FRIDAY. AUGUST 31. 1962
10 A
The Family Council
Editor's note: The Pimlly Council consists of a Judge, a
nliychtatrlst, three clergymen, three editor! end a women's editor.
Each article U a summary of a family disagreement presented to the
Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor,
encountered bv guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by
by Mrs. Alma Denny. (Copyright by General Features Corp.)
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Mn, S. C. - With a nation
between us, she should write
more often.
Florence C. W. - Some peo
ple can dash olf letters easily.
I can't.
Mr. S. C. - On this visit
East, I want to have some
thing out with Flo. My hus
band and 1 and the rest of our
family are Californians. Our
two daughters, however, are
married. One lives in Iowa,
the other, Flo, in New York.
What I'd like to know is
whether I'm right in asking
Flo to write us regularly and
end our worries about her.
All we gel is an occasional
short note. Her sister, on the
other hand, writes 4-page let
ters every week, with interest
ing clippings and snapshots
enclosed. We circulate them,
and they are treasured by all
of us at home.
Imagine how distracted we
were when Flo mentioned that
one of her children was run
ning a fever, and then-complete
silence for a month!
Now I hear the baby was all
right the next day. Long-dis
tance phones cost too mucn
so Flo should write us every
week at least, like her sister
Florence C. W. - How can
a mother be so blind and sel
fish? Doesn't she understand
my problems? First of all, I
have 3 small children and no
help. Second, letter writing
has always come very hard to
me. I'm not glib and facile
like my sister. She can roll on,
saying whatever pops off the
top of her head. 1 practically
chisel out each word and
sweat hard over each line. I
just never can get relaxed
enough to dush off an easy
note, the way some people do.
But, most Important, Moth
er knows I write to her as
often as she writes me. I man
age to answer each letter and
postcard. Why doesn't she
write more often? She has
more time for writing than 1.
And the worst of the matter
is, even after I've squeezed
out a letter, Mother complains
about me to the relatives and
criticizes me. I do my very
best.
The Council: To paraphrase
Sir Walter Scott's lines about
the "tangled web," we'd say,
Oh what emotions start to
flare, when mothers venture
to compare! Mrs. C. cannot ex
pect Flo to ape her sister.
Each has her own forte, and
Flo's isn't pulling prn to pa
per for small talk. The other
daughter's facility at this
makes Flo's small output look
like dereliction of duty. But
actually, isn't she keeping her
mother as well informed on
major matters as Is her' Iowa
sister? All she's skipping is
what the editors call "filler,"
and it's omissible.
So after coaxing Mrs. C. to
be grateful for the painfully
carved epistles she does re
ceive from Hew York, and for
not having two carbon-copy
daughters but rather two indi
viduals who are true to her in
their fashion, we turn to Flor
ence to whom letter-writing is
such a bogey. Why? Were you
scared by an English teacher?
Letter-writing should be as
easy as conversing.
Maybe Florence gets stage
fright at the thought of her
letters being passed around
the family. That particular
block can be removed by
trusting to Mrs. C.'s judgment
or by flat prohibition. Legally,
a letter remains the property
of the writer, not the reap
icnt.
With Mrs. C. Less demand
ing and less reproachful, per-
naps Florence can loosen up
more when she takes pen in
hand and begin to enjoy the
release which comes with
sharing the thoughts of the
moment with a distant loved
one. Here, then are some
pointers which may make it
easier for Florence to "dasn
off" a communique, so that
doing so adds up to a refresh
Ing Interlude Instead of a
chore. What to say? Nothing's
too trivial. Deathless prose is
not expected. Jot down what
you re wearing, doing, eating.
Imagination, at the other
end, fills in. Remember it's
the fact of your taking the
pains to write, more than
what you write, that counts.
Just be a sharer. If you've
read a story, seen a movie,
met a friend-give.
Interestingly enough, the
U. S. Post Office Dept. sets
aside a National Letter-Writing
Week In October each
year to encourage the ex
change of personal letters.
This year the slogan, we hear,
will be "Keep F.-imds Near
With Letters." With your
mother so far away, Flo, a
four-cent stamp becomes your
magic carpel.
Astronauts Not Hep
Russian Cosmonauts Well Ahead
In Language for Outer Space Travel
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215 E. JACKSON
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Locals
By DICK WEST
Washington UPl Not only
are we behind the Russians
in space travel but, 11 would
appear, in
space lan'
guage as well.
