MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1961
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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