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$ MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ortgon, Tuesday, May 13, 1958 Family Council New Signs of Life Showing Up InSovier Consumer Goods Front Edward M. I want to go to college away from home. Mm. H. M. We have to keep an eye on him. Edward M. I am a 16-year-old boy having a big fracas with my parents over my im pending college career. I have picked several col leges that I want to apply to all of them quite far from my home. My parents want me to go to a college right near our community. I know, a lot of guys who go to this college who have told me that it's rotten poor teaching, large classes and little freedom. My parents want me to go to this college because I would live at home. It's not that they can't afford to send me out of town, it's just that they baby me and want to watch me. I feel it's high time I got off on my own. I would be willing to work to meet my additional expenses. Mrs. H. M. My husband and I don't want to baby Ed die, but we are often forced to because of his own actions. He was quite sickly as a child, and although he has out grown some of his physical problems, he still must take care of himself get enough rest, take precautions in bad weather, avoid violent exer cise. We find we have to keep after him constantly to get him to observe the simplest rules. He stays out much too late, pays no attention to any of the precautions the doctor has advised and never turns down a chance to knock him self out. Eddie just wants to get away from home and tries to use the excuse that the col lege in our community is no good. Many people think well of it. The Council: A once-sickly adolescent boy, now hell bent on proving his independence and stamina certainly spells double trouble to the parents. He's just like every teenage boy only much more so. We do think, however, it would be the better part of wisdom to use, rather than fight Eddie's strong desire to go to a college far from home. It is important he go to col lege of his own choice, and he may prove to be far more responsible when away from home than when he is near his parent's hovering arms. We would suggest that the H. M.'s put Eddie on trial during his senior year at high school. They would agree to "lay off" bothering him about taking care of himself, but he must prove himself fully capa ble of showing restraint and judgment in his daily life. We realize this could lead to a lot of arguments about what constitutes "restraint and judgment," so we'd suggest a general agreement be drawn up containing some very con crete stipulations. We recognize it may be possible for Eddie to pass his trail period faily successfully with the idea of "letting loose" when he gets to college. So there should be room for his parents to make a final decision based on Eddie's gen eral maturity. He may change a great deal in one year and the habits of his trial period may become fairly fixed. His parents should show they are prepared to be hon est and fair and that they want him to go to the college of his choice. It is up to him to prove he is ready to do it. We suggest that parents who have the same problem with healthy boys and girls try the same method. (Copyright 1958. General Features Corp.) Moscow (IP! All along the Soviet consumer goods front there are small stir rings and new signs of life. The newspapers are writing more than ever about the need to raise the output and qual- ! ity of everthing from hosiery and children's shoes to furni ture and television sets. Soviet leaders are fervent ly emphasizing the same things in their speeches. On the lower levels, factory di rectors throughout the coun try are consulting with the new local economic councils on how to translate these as pirations into practice. More important than all the talk, the government has as signed extra funds to several Earmarked Sales Tax Plan Fraud, Hatfield Asserts Portland (IP) Secretary of State Mark Hatfield said in a campaign speech he: the other day that a sales tax for education or earmarked for property tax relief would result in an increased cost of living for the average tax payer. "Representation that a sales tax earmarked for property tax reduction will give sub stantial relief to the majority of Oregonians is a fraud and a deception," Hatfield said. "Even under the most glow ing conditions, a sales tax in such form would only result in a S60 annual property tax reduction for the average home-owner while his new tax burden on retail sales would be double that figure. Negative Effect "Unless a sales tax were made in lieu of income taxes we would find it having a negative effect on business stimulation and it would have a crippling effect, economi cally, on those with fixed in comes," Hatfield asserted. "While one of Portland's ho tels might save $19,000 on property tax, or a large utili ty $1,400,000, the average home-owner would find his reductions more than eaten up in increased costs of living through expenditures for automobiles, appliances, fur niture and other goods in a year's time," Hatfield said. Cattlemen Busy With Committees Ontario OP) Delegates to the 45th annual convention of the Oregon Cattlemen's Asso ciation meeting here were busy today attending commit tee meetings in the second day of the conclave. Working com mittees included those for membership and finance, mar keting and transportation, public lands, legislation and taxation, beef promotion and others. The business session today was to feature reports by the working committees, voting on resolutions and annual election of officers. George Russell, Vale, presi dent of the OCA, told the group Monday that the goal at this annual meeting is to evaluate Oregon beef indus try's past, present and future and to acquaint every state beef producer with these find ings and recommendations." The convention will wind up Wednesday. A "Little Ruhr" producing steel and other metals to the extent of 1,200,000 tons an nually, is being constructed in southeastern Venezuela. A decade ago this section of land was almost uninhabited. For Her Graduation Give ITostoria 1 ) CRYSTAL She will appreciate your gift of sparkling crystal. A lifetime gift. CHECK SWEM'S Crystal Registry for her pattern in Fostoria or Imperial Candlewick i The Graduates of the TEN HIGH SCHOOLS in Medford and Jack ton County are regis tering their pattern preference. branches of light industry. Recently the Soviet govern ment " announced it would spend an additional 195 mil lion rubles to build up the shoe and textile nidustries in 1958. It has assigned 290 million more rubles to the furniture industry for this year, due to the great increase in housing construction. Results Noticeable Results are beginning to be noticeable in the shops, es pecially in the big cities, where the supplies of textiles and refrigerators, radios, TV, washing machines, bicycles and motorcycles, cameras and vacuum cleaners are greater this year than last year. Of course nowhere are there anywhere near enough of any of these items, except perhaps cameras. Crowds cluster before the counters when a fresh shipment of goods arrives. All of these stirrings and signs of new life are being taken as an indication that the Khrushchev regime grad ually intends to make good its promises for a higher standard of living. This is not the first time the Soviet party has given its approval to a widely expand ed program of consumer goods production. An empha sis on light industry was a distinguished feature of the Malenkov goverment in 1953. But Malenkov's 'plan did not last any longer than his gov ernment. Khrushchev and his eco nomic planners are turning to improved planning and de centralized administration as one way of raising the amount and quality of consumer goods production. Capital Investments Needed But they also realize that capital investments are neces sary if there is to be any real expansion of light industry. Sergei Trifonov, a deputy minister of domestic trade in the Soviet Union, is well aware of the shortages, and shortcomings of Soviet con sumer production. But when a foreign visitor comes to talk with him in his office, he tries to emphasize the positive sides of the sub ject. He proudly shows pic tures of new refrigerators, portable phonographs and tape recorders, handy little sewing machines, new good looking models of TV sets, and many other items, all just made or about to be made for the Soviet shops. However, as Trifonov ad mits, progress will come only gradually. 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