Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1957)
Psychologist Cites Three Common Mistakes Made in Disciplining Children o O 52nd Year MEDFORD United Press full Leased Wire Price 10 Cents Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1957 Pages 1-6 Portland Squadron Gels Falcon Missiles Portland OP! Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Jlilea, adjutant gen eral of the Oregon National Guard, announced Tuesday the 123rd fighter-interceptor squad ron at Portland air base is being quipped with twin-jet Northrop ftircraft armed with Falcon mis siles capable of "seeking" an ene my bomber in the sky. The aircraft, first operational fighter planes to be armed with the Hughes Falcon missile, are the F-83H Northrop Scorpions. Th Portland-based squadron is the first national guard squadron in tti U.S. to get the new planes. Northrop Aircraft Co. said the J-89H Scropion has a range of more than 100 miles and speed in th "600-mile-per-hour calss." Russian Standard of Living Said Far Behind That of United States Washington 'TP? If the Rus sians are smart enough to beat us into space, why do they lag so far behind the United States in food production? Why does a nation with the technical ability to launch earth satellites give its citizens only one pound of meat for every three or four turned out by U.S. farmers? "If you're asking that question, broaden it," said an Agriculture Department official who makes a day-to-day study of Soviet af fairs. "Ask yourself why they have such poor housing, and so few good autos and television sets. "You'll find when you look at their standard of living here is a great backwardness." Where military technology is involved and the Communist state concentrates its power on a problem, the men who developed Sputnik and Muttnik "do. all right," the expert added. But in food production, the Soviet Union has been plagued by shortages for years, accord ing to most U. S. students of Soviet affairs. The Agriculture Department I specialist said recent claims that Soviet farmers will equal U.S. per capita production of several major foods in a few years are "unrealistic. . . propaganda." The Soviet farmer lags behind Jjj itnftotmtM&fammm mmwm in... .. i.ii .1 - 'aiwieermtiri iis-te'- lfirUlillH - - . - pf 2spttrnx$&&m. Yes, if it's a Wunda Weve V brutal test? Not if yow carpet is Wunda Were. Its sparkling color will ome through intact! This amazing colocfastness nnique with Wunda Weve ... is the result of a two-step process: first, only the costliest Tat dyes are used; second, every carpet is thoroaghly pre-washed and tumble-dried. Guaranteed quality . . . dreamy colors . . . and beauty, too! For the ultimate m woven 100 cotton broadloom . . . insist on Wunda Weve! CHOOSE YOUR WUNOA WEVE BROADLOOM CARPET FROM THESE NEW DECORATOR COLORS: Avocado Muted Beige Rose Beige Sand Beige Powder Blue Chartreuse "T" Cinnamon Forest Green Spruce Green Antique Gold Dove Grey Taupe Grey Ancient Ivory Cherry Red Wood Rose Turquoise Terracotta $R95 (CO pa sodak rim .OLSTOM COLOK SU JSC J. No extra charge to ttotrg ny color! Corse in for details on this exclusion ! Teve erric. rE-SHItUNK..Wasri Yunda Weve as often as you wish. It's guaranteed ta have less than 1 resid ual skrinkage. LONG WEAR. The Wunda Weve Carpet Com pany has this proud record : never a wear complaint in its history. ig m am wylm tk Wunda Weve Carpet Company, prodneera of loom- carpets ... at every price . . . for every budget! EASY BUDGET TERMS S "HAYHOUSE" - KBES-TV Every Thursday, 7:30 p.m. mi rwiLT ruumiu store" ' Corner SIXTH & BARTLETT Phone SP 3-4000 O OPEN EVERY MONDAY UNTIL 9 P.M. o his American counterpart and probably won't catch up soon, in this expert's view, because: Food production and the manufacture of consumer goods still take a back seat to heavy industry and military science in Soviet planning. Agricultural science in Rus sia suffered for many years from political interference at the hands of Stalin and Prof. Tro fim Lysenko, a Stalin favorite. Soviet agriculture still suf fers from a wasteful use of labor. On most collective farms, three to five workers are needed to do the job one farm laborer would do in the United States. Major Soviet farming areas are far to the north of U.S. farm production centers. The collec tive farmer in general must work with a shorter growing season and with frequent dry spells across wide areas. Gwynn Garnett, administrator of the Ariculture Department's Foreign Agricultural Service, noted in a recent speech that the Soviets are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Com munist revolution. "The big story of this anniver sary one that the Communists themselves try to hide is the failure of Communism to pro vide for the food and agricul tural needs of its people," Garn nett said. The U.S. lead is more than three to one over Russia in meat production and about 40 per cent in per capita milk produc tion. Soviet farmers, under orders from Moscow, have ex panded production of animal feed