred to the Baker district. He left for his new loca tion last week end. The transfer, which is also an advancement for Nedrow, was official Mon day, Sept. 9. Southbound traffic recorded at the Redwood highway Cali fornia Inspection station has de creased during the three sum mer months from all time high of 72,750 in 1956 to 65,313 ve hicles in 1957. Lyle Van Gordon of Grants Pass, master of the Pomona Grange, gave the first and sec ond degree to a new Illinois Valley Grange candidate, Mel vin Gray, at a meeting recently in Bridgeview. A birthday gift was presented to hostess Nina Weber at the Blue Star Mothers' meeting held Wednesday', Sept. 4, at the Weber ranch near Elk Creek. President Louise Woodbury announced proceeds from the sale of a pair of pillow cases and veterans' daisies would go toward items for Camp White and the James Boys home. acre Q-Bar-X ranch owned by L. A. Johnson of the San Fran cisco bay area, is James Clark, who comes here from a ranch in Clovis, Calif. He is working with Early Elmore and replaces Richard Arnold, now at Corning, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Culbertson and son. Billy, spent the Labor Day holidays at Clear Lake, Calif. jp l CARRYING FLAGS of United States and Confederacy, these men are marching in front of Fehr School, Nashville, Tenn., protesting entry of Negroes into former all-white school. Several acts of violence marked arrival of Negro students. (International Soimdphoto) MEDFORDtsk. Tribune Five Men Appear In Court Wednesday Five men appeared in circuit court Wednesday before Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna. Entering pleas of innocent to charges of rape were Larry William Irvin, 26. of 215 Wil lamette ave., and Darrold Lewis Johnson, 26, of 619 Palm st. Leonard Eugene Steege, 24, of 401 East 12th st., had previously entered a plea of innocent to the same charge. They were indict ed by the grand jury. Willie Woodrow Wolfe, 37, of Bakersfield, Calif., pleaded in nocent to a charge of grand lar ceny, and the case against Glen Eugene Johnson, 36, Live Oak, Calif., was continued until Fri day on a similar charge. Martin Dave Wilkinson, 55, Camp White, pleaded innocent to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Damage Suit Filed Over Polio Vaccine Use Pendleton (IP) A damage suit asking $10,000 against three Pendleton physicians has been filed in circuit court here by the father of two small girls inoc ulated last May with Salk polio vaccine. Jack Zunke of Pendleton as serted that the vaccine had be come infected and he charged the three doctors at the Byers Avenue Clinic with neglgence. Ashland Residence Damaged by Fire Ashland A fire at the Don S. Kindell residence on Hersey st., Ashland, was extinguished Wednesday afternoon by the Ashland Fire department. Firemen said the fire started about 2:20 p.m., and caused con siderable damage. It is believed to have started in the living room and then spread through the house, firemen said. Washington Inmates Go On Hunger Strike Walla Walla OP) Twenty eight inmates of the Washing ton State Penitentiary were on a hunger strike Wednesday in protest against a ruling that each prisoner must be searched when he enters or leaves the recreation area. Warden Bob Rhay said the fast began Tuesday evening but that seven of the prisoners call ed it quits Wednesday morning and ate breakfast'. Rhay said the ruling that the guards search the convicts was put in force after bars were cut in a cell block in an escape .at tempt several weeks ago. He said most of the strikers were in the maximum security cell block because of various rule violations. Chairmen Appointed To UMC Campaign Mrs. Eugene DeVoe, 2200 Woodlawn dr., Medford, and Mrs. Joe Hearin, 2517 East Mam st., Medford, have been appoint ed chairman and cochairman of the United Medford Crusade s ' mop-up" campaign. The campaign will be the final stage of the fall drives, and is planned to contact those people who have not been contacted through business firms or indus tries. Mrs. DeVoe and Mrs. Hearin plan meetings soon with the UMC organization to form plans and appoint other workers. Both women are volunteer wor kers in the Red Cross, and Mrs. Hearin is cochairman of the Junior Red Cross. Smith-Dynge LUMBER GO. 8th and Fir St. 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1957 Pages 1-10 j Anxious Patient Must Retain Some Anxiety, Doctor Maintains At the Illinois Valley Gem and Geology club meeting recently hostess Doris Boyd won the gem stone prize brought by Violet Haggard. The club voted to as sist valley Boy Scouts in work ing toward their geology merit badges. Dale Tucker, president, will be in charge of the planning committee. Rock hounds Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bunch and Mrs. Jim Hogue made a Jeep trip to Hart moun tain in eastern Oregon and into Nevada over Labor Day weekend. Freshmen vocational agricul ture students with instructors Ralph Burns and Dwight Curl took a field trip to the Masonic Christmas tree farm near O'Brien Saturday. On the trip were- Wendell Seat, DanDeMersseman, Dennis Bottel, Ken Shawhan and Ger ald Gibbons. 