SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday. Nottmbtr 7. 1957
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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.
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