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4 V" El ''. ft. v NIXON. GRAHAM VISIT - Vice President The evangelist, who has just returned from Richard Nixon pours coffee for the Rev. a 212-month trip overseas, will hold a one Billy Graham during a private luncheon in week crusade in the nation's capital in June, the vice president's office in Washington. (UPI Telcphoto) Easy Crochet 1 rii is o Set your table this way -and your family antl friends will applaud your good taste! Fun to do. Crochet any size tablecloth using this versatile filet-crochet square. Pattern 7201: easy-to-follow chart; directions for 7-inch square in No. 50 cotton. Send Thirty - five cents (coins) for this pattern - add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. Send to Med ford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P.O. 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUM BER. JUST OUT! Our New 1D60 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book contains THREE FREE Patterns. Plus ideas galore for home furnishings, fash ions, gifts, toys, bazaar sellers - exciting, unusual designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, huck weave, quilt Be first with the newest - send 25 cents nowl West Coast to Serve Calgary West Coast Airlines will be come the first of the nation's local service carriers to fly an international route follow ing presidential approval of the civil aeronautics board de cision that the company be al lowed to operate non - stop flights between Spokane, Wash., and Calgary. The flights are scheduled to begin about May 27 and will serve Medford and other stops south of Calgary to San Fran cisco through connections at Spokane. Present flights from Med ford to Calgary are available only through Salt Lake City and Great Falls, Mont. Medford IRS Office Announces Hours The Medford office of the internal revenue service will be open Monday, April 4. and from April 11 through April 15, from 8 a.m. to 4:43 p.m., it was announced today. A. G. Erickson. Portland, district director for Oregon, reported that offices through out the state will be open on a new schedule to assist tax payers for the remainder of the filing period. Tha MoHfnrrf nffirp Is In the federal office building. Sixth St. and North Riverside ave Meteor dust streams through which the earth regu larly passes may influence raw- V -V'v.V I -if .r.'.v .j The Owl I, Lucky He Has No 'NW The human taste buds hav a pretty limited range. They fall down terribly. Were it not for our sense of smell we could force ourselves to eat most anything and not be con cerned with taste of any food we put in our mouth. Actually, we have the abil ity to distinguish only things that are sweet, sour, bitter or salty. If our smelling ability is impaired, either by a bad head cold or any other cause, then even those four would also fail us and everything we eat would be flavorless. But not being able to detect food by its odor or possessing the faculty of smell is no hand icap to that class of warm blooded animals we call birds. These creatures have to de pend on other senses, such as hearing or seeing, and the actual eating becomes more or less just a desire to feel a fullness in the crop c stom ach. Doesn't Mind The bird doesn't mind. It can gobble down grain, var ious seeds, insects, worms and Marvelous Mixers Easy-sew sun trio! Blouse, side-buttoned skirt, boy shorts mix happily all summer - cost so little to sew in solid cotton or gay print, denim, pique. Printed Pattern 9229: Miss es' Sizes 10, 12, 14. 16. 18, 20. Size 16 blouse takes 1 yards 35-inch; shorts 1'4; skirt 3H yards. Send Thirty - five cents (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept.. 232 West 18th St., New York 11 N.Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. JUST OUT! Big, new 1980 Spring and Summer Pattern Catalog in vivid, full color. Over 100 smart stylet ... all sizes ... all occasions. Send 1 p a. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins I other materials without hav ing enjoyed the faintest flavor or taste in its mouth. Of course there are insects that the bird may eat that cause it discomfort or even sickness; or in the case of bees, wasps and hornets actual pain. So the bird learns, probably by the color, shape or size those foods that are better left alone. Once the lesson is learned the bird will avoid them in the future. Memory takes the place of smell. The fact that a bird can remember these things, prob ably for all its life, can be proved by feeding a young bird, raised in captivity, a worm or bug that is objec tionable. After the second or third encounter, the voune bird will refuse that kind of food. Inasmuch as it cannot smell it must depend on its memory or how the "bad bug' looks. The young bird in the nest, when fed by the parent birds, will never be offered objec tionable worms or bugs, for the parents themselves would avoid them. When it leaves the Best, the youngster is on its own and must learn from experience. It soon knows what to grab and what to leave alone. The inability to smell comes in handy to a few bird species, especially to those that are flesheaters such as the owls, hawks, buzzards and eagles. The scavenger birds such as the buzzards would be in a sad state if they could smell, for these birds feed on car rion or flesh that it putrified; flesh so vile that even a man with a bad head cold could hardly stand It in the near vicinity. Likes Dead Skunk The great horned owls pre fers dead skunk meat to most any other food and is prob ably one of the skunk's worst enemies. The owl, with its feathers and the entire neighborhood reeking with the potent scent, will gobble down the carcass of a dead skunk. Where the horned owl is concerned, the poor skunk is defenseless. The stupid skunk just can t understand that its