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JT J-LUhkfcR'S "foe iucutwsiuifss comm. w row cur. bkmio whiskh. eg raoor.esK gum muiui smuti MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1962 NUCLEAR FIREBALL The sequence of a nuclear fireball was photographed for the first time recently in the Hawaiian Islands. The pictures were taken from the Island of Kauai, 96 miles northwest of Honolulu, and show the result of a high altitude test conducted at Johnston Island, more than 700 miles to the west. In the top photo, the fireball is seen as a bright orange at first, then changing in moments to blue-green. In the center photo the fireball is still a blue green but is fast diminishing. In the lower photo the fire ball became a powder blue-white thin streak in the sky just moments before it finally faded away. The small streaks are star paths. (UPI) The Medical Roundup . Emeritus P 0 When Life Seems Useless Every so often I see in the office a person, often past middle age, who has suffered a great deal, either from illness, or from some personal trag edy. Perhrps the person has lost an only son or only daughter, or a man has lost his much 17 Alvarez loved wife by death, or per haps he has fought all of his life to get and hold a job, in spite of his tendency to fall down occasionally in a con vulsion. Now he is so dis couraged he has quit strug gling to keep at work. Often I see a person past 50 or 60 who has lost his job, and now he has little chance of again getting work. No employment manager will take him. Worse yet, perhaps he has had a few little strokes which have left him forgetful and slowed-up. Perhaps a woman has been divorced and now feels terribly lonely and unhappy. She finds it so hard to live alone, and to eat alone. It is so sad to talk to these unhappy people who feel that life has passed them by; they feel that they no longer are needed either by a relative, or In business, or in the world. I can remember how sad a very able woman was when she was about 61, and got a bad stroke. Before that she had been so active, raising large sums of money for the charity that was close to her heart, and working with a number of women who, she thought, were dear friends. Then, with the stroke, which for a while left her unable to talk, her friends all dropped away from her, and she be came very lonely. Wisdom To Make Contacts Worse yet, in order to live in the home of a daughter, he had to move 2,000 miles away from her old home. But she had the wisdom to make new contacts and new friends, and because she was a sweet, kindly person, she was accept ed by these new friends. Best of all, she made contacts with young women - some of her daughter- friends - many of them under 40. Her daughter was very proud of her for her ability to make these new friends Too often an older woman shuts herself away from peo ple, largely because she will not listen; she wants to do all the talking, and worse yet, she keeps talking about unhappi ness and disasters which only bore the people who have dropped in. As I think back over my years of practice, I think par ticularly of three wonderful women, each of whom was so badly crippled with rheuma- Emeritus Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Register and Tribune Syndicate, Emeritus Consultant in Medicine Mayo Clinic 1962) get out of bed or out of a wheel chair. But these women were so social and so inter ested in all their old friends and what they were doing that they kept in close daily touch with them, often over the telephone. Also, they were such interesting women, and such fun to talk to, that many young, as well as old, friends often dropped in to visit with them, and to tell them all the gossip of the town, which they loved to hear. Silent Recluse Unnecessary This shows that an old per son doesn't necessarily have to become a silent recluse. The surest way for an old person to drive everyone away, when people do come in, is to collar the conversa tion and then hang onto it -and especially to talk about how her children were once unkind to her, or how she hates the President, and the' government, or how her hus band was treated shabbily by his old employer. As I see some of these old lonely, broken people who have come through some great disaster, I think of one of the most remarkable para graphs I ever read. It is to be found in Donn Byrne's re markable, "Blind Raftery." Raftery was a blind harpist in Ireland who fell in love with another lonely person, a wom an named Hilarla, who also had suffered a great sorrow. One day Blind Raftery said to Hilarla, "There is a death that comes to all of us In life, as came to me when was taken from me the