SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, October 22, 1957
Activities
Washington ft? The Senate
Rackets Committee was told to
da that Nathan V. Sheffer
man's labor relations firm
helped freeze one union out of
a food factory and then helped
another get a "very poor con
tract." Gary Long testified that the
Morton Packing Co. secretly or
dered him to form a "spontane
ous" committee of workers to
prevent the United Packing
house Workers (CIO) from organ
izing its Webster City, Iowa,
Psychotherapy Described as Aid
For Psychologically Disturbed
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York 1? This will tell
you what psychotherapy is
since you're bound to have won-
dered. It is
one of those
words which
gets kicked
around with-
out anyone
i n eluding
many doctors
being quite
sure of its
meaning.
Psychother-
psychologically
Delos Smith
apy is "helping
disturbed people to a better ad
justment" with themselves and
the world they live in, according
to Drs. Abram Blau and Ber
tram Slaff who explained it in
simple terms at a recent medical
meeting.
"Help is the essence of psycho
therapy," they said, but to apply
it you must have a clear under
standing of the emotional proc
esses of the person who needs
the help, some Idea of what the
person- is up against, extensive
training in how minds work, but
M -it
CENTRAL POINT
Luncheon Meeting Set
By DORIS HUGHES
Central Point The Women's
Christian Circle of the Central
Point Presbyterian church held
their October meeting Thursday
at the home of Mrs. Al Setness
on Pine street.
The meeting was preceded by
a dessert luncheon. Fall flowers
-ere used in the table arrange
ments. Mrs. Delia Tex presided
at the business meeting. It was
announced that the cupboard for
the church vestibule was finish
fd, and the chairs for the pri
mary department had been sup
plied. An invitation was given to
She Circle to attend the Bible
OBmphasis conference which will
Ct held at the Medford Presby
(Jisrian church, Oct. 24 and 25.
3STrs. Leo Ghelardi spoke on
the- growing fellowship In
(eg)utheast Asia." The devotions
(tfre given by Mrs. Donald E.
I'Sfaber.
Last week the Rev. Paul
(jRroon, pastor of the Commun
ity Bible church in Central Point
Slew to San Francisco where he
(Attended the board meeting of
aha Simpson Bible college.
Charles A. Meyer, principal
f Central Point elementary and
(Junior high school, stated that
on Monday there were 225 stu
dents absent out of the 616 en-(j-olled.
Most of the absences
ere due to colds and flu. Mey
$r also stated that report cards
ill be issued on Thursday.
On the evening of Nov. 4, the
students of the Central Point
junior high school will be taken
to the rink at Grants Pass for a
seating party.
The Central Point Women's
Relief corps of William H. Har
rison Post No. 27, held their
October meeting Tuesday after
noon. The Halloween motif was
carried out in the decorations.
The meeting took place at the
Legion hall in Central Point
with Mrs. John Kovak presiding.
Mrs. Edward Jones, Mrs. A. C.
Maple and Mrs. Josephine Wha
ley, who are members, were re
ported to be ill. After the meet
ing, refreshments were served
by Mrs. Phil Griggs. Mrs. O. T.
Wilson, publicity chairman,
stated that election of officers
would be held at the Nov. 19
meeting.
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. the
Central Point junior high school
football team will play the Hed
rick junior high school of Med
ford at Medford.
Visiting recently at the I. F.
Maier home in Central Point
was their daughter, Mrs. Evelyn
Owens of Oakland, Calif. Also
visiting the Maiers was Mrs.
Maier's sister," Mrs. Julia Green
of Puyallup, Wash. Mrs. Owens
and Mrs. Green also visited Mr.
and Mrs. Al Setness of Central
Point.
The Central Point American
Legion and Auxiliary will have
a potluck dinner Thursday at
6:30 p.m. for all members of
their families. The dinner will
be held at the Myres Holland
Post 129 in Central Point.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Monia
and two daughters drove to
Oakland last week end. They
took Airman third class. David
Monia back to Parks Air force
of Shefferman's
plant in 1955.
