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52nd Year Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Advent of 32-Hour Work Week Will Bring More Leisure Time for Average Family Editor'! noter This 1 the second ef three dispatcher on leisure in the Inited States. Todav Leisure, and more leisure, for all aces. By FRED DANZIG United Press Correspondent New York HP Can you use an extra day off a week? Maybe there's no rush for this sort of planning in your life, but automation isn't wait ing for an answer. The 32 hour week, many authorities agree, is no longer a wild dream. The average worker now puts in 40 hours a week on the job. In grandfather's day, the work week lasted 70 hours. Housewives, too, benefit by our technology. It takes the little woman less than two haxirs a day, on the average, to prepare meals thanks to prepared foods and kitchen gadgets. In grandmother's day, preparing meals required an average of 5',2 hours. Time on Hands So here we are, with time on our hands and more al most in sight. The four-day week, when it comes, will add at least 400 more hours to the total of 3,000 "free" hours we are now said to have. ; But before you start plan ning long week-end trips with the wife and kids, remember there's no talk of cutting down the school schedule to four days a week. You may find yourself loafing at home on a Friday or Monday while the kids are hard at work in school. As we get more leisure time, the problem of what to do with it becomes 'more pressing. Better use of our leisure, we are told, can help reduce the figures on mental patients. One out of 18 Am ericans is in some kind of mental trouble and one out of 10 needs psychiatric care. Karl Mannheim has writ ten that the average man is unable to invent new uses for his leisure, .but other authori ties dispute him and say the American people have a ca pacity for making good use of their leisure. Helping along this capacity is private industry. About 25,000 companies now provide recreation activities, for their employees and spend a billion dollars a year on this pro gram. Swing To Golf Don L. Neer, executive secretary of the National In dustrial Recreation Associa tion, says management must become even more active in recreation as leisure time in creases. This leads to the pos sibility of an employee spend ing his extra day off at the plant swimming or playing golf. More than 100 -companies have their own golf courses for employees. Many have picnic areas, swimming pools, bowling alleys and athletic fields, often financed from vending machine profits. One leader in the field of employee recreation is the Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., of West Allis, Wis., which has about half of its 16,000 em ployees taking part in a rec reation program. Employees and their families can use the company's 18 - hole golf course. They can join hobby 3 DAYS' COUGH IS YOUR Danger Signal! If your coujrb has lasted three days beware of chronic bronchitis. Creomulsion stops the tickle, comforts raw membranes, clears breathing- passages, pro motes sleep. No narcotics. No antihistamines. Take Creomulsion for quick cough comfort. CREOMULSION FOR COUGHS, CHEST COLDS, ACUTE MONCHIT.S ' SHOOTING SPREE Jerry Haynes, 18, of Renton, Wash., an AWOL airman, is shown in the San Francisco Hall of Justice, where he was booked on 3 counts of attempted murder. Haynes, captured after shooting down three persons in an hour-long holdup spree, was quoted by police as say ing: "1 only wish I had had a machine gun,-so I really could have cut loose." groups, social clubs ana something that is becoming more important through the years a recreation club for retired employees, which meets twice a week for movies and lectures. Within the next 20 years, our population is expected to reach 225 million, with more than 6Q million of this total swelling our metropolitan areas still more. Persons in their 20s will increase by 14 million nearly two-thirds more than we had in 1955. Those between 45 and 64 will increase by nearly 10 million and persons 75 and older number 7Vfc million from a present 4,700,000. We now have about 14 million "senior citizens,' and many authori ties have called for more or ganized recreation to meet their needs. Steiglilx Writes Edward J. Steiglitz, in his book, "The Second 20 Years," writes: "Success or failure in the second 40 years, measured in terms of 'happiness, is deter mined more by how we use or abuse our leisure time than by any other factor." As the custom of retire ment continues to increase, a larger share of our new leisure class will be people in the upper age brackets and most of them, it seems, do not have hobbies to occupy their interest. Harold D. Meyer, sociology professor at the University of North Carolina, said, "It is a responsibility of public and private recreation agencies to' teach these individuals hobby activities . . they are means of relaxation, an en emy of boredom and a vigorous-release for motions." Meyer reports that "golden age' or "senior citizens clubs" are sprouting up throughout the nation to help the old timer grow old more grace fully. He advocates communi ty planning to handle the need for organized recreation for adults of all ages in this pressure-packed age of automation. Thursdays Leisure, land and people. 