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o Medford Tribune 2ni SEQION MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 The Family Council Editor1! not: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, thre clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Caen article i a summary ot an actual report. The Family Conncil does ot give advice; it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselor Arnold F. I don't like Liz's card playing. Elizabeth F. I'm doing nothing wrong. Arnold F. My wife and I have been married 11 years and have three young chil dren. About a year ago I went into business for myself and then all our troubles started. My work is mostly night work. I don't get home until nearly midnight. When I get home m dinner is on the table and a baby sitter is there with the kidscMy wife is out playing cards. Even Saturday and Sunday, when I am home, she has card games either in our house or in some other woman's home, I realize it is pretty lone - some for her having gpe away every evening but I think that two nights a week should be enough for card games. Liz is a good player and has made more than she has lost at cards, but I just don't like it. ElizabQh F. The way Arnolds talks about it, you would think I'm committing some terrible crime by play ing cards. I am doing nothing wrong. I'm the restless type and I jifft can't sit stiX is the evening. o It's not just the cards, it's the socialability and the fact that I go out of the house for a few (hours that I really enjoy. Nobody can accuse me of neglecting my home and fam ily for card games. If I do say it myself, I am an excel lent hofnemaker. I keep my place in top shape and take good care of the children. fore I leave the house I see that they are in bed. They watch TV until they fall asleep. It would be different if I lost money, but Arnold him self admits that I'mO very shrewd player. Tha Council Both hus bands and wives often feel humiliated if . their mate shows siis of any obsessive habit. It is rightfully 'assum1 ed that obsessions indicate some form of emotional,jnen tal or moral ill health. Card playing every night of . the week is certainly an obsession. The restlessness Elizabeth feels is not the nor mal urge toward useful activ ity experienced by any person with surplus time and energy on his hands. It is really aind of anxiety experienced when an addict is deprived of his particular compulsion. Healthy restless ness would seek its outlet in many different forms of ac tivity handwork, headwork, social fun, civic contributions, family planning and many other thirds. Elizabetn fools herself when she says "it isn't the cards, it's the sociability. Sociability is undoubtedly available to her in other forms, but she closes her eyes to these opportunities. She also fools herself when ske claims that she is fulfilling her responsibilities. She may feed her children and put them to bed on time, but she has substituted TV for a par ent every evening. It's a very poor substitue, especially in view of the fact that these children see little of their father. The lonely dinner Arnold finds on the table when he comes home is also a very poor substitute for a welcome from a wife. Elizabeth should certainly make an effort to cure her self of the card-playing habit and to find worthwhile activ ities in her own home for at least five nights a week. The process of throwing herself into other endeavors with real enthusiasm will in itself act as a cure for her obsession. (Copyright 1958, General Features Corp.) Shed Damaged by Fire Saturday City firemen responded to several grass fires, one shed fire, and one false alarm over the week end. Damage to the walls and roof of a shed at the William D. Williams residence, 3069 Crater Lake highway, resulted from a fire about 9:02 p.m Saturday. Cause of the fire was undetermined. A grass fire at the Key stone Orchards on South Stage rd. burned five acres before it was controlled, and another grass fire, reported in the 2500 block of Crater Lake highway was extinguished by heavy rainfall while firemen were enroute to the blaze Sunday Firemen responded to a re ported fire in the 100 block of South Holly st. but were unable to locate a fire. Several other grass fires of an inconse auential nature were extin guished by the department during the week end. Movie-Goers in Europe Targets of Attention by Picture Making Moguls By VERNON SCOTT United Press International Rome (UPI) Europe is more important to Holly wood now than a corral full of glamour "girls and matinee idols because it is the lire, sounds, francs and marks that spell the difference between financial disaster and money in the bank. Therefore it is important to movie moguls to know 'the likes and dislikes of European audiences. , As in the United States, Europeans generally prefer well-established stars Clark Gable, Doris Day, William Holden, Jimmy Stewart. Teen age idols Elvis Presley and Siil Mineo don't draw flies over here. The average age of movie- UeuBerger Opposes Gambling in Alaska Washington (UPI) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said Monday that it would be an "abysmal mistake" to legalize gambling in the new state of Alaska. In a Senate speech, Neu berger expressed shock over what he said were published reports that Alaska might need gambling revenues to help finance the costs of op erating its own state government. "We want no Klondike sa loons or gambling casinos as the symbols of the great new state of Alaska," he said. Gambling simply drains the wallets of those addicted to gambling whether .they can