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O G 0 (1 Z O o - - VERTIJrL&JlE Mechanics check over unique research plane designed and built by Ryan Aeronautical Co. of San Diego, Calif. Tht strange looking craft has been designated the Vertiplane and is designed to take off and land vertically, hover and fly forward. It Was built for the Army and employs the deflected "slipstream" principle. The Family Council Editor note: Ttaa Family Council eomslfU f a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women'; editor and two writers Each rticle la a summary of an actual report. The family Council does not give advice; It merely reports on problems that iav. been dealt with by responsible agenciei and counselor. Gerald R I want to keep up my relationship with my family Louisa R. He's too tied to them. Gerald R. My wife and I are In the first year of our marriage and we are having a big contro versy over the role of parents in. our lives. It happens that I come of a very close-knit family. My kid brother and sister and I always went places with the folks and we've had some wonderful times, I don't want this relationship to end with my marriage. I stop in to see them at least two evenings week and usually on Sunday (glternoon. I ant Louise to come with on3 these visits and be one gg th family. She says it's too (jagcfl ftmily for her, but then f?5 objects if I go by myself. Xomise R. It seems to me that ffr Whole thing is a matter of Gerald's deciding exactly who is hjs, family me or his parents. When he is alone with me, he ofteS seems restless and bored, but I notice that when he is with his parents and brother and sister, he keeps laughing and talking and never seems to tire or to want to go home. I love my parents too, but since I am married I prefer to spend as much free time as pos- j cible with Gerald alone. I don't like being with a mob. I think Gerald is quite baby ish to be so tied to his family. Some of my friends say it shows that he's devoted but to whom? The Council Well, we wouldn't exactly call it "baby ish" for a man to want to see a reat deal of his parents, and Xouise doesn't present much evi dence to show undue dependence of her husband upon his parents. (Sut we can't blame her for be ing rather anxious about her hus band's restlessness when he is alone with her. This seems to be the crux of Louise's dissatisfaction and she is foolish to pit herself against Gerald's family, creating a jeal ousy issue where none need ex ist. It would be much better if Louise tried, through positive measures, to make her time with her husband a little more pleas ant. Possibly Louise and Gerald did not know one another very long before they married. They didn't have a chance to deepen their common interests. They don't have a long chain of asso ciations in common friends, incidents from the past, ideas, daydreams. This long chain isn't created in a day and it isn't created by evading the fact that human be ings need more than physical in terests or daily routine to hold them together. Gerald and Louise should make an acti'we effort to find things they can share with one another that will enrich their married life. If they more fully enjoy their time to gether,- it is quite possible that the issue of the role of parents in our lives" will simply dis solve. (Copyright 1957. General Features Corp.) LATEST IN TRAINS Paris (W France has a new self-tilting railroad car which of ficials claim can whip around curves at 80 miles an hour with out spilling food in the diner or bothering passengers with sensi tive stomachs. Unveiled in a test run Wednesday the 32-passenger experimental model tilts auto matically to offset exactly the centrifugal forces that generally throws passengers toward the outside of the curve. Welfare Deparfmenf Seeks Foster Home The Jackson county public welfare department is seeking a foster home for a 12-year-old boy who is now a hospital patient. Department spokesman said that the home must be in Med ford or the immediate vicinity and must be certified by the public welfare department. The boy has physical therapy treatments three times a week in Medford. The local Red Cross chapter furnishes the transporta tion for thfe boy for treatments and whenever needed as the boy is at the present confined to a wheelchair. The boy receives his schooling from a home teacher at the hos pital which would be continued in the foster home. Welfare officials said there are some physical problems involved in caring for the boy as he has to be lifted in and out of bed and his wheelchair. These prob lems will be discussed with the foster parents, a spokesman said. The foster parents would be paid by the University of Oregon medical school, Crippled Chil dren's division, and supervised by the public welfare depart ment. Any interested families are asked .to call the welfare department at SPring 2-5261 and ask for Miss Virginia Floyd. . Camp Fire Girls Finish Project Crater Lake Camp Fire Girls have finished their Christmas overseas project. They bought manuals and notebooks from their profits of the recent "Beanhole dinner" and new members are starting Camp Fire memory books. At their next meeting, Monday, De cember 9 at City hall, the girls will draw names for their Christ mas party and work on their books in preparation for a ceremonial. Is That So? By EU6ENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Many and varied are the way mammals have solved their prob lem of" locomotion. The comones't method of loco motion among four-footed ani mals is On all fours although some of these had developed considerable agility in walking on their hind legs alone. Among these are bears, jerboas, jump ing mice, chimpanzees, gorillas, gibbons and orangutans. Deer, too, may fight in an up right