But later, he said, the com
pany cooperated with the Bakery
workers Union in recruiting
members and signing a three
year contract which gave a raise
of only five cents an hour.
Packing Worker Fought
A packinghouse Workers offi
cial said his union wanted raises
of 26 to 46 cents an hour for the
Morton workers.
Long said one employee of
Shefferman's firm, Labor Rela
tions Associates, worked with
"most
of all, good common
sense.
Five Level Application
Psychotherapy can be applied
on any or all of five levels "in-
sight." "educational," "emotion-
al," "environment," and "physi-
cal.' They cited psychoanalysis
as an example of "insight' psy-
chotherapy in which a person is
made aware of the meanings of
"various competing tendencies"
within himself.
The "educational" level is
when psychotherapy uncovers "a
real lack of knowledge. Com-
mon instances of this sort are
j sex information, other biologic
facts, and the differences in
thinking of children as com
pared with adults."
The "emotional" level permits
the person "to talk more openly
about his fantasies, and in some
cases to accept direct advice
when this is urgently necessary.
"Although it is accepted that
psychotherapists should avoid
direct advice and direction be
cause it tends to 'infantilize' the
patient and 'encourage depend
ency rather than independency,
there are times when it is nec-
base. He had been home on a
visit.
Monday, Mrs. Franke Bruce
entertained Mrs. Robert Har
per of Central Point, Mrs. Rob
ert Myers of Medford and Mrs.
Clarence Uhrhane of New York,
with a luncheon in Medford and
a sight seeing tour.
The flu bug has hit Crater
High school. Arthur Straus,
principal, said that on Monday
there were 106 students absent
and that there have been as
many as 150 absent lately. The
average number absent is about
30. The first six weeks period
ended last Friday for Crater
High school. Report cards will
be going out next Friday, Straus
stated.
National Scholarship tests
were given in Crater High
school Tuesday. A sum of $20
million from large corporations
is available in this nation-wide
search for outstanding high
school seniors. Winners will re
ceive from one hundred dollars
to total scholarships, according
to the need. The test is avail
able to any students who wish
to take it.
Mrs. Carrol Powell spent
three days last week at the
home of her daughter, Mrs.
Birch Scrivner. Mrs. Scrivner
was ill with the flu.
Mrs. Chester Ricks, Vick Mas
on, Mrs. Luis Coghill, and Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Mason returned
recently from Poulsbo, Wash.
They were visiting relatives
there.
Charles Schwebs, Boz Sal
mons, Orville Dawson and Leo
Schwebs went to Bly on a hunt
ing trip last week end. They all
got their deer.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Lee
Wright of route 2, Box 186X re
turned Sunday from a two
week's vacation at Oklahoma
City and Elk City, Oklha. They
also .visited relatives the friends
in Texas, Wyoming and Idaho.
The Crater High school band
will furnish some of the enter
tainment for the teachers insti
tute which will be held in the
Medford senior high school Wed
nesday. Court Closes Case
Of Adopted Infant
Hollywood (W The court
has closed the case of an unwed
mother who reclaimed her baby
after agreeing to let actress vMa
rie Wilson and her. husband, Bob
Fallon, adopt the child.
Superior Judge Burdette Dan
iels Monday dismissed a writ of
habeas corpus served on the
blonde actress after Linda Lea
bow, 21-year-old UCLA coed,
demanded her baby back.
Miss Wilson and Fallon first
announced they would fight for
the baby they adopted June 28,
three days after her birth, and
then changed their minds for
"the child's benefit."
They turned the blacke-eyed
little girl back to Miss Leabow
last Thursday in a tearful scene
in a doctor's office near the
coed's campus.
him to fight the Packinghouse
Workers and another later
signed up members for the Bak
ery Workers.
The Morton case was the open
ing gun in an investigation of
Shefferman, 70, Chicago labor
relations counselor to some 300
firms across the nation.
Long, now an unemployed
resident of Whittier, Calif., said
a Shefferman employee named
Jack Nevett interviewed Morton
workers about their feelings to
ward the union. He said when
essary to accept the responsibil
ity that a sick patient may be
regressed and, like a little child.
may need to be controlled and
led until he can do better by
himself."
