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MEDFORD. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Thursday. August 18. 1960 The Family Council Editor. Note: Tht Family Council consists of t Judgo, a psycbUttt.. fcnrca clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers Each article la a summary of an actnal ase history. The Council reports problems that hay been do! wi at by responsible asencles and counselors. Sandra E. I feel sick with I love for him. Mm. L. E She will be laughing stock. Sandra E. I am IB and deeply in love with a boy a year older. He now has a sum mer job in the country and we haven't been able to see one another for nearly two months. I write to Herb nearly every day, but he says he is working very hard and only has time to write once or twice a week. But I'm afraid he's not telling the truth. He may be meeting other girls there. His letters are not very affectionate. My mother says I should stop writing to him, but I don't want him to forget me. I feel just sick with love for him. When I write to him I feel he is near me and I'm so lonely without. We went steady all last year. Mn, L. E. I'm afraid San dra is going to get very badly hurt. She spends most of her days writing passionate love letters to Herb and then goes into the deep blues when she gets a funny post card in answer. I never discouraged her going out with Herb because I felt the friendship wasn't serious and Sandra showed no signs of being in love. In fact, she was often inconsiderate and even cruel to the boy. But the minute Herb went away, Sandra started this letter-writing campaign. I have warned her that he may show the letters to other boys and girls and she will be a laugh ing stock. That doesn't stop her. The Council! Sandra shows a degree of insight into her situation when she says she feels "sick." . But, like most patients, she can't diagnose the disease. It is boredom, rather than love, that is plaguing her. we are fairly certain that if Sandra had a summer job herself, she wotlld not feel sick and she would forget about Herb for days at a time. She would probably meet another boy or two 'ho would interest her and would hard ly find the time to send Herb funny post cards. .' No mother can talk a 16-year-old who wants to be in love out of her feelings. But she can try to direct her at tention elsewhere. A teenager should have some definite project for the summer months. A girl of Sandra's age should be able to get a job as a babysitter for a few hours a day. She might also work at a day camp or take a summer course. . There are other wonderful absorbing projects. The girl who learns to sew over the summer and whip up a beauti ful fall wardrobe. Or she might become the family cook for the summer. She could be thrilled to see the family en joy dinners for which she has been completely resopnsible. Of course, it is foolish for her to write passionate love letters. Even If her boy friend is too nice to reveal these personal messages to others, Sandra herself will eventually be extremely embarrassed at the thought that he has them. Sandra needs to be encou raged to get busy doing some thing better with the hours that now hang heavily on her hands. (Copyright 1960, General ' Features Corp.) Velvet Fabric Aids In Overcoming Fear Of Cats for Woman London - (Science Service) - If you are "scared to death" of cats, it may help to wear velvet gloves. Dr. H. L. Freeman of Lit tlemore hospital, Oxford, and Dr. D. C. Kendrick, lecturer in psychology at the Univer sity of London's Institute of Psychiatry, have reported a case in which a patient was cured of cat phobia by forcing herself to handle velvet until she got used to it. The patient, a 37-year-old married woman with two children, had had a fear of cats as long as she could re member. It had intensified in the two years before she con sulted a psychologist. The in terview revealed that the situations that produced fear were, in order of importance: the sight of a real live cat; the thought of a cat that might attack her as she walk ed down the street; the thought of meeting a cat in the dark; cats in pictures and on television; cat - like toys Soviet Olfici Plan To Wipe Out Malaria This Year Washington -(Science Sarv- ice)- Soviet health officials seek to completely eradicate malaria in Russia this year and to reduce diphtheria, rabies, hookworm disease, and Taeniarhynchus (a beef tape worm) infestation to the point of sporadic occurrence by 1965, according to a transla tion by the Central Intelli gence Agency here. At the present time, malaria as well as tularemia have al most been wiped out, accord ing to L. A. Sakvarelidze, deputy chief of the State Sani tation Inspection of the Minis try of Health in the USSR, whose report appeared orig inally in Meditsinskaya Ses tra. Cholera, plague, black smallpox and parasitogenic typhus infections have been completely eradicated, he re ports. In January, a conference called by the Ministry of Health and other medical groups evaluated health serv ices at regional and local levels and found them to be considerably improved, but they are still concerned over communicable diseases and the use of vaccines to curb them. To ease the burden on doc tors, the Ministry plans to train subprofessional person nel, such as midwives, in im munization and epidemiology By 1965, health agencies hould have made a sizable reduction in the incidence of polio, typhoid fever, whoop ing cough, tetanus, Druceuo- and cat-like fur. Could Touch Dog She was not afraid of a cat's mewing and ' could easily touch the hair of a dog. On two occasions as a child she had been very disturbed in situations involving cats. One was when her father drowned a kitten in her presence and the second was when her parents put a fur in her bed. The patient was eager to overcome her fear and agreed to undergo learning and be havior therapy, more specific ally "reciprocal inhibition," a technique derived from ex perimental psychology. The therapist began by try ing to teach the patient to accept what she felt was the least objectionable idea as sociated with cats - their fur. To do this, a number of ma terials were prepared. The first was velvet, which has some of the texture oi cat fur. Gradually the patient progressed until she could be comfortable with a rabbit-fur glove, a toy kitten and pic tures of cats. The psychologist then pick ed out a live kitten with a mild disposition and gave it to the patient who laughed and cried as she accepted it. She explained later that she wept because of the relief of having done something sne thought impossible for ner. Acceptance- of the kitten oc curred one month after ther apy began. Became Lets Afraid The patient took the kitten home to keep and as it grew she became less and less afraid of full grown cats. Eventually the patient was able to pet her mother's black cat, which had seemed par ticularly frightening to her. Whereas previously a 1 1 cats had an almost uniformly sinister aspect," the psycholo gists report in the British Medical Journal, "she could now see individual differ ences." Hi Prooman wax at Reth- lem Royal and Maudsley hos pital. London, while conduct ing the investigation. Man Drove Before, Not After, Drinking Jackson, Miss. - A 37-year- old motorist won acquittal on a drunk driving charge with this explanation in Municipal Court: . - After he was involved, cold j sober, in a two-car collision, he went Into a nearby tavern to talk to the other driver. 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