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10 6 FH1DAY. JULY 27. 19o2 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Dennis the Menace iperr Capita Income Of Farm Population Figured at SI ,373 'What the heck's wrong with keepiu' -mAHMOYl' The Family Council Editor's note: The family Council enlilltl of ft Juttce, a nhvrhiatrtit. thrf rlrrrvmrn. Ihrrr editor and ft women's editor, Each article It ft luminary of ft family dUaaretment presented to the Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance rouneors and social worker, edited by by Mri. Almft lenny. (Copyright by General Features torp.) Washington-fllPD-The Agri-1 running the farm business in culture Department estimates! 1362 would total around $27.5 the per capita personal in-! billion and that gross receipts come of the farm population j would be about $40.3 billion, from all sources in ?9B1 at a The department estifnatcd record of $1,373. ! This compares with $1,253 in 1980 and $166 in the de pression year of 1934. Of the 1961 per capita in come of the farm population, $899 came from farm sources. This was 65.5 per cent of the total. Income from non-farm sources was $474 per capita, or 34.5 per cent of the total. The per capita Income from farm sources compares with $791 In 1960 and $99 in 1934. The per capita income from non-farm sources compared with $464 in 1960 and $67 in 1934. The per capita income of the non-farm population from all sources last year was $2,345. The per capita income of the farm population in 1961 was 58.6 per cent of that of the non-farm population. 10 Per Cent Bin In a review of the farm income situation, department economists said the per capita personal income of the farm population from all sources rose about 10 per cent over 1960 mostly because of the substantial rise in farm in come and a further decline for the first time the income I come estimates developed by I farm population from farm- of the farm population on a the Department of Commerce ing consists of the sum of personal income basis. It said I in the national income ac- total net income of farm op this will permit direct com- counts. erators on farms plus farm parisons with the personal in-1 Personal income of the i wages, salaries, and other la- sources consists of wages and salaries fro mnon-farm em ployment, non-farm and busi- hnr Inrnmp nf hired hands n e s s professional jnconit, living on farms minus social ; rents from non-farm sources, security contributions. ! dividends, royalties, transfer Personal income of the farm payments and interest in tha population from non - farm form of bank services. Mrs. S. F. - He's a grown man but he gives me as much work as a child. Flora F. T. - She should be sorry for him, not so im patient and annoyed. Mrs. S. F. - What do you do with a husband who s just a big child? He holds a routine 40-hour-a-weck job and then depends upon me to think up bright ideas to fill every other hour of his week - the hours, that is, when he Isn't killing time by sleeping. I didn't realize how depen dent he was until our daugh ter married and moved away. Now I see what a load she took off my hands, just talk ing to her Dad, playing enrds with him, accompanying him on walks and to the movies. With her gone, I'm the one he turns to with his eternal ques tion: "What's there to do now?" He's like a little bny who must be amused and played with. Naturally when I have reading or letters to rin, I feel quilty, as though I'm neglectinR him. Not ontc has he said, "Go along. I'm busy." He's only wait for me. Our daughter thinks I'm loo hard on him when I beg him to take up a hobby or make gome friends. But at the same time she makes herself mighty scarce, whereas he's dying to talk to her and enjoy her com pany. Flora F. T. - I know how Dad just sits around, but that doesn't mean he's just waiting for Mother to entertain him. He's just a homebody who'd rather be In his easy chair with his family nearby than anywhere else on earth. My mother needn't feel guilty go ing about her own affairs. But she shouldn't bawl him out or make fun of him. She's always telling him he's worse than a child, and that she thought she'd have some free dom after raising me but that he's Just like another young stef to take care of. Just be cause she's full of bright ideas about things to do, places to go, she shouldn't treat him as though he's feeble-minded. He reads a lot and he's good com pany. It's true that nothing really holds his attention so hard that he objects to being Inter rupted. He'll always slop whatever he's doing If Mother or I ask him to help us or join in whatever we're doing. But that's the