light of my eyes . . . and we sit a little while by ourselves in an apart dark place, and we learn truths of how certain things one be lieves to be good are but vul gar selfish things, and how certain things the small think evil are but futile accidents. And we learn to be kind; such wisdom comes when we are 'dead.' And those who have never died in life, Hilarla, are pleasant shallow people, soul less as seals." ROCKETS FIZZLE Keokuk, Iowa-flJPt-Railroad officials Tuesday announced new names for the combina tion Burlington -Rock Island trains which run between St. Louis and Minneapolis. The "Rocket Zephyrs" and the "Zephyr Rockets" henceforth will be known as No. 15 and No. 8. The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Conncll consists of a Judce, m psychiatrist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Each arUcle is a summary of a family disagreement presented to the Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by by Mrs. Alma Denny. (Copyright kr Renr-J Features Corp.) Anna G. Why can't he say hello to a woman without kissing her? George G. That's how I've greeted women all my life. What s wrong? Anna G. - I'm disgusted with my husband. Every time we meet friends he runs ahead and gives the women In the crowd a big kiss! What's wrong with him? Their hus bands don't kiss me. They show me respect. And they show respect for their wives. We have a two-month-old daughter and I'd like to set tle this matter now. How is she going to feel when she grows up and sees her fa ther kissing every woman who lets him? And some of the women are so forward they kiss him back. His brother doesn't kiss me, but you should watch George hur ry over to kiss his brother's wife, our sister-in-law. Besides, if he kisses like that when I'm around, what goes on at the tavern Satur day nights when I'm home with the baby? George G. - To me a kiss is almost automatic, as part of a hello to girls and wom en I know well. In my fam ily we do this without a thought. But now all of a sud den I find myself married to a bluenose who sees hidden and serious meanings in the light pecks I hand out. Anna is just an immature child. If she weren't she'd realize that my greetings are just a matter of habit, and harmless habit at that. Hasn't she seen women throw their arms around each other and yell, "Darling!"? Does it mean anything? Of course not. She s so possessive and jealous that she made a ter rible scene at a Dartv last month. I ran Into a former girl friend who's still single and gave her a warm em brace which was aDDreclated and recoprocated. The Council - MavK n trip around the world is what Anna needs, because people Use nhvsical emhranpe as part of their hello In many parts or tne globe. Trench men kiss Frenrhmpn. FsM. mos rub noses, others rjinch cheeks. But since Anna can't get around to see for her self, we ask her, as the song puts it. to nleasp rempmhpr this a kiss is just a kiss. Ana sne snould stop nagging her Kissin' George. He isn't Dromisina nnv nf those gals to love, honor and cnerisn tnem, along with the kiss. The Big Promise went to Anna, who's Riinnnso, fn do likewise. She isn't if she acts like an agent from the Society for the Slinnrosoinn of Vice whenever her husband goes into his second-nature routine for greeting dames. Two Firms Appeal Decision of NLRB San Francisco-iUPD - Harvey Aluminum Co. and the Wal lace Security Agency have asked a federal court to throw out a National Labor Rela tions Board flnriinff that th two firms were guilty of labor spying. Harvey with plants at The Dalles. Ore., anri Tnrrnnpa Calif., and the Portland de tective agency filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. They termed the NLRB rul ing "arbitrary and rnnrif1nin and an abuse of discretion." General Engineering Inc. also was a party to the appeal. The NLRB reeentlv nilod Harvey and Wallace guilty of SDvtns on labor nrcanMnir nc tivitles at Harvey's plant at The Dalles in violation of fair labor practice laws. The NLRB ordered Wnrvpv tn etnn spying activities and to offer jots DacK to two men fired at Torrance. Siskiyou Endorses Mrs. Hopkins for Post Bereth P. Hopkins, candi date for county clerk of Jack son county, has been endorsed by the Siskiyou. The official publication of the Association Students of Southern Oregon college in the Oct. 12 issue endorsed Mrs. Hopkins as its choice to be elected county clerk Nov. 8. '2b t STATE REPRESENTATIVE Honest Capable) Experienced Pd. Pol. Ad. by S. V. McQueen, 2l36Hilkrest The impulse, pursued as it is in public and in full view of whoever's around, is a natural part of his ebullient person ality. And Anna, as wife, must accept the part as well as the