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tUESDAY, Council Editor'. Note: Tbe Family Coun ill coniliu of a Judje, p.ycbla trist. three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women' editor and two writer. Each artlela li a lummarji of an actual case hlitory The Council repnrti on problem, that have been dealt with by reiponiible agencies ana counieiori. Stuart I. - Now that he no longer needs mother's serv ices, he wants to send her to live with us. Herman I. - We want to sell our home and travel. He has room. 1 Stuart I. - Our mother is in her 70s and for the past 21 years, since our father died, siie has made her home with Herman. While his children were growing up she acted as maid, nurse and babysitter, Now that she can no longer be of service, Herman and his wife feel she's in the way. They want me to take her now. Of course they don't ad- mit the real reason-that she's outlived her usefulness to them, Instead he says she's like a fish out of water, doesn't enjoy being with the type of friends Herman invites over, doesn't fit with the new pattern of their life. She'd certainly be no more happy here. We're 1,000 miles away from her familiar haunts. Our children hnrdly know her. To them she s a pic ture over the desk and a dim recollection from two visits over a span of IS years. ' Herman's thinking of him self, not mother, with this pro posal. , Herman I. - I took mother In 21 years ago, when she bad no place to go. Stuart could have had her then, too, but he was just setting up house keeping with his bride, and they played deaf and dumb on the subject of mother. No domestic work was ever asked or expected of her. Cer tainly it was never forced on her, as Stuart hints. We al ways had part-time help. But since mother wasn't the club woman or career-woman type, he kept busy and derived pleasure, I'm sure, from cook ing and baking and sewing for the children, , .-. . Now they're grown up and not living at home. Our home is the center for many com mittee meetings from organi zations devoted to political and social causes that my wife and I are Interested in. We'd like to move to a tiny apartment and be free to trav el in a few years. Stuart has a big house and can easily set tle mother there. His young children would delight her. She misses ours and is bored and discontented here. There Is nothing In our community to hold her. , ., ' ' The Councilt ' All through this harangue, one' listens for the still small voice-mother's. What's her line? Ih this game of who'll take mother, she probably feels like a ball and she'd rather -hide or go out of bounds than belong to either side! She may want to get away from. both "adoring" sons, but doesn't want to hurt them by saying so. From what we gather, Her man can no 'longer accomo date her and Stuart doesn't want her. So the logical com promise would be for the principals to get together and work out a pleasant living ar rangement for. mother, pref erably with a "foster family." since she enjoys a commingl ing oi ago groups. The local family service agency can as sist in a congenial placement. Thcro's quite a demand, In cidentally, for' displaced grandmothers to serve as fos ter grandmas, In homes that never knew a real one. It's been found that old and young, when not hampered by the kind of emotionally tinKcd memories about each other which blood relations have, can get along famously. But a word about these sons, Stuart's excuse about not up rooting mom f r om familiar haunts sounds like hogwash Her roots from one son's home to the other's are easily trans plantable, sue d nnvo a new set of grandchildren to nur ture and watch grow. And the kids would have a flesh-and blood ancestor to get acquaint ed with, rather than a picture on the wall. As for Herman, if he wants to move lo smaller quarters and mom wants to bo nearby, he can't relocate her by "dumping" her on Stuart but must bend every effort to meet her wishes. In a three way talk,- we hope, the I.'s, will each speak up honestly on what they really wnnt. We're reminded of, the words of a Judge In a Domestic Re lations court in Brooklyn last year: "In all my years on the bench I've heard hundreds of parents fight over who gets the children, but never have heard children fight over who gets the parents!" Washington -IUPII- The U.S. Forest Service has asked Con grcss for a supplemental ap Dropriatlon of $68,717,000 to pay fur Klamath Indian for- 14 Family JANUARY 17. 