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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
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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."
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Hearing Scheduled in
Yreka on 99 Freeway
Yreka H. S. 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. He was
knighted the same year.
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