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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1961 B 7 I BUSINESS EDUCATION-One of the classes to be offered under the adult education program starting next week at Medford schools will be a class in the use of business machines. Instructor Miss Gertrude Fred rickson, above, helps student Mrs. Alyce Barber with the' operation of a calculator. The Family Council Editor's Note: The Family Council consists or a Judce, a psychia trist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Kach article is a summary of an actual case history. The Council reports on prob lems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. (Copyright 1961 General Features Corp.) Karin F. - I'm home sick. American women are so un friendly. Henni F. - She should be patient and learn to under stand Americans. Karin F. - My husband and I are from Denmark. He's in this country six years and is a teacher. I'm here four years. At first I worked for an air line, but I quit a year and a half ago when we bought a house in a large development. Our girl was born shortly after we moved in. For the past few months, I've been longing to go back to Europe. I feel too much a foreigner. I'm alone from 8 a.m. to midnight most of the week, without a car, and far from trans portation. My neighbors go shopping every day and when I asked them to take me along they said, "Oh sure." But they never do. One of them Invited me to , have coffee with her and the others. I did, but they all hol lered so loud I couldn't get into the conversation. They only come over when they need something and then it's, "Thank you, I have to rush," and out! If I can't be accepted. I want to go back among Danish women. Henni F. - I want Karin to be patient. I know it's hard for her stranded at home with out me, the car and a chance to get to the shopping center during the week. But our week ends make up for it.' She has only light mar keting then, because I pick up the staples. So we take the baby and go for outings, usual ly with friends. Some week ends we have these couples in visiting us. And Karin has enough talk, laughing and singing to cheer her up for the next few days, I'm sure. Once the baby is older and begins to play with the other children, Karin will have more in common with our neighbors. Right now, every one is polite and pleasant. But Karin wants more than that. She wants a substitute for her mother and sisters and her school friends. 1 tell her that's too much to expect in a stranec land. i JyiW LAWN WASHOUT V FOUNPATIONS. w J&AW 1 ALUMINUM WICKET I I J 6 MOLDS TUBE. dr-'f'df V WT 1 STURPY TIE INCLUPEB JT V 17 FOR ATTACHING. AtJOf XX SV$ TODAY Modern Plumbing & Sheet Metal Go. 613 t. Jackson Medford - SP 3-S368 The use of the dictaphone, duplicating ma chines and other types of calculators are taught in the class. The general courses to be offered during the coming session will include homemaking, general education, college extension, hobby and craft, auto me chanics and electronics. The Council: Flabbergasted Karin is not the first new comer to be bowled over by the uninhibited, raucous American housewife. She might as well get used to the coffee breaks when one out- shouts the other, no one really listens to anyone else, and yet each stands ready to give her last shirt (or nylons) for the rest! Setting Karin straight on a few of the American back yard conventions may help her see that there s really nothing "personal" in the pell mell;, hit-and-run encounters. Coffee in this country, both at home and at work, means a "break" and not a formal visit. To most housewives the inter lude is hailed as "stolen" time. Hence, the speed to cut it short and return to virtue! Also, the term "friendly" as used here connotes less posses siveness, perhaps, than in Karin's definition. Friendli ness also allows for privacy. That may be why the other gals don't dash in and out of Karin's house. They want to be certain they're not inter rupting or disturbing her. As Henni says, Karin may be expecting too much too soon. A good start for a get ting - to - know - you campaign might je to invite the neigh bors over to meet the week end company. Gradually Karin may see these girls as young women must like her self and become less sensitive about their brusque manners. Her best course is to be her self. But when she wants to borrow an iron or look up a word in someone's dictionary, skip the prologues! In America, a girl's no less a girl for being a go-getter. Portland Man Arrested On Jackson Warrant Medford city police re ceived word Thursday that Portland police have arrested Mark B. Edwards, 35, of that city, on a Jackson county dis trict court warrant charging him with making a false state ment in writing to procure benefit. Edwards is accused of cash ing a bad $25 check at a local motel Oct. 5. Bail was set at $500. Hi" e m ( ft fg MRS. PAUL SCHULER Clerk of Week Two Clerks Get Awards for P&S Validations The Park and Shop mystery shopper presented two $5 cash awards to downtown sales people last week who of fered to validate the Park and Shop ticket. Eight stores were shopped throughout the week in an ef fort to find the sales person who would suggest validation of the Park and Shop ticket without hints or reminders on the part of the mystery shop per posing as a customer. "This is the first time I ever won anything in my life," Mrs. Paul Schulcr of Pick's Apparel said when the $5 cash award was presented. The other winner last week was Clara Bcale, sales clerk at Parker Woods'. The two winners represent the 15th and 16th sales people in the downtown area to have re ceived $5 cash awards dur ing the rounds of the mystery shopper. Gain Seen Validation trends for Park and Shop arc far ahead of those for a similar period last year. A preliminary check indicates that validations for December, I960, show a 124 per cent gain over the Decem ber period of 1959. Park and Shop officials agree that the mystery shopper program byvped in alerting downtown sales people to the essentials of customer courtesy of which Park and Shop validation is a part. It is generally agreed that Park and Shop has proved a highly successful plan, the continuation of which has be come increasingly important to the future success of retail ing in the downtown area. Similar gains of this nature have been demonstrated in