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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Pre-Marital Pregnancies Are a Familiar Social Problem By LOUIS CASSELS United Pri International "They'll have to get mar ried, of course." ' The well dressed woman made the statement almost apologetically, as though she were laboring the obvious. She was quite shocked when her pastor shook his head. "No," he replied. "I'm not at all sure they should get married." i "But I told you," she pro tested impatiently, my daughter is pregnant . . ." "I know," said the clergy man. "Your teen-age daugh tor is pregnant by a boy who hasn't finished high school. It is a sad and serious situation But there's no sense in trying to remedy one mistake by making another that may be even greater. Conversations like the one above take place frequently in pastors' studies. Pre-marital pregnancies are a familiar so- Small Worlds Around Us By I MJ !t Watkins' (Rtgli'er s, Tribune Syndicmlc, 12) Roses bloomed profusely be side grandmother s house; she enjoyed every moment o f their beauty and carefully saved every petal that fell, at times even placed a paper bag over a bloom that was past its prime so that not a single, precious petal was wasted. By the time "the last rose of summer" had hung its beautiful head and come apart, grandma had accumu lated several jars of the fra grant petals. They were of many shades and of varied fragrances; for them she had many pleasant uses. She had never visited a cosmetic coun ter in all her life. The rose petals were the nearest ap proach lo a fragrance she ever enjoyed. A small handful of the dried petals in a tightly cov ered box in which she kept her most dainty handkerchiefs, Imparted to them a mild, tan talizing summer fragrance -the scent of roses. Another Us She had another use for rose petals; a use that may have been her own idea, or one that may have been hand ed down to her by her mother, who also may have been par tial to the fragrance of the rose, and that was in scenting home made soap. Grandma made her own soap; not the so-called soft-soap, the solidi fied kind; something like we use today, soap in various . sized cakes, and bars. Grandma saved other tilings besides rose petals. She also saved all fatty materials: var ious animal fats, tallow, suet, even chicken tat. These fats mixed with wood lye she se cured from hardwood ashes and potash, and all melted up in a large kettle, later became soap. The soap-making took her all of one day but the resultant product would last the family for several months. At just the right time, just before I h e cooked mixture cooled, she dumped in several hanrifuls of the rose petals. Then she poured the mixture Into shallow, square pans. As the mixture hardened she marked off the squares. She scored the soap deeply. When the cooling was complete, she knocked the block from the , pan, and broke it up into bars of soap, each with tne taini fragrance of the rose. All Diltoronl There were no oval cakes, no bars with rounded corners, none with peculiar shapes: in fact there were no two bars the same sUc, but they an smelted so nice it was a pleas lire to wash with them. After the soapsuds was rinsed away the skin retained a little ot the fragrance of last summer s roses. The soap had plenty of cleansing qualities; plenty ol suds, and Just a trace in one s eyes smarted for a long time. But grandma Justified this by saying, "it will make your eyes shine " She allowed the family only a bar a week; the supply had to last until the roses bloomed again beside the farmhouse, when once again she saw to it that not a single petal war wasted. cial phenomenon. When teen agers from middle class fam ilies are involved, the first idea that occurs to their dis traught parents is to rush thum Into marriage. They take It for granted that their priest or minister will en dorse this course. Often Learn Otherwise But they often learn other wise. "Pastors are increasingly unwilling to perform marriag es Just to 'regularize' an illicit pregnancy," says Fr. John C. Knott, director of the Family Life Bureau of the National Catholic Welfare Conferences. "When teen-agers marry to legitimatize a baby, the chanc es for disaster are enormous. Some studies indicate that four out of five such marriag es go on the rocks within a few years' time. "Rather than push imma ture youngsters into a mar riage that has little chance of success, I would much pre fer to let the baby be born illegitimately and placed for adoption." Fr. Knott points out that nearly every city now has one or more homes where unwed mothers may bear their ba bies in privacy. And there are Employment Rises To All-Time High Washington -HOT- Employ ment rose sharply in August to an all-time high but unem ployment fell disappointingly little, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. The number of jobless dip ped by 88,000 to 3,932,000. A drop of about 450,000 would have been normal seasonal shrinkage for the month. Because joblessness de creased so little, the seasonal ly adjusted unemployment rate jumped from 5.3 per cent of the labor force to 5 8 per cent. Seymour Wolfbein, the de partment's manpower expert, said the jump in the jobless rate was not a harbinger of a business recession. The strong upturn in employment, he said, showed that the general economic situation was not deteriorating. excellent public and private adoption agencies which stand ready to place babies in good homes. "It is foolish to talk about getting married 