SffcrT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday. November 29, 1957
Out of every 1.000 patents
granted by the U.S. patent of
fice, about one is issued to a
woman.
Some radio tubes are so small
that workers . must use micro
scopes during their assembly
process.
The Yukon river rises It Can
ada but two-thirds of it 8,200
mile course runs through
Alaska.
Nixon-Stevenson
Team Possibility
Has Mixed Feelings
Washington (IF Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon and Ad
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lai E. Stevenson will have to
bury a good-sized political
hatchet if they go together to
next month's allied conference
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in Paris.
There are mixed feelings in
political and official government
quarters about putting together
a Nixon-Stevenson "team" for
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DODGING N EWSMEN Cecil e Dionne and her husband,
Philippe Langlois, in New York on their honeymoon,
duck out of a Times Square hotel. They decided to check
out after being discovered by local newsmen. They were
married in Corbeil, Ontario, Nov. 23.
The Family Council
Editor's note: the Family Council consists of a ' Judge, m psychiatrist.
tnree clergymen, a newspaper eaitor a women's editor and two writers. Each
article is a summary of an actual report The Family Council does not give
advice; it merely reports on problems that have keen dealt with by
responsible agencies ana counselors.
RALPH D. My wife and I are
cize my wife.
MRS. M. D. I would like to
help her.
RALPH D. M wife and I are
a very happily married couple,
or we would be If it weren't
that my parents make trouble
between us.
Don't get me wrong. I love
my parents very much and think
they're swell people, but because
I am an only child, they dote
on me a little too much and al
ways seem to think that my
wife can't take as good care of
me as they can, or something
like that. They constantly make
little remarks about my not look
ing well and tell my wife what
kind of food I should be eating
and that she should see that I
get more rest.
My parents feel they aren't
saying anything of importance
when they say these things, but
I know my wife feels hurt, al-
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50-Year Contrail
Signed For Power
Portland OP) Two local pri
vate power companies announced
today they have signed 50-year
contracts to purchase 23.1 per
cent of the power from the
Rocky Reach dam on the Colum
bia river. The dam is scheduled
to put power on the line in 1961.
The dam is being constructed
by the Chelan county, Wash.,
Public Utlity district. The local
firms buying power are Pacific
Power and Light and Portland
General Electric.
Contracts with Puget Sound
Power and Light and Washing
ton Water Power companies and
with Aluminum company of
America will take the rest of
the power from the dam, the
announcement said. The project
will have an initial capacity of
775.000 kilowatts.
Puget Sound Power and Light
will get 50 per cent of the out
put; Alcoa 23 per cent; PGE 16
per cent; PP&L 7.1 per cent
and WWP 3.9 per cent.
Officials of the two Portland
firms said that with new proj
ects they have under construc
tion in Washington and Oregon
the purchase of Rocky Reach
power will assure more than 1,
000,000 kilowatts of new power
supplies. PP&L and PGE serve
a total of 496.263 customers in
Oregon and PP&L serves 83,835
others in Washington, Idaho and
Montana.
Rocky Reach dam is located
seven miles upstream from
Wenatchee, Wash.
Community College
Proposed al Coos Bay
Coos Bay (ID State Sen. R.
F. Chapman said today he has
proposed formation of a com
munity college district to con
sist of Coos and Curry counties
and part of Douglas county. The
proposal was made to a group of
businessmen and school officials
meeting with William G. Loomis,
state supervisor of trade and in
dustrial education.
The Southwestern Oregon
Community College association,
headed by George M. Peterson,
already has presented petitions
signed by more than 10 per
cent of registered voters in the
North Bend. Coos Bay, Sunny
Hill and Charleston school dis
tricts. Petersen said petitions
were also being circulated in
other districts which might be
joined to the proposed college
district.
The jdint meeting of school
districts which might join the
district will be held Dec. 6 to
consider recommendations based
on the petitions.
At present, Oregon's only com
munity college is at Bend.
though she has never said a
word about it.
MRS. M. D. Ralph has hurt
us deeply by saying we make
trouble between him and his
wife. Maybe we do dote on him
but we love him too much to do
anything to cause him unhappi
ness in his married life.
Just the same, parents can't
help seeing things. We can see
that Ralph's wife isn't really do
ing all a woman should to make
him happy and comfortable. She
doesn't seem to know a thing
about diet and nutrition and
Ralph has a tendency to be un
derweight and is easily tired.
I, personally, feel that Ralph's
wife did not get the right train
ing from her mother and I would
like to help her if she would only
give me the chance. I don't see
how anyone can call that inter
ference. THE COUNCIL: While "par
ents can't help seeing things,"
they often must discipline them
selves to pretend that they don't
see them.
Mrs. M. D. may feel she is
treading on fairly neutral ground
when she discusses diet and
homemaking with' her daughter-in-law,
but she is really in
dangerous territory. Most wo
men, consciously or unconscious
ly, consider cooking and home
making as one of the most im
portant ways in which they ex
press love to their husbands
and usually manage somehow to
handle these jobs fairly well
even though they haven't gotten
the training..
Criticism the way this job is
handled implies an accusation
of lack of care and affection.
In this case, we don't know how
the wife feels about this, but it
is assumed that she gets the
point. In any case, Ralph gets
it, and if he has some sense of a
lack of love in his marriage, the
criticism may hurt him more
than his wife.