grains sharply in recent years only to find their crops disappointing. Editor'! note: This Is the third and last of a series of articles on misbe havior. Today Dr. Fritz Redl gives parents some pointers on discipline. Housewife Chosen On $64,000 Quiz . New York (IP) A housewife whose name' was chosen from about eight million post cards mailed to the CBS television quiz show, "The S64,000 Ques tion," won S32,000 Tuesday night by answering questions on mo vies. Mrs. Charlotte V. Kersey, Ta coma Park, Md., became a con testant -when millionaire indust rialist George R. Dempster, 70, Knoxville, Tenn., offered his quiz winnings as quiz prizes to listeners who sent a card to the program and were selected by lot. Mrs. Kersey's card was drawn and she correctly named the leading men in several movies. Also, Tuesday night, Adepoju Aderonmu, University of Chica go medical student from Nigeria answered a $16,000 question on Bible and Swiss-born pressroom machinist Herman Seitz, 56 reached the $512 level on the program by answering questions on art and artists. They will re turn next week. Chesf X-Rays Given Store Employees More than 50 employees of the Groceteria in Medford re cently completed having chest x-rays as a protection to their customers, according to Melvin Hall, manager of the store. This is the third year the Groceteria has cooperated with the Jackson County Public Health association and with the county health department in their request that all food hand lers and persons in contact with the general public have x-rays to detect unkwnown tuberculosis infections. The chest x-ray clinic at Sac red Heart hospital is open each Thursday between 2 and 5 for those desiring x-rays. In addition to the Groceteria, other firms which had employees have x-rays Include the Big Y and Quality Market. New York (IP) Charles Weill, 77, president of Charles Weill, Inc., resident buyers, died Tues day in a New York hospital after a short illness. His company buys for more than 100 retail stores throughout the country. BY LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspondent Washington (1? Do you al ways think of dicipline as a system of rewards and punish ments? Do you "drag the kitchen sink" into every conflict j'ou have with your child? Do you find it hard to give a child "a clean yes or a clean(no?" These, according to Dr. Fritz Redl, are three of the most com mon mistaes that parents make in disciplining their chilren. Pedl is chief of the Laboratory for Child Research at the Na tional Institute of Mental Health. Here are some of his views on discipline, based on 30 years of research on childhood behavior problems: Try 'Toleration Parents should not always go to one extreme or the other in reacting to a child's conduct. There are occasions "when a child should be praised or re warded, and times when he should be scolded or punished. But there are a great many in stances in which behavior should be neither approved nor disap proved, but simply tolerated." "Toleration", is a good way to treat misbehavior that is part of a child's normal growing pains, or is "symptomatic" of in ner stress or worry. A child won't "get his values confused" if you fail to crack down hard on each act of mis behavior. Every child, even one who is seriously disturbed, "is capable of distinguishing be tween toleration and approval." The fact that you tolerate a certain kind of behavior doesn't mean that you never intervene to control it. On the contrary, It frequently Is necessary to "set and enforce clear limits" to let a child know that you will put up with "so much and no more" on his "age-typical" or "steam releasing" antics. Stick To the Subject "Kitchen-sinkism" is Redl's term for the tendency of par ents to recount all of a child's sins and shortcomings each time he gets into trouble, instead of focusing disapproval on the "single clear issue" involved in the immediate misbehavior. A daughter who comes home late for supper is violating fam ily rules and "ought to be bawl ed out for it." But it is not the time "to revive that old wrangle about too much lipstick, or her choice of girl friends, or has she done her homework." "Every time you broaden an issue unnecessarily, you lay your self open to an alibi that begs that question. Kids are much bet ter at this type of argument than you are, so stay out of it. The Clean Yes And Clean No "If your child wants to do something, and you are a little dubious about it but have de cided to let him do it, give your permission graciously and keep your reservations to yourself. If you hedge your 'yes' about with all sorts of grumbling and dire warnings, he will not regard it as a privilege granted by his par ent, but as a victory he has won over a surly opponent. 