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, 5 MAItTKHUNI,M.4fr, 0,. Monly, Jyly 20, 1939 The Family Council i.f ?!L2ot! Uy Conner consists ol a Judst. a piycMatrtst, ST-i? fif. Fyen' newipapet editor a women's editor and two writers. Baeaarttcto u a summary ol an actual report. The family Council does iitfcwV 1ci't report on piublems that haro been dealt ' wlt 7 remponilhle acencio nt vansalora. Carol R-If she marries him he shouldn't get a cent. : Jack R. - But the money reauy oeiongs to her. ; Carol R-My husband and I are involved in a heart . breaking argument over what to do about our daughter Sue, ; wno is planning to marry out- aide ox our faith. Sue is 22 and her boy friend is 24 so I'm afraid there isn't much we can do about it. But Ive told her she won't get a cent from us for a wedding . present. I know she counted , on this to help them get start ed. She is just out of college and her boy friend is just out of the service so they haven't , a cent between them. The - boy'a parents feel as we do, I dont have much hope, but I feel it may make her think things over. I guess we . Dentists Plan to Meet in Medford '. More than 250 dentists and their wives from Oregon are expected to attend the third t annual mid -summer dental .' megting, sponsored by the . Southern Oregon District Dental Society, at the Rogue ; Valley Country club Aug. 13 ! 15. . The dental district com , prises Medford, Grants Pass ' and Ashland. - Dr. Henry M. Tanner, Los Angeles, head of the depart- . ment of fixed prosthodontics of the University of Southern California, will be featured ' speaker. He will discuss uses ; and features of some of the : new high speed dental equip- . ment. Conference social . events . will include a golf tourna- - ment, banquet and dance, . guided boat trips on the Rogue ' river, a tour of historic Jack sonville and a visit to the Shakes pearean Festival at . Ashland. t . Lightning Starts Fire Near Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nev.-4DTO-Ligh.t-ning started fire in Toiyabe national forest about 25 miles ' west of here Saturday night and stiff winds quickly spread It over an estimated 100 acres Officials said the area that ' was burning, on the southern slope of Mt. Charleston, was not inhabited. Officials asked - for volunteer firefighters and a plane-load of interior depart- ' ment experts were flown in . from Reno. SPEEDY GLOBE-CIRCLER Miami - (DPS - A 38-year-old travel agent today rested up from the effects of a round-the-world trip which took 128 hours, 90 of them spent in the air. Jacques Melloul, who traveled only by commercial , airliners, said he staged the ' trip to prove it could be done ' in five days without any spe ; cial arrangements. can always change our minds later if we want to. My hus band thinks I'm all wrong. Jack R-The way I see it, this money really belongs to Sue. We saved for her as we did for the other children. Her two sisters got nice church weddings and hand some money gifts besides. We have no right to withhold this money from her. If we do this to Sue it will mean an end to our relation ship with her. My wife is so upset now that she says she doesn't care, but I think she'll feel different later. I know she'll want to see Sue-and I certainly wilL I don't want to lose my daughter, regard less of what she does. Once we do this thing we'd never be able to go back on it as Carol suggests. I know Sue and I know she wouldn't take the money later on. The Council: We get the im pression that withholding the money will cause Jack more pain than his daughter and this is a factor to consider, These parents should not cut off their noses to spite their faces. Jack is wrong, however, in his idea that the money "real ly belongs" to Sue. No gift is an obligation and a wed ding gift is not an exception. Parents do not like to with hold from one child what is given to another, but if they wish to underline their disap proval, it is an effective way to do it and give vent to their feelings. We also take strong excep tion to Carol's idea of using the money as a threat. In the first place, it will probably strengthen this already rebel lious girl in her plans. In the second place, it causes her to lose respect for her parents and the principles they pro fess. Sue has chosen to buck her family and she should be will ing to accept one of the con sequences. If she is mature and marrying for love and not simply as an expression of rebellion against her par ents, she will accept her dis appointment about the money in stride. If she is immature and bent on defying her par ents, a wedding gift will not prevent her from later find ing other issues out of which to create bitterness. The withholding of this gift should not, in itself ,'- result in the loss of this daughter. If these parents do not want a complete break with their daughter they should tell her so in just those words. The idea is, "We don't approve of your" marriage and will do nothing to encourage it, but we'll always love you and consider you our daughter." It is impossible to escape some pain and bitterness in such a situation, but most parents will prefer to leave a path open for future contact. (Copyright 1959, General Features Corp.) I LATIN QUEENS Four Latin-American beauty queens, competitors in the Miss Universe contest, pose together at the