enemy with the sharp talons and the tearing beak has no more abil ity to smell than a human with a bad cold in his head. reur IquiUblt raprtuntitive JIM METZ 1310 Ridgtwiy Mtdtord, Ortgon Phont: SPrine 2-4294 to-t4 mm..uJ Western World Rings Materialism Bell But We Don t Appear as 'Happy as Kings' How to Live in Abundance Without Choking In a little couplet entitled "Happy Thought" Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." The western world is full of things, all right. We've rung the bell of materialism; we've won the cigar. No oth er civilization has even come close. But are we "huppy as kings" or do we give the lie to Stevenson's happy thought with our neuroses, our ten sions and depressions, our di vorce and alcoholism and de- linquency-our emotional trou bles? Perhaps we haven't yet learned to live with all our things. Instead of possessing them, they may possess us. We may have turned posses sion into obsession. Some peo ple do Police records in New York tell of a young couple who met in a displaced persons camp in Poland, were married in Switzerland, and then came to the United States to build a happy life. The Amer ican fairyland of things set their heads spinning. And I they promptly set about mak ing themselves "as happy as ! kings." I Began To Quarrel ! "The wife was making a rapid change-over from Euro ; pean ways of thinking and spent large amounts of money on clothes and beauty parlor treatments," the police re port states. The largess of it all apparently went to their heads. They began to quarrel. Quarreling became more bit ter. When the police entered the picture, the young wife was dead, slabbed by her hus band, and he had committed suicide. A physician's report, attached to the police rec ords, stps, "Had they stayed in Europe where there are not as many beauty parlors. Pierce Freight Drivers Honored Nineteen Pierce Freight Lines drivers received special safe driving awards from the American Trucking associa tion at a company-sponsored banquet here recently. John Clark was honored for 24 years' accident-free driv ing, and Arthur R. Davis re ceived an award for zd years' safe driving. Others who re ceived Bold pin awards for more than 10 years' without an accident were Sam Steele, 22 years; Robert Guthrie anl James Swindler, 11 years; Mason Adair, Charles Cook, Robert Cosier and Rufus Younger, 12. Joe Smith and warren Lari mer were honored for 1 year records; Wilbur Berkheimer, O. O. Caster, Marvin Smith and John Tompkins, 4 years; Joseph Caves and Fred Sim cox, 5; Leonard Negles, 6; and Harvey Hawley, 7. ATA safe driving awaras are to be given to 151 Pierce drivers at dinners throughout Oregon and northern Cali fornia during the coming weeks. In 1959 Pierce trucKers traveled 4.423,512 miles, most in the company's history, yet held accidents to a record low of 1.28 per 100,000 miles traveled, according to jonn Castner, safety director for Pierce. The reports include minor accidents, such as brok en tail lights or cracked mir rors. Our new and better high ways have been credited in part with last year's record low traffic fatality rale. Equitable Savings planned rate 4. AP0 Automatic Pay Off Savings 4Va. Thrift is a powerful habit. The more you save the more confidently you tackle the problems that life tosses in your path. It takes only a few dollars to open a high earning Equitable savings account. Then add a few dollars regu larly. That's the way to build up the money you need for a happier future. Why not Hart now by phoning me. Savings placed by the 1 0th of the month earn from the lt. OntN AN ACCOI 'ST NOW! PS mm r nrlM M I in inttfrffnl ta EqultaM Savinn hifhar Mmnaw. Pkat conuct ntf lor in rfrMMntment. Q EqaiuMf't otjmi ind nyttrnutte 1nci it 41 Mrnffifj. Q IViimaMr'l kmuI A TO. Autooilae PirCM pbl U H earnmca. nylon stockings and other such things, they would have been happy and this never would have happened." Even in less melodramatic circumstances, materialism can indeed be fatal. A doctor I know refers to "materio sclerosis" (as well as arterio sclerosis) as a major killer of our time. "It's a frequent medical syndrome," he says, "a man killing himself in the mad materialistic race-trying to be the richest man in the cemetery." The slory Is told of a suc cessful . businessman who, looking ahead, bought two choice cemetery plots for him self and his wife and then went to a stone engraver to order a pair of monuments. He instructed the stone en graver to inscribe on his wife's monument, "She Died of Things." "And what shall I inscribe on your own monument," the engraver inquired. "Put 'He Died Providing Them'," the businessman re plied. A Production Race A decade ago one often heard the phrase "Commu nist materialism," and speech makers referred to Russian culture as "the great mater ialism" which had to be checked lest spiritual values were suffocated totally. Later other speechmakers, recogniz ing that in the sheer produc tion of "things" nothing holds a candle to capitalism, warned that "the two great material isms" might knock each other out unless spiritual forces came to the rescue. Today we have still a dif ferent picture: Communism and capitalism in a race to out-produce each other. The Russians have offered it as a taunt that they will catch up to us, overtake us, and deign to wave at us as they go by. This seems slightly ridicu lous, since our problem is sur pluses. We already have an abundance, some would say an over - abundance, of "things". Yet many of us have fallen for the Russian taunt and believe our destiny is a wild race to produce more and more of what we already have too much of. Wouldn't it be wiser goal to learn how to live with the abundant material production we've achieved? Signs of the glut are' quite clearly upon us. We made au tomobiles so big they couldn't fit