'On the other nand, if you are going to say no, then say no You can explain your reasons in a polite way, but don t get bog ged down in a lot of arguments, and don't be apologetic for try ing to protect your child from harm. "Try to be equally clean-cut when you are setting limits the homecoming hour, or the amount of television to be watched, for example. Some parents seem to think that they have to be angry, aggressive and accusing to con vince a child they mean business about enforcing a limit. But a terrific fuss doesn't make a limit any more effective. Clarity does." Punishment Does Redl believe in physical punishment? "That's like asking mi if I approve of whiskey for year olds. I have to say no on prin ciple, but I don't mean to imply that an occasional spanking will traumatize a child. "My main objection to physi cal punishment is that it is a very poor way of communicating a message to a child. The instinc tive reaction of a human being to physical hurt is to focus his aggression on the source of the hurt. That's why a little child kicks the chair he has tripped over. "When you are disciplining a child, you want him to get mad at himself and specifically at the conduct which got him into trouble. "He is more likely to blame his own behavior for his punish ment if the parent remains in the role of fair-minded dispenser of $129500 JEEP SPECIAL 1955 Willys Jeep A well cared for one-owner 4-wheel drive unit. This is a special buy priced well below book value LEA MOTORS Six Bills Clear House Committee; Five Are Tabled Salem (IP) Six bills cleared the House Rules Committee Tues day in a burst of activity. Five others were tabled and action deferred on several more. Among bills acted on favorab ly was the shrimp tax bill which has already cleared the Senate. It calls for reducing the tax on shrimp from 3-4 of a cent per Greyhound Helaring On Service Postponed Salem (IP) Action on a request from Western Grey hound lines to reduce from two to one round trip daily its serv ice between Portland and As toria was postponed pending hearings by the Public Utility Commission today. The PUC said a public hear ing on the matter would be held at Astoria Nov. 26. Affected points along U.S. highway 30 includes Clatskanie, Rainier, St. Helens and Scap-poose. pound to 1-1 0th of a cent in order to stimulate a new industry for Oregon. Rules committee members un der Rep. Glen Stadler, Eugene Democrat, agreed that the bill, Senate bill 11, had some bearing on Oregon's tax structure and economy. SBI Action Defered No action was taken on Senate bill 1 which would prohibit the state from lerying the 6-mill automatic property tax. Approved by the committee were: Senate bill 9 changing Circuit Court structures in Lane and Marion counties to enable any courts in the counties to try do mestic relations cases. Senate bill 20 increasing from S70.000 to S95.000 an appropria tion to the sewer bond revolving fund that would allow comple tion of a Government Camp sew age disposal plant. Senate concurrent resolution 3 authorizing the furnishing of Oregon revised statutes to new members of the Legislature. House resolution 4 providing for revision of the House journal after adjournment. necessary justice rather than an executioner who is inflicting physical pain." PERSONALIZED Christmas Cards ORDER NOW 35 ALBUMS TO CHOOSE FROM - ON THE BALCONY I BOOKS -GIFTS' RECORDS LOWEST PRIC E EVER! AMERICA'S 1 RATED NO. 1 i WASHER AMD :tfiRIMKLES-M!lCf DRYER ft ft A I J NOTHING T (h L DOWN! V ill If If and at an all-time 1 A I 211 LOW JHJ I) K o PIROCES I You could poy up to $175 and mar for I "1 1 o'! I a waher-dryer pair or combination I I 5 I I I but regard lesi of prico, you tan't buy bt- I I I t II I I J I m ter than this matching '58 Frigidairo pair! I Mt- mf r Regularly $449.90 r ULTRA-CLEAN WASHER $199.95 ON with trade 00' $9.88 a Month RATED No. r by U. $. Tostmq Co.. Inc., America's foremot. indopondont totting organization, for CLEAN! ST CLOTHIS-LINT RIMOVAl DRIEST SPIN Now Frigidairo Wathor with Exclusive 3-fting Agitaior Action gots ctomot up to 50 cloanor than ethor automatic by tut. "SwMpi" out moro lint, dirt, leum automati cally than waihcn with filtori that have to bo cleaned by handl Guards agointt tangling. ln testa of six leading automatic wotrtep voder controlled laboratory conditions, in Reporte 29123 and 29123-A, dated May 2 and May NOW CUT IRONING TIME IT HOURS! wnnm "WRIUKLES-AW&Y" Exclusive In FBICIDAIII Fabric-Master Dryat rny $15Q59 $7.91 OfiSi ' with tradb a Month New you con automatically dial wrinkles out of miracle-' fibre sweaters, blouses, dresses and dainties have them ready to wear in minutes without touching an iron Is) them Now "Wrinlclef-Away" eyclo "irons" M wrinkles in measured heat then "sets" the smoothness if) witsj cool-air tumbling action. Free-Way Air How for fast, luffy drying Autorrsjtic Time Control for all-fabric drying from 15 to 145 minutes Porcelain Enamel Drum protects clothes from rust, snags Nylon Lint Trap easy-to-tlean, slide-out drawer Get Mere for your Money with FRIGIDAI8B America's "Cleaningest," "Svingest," Laundry Fair! ILeaDMcmirdl IEHecciliLofi(E (CaDo Medford's Leading Appliance Dealer for the Past 26 Years 309 EAST MAIN PHONE SP 2-4427 5th at Barteltt Phone SP 2-6185 o