Our astro
n a u t s appar
ently do not
have the same
g I f t for soar-
1 n g dialogue
that t he Sov
iet c o s m o
west n a u t s have
demonstrated. Remember how
amazed people were when
Yuri Gagarin, the first Soviet
spaceman, went into orbit? It
wasn't the llight that amazed
HFaa, Sk
LA 1.1
Obituaries
GEORGE P. MUELLER
The body of George P
Mueller, 67, who died Thurs
day at the Camp White Vet
erans Domiciliary, will be for-
warded this evening to
Lowell, Mich., for funeral
services and Interment. Perl
Funeral home is in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Mueller, the son of Al
bcrt C. Mueller and Elsie
Wyss, was born in Rocklord
III. Dec. 22, 1894. He was a
veteran of World War I, serv
ing with the U.S. Army from
June 25, 1918, to May, 1919.
He was employed most of his
as a miner.
Survivors include his wife,
Madeline G. Mueller, Contact,
Nov. and one sister, Catherine
A. Mueller, Rockford, III.
LUTHER HAZELWOOD
L,uincr riazeiwood died in
a local nursing home Thurs
any anernoon. Funeral ar
rangements will be announced
by Conger-Morris Funeral di
rectors.
Cushion! Damaged Fire
men dispatched to Medford
clinic, 1025 East Main St.,
when smoke was reported in
the basement about 11:50 a.m.
yesterday, said thnl someone
apparently had dropped a ci
garette on a davenport. The
cushions were damaged.
Trash Fires Firemen said
they went to 848 Palm St. and
to 539 North Holly si., last
evening to put out trash fires
burning during prohibited
hour:.
Permits Issued The Med
ford building department is
sued permits Wednesday to
Thomas Vance to erect a resi
dence at 1878 Brookhnrst st.
at an estimated cost of $21,
000; to Larry G. Dawson to
remodel his residence at 1B2
Dc Hague st. at an approxi
mate cost o( $1,000; to
Hulchins and Clarke Con
struction company to erect a
residence at 54 Mace rd. at
an anticipated cost of $8,500;
and to D. R. WalltTinire to
remodel the front porch of his
residence at 1003 West Main
si. at an estimated cost of
$1,000.
Reports Theft Daniel
Francis DuKgan, salesman
from Seattle, reported to Med
ford police Wednesday the
theft of a suit and briefcase
from his car while It was
parked on Centrnl ave. be
tween Main and Sixth sts. The
theft occurred between 4 and
5 p.m. Tuesday. Duggan said
he valued the Hems at $UiO.
JOHN HAGBERY
Funeral services for John
Hagbery, 88, of 741 West Jack
son si., Medford. who died
Wednesday, will be held at
11:30 a.m. Saturday in Hill-
crest chapel on the North
Phoenix rd. The Rev. Gerald
Nelson of the First Methodist
church will officiate.
Committal will be held in
the Hillcrest Memorial park
with Conger-Morris Funeral
directors in charge of arrange
ments. Mr. Hagbery was born April
10, 1876, in Winneshiek coun
ty, Iowa. He was a retired
cattle rancher and had lived
in this community for the
past 17 years.
Mr. llagbery was married
Nov. 21, 11)10 in Miles City,
Mont, to Musa Stephenson.
Survivors, besides his wife,
are two daughters, Mrs. Helen
Mullcr, Central Point, and
Mrs. Ruth Barraclough, Med
ford; one sister, Mrs. Helen
Larson Meetecl.se, Wyo.; three
grandsons, two granddaugh
ters, one great granddaugh
ter, and several nieces and
nephews.
Casket bearers will include
Mora Cnry, J. R. Williams,
Chester Jensen, H. E. Moore,
Ned Barraclough, Daniel Fox
Worthy and S. C. Hitson.
FRANK JANTZeIh
Frank Jantzer, 73, of 1031
North Centrnl ave., Medford,
died al a local hospital last
night. Funeral arrangements
will be announced by Conger
Morris Funeral directors.
them so much as it was Gagar
in's gabble.
"I am eagle, I am eagle,"
the cosmonaut chortled. It had
an electrifying effect,
"Imagine that!" people ex
claimed. "The Russians have
a talking eagle."
There were, however, some
Wild Plum Crop Said
Frozen Out in Spring
The wild plum crop in the
Klamath Falls and Lakeview
areas was frozen out during
early spring frosts, the Jack
son county extension service
reported this morning.
A number of Jackson coun
ty people usually go to that
area on Labor Day week end
to pick fruit for jams and
jellies, it was noted. Bear
Creek Orchards uses the fruit
in its special jams and jellies.
