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6 5 The Family Council tldilnr't rune: Tht family Council euoiltti ol a Judge. a pnchulrlktf three clergymen. Oree editors and a women's editor. I.ach artirle 11 a summary of a family dlsac. reenienl presented lo 111 Council. The Council dealt with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselor! and tonal workers, bdlted by by airs. Alma Uenny (Copyrlxbt by nensrM Features Corp.) Mt. W. C She'll break his j heart if she doesn t get him a i dog. Mrs. C. J I'll be a com plete wreck if I do get him one. Mr. W. C. My sister has been stalling on getting her 8-year-old son a dog. She makes every excuse in the book. Now she's telling him to wait till his 9th birthday in two months. Secretly she's been telling me she'll never get him one and will spend the intervening time trying to talk Charley out of the idea. Her husband and she feel the same way about it no dog. But I watch Charley when lie's over at our house. He clings to our cocker spaniel and keeps talking of when he gets his own, what fun he'll have. He's a lonely kid with only a baby sister around. A dog is just what he needs. Mrs. G. J. I've been wres tling with this problem a long time and I want to do what's right. I spoke to a veterin arian and he warned me that when you give a child a dog. it's really the mother's dog. She must be prepared to take the 'major care of the pet. And the trouble is I don't want a dog. As a child I was bitten by one, and I've al ways kept away from them. I've even discussed this with a psychological coun selor. She says I must be honest. I can't pretend to like the dog, because that will harm me, and my resentment will come out on Charley and the dog. The only solution is to let Charley play with other peo ple's dogs. The Council: Mrs. J. is the brave one here. To come right out and say you re anti-dog is tanamount to being anti mother, anti-flag, anti-church an unpopular heretic. But her honesty clears the air. The job now is lo see whether she can be cured of her phobia or whether Charley can be satisfied with other people's dogs. We agree with the coun selor that a delay is advis able while Mrs. J. probes her block against "man's oest friend." Meanwhile Charley may become popular among dogs and dog-owners (espe cially other mothers) for his welcoming arms and untiring, dog-walking legs. Of course that's no substi tue for his own. But to do a good job for his own and on his own, he may have to wait until he grows up and has his own home. Under his parents' roof he needs a dog-loving, not mere ly a dog-tolerating mother. She loves her son. Can she also love the frisky creature who gives her son companion ship, fun, responsibility and adoration? It's true that it may be better for Mrs. J. to be a "bad" mother at this point and deny Charley the pet, than a "good" mother on the surface and take in the ani mal, hoping something hap pens to it (as many do). These "good'' mothers often don't admit their hostility, but they can't help taking it out on WILL AMERICA MEASURE UP? The standards of world leader ship are changing rapidly. To hold our position in business, in science and invention and living standards, we must ap ply new yardsticks to higher education. How are our higher institu tions doing? Eravely-but a crisis is looming. Colleges are in a squeeze, some face short ages. In less than 10 years there will be twice as many ap plicants. To measure up in the mod ern world, we must keep our colleges equipped with good laboratories, modern class room? and, above all, compe tent teachers. HELP THE COLLEGE OF YOUR CHOICE NOWI To fid out bow te co'leoe crisis ccti you, rt' o HIGHER EDUCA TION. Bo 36, Times Square S'o''on, New York 36, N. Y. r.,u;kr'f as i p"Mi s"!' in rnTirr"")" !( A'i' rfl'-J f-p,,"l c"f ,vvfpiD" A4- rfrMily t'j'r'lM'tfS ASSI-ilf'fl. the child and on the dog in many ways The uncle, Mr. C, can do no more than continue to share his own pet with Char ley, and try to drum up a few other slops where the boy can bring his Friendly Dog Visiting Service, rain or shrine. Multnomah FoodStamp Plan in Operation Portland -HTC- Mullnomah county's pilot food stamp pro gram got under way Monday. The program offers food stamps for rale lo the needy at a discount. They can be used to buy food at full face value at local stores. The gov. ernmcnt pays the difference. Fluffy as Fur Hats Cieiai. Prettiest way lo be warm just crochet these loopy, luxurious hats in 3-ply yarn. The fluffy look in fashion's lop shapes the cone and pill box. Crochet in one or two colors. Pattern 7475: direc tion fit all headsizes. THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (coins) for this pattern-add 10 cents for each pattern for 1st class mailing. 