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
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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."
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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
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than we can, primarily be
cause their wage rates are
much lower.
Wage costs in this country
are tnree times as mucn or
more" than the average for
steel industries in many for
eign countries.
Pleads for Productivity
Foreign competition is be
coming -a real challenge not
only to steel, but to all Am
erican industry. This does not
mean that we must meet it
by eliminating all future wage
increases. U. S. 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.
Imports from the Soviet
bloc included such items as
wood and pulp, coal and
coke, petroleum products,
cotton goods, and iron and
steel products and ferro al
loys.
All this is posing a big
problem for American indus
try. The solution to the prob
lem doesn't seem available in
the near future,
SOC Calls for Bids
To Move Residences
Ashland Bids will be re
ceived until 2 p.m. June 3 by
the business manager of
Southern Oregon college, Ash
land, for moving several
houses on the campus, Donald
E. Lewis, business manager,
has announced.
Specifications and forms of
contract documents may be
obtained from Lewis.
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