whole. This early in a marriage is the time to nip tendencies which can ruin it. If Anna is concerned over what her lit tle daughter will think, she must get to work on herself. She appears frighteningly in secure, full of fears, worried about what goes on "at the tavern." We're inclined to believe that George loves and respects his wife, whether he busses passing ladies in front of her or in her absence. But the bulwark of a man's faithful ness, what makes his con science ring a loud gong in the face of temptation, is one thing: the knowledge that his wife trusts him. Only a real wreck of a man knocks over that rock. So we urge Anna to stop her prudish carping, and especially her hysterical accusations. Some psychologists claim, Anna, that a jealous woman cannot love her man. She can love only herself, and what she calls "love" is really fear lest she lose him, fear lest he leave her. (He usually does.) A happy compromise here would be for George to hire a babysitter, take Anna along to the tavern next Saturday and watch her relax during the usual round - robin of clinches. Texas Cow Pastures Feel Age of Space By ALEX ADWAN United Press International Seabrook, Tex. - (UPO - No body's feeling the space age like the cow pastures of this once-sleepy fish in resort area southeast of Houston. Those cow pastures are suddenly the hottest real estate this side of the Ionosphere. The U.S. man-in-space pro gram has produced a dramatic series of rags-to-riches land deals since the Federal Space Agency picked a site just west of here for its new $123 mil lion manned spacecraft cen ter. Take Mr. and Mrs. Vernon M. Heiman, who were getting along on his salary as a school janitor a year ago. Now they are planning to re tire to a hill country ranch. The Heimans picked up $207,000 for 41 acres of land that Mrs. Heiman inherited from her mother. The land had been in the family for 82 years and was originally ac quired for $5 an acre. It sold for $5,000 an acre. Bought By Oil Company The cow pasture was bought by Humble Oil Co. And the Del Webb Corp. for a massive business and resi dential development adjacent to the new space center. Mrs. Heiman said she had TIM ' 'V V ' i J AHr 4 ""TV A i ft f T1 TV x Mf xrI CRISIS DISCUSSED Brazil's Sen. Malo Franco, left, dis cusses the Cuban crisis with Cuba's UN Ambassador Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui at the United Nations in New York. (UPI) other offers, but Humble got the deal by promising to give her uncle, Jim Martyn, graz ing rights on the land. The Heimans settled with attor neys, agents and Income tax collectors, and still had enough left to buy a 65-acre ranch south of Fredericks burg - with plenty remaining for the bank account. That account had been as low as 8 cents at one time in recent years. i The Del Webb development is the biggest planned to date that is actually in the buying and developing stage. But there have been others. Some $10,000 An Acre) Land recently valued at $300 an acre is now priced as high as $10,000. K. E. Antone, Houston, said land fronting on the farm road to the space center is running as high as $10,000 an acre all the way from the Gulf Freeway to the NASA site. Ernest Weissberger, head of Worth Realty Co., swung the biggest land sale in the area. He negotiated a deal for the 2,100-acre William States Jacobs Estate ranch for $1,000 an acre. Land owners in the same area are now asking $3, 500 an acre, he said. Col. Raymond Pearson sold the Pearson ranch, a family property since 1927, to Nassau Bay Development Co. for $3,000 an acre. Its 586 acres will be developed as a complete $25 million com munity. A Similar Boom Houston real estate man William W. Hawkins said there was a similar boom along State Highway 146 in the area. Land there once priced at $500 an acre is bringing $3,500 he said. "Some landowners are pric ing themselves right out of the market and may be skipped by development in the area," Hawkins said. But for those willing to accept a fortune, there are fortunes to be had. Ralph Moss recently sold his three-acre nursery opera tion to Scott Smith of El Lago, Tex., fo $40,000. Smith sold it a month later to Dr. Earl Chapman for $60,000 -or $20,000 an acre. One developer said the overall project could be com- -A 5 Portland Man Bids High for Winema Trees Klamath Falls - Donald Snyder of Portland was suc cessful bidder for 4,000 Christmas trees from ths Klamath ranger district, Win. ema National Forest. Snyder's high bid was $2.16 per trees, compared to an ad vertised priced of 80 cents per tree. The Shasta Red Fir Christmas trees are located in the Billie Creek area. 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