4 Senator Wayne Morse told friends in the Illinois valley rec ently he plans to visit the valley in November. He said he was making every effort to arrange ,a suitable market for nickel which may be produced here. Mrs. Dora Pettitt of Medford was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Clayton at Woodland Echoes motel recently. Visiting the Claytons last weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Breesee of San Francisco. The Rev. Peter Barker visited the St. Matthias Guild at its all day meeting Wednesday at the Episcopal church near Cave Junction. In his announcements of fu ture events, Mr. Barker said a class for inquiry would be held at the church during October for those wish to affiliate with the church. About 60 guests attended a party given recently by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Owens for their nieces, Nancy and Penny Call. Florence Strong, is cooking this summer at Gene Brown's chrome mine camp at High pla teau near O'Brien. A reception for teachers and parents new to the school is planned for Evergreen PTA's first meeting Monday, Sept. 16, at 8 p.m. at the school. At the W. A. Saffer home last week we're Mr. and Mrs. Clinton McCarter and daughters of Rose burg and Mr. and Mrs. William Bankston and daughter of Myrtle Creek. Eight year old Jane .Messeng er arrived in Medford by air last Tuesday evening, after a sum mer visit with her grandparents in Seattle. She was met by her mother, Mrs. Ralph Messenger. The budget will be presented, and plans for a money making project will be discussed. A new vice president is to be elected, replacing Carmelita Hussey who is moving from the valley. DEATH TAKES EDITOR New York (ID Lawrence A. Audrain, 47, editor of the gra phic arts magazine Print and former reporter for London newspapers, died Monday of a circulatory ailment. By DELOS SMITH New York (tP) The scien tific, common-sense way for a doctor to dose an anxious patient with "tranquil izing" drugs is to hold down the doses enough for him to retain some of his anxiety, a phy sician said to day. For instance. Delos Smith let him retain a "mild over activity" of the sympathetic nervous system, "such as palpitations, sweating, jitteriness, slips of the tongue and the like," continued Dr. H. Keith Fischer of the Temple University Medical Center, Phil adelphia. "This amount of anxiety is compatible with efficient intel lectual and physical work, ac ceptable social activties, and good physical health," he said. But more important, from this level the doctor can most effec tively treat the emotional diffi culties which cause anxiety. "Psychotherapy" mind treat ment is the only curative treatment for over-anxiety, and tranquilizers and other drugs are useful only to the extent that they make psychotherapy easier and more effective, he as serted. In applying it, the doctor must help the anxious patient to solve his problems, to mature emotionally and to continue his emotional "growth and develop ment." He was lecturing medical men on scientific common - sense through the technical journal of the American Academy of Gen eral Practice, because there is a great deal of unscientific non sense about the tranquilizing drugs among the general public, even among doctors. For one thing, tranquilizers "cannot and should not be ex pected to remove'.' the anxieties which result from the ability of the conscious mind to see things and to be alarmed by some of those things, he said, adding: "Both physicians and patients have in many instances uncrit ically assumed or hoped that the ataractics (tranquilizers) would somehow handle this anxiety. "Often they are disturbed when their wonder drugs do not work miracles. Can we expect that a man under the influence of the attractic will not react to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Knapp, own ers of Valley Park camp have arranged to lease the motel near the West fork bridge and will leave soon to spend a year in New York City. Taking part in the 1st Marine division mountain field exercise Aug. 13-27 at the Marine Cold Weather Training center in the Sierra Nevadas, was Marine Pfc. Leroy R. Champney, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Champney of Cave Junction. Finishing touches to the new stretch of highway south of Cave Junction were applied recently. Wooden markers have been placed along the banks, and side rails are up on drive ways lead ing from the pavement. The State Highway depart ment paint crew repainted the broken yellow line from the California state line north last week, also putting in new lines on the two bridge approaches. 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So the doctor dosing with tran quilizers has to watch carefully the level of anxiety-reduction and adjust the dosages accord ingly. "Anxiety is as necessary as pain unless it is overwhelming and leading to psychical or phy sical deterioration," Dr. Fischer said. "But if our therapeutic goal be to eliminate anxiety com pletely, we lost the valuable signal that tells us that we are approaching danger or that there is a problem that needs solving." ' Make FRIDAY the 13th Your Good Luck Day! Get that Delicious, Delect able Old-Fashioned Ice Cream from "Vince" . . The Village Dairy-Smith MILK BUTTER EGGS , BREAD AND CHEESE AT MEDFORD'S ONLY DAIRY DRIVE-IN SHOP WHERE YOU NEVER LEAVE YOUR CAR! East Main at Genessee TRADE 'IN UiOlLP NEW THIN AS A DIME 4Q STYLING! with NEW 110 picture tube a! I u UUII OLD NEW i 1 MM O SPEAKER if & SYSTEM New Slimline IV! with Black Beam U0 Picture Tube L2DD 1 fa 7f Hi-Fidelity Sound! with Matching 4 Speaker System 21" ovtrall diagonal. VitwabU arte. 362 tq. 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