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10 A- FRIDAY, MARCH 10. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE The Family Council FrtUnr'a Kntm' Th. VamlU rnnnrll mnistl of ft llldge. ft DSVChla- trlKL thrpe Rlarevnifm. thrtn criitnrti And a women'! editor. Kach article U a summary of an actual cane history. The Council reports on prob lem! that have been dealt with by responsible asenclea and counselor!, (Copyright 1061 General Features corp. Lillian S.-I'd like to give our baby a striking, unique, original name. Robert S. - I'd like him to have a name he won't have to blush over. Lillian S. - We are expect ant parents and are having the usual fun discussing and rejecting names for our son or ' daughter. To illustrate our different points of view, I'll pretend that the baby is def initely a boy. I say that since our last name is one of the most com mon in the Manhattan tele phone book (31 rows!) we ouuht to give Junior a dis tinctive, unforgettable first name, I have friends who, in order to show their children that there's no one else in the whole world exactly like them, make it their business to coin brand new names. For example, they've just named their new daughter Kellha! I'm not asking Bob to go that far. But how about my maiden name, Fairchild? Or a family name from Bob's or my side, like Gonzalez or Pol lard? ' But no, he's holding out for plain old Tom, Dick, Harry. Not even Kennedy. .. . Robert S.-When I saw what fellows named Ethelbert and Fercival had to put up with, I blessed my parents for giv ing me such an ordinary name. There are certain names which ought to go hand-in- hand with early boxing les sons. Why inflict the inevit able razzing on a kid? He'll have to learn to "take it" for enough other things-red hair maybe, or big feel. My idea is to project myself into my son's life eight or nine years from now, With all the names in the world to pick from what would he choose? I'll bet it would be one that a few other kids in his class have. Those family names that Lily likes are fancy all right anrl nve-catchinE. too. But if our son is going to stand out from the crowd of fa. s, let him do it in other ways. The Council - There are al most as many reasons why people receive the names they do, as there are parents. These range from "first one I could think of" to "1 wanted to please Uncle Tecumseh." Gay, young parents like the S.'s will certainly know why they gave their putative son his name. It will be The Winnah of these interesting preliminaries. But the best guide will be the question: "Will little Anonymous thank us some day for the tag we pinned on him?" Both purents might exam ine their position. Lillian must not make her son a victim of her name-dropping preten sions. 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Benson felt it would be an idle gesture; that it would be more effective to distribute SHEEP GUANO 80b1abg$269 ROSES Nice Selection Get Yours Now WW gtct& 217 West 6th Street "We Sell Every Bloomin' Thing" Phone SP 3-6445 er for her movie crushes by names like Marlon or Charl ton. If Robert's idea could be put into effect, namely having a little boy pick his own name, he'd want to be identi fied with the hero of the mo ment. Unfortunately, this might prove embarrassing 50 years later when it "dates" him incontrovcrtibly. Even showy names like Cicero and Lafayette, which are fixed in eternity, are safer than those plucked out of the passing headlines. Finally a plea to both: If It's a boy, give him an all-boy name rather than an ambigu ous one which will leave cor respondents in doubt as to whether to write Miss or Mr. surplus foods directly through welfare agencies rather than indirectly through the stamp plan. This direct distribution to welfare cases was used by Elsenhower and is being used by Kennedy. In fact the new president ordered it improved by including canned poik and dried eggs. But this system differs con siderably from the. stamp plan. Under direct distribution, eligible needy families show up at welfare distribution cen ters at specified times. They are given a packet of food in surplus that month. It can range from potatoes to pow dered milk to dried beans. But the recipient has no choice. He takes the packet, and that's it. Used at Stores Under the stamp plan the hungry family would get a book of stamps. These could be turned in at local grocers for specific foods. These would not necessarily be the sur pluses (he government had at the moment. The foods could Include items the government bought lo support a market. The needy, in effect, would be act ing as purchasing agents for those foods. The government would put up cash for the stamps when they were turn ed in by banks. Kennedy ordered the plan established on a pilot basis In six depressed areas as one of his first acts in office. But several months may elapse be fore it is working. Stamps still must be printed and the mechanics of distribution set up. There also are hazards. When the stamp plan was used in the great depression era some recipients abused it. They traded the stamps for liquor and cigarettes. This caused a Congressional rum pus which is still remember ed. Those who favor the stamp plan say it is a way of pro viding a greater variety of foods for the hungry; that it allows greater flexibility by permitting purchases of foods not in government stockpiles at the moment; and - a point stressed by Kennedy - it helos preserve the dignity of the impoverished who are not poor by choice. What this means is