position most effectively and I liave seen several mem bers of the deer family including elk and moose stand high upon their hind legs to browse. In contrast, the wart-hog fre quently walks on the "knees" of his forelegs when grubbing for food. For championship agility In the upright position no animal can exceed the gibbon. This monkey walks easily upon hind legs alone bu he rarely indulges in such locomotion. Spending most qf his life in trees, he mainly employs his front limbs for progress, swinging from limb to limb, and tree to tree, his greater efforts hurling him through the air up to distances of 40 feet. Ownership of a prehensile tail greatly improves aboreal lo comotion. In fact the little ca puchin of the New World can suspend himself by -tail, drop from 20 to 30 feet, and then catch hold of another branch using tail alone. The sloth, too, spends most of its life in the trees put it walks mostly in an upside-down posi tion, holding on to the branches of the trees by means of its powerful curved claws. The tarsier, a squirrel-sized member of the irrbnkey clan, can walk up the sheer side of a cliff because fingers and toes end in round and flattened adhesive--1 like discs. Some Learned To Glide A few tree-dwellers such as the flying-squirrels have learned to glide, supporting their weight in the air by stretching taut the flap of loose skin between hind and fore limbs. To help climb and hold to tree trunks, the Af rican flying-squirrel's tail has even developed anti-skid scales on the underside. (But just why the lion has developed a thorn like hook at the end of his tail has yet not been explained.) Of mammals, bats alone have conquered the air, even better than any bird, being able to maneuver skillfully in the dark of night to pursue and capture insects. Once on the ground, the bat is almost helpless the best it can do is a wobbling scramble in which it uses its wings. For the present we will over look the aquatic mammals. But among the ground dwellers there are several who progress by leaps and bounds. Of such are the Canadian jumping mice, the desert jerboas,, and kangaroos the latter using five members in walking its tail playing an im portant role. Such travel may be fast. The jerboa, measuring but seven inches from tip of snout to root of tail, cannot be overtaken by a man on horseback. (Copyright, 1957, by Eugene Burns Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) , Friday, December 6, 195T MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Governor Answers Charges of 'Gag' on River Development Salem (IP) Charges that he has attempted to "gag" state agencies interested in northwest river development were an swered Thursday by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. The governor said his action requesting boards and commis sions charged with various as pects of water use to submit testimony to the State Water Re sources Board prior to introduc ing it had given rise to a good deal of misunderstanding. Obviously Inspired' Some of the misunderstanding was "obviously inspired by pri vate power companies" the gov ernor charged. "I want it clearly understood that such a request no way means that I am now or have ever been in favor of Nez Perce dam," the governor said in a letter to wild life organizations of Oregon. "I think an examination of the record of all public officials in Oregon for the past decade will prove without a shadow of a doubt that I have been working as diligently to protect our great fisheries resource as any public official, legislative or executive," he said.- Gov. Holmes said fish and game interests, especially, were being led to the conclusion by private power interests that the only alternates for dam building on the middle Snake were he "small, single-purpose dams they propose," or Nez Perce. Private Companies Accused " The governor said he feared that vigorous opposition of the State Fish and Game Commis sions' to Nez Perce carries with it the almost automatic implied consent that licenses be granted for private utility dams on the middle Snake. The governor accused the pri vate power companies of being 'interested in "power alone." He said he was hopeful that the com panies would not be able to con vince conservationists that "I am willing to sacrifice our fisheries resource in any manner." Doarl T.inp on Classified Ads: 5:30 , p.m. for fo.lowing day. except 10 a.m for Monday: for Sunday, noon Saturday 1 CHRYSLER DEALERS' unii 4- CHRISTMAS OPEN ini DECEMBER 5th TO 15th o o . COME IN AND SEE OUR GREAT ARRAY OF MERRY CHRISTMAS SPECIALSI O Plus the most wanted advances in 1958 motoring . . .' ? Glamorout FIgMSweep Styling . . . more popular than ever! T Fabuloua Torsion-AJra Rids . . . yonr at no tr cost! "iZ Effortleau Constant-Control Power Steering! "v? 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Miles, district engineer of the California divi sion of highways at Redding, has reminded area, residents that a public .hearing will be held in Yreka in the county supervisors' chambers Tuesday, Dec. 10, to acquaint local officials and the public with a tentative proposed Highway 99 freeway route be tween Henley lane and the state line. The proposed project is being planned on the basis of a four lane freeway to interstate stand ards with a 60-foot width of mer idian between lanes. It is about 6.7 miles in length and will fol low the present alignment. Brisbane, Australia IP) Lt. Gen. Sir John Dudley Lavarack, 71, the" victorious defender of Tobruk, Lybia, in World War II, died here Wednesday. Lavarack and the Australian infantrymen in his command successfully held Tobruk in a three day battle be ginning April 11, 1941, against German Field Marshal Erwin RommeFs Afrika Korps. 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