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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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.
Other bidders included Al
fred Wu of Bonanza, and An
drew Gigler, Klamath Falls.
pared to picking up the city
of Austin, Tex., and deposit
ing it on the clear lake site.
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