'for the sake of the child,' " says Fr. Knott. "A baby adopted into a ma ture family will have a far better chance in life than one born into the highly unstable relationship of a 'shotgun mar riage.' " A similar attitude is ex pressed in a statement on "re sponsible marriage and par enthood" adopted by the Unit ed Presbyterian diurch at its general assembly this year. Urges Great Care Noting that teen-age mar riages have proved to be "par ticularly hazardous," it urges pastors and parents to exer cise "great care" in counsel ing young people whose pre marital sex relations have re sulted in pregnancy. "Marriage," it says, "must not be looked upon as an in evitable consequence." In cases where the imma turity of one or both partners makes marriage seem "un wise," it says, "the church must be prepared to h e 1 p" the young couple go through with the alternative of illegiti mate birth and adoption. Pastors sometimes encount er, among the parents of teen agers in trouble, the attitude that a forced marriage is "just what they deserve." The Presbyterian statement repudiates the idea that un happy marriage and early di vorce constitute appropriate "punishment" for illicit sex relations. But it also emphasizes that pre-marital pregnancy is not merely inconvenient and em barrassing. It is sinful. While acting compassionate ly toward the young people involved it says, the church must make clear to them that they have "acted irresponsib ly - toward one another, to ward the child whose life they have initiated, toward society and toward God." "What has occurred should be the occasion for a grave self-examination and for seri ous repentance. A tea party an. a shower are not enough." Locomotive Derailed By Small Dirt Slide Ayer. Wash. -dW -The diesrl locomotive of a three-unit Union Pacific mail and pas senger train was derailed by a small dirt slide two miles west of here Wednesday. 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SEPTEMBER 8. 1981 Investment Company Opens Branch Office Portland - IUP1I - The New York-based investment firm oi R. W. Pressprich 4 Co. opened an office here Tues day. It is a member of the New York Stock Exchange. The local office is headed by E. F. Slade, a former sen ior vice president of the First National Bank of Oregon. ANNOUNCE ADVANCE Washington - IUPD -The Community Facilities Admin istration Wednesday an nounced an advance of $7,500 to Baker, Ore., for planning improvements to its sewer system costing an estimated SI, 160,000. Construction Is expected to start next spring. EMBRACE WITH SMILE Actress Sophia Loren and hus band Carlo Ponti embrace with a smile after learning Mon day that their Mexican proxy marriage has been annulled. The couple had high hopes that the annulment would result in the quashing of Italian bigamy charges against them. Miss Loren is in Tirrenia, Italy, making a film. (UPI) Truckers Threaten to Take Over the Nation's Highways C 5 By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - Like harmless birds and wildlife who fell prey to predatory fiCTl beasts, the American lour ing car car may be on the way to ex tinction. After about 8000 miles on the road, observ ing the strange habits of the miik genus tourist, this reporter must report on the growing popularity of "campers" - those pickup trucks with aluminum cabins mounted on the back. One might hastily conclude from this that Americans are rushing into the great out doors, eager to sleep by a babbling brook come night fall, or cook their chops over open fires in the woods. May be so, but my theory is that the tourist is shifting to the camper in self-defense. Be cause it is a truck, basically, he derives greater security from it than from an auto while on the road. This makes sense only be cause truckers are threaten ing to take over the nation's highways, as any auto driver will soon discover on a trans continental trip, especially through the industrial states of the East. Every survivor of the famous Pennsylvania Turnpike knows that instead of a relaxed, care-free excur sion, he fought for his life against the onslaught of the Diesel fired monsters who come roaring over every knoll in the Alleghenies. Patterned Roughly Theoretically, the best roads in the country are the inter connecting turnpikes which stretch from Chicago to New York, avoiding all towns, in tersections and traffic signals. The new interstate highway network is patterned roughly on the turnpikes, except for the tolls. They make it possi ble for the driver to avoid all the usual irritations and safety haiards-except trucks. 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In the 19th century Con gress invested in railroad building for the nation's wel fare. In the 20th century, Con gress has invested in a nation al highway system, presum ably because virtually every voter is an auto driver. Josephine County Man Interested in Annex to Jackson A new area businessman and property owner doesn't like Josephine county and wants his property annexed to Jackson county, according to a letter read by the Jack son county court Wednesday morning. Is Jackson county inter ested in annexing more prop, erty?" Greg Short, new owner of the We-Ask-U-Inn motel, 359B South Pacific highway, wrote. "We purchased the motel six months ago. We have since learned that Josephine county is completely in accord with the thinking in Grants Pass that any business, resort or otherwise, along the river is their mortal enemy," Short wrote. 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