way he is. Afler all these years, Mother can't change him. Why should she try? He's a drar. Tha Council: Thnrrau, the wise philosopher, is currently being much quoted in cele bration of '.he 1 00th Anni versary of his passing. So vc turn to his poetic way of ex plaining, pcrhnps, why Mr. F. Is a follower type, and Mrs. F. the self-starter. It's hecause each of us "hears a different drummer" In the distance and keeps pace accordingly. i Besides hearing her "special 1 drummer," Mrs. F. is waiting j to hear three little words from Mr. F., and they're not "I i love you." She wants to hear, of all things, "Leave me : alone!' She awaits the day when he'll be so engrossed in an interesting project of his j own (aside from sleep) that he'll say, "Go along without i me. I'm fine." Then she won't i have those guilt feelings over ; her solo pursuits. We submit that her piotv . lem is one of acceptance. Okay, Mr. F. isn't an initiator. ! an imaginer. He's a tagalong, I a me-too. Fortunately the hu-1 man race is divided into per-i tonality types and each has its , purpose. For every creator, j there's an appreciator. For every contemplalor, there's a doer. At least that's the idea behind The Great Plan. And once a man has rearhrd the stage of life where Mr. F is, it's folly to hope to, or try to, push him over into a different rack. It's a useful, valuable rack. Mr. F. appears to be a rest ful, quiet, peaceful soul. May be, as George Gobcl says them's the best! Mrs. F.'s best bet is to adjust to his depen dence, to work in, out and around it, instead of against it. And Flora can help matters by being less preachy and more practicing, by showing up at home more often to en joy the Dad she admits is "good company." Once Mrs. F. realizes that her husband may be content "jes a-settin and a watchin her," she won't be impatient with him and her guilt feel ings should abate. One final thought, however: Isn't she dependent upon him, too, in a different way? How about his arm on her shoulder, and his comforting word? Swimmer Given St. HelensWelcome St. Helens -IWD- Marathon swimmer Spencer Campbell of Orofino, Idaho, planned to resume his 557-mile swim to Astoria and the Pacific Ocean today afler getting his warm est greeting so far. Campbell, a 25 - year - old former Air Force frogman, ar rived here Thursday night after swimming 25 miles in seven hours from Portland. He was welcomed by about 500 persons and a high school band, his largest welcoming party since he began his swim July 2 at Orofino. Campbell expected to swim 20 miles from St. Helens to Longvicw, Wash., today. IN PROGRESS . . . SUME in the far.fi population. The use of a new and more restrictive definition of the farm population in 1960 re sulted In a farm population estimate of 15,635,000 as compared with 20,541,000 un der the old definition. The new definition of a farm re quires a place to have one or more acres of land and to sell at least $50 of products an nually. A smaller place can qualify by selling at least $250 of products. In the 1950s, a place to be classed as a farm needed only three or more acres of land and at least $150 of products sold or produced. Total net farm Income for 10B1 has been estimated at $12.8 billion. The department predicted about the same amount would be realized in 1962. It estimated the bill for CONSIDERING PLAN Washington - lUPII - Union and mnnngement negotiators Thursday discussed a govern ment proposed plan that might open a way out of a strike that has stopped work on 11 nuclear submarines at Groton, Conn. Under the plan, the New London Metal Trades Council and the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. agreed to consider sign ing a three - year contract, since bargaining deadlocked on a two-year contract. Fire Danger in Northwest High By United Press International Soaring temperatures kept the fire danger in the Pacific Northwest at a high level to day but a 6,000-acre blaze on the Colville Indian reserva tion in Washington was listed as controlled. About 150 men brought the stubborn, lightning - set fire under control Thursday night afler It twice jumped fire lines. 11 broke out early Tues day. However, two new fires totaling 500 and 300 acres were burning out of control on the reservation. A third blaze destroyed two homes, a barn and a rubber welding shop before being subdued. It also threatened a hospital at Brewster, Wash. Some 30 fires broke out in national forests in Oregon and Washington Thursday. Also in Oregon, 13 small blazes were reported on slate - protected land but all were either listed as out or controlled. 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