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52nd Year MEDFORD VL -mnn-i n,, ,r jn j - Price 10 Cents Tribune Section Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Shorter Work Week Increasing lire Time for Americans (Editor's note: This is the first of three dispatches on leisure In the United States. Today Lei sure: A lark or a liability). By FRED DANZIG United Presi Correspondent New York W Got a minute? The demand for your free time being what it is, we can't blame you if you say no. Leisure, sometimes defined as time not to be used at the direction of others, often brings us face-to-face with the most frantic, thoroughly un relaxing days of our lives. Consider: Nearly 4 million golfers among us play 65,700,000 rounds of golf a year on 5,260 courses. Together, they bought 35 million golf balls. We have about 22 million bowlers. The American Rose Society has 16,500 members. And 6,500,000 Americans own pleasure boats of one size or another. It' estimated that 28 million of us go boating dur ing the year. At least 100 million Ameri cans take one or more vaca tions every year and about 65 per cent of our 70 million wage earners now get three weeks off. Short Week Is Near The four-day week is just around the corner. The four- week vacation, for many, is already here. Someone fig ured recently that we now average 3,000 "free" hours a year. We spend about half of our wakeful hours reading newspapers, magazines, books and watching TV screens. We also listen to the radio and go to movies. We pitch horseshoes, write, make furniture, play musical instruments, cards and games. We have 25 million hunters and fishermen who shell out 88 million dollars for licenses. We love to call ourselves "amateurs" at something, it seems. - We also bake cakes, attend lectures, take evening courses, go visiting, watch or take part in all kinds of sports. We're told that sports shirts now outsell "dress" shirts in America by better than two-to-one. In terms of money, a depth study by Life' magazine re cently told us the average family spent S215 a year for recreation nearly 5 per cent of our 330-billion dollar na tional income. Interest in Gardening Go into any 100 homes and you'll probably find people actively interested in garden ing in 42 of the homes. Needle work will be popular in 32. Stamp collectors, like coin col lectors, figure to be in 6 out of 100 homes. You'd also find about half the people in the 100 homes belonging to clubs or organizations of one sort or another. Are We Having Any Fun With all this activity, about 20 million Americans reached for tranquilizer pills last year spending 175 million dollars for them and making the transquilizer one of the fastest-growing businesses in our country. A psychologist, noting that one out of 18 Americans is in trouble, mentally, has said: "We live in an age of enor mously increasing anxiety de spite the fact that we've nev er had it so good." He blames our anxieties on "an absence of a ceiling on aspirations." Russell Lynes, a student of the American culture, wrote: "Put in its rudest terms, pros perity produces not only plenty but curiously empty values and a national uneasi ness." Fifty years ago, Thorstein Veblen's classic, "Theory of the Leisure Class" spoke of sports as an upper class ob session. Today, such sports as golf, tennis, horse racing and even sailboats are increasing ly popular with the lower and middle classes. Culture Conditions Leisure As our taste for leisure broadens, we cannot escape the fact that it is conditioned by our culture. And confor mity is a factor here. We find, then, that not all leisure is activity spent doing as we please. How much of the do-it-yourself trend is based on the need to save a few dol lars? Do you play golf for the fun of it or tox maintain a certain social status? Or is it a business necessity? This leads to the subject of values. Many authorities in the be havioral sciences are plugging hard for an exhaustive evalu ation of our leisure time ac tivities to find out just how worthwhile they are and in what direction they're tak-j ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Lee Ann Merriwether, ing us. In short: Are we headed for a golden age or a strait jacket? The nub of the argument about values is that not every man feels life is made to ful fill mankind's best potential ities or develop his intellect, "The only aesthetic enjoy ment I crave is to shoot the breeze with the boys at the corner tavern," is many a man's reply to the eggheads who may urge him to study, say, modern art. That's a high stake for just "having fun." Wednesday: Leisure, and 1 more leisure, for all ages. HORNBROOK Joint Meeting