WEDNESDAY, AUgUST 31, I960
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
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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.
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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
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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 ...
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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.
Luang Prabang, Laos (UPD
Neutralist leader Prince Sou
vanna Phoma took charge of
his second government in two
weeks Tuesday with the ap
proval of pro-Western forces
who had threatened the coun
try for a time with civil war.
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