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The Family Council
Editor's Note: The Family Council consist of a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers
Each article Is a summary of an actual rase history. The Council reports
on problems that have been deals
counselors.
Jerry J. She might be
come ill again if she goes to
work.
AdeU J. I've never felt
more energetic in my life.
Jtrry J My wife and I
have been married 14 years
and have three youngsters,
ranging from 4 to 8.
My wife worked until our
second child was born. I had
a low-paying job, but was
going to college nights to tram
for a better career. I didn't
want Adele to work after our
first was born, but she insist
ed. At last she became ill
from the strain of caring for
a household and a lob and
the doctor ordered her to
quit.
Unfortunately. I have not
yet made the best connections
job-wise and we are still pret
ty bad off financially. How-ever,-I'm
hopeful that things
will soon improve. Adele
wants to go back to work un
til they do, but I'm afraid
she'll become ill again and
that will make matters worse.
Adele J. All of Jerry's ob
jections to my working are
nonsense. He knows very well
that the doctor has given me
a clean bill of health, but he
keeps saying that I'm really
not strong enough and the
kids need me, etc. Anything
to keep me home.
I have never felt more en
ergetic in my life. My mother
is more than willing to take
care of the kids. She's just
crazy about them and spends
all her time with them any-
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way. My old boss is dying to
have me back. So what's there
to crab about?
I feel Jerry always resent
ed my working. I only want
to help him on his feet. The
poor guy has had the toughest
breaks getting his start.
The Council: There is more
than one way of helping a
man to his feet. The way
Adele suggests would more
likely pull the ground from
under Jerry's feet.
Adele shows some under
standing when she says she
has a feeling Jerry always re
sented her working. Why did
she persist? Why didn't she
give her husband the oppor
tunity to take on his full re
sponsibility as breadwinner
when he wanted it so much?
Why does she now threaten
to take away his normal and
rightful function though he
fights tooth and nail? .
There is a strong possibili
ty that Adele is largely re
sponsible for her husband's
"tough breaks." He is con
scious of the fact that his wife
has so little confidence in him
that she is prepared to leave
three small children home,
and he must approach each
new possibility with the fear
of defeat uppermost in his
mind.
Just as Adele is anxious to
usurp her husband's rightful
role, her mother seems to
have moved in on hers. Pos
sibly this woman is the root
of the problems. Adele feels
forced out of the house by her
mother who spends all day
with her children. With her
mother around constantly,
Adele cannot possibly feel
like a mother herself. She
seems to show little sense of
responsibility for her chil
dren., She should be aware
that this is her one and only
chance to bring up her own
family in the way she thinks
best. Her mother cannot pos
sibly do this for her.
When Jerry expresses fears
that Affele will become ill
again, he is also saying, "You
belong to the weaker sex.
Earning a living calls for a
strong man." Adele should
take the hint and confess to
a little feebleness. It might
strengthen her husband.
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Chicago-(Science Service)
The use of cadaver blood for
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be somewhat ghoulish to some
persons, but that would not
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a Chicago surgeon said here.
Blood from a dead person
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a living person. However,
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ily and legal problems to hur
dle on the sides of both the
donor and recipient, Dr. Leo
M. Zimmerman said in a talk
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Blood Transfusions."
Once the person is dead, he
pointed out, the remains legal
ly belong to his next of kin,
who has the say-so about what
happens to the body.
Must Have Task Force
Another disadvantage, he
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transfusion task force must
be roaming the city at all
times ready to speed to the
scene of death and draw the
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Also, there is no need for
such blood, since American
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with blood from live profes
sional and volunteer donors.
Dr. Zimmerman said that ca
daver blood transfusions were
begun by Soviet scientist
Serge S. Yudin at the Sklifos-
ovskii Institute in Moscow in
1930. Since then, more than
27,000 such transfusions have
been performed there.
Doe Not Clot
The Russians claim as ma
jor advantages of this tech
nique the facts that cadaver
blood does not clot, or if it
does, it quickly liquefies
again, and that eight pints
can be drawn from one sub
ject, whereas only one pint
can be safely taken from a
live donor at one time.
However, cadaver blood is
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donor has died suddenly. The
Russians eliminate those
bodies with open wounds
where infection can enter.
They do not use blood until
a complete autopsy has been
performed to be sure the vic
tim had no disease that might
be carried in the blood stream.
Blood transfusions date back
to the last century when, an
English obstetrician prevent
ed death from hemorrhage
after childbirth by adminis
tering the fluid with ,a quill
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Polar Bear, Once Circus Star,
Baffles Children at Denver Zoo
Denver (UPD Velox, the
blind old polar bear, has baf
fled little children at the Den
ver City Park Zoo for nearly
24 years. They wonder how
she can walk so sure-footed
along the edge of her pool
without stumbling into the
water.