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May 28, I submitted statistics and authoritative statements from brokers to prove that women could not have dumped stocks in sufficient volume ; to set off that day's slump, one of the worst of this century, j Today, more in sorrow than in anger, I send a third j "nuts" to my, long-time friend, Keith Funston, president of I the New York Stock Exchange, for adding to the myth about ' the little woman. His contribution is inadvertent, but he I should have avoided it. Here's the tale, j The New York Stock Exchange has just issued the fifth : in a series of reports dissecting transactions on the NYSE by individual investors on the chaotic days of May 28, 29 and 31. Paragraph four of the over-all summary states: Women, whose total volume was about one-third that ! for men. nevertheless had a for the three days which was two-and-a-half times as great as that for men.'' That's all Funston says. It's both too much and loo little, though, for tht implication which easily may be drawn from this paragraph is that "women did panic and in unreasoning terror, they dumped slocks so heavily that they brought about the whole debacle." Newspaper stories saying just this have appeared from coast to coast But in the report itself are two tables, breaking down buying and selling of stocks by sex and here is what the tables disclose. (1) Men accounted for 74.5 per cent of total trading by individuals on the three days. Women accounted for only 25.5 per cent. That 25.5 per cent is scarcely a majority! (2) Monday, May 28, was the black day of crash. On that day alone, men sold 720,000 more shares than they bought. Women sold 460,000 more shares than they bought, Who was leading whom? (3) Tuesday, May 29, the market plunged in the morn ing, turned around spectacularly at noon and skyrocketed. On that day, men sold 160,000 shares on balance. Women sold a huge 600,000 shares on balance. "But when did women sell so heavily?" I asked an of ficial of the NYSE. "In the morning during the break? Or in the afternoon, when the market was staging a powerful comeback?" "We don't know," the official answered. "We can't get! a breakdown on individual selling by hours. That informa tion is gone forever." "Then you don't know whether women were panicking and selling at the bottom or being smart and feeding out stock on the way back up?" "We don't know. It could have been either way." (4) On Thursday, May 31, after the Memorial Day holiday, the market soared again. On that day, both men and women were net buyers, meny buying 610,000 shares on balance, women buying 390,000 shares on balance. Altogether over the three days, transactions by men totaled 25,630.000; transactions by women. 8.780,000, Men sold 12,350,000 shares. Women sold 4,730,000 shares.. "How do you conclude from this that women panicked?" I persisted. "We didn't reach that conclusion. We simply said that sales by women were two-and-a-half times as great as the sales balance by men." "But that sentence leaves a clear impression about wom en's sales. Since on the crucial day of Monday, men sold far more on balance than women and you don't know whether on Tuesday, their big day of selling, women were dumping on the downside or selling -on the upside, is the impression warranted?" "I guess not. But we didn't reach any conclusion." "Then in view of your misleading non-conclusion, wouldn't I be justified in repeating my 'nuts' lo those who accuse the little woman?" "Sure, you could do this." It's more in sorrow tiian in anger. Keith. But I'm a woman, you know, I'm proud of my sex and when there's reason for rising to our defense against an unfair myth well, you shouldn't have contributed to it, really you shouldn't have. anta and his Reindeer are Coming to Greater See Next Thursday's MEDFORD Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc. sales balance in the aggregate Medford, Friday, . SfrO ftJ C-J GiJf. Dennis the Menace I MAD TO LET THEM IN. GEOPSE ! THEY FOUND OUT THAT ttURE THE Wb WOS BEEN SiLWS RIFLES T& THE INDIANS!' State sEconomic Status Reviewed A member of the slate de partment of planning and de velopment reviewed Oregon's economic status and its pros pects for future growth at the Monday noon meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Roundtable at North's Chuck Wagon. The speaker, Larry Dincen, a former Chamber of Com merce manager in the Bea vcrton area, stated that the state is moving toward a competitive position national ly because it has begun to diversify its economy.' Economic development in the slate up to the 1940 s was based, in order, on tim ber, agriculture and tourism, he said. Primarily the slate during that period simply processed its raw materials and shipped them somewhere for manufacture. Military Armaments During the years of the "war boom," industries pro ducing military armaments attracted a great influx of population from other areas of the United States, Dinecn said. But when those indus tries suddenly stopped pro duction at the end of the war, masses of workers found themselves without jobs. This employment crisis was solved, the speaker said, by the "pent-up demand for lum ber for new housing.' The demand held up during the decade from 1945 to 1955, and after a slump for a period of time, has now been revi talized by innovations in the industry. Despite that fewer workers are being employed in the lumber industry now, accord ing to output, production and sales have remained constant due to recent developments in such timber byproducts as plywood, pressboard and chips. Dinecn said. Agriculture, in Oregon has grown a "tremendous" amount since the end of World War II, the speaker I said. Que principally to Ihc expension of food processing facilities, He cited in particular de velopment of the "freeze dry" technique, by means of which fresh foods are vac uum scaled in plastic cover ings, which leaves them in an inert state. The process re moves about 80 per cent of the weight from the food stuffs, making them easier lo ship, and eliminating the ne cessity of refrigeration. The commodities are restored to Iheir original condition, Di necn said, by placing them in water. But the speaker cautioned that the state's economy must continue to develop and ex pand. He urged the diverse elements of communities to coordinate their promotion activities wherever possible into a concentrated effort to attract out-of-state industries. Reasons Noted . Economic development and progress is vital, Dinecn said, for at least five reasons: 1) Bt-Lause the U.S. must remain CHRISTMAS GIFT CERTIFICATE V Y. With Purchase of Your New Rambler al LEA MOTORS I Fifth and Bartlett There's an Irwin Baze Young Composer's Trail To Brink Of Glory Reads Like Movie Script B .. r.TeI- I1IFCT I ivii: i - ...... By DICK WEST Washington il'Pli S a n t a Clans I never had any doubts about. It's guys like Irwin Bazclon that 1 have double believing in. Yes, Virginia, j Ihere is an Ir win Buzclon. There m u s 1 1 be. because I have just been j talking with h i m. But wst w h at h a p-1 pened lo him could only hap- j pen in the movies. Let me set the scene for you. There is this struggling young composer, see, who has i wrilten this symphony. Like ; all struggling young compos-1 ers, he keeps getting the : brush-off. I uniy tins struggling young composer's hobby is handi capping horse races. So one day he goes out to the track and parlays a few bucks into more than a grand. (This is the place where I used to go out for popcorn). Then he lakes the dough and has some of his music recorded. Then he borrows his uncle's car I forgot to mention that his uncle is a federal judge and goes around to see an important conductor. He plays the recording for the conductor, who is so im pressed he accepts the com poser's symphony for his own orchestra. Not only that, he invites the composer to be a 0uosi conductor at its mnmici- performance. Veteran moviegoers will recognize that plot as coming right off the bad: lot at War ner Brothers. And that is why I have trouble believing in Irwin Bazclon. His symphony. "Testimo nial to a Big City," will be given Its premier perform- ahead in its ideological strug gle with communism; 2) Be cause this country's popula tion explosion will continue to put pressure on the em ployment problem in the country; 3) Because tech- j nological advances and auto-' mation arc gradually climi- nating low-skill jobs in Indus-1 try, and 4) Because it is im- , pcrativc that our stale and nation maintain a healthy and sound economy for the general welfare of its people. Roundtable Chairman Bill Longmore announced that next week's spcRker will be Dr. Orlo Brecs, a representa tive of the National Associa tion of Manufacturers. Phone 772-61 85 December 7th! RIBUNE Ion ance