numerous other states across the nation where such a plan has been started. MEDAL FOR RICKOVER Washington-aW-Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover will be awarded the Navy's highest peacetime decoration, the Dis tinguished Service Medal, on Jan. 17. the sixth anniversary of the first voyage of the atomic submarine Nautilus. The medal will be presented to Rickover during ceremo nies which will include the laying of the keel of the Po laris submarine Lafayette at Croton. Conn. Canada produced 8.287,000 pounds owool in 1959. The Medical by Som Improvements In Surgery The immediate mortality from common operations has dropped considerably in the last 25 years or so. In a re port from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., it is point ed out that the mortality rate for the operation for closing a perforated stomach ulcer has dropped from the old 41 per cent to the now 7 per cent. Similar drops in mortality for operations for intestinal ob struction are from 37 to 8 per cent, and for removal of a toxic goiter, from 8 to 1 per cent. 0 Notes on Conorary Heart Attacks In a recent article, Arthur M. Master, one of our great heart specialists, reported a study of 2,600 cases in which the all-important coronary ar tery in the heart got throm bosed (plugged up with a blood clot). He asked all of the people to say when they got the heart attack - hour of the day or night, what they were doing; were they over exerting themselves, or were they sitting or lying quietly, and he could not find any factor that seemed to have tended to brine an attack. Very encouraging to the many persons who have had one heart attack will be Dr. Master's statement that he found no evidence to indicate that the one attack predis poses to a second one, except indirectly, because of progress in the underlying factor of hardening of the arteries. 1 ua U POWER! I & NEWS! Y 1000 l W 0nheh" 7 5 V, S? And half hour C pOV COUNT vV C X 1 The 2 f MUS.C! J Brightest 1 ? ( MUSIC! J- ji Happiest LJi i musics? ECYJJC Sound J y U.UL V In town! & "T-rr vv- Southern Ore9on . ivj Roundup Emeritus Consultant In Mrrtlclne Mayo Clinic Emeritus Professor of Mfdicitit Mnyo Clinic Register md Trthune Syndicate, 1960) Research on Psoriasis At last, chemists and aller gists and immunologists have gone to work, analyzing chem ically the material that is to be found in psoriatic patches. Although, as yet, the research ers have not come up with anything that looks like a cure, it is very hopeful that definite light is being thrown on the nature of the changes that take place in the skin of the person with this miserable disease. Usually, the first step that must be taken before one can cure a disease is to find out what went IVrong. rThcn, one may see a way of putting things to rights again. Do you have a strong heart? Even if you do you will be interested in reading Dr. Al varez' booklet, "Heart Trou ble." It lists preventive meas ures as well as constructive things to do after an attack. It may be obtained by sending 25 cents and a large, stamped, self - addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Tribune Syndi cate, Box 957, Des Moines 4 Iowa. LEVEE SYSTEM New Orleans The levee system of the Mississippi is longer than than China's Great wall. Salem-IUPIL-Gov. Mark Hat field today appointed Samuel H. Mallicoat of Portland as acting director of the Oregon Department of Planning and Development. i Oregon's SPorts r BC a S & Weather M TOP SpOrtS W H 15 Minutes fiM station- jj Xfz:ryi THE NUMBER ONE SOUND IN TOWN! o "It's the TREND, Friend" - - - -- - Replenishing Gold From West's Mines Said Not So Simple By ROY McGHEE Washington-lUPIi-It's so sim ple, it's a wonder no one thought of it before. American gold reserves are being drained. Some people are worried that the United States will run out of gold. Well, why not Just go out to them thar hills and dig some more gold? One sure way to help the gold shortage is to get more gold," Claire Englo (D-Calif.) explained with unanswerable logic. "Our gold mines out West are shut down at the very same time that United States gold reserves are dwindling and are threatened by the con tinuing flow of dollars to for eign lands." Flies in Ointment But, alas, there are a few flics in the ointment. American domestic gold production averages about $60 million a year. Most of this comes from sideline min ing operations. This is because the official U.S. gold price is $35 an ounce and it's not profitable to mine gold at this price. XI IS23B32E u " So Engle said he would submit legislation in the new Congress to pay a domestic premium above the present Treasury price of S35 an ounce, thus making it profit able to resume mining opera tions. Informed of Engle's scheme, a Treasury spokesman brand ed it "dangerous tinkering" and "risky business." The de partment reasons this way: anyway you look at it, Engle's scheme boils down to a two price system for gold. Worsen Situation "The United States cannot afford to have two prices for gold," the spokesman said. "Without question, Ihe world would think it only a matter of time until the higher price prevailed in the world mar ket." "If that occurred, it would 1 result in a worsening of the situation. You would have people trading their dollars I for our gold, lowering our, reserves still further, in the anticipation that they could' sell the gold back to us at a higher price later." The world's great gold pro ducer is South Africa. The V JjU ,WkJ.1. m m UiTJAttP I Corner of 8th and Fir ys IsMMasMHHMMHsliHMH J, V v r SCARED WHALE-Frightcned by an airplane, a large whole dives deep into the Pacific Ocean five miles offshore at Eureka, Calif., as only the tail remains visible. The sight ing of several herds of whales marked the beginning of tha annual whale migration southwards down the Pacific Coast. (UPI Telephoto) Treasury spokesman said the cost of production there is low enough for mines to make profits at $35 an ounce. NO SPARKS! NO SMOKE! NO FLOOR DRAFTS! LOWERS FUEL BILLS! Uniform heat from floor to ceiling, j Burn wood, presto-logs or briquets. You control fire. Your home and family will be safer. Send fireplace width and height, receive Colorful Booklet free or phone SP 2-7166. Smith-Dynge Lmbr. Co. V .3 fit FARM WOODLAND Austin Texas has mora farm woodland acreage than any of the other states. EASY TERMS Phone SP 2-7166
