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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE
The Family Council
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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. Nor should she make
him a perpetual banner-bear-
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Some Misconceptions About
Kennedy's Food Stamp Plans
Washington - (UPD - There
are some misconceptions
about the purpose of President
Kennedy's food stamp relief
plan.
It is not, as many persons
believe, a grandiose scheme to
get rid of surplus foods stack
ed in government - owned or
rented warehouses and thus
ease the farm problem.
It is purely to help people
who are destitute and hungry
or whose means are so meagre
their diets are substandard.
Authority for the program
has been on the books since
1959. President Eisenhower
never used It on advice of his
secretary of agriculture, Ezra
Taft Benson.
Benson felt it would be an
idle gesture; that it would be
more effective to distribute
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. He also
said Goldwater presents his
point of view "with great
vigor."
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Festival Entries
March 18 is the deadline
for entries in the annual
queen and king contest' for
the Pear Blossom festival, ac
cording to Art Wood, presi
dent of the festival associa
tion. Entry blanks for the con
test have been mailed to clubs
and organizations in the area.
Groups not contacted may ob
tain the forms by calling
Wood at SPring 3-3821.
Candidates may be any five
or six-year-old boy or girl. The
royal couple and court will
participate in the parade.
Entry blanks for children
who wish to enter the parade
will be distributed in the
schools and are lo be return
ed by Wednesday, April 5.
The festival will be held Ap
ril 8.
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