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Investment funds
Noo i quotations on itleoted
stock-
Fund Rid Asked
Bullock 11.82 12.96
Chemical Fund 9.43 10.26
Colonial Ener 11.07 12.10
Eaton Howard Stk.. 12.11 13.01)
Fidelity 14.1ft 15.39
Fundamental Invent. 8.5(1 9.39
Group Sec Avia-Elec 6.75 7.40
Group Sec Com Stk 11.95 12.69
Group Sec Petr . .. 10.B1 11. (12
Mas Inv Growth Stk 7.06 7.72
Nal'l Growth 7.18 7.85
TV-EIec 7.05 7.68
United Accurn 12.65 13.83
United Canada 16.22 17.63
United Continental.. 8.30 6.89
United Income 11.02 12.04
United Science 5.68 6.40
Vnlue Line Inc 4.91 5.37
Wellington 13.61 14.84
Weather
23-2(1; rull-uttllty 15.50-20: good
c Inure I mi Kilter ml vim 22-25.
Huns 1721. No 1 and 2 hutehem
20 50-20 75; 2 and 3 Rrade 19-20;
I and 2 sows to 350 lb. mostly
Id-17.
Sheep 2H39, Choice-prime spring
liimbi 7SI-110 lb. 111-18 50; i-hotiT-prime
shorn lambs with 2 and 3
pelts 17 50; cull-Rood ewes 3 50
5 50: rhoii-e-lHiu-.v 60-90 feeder
lambs 16-17.
KOHKC ASTS
Medford and vicinity: Clear to
night and Saturday. Afternoon
winds northwesterly 10-15 mph.
Low tonight 45-30. High Saturday
90.
Western Oreaon: Fodutv or clouriv
late night and morning hours.
clearing afternoon and evening,
except continued clear in south
interior. Low tonight 48-5(5. Hich
Saturday 85-90 in interior, 66-72
on coast.
LOCAL DATA
TEMPERATURE: Mean vester-
day (i8; below normal 1.
Record high this date 100 in
1950.
Record low this date 41 In 1932.
PRECIPITATION: 24 hours 1o
midnight, none. Midnight to 10
a.m., none.
Total this month 1.00 inch, .82
inch above normal.
Total since Sept. 1. 18.38 Inches,
1.7(i inch below normal.
HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday
18, higheiit this a.m. 83.
111(11 4:00 21-
CITY Tester
day
nrookinss SO
Crater Lake P7
Grants Pass 89
Howard Prairie .. 77
Klamath Falls 74
MKDKOUD 90
Portland, --B7
Seattle .. .1......-!. 80
Spokane 78
Yakima. 85
Eureka 58
Red Bluff 97
Siicrnmento 89
Snn Francisco .... fi2
Los Angples 79
Phoenix .........7 104
Denver 03
Chicngo 91
Miami Reach 88
New York .. H7
Washington, D. C. 93
skeptics. 'It'g not really
talking eagle," they scoffed.
"Khrushchev is a ventrilo
quist." The language gap wai fur
ther widened thii month
when cosmonauts Pavel
Popovich and Andrian Nik
olayev went aloft for their
spectacular tandem flight.
"I am golden eagle calling
falcon," Popovich prattled in
the first communication ever
established between two space
vehicles.
"I am falcon calling golden
eagle," Nikolayev chattered.
It will be a long time before
we have two astronauts who
can top that exchange. Our
guys seem wedded to "A-OK"
and other such nonornithql
ogical terms.
I might never have known
the reason for the prosaic na
ture of our space talk had t
not dropped by the Smithson
ian Institution this week to
witness a ceremony honoring
Elmo Neale Pickerill,
It was Pickerill who
achieved the first two-way
radio contact between an
airplane end the earth. He
did this on Aug. 4, 1910,
while flying over Long Is
land in a machine built by
the Wright brothers.
To commemorate the event,
a milestone in the advance
ment of both aviation and
communications, a bronze
bust of Pickerill, now 77 and
living in Mineola, N.Y., was
installed in the Smithsonian's
National Air museum.
In words that were destined
to live in history, Pickerill
sent the following message:
"Can you hear my signals?"
"Back from the ground came
the fateful reply: "Your sig
nals are loud and clear."
Obviously, this set the pat
tern that is still being observ
ed today.
If Pickereill had had the
foresight to proclaim that "I
am robin redbreast," or "I am
ring-necked swallow," things
might now be different.
Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. WATKINS
(Register and Tribur.a
Syndicate 19621
presence in a boat hull i: sel
dom noticed, as the little
monsters are careful not to
break through the outer sur
face. They are unpaying,
uninvited guests; passengers
that exact a heavy toll.
"POOR
VH5TK
TRASH"
See how tHy live .
Festival
Plays
Tonight: "Henry IV, Part
II."
Saturday: "As You Like
II."
Sunday: "Coriolanus."
Curtain lime: 8:30 p.m.