These parents can't remedy
the situation by calling atten
tion to such matters. It may be
something that Ralph and his
wife will work out as time goes
on, and the parents can only sit
tight and hope for the best.
Someday Ralph's wife may sur
prise his mother by coming to
her for help and advice. Then
she should give it freely, but
without any implied criticism.
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General Features . Corp.)
Politicians doubt it can be
done but some government offi
cials believe President Eisen
hower's illness makes it essential
that Stevenson go to the Paris
conference to demonstrate
American unity.
Hopes Kept Alive
White House press secretary
James C. Hagerty kept hopes
alive that Eisenhower might at
tend the Dec. 16-18 "summit"
meeting. He said Thursday the
President's doctors "will decide
later" on whether he can make
the trip! Hagerty said the Chief
Executive would send Nixon in
his Dlace if he could not eo.
Stevenson has not said he will
or won't go with Eisenhower or
Nixon. His position before the
President's illness was that his
plans would depend primarily
on whether he could agree with
administration proposals to
tighten allied unity in the face
of Russia's scientific-technical
advances.
Difficulty Foreseen
Because he has now set up a
sort of bipartisan headquarters
in the State Department it will
be difficult for Stevenson to say
he won't go if asked, some ob
servers believe.
The President and Stevenson,
his twice-defeated Democratic
presidential opponent, had many
uncomplimentary things to say
about each other in the 1952 and
1956 campaigns. But Nixon and
Stevenson .swapped laps which
poltical observers close to both
believe were more heartfelt.
New Product From
Wood Waste Listed
Pullman OPi A new product
created from wood waste has
been developed at Washington
State college.
It is called flapreg, and re
searchers say it may prove a
strong stimulant to this country's
lumber industry.
It looks like brown marble,
shines like glass, is tough and is
adaptable for building every
thing from golf club heads to
counter tops. Preliminary tests
have already proved the mater
ial's worth.
Developers of flapreg expect
that the new board eventually
will be used in place of certain
other composition materials now
being made with expensive" ve
neers. In strength and quality it
has the properties of board
made with veneers but, because
flakes are used, it is easier,
quick and cheaper to produce.
The flakes can be made from
wood that is now sawmill waste.
There are other types of compo
sition board made with flakes
but all are different from flapreg
in properties. WSC reasearchers
discovered a method to apply
more of the resin, or glue to the
flakes and still keep them from
Becoming a sticky mess, and this
proved to be the key factor in the
product's development.
Tasmania's captial and largest
city is Hobart.
STILL FIGHTING Caryl Chessman (right) the "red light
bandit" who has won eight stays of execution from two
death sentences for kidnaping, has opened a new fight:
for a new trial on grounds that the 1948 trial transcript1
was faulty. Above, Chessman confers with George T.
Davis (left) and Al Wirin, his two attornews.
Is That So?
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
The Scorpion, which may be
the first land animal judging
from fossil finds, is immortal
ized in our Signs of the Zodiac
as the symbol of November, and
in our heavens by Scorpio the
"accursed constellation," omin
ous of war, discord, and woe.
Although few have died from
the poison in its lashing tail, it is
rivaled alone by the snake in
man's awesome regard for it.
Of the 400 known kinds all
pretty well restricted to the
broad band extending around
the world to the 40th parallel
both above and below the Equa
tor some 35 are in the U.S.
Most of these are in our west
and southwest, with heavy con
centrations below the Rio
Grande. In fact, one might say
the large Mexican state of Dur
ango which features the scorp
ion in its state seal is the world's
scorpion capital and Durango
has an ugly, vicious one, black
as jet, measuring six inches from
snout to stinger, and it packs a
lethal dose in its skewer.
Essentially Alike
All scorpions are essentially
alike from the shining black,
eight-inch specimen which in
fests the tropical jungles of
Africa, to the thin, pale one-inch
fellows vhich live in sandy
wastes. All have an abdomen
ending in a tail-like whip armed
with a curved stinger at the tip.
All tend to be nocturnal, com
ing out during night-time to
search for prey which they catch
in their pincer-jaws and if they
are too big to hold, anaesthetize
them with a jolt of strychnine
like poison. All are antisocial; as
soon as the young abandon their
mother's back, each goes his sep
arate way. Two are found to
gether only when they meet for
courtship a courtship frequent
ly culminated by the femal de
vouring the male.
Except for the Mexican scor
pion, which we have just de
scribed, the scorpion's sting is
seldom lethal to humans, but it
usually does cause a very, pain-
The automobile industry last
year used 242 million pounds of
cotton for seat padding and up
holstery trim. o
Italy's longest river, the Po.
extends for 417 miles.
The population of Mexico's
T.nwer California was almost
tripled in the period between
1940 and 1950. .
There are about 25,000 dif
ferent kinds of fish.
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ISOLATION by Mrs. Alma
Goldstein, 36, of miracle
drug which kills bacteria, is
announced by Chicago labo
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ful wound.
When in scorpion country, the
best defense is to know how to
spot them: once detected, they
are sitting ducks. Brash , and
overconfident of their knife-play
they disdaia retreat so there
they stand fearlessly, ready to
be crushed. Hence, when enter
ing a room in scorpion country,
check it thoroughly walls and
ceiling beams as well as corners
To be doubly sure he's not a bed
room companion, lay down a
barrage of insecticide which
will drive him outdoors for fresh
air. ,
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