MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1960
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Family
Council
Editor's Notei The Family coun
ell consist! of a. Judre. a Dsvchia-
trlst, three clergymen, newspaper
editor, a women's editor and twe
writers. Each article is a summary
of an actual case history. The
Council reports on orohlenis thai
have been dealt with by responsible
agencies ana counselors.
Louise A I can't bear be
ing uprooted again.
Alfred A Is she with me
or against me?
Louise A. A woman mar
ries for a home, but I'm be
ginning to feel that the only
way I'll ever get a home is
to get unmarried. Imagine
moving five times in ten
years, and now Alfred asks
me to pack again:
I feel within my rights to
take a firm stand now. Either
he finds some other work or
he moves without me and the
children, even if it leads to a
legal separation. If he really
loved us he wouldn't uproot
us every time we start to feel
like part of a neighborhood.
Think of what it means to
me and the children to have
to start making new friends
again. Al Junior is particular
ly timid and it was such a
victory for him to be admit
ted to the Cub Scout troop
here.
I'm tired of trying to fit
old curtains on new windows
and planting things I can
never watch grow. At last I
have the .things that really
matter a home and friends.
Alfred shouldn't ask me to
leave them again.
Alfred A. Is Louise acting
like a wife or a Chamber of
Commerce? I agree that our
present setup is great, but I've
been offered the assistant
manager's berth in a brand
new factory in Arkansas,
while here I'm a floor fore
man. It's a big step for me,
and she should be jumping
for joy.
While it's true we've moved
pretty often, the first two
homes were to have more
room for the children. We
didn't leave our home state
until I started to work for
this company six years ago.
They have branch offices and
want you to circulate for
about 15 years before they as
sign you to one where you
can hope to put down stakes.
Louise knows this. It may
be hard on her and the kids
to have to drop old ties and
dig up new ones every few
years, but if she'll only play
along with the company
another ten years or so, her
reward will come. She'll be
the wife of a regional execu
tive. And regional executives
in our outfit are resident
executives. They stay put.
Whatever is good for me is
good for Louise and the chil
dren. If she goes back on me
now, she'll be reneging as
both a wife and a mother.
.
The Council: Before making
her final decision, Louise
must be reminded of the true j
meaning of the word "home."
About 2,000 years ago, a
roving Roman named Pliny
said it was "where the heart
is." .
So if Louise stays behind i
and ends her marriage in or
der to hold on to a home, she
may find herself with only a
house, a building, a shelter,
but no "home." In this highly
mobile age where opportunity
can spring up in any section
of the country, a man on the
way up must seize it. Instead
of fretting too much about
the discombobulation, Louise
might take a good look at the
trust and hope in Alfred's
eyes. That should make her
take a deep breath, count
three and then grin, "Here
we go again!"
Of course the mechanics of
moving are hard. And the
emotional wrenchings each
time are painful. But, as Al
fred promises, a settling
down period will come. Mean
while, there's the compensa
tion of seeing the world,
which can make up for the
temporary rootlessncss, espec
ially for the children.
We hope Louise straightens
out her scale of values. At
present, she attaches undue
weight to curtains, rosebushes
and goldfish. All of these
are replaceable, even if not
duplicable. What a tragedy it
would be for her to give up
the irreplaceables - Alfred's
love for her, a united family
for her children - for these!
(Copyright I960, General
Features Corp.)
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Connie McKone, wife of one of the
two RB47 officers imprisoned in Moscow, saying she is "just
waiting, just existing day to day":
"Now Christmas makes it worse. It's what we've been
dreading." i
Hollywood Eddie Fisher, scotching rumors that Elizabeth
Taylor faces losing all her teeth:
"Elizabeth just had a couple of teeth filled. But I'm the
guy who suffered. I spent six hours in the dental chair
undergoing oral surgery."
New York Computer programmer Donald Englund, stat
ing that one asset of a computer as a teaching machine is
that it will never bawl out slow students:
"They (computers) have infinite patience. Don't get emotional."
Hollywood Actor Clu Gulager, who plays Billy the Kid
on television, explaining why Billy is a good guy in the
TV series:
"There was a period in his life when Billy did behave
himself, and we're using that for the show."
Controversial Antibiotic To
Be Studied in Aplastic. Anemia
Berkeley, Calif. - IUPD - Dr.
Philip Condit said Thursday
the California Department of
Public Health soon would be
gin a survey to determine
whether a controversial anti
biotic caused any cases of
aplastic anemia, which result
ed in 405 deaths in California
the past eight years.
Condit, head of the depart
ment's communicable diseases
section, said the drug chlo
rampenicol has been linked
with aplastic anemia, an al
most incurable disease in
which blood building tissue
in bone marrow is destroyed.
But, he said, there are
other causes of aplastic
anemia. As yet it is not known
how many of the fatal cases
of the disease were connect
ed with chloramphenicol (mar
keted under the name, Chlor
omycetin).
An extraordinarily effective
"wide - spectrum" antibiotic,
chloramphenicol has been un
der a cloud since the first
deaths were reported in 1952.
Federal Warning Issued
, The Federal Food and Drug
Commission ordered manufac
turer Park-Davis Co. to label
the drug hazardous when ship
ped to druggists. It is illegal
for anyone but a physician
to prescribe it.
Because of its tremendous
effectiveness, doctors have
used it extensively for both
major and minor ills. The
American Medical Association
has warned the drug should
not be used for any but the
most serious illnesses.
But Condit said "Doctors
have prescribed this drug ap
parently without adequate
consideration to its hazards."
"There is," he said, "a need
for continuing awareness on
the part of the physician as
to the potential danger asso
ciated with the use of chlor
amphenicol. It should be used with cau
tion, and not prescribed for
patients with relatively minor
infections where another anti
biotic would be equally effec
tive," Condit added.
He said the survey, to be
gin in about a month would
attempt to determine the role
of the drug in aplastic anemia
deaths in California.
"Thus far," Condit said,
"there simply is no method of
providing complete and accu
rate data."
Dr. Malcolm Merrill, head
of the Department of Public
health, has discussed chlor
amphenicol with the Califor
nia Medical Association, which
has agreed to support the
survey.
The first, he said, would be
legislation limiting the
! amount of chloramphenicol al
i lowed in a prescription. A
! minimum time limit also
would be set for the use of
each prescribed dosage.
Condit said another method
would be to put a danger label
on the vial or bottle which is
received by the patient. At
present, only the pharmacist
receives such warning.
RESEARCH MAN DIES
Stockbridge. Mass. -(UPll--Dr.
David Rapaport, 49, former
chairman of research of the
Meninger Foundation in To
peka. Kan., died Wednesday.
EX-CHAIRMEN DIES
Philadelphia - IUPD- Joseph
S. Hildcth, 82, former chair
man of the Chilton Publishing
Co., died Wednesday.
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