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scond Winter Carnival diet 9 at Crater Lake g MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. C Thursday, Feb. 18, 1960 GETS PRIZE - Steve Trulove, 10, learns that snowshoes are hard to negotiate on steep slopes, and wishes he had ski poles to help him. His spills in the snowhoe race and sled race won him the hardluck prize of the day. Mystery Submarine Believed Damaged 'Puerto Madryn, Argentina - IUPD - The Argentine frigate Murature attacked and per haps damaged the mystery submarine of the Nuevo Gulf Tuesday night, apparently with depth charges flown from the United States. Capt. Ray M. Pitts of the office of the chief of Naval operations, Washington, D.C., who is heading a 13-member Naval team in Argentina to help the Argentine Navy hunt a submarine, is the son of Mrs. Estelle M. Pitts, 268 Second ave., Gold Hill. The submarine has been hunted in the Golfo Nuevo, a body of water surrounded by Argentine; territory, for 17 days. Captain Pitts and the U.S. Navy team are acting only as advisers on the use of American antisubmarine equipment such as depth charges, sound buoys, flares and electronic detection de vices. Captain Pitts' sister, Mrs. Man Thought House Looked Familiar El Reno, Okla. - Peter Gil bert took a second look at a house being' moved down the highway. "It looks like my house . . . but . . . well . . . no, it couldn't be," he mused. He shrugged the matter off and continued on his bread route, but the idea returned to nag him. He checked and, sure enough, the house was gone. It turned out the wrecking company hauled off the house by mistake shortly after Gil bert had left for work. Amends were made. Gilbert got his house, back and the wreckers built him a brand new garage, free. 10-MINUTE SNOWMAN - Jay Bowdler and tional park recently. They built the snow Judy Fulton, both 8-year-olds, won first man in 10 minutes from materials at hand, place in the snowman contest at the second Jackie Pool, grade school teacher at the annual Winter Carnival at Crater Lake Na- park, was judge. INTRAVENOUS FEEDING Bedford, Mass. - (UPD - Still standing here is a 360-year-old tree known as "The Great Oak." Recently tree experts drilled thousands of holes and used about a ton of fertilizer to nourish it. The tree has a limb spread of 127 feet. Jack C. Petterson, also lives in Gold Hill. Two Are Sentenced To Prison Terms Circuit Judge James M. Main Tuesday-. revoked the probation of Wain Charles Johnson, Milwaukie, Ore., and sentenced him to two years in the Oregon State penitentiary for burglary not m a dwelling. Johnson pleaded guilty to breaking into a Medford cafe Jan. 16, 1959. William Gordon Fisn, Shreveport, La., was sen tenced to three years in the Oregon State penitentiary. He pleaded guilty to issuing a bad check in Medford. REVOLVING FUND Chicago -(UPD- More than half of the money which sav ings and loan associations lend to families to build or pur chase homes comes from re payments on loans outstand ing, according to the United States Savings and Loan League. The balance comes from new savings. xt ATTENTION ! ASHLAIID - BEDFORD - GRANTS PASS FOOD CLERKS YOUR UNION CONTRACT IS ONLY AS STRONG AS THE SERVICE GIVEN TO SUPPORT IT RETAIL CLERKS UNION AFL-tIO On FEBRUARY 24th A SERVICE UNION Retail Clerks Union Local 265 AFL-CIO " SKIIER - Jay Bowdler, 8, an excellent skller, finds snowshoe ing fun, but slightly more precarious than skiing at. the sec ond annual Winter Carnival - at Crater Lake National park recently. The Family Council Editor's Note: The Family Council consists of a Judge. psychiatrist. three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. fcacn article is a summary ol an actual i-ase history. The Council reports on problems that hay been dealt wi h by responsible agencies and counselors. Ronald M.-I'm afraid she's too childish. ' Sandra C.-Look at the Shah of Iran. , Ronald M.-I am a widower in my early 40s. My wife died three years ago leaving me with a teen-age son and daughter. In the past year or so I have gone out with several widows and divorcees of my own age-nice women, but frankly not particularly at tractive to me. In any case I felt no strong desire to follow up the contacts. : In my place of business ' I have known a, young girl for several years. She is now 20, a year older than my daugh ter. I have helped her solve several of her personal prob lems and I suppose she looks up to me, which may account I for the very strong attraction I I feel toward her.. Last week ; she confessed that she has been in love with me for ! sometime. She is mature ' for ; her age, yet I am afraid still too childish for me. Sandra C.-I am the oldest of six children and have been self-supporting since 17. My father died when I was in my early teens and I had to help my mother economically and phychologically. I know how to manage a home and I am ready for marriage. I don't know where Ron gets this "childish" bit. I haven't been a child for years. He is the childish one. Look at the Shah of Iran and his new bride. Look at Bing Crosby and his-and look at hundreds of older men who have successful marriages with young women. I have gone out with a lot of men and I know for sure that Ron is the right one for me. I get so bored with young ones sometimes I almost fall asleep in the middle of 4 the conversation. . When- I'm with Ron we never seem to run out of conversation. We would never tire of .one another.. . .. ..