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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1959
10 Pages
Family
Council
Hilda K. - He ogles every
thing in skirts.
Jack K. - She criticizes me
on every step.
Hilda K. - My husband and
I are in our early 20s and
have been married six months.
I am very much afraid that
we are already about to split
up. We fight constantly and
it's really getting me down.
One of the main reasons for
our fights is that Jack just
can't keep his eyes off other
girls. He doesn't seem to care
whether or not I am with him.
He ogles everything in skirts.
He says he doesn't mean any
thing by it, but I think it is in
sulting. My own parents split up
when I was five years old be
cause my father was unfaith
ful, so perhaps I'm apt to be a
little suspicious of men. Just
the same I can't help thinking
that if he ogles now, what will
he do five years from now?
Jack K. - It is Hilda's jeal
ousy that causes all the trou
ble. She can't understand that
a man could want to look after
a nice dish and mean nothing
serious by it. Plenty of happy
long-marfied men do the same
thing.
One reason Hilda may be
suspicious is because I picked
her up. I "ogled" her and she
smiled and that was it. I pro
posed to her on the second
date and we were married
three weeks later. But things
like that happen only once in
a lifetime - at least I hope so.
Another thing that causes a
lot of our fights is that Hilda
is constantly finding fault
with me. According to her, I
make a monkey out of myself
everytime I open my mouth.
I've managed to get along 23
years without her telling me
how to act.
The Council: If Hilda and
Jack are serious about want
ing to make their marriage
work, they will recognize that
they started It with two
strikes against them. They'll
have to bat carefully now to
make up for it.
When two people marry in
haste they don't want to know
one another's habits and fail
ings. They want to believe
they have married that ideal
person they' always dreamed
about. When the faults inevit
ably come to light, each one
becomes a violent blow to that
dream. This disillusion leaves
a bitter taste. Each partner is
blamed for spoiling the other's
dream. That's strike one.
Strike two is just the other
side of that coin. Each partner
knows he or she is not being
seen clearly. The Dream Man
knows in his heart that he's
just an ordinary Joe and the
Dream Girl knows that she's
an average Jane. Each fears
what will happen, when the
other finds out. They cannot
have the security that other
couples know the security
of being loved as a whole per
son, faults and all.
Hilda and Jack could not
really have loved and accept
ed one another when they
married. They know this and
each is terribly afraid of being
hurt by the other. To avoid
being hurt, each attacks the
other in a special way - Joe by
ogling the girls, Hilda by criti
cizing Joe at every step.
The best way Hilda and Joe
can fight their way out of the
vicious cycle Is by trying to
forget their own egos and
doing what they can to help
and please one another. Hilda
needs reassurance that Joe
Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
These Wild Geese Eat
Eelgrass by lhe Mile!
Miles and miles of eelgrass
goes down the throats of the
brant, as they pivot in tight
little circles on the water's
surface. Brant are wild geese,
the smallest of the family;
perky little birds with up
raised tails and saucy heads.
The black brant have a
white collar in front of the
throat. They, like the white
bellied brant, found only on
or near salt water, feed al
most exclusively on the aquat
ic plant known as eelgrass.
The brant are about the size
of a large mallard duck, yet
they are true geese.
They nest in the northern
part of the Arctic, but migrate
back and forth to the south
ern U.S. every spring and fall;
both the East and West Coasts
have a complement of them.
The consumption of eelgrass,
and the miles it takes of this
foliage to feed a flock of these
small geese, has been the sub
ject of much conjecture. The
bird will pull loose a leaf,
loop it in short folds, or zig
zags, in its bill, then gobble
it down.
Astronomical Proportions '
An undisturbed flock will
feed for at least three hours.
each bird taking a two foot
long section about every eight
or ten seconds. That s about
16 feet a minute, give or take
a few inches. Six hundred feet
an hour, for a single bird
1,800 feet for the three-hour
feeding period. Multiply this
by the number of individual
birds in a large flock and the
"mileage" of consumed eel
grass reaches astronomical
proportions. Some observers
say one bird easily eats five
miles per week; that's a lot of
mileage.
The dependence of brant on
eelgrass is one of the most in
teresting characteristics of
these small geese; their highly
specialized food preference,
and the method of procuring
and eating it, makes the sur
vival of these wildfowl a little
uncertain.
The destruction of the eel
grass beds in bays and river
mouths also will destroy the
brant. We just can't have one
without the other. In years
when disease, or some other
cause, destroys the grass beds,
the smallest of the wild geese,
the brant, starved tb death by
thousands. This has happened
several times within the
memory of present day men.
Powerful flyers
All the brant are powerful
flyers, often braving boister
ous winds that would dis
courage other wild fowl; driv
ing bravely into the very
teeth of a howling gale. Often
these birds fly low over the
water, sweeping in at full
speed, and zooming out of the
gunners' range with astonish
ing speed. As the birds are
extremely wary, they are dif
ficult targets. '
They emit a loud, clanging
cry that thrills the heart of
the outdoorsman, and invites I
the imagination of those who,
in the warm comfort of their
own homes on a stormy night,
hear the wild call from the
only has eyes for her and Joe
needs reassurance that Hilda
thinks he's great. Undoubted
ly, they both have much that
is desirable and lovable in
them, and this is where they
should place the accent.
(Copyright 1959,
General Features Corp.)
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their mind's eye the wild
geese j on their migratory pas
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sky.
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and Tribune Syndicate, 1959)
Portland Exposition
Center Given Name
Portland -(UPE- The Exposi
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will be called the Memorial
Coliseum. That name was
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PAYS UP QUICK
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Alexander paid up without
argument when his wife's un
licensed dog was picked up
by the dog catcher. Alexander
is the master of the city
pound.
MEETING NEWSMEN in Washington, these seven young pilots have been selected
to train for risky honor of riding satellite into space. Standing behind models of man
carrying space capsule and launching vehicle are, from left: Navy LL Comdr. Walter
M. Schirra Jr., Hackensack, N. J.; Navy Lt Comdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr., East Deery,
N. H.; Air Force Capt. Virgil I. Grissom, Mitchell, Ind.; Air Force Capt. Donald K.
Slayton, Sparta, Wis.; Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., New Concord, O.; Navy LL
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Carbondale, Colo. All are delighted with assignment despite its hazards.
Lincoln JCs Sef
River Yacht Race
Newport, Ore.-4UPD-All five
of Lincoln county's Junior
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mile raft race down the Ya
quina river from the Toledo
Airport to the Yaquina bridge
'at Newport.
The rafts will be manned by
Jayces from the Toledo, New
port, Siletz, North Lincoln and
Waldport clubs. Don Newman
of the Newport JC says tickets
are being sold on the winning
raft and time.
A clam chowder feed will
be. held at the Yaquina Bay
State park immediately after
the race, with the public invited.
Committee Favors
Shorter Police Week '
Salem -PU- The Joint Ways
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ing a bill to put the state po
lice on a five-day week.
However, no formal action
was taken on the bill which
would cost some $850,000 this
biennium and about a million
dollars a biennium thereafter.
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