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53rd Year Price 10 Cents Medford K A TT tJgpTRIBUNE ' 1 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Is That So? By OLGA BURNS Field mice are harmless enough generally but occas ionally, as in the case of the great Nevada mouse plague of 1906-07, they become a menace. Mouse plagues get started due to the enormous fecundity of the rodent they may have as many as ten litters a year with as high as 12 in a litte. A birth rate like that plus plenty of food, plus a decline in the number of predators adds up to a plague. What happened in Nevada's Humboldt Valley is a graphic example. In the spring of 1906 the mouse population began to boom. By fall there were so many that crops were seri ously damaged. However, it was felt conditions would be better by the following spring. They weren't. The mice had increased during, the winter, and as the growing season progressed, they advanced across the valley eating every thing in sight and breeding as they went. In fact, the holes they made in the ground gave it a Swiss cheese appearance. 'The ranchers and agricul ture officials did what they could to halt the plague. They spread sackf uls of poison, kill ing mice by the thousands, along with hundreds of pred ators and even some livestock. But for every mouse killed two seemed to take its place with the result that by No vember a survey showed an actual.net increase. In some parts of the valley they were estimated to number 12,000 to the acre. At that point, many of the ranchers simply ploughed up their land and quit farm ing until the plague had run its course. Fortunately, dur ing the winter an epidemic hit the mice hard enough to send the count down to 1,500 per acre by spring. From there on it declined rapidly to around 200, leaving the ranchers with a loss of S300.000 damages to 15,000 acres of land. Though poisoning methods have improved since then, it is doubtful that poison is an effective way of preventing mouse plagues from starting. Probably the most effective means is the existence of a satisfactory number of preda tors. Many birds and most animals from a grizzly bear down to another mouse prey on field mice. Though predators will not stop a mouse plague after it has started, no one will ever know how many mouse plagues they have prevented. In view of the immense repro ductive powers of field mice, it is obvious that any hawk that eats even so few as 100 in a year may deserve an oc casional chicken for dessert. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) mm p Vmunmiw mau m 'I ' I - .,HIIH i i ' i Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encylopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. Will I Vote for DOCTOR DURNO 1$ tM'tti ' '' ' t A 1 for STATE SENATOR? , At your neighborhood polling precinct. Mark Ballot Number x)107. Q. WHERE will I find how Doctor Durno stands on any particular issue? Call Edwin Durno at any time , ... he will gladly answer your questions. Inquire at Republi can Headquarters. Ask a friend. Q. WHERE can I hear him speak during the next ' . five days. A KBES-TV. 10 p.m.. Oct. 30th KBES-TV, 1:10 p.m.. Nov. 2nd SOCE, 10 a.m.. Oct. 29th. DOCTOR DURNO'S BALLOT NUMBER 107 X VOTE DURNO for SENATOR California Tops Population Gain Washington-EPD- Six states, led by California, marked up population gains of more than one million between the 1950 census and July 1, 1957, the Commerce Department has re ported. Revised state population es timates for the period also showed that Alaska had grown greatest percentage wise with a 64 per cent in crease since 1950. ) The six states with more than a million increase were California, 3,293,000; Texas, 1,464,000; Florida, 1,438,000; Michigan, 1,334,000; New York, 1,318,000, and Ohio, 1,260,000. On a percentage rating, among the present 48 states, Nevada led with a 63 per cent gain followed by Florida, 52 per cent, and Arizona, 44 per cent. ' BIDDING FAREWELL to Queen Frederika, of Greece, following White House luncheon in her honor. President Eisenhower bows low as she smiles at photographers. The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council conslsti ot a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writera. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice; it .merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Sue S. - He doesn't give me affection. Henry S. - She embarrass es me. Sue S. My husband and I have been married more than 15 years and have a family of four. I suppose we are reason ably happy, but as far as I am concerned our marriage is far from ideal. I was an only child and re ceived a great deal of love and affection. My husband lost his mother at an early age and lived with a series of aunts and finally a stepmoth er. They were good to him, but did not give him a real mother's love. I suppose this accounts for the difference in our temperaments. In any case, as time goes on, I find myself more and more unable to stand Henry's coldness. I am actually en vious when I see other men put their "arms "around then wives in public. Even at home, Henry is sour and dis inclined to give any of the little attentions women crave. Henry S. - I could never understand Sue's desire to make a public display of her emotion. She knows it em barrasses me. She says she can't restrain herself some times, but this is a little hard to believe of a woman who has been married as long as she has. I disagree that I am sour at home, but Sue often does provoke me by bothering me for attentions. When she critii cizes me, I don't feel inclined to go in for the affectionate gestures she claims she wants. It is true that I didn't get too much affection as a child, but I don't think it's done me any harm. I feel a man should have a certain amount of hardness. In my work I am an administrator and I must keep my emotions to myself, and it's not too easy to be come a different person at home. The Council: Undoubtedly Henry's childhood experi ences have had their effect on him and make it difficult for him to display his feelings. But we think he should be aware that emotion must be displayed in some way when it is truly felt. Probably he freezes his feelings at the source. He could be much happier if he would permit himself a little more freedom in this direction. It is very difficult to retrain the emotions. Probably Henry could not do it without psy chiatric help. If he wants to change strongly enough, it might be a good idea. We do think, however, that The new Federation of the West Indies is composed of I Jamaica, Barbaroes, Antigua, j Montserrat, Trinidad and To ; bago. St. Kitts. Dominica, I Nevia and Anguilla. Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent. Australia's Antarctic terri tory covers 2,470,000 square miles, about half the area of the frozen continent Paid Adv. Dumo for Senator Committea. Mrs. Justin Smith, Treasurer, 21 Geneva St., Medford, Oregon. SLAB WOOD Green & Dry Immediate Delivery Phelps Fuel PHONE SP 3-5878 Sue may just have to go through life with a husband who. falls somewhat short of her ideals in this respect. But if she wants to make her mar riage happier, she should not let it depend entirely on whether or not her husband changes. She can make some changes in herself. We'd suggest that Sue stop holding up an ideal standard for her husband and her mar riage. Henry undoubtedly feels he is falling short of her standards and is responsible for making her unhappy. If Sue is willing to accept her husband as he. is, and freely give him the affection she feels without any re buke to him intended it is possible that he will grad ually thaw. (Copyright 1958, General Features Corp.) Morse Points To Dulles 'Defeatism' New York - 0JPD - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said Sunday night that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has presented "a sad example of defeatism" in refusing to submit the Quemoy-Matsu question and other issues in volving Communist nations to the World Court. Morse spoke at the 13th an nual charter day dinner of Yeshiva University at which he received its charter day award for "outstanding lead ership and forceful advocacy of our democratic tradition.',' Morse said his suggestion in 1955 that the offshore is lands dispute be submitted to the Court "was ignored." Former New .York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey made the same proposal recently, he said, and Dulles "character istically dismissed it on the ground that Communist China would never agree to submit the ownership of Quemoy to the court." . 1st Fails To Find Definition Of Mental Health Delos Smith intion would By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York-(UPD-A scientist who studied the ideas of the experts has decided that no one knows precisely what mental health is. Dr. Maria Jahoda was seeking a def inition which could be ap plied to any o n e and found none. Such a def be extremely useful. With it, any person could tell if his mental health was slipping and take steps. For that reason Dr. Jahoda was employed by the govern ment sponsored Joint Com mission on Mental Illnesses and Health to work out a definition. She ran into all kinds of problems, many of them un anticipated. One problem was, are you mentally healthy if you're "normal?" If you're normal, she figured, you think, feel and act like the majority.. But "the majority does many things that one would hesitate to call heal thy." So she rejected the "nor mality" definition. Then she took up the ideas that "hap piness," "Contentment," "sat- St. Anne de Beaupre, Rom an Catholic pilgrimage center near Quebec City, was first settled about 1657. Many colleges provide non credit courses ' in contract bridge for their undergraduates. isfaction" and-or a bounding sense of "well-being" stand for mental health. You may feel those things when what you want from life agrees with what lite offers. Six Approaches But, she continued, the in dividual may not be able to control life's offerings, despite his very best efforts. "To say that he must feel well, happy, content or satis fied under all conditions of misfortune or deprivation as sumes a naive belief in the moral justice of whatever hap pens to him," she said. An individual's happiness about whatever happens to him can hardly be judged to be a good measure of his mental health. In many situations, it is heal thier to be unhappy." Psychological sciences offer six approaches to a "positive" definition of mental health, but for various reasons not one is the universal defini tion which can be applied to everyone, she said. The six approaches are: 1. Self-perception seeing yourself as you really are; 2. Self actualization living up to your capabilities; 3. Inte gration having an emotional balance which permits you to take setbacks and bounce back; 4. Autonomy to be able to reject some things while accepting others; to be yourself while being part of something than yourself; 5. Perception of reality seeing the things outside yourself as they really are; 6. Environ mental mastery, which is the ability to master any situation as it arises. She rejected all "negative" Havana-flJPD-Loyal soldiers and sailors have joined forces to drive rebels off the prop erty of the U.S. government's Nicaro nickel plant. . , St. Louis was founded in 1764 as a fur trading post. Mother used to tell you stories to put you to sleep . . . now you have Jack at ten-thirty-five tonight on television. definitions of mental health, of course, since she was seek ing a "positive" one. The com mon negative definitions are "absence of mental illness" or " a person who is not under treatment by a psychiatrist." Her study was described in a book "current concepts of mental health" published Thursday under the joint com mission's sponsorship by Basic Books, Inc., New York. She is a former professor of social psychology and director of the research center for human rel ations at New York Universi ty, and now is working in London. The book contained a dis sent by Dr. Walter E. Barton, Boston, a psychiatrist and member of the commission. He argued that "absence of mental illness" was a work able definition of mental health. After there are posi tive ways of preventing and treating mental illnesses, large and small, the mental health movement can take up "the issue of superlative menjtal health or the degrees of good ness in good mental health," he said. Wt.Giv. JiqI GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central Strikeout King Of Congress? PORTER INTRODUCED 76 BILLS; ONLY TWO PASSED CONGRESS! Here is Mr. Porter'sBatting Average': 76 bills introduced in Congress ... no action taken on at least 66 of them . . . only two passed! What's the reason? Is he held in such low esteem by. his colleagues that they won't consider his bills? Did the bills have so little merit that they were not worth considering ? Was he too busy in other parts of the world to do the work necessary to get his bills passed? ? 76 times at bat and two scratch hits make a pretty low batting average. It's time a major leaguer went to bat for the 4th District 1 The 4th District Needs Effective Representation SUct PAUL GEDDES to Congress Pl- CcoWm for ConpfMf CwwMVtM V E. JottmtA, Eug4M( 0m) If in i i r If p 1 Hi II 1 Rf n i. r. EM J WW