-' The Council: Sandra may not be too childish for-Ron ald, but we have a sneaking suspicion that he is a bit too childish for her'. Ron seems to have let this persuasive young lady over whelm him completely. He has been flattered out of his wits. We don't think he knows whether what he feels is at traction or engulfment. He makes no positive statement that ; indicates a desire to marry Sandra, yet he appears to be teetering on the brink of doing it. We won't analyze the- qual ity " of the relationship exist ing between the Shah of Iran and his bride or Bing Crosby and his, but we think that Sandra should be aware that the wife of an outstanding public figure may have some unusual advantages that could compensate for the - special difficulties of a marriage in which there is an extraordi nary age gap. - Although . she has already had many responsibilities in' life, Sandra undoubtedly ro manticizes about marriage as any young girl of her age would. She should try to be a little more ! realistic about this thing. She would not be married to Bing or the Shah, but merely to Ron, an ordi nary man with-: less energy than she has and the evi dences of middle-age already in his appearance. This ordi nary man will not want to associate with her young friends and she will soon find him tiresome. Her illusions about him will drop away when 'she finds that he can at times be as mistaken about things or as boring as any young men. We don't like to be. rigid about matters involving emo tions. - Some successful mar riages of this sort have, been mad j, but they are the ex ception. And even among the exceptions, there may be great difficulties and unhap piness that aren't evident to the outsider. But, at least, we think that Ron should take the time to find out how -he really feels about this matter. (Copyright 1960, General Feature Corp.) Karncipai 40 Contestants e in Various Events The second annual Winter Carnival was held at Crater Lake National park head quarters, recently. The event is sponsored by the Sitz Mark Ski club, and Slim Mabery, park ranger, was in charge. Judges were Mrs. Lerbert Gerald and Mrs. Otto M. Brown, and officials included Jackie Pool and Superinten dent Otto M. Brown. Prizes were donated by em-! pioyees of Crater Lake Na tional park and Don Divens of the Tomahawk Ski Bowl, Klamath Falls, and Bill Brooks, Rogue River Ski shop, Medford. 40 Contestant! Compete Forty contestants of all ages competed in various events which included a snowman building contest, flying saucer race, cross country snowshoe race, obstacle ski race and a sled race. Winners were judg ed for each event and an award was made for high point winners in various age groups in all events. In the junior event, Tom mie Broadbent, 13, was first; Kenny Mabery, 9, second; and Judy Fulton, 11, third. The children's competition was won by Reggie Bowder, 7, first; Dennis Mabery, 7, and Jay Bowdler, 8, tied for sec ond, and Joyce Fulton, 8, was third. The women's event was won by Patty Trulove, first; Eliza beth Novak, second; and Gladys Gerald, third. Excellence Impeded Prizes were also awarded to contestants whose excellence was impeded by hard luck, such as nose dives on snow shoes, run away flying saucers or ending up head firt in steep snow banks. The award of excellence was won by Steve Trulove for his spectacular contortions which hampered his otherwise competent per formance in the various events, one of which was a double somersault when his rapidly moving sled become stuck in the deep snow. Refreshments were served by the Sitz Mark Ski club which included , a campfire wiener roast, and hot choco late and coffee served at the site of the various events. Capitol Memo Payment of Taxes With Stamps Will Bring Many Frowns iNew 'Eye' Made For Weathermen By DOUGLAS GRIPP Salem -(UPD. Please don't pay your income tax with postage stamps. It's frowned upon by the state tax people. Most people - don't, of course. They pay by check or money order or even- cash. But some send stamps. . Don Young, state tax ac counting supervisor, explains the ' problem. If, say, only a dollar or so is involved, there is an office petty cash fund and the stamps are exchanged. Then the state sells the stamps to building employes. But sometimes a taxpayer sends in as much as $10 worth or more and ' some of the stamps are of the 50-cent and up variety. "The post office 1 won't buy them back," - he says. "We ha.ve to send them ! back to the taxpayer." Oregon tax returns for, 19 59 are rolling . in but, oddly enough, even with the new short card, form, at about last year's rate. Thus far, in fact, they're a little behind. At this time last year about 58,000 returns had been re ceived versus 55,000 this year. Young says it may be be cause ' even -.though the new form is simpler, it is foreign to the taxpayer. Most of those who are filing early, as in past years, are those who get re funds. Perennially, those who have to pay wait as long as they can. ' . . So far 1,500 pink refund checks haye been mailed. More than half of the 550,000 taxpayers in the state will re ceive them this year. Most taxpayers seem to be converting to the card form with a minimum of confusion, according to the Tax Commis sion. Anyway, very few com plaints have been received. Some taxpayers are not rounding off amounts to the nearest dollar, which you're NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT New York -(UPD- Americans spend an estimated $50 mil lion a year on pepper and will likely spend more this year because of recent sharp rises in the price of the spice. So blame the high price on al leged efforts by Chinese trad ers to corner the market and others on a sharp drop in pepper production in Indo nesia because of unstable po litical conditions. supposed to do this year A few are sending in the new abbreviated worksheet with the card although that is -supposed to be retained for. the taxpayer's record. . This is the first year that each return is not checked for accuracy and deducations as it comes in. Later on, field workers will audit most of the returns. Meanwhile, electronic equipment spots any big er rors or what seems to the machine to be improper deductions. Baltimore -weathermen - and Amateur there are a lot of them will go for this one. A portable, motorized little instrument to provide highly accurate relative- humidity readings and dewpoint tem peratures has been developed by industry. The Psychron. a new type of psychrometer, was de veloped by the Bendix Avia tion Corp. for the U.S. Weath er Bureau. But it will be available also for commercial applica tions wherever the amount of moisture in the air plays a vital role, such as in the aging of steaks or cheese, as well as for the weather prophets operating on an amateur basis out of their own homes. . There are about 8.000 pub lic hospitals in India. 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