Municipal Airport at Long Beach, Calif. Left to right: Ziane MonturiaL Miss Costa Rica; Claudia Beraat, Miss Uruguay; Rogelia Cruz, Miss Guatemala; and Carlota Kyala, Miss Ecuador. . I increased Ca rbon Dioxide Said To Result in Warmer Climate New York Have the 360 billion tons of carbon dioxide released by man-made fires during the past century altr ered the earth's climate? "At least one prominent scientist suspects so and if fossil fuels continue to provide our en ergy needs at the present rate, he predicts that a tropical climate may engulf the entire globe wtihin a thousand years Of the numerous theories advanced in explanation of long term climate change one put forward in the last cen tury fits the geological rec ord like a glove, according to Gilbert N. Plass, senior staff member of the Office of Ad vanced Research of Aeronu tronic Systems, Inc. "Accord ing to this theory," Dr. Plass explains, "carbon dioxide and some other gases in the atmos phere influence temperature because their molecules ab sorb infrared radiation. The carbon dioxide blanket pre vents the escape of heat re leased when sunlight strikes the earth and the trapped ra diation warms the atmosphere in consequence. Other Reservoirs "Today the atmosphere con tains some 2,300 tons of car bon dioxide.03 per cent of its total mass. In addition sub stantial amounts are found in three other great reservoirs: oceans, rocks and living or ganisms. Both the atmosphere and the oceans continuously exchange carbon dioxide with rocks and with living organ isms so that an equilibrium with- the air is maintained. Studies of rock strata show, however, that for the past billion years most of the world has had a tropical climate, broken every 250 million years or so by rela tively short glacial periods when a substantial portion of the earth has been buried under successive sheets of ice. During the last 620,000 years of the current glacial epoch, for example, deep ocean sedi ments show 10 distinct temp erature cycles. The carbon dioxide theory may well ac count for these temperature fluctuations. "We have only to extrapo late existing records of temp erature and fossil-fuel con sumption to predict the clim ate of the future. Quite ac curate records of the amount of fossil fuel consumed in the world each year show that in the past 100 years man has added about 360 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the at mosphere. As a result the at mospheric concentration has increased by about 13 per cent. The carbon dioxide theory predicts that such an increase should raise the ave rage temperature of the earth one degree Fahrenheit. This is almost exactly the average increase recorded all over the world during the past cen tury! If fuel consumption con tinues to increase at the pres ent rate, we will have sent more than a trillion tons of carbon dioxide into the air by the year 2000. This should raise the earth's average temperature 3.6 degrees. Earth Will Be Warmer "In less than 1,000 years, if consumption continues to in crease at the current rate, we will have exhausted the cur rently known reserves of coal and oil. By that time we will have multiplied the carbon dioxide tonnage of the air 18 times. When the ocean-atmos phere system comes back to equilibrium, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air will be 10 times greater than it is today and the earth will be 22 degrees warmer. In an other few thousand years, when the carbonate content of the oceans has reached equilibrium, the concentration will still be four times greater than at present and the earth's temperature will then fall to about 12.5 degrees above its present average." ' What effect will this change have on the environment? For one thing, palms will again flourish near the Arctic Circle and the oceans will become slightly more acid, according to Dr. Plass, although the in crease should not greatly af fect marine life. Man, how ever,- may wake up to dis cover that he has upset the "comfort index" of his clim ate. Dr. Plass acknowledges that the case for the carbon dioxide theory has not yet been proved. "We shall be able to test the theory quite conclusively, however, during the next half-century," he ex plains. "Since we can now measure the sun's energy out put independent of the dis torting influence of the atmos phere, we shall see whether' the earth s temperature trend follows the rise an man's pro duction of carbon dioxide."- Scientific American Feature. Hollywood -flJPD-The Nation al Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced Sun day that its hour-long "gram my" awards program honor ing members of the recording industry will be televised in color Nov. 29 from Holly wood and New York. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Where There's Corn There's the Corn Borer When-the wind dies out,j the sabre-like leaves of the corn plants cease their dry rustlings. Silence, profound and absolute, settles over the cornfield. The mysterious chemical workings of growth, activated by warmth, mois ture and favorable soil ele ments, is a silent process. But hour by hour the stalks and leaves extend themselves. Tis sues swell . . . the corn plant grows. - Nearly as silent as the growth of the corn plant itself, and within its stalks of, de veloping "ears," may be the ugly, dark-headed worm called' the European corn borer, eating its way through the plant tissues, moving lengthwise through the ear, destroying or soiling the kernals. It is a small, naked worm, larvae of a somber colored moth, one of the most destruc tive pests the U.S. has ever sheltered. It is an invader from overseas and sneaked in when no one was looking, es tablished itself, and extended its range. In Broomcorn It was an unfortunate and terribly expensive bunch of broomcorn that arrived at an eastern American seaport just before the starting -of World War I, from Europe. To all outward appearances it was just another shipment of broomcorn, imported from the later manufacture of brooms the American housewife would use to brush dirt from her living room rug. But sleeping peacefully and comfortably somewhere with in the dry stalks was the van guard of what was to become a hungry, gnawing horde of invaders that now number into the hundreds of millions Somewhere around 1917, near Boston, someone noticed the tassels of the corn plant droop disconsolately. Later the tassels fell, and the plant seemed to lose its enthusiasm to grow. Still later, worms were found in the ears of the corn plant. Someone made the understatement of all time when he remarked "There's a worm in the corn." Today, less than half a cen tury since the first American ear of corn was soiled the housewife preparing "sweet corn" for her table is surprised to find even a few ears that have NOT been damaged by the corn borer. l During the 40-odd years -of its residency in the U.S. the corn borer has successfully in vaded just about every corn growing area. For several vears' by extreme and expen sive vigilance, road-blocks, Quarantines and arresting measures not withstanding, the pest continued to expand its range. The little brown moth sneaked past the road blocks, crossed rivers, lakes and plains, and arrived at the Great Lakes. Resting there a while on the great waters, it rose in the air and flew on, as if knowing that- the "land of glorious opportunity" was just ahead and westward. The invaders had arrived in the Corn Belt. Other van guards, avoiding the crowds moving west, infiltrated south ward, and arrived again at the edge of the great waters. They stopped at the edge of the gulf, undaunted and un invited. Other contingents moved north a n y w h e r e, everywhere where the corn plant grows. Silently sleeping, unmindful of cold, snow or chilling sleet in northern fields where cold winter winds whistle through the dead, dry, standing stalks of last year's corn, from which the ears were picked, are the invaders," waiting for the warmth of spring and the con quest of next summer's corn field. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) w ' NEW 1959 Westinghouse NINE Cu. Ft. FREEZER 3 1 8-Ib. Capacity UM-9 Was 229.S NOW 5 m95 Less Liberal Trade-in 1959 WESTING HOUSE FREEZERS INCLUDE THESE OUT STANDING FEATURES N.w AIR-SWEEP shilvts! Pack ages rmov aaiiar, and cold is circulated better! Precision celd control Adjustable deer iholves that neve up or down. All-new SILENT MECHANISM Remember, our Appliance- Sales are backed by a service department f FORTY YEARS experience. NEW 1959 WestinghouM TWELVE Cu. Ft. FREEZER 400-lb. Capacity $319.95 NOW NEW 1959 Westinghouse Eighteen Cu. Ft. FREEZER 615-lb. 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' ' The Cronin family had been returning from a vacation in Arizona and were driving to Condon when the accident oc curred. Driver of the other auto mobile was Joe Quales of Madras. Order of Antelope Picks Lakeyiew Man Lakeview - (UPD - A Lake view insurance man, John Blair, was installed as new Chief Whitetail at the 24th annual meeting of the Order of the Antelope which ended at Hart Mountain National Antelope refuge Sunday. Justice William O. Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court was among the campers as was Oregon Secretary of State Howell Appling. The Oregon official was among 97 newly initiated members. Jess Faha, Lakeview, was re-elected Grand Secretary of the Order which was estab lished to save antelopes and conserve wildlife. Eight Persons Kilted In Auto Accident Kohler City, Mo.-tUPD-Eight persons died, Saturday night in a head-on automobile col lision near here. At least three of the eight were members of the same family. Police said the accident oc curred when one of the autos swerved to the right on a curve, went out of control, crossed the four-lane highway and hit the other auto. 67 Killed in Wild Stampede of People Pusan, Korea - (UPD - The -death toll from a wild stam pede of spectators at an open air show was set at 67 Satur- ' day. Most were children, in cluding infants strapped to the backs of their mothers or sisters. They died Friday night when a crowd of 60,000 in Pusan stadium made a rush for a single 16 foot wide exit to escape a sudden rainstorm. - Twenty - two others . were hospitalized, some in critical condition. At least 150 suffer ed minor Injuries. The crowd had gathered at the stadium to watch a special "free citizens" show sponsored by the Kuke Newspaper of Pusan. TOO MUCH STAGGER Memphis, Tenn.-IDPD-A 66-year-old Negro man admitted to the judge, that he was stag-. gering a little when arrested. "But I'm an old man, and old men just naturally stagger," John Brooks said. 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