1961 r "tv t ..j ROCKET TOWER-Service tower for Amer ica's mightiest space rocket, 1V4 million-pound-thrust Saturn, now dominates Cape Canaveral, Fla., skyline as tallest gantry in Free World. Gantry shown here rising above iTATEHOlBi I! sfiaAti mi The real work of Oregon's 51st Legislative Assembly al ready was under way by the end of the first week with 161 bills, many of them ticking like timebombs, in the hopper awaiting explosions of debate in committee and on the floor. Indications were becoming apparent of the legislators' future action on such propos als as Gov. Mark Hatfield's g o v e r nment reorganization plan, 62 appropriation bills already introduced, some of the tax measures being dis cussed, and other hot potatoes. The real workers, legisla tors and employes, had their tasks assigned to them as or ganization of the 20 House and 20 Senate standing committees proceeded as fast as clerks were hired and their offices set up. And the real movers and shakers, men who would wield the power and reap the glory, if any, made their first efforts to exert influence and draw battle lines. In Line of Fire Senate President Harry Bol vin (D-Klamath Falls) and House Speaker Robert B.:Dun- can (D-Medford) were the first to place themselves in the line of f Ira as they announced com mittee appointments. Boivin, by shunting aside his chief opponents (Sens. Alfred Cor bett of Portland and Robert Straub of Springfield, both Democrats) in tho presidency contest to relatively unimport ant committees, firmed up the Democratic liberal opposition which will dog him through out the session.- Duncan drew prompt - Republican sniping for keeping the most power ful House committee positions firmly in Democratic hands. Standouts in the week's skirmishes were Reps. Clar ence Barton (D-Coquille), who spearheaded the House's pas sage of a resolution allowing expense : money ' (over and above salary and travel funds) to legislators, and Rep. George Layman (R-Newberg) who led the unsuccessful opposition Court Test Seen The resolution itself (not requiring the governor's sig nature like regular bills) prob ably is headed for a court test of constitutionality if Secre tary of State Howell Appling refuses to hand over the re quested expense money. Among other requests for funds was Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton s an nouncement that he would ask the Legislature for $52,058 to continue his crime prevention program. Hatfield had chop ped the amount from the state executive departments budget This was a direct slap at the Democratic attorney general for which the Democratic law makers may retaliate by giv Ing Thornton what he wants (or what many believe is r needed and popularly-support ed attempt to "do something' about juvenile delinquency and adult crime The Ways and Means com mlttee, headed by Sen. Dan Thiol (U-Astorln) and Rep Barton this week begun con sideration of Hatfield's high esl evcr slHte government bud get (including appropriations for such state agencies as the expensive Highway depart ment - $102,936,000). The Democratic leadership has given notice that it wants to cut down on some of the gov- crnor's money requests. Among Chtei Topics Party lines are not so clear In the expected hassle over Hatfield's government reor ganization plan. This, Induct ing a Senate bill for creation of seven anew government de partments, is one of the chief lopirt for the House and Sen ate State and Federal Affairs committees this week. The Y BSti i riiiif-i .ii - By Marguerite. W. Wright son (D-Portland) and Rep. Norman R. Howard (D-Port- land), will have a great deal to say about how much of the governor's program passes Whereas Republicans expect to get conservative Demo cratic support for some of the governor's other programs, it is the Republicans who are balking at some of Hatfield's reorganization ideas. Both the liberal Democratic leaders, such as Sen. Robert Straub (D-Sprlngfield) and conserva tive Democratic leaders, such as Pearson, havt expressed strong approval of the gov ernor's wish to abolish the Board of Control (which runs state institutions), for ex ample. Speaker Duncan challenged Gov. Hatfield to round up Re publican support to pass his own program, much of wnicn the Democrats favor in prin ciple. But observers are won dering if the Democrats might not be tempted to attach price-tag to their support - other words, find out if Hat field wants his way badly enough to make some deals to get It, The governor's troubles are not only with the legislators. His long - brewing disagree ments with the state Public Welfare commission appear to be about to boil all over the stove. Work Programs Praised In his message to the Legis lature. Hatfield praised the Work programs for able-bodied welfare recipients now under way in some counties. He has lone favored such programs but the state welfare people have dragged their heels in setting them up, he feels. Similarly, he Is critical of the welfare officials for not mak ing federal surplus food easi ly available to needy families in Oregon, some of whom are said to "go to bed hungry every night. The governor's demand that the state welfare commission move its offices from Port land to Salem has aroused active