The answer is simple. Velox
once was the star performer
in a circus tight-rope walking
act, until she was retired for
poor eyesight.'
Go By Sense
"They go by sense more
than sight anyway," says 72-year-old
Clyde Hill, who re
tired last year after 36 years
as zoo director. His father
was the pioneer director of
the zoo, so Hill has spent
most of his life around ani
mals. Hill believes the bear's
blindness is a blessing rather
than a handicap. It got her
out of the circus act and into
the finest of polar bear en
closures. "She is the happiest and
most fortunate polar bear
we've ever had here." Hill
says. "People who see her
pacing back and forth in her
pen say 'oh, that poor blind
bear,' but she isn t miserable;
she's a happy bear."
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There were times when
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WINTER
Winter is past. Spring and- almost summer-like weather
are with us. The time has come to look back over the season
just past and take note how it has tieea for birds.
The season was exceptionally dry through the fall and
early winter. We caught up quite a bit on our needed rainfall
in February and early March. Then came the heat. We had
six days in a row with the temperature 80 or above. This
I have never seen here before. I guess nobody else has either,
because it is a new record.
This warm weather has more effect on plants and insects
than it does on bird life. The return of birds from the south
depends more on the calendar and the increase of daylight,
although it is sometimes slowed by stormy weather.
Se we have, for this date just about the normal number
of birds that have come back. We have three kinds of
swallows, tree, violet-green and rough-winged. The tree is
the blue-backed swallow; the violet green has a green back
with IJttle violet patches not usually visible in life; and the
rough-winged is the brown-packed one that nests in holes
in banks. The pretty cinnamon teal have returned, too, and
may be seen on the ponds along Gregory rd. Turkey vultures
are another spring arrival, and at the other end of the size
scale, rufous hummingbirds.
Now that we have brought things up to the present, let
me go back and comment on the past. Our Christmas Bird
Count was duly recorded in the Mail Tribune. That account
said we found 79 species. I later discovered I had omitted
one that we had seen, a Spotted sandpiper, so we actually
found 80. This was pretty good for a winter day (Dec. 30)
with fog covering most of the valley. It was friends and
readers of my last previous column that helped us locate
at least two of these, barn owls and pileated woodpecker.
I have found that it pays to write colmuns. Some of our most
interested bird records have come from readers of these
columns.
It is interesting how each year some kinds of birds come
up scarce and other unusual ones show up, or come in greater
numbers. We had just one year with a considerable number
of evening grosbeaks (early 1958). This year I haven't seen
any and have heard only one report of them in the valley.
Even more striking has been the shortage of varied thrushes
(Alaskan robins). Usually we have an abundance of them
on our place, especially from January on. This year one
came to the place just once, and I have had very few other
reports.
In compensation we have one fine bird that has appeared
in greater numbers this winter and early spring the moun
tain bluebird. Our common bluebird here is the western. It
has a red breast. The mountain bluebird is blue all over, a
lighter shade than the commoner variety. I think they are
like a bit of heaven come down to earth. I love them. They
were found on the Christmas count and we have seen them
several times since, on Cherry Lane and at several points
along Antelope rd.
Some people don't know that we have a colony of magpies
in pur valley. They are usually found around the base of
Pompadour Cliff at the foot of the Dead Indian grade. The
time we looked for them this year there seemed to be more
than in the past we thought about 8 or 9. Birds are hard
to count because they keep flying around and you can't be
sure whether you have a new one or the same one in a new
place.
I had the pleasure of taking two small birding trips this
year. All pleasure trips are birding trips with me. I got my
wife to go with me to Redding and we looked for birds down
along the Sacramento River. We saw an Anna's humming
bird in a manzanita bush and heard California thrashers
sing. More recently the whole family and one extra boy went
to the beach and had one whole day of birding, or playing
on the beach for the boys. We found a wonderful 'place to
stay where the cabin looked out on the bay of the Smith
River, where many interesting birds came. A flock of sander
lings and a flock of black turnstones joined each other on the
pebbles and sand just below the cabin. T.M.
4-H Club
Phoenix Flying Stitchers
The Phoenix Flying Stitch
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school home ec room. We had
three new members. Terry
Campbell served refresh-
ments. Our next meeting will
be held April 9.
Linda Rasmussen,
Reporter
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We studied on the care of the
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After the meeting, Mrs. Oli
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party for her daughter, Daun
Cherie. One member was ab
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March 30 at Mrs. Oliver's
home. Judy Waltz will furnish
refreshments.
Carolyn Uhrich,
Reporter
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