7 PENNY-WISE Continues To Bring You This ACTION PACKED -PRICE SLASHING EVENT! S Remington Electric Razors $31.50 ,70 BE HERE EARLY! Z 25,000 Stock MUST Be Sold! PRICES SLASHED AGAIN! SALE CONTINUES AT HIGH SPEED! BABY SUPPLIES 4 OFF Famous Brands! z FRAMED PICTURES Re9- ftd 93 $2.50 HURRY TO SAVE! z Cosmetics Revlon Yardlty's Helene Curtis Many Others . OFF Doors Open 9 A.M. 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Parade Scheduled By American Legion A parade will start activi ties for an American Legion Day Jamboree and mass initi ation March 1, Legion -officials announced Tuesday. Gov. Robert Holmes and other dignitaries of the state will attend, a Legion spokes man said. March 1 events' include the parade at 4 p.m., a 5 p.m. so cial get-together in the Pio neer room of the Jackson hotel, a buffet dinner from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., and initia tion of new members from Districts 4, 13, and 14 at the new - Medford Armory start ing at 8 p.m. Following the ceremonies at the Armory, Legionnaires and guests may attend a dance in the Pioneer room of the Jackson hotel. Santiam Post ritual team and color guard and the state Meeting Held on Youth Session A joint meeting of Hi-Y and Tri Hi-Y clubs was held this week at the Young Men's Christian association to an nounce plans for the coming youth and government ses sions in Salem. Herb Partridge, youth work secretary, said the youth and i government program is de signed to acquaint young people with the methods by which public policy is de termined and help them make I practical application to the problems of state legislation. Bill Warren, general secre tary of the Ashland YMCA, discussed activities of a pre legislative session to be held Saturday at Southern Oregon college. The pre-legislative session will include HI-Y and Tri Hi-Y clubs from Klamath Falls, Medford, Ashland and Grants Pass. Nominees for government positions in the youth legisla tion are governor, Dale Fore see; senate reading clerk, Joyce Gilinsky; legislative committee chairmen, Da wanda Winchell, Larry Ander son; reporters, Karen Sloni ger, Joan Laurila, Frank Peterson, and alternates,. Mar ian Elklns and Caron Leffler. The youngsters will be com peting for the positions with the Klamath Fall. Grants Pass and Ashland representatives. Surviving Penguins In Good Condition Portland JIB Portland's remaining 16 penguins were reported in good health today and officials said they were all gaining weight. None ap peared to be suffering from a lung disease which- killed many of the Antarctic birds. College Offers Family Tuition Rate Pittsburgh (IP) Duquesne University has instituted a "cut rate" tuition plan for families having two or more members enrolled in the school simultaneously. A 20 per cent discount for each student will be granted only in cases where . all financial support for schooling is pro vided by the parents, accord ing to registrar Maurice J. Murphy. , , ' champion drum corps from Klamath Falls will be featured. Most Vet Benefits Exempt From Taxes Salem--flP) Most veterans' benefits are exempt from state and federal taxation, the Ore gon Department of Veterans' Affairs reminded Tuesday. Items excluded from federal and state tax returns include: State bonuses; all veterans administration benefits includ ing educational subsistence, compensation and pensions; GI insurance dividends; insur ance proceeds paid on death of the insured; mustering-out pay and jobless benefits paid under the Korean GI bill; and social security benefits, work men's compensation and sick ness benefits. Retirement pay, however, is taxed- both by the federal and state governments. Oregon servicemen on ac tive duty enjoy a state income tax exclusion on the first $3,000 of their annual pay. CincolnMouse . SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS ; Iom of ABRAHAM LINCOLN-FA. li 1809-April 13. 166 J . Abraham Lincoln has come down to us with a manner devoid of ostentation, a per sonality characterized by humility. Hi home reflected this lack of interest in mate rial goods. Such amenities as it did offer were effected ty Mrs. Lincoln, tut even so were simple in nature. A story is told of Lincoln while he was still practising before the Illinois baf. An important case neces sitated his presence in Chicago for some weeks and during hi absence Mrs. Lincoln added a second story to their very simple Springfield home. On his return, Lincoln said to a neighbor he met on the street, "Stranger, can you i' tell me where Lincoln lived? He nsed to live there." les, that is his honse, said the neigh bor, falling into the humor of the situation. "No," Lincoln answered, "when I left here, my house was a story and one-half, but that is a fine two story house." The neighbor insisted that it was Lin coln's house and that it had simply grown while he was away. Lincoln resigned him self to the fact and continued into tht honse. So we see the man in his simplicity. the "Great Emancipator". PERL Funeral Home LADY ATTENDANT Phone SP 2-6675 ftRIDY'S R 1 jlt sMisM I eoeat of Sellout ! 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