afford such a drain or not." goers throughout the contin ent is higher than in America where teen-agers largely sup port the boxoffice. Newcom ers are thus tremendously handicapped. U. S. Stars Unknown In France, "The Long, Hot Summer," billboards display Orson Wells' picture and name in bold print, while the film's stars, Oscar-winning Joanne Woodward and her husband, Paul Newman, are lucky to edge into the small print. Woodward and Newman aren't stars in Europe. Neith er are their fellow actors stu dio graduates who currently slobber through screen roles in "realistic" fashion. Musicals also are boxoffice poison here. The Italians, French and Austrians say the lyrics of the songs make lit tle sense to them. Shun Gangster Films - Westerns and other rougli and tumble films in which brutality . runs rampant are ill received by censors. Sex is not offensive to them and neither is nudity. Continen tals take the undraped female figure with a shrug. But a maniac with a machinegun unsettles censors and popu lace alike. American gangster films are shunned. Television is making in roads on movies in Europe. And Hollywood is beginning to feel the pinch. English movie audiences have fallen off sharply as vid eo programs improve. Italians also are spending more time with their TV sets which has affected local movie-making as well as Hollywood imports. Eight Accidents e Reported to Police Eight automobile accidents in which one person was in jured were reported over the July 4 week end by Medford police. The injury, apparently a minor one, was suffered by John Mads Junker, 2061 South Stage rd., who declined medical treatment, police said. According to police, Junker was a passenger in a car driven by William Nor man Bailey, 522 West 11th st., when it was struck by a car operated by Leva Morgan, 326 North Main st., Ashland. The accident occurred at the intersection of EightJi and Orange sts. Police cited Morgan for failure to yield the right of way. Films on Holy Land Scheduled Thursday Mrs. Rose Bullock Frost, former Medford resident, will narrate and present films of the Holy Land at First Assem bly of God, 1108 West Main st Thursday, July 10, at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Frost, now of Oak land, Calif., recently return ed from a Mediterranean and Holy Land tour. The colored films which will be shown were taken by Mrs. Frost. While visiting in Medford, Mrs. Frost is the house guest of her sister and father, Mrs. K. J. Knutson and W. R. Bul lock, 615 North Columbus ave. SNIDER'S MILK- THE GROWING FAVORITE President Signs Bill For Labeling of Autos Washington (UPI) Presi dent Eisenhower Monday sign ed a bill requiring auto mak ers to label new cars with their suggested retail price, including cost of accessories and transportation. . TWO FOR ONE Edgewood, 111. (UPI) Vernon Ervin checked a rat trap he had set and found it had trapped two rats at a single stroke. Tobacco Plant Said To Change Good Chemical Into Bad One By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York (UPI) While probing into the private life of the tobacco plant, scientists caught it red handed in the act of chang ing a good chemical into a bad one. And casually, too, without even a sug gestion of a qualm. The good chemical is nicotinic acid, one of the "B" vitamins which people and beasts and plants must have if they're to live healthfully and to the full. The bad one is none other than Delos Smith nicotine. So far as science knows the tobacco plant is the only plant which, after "making" benefi cial nicotinic acid, turns around chemically and con verts it into something poison ous, if it's in the right amount. But not poisonous for the to bacco plant, obviously. Dr. Ray F. Dawson, profes sor of botari', Columbia Uni versity, and his team of pri vate life-probing scientists, were unable, however, to find the slightest reason why the tobacco plant should do such a thing. So far as they would tell, nicotine is wasted on it it does it no good. Dawson and his associates used radioactive "tracers" to solve the chemical mysteries of how the tobacco plant "makes" nicotine and where it gets the material. Nicotinic acid was suspected of being the material. ' The scientists attached four atoms of radioactive hydrogen to the molecules of the living plant's nicotinic acid. Because the hydrogen atoms were ra dioactive, they could be traced through the plant's chemical workings. And, sure enough the hydrogen atoms were in the nicotine molecules when the plant "made" them. It is an important contribu tion to scientific learning be cause the current trend in to bacco processing is to reduce the nicotine as well as the tar content. Two other scientists have shown that the plant can be ! nori-u4aJ 11-. "making" less nicotine than it usually does, indicating that nicotine production is not its chief reason for existing. L. G. Burk, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's research sta tion at Oeltsville, Md., and T. C. Tso of the University of Maryland, did so by dropping tiny amounts of gibberellic acid on their leaves while the plants were young. New Chemical Gibberellic acid may be a new chemical to you and, in deed, it is a rather new chemi cal to science. It is "made" by a certain Japanese fungus and during the past few years, scientists have been impressed by its ability to make some plants grow faster than they would have without it. Burk and Tso found that as more and morp gibberellic was added to the chemistry of the tobacco plant, the output of nicotine went down and down. 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