opposition by many of its employees, and a bill to block the move has been in troduced by Reps. Grace Peck, Beulah Hand, Juanlta Orr, Edward Fadeley, and Sens, Richard Grocncr, Robert Straub, and Monroe Sweet- land, among 26 others (most ly Democrats). Hatfield could take drastic action and fire people who do not agree with him, but that is a risky business - illustrating the dilemmas facing a gover nor under the present govern mcnt set-up of quasi-independ ent boards and commissions The joint meeting of the State and Federal Affnirs committees to give the re organization bills their first consideration before splitting them up for discussion by the separate committees in turn follows the pattern already set by a Joint meeting of the House and Senate Education committees the first week School Needs Higher Led by committee chairmen Sen. Swcetland and Rep. Tom Monagham (D - Milwnukio), members learned that public schools in Oregon will need $35 to $65 millions more to operate by 1966-67, and heard the education Interim commit tee's proposals. One of the most widely-dis cussed of these is the proposal that state support for opera tional costs of schools gradual ly be Increased to 50 per cent This would help relieve the property tax burden, strained to the limits In some areas now, and assure an adequate basic "foundation program education for each Orcgifl child no maftcr how poor or remote his school district. One recommendation by the Saturn blockhouse stands 310 feet. Construc tion of tower is finished, and electrical Installations are expected to be completed by April. First Saturn is expected to be launched from Cape Canaveral in fall, 1961. (UPI Telephoto) state aid should be distributed so as to guarantee every school district the same amount of money for its school children. Every dis trict (there are now 504 wide ly varied school districts) would receive a minimum of state aid. But districts would have to meet certain standards of safety, efficiency and gen eral operation (set by the State Department of Educa tion) to get -that state money Distribution to schools of the state's basic school funds has been fought over ever since the fund was set up in 1947.- This interim commit tee's report notes that "the hardest task undertaken by the committee was Its attempt to resolve the distribution con troversy that has so long split educators, the public and leg islators. Major Wrangle Seen The committee recommends that the question of the ulti mate 50 per cent goal of stale support should be referred to the voters so that the citizens of Oregon will all have a chance to become better in formed about the school fi nancing problems and then ex press their opinions at an elec tion. Despite the committee's walking - on - egg - shells ap proach to the fund distribu tion problem, there is bound to be another major educa tion wrangle this session. At the joint session of the educa tion committees, when the distribution plan was reveal ed, conservative-minded Sen. Ben Musa (D-The Dalles), said flatly, "I don't think I'm going to like it." He may turn out to be a rallying point for the "agin- ners once the real war breaks out again. BEAVER'S TALE: Funny- of-the-weck is the letter to a Salem paper praising an an onymous gentleman who walk ed his pet poodles every day in Bush Pasture park, clean ing up after the dogs with little shovel." . . . Turns out the meticulous, public- spirited dog-owner is Sen. Al Flegel of Roseburg! Grange Notes Upper Applegale The Upper Applegate Grange was called to order with Master Anna Scott in the chair. All officers were present. County Deputy Roscoe Rob erts installed five new offi cers. They include Forbes Brown, treasurer; Mortin G r i e r, gatekeeper; Lulu Brown, Flora; Ed Finley, Stewart; and James Winning. ham, executive committee. Lee and Floran Westphal were ogligated in the third and fourth degrees. Deputy Roberts also in structed the officers in the new flag presentation cere mony. The final report of the Home Economics club chair man Edna Sawyer was given The Ruch Parent-Teacher as sociation is to give a record ing, "Communist Indoctrina tion," on Feb. 3. The meeting will be open to the public. urucc nlanlcy gave an ex planatory talk on the county planning commission. An open house meeting will be held Feb. 24. The lecturer announced that each committee is to put on the program once each year. Men s and women s quartettes are to be organiz ed. Ed and Eleanor Ramsy of fered to train the singers. Dana Gearhart announced there would be a white ele phant sole at the next meet ing. Deputy Roberts closed the Grange. Refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Offenbachcr, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Jones and Mr and Mrs. Edward Henderson, under the direction of Dana Gearhart, serving chairman for the first quarter of