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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-
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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. It also stimulated the
plant's growth and it could be
that it was so busy providing
the substance with which to
get bigger, it had less to pul
into nicotine making.
' The lobster is a closer rel
ative of the spider than of
the fish. Its hard shell, which
does not increase in size as
the animal grows, is cast off
and it acquires a new one per
iodically. !
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