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SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Nottmbtr 7. 1957 0 O Officials Skeptical As 'Whatnik' Reports Continue To Come in r UNITED PRESS A virtual shower of flying ob ject reports swamped authorities across the nation today, and of ficial skepticism over the "what niks" mounted in proportion. The current flurry of unidenti fied flying object sightings be gan during the week end has been picking up steam since. Sky gazers described the ob jects as appearing in many col ors and in shapes ranging from a "meat platter," to "the open end of a bucket." Some of the objects zoom about, others hov er overhead and kill automobile engines and lights. O Two persons, one an ex-convict in Nebraska and the other a Tennessee schoolboy, insist they O have seen space ships manned by German-Speaking men and women land. The boy said one of the spacemen tried to kidnap his dog. Scientists Skeptical Scient&ts, however, were cool to most of the reports. They said many of them stemmed from sightings of bright stars and planets, cloud and weather mir ages, the aurora borealis, tricks of vision and, perhaps, a touch of hysteria brought on by Rus sia's Sputniks. Dr. Harold H. Menzel, director of iSk Jfcarvard College of Astronomy, dismissed most of the sightings as "another flying saucer scare." A Chicago scientists pointed out the reports, which have ranged from the Fiji Island to Italy, all have come from the free world while no such objects have been sighted, in Iron Cur tain countries. Air Force officials investigat ed some of the stranger sight ings. But a spokesman at Wright Patterson Air Force base near Dayton, Ohio, observed that of the thousands of flying saucer reports checked out in the past 10 years, only about three per cent of them still are in the "un known file." Could Be Identified And those three per cent prob ably could be identified, the spokesman said, if more infor mation about them could be learned. -The spokesman, a top official of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, also threw cold water on the reports by stating that not one bit of physical evidence of flying saucers has ever been . found by the Air Force in check ing out 5,700 sightings in the past 10 years. He said preliminary studies of some of the current mystery sightings indicate the lights may have stemmed from "cloud ceil ing light." A Naval astronomer said a rash of "whatnik" sightings along the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday night was the aurora borealis, or northern lights. The lights, described as "reddish ob jects" were seen as far south as Georgia. Astronomer Sylvan Be stul in Washington said it was "unusual" to have such a bril liant display that far south. The Family Council Editor's note: Th Family Council consists of m Judge, a. psychiatrist, skre cJercymen a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers. Eacn .rticle is a summary of an actual report. The "amily Council does not jive advice; it merely reports on problems thai av been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Mildred F. A woman needs more than her home. Donald F. A man shouldn't have to wash his own socks. Mildred F. Last year, after 25 years as a homemaker, I went back to work. My husband and I have two married children and one away at college. It was Don's idea that I take a job. He thought there wasn't enough for me to do around the house with only the two of us. Besides, the extra income would help us buiy up a retirement fund. I wasn't particularly keen about going to work, but once I started I loved it. The problem now is Don. He isn't used to doing anything for himself. He doesn't like helping out around the housw and he (0ts all upset if things don't Tun mp. oiled wheels the way they used" to when I was home. He wants me to give up my job now (bod stay home, but I feel as though I'd be putting myself back in a jail. I love my home, t but a woman needs more than that. Donald T. Okay, I was wrong. I made a big mistake. I didn't realize how much Mil dred had to do in the house, even just for the two of us. Now I'm ready to appreciate every thing she does if only she'll stav home. Mildred seems to think it's a joke when I have to struggle with the dinner dishes or when she sees me making a mess of washing out a pair of socks, but I don't think it's funny. A man shouldn't have to start learning to do things like that at my age. The worst of it is that Mildred has turned out to be -one of these people who bring the job home with them at the end of the day. All evening she's jabbering about the office and I don't get a chance to get in a word edge wise. It doesn't take more time to sew on a button than to talk all that nonsense, but Mildred would rather talk. The Council: It's too bad Don ald can't see humor in the fact of a man of his age being knocked for a loop by a pair of socks and some dinner dishes. q We agree with Mildred. It's real ly very funny. It is fortunate Donald has had this opportunity to see the effort entailer in making "things run on oile3 wheels" in a home, but we don't go along with his plea for mercy not yet. Mildred has had 25 years of housework. She still has the health and energy to try her wings and expand her life. It would be very unfair to put her back in the home at this time purely for Donald's convenience. Donald ought to try to enter into the spirit of this thing with a little more enhusiasm. He should realize Mildred is doing j more than escaping housework, j She is tasting a new life and he should have the generosity to I share her excitement. j On the other hand, Mildred i ought to be a little more sympa thetic with Donald's situation. It j is not really just a question of i the dinner dishes. Donald feels j that his whole world has gone j to pieces because Mildred is not i planning her normal, wifely role. It wouldn't be a bad idea for her to do a little button sew ing and sock washing just as reassurance of her love. We have a notion Donald pre tends to more helplessness in these matters than he actually feels because he doesn't want Mildred to get so absorbed in her job that she'll no longer need him. (Copyright 1957, General Features Corp.) Britannia Airplane Future Said Clouded London (IP) The future of the Britannia turbo-prop airliner may be in doubt unless investiga tors can quickly determine the cause' of the crash Wednesday of one of the "whispering giants," aircraft sources said to day. Fifteen persons died when the giant four-engined transport crashed in a wood near Bristol on a proving flight. Officials of the Bristol Air craft Co. and the Ministry of Civil Aviation launched an im mediate inquiry Informed sources said the investigators are working against time in an effort to find the reason for the accident. 1 "The crash was the latest in the series which has plagued British civil aviation since World ' War II. It came even while the Bristol Co. was under heavy fire for allegedly failing to (produce Britannias fast enough to meet orders. AMD the uveta xSUWuTiwa or KENTUCKY BOURBO SINCE K Proof A 1810 .alL Fl 5 .jh t CS6 WATEtflU AXO FKAZ1EI DISTIU.EIT COMPAJiL lAMSIQWM. 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