that the recipients would not have to appear In beggar roles at wel fare stations to get a sack or box of food. Opponents argued the sys tem is inefficient and too cost ly. It would cost about $50 million the first year. Under the law the stamps can go not only to persons on relief but to others in need. For example, the plan is in tended to provide stamps for families of the unemployed. These families might have some resources and so would not qualify for the welfare rolls. But the stamps would keep them from having sub standard diets. HELPS GIVE SURER STARTS AND LONGER BATTERY LIFE VflUflflJT yyli F r' '' I to mm mm 1 You don't pay a single cent extra for '61 Valiant's amazing; alternator yet most cars don't have one at any price! Owner-proved by many thousands of miles of driving, Valiant's alternator helps keep your battery alive and healthy (longer than the conventional D.C. generator can) because the alternator delivers current even when your engine is idling! So, even in heavy stop-and-go driving, Valiant's alternator gives you quick starts from a peppy battery. The alternator is just one of Valiant's way-ahead ieaturesi stare today... and every day... with Valiant! Sherlock Holmes Believed Real by British Tourists By HARRY FERGUSON London-(UPl) - The problem, Dr. Watson, is that people are insisting on visiting a man who never lived at a house that never existed. To hun dreds of tourists. Sherlock Holmes is a real man and they demand to be taken to 221-B Baker Street so they can have a talk with him. "Some of them think he is dead," said a tourist agency manager, "but most of them believe he has merely retired. We tell them it's true that there is a Baker Street in London, but that there never was such a number as 221-B. It's difficult to convince them." The great detective, like Santa Claus, also gets mail although his is not so seasonal or in such vast volume. There seems to be no corner of the world that has not heard of the lanky man in the deer stalker cap who smoked a curved stem pipe and took narcotics to spur his mind from one brilliant deduction to another. Belief Born at Festival The belief that there was a real Sherlock Holmes ap parently started in 1951 at the Festival of Britain. The borough capital of Mrylebone set up a reproduc tion of Holmes' lodgings equipped with curved pipe, violin, armchair, the Persian slipper in which he kept his tobacco and all the other pos sessions. It was one of the most popular exhibits in the festival and many tourists were convinced they had vis ited 221-B. With only a slight stretch of the imagination they could tell the folks back home that Holmes was a real man and, perhaps, they even talked to him. - Disgusted at Success Sherlock Holmes was born in April, 1886, in the mind of Arthur Conan Doyle, a phy sician who was having trou ble making a living at the practice of medicine; It was a painful birth and Doyle never really liked his brain cnild. three publishers re jected "A Study in Scarlet' and the fourth one accepted it only because his wife hap pened to like it: Doyle got $125 for the story, but had to surrender the copyright to the publishers. Holmes' success was sensa tional to the disgust of Doyle who wanted to devote all his time to writing historical novels. In February, 1892, he wrote to his mother: "They have been bothering me for more Sherlock Holmes tales. Under pressure I offered to do a dozen for 1,000 pounds ($5,000 in those days) but I sincerely hope they won't accept. They did. Since then the Holmes stories have been translated into almost all lan guages, including the Russian. In 1959 Doyle's heirs brought sliit in Moscow for more than 2 million rubles which they claimed were due in royalties, but the Soviet supreme court ruled against them. Lawyers for the estate estimate that 11 million copies of the stories have been sold in Rus sia since 1957. If Perry Mason fans will excuse the expression, Holmes is the most famous private eye of all time. Detectives come and go, but millions of persons still read about how Holmes and Dr. Watson went cloppity-clop in a hansom cab through the London fog, caught a train and came at last to the desolate moor and looked with awe at the gigan tic tracks made by the hound of the Baskervilles. Four Men Appear In Circuit Court Four men appeared before Circuit Judge James Main Tuesday. Two were sentenced to the Oregon State peniteni tentiary and two received suspended sentences. Daniel W. Durbin, 31, San Diego; was sentenced to 18 months on a charge of cashing a check with insufficient funds and Richard Crane, 47, a transient, to four years for obtaining money under false pretenses. Imposition of sentence for Thomas Edwin Cornwall, 145 South Ivy St., charged with burglary not in a dwelling. was suspended for one year and he was placed on proba tion. Imposition of sentence for Ernest William Small, 32, Phoenix, charged with obtain ing property by false preten ses, was suspended for two years and he was also placed on probation. Nixon Said Still GOP Titular Head New York IHPB Gov. Nel son A. Rockefeller of New York said Thursday he still regarded former Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon as the "titular head" of the Republi can party. Pressed by reporters as to what this meant, Rockefeller replied: "Don't ask me." Commenting on conserva tive Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.), Rockefeller said he was a "very active" member o the Republican party. 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