Scheduled By MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN Hornbrook The Parents club of the Hornbrook Ele mentary school, and the local school board will hold a joint meeting Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. at the schoolhouse. Dr. Kenneth Young, direct or of curriculum in the county school superintendent's office in Yreka. will show slides and also will speak on the For eign Exchange Student pro gram. The local Boy Scout troop will present the flag ceremony and lead the pledge of alleg- QUESTION OF SIZE Tokyo PI Police okayed for display a small still pic ture of June Allyson and Da vid Niven, reclining and kiss ing in a scene from "My Man Godfrey." But they took it all back when the movie thea ter blew it up to 12 by 36 feet and hung it over the mar quee. "Too stimulating," was the new poliee judgment. iance. Also on the program will be a presentation of songs by the choral groups of the school under the direction of Mrs. Norman Martin. The public is invited to attend. Visiting last week at the Matt Johnson home were his nephew and family, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson, and daughter of Portland, and his brother, August and George Johnson of Athabaska, in the Peace river country of Al berta, Canada. August, who is the father of Henry Johnson, returned to Portland with his son and family. George plans to stay here with his brother for an indefinite time. 22, of San Francisco, Miss America of 1955, poses in New York with actor Frank Aletter, 32, after announcement of their engagement Grange Notes Eagle Point Grange The Eagle Point Grade school band entertained mem bers of the Eagle Point Grange preceeding their Feb. 4 meeting. Under the leader ship of Albert Krambeal, they played' 'Legions of Vic tory," "Avalon Nights," "Am erican Patrol," "Poet and Peasant Overture," and "March On." Cecilia Putman played her , accordion and sang "April Love." Following this, Master Cliff Moore opened the Grange. On agriculture, Rob ert Bitterling reported on facts interesting to dairymen, learned during a trip made through the dairy products building while in Corvallis re cently; Milroy Charley told of an article on modern con veniences in dairy barns that help to facilitate milking of large dairy herds. W. E. Davies, reporting for legislature, told of changes made in the 1957 income tax exemptions and of extended time given to pay inheritance tax, he also gave information pertaining to parts of the Soil Bank program which has been abandoned. Mrs. fc. C. Hoover, HEC chairman, displayed the new coffee maker recently: won through the MJB coffee com pany. She also reported on the last HEC meeting held at her home Jan. 28, and said the next meeting would be at the home of Mrs. R. R. Bit terling on Feb. 26. Lester Wertz, on the roads committee, told of the dam age caused by the recent high water when streams overflow ed and covered roads in the county in many places. Robert Bitterling gave a re port on the work proceeding on the reactivation of the hos pital at Camp White, resolu tions have been presented to many organizations and all have past them unanimously, he said. C. C. Hoover, chairman of the special events committee, told of plans for a candidates night to be sponsored by the Eagle Point Grange, which will be held in Eagle Point sometime the latter part of March. This is to be a politi cal rally for the 1958 cam paign and candidates from both political parties will be present and take part in the program. Costumes of the late 1800 or early 1900 will be featured and a candidates qieen will be crowned at that time. ' Master Cliff Moore an nounced that Roscoe Roberts had been selected as the in surance agent to represent the Eagle Point Grange, serving both the Grange auto and Grange mutual fire insurance. A Grange county con ference will be held at the Central Point Grange hall, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. All officers are asked to attend as floor work will be demonstrated and duties explained. Due to the resignation of Otis Jones as overseer, Rob ert Meyer was elected to ful fill this term of office, Meyer and Holly Swingle, an execu tive committeeman, were in stalled by Past Master Paul Force. Chaplain Augusta Perry re ported that Ted Hoffman re cently underwent surgery but was now home and able to return to work. Lecturer Gertrude Stanley read excerpts from a letter from Phil Wendt of Ashland, telling about th eomrmmltjr of Youngtown, which - is a home for retired people found ed near Phoenix, Ariz. is an essential process in dry cleaning which introduces a lubricant into the fibers. 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