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The Family Council Editor" not: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, hr clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers ch article is a summary ot an actual report. The Family Council does w give advice: it merely reports on problems that have been dealt rith by responsible agencies and counselors. Selma M. Mother should tonsider my feelings. Mrs. L. M. She should at least keep herself neat. Selma M. I am very trou bled by the unhappy relation ihip I have been having lately with my parents, particularly my mother. I am, frankly, sn old maid. I am nearing 40. I was never an attractive girl and I cer tainly haven't improved with age. My mother was quite a beauty in her youth and al ways looked forward to hav ing a daughter like herself. I realize I am a great disap pointment to her and -to my father. She always has been a good mother to me, nevertheless. But recently I find I can't take the little cutting remarks she makes about my appear ance and my situation. I talk back to her and we have vio lent quarrels. I want peace but can't seem to keep my temper with her. I think she should consider my feelings. Mrs. L. M. As Selma says, I have always been a good mother to her. I have done everything I could do for her. Many sacrifices had to be made to give her a good home, nice clothes and a good edu cation. I never spared myself or thought of myself first when it came to doing things for her. Of course, it is a disappoint ment to us that Selma did not marry, but I can't help feel ing she should have made more of an effort. It is not only the beauties who get married. I don't want to hurt Sel ma's feelings, but I can't help saying something when I see her going out looking like a slob with runs in her stock ings and her hair a mess. She doesn't have to look like Mar ilyn Monroe, but she can at least keep herself reasonably neat. e The Council: A great deal of damage was done. to Selma a long, long time ago. It will take considerable effort on Selma's part to repair it. Despite her near-40 years, Selma sees herself as a help less child in the hands of her parents. She is mainly con cerned about the fact that she is a "disappointment" to them and is easily hurt when her mother shows disapproval of her in any way. Selma must recognize she is a full woman with a life ahead to build. That life will become anything she serious ly tries to create. It can be nothing at all if she persists in living solely in relation to her parents. Mrs. L. M. does show con siderable bitterness about Selma, and we suspect she recognizes she has had some responsibility for Selma's un- happiness. The "good home, nice clothes and good educa tion" mean very little to a child who feels somewhat re jected by the parents. Disap proval of his or her appear ance is one form of rejection. Any child who feels com pletely loved will have some measure of beauty. When Selma dresses her self sloppily she is showing how little she cares for her self, reflecting what she be lieves is her parents' attitude toward her. Yet she cannot accept criticism because this is one more rebuff from them. She must try to grow out of these childish patterns and recognize that there is un doubtedly both physical and spiritual beauty asleep in her. She must make the effort to bring both out. Then she will find that others find her ap pealing and she will be drawn to ever wider contacts. Selma's problem is no long er her relationship with her mother, as she believes, but her attitude toward herself and others and the Ufe she has yet to build. The under taking is a big one and we believe she may require some psychiatric help. (Copyright 1958. General Features Corp.) Trans-Atlantic Airlines Wage Hot War Over What Constitutes Cold Sandwich Britain To Pass Verdict on 'Lady' London (IP) Britain's drama critics, usually tough where American imports are concerned, pass the verdict tonight that will determine whether "My Fair Lady" is the greatest musical comedy of the English speaking stage. Already acclaimed the best on Broadway, the musical version of G. B. Shaw's "Pyg malion" opens its London run at the historic Drury Lane Theater near the spot where Shaw actually set the scene of the first meeting of flower seller Eliza Doolittle and Prof. Henry Higgins. There has been less planned publicity, of "My Fair Lady" than of any show in recent history. But the producers haven't been able to keep the show or its stars Julie An drews, Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway out of the newspapers. The producers hiked the price of orcnestra seais jj cents to $3.50, a record, in London's West End. This means that if the show is a smash hit it may be the first musical ever to top a million pounds ($2,800,000) at the London box office. By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York W One of the most heartening continu ing news stories of this month has been about the hot war between the trans - Atlantic airlines over what constitutes a simple cold sandwich. It shows that despite a rath er messy international pic ture, in which outer space is obscured by inner politics, we I sun can tind time to locus on the realities of life, including the defense posture of the sandwich. In a formal ruling handed down by its "breaches com mittee" in London, and made public through headquarters in Montreal, the Internation al Air Transport Association has scrapped the traditional Saves Comrade, Plane Abilene, Tex. flfl Air Force doctors today treated the wind-burned eyes and frostbitten face of young 1st. Lt. James E. Obenauf, who remained in the open cock pit of a flaming B47 jet bomb er to save an unconscious comrade and the plane. Obenauf, 24, piloted the aircraft 300 miles Tuesday with a sub-zero, 450-mile-an hour wind tearing at his face after discovering a crew member was unconscious and without a parachute. The aircraft commander, Maj. James M. Graves, 38, of Fort Worth, Tex., and the navigator, 1st Lt. John P. Cobb, 25, of Elko, Nev., had already bailed out when Ob enauf set