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St. Mary's School
Removing Elm Trees
The large elm trees on
South Holly at. between 11th
and 12th nts. by St. Mary's
school have been removed to
allow for straightening of the
gutter and sidewalk.
Scanlon maples will be
planted on the east side of
the street school officials
said, which Is the tree that
has been designated for South
Holly st. The maples were
planted on the west side of
the street several years ago
when the old trees there were
removed.
The elms had buckled the
sidewalk and gutter along the
block so that stagnant water
in the gutter made the area
objectionable, especially dur
ing hot weather.
The scanlon maples will be
paid for and planted by the
school, it was noted.
The Family Council
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Karh arllcl. li ummry ol 'a limlly dKacreemeiil prtimurd in Uti j
rountll. The council ofin wiin prnpirnn. ""J' iJ
.ncniinur.it by gmdanra enunaclnr. and tonal workers. Edited ay
by Mn. Alma benny. (Copyrlshi by General reaturei Corp.)
Richard K. - AC middle age
I have no savings due to her
recklessness.
Stana K. - Why worry
about the future? With the
bomb, there won't be any. .
Richard K. - I'm 58 years
old, married 28 years, and
we haven't put away a dime.
With my compulsory retire
ment looming ahead in a few
years, I see no chance to pile
up a little nest egg between
now and then, st the rate my
wife goes through my pay
check. She spends it as fast as
I make it.
I've tried to impress Seena
with the fact that my earning
capacity is limited and that if
we want to maintain a re
spectable standard of living
after my retirement, we ought
to have a reserve fund to dip
into. Pension, Social Security
and other odds and ends of in
come still won't add up to
what we'll need.
For years I've been plan
ning to concentrate on a sav
ings account. Suddenly I real
ize there aren't many years
left and I wish my wife real
ized it, too.
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Seena K. - I'm not worried
about the future. I know peo
ple who spend their whole life
preparing for the future and
never reach it. Meanwhile
they have no present or past.
They deprive themselves of
everything but bare essen
tials. They never go any
where, never enjoy the latest
inventions or the new models
of the old ones. They don't
avail themselves of the short
cuts and comforts which
money can buy. As a result
they live a starved life from
beginning to end.
I don't know how things
will end. I'm willing to lake
my chances. If the bomb gels
loose, whatever happens to
others will happen to Dick
and me, too. It's not In my
control. But as long as I have
some free choice on how to
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live right, I want to live it
up! If we have to penny-pinch
later, it's better than doing it
now. Old rocking chairs don't
cost too much. But we're not
ready for them yet.
The Council: All would be
well, Seena, if life waited for
you to call, "Ready!" as in a
game of hide-and-seek. It s
fine to retire to a rocking
chair when you're ready. Sad
ness enters the picture when
you're forced to retrench and
backtrack long before you
want to, forced by circum
stances beyond your control
such as illness or arbitrary
laws, or circumstances within
your control . ..ch as over
spending! Richard is right to
be anxious and disma. ed.
Given the financial choice,
as you seem to be, between
spending to the hilt and
spending with restraint, you
prefer the orgiastic route to
disaster. Your only answer is
the old hedonisitc one of the
ancient Greeks as they spin-
ned to their downfall: "Eat,
drink and be merry, for to
morrow you die."
Well, Richard refuses to be
The Condemned Man. He's ap
pealing the case. He asks
Seena to eat, drink and save
up for the tomorrow which
provident, mature people pre
pare for. He's aware of the
anguish caused by a sudden
drop in one's accustomed
mode of living. Going from
good to better is easier than
from good to bad, and it s bet
ter for one's health. Richard is
merely asking Seena to help
him settle upon a scale of liv
ing they can afford to become
accustomed to for the rest of
their lives - planned on a No-
Bomb basis.
The Federal Council on Ag
ing urges couples to start
planning for retirement in
their mid-40's. For couples
like the K.'s, living up to and j
beyond their income, there's I
a sharp warning: "Retrench!" j
Such couples, say this agen
cy, face a rude awakening.
Usually retirement brings a I
drop in income. Without sav
ings to take up the slack left i
from Social Security and
pension income, they must in
stitute drastic changes in their
standards of living. Any emer-
gency brings them to the hu
miliation of begging or bor
rowing. As a start, Seena and Dick
might divert the funds intend
ed for that expensive vaca
tion and purchase "catastro
phe insurance," the non-can-cellatle
major medical health
protection to cover costly ill
nesses. This would remove the
nightmare of being wiped out
overnight by one form of mis
fortune. This will be a vaca
tion from worry, even though
it be spent at a beach close to
home.
(Copyright 1962. General
Features, Corp.)