the new year. Upeer 9um. MeLcod - U t r Vn, Grange held Its fir meeting of the year Jan. 5 with How MEDFORD Mrs. Neuberger Initiated Into Formal Senate Hearing Rites By YVONNE FRANKLIN Mail Tribune Washington Bureau Washington (Special) - Sen. Maurine Neuberger and Sec retary of Agriculture-designate Orville Freeman were initiated into the formalized rites of Sen ate hearings o n prospec tive cabinet officers last week, and both were properly sub dued as befits Franklin the n o v i c e amongst his seniors. The small agriculture com mittee room was as bulging with humanity as the storage bins are with wheat. At a long table in the center of the room sat 11 senators, flanking the witness. Specta tors, reporters, TV cameras and cameramen were jammed so closely to them as to be almost participants. Chairman Allen Ellender of Louisiana presided at one end, Mrs. Neuberger was near the other. Freeman sat between Democrats Talmadge and Holland, facing the Re publicans. Questions of each senator focused attention on all the pressures which will play upon Freeman in the months ahead. Most pressed the agricultural interests of his state: Sens. Aiken of Vermont, dairying; Holland of Florida, citrus fruits; Talmadge of Georgia, cotton and poultry; Young of N. Dakota and Hickenlooper of Iowa, grains, cattle and hogs; Cooper of Kentucky, tobacco, McCarthy of Minnesota, dairying; John ston of S. Carolina, Jordan of N. Carolina, tobacco and other; Mrs. Neuberger, fruit, lumber, wheat and other. Four-Year Man The ritual demands that an administration man be mod est and unassuming, yet forth right. He must answer "yes" to as many questions as pos sible and make obseisance to the fact that he is dealing Mrs. Bash To Attend Oregon City Meeting Mrs. Frank Bash, Medford, a state commissioner for the Oregon State Public Welfare commission, is expected to at tend the last of a series of six monthly sessions of the OSP- WC held outside of Portland. The meeting will be hosted by the Clackamas county wel fare commission, and is sched uled Friday, Jan. 27, begin ning at 9:30 a.m. in the Ore gon Tri-City Chamber of Com merce building in Oregon City. The meeting, which is open to the public, will recess for a noon no-host luncheon, and the afternoon session is ex pected to adjourn by mid-afternoon. Similar sessions, drawing county public welfare commis sioners, and administrators, civic leaders, officials and oth er interested persons state wide, have been held in La Grande, Salem, Grants Pass, Bend, and The Dalles. Salem-IUPII-The House Com mittee on Public Health and Welfare will begin considera tion Wednesday of a bill to prevent transfer of public wel fare commission headquarters from Portland to Salem. All new officers were present but one, During the lecture hour a musical program was present ed by Dewayne and Cliffton Chapman and Don Gillispie. Mrs. Dorothy Tackstein, past president of the Home Eco nomics club, presented the past masters pin to Mrs. Eda Torrance, The next s o, c 1 a 1 night will be Thursday', Jan. 19. The Home Economics club met Jan. 12 at the home of Mrs. Dorothy Tackstein on Big Butte. Mrs. Carl Richard son was co-hostess. Can't Sleep? Take Hospital-Proved Somfnex FOR 100 SAFE SLEEP No Nircotics Ntt Habit Forming Men ot oWtUf Med. Sizt $498 mm MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, with seasoned veterans. He will be but a four-year man; some agriculture senators have servefi 20. Senators Holland, Tal madge and Hickenlooper slowly and pointedly remind ed him that the administration proposes, Congress disposes. Freeman bobbed his head "yes sir" when asked if he understood that "Congress makes the laws, you only carry them out, regardless of whether you agree with them or not." These Senators are the men to whom Freeman must come time and again to plead for authority for whatever plans he and his experts propose. On direct questions asking for specific answers to agricul ture's problems, he pleaded lack of time for study, and the need for consultation with the experts-particularly the Senators. He proposed "to in crease farm income; to as sure the U. S. an adequate supply of food, and to put America's farm abundance to constructive use at home and throughout the world." After two hours of question ing, lunchtime was imminent. Sen. Hickenlooper had just led Freeman on a wearying 20 minutes down the labyrin thine path of specific propos als on surpluses and controls when Mrs. Neuberger's turn finally came to speak. She spoke briefly, turning atten tion to the consumer by say ing: Consideration for Consumer "The consumers are inclin ed to feel he is receiving a double-barreled shotgun ap proach, that in order to give the farmer a good income he has to pay the high price and the taxes to support it. I would like you to give consid eration to the consumers." Freeman