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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1960)
o Family Council . Editor's Note: The Family Coun cil consists of a Judge, a psychia. rJi. lnree clergymen, a newspaper aitor, a women's editor and two Writers. Each article Is a summary an actual case history. The J-ouncll reports on problems that unu oeait with by responsible Agencies and nnrniMlnn. i Janet T. - They treat me ke a child. Mrs. L.T. - She's a strange auticult girl. ' Janet T. - I am 17 and about to go into my senior year at high school. I have a summer job, which I have been told I'm handling very wen. I think that because of my age and the fact that I'm practically independent, my parents should learn to treat me like a grownup. Instead, they treat me like a 12-year-old. My mother is worse than my father. She criticizes everything I do. I feel I should be allowed to spend my hard earned money any way I please, but she always has something to say about it. The other day I bought some clothes and she returned them without even telling me. I love my mother very much, but sometimes I wish I didn't have to live with her. Mrs. L.T. - Janet is the strangest, most difficult girl I've ever seen. In many ways she is sensible and mature, but at times she acts even younger than 12 years old. We were proud of her for having gotten a good job all by herself and I was prepared to let her use her money as she liked, but she started spending so foolishly I had to interfere. For example; she fell in love with a particular kind of shoe. She ordered it in seven colors - even though she is so uncomfortable in it she has to hobble around. She knows she is expected to buy part of her school wardrobe for fall with her earnings, but so far she has saved practically noth ing. She breaks into tears if I point that out. The Council: Although Janet does appear to be more uneven in her development than most girls her age, she sxhibits the typical lack of balance that so unnerves the parents of most teen-agers. Since Janet has shown enough judgment and sense of responsibility to get and hold a good job for the sum mer, it is safe to assume she has enough mental develop ment to do much better at spending than she has done. From her actions as de scribed by both herself and her mother we get the im pression that despite her de mands to be treated like a grownup she would really pre fer to be treated like a little girl. Like most teen-agers, Janet finds the thought of becoming an adult thrilling and frightening. She still isn't sure she'll ever make the grade and she wants to remind her parents that she is still a child and needs their care. Mrs. L. T. is not helping her by playing into her hands and treating her like a child. Certainly, she should have given her daughter her opin ion of the seven pairs of shoes, but she should have dropped it at that. It would have done Janet good to know that nobody is going to fish her out of her troubles. If she buys seven pairs of un comfortable shoes and finds herself with no money for a fal wardrobe, she should be forced to live with the situa tion. The L. T.'s shouldn't give in to Janet's desire to be treated like a child. Grad ually, she will learn that it is the essence of grown-upness, Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1960 PAGES 1 to 10 I SE: l-2y"i. ; 1 WW LAUNDRY DRIED - Four-year-old Johnny Huston of Chicago steals an idea from his mother as he hangs his stuffed toys out to dry on the clothes line at his home. Johnny gave the toy animals one of their infre quent cleanings and found ears of most of them the most appropriate place to hang them by with mom's clothes pins. (UPI Telephoto) Festival Plays To Be Taped For National Release Ashland - NBC Producer Andrew C. Love is conducting special rehearsals at the Ore gon Shakespearean Festival in Ashland preparatory to a pair of far-ranging broadcasts. Both shows-will be taped at the Festival theater Saturday starting at 1 p.m., and the public is invited to attend without charge. Love and his wife have been vacationing in the Rogue valley since the Festival's July 25 opening. He will sup ervise both radio programs and will stay an additional week to produce complete cast recordings of the entire repertory season. , For the first year, all of the shows will be captured on tape in complete form, with special microphone techniques and studio control. In the past, the plays- have been taped during , performance. Extra neous noises and varieties in pick-up have , limited their use. Many schools, colleges, and radio stations have asked for uncut recordings. Nationwide Release The 10th annual broadcast for nationwide release on the National Broadcasting com pany will be excerpts from Robert Loper's staging of "The Taming of the Shrew." It will be released from New York at 5:06 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, Monday, Aug. 15. The special 60 minute radio dramatization will be a cut ting from Richard Risso's cur rent production of "Richard II." This program, distributed privately by the Festival, will be aired throughout the Unit ed Stated and in many parts of the world via Armed Forces Radio. Dress rehearsal is set for 10 a.m. Saturday. Gates open for the public at 12:30 p.m. and the broadcast session be gins at 1 p.m. At 1:45, the hour show will be recorded. Special amplification equip ment will make it possible for the audience at the theater to hear the entire process.- not to worry about how one is treated, but to act like an adult. General Features Corp.) (Copyright I960, Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Ignored by Family and Friend this Duck Despaired Ecnie and Meenie were two female mallard ducks. They looked alike, and both ap peared to be rattlebrained; they were always gabbling when they should have been listening. But, I suppose "mis ery loves company," even among ducks, for when the time came to build their nests, they decided to work togeth er, as a team. They sat side by side, and between them they laid 37 eggs. It was impossible to tell whose eggs were whose. When one went to the water cooler for a drink, or to gossip with a neighbor about the events of the day, the other duck shift ed over and tried to cover all the eggs. When the first one returned, ' she pushed and shoved until she felt the fa miliar pressure of the eggs under her: Then and only then would she remain placidly content. Whether either one had all the eggs or just a few made no difference. The push-pull