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. WATKINS
(Raiiitei and Tribune
Syndicate 1962)
Meat The Bird With The
Big Feet The Gallinule
The inowshoe rabbit walks
or runs on soft anow without
sinking in it because of the
size of its feet; feet that are
generously supplied with tufts
of long hair, preventing the
feet from sinking even when
the sr.ow is soft and deep.
Stiff hairs in between the
pads of the polar bear's feet,
prevent slippage on slippery
ice.
Many over species of ani
mals are cleverly equipped to
cope with specific conditions,
but the hen-like, acquatic bird
called the gallinule, can't
grow hair on its feet, so it
developed extra long toes; big
feet in fact, to equip it to
exist in an environment that
requires a highly specialized
foot.
The toes of this pretty
aquatic character are actually
ridiculous: the reason how
ever, becomes obvious when
we watch the bird walk calm
ly over lilypads.
Skips Along
The plate-like leaves of the
pond lily float flatly on the
sluggish waters of a pond or
a lake. The bird can skip
along stepping from one lily
leaf to another, hardly wetr
ting its feet.
Standing on a plate-like
leaf, with its elongated toes
firmly planted, the bird reach
es over, grabs the far side of
a leaf and pulls it toward
itself, then, placing one big
foot on the folded, leaf, it
picks off the small snails and
aquatic worms that are cling
ing to the underside.
In spite of its peculiar
name, the gallinule is a little
beauty. Its feathers are green
and as iridescent as a par
rot's, shining in the sun like
burnished metal. On the top
of the head it wears a little
red cap. The tail is perky,
sticking almost straight up.
When the bird moves, it
bows gracefully down, and
runs with the head close to
the lily pads, or the water.
The peculiar name gallinule
is close to the scientifc classi
fication, for this colorful little
character of the ponds, lakes,
and streams is so hen-like that i
it is classed as a gallinaceous
bird, the word pertaining to
poultry.
However, there is no hint
of domesticity in the ranks of
the gallinules; actually they
are shy and very secretive, be
longing to a class of birds
of which the rail is a member.
They come by their shyness
naturally. Often the observer,
unless he is near expert in
bird indentification, will mis
take the gallinule for a coot,
or a rail; the differences in
the birds is really not great.
The common gallinule is us
ually called the Florida gal
linule, but in spite of the
name they are found pretty
generally throughout most of
the United States. Never, how
ever, do they get very far
away from a marshy swamp
land, or near the edges of
small lakes or ponds.
Even so, the gallinule
avoids swimming except when
driven into the water; it
would rather sneak along in
the marsh grass at the nond
edge, or walk along on pond
lily leaves, and it has the feet
to make such a trick easily
possible.
Two Fires Reported in
Talent Wednesday
Two fires were set in the
Talent area Wednesday about
noon by a train.
One was confined to the
railroad along old Pacific
highway, and the other burn
ed approximately one acre of
grass on property belonging
to Fred E. Carpenter, accord
ing to Talent Fire Chief Ralph
Conner. '
The Talent fire department
was assisted by a crew from
the Oregon department of
forestry, Conner said.
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savings system was started in
1910.
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Lawrence E Richardson,
load. S1.V
Alfred H. Sporan. no PUC per
mit. Sinn.
Charles A. Douglai, excessive
overhang, $13.
Krnest W. Evani, no operator's
llrenae, $5.
Fdwnrd A. EkwaM, overload, $84.
Geraldine Spence. no operator's
license, h.
Frank R. Hoehnar, excessive
overhang, SI.V
Paul H. Bennett, violation of ba
sic rule, $10.
George h. Kingsbury, overload,
IIS.
Donald R. Gentry, overload. $28.
William N. KMon. overload, $i.Y
John E. Martin, obstructed
vision. $10.
Arch Barksdale. disobeyed stop
sign, $1.V
Donald D. Rrabbin, expired ve
hicle license. S.v
Marvin E. Miller, depositing tub
bih on highway, $15.
Rav A. Renrel. operating combi
nation of more than two vehicles,
$i.v
Nellie h, Fenton, failure to dim
headlights. $13
Robert R Helms, overload. $2A
Stanley A. N or d wall, overlength
$13.
Rohert M. Lewis, overlnad, $9.
Arnold C. Thompson, overload,
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George G. Hankins, exreisive
; rear overhang, $15.
David W. Anderson, violation of
banic rule. $10
Anna M. Taylor, Inadequate
emergency brake. $10
Gordon D. Lewis, overload. $251
Wa.ne C Filloon. overload. $24
John F. Fields, violation of basic
rule. 10
Clarence W. Goldshv. overload.
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