the controls and started to jump. On his way to the nose es cape hatch, he stumbled over unconscious Maj. Joseph B. Maxwell, 32, of Portsmouth, Va. Obenauf, of Grayslake, 111. climbed back to the cockpit, from which the canopy had already been jettisoned and headed the plane down and southeast toward Dyess Air Force Base at Abilene. He landed the $2.5 million plane on five engines 50 min utes after the fire started. dictionary definition. A "simple, inexpensive, cold" sandwich, under the IATA ruling, does not have to be clothed, top and bottom, by two o more slices of bread, as the dictionaries state. It may be open. All that's required on the bread question is that a "substan tial and visible" portion of the thing be breadlike ma terial. Named for Englishman Now according to song and story, the sandwich was nam ed after one John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), who was so fond of gambling that he smuggled his food between two hunks of bread and ' ate it thus in order not to leave the gaming tables for meals. , So both the founding father and the dictionaries, who con ceived of, and defined, a sandwich as a layer of food stuff swathed in bread, were overruler at least for pur pose? of flying the Atlantic at economy fare. But there is yet another division of thought on the subject. Pan American, which with Trans World Airlines complained to the IATA that four European air carriers were serving luxury "sand wiches" on the economy fare runs, got an unsolicted but undoubtedly authoritative rul ing from a Philidelphia deli catessen man. Sent it on' a postcard, it said with simple dignity: "When is a sandwich not a sandwich? A sandwich is as much as you can get between two or more pieces of bread that you can get between your teeth. No knife or fork permitted. So said Lord Mon tagu." One-hand Limit But the IATA, or London Montreal axis, expanded con siderably on the Philidelphia delicatessen dictum. It ruled that a sandwich ceases being a sandwich when it is lavish ly heaped so high that it can not be picked up in one hand. Thus the IATA has scrap ped traditional (or Philidel phia) rule of bite capacity and substituted the rule of hand-span-which allows for a much taller sandwich. Unless, of course, your name is Joe E. Brown or Martha Raye or Lassie. Perhaps economy-fare pas sengers might want to con sider an old-fashioned reme dy: How about bringipg your own shoebox full of kitchen j goodies from home? The Hollywood Scene Hollywood W Gloria Wood stands a petite five feet. But she's got a big vocal tal ent that makes her the most heard if little known voice in the world. . Gloria bases her broad claim on the fact that she's done more than 1000 com mercials during the past year, and was the voice on best-seller record "Hey, Bell boy," a few years back, and as vocalist with Kay Kyser recorded several discs which sold more than a million cop ies each. One of the Kyser records, "Woody Woodpecker," sold more than 4 million. Tired of Anonymity While Gloria probably has made a better living by con centrating on commercials than she might have done had she been plugging away to be come a hit recording star, the blonde with the . four-octave voice admits she's tired of the anonymity. "Don't misunderstand," she cautioned with a wink, "I'm not knocking my residuals, And I have as much commer cial work as I can use. But I would like to record a song which 'sells a . million and has my name on it." "Hey, Bellboy," came close to it but it wasn't the same, according to Gloria. By HAZEL JOHNSON , United Press Writer Singing Too Suggestive "I sang along with the in struments, mostly the trum pets, and the only lyrics were an occasional 'Hey, Bellboy'," she said. "And wouldn't you know it, they later got around to banning it, claiming the way I said it was too sugges tive." Gloria subsequently decid ed to cut four records of her own rock 'n' roll and bal ladson a speculation basis. When Columbia Records' Mitch Miller heard one of them, "Mr. Sorrow," he sign ed her and let her select her own records for an album to be released in June "Wood for the Fire." Boy, 5, Kidnaped By Two Women, Man Middlesex, N. J. (IP) A five-year-old boy was kidnap ped from in front of his home by two women and a man Tuesday afternoon, police an nounced today. . Police said . the boy, Mich ael Sickle III, was playing alone in the front yard when the trio drove up in a pickup truck and spirited him away. Nearly 12 hours later, no ransom note had been received. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, April 30, 1958 7 Sears' Catalogues Put on Microfilm Washington (IP! Sixty four years of Sears Roebuck and Co. catalogues have been reduced to microfilm for the U. S. Patent Office, recalling memories of artificial glass eyes for horses ($5) and vacum (bosom) developers ($2). Nearly a mile of microfilm representing the mail order firm's catalogues from 1892 through 1956 were presented to the Patent Office Tuesday by James C. Worthy, Sears vice president. We are. moving ... On May 1, 1958 the Medford Office of die Iacific Northwest Company will occupy new quarters at SUITE 303 FLUHRER BUILDING 5 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE with elevator service and increased client service facilities. Telephone: SPring 3-7319 Edmund E. Hass Vice President tmd Medford Manager NATIONALLY ADVERTISED APPLIANCES SOLD ONLY BY WARDS-FREE DELIVERY, WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL EX-DIRECTOR DIES Geneva, Switzerland (IP) Dr. William E. Rappard, 75 former director of the Gradu ate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, died Tues day. NOT MORE TAXES But MORE TAXPAYERS! Eve Nye Believes: 2. That Oregon's growth is handicapped by its tax structure. That Oregon needs NOT more taxes but a pro gram which spreads the burden fairly on all. That a sales tax, carefully drawn with exemp tions to protect low-income families and farm ers, and with specific off-set provisions against existing taxes, should be given full considera tion. 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