assured her that he would and promised that he would have someone on his staff responsible for this area. Mrs. Neuberger had interrupt ed herself during comment on consumers to say, "I don't think being a farmer is necessary for the L2 frn 'jPfEy REG. 29c IJGr KLEENEX ISl' TUB"CUS x hS 2 V4 BEGONIAS 117 4t 400 Count Vvn SEALFERP0HING H I 3'6 ll 1.35 Value 99 H KNITTING b'eacon ra I J i5 Qulli'r fl - DflTTI C S ; V -""Vwj r"H lOOeeau- , 6 STTlpSlV Guaranteed rT?1 DU I I LL i . i. , B sheet , mm 449 w83 LM Jl H blanket !fCvfk d NCV' Jsj H a. i49 vik ,ra- Nct I IliHIliHVflVljliiihVlll.lTYFTg ORE. secretary's job. I have been a farmer and have done cow milking and appreciate it from both sides." Mrs. Neuberger also ex pressed interest in the Forest Service and the reforestation program: "I am concerned with its administration and development because I have seen in the immediate past a decline in reforestation. I think this is important and I think the lumber supply is being affected by present poli cies." Freeman pointed to his Unwed Mothers Bill Introduced Salem-iM-A bill was intro duced in the Oregon Senate Monday allowing an unmar ried mother to take Circuit court action against a man accused of being the father of her child. At present, such complaints go to the Justice court. The bill was recommended by the Interim Committee on Public Welfare. A senate joint resolution was introduced amending lim its on extent of public indebt edness in water development and other projects. Sponsored by Sens. Vernon Cook (D Troutdale), Donald Husband (R-Eugene), and Alfred Cor bett (D-Portland), the purpose is to equalize taxation pro cedures in all counties. The resolution calls for a public debt not to exceed l'fc per cent of true cash value of all taxable property. The 1V4 per cent compares to the six per cent figured on as sessed valuation. Also introduced was a bill by Sen. Robert Straub (D-Eu-gene), for creation of state operated summer work camps for boys 15 to 19. Straub em phasized the program would be voluntary and not tied to the state's correctional pro gram. The camps would con centrate on forestry work. REGULAR SIZE FRUIT TREES 'I87 3.95 DWARf FRUIT TREES 2.97 1.75 Flowering SHRUBS 1.29 39e DAHLIA CLUMPS 4 for $1 record as Minnesota's gover nor where an expanded refor estation program is under way, and promised his inter est would continue as secre tary. As eacli Senator questioned, some lauded Freeman's cour age in taking the Job, but they wanted particular assur ance from him that their state's interests would be protected. Sen. Holland wanted to be sure that Freeman would not interfere with treaties under which foreign labor from Mexico, the Bahamas and Jamaica is brought into his area to pick citrus fruit. Freeman assured him. Kennedy Not Mentioned Sen. Talmadge, who said broilers were important to his state, pressed Freeman to agree to "use chickens, the lowest priced high protein food" in the school lunch program. Freeman agreed. Talmadge also got from him ALDEN F. MOYER Frigidaire Salesman, Says My customers like Frigidaire because the Automatic Soak :; Cycle, gives them the flexibility to wash denims, diapers and even woolen blankets safely. t i A SWEETHEART OF A PAIR AT LEONARD ELECTRIC COMPANY ' "Medford's Leading Appliance 309 EAST MAIN STREET 67c HAYEK ASPIKll. 98c VICKS COLD 2.98 GERITOL TABLETS . . . .1.99 1.39 PAZO SUPPOSITORIES . .98c 1.25 DRISTAN COUGH SYRUP 97c 69c WILLIAMS AQUA VELVA 49c 83c STRIPE TOOTH 2.00 TONI HOME PERMANENT 1.69 1 .59 NUTRI TONIC S9c 5-DAY DEODORANT STICK 49c O vigorous assurances that I19 would "sell agricultural prod ucts overseas," and he had Egyptian cotton in mind when, he said, "even if it makes Nasser mad." Freeman amended his statement later by hesitantly saying that ho would have to consult with, others in the administration to see if the selling policies were in line with foreign pol icy. The name of the new president was not mentioned during the hearing. Mrs. Neuberger spoke for less than five minutes and Freeman's answers were also brief. He paid ringing tributa to American agriculture sev eral times and denounced no man or middleman. , Most of the Senators thank ed him for his "forthright" answers, and Sen. Talmadge laconically allowed as ha pulled on his cigar and blew smoke toward . the ceiling that "he was glad the farmers had found a friend." mt 5 M.t I If'"' A SWEETHEART OF A PRICE! flUai.lJI.U.'M.MUAI-ki-IB Exclusive Automatic Soak Exclusive Somersault Washing s Exclusive Flowing Heat Four Automatic Drying Cycles Budget Priced . . . 5 Year Warranty Dealer for the Past 30 Years" PHONE SP 3-4541 PAY LESS YOUR PRESCRIPTION HEADQUARTERS OPEN NITES TILL 9 SP 3-7474 o9c 100 Tabs. TABLETS ... 69c PASTE. SHAMPOO 1.29 8pW ffcj est lands. 'chairman, Sen. Walter Pear Interim committee A leal ard Bishop, m'0', t'esidliy. 0 6 0