contest went on for three or four weeks. We who watched wondered what the outcome was going to be; one thing seemed cer tain, the two ducks would probably divide the family, and everything would be just "ducky." An Explosion Then one day the hatching began; it was almost like an explosion. First there was a nest of eggs and suddenly the eggs were empty and little balls of golden fluff were run ning everywhere. And each fluff ball had two bright, beady eyes, two legs, and a desire to get going. It seemed to be time for the division of the harvest. Eenie walked off and the whole bevy of ducklings fol lowed her. Meenie screamed and raved. She half raised her wings, and pursued the teem ing family to the water's edge. Eenie hurled vocal abuse over her feathered shoulder, which Meenie evidently understood. In the duck world there had occurred a catastrophe. The next day was the same. The little ducks followed Eenie. Their other co-parent, who had laid part of the eggs and done an equal share of the setting, got the cold shoulder. Conditions wors ened as the days passed. Meenie accepted the hard hearted abandonment with a sadness that was evident in every line of her being. She refused to eat, and spent her time setting under a bush; bill partly open, wings half spread and a look of abject forlorn ness in every feather. Ignored Her Occasionally she quacked plaintively, but she had stopped trying to win back her share of the family. Eenie ignored her completely, she paraded her enlarged family past the sorrowing duck with a scornful cruelty. I had no way of knowing how deep an emotion Meenie was suffering. But a few days later, I think I found out. One morning, Meenie was not under the bush; the little depression in the sand was empty. Later I found her, in the pond, just a few feet from the shore. She was motion less; little ripples of water U.S. Expected To Have Battle In Obtaining Castro Sanctions By LOUIS STEIN Rio de Janeiro (UPD Diplo matic sources here believe the United States will have an up hill battle in gaining any real sanctions against Cuban Pre mier Fidel Castro when the Organization of A m e r i can States (OAS) takes up the two nations' differences on Aug. 16. The sources said the foreign ministers who will sit down at the meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica - while sympathiz ing with the United States -will be reluctant to go on record as censuring Castro because they fear the reaction at home if they do so. An indication of how touchy the problem is showed itself in the wrangle over where the meeting would be held. No nation wanted to host it, but finally, tiny Costa Rica consented. The diplomats feared a repi tition of the rioting which in terrupted the 1948 Bogota Conference which wrote the OAS charter. Castro himself took part in these riots. And, recent successful mob action aimed at the United States has encouraged Com munists to come out into the open. As one authority, said, "you can bet your life they will do all in their power to sabotage the meeting." Nationalists in Brazil and other Latin nations feel Cas tro is on the right track. Also, they have little sympathy for foreign investors whose prop erty he confiscated. South American middle-of-the-roaders agree that Castro has gone too far in suppress ing Cuban liberties, but feel that strong pressure from the OAS will only alienate any chance of wooing him back into the Democratic camp. U.S. envoys will be work ing long into the coming nights until conference time seeking firm South American commitments to stand behind the Rio Mutual Assistance Pact and the Caracas declar ation. If they don't succeed, they will be facing burgeon ing Communist peril at their back door. But, the sources here said it is highly unlikely that Latins will agree to any dras tic action against Cuba such as joint intervention, OAS quarantine or economic sanc tions. They believe the ques tion is more apt to be sent to the OAS Peace Commis sion - otherwise, the members will adopt a wait-and-see atti tude. Some influential Brazilians regard the Cuban revolution as an example of what can happen throughout Latin America unless the United States give) top priority to the vast development program envisaged in President Jus- celino Kubitschek's "Operatio Pan-American." Two years ago, Brazilians warned of the danger of re surgent right and left wing dictators if the majority of Latin Americans continued to live in poverty. Met With Coolness President Eisenhower's re cent announcement of an ex panded Latin American aid program was met here with some coolness. Kukitschek himself warned that "partial or emergency assistance will not suffice" in winning the cold war in the Western Hemi sphere. And, newspapers comment ing on the announcement worried whether the new aid would be "too little and too late." They also agreed that the program reflected U.S. re action to Cuba's Communist leaning and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's declar ation that Russia would usa rockets to prevent the U.S. from interfering in its foot hold in Cuba. . ., CLOGSTOM'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimates Gladly Phone SP 1-1014 Evenings QUEEN SIZE RATTAN CHAIR 99 Gary Crosby To Have Examination Las Vegas, Nev.-(UPD-Singer Gary Crosby has cancelled en gagements for the rest of the month to undergo a thorough medical examination. Gary, 27, oldest of crooner Bing Crosby's sons, has been suffering off and on from a throat ailment. A doctor said Thursday the young singer now was generally run down from dieting. Gary was forced to cut short an engagement at the Flamingo Hotel this week and he also has cancelled a two-week engagement at a Sunset Strip nightspot in Hollywood. kicked up by a gentle wind, were splashing over her back. The water ran off, as it is supposed to do from a duck's back, but Meenie's head was in an unnatural position-it was under water; it evidently had been for sev eral hours. Meenie, in her de spondency, had taken her own life. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) BAR-B-Q TUMBLE BASKET $4.98 VALUE 49 Perfect for barbecuing chicken sections, spareribi. etc. Self basting. Easy to clean. ELEGTRIG GHARLIGHTER $4.95 VALUE 2 95 ghti charcoal approved. in minutes. Cool hardwood handle. BAR-B-Q MITT oec Cm3 SURFACED LUMBER Bargain Dimension Saturday $ A.M. Only! per Unit Timber PkctOSs Company MIOFORB Sage and McAndrews Road you are invited to A FESTIVAL OF PHONICS or Ao- - 7. 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