in our garages. We made them so long and so fancy that now we are having to make them shorter and plain- We made them so wide that Attorney General Kelso Roberts of Ontario, Canada, had to warn the manufac turers that nine models were too wide to fit legally on On tario's highways. Enough Things Our problem of production has been solved, and solved beautifully. We can produce enough "things" to embellish any life a dozen times over. Our people do not queue up and wait and vie with each other to buy a few precious household appliances, or clothes, or furnishings. Our stores are aglitter with plen ty; our merchants vie to sell. The Soviet may indeed catch up to us someday in production. That's its prob lem. Not ours. Our challenge is to make abundance add real riches to our lives, jo that material things enhance our happiness rather than throw ing us into what often is called the "rat race"-the mis erable struggle for more and Q32EB0 more with no real ability to enjoy what we have. If we learn to master "things'' instead of letting ''things" muster us, the Rus sians will never get that chance to wave condescend ingly as they pass us by. For when, and if, they reach our present levels of production we'll be far out ahead in an even more difficult race: learning how to live with our products. ' Whether material things en rich or enslave us depends on our attitude toward them. Why do we get them? To keep up with the Jonses, to satisfy infantile cravings (like a child's constant demand for new toys), to appease the neu rotic desire for more no mat ter how much we already have? A line in a popular ditty sums up the more-ism of our time: "All I want is all there is-and more." Altitude Makes Difference This is llOl to Sav that the healthy altitude is to despise material things. Moses. I im- agine, would have welcomed 'tmmm I -- x " , r i .!' - -jJi h v;; , - . - - ;-A ; ? - V: " - ? i:: "Four-wheel independent suspension totally unlike any other U.S.-built car". . ."air cooled aluminum engine ... not dependent on the properties of a liquid coolant". . . a rear-mounted transaxle "allowing a (latter floor and lower roofline. . . ," These are some of the praises heaped upon Corvair by the editors of Motor Trend the world's largest general automotive magazine in announcing their coveted Car-of-the-Year award. Other cars didn't even come close. The Motor Trend experts, who evaluated every make in the country, were unanimous in their decision, published in the, April issue. But, unless you have personally driven a Corvair, you can't appreciate what this engineering achievement really means in combining compact car ' ' for tttmomfraf trmniportmtion economy and agility with big car ride, room and sure- rat footedness. Drop down to your dealer's, take a trial t jf m rfa 1 1 drive and then judge the Car of the Year for yourself 1 BY CHEVROLET See your hr.nl authorized Chevrolet, dealer for fast delivery, favorable deals! 9th at BARTLETT a Diesel streamliner tor the sojourn through the wilder ness. I don't doubt that Mo hammed would have consid ered an air-conditioner an as set in the desert. Jesus, no doubt, would have accepted the tractor and the harvester as a boon to the farmers of Judea. There is nothing wrong with "things." It's our atti tude toward them which makes all the difference. A healthy altitude has four hallmarks: 1. Your possessions become a part of you. The things you acquire are extensions of your person. Like the house you live in they become a reflec tion of you and a part of you. Thus you choose them with care. They are images of your taste. It has been said, "Show me a man's possessions and I have met the man." 2. You love and care for your possessions. An infant breaks his toys, Some adults follow the same pattern, us ing and destroying; they are literally consumers, consum ing and annihilating the things in their possession. But heallhy possession involves p.n-o Thp malnrinn chiMI shifts from breaking toys to fixino thnm. The mniurn adult gives love and care to what See Tin Dinah Shore COURTESY CHEVROLET MEDFORD he owns, gets Joy and the pride of possession in return. Must Earn Things i. You help create, or make some sacrifice for your pos sessions. To get is to have, but to earn is to own. When you create something yourself -a table In your basement workshop or a hooked rug you feel it really belongs to you. You have poured your self into it. You also have in vested something of yourself when you patiently put aside a little money this week, next week, and the week after so lhat you can buy a thing your heart is set on. You get the I return of your sacrifice - in satisfaction . you are able to enjoy your possessions. You buy a child a new toy and after a few days he tires of it; he wants another shiny play thing. You say, "Oh well, he's Just a child." Some children never get over it. Tney be come adults whose lives must be embellished with one bau ble after another; they tire as soon as the shine wears off. But with a healthy attitude toward possession, one grows more fond of It is possessions as time goes on. He devotes time and interest to them. He is rewarded, in turn, with in creased enjoyment. Possessions, after all, are only a means toward a better life - not ends in themselves. J Sunday-Seeking the Meaning 0! Lite (D'slr"S.!f.d 1 b Jhe Rosier and Tribune Syndientei Chr sho Sundays, NBC-TV-the Pat Boone MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or., I fridjy, April I, 1940 A Uranium has been used (or years as a color influence in ceramics and glass. Made to pamper your eat . . . they're not just flavor they're the real thing. LIVER 'n MEAT KIDHEV '0 MEAT CHICKEN MEATY MIX CHOPPED FISH Chevy Showroom weekly, ABC-TV PHONE SP 2-6115 heavy rainfalls. nowl Only 25c f4lttMtsrtintiMMbnMats)MCi la lwtftafmaTirmbiM
