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2A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Thursday, May , 1958 Wisconsin Family Raising 19 Children on $85 Per Week Colgate, Wis. OP) Eco nomic recession or not, John and Lorraine Burg are raising 19 children of school age or younger on about S85 a week. - - They live in a white frame building of four bedrooms, " kitchen and living room. It's far from fashionable, but every inch a home. Burg built it himself that first year of marriage before Bobby was born Bobby's the oldest at 18. Since then Mrs. Burg has given birth to another 10 sons and eight daughters, includ ing five sets of twins. Twelve are in school, the youngest is three weeks old. There's also a dog a play 2 ful pup called "Pretty," who ;-. sleeps under the porch. "She's "got to stay outside," Burg ruled. "if How do Burg and his wife wt manage? Expert Baby Sitting ' Income supplements come from the older girls who do some "expert" babysitting in Nothing brings a smile like... 7 0l SANTIAM BLUE LAKE STRINGLESS GREEN BEANS KSSS JS ATA this rural Washington county i neighborhood, and from Bob by who will keep his job as power mower repairman when he graduates from West Bend High School, next month, Burg said. Besides, Burg confirmed he has 20 tax deductions. He has no barber bill because of a "makeshift" barber chair in the basement where "I get them all together and give 19 haircuts once every three or four weeks." As for clothing needs, "We've got a lot of relatives, and make the most of hand-me-downs," said Burg. Burg said he likes "to have the kids around where I can keep an eye on them, and have the neighbor children over. That's why we fixed up a ball diamond next to tne house." Burg has a two-acre prop erty, which helps explain how a man working 64 night-time hours weekly at a nearby Menomonee Falls bakery can feed 19 children "in these times." . A large garden produces enough berries for Mrs. Burg to can about 500 quarts a year, enough vegetables to feed the family. Another section houses "35 to 40 hens good for two dozen eggs a day," Burg said. "We don't sell any." Otherwise, there's meat and potatoes and milk and bread. "Two years ago, by boss told me 'You don't pay for the bread anymore'," said Burg So there's the daily bread, four large loaves of it. "I also bring home two gallons of milk a day." Burg said. He buys a bushel of pota toes a .week. They get enough to keep them healthy, anyway, Burg said, and if childhood illnesses strike "We just let them take their course." And if the par ents get sick? "We don't get sick," he said. "There's always a way . , things always seem to turn out . . . I've never had an ulcer . . . come what may . God provides." J fflESTERH AUTO f7 n n m NO SHADE HERE Things are going to geta little hot around the courthouse square in . Oskaloosa, Kan. this summer. Every tree on the grounds was given a haircut to eliminate any hazard in event of high winds. From the looks of things it will be a long time before one can find a shady spot EAGLE POINT Extension Unit to Meet By LAURA A. McFALL Eagle Point The Eagle Point Home Extension will meet Thursday, May 8, at the home of Mrs. Gertrude Stan ley, Brophy rd., for the last meeting of this year's home extension. The lesson will be in the morning followed by luncheon and business meet ing. Everyone is to bring their own table service. The lesson will be on co-ordinated wardrobe, given by County Agent Mary Pat Lucy. First Lt. Lawrence (Bud) D. Tycer, so nof Mrs. Jessie Ty cer, received the second high est grade ever received on the Air Force Navigation annual examination recently. He re ceived a grade of 99 out of 100 questions. Bud is stationed at Charleston Air Force base, S.C., and is now on a C-54. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Harnisli gave a dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Rick Wolgamot and Riki, Neal Ballard, Reno, Nev., Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Wolgamot, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Harnish and chil dren, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Har nish and Mrs. Ethyl Coy re cently. Rick and Neal came to Eagle Point to get Mrs. Wolgamot and Riki after visit ing several days at her par ents' home. The dogs in Eagle Point are to be kept tied and they are being picked up by the county dog catcher and Chief of Po ice Ottosen. Anyone not keep ing their dogs tied are subject to a fine. Any dog being picked up will be kept five days. Persons may contact the chief of police at Hlllcrest 6-3241 if their dog is missing. Iran is believed to hold one-third of the world's pet roleum reserves as well as vast undeveloped mineral wealth. A temple at El Karnak, Egypt, is the largest columnar structure ever erected by man. It took 2,000 years to complete. Businessmen Worry Over Competition By Foreign Markets By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York (IP) American business men are worrying just now over foreign compe tition. They point out that the fore i gn e r s with their lower stand ard of. living can undersell American firms and thus add to Elmer Waizer the unemploy ment here with a consequent reduction in our standard of living. Roger M. Blough, chairman of United States Steel Corp., world's largest steel producer, told his stockholders at their annual meeting: "Adopting the best in our modern management methods and equipment, foreign steel makers can produce and sell III llliliiiilIPi;lpBiP t Whitest and Brightest! Yo add extra cleanliness to your wash every time you add Clorox to your washday suds. White cotton, linen, nylon and rayon' come out extra white . . . extra clean! Color fast cotton and linen come out extra bright ..'.extra clean! 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Steel does not advocate that." uiougn pleads for more productivity and insists that a real boost in the standard of living for everyone can come only as we produce more. Incidentally, the fact that foreign nations can undersell the U.S. in many -items is keeping their exports to us very high while our exports to them are falling. This makes for a loss of gold by the U.S. inis loss is piling up steadily. Foreign nations put to their dollar trade balances to work buying gold to the detriment of our . stockpile which has fallen more than $700 million so far this -year, it isn t only steel that is running into foreign compel tition. The auto industry is being hit. The current Bar ron's notes that the United States, traditionally the world's leading exporter of cars, has turned into its big gest importer. Nuclear Power Challenge ' inat financial magazine also notes that European com petition is making headway in diesel locomotives, machine tools, turbines and transform ers, and adds that Britain is challenging the once impres sive U. S. lead on nuclear power. Barron's says that it is in flated costs of doing business that make this country vul nerable- to competition from many a less wealthy nation. The magazine points out that world bank statistics show thai its foreign loans are being spent more and more in other nations than in the U.S. In the seven years through June, 1954, borrow ers spent no less than 65 per cent of their funds for goods made in the U.S., it notes. Now the spending is down to 33 per cent. Alexander Hamilton Insti tute notes that with the for eign trade of most of the lead ing western countries show ing a tendency to slacken, the question of expanding their commerce with nations with in xne soviet oroit naa re cently received increasing at tention. 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