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WEDNESDAY, AUgUST 31, I960 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. A 9 The Family Council l7 "" " ramuy council consists of a Juoce ,v.hl. trilt, three clereymen, three editors and ..m..'. .i.!!,-?..'"r.?- Is & summary of an actual hictn.v Tk. r"": tacn arucle ..t.l.,n. (hit h. h.. J... ,7 " ' - -"nCll iEounielor,. "sponsible Marlene L. - Should I tell Mother? reports agencies and Lillian J.-That would be tattling. Marlene L.-I am a girl of 17, very mixed up about what to do about an important matter. I have a brother who is a year younger than I am. A friend told me recently that he has been having an affair with a married woman who lives in our neighborhood. I checked up and saw him one night going out of this wom an's house. Now I don't know whether or not I ought to tell my moth er. Dad died a year ago and Mother is very upset. She has been going to work and is too tired at night to pay much attention to what we do. She usually falls asleep in front of the TV set. I spoke to my cousin, Lillian, who is my age, and she thinks it would be wrong to tell. Lillian J.-I am against tat tling about anybody, no mat ter what they do. I am also against spying.' I would never have done what Marlene did. Aside from that, I don't think It would do any good to tell. The only thing that would happen is that Mar lene's mother would be very upset. Marlene knows as well as I do that her mother can't control her brother Bill. He has been doing exactly as he pleases for years, even before his father died. I feel that Marlene is mak ing too big an issue of this. A friend of mine told me that about 90 per cent of the boys of Bill's age have similar ex periences. It doesn't harm them. It's only natural, The Council: We are cer tainly not in favor of tattling and even less of spying, but a too rigid adherence to these principles may run head-on Into other principles. If Mar lene continues to nurse her secret she is in the position of concealing important infor mation from her mother. That is hard to justify. There are other factors in volved here as well. At this point, Bill's affair has evi dently become common gossip. A group of teen-agers is dis cussing it among themselves and probably some of their parents are already in the know. The one person who ought to know, Bill's mother, is in the dark. Another important aspect is Marlene's own feelings. She is shocked and upset by what she has found out. It is evi dent that she wants to talk to her mother, probably for her own personal reasons as well as for her brother's sake. She doesn't quite know what attitude to take about sexual promiscuity on the part of boys and would appreciate a woman-to-woman talk on the subject. Instead of correct informa tion and moral guidance, Mar lene is nov getting a lot of teen-age speculation and gos sip. It is unfortunate that the mother in this case is so deep ly disturbed in her own life, but it is possible that this in formation may jolt her out of her grief and help her come to terms with the future. If she is unable to cope with her son, she would be wise to get a clergyman or close male relative to take an interest in him. Undoubtedly the boy is in need of male guidance. Marlene should certainly stop talking to outsiders about this important matter. (Copyright 1960, General Features Corp.) NEWSPAPER CLOSED Rabat - (UPD - The Moroc can government Saturday closed Tangier's only English language paper and two French papers. The "Tangier Gazette" was believed sus pended because of its criti cism of the Moroccan govern ment's change in status for Tangier. Since last April, the city has been integrated into Morocco instead of having free port status. AVIATRIX DIES Capetown-(UPI!-The dowager Laciy Bailey, 69, famed avia trix, died Monday at her home in Kenilworth. . ... jf ' BARBARA COLLAPSES Bystanders rush to aid Mrs. Barbara Powers as she collapses after arriving back in the U.S. at Idlewild airport in New York Monday. The wife of U2 pilot Francis Powers fell while making a turn into a cr ;nent walk bordering a ter minal building. She was revived and later held a press conference. (UPI Telephoto) EARTHQUAKES New Delhi - (UPD - Rolling earthquakes hit New Delhi Saturday night, injuring at least 30 persons and causing the collapse of four houses. Authorities said most of the injured were hurt fleeing their homes. CBS Coverage of Olympics Said 'Best by Default' Engineering Firm Employees Move Mountains, Make Lakes -It's All in a Day's Work By HENRY J. BECHTOLD UPI Financial bailor New York - (UPD - Moving mountains, changing the course of rivers and creating huge lakes are all in a day's work for the nearly 25,000 employees of M o r r i son -Knudsen and i t s subsidiar ies. The world wide contract- Henry Bechtoid ing and engi neering firm has been a lead ing factor in the fabulous heavy construction boom that marked the postwar era. And one of the fantastic things about it, according to newly elected President J. B. Bonny, is that the next dec ade may dwarf the "Fabulous Fifties" in the value of new construction. New Construction F. W. Dodge Corp. estimates that total new construction will rise from $54.3 billion in 1959 to $77.6 billion in 1969. New construction has accounted for something in the vicinity of 11 per cent of gross national product in typ ical recent peacetime years. And if this relation holds in 1969 the G.N.P. then would be about MOO billion. Dodge also noted that new construction during the 1960s will provide a market for more than $650 billion in goods and services. Morrison-Knudsen current ly is engaged in approximate ly 170 construction projects in 24 countries. The company began 1960 with a backlog of more than $400 million, a more than 100 per cent in crease over the previous year. Since the first of the year the Boise, Idaho, firm has added $107 million in new contracts to its books, while completing $123 million in existing contracts. Brokers, Salesmen Offered Course Real estate brokers and salesmen of Jackson and Jose phine counties will take short refesher course in resi dential appraising to be of fered by the Oregon real estate department. Gordon W. Burbee, Eugene, will conduct the course at Hedrick Junior High school Tuesday, Sept. 9, beginning at 7 p.m. Burbee is a practicing appraiser. William Healy, education supervisor for the