This Mollutk Means
Trouble for Boat Owners
Very few mollusks are ac
tually destructive, but there
is one glaring exception. This
one has caused embarrassment
and much expense to the
owners of wooden boats
which have occasionally suf
fered from the destructive
ness of the woodboring "ship
worm" the teredo.
Although usually called a
worm, this creature is really
a mollusk, closely related to
the clam, oyster and scallop.
The teredo's desire for a
home is the reason for its de
structiveness. He does not live
on the wood of the boat's
planking like the land ter
mite, but makes holes in the
planking for burrows in
which to live.
There are many boats, fish
ing boats especially, that
leave their docks with many
more passengers aboard than
the captain or the mate sus
pect; non-paying passengers.
These little living augers
may be in considerable num
bers, yet their presence is
never suspected.
And the little monsters are
busy boring night and day,
whether the boat is in motion
or not. Given time they will
bring about a complete col
lapse of the craft, or they will
so weaken the piling of a pier
or a bridge under-pinning
that it will tumble into the
sea.
To combat the damage done
by ship-worms, many devices
have been used; copper-base
paint somewhat discourages
the mollusk, making the
wood unattractive as a home.
Repeated paintings are neces
sary as the salt water is con
stantly at work weakening
the applied paint.
Teak wood seems to be
about the only wood the ship
worm refuses to work in. The
reason for this aversion is not
too well understood, but the
cost of teak wood would pre-
Births
GRIFFIN - To Mr. and Mrs.
Sid, Happy Camp, Aug. 18,
1962, a girl, (no weight given),
at Happy Camp.
elude it being very widely
used.
The small mollusk known
as the "ship-worm" enters the
wood through a hole no
larger than a pinpoint. As
soon as it enters, it begins
gnawing at the wood, making
a roomy cavity.
As he continues to grow,
he enlarges the tunnel, al
ways eating lengthwise of the
wood, following the line of
least resistance by following
the grain. If he encounters a
knot or a bolt or even another
worm, he turns aside, but con
tinues eating and growing.
He has a long, cylindrical
almost transparent gelatin
like body, with a tiny pair
of shell-like valves on the
head. The stream of sea water
entering the opening the mol
lusk made carries the wood
(fust out, and brings in what
food he needs.
Within the ship-worm's
body is a long, U-shaped tube
that captures the microscopic
animal and plant food the
teredo will assimulate. For
this reason a boat in motion
probably would bring in
more food.
The teredo has a close cou
sin that has the ability of
boring holes in solid rock;
and is aptly called the "rock
borer."
The ship-worm is a fast
worker and may wreck a boat
in a very short time. Their
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KEEN - To Mr. and Mrs.
James F., 718 Gilman rd.,
Medford, Aug. 29, 1962, a boy,
73i pounds at Crater Osteo
pathic hospital.
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ThrouKh Sept. 5):
Wrslcru Ort'citn - Western ';t Isl
ington Ti m pern lurrs HventKinft
near normal Interior highs tU-74
in western Washington nd 73-8.1
western Oregon. Highs along coast
fiO-70. Lows 44-M. Chance of
showers about Monday.
Northern California No pre
cipitation. Temperatures below
normal.
SATURDAY SPECIAL
HAMBURGER
OPEN
UNTIL 11:30
With
All Of
The
Trimmings
TORNADO
BOWL
In The Oakdale Market
Portland Produce
Portland (VIM i Ma try market:
Eggs To retailers: AA extra
large. 4fi-5tic; AA Urge 4V4iK A
Ini ge 4ft-47r; A medium .t7-4lU
AA mall :2l-3lU cartons I -3c
higher.
Ilutter To retailers- AA and A
prints 7c; cartons If higher, B
prints fitic.
Cheese (medium curedi ro re
tailers; 47-4i,c; pi needed Ann rt
cn .1-10 lb. loaf. 4.V4t,'je
Portland (11 Pit Dressed clink-ens-
No 1 grade dressed to re
la tiers: I'rvers, whole drawn. 33
3 He lb ; cut-up 3H-43c : hens,
light tpe, wnole drawn 2l-i!!t lb.;
light type hen, cut-up a;!-3(c lb.;
heavy whole ;w-3iK lb.
Portland Livestock
Tortland (I'PD CSDA Week
1 lv livestock;
Cattle 2WH Mostlv choice steers
i 10. lb iS; high good-choice 2ft;
cut let -utility streis lti-19; choice
heifers 2M t' good mostlv 23 M
2H SO; runnei -cutler rows 10-14.10;
. utllitv-ronimerrlal hulls 20 .10
I Calves 510- Good-choice vealers
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Sundayt 4 p.m. lo 10 p.m.
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SATURDAY NIGHT 9-1
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 1st
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Eagles and Guests Welcome
SATURDAY
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Music by
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