Need for Change
With children and the severe
ly ill mentally there may be a
need for changes in the environ
ment. And the psychotherapist
must also be aware that bodily
conditions "may sap the individ
ual's energies." They referred
specifically to allergies, acne,
and disorders of the endocrine
glands.
So far the psychotherapist has
been treating only the symptoms
of the psychologically disturbed
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Labor
he told Nevett he opposed the
union, plant manager Kieth
Binns secretly ordered him and
another worker to contact an at
torney and form the "We, the
Morton Workers" committee.
Signed Them Into Bakeri
He said he helped Binns check
a list of workers for pro-union
sentiment, and two union ring
leaders were fired. Long said he
got a substantial pay raise for
his efforts.
Long said that though Binns
person. Having done that, he
shifts his part and "it then be
comes related to that of the
teacher, the parent, and the
friend.
"We believe that psychothera
peutic effects derive from the
whole range of human experi
ence," the doctors said. "The
parent raising the child, the
teacher instructing his student,
the friend befriending his friend,
the doctor treating his patient
all are instances of constructive
psychotherapeutic activity."
The professional medical psy
chotherapist differs from parent,
teacher, friend because his train
ing and experience permits him
to work with a knowledge of
what he is doing and to have
both "working principles" and
"a well-defined goal."
Drs. Blau and Slaff are psy
chiatrists at Mount Sinai hospi
tal, New York.
REVOLUTIONARY NEW "SHOCK-ABSORBER
GIVES EXTRA PROTECTION
TO FRAGILE FREIGHT
Careful handling of freight has always been a
prime concern of Southern Pacific. Four years
ago we asked Stanford Research Institute to
help us develop an even better way to cushion
boxcar shipments of extra-fragile freight The
result is something we are proud to report.
It is the Hydra-Cushion Underframe
freight car, which employs a unique sliding
elations
strongly opposed the Packing
house Workers, a few months
later he seemed to favor the
Bakery Workers a union which
was the subject of recent com
mittee hearings and is now under
AFL-CIO orders to oust Presi
dent James G. Cross or be
kicked out.
Long said Binns explained that
"his hands were tied" and he
could not oppose the Bakery
Workers.
Another Shefferman employee,
Charles Bromley, appeared and
was given the right to sign up
workers in the plant something
never granted the other union,
Long said.
The company signed a con
tract with the Bakery Workers
for a nickel-an-hour raise, Long
said, though the employees were
never allowed to vote on wheth
er to join that union.
Committee Counsel Robert F.
Kennedy told newsmen that in
DR. LEE MELLISH, D.M.D.
Announces the Removal
of his office from
Medical Center Building
to
836 East Main St.
Suite 1 Phone SP 2-9073
underframe with a hydraulic pressure device
to give extra cushioning to fragile shipments
while cars are being coupled or are in transit.
350 Cars
We built 350 of these cars-and added "DF"
interior loading equipment and roller bear
ings for good measure to assure extra pro
tection to shipments of television receivers,
Firm
Des
tracing Shefferman's acti-ities
by interviewing businessmen, his
staff had been "lied to more
than in any other case" it has
handled all year. He also said
one employee of Shefferman is
in Canada and refuses to return
to testify.
Committee Criticized
The committee, set up to in
vestigate improper activities in
both labor and management
fields, has been criticized by
union leaders for devoting its
efforts thus far chiefly to unions.
Its forthcoming hearings will in
volve unions to some extent, as
its earler inquiries brought in
management's role in some "im
proper" activities.
Kennedy told newsmen the
committee "expects to go into
the activities of the Mennen Co.
with Shefferman." One of the di
rectors of the Mennen Co. is Wil
liams, five times elected Demo
cratic governor of Michigan with
cribed at
heavy CIO support
Williams said Monday he had
notified committee chairman
John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) that
he had learned the Mennen Co.
once did business with Seffer
man. He said it also had a con
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tract with a local union of the
AFL United Auto Workers
unions dominated by New York
labor racketeer Johnny Dio.
Williams said his Mennen em
ployees have no union contract
now.
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