real estate department in Salem, will pre side at the one-night session. Short courses in taxation, finance, and sales will also be held in Medford this fall. Real estate brokers and salesmen attending six of the short courses receive an education certificate of merit. The certi ficate is awarded by the Ore gon Real Estate board, of which William Frohnmayer Medford, Is a member. Washington -TOPO- Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), charged Tuesday that the country Is being flooded with "false and libelous anti-Catholic materi als" in an apparent effort to defeat Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. The company is engaged in all phases of heavy construc tion, including dams and pow er plants, tunnels, bridges, highways, airports, missile launching bases, irrigation and water supply systems, pipelines and open-pit mining projects. Largest of the company s present U. S. operations are the $93 million Wanapum Power development on the Columbia river near Vantage, Wash., and the Titan missile installations at Lowry Air Force base near Denver. The company earned $5,- 888,743 in 1959 after complet ing $236,386,000 of work on approximately 200 separate contracts, and this year ex pects to complete pproxi mately $300 million in contracts. Survey Guides Plans For Transportation Portland-UIPI)-The first step of a big survey held to guide planning for transportation in the Portland-Vancouver met ropolitan area is over. More than 100,000 residents In Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties in Ore gon and in Clark county, Wash., took part. Jay Blair.-urban studies en gineer for the State Highway department, said interviewers made 117,000 field trips of which 90,000 were in Oregon and 27,000 in Washington. They held 15,854 interviews in dwellings; talked to 2,253 truck and taxi drivers, and held 81,303 roadside inter views. Tranquilizer Could Alter Drink Effect " Chicago, (Science Service) The tranquilizer meprobamate -sold as Miltown, Equanll, Meprospan and Meprotnbs can turn a couple of drink into an alcoholic powerhouse, two physicians, a police ser geant and a Ph.D have found. At different times, the four researchers gave 10 men and 12 women volunteers an sift" nocuous drink, a drink con-, taining only meprobamate,' ay drink containing enough al cohol to produce about a .OS per cent blood alcohol level. (The .05 per cent blood level is not enough to impair a person's ability to drive, ac cording to several U.S. court decisions.) The volunteers did their worst on psychological tests after the combined meprc-1 bamate and alcohol. In the clinical judgment of two' pt the experimenters, the com bined shot produced more in toxication effects than the al cohol alone in 16 of the vol unteers. ' "On the day of the com bined drug dosage, four of the subjects were quite ob viously drunk." the research ers report in the Journal of the American Medical associa tion published here. . ': The tests were made at the. Madison State hospital in Madison, Ind., by Dr. George A. Zirkle, Drs. Otto B. Mc Alee and Peter D. King, all of the state hospital, and-Sgt. Robert Van Dyke of the In diana state police. LOOK ALIKES Billericay, England - ' (UPD Chinese waiter Shing Ah Cheung told magistrates Mon day he could not identify six men accused of passing a forged pound note in the res taurant where Shing works because "all you English peo- ' pie look alike." . By FRED DANZIG United Press International New York (UPD TV's best coverage of the Olympic Games at Rome is on CBS-TV. distinctive i - Wherever it y is served, the character and good taste of Olympia are always refreshingly the same. That is why Olympia, whether in the quart, Stubby or can, has become part of the Western tradition of outdoor entertaining. Distinctive in character... refreshing in flavor... dependably the same beoause ... "Its the Water" Olympic "A BEER " , , ' ' " ' jj , ; ' ;'' Vititon art alwayt welcome to "One ot America't Exceptant! Brtirenti," Olympia Bremni Company, Olympia, Vathtniton, U.S.A., M to 4: every day. 'Oly It's the best by default: We've got to settle for what we're getting because no other network is pitching the Olym pics at us. On the basis of the first three days, I think CBS-TV has become sluggish and flab by about its exclusive cover age. The exciting, imagina tive, in-depth coverage this same network gave us during the winter Olympics is absent this time around. And this time around they have more to deal with. Time and Distance I suspect that some of the slippage is due to time and distance. It's a big order to get all the events covered by TV cameras and tape edited for highlights and sped back to New York all in a matter of hours. The task seems too big. Maybe we'll just have to wait for those communication satellites to start operating. Cramming the available tape into a so-called "big pic ture" of the Olympic Games so that a meaningful presentation emerges also seems impossible to achieve in the half-hour and 15-minute segments CBS-TV has set aside. That big picture breaks up into bits and pieces and resembles an unmade jig saw puzzle under the circum stances. This becomes apparent by comparing Friday night's opening program a full hour with what followed on Sat urday and Sunday night. The Friday special featured the parade of athletes and it tri umphantly conveyed the meaning and the drama of the moment. The parade took place in a stadium. No prob lem with cameras. But now that the athletes are compet ing all over Rome, the TV cameras are out of position and the tapes turn out to be inadequate. ; Lois Being Overlooked Anchor man Jim McKay, stationed In New York, pro vides a resume of events on each Olympic program and his summary tells us how much we didn't get to see on TV. The sports page stories of the games also tell us how much controversy, tension and excitement is being overlooked. The network commentators aren't helping matters, either. They Identify the athletes in good fashion, but instead of outlining the fine points and the rules as was done last winter they tell us to be our own judges. Where do we begin? I hope that as the games progress and the track and field events make coverage easier, the presentations will be more professional and ful filling. Until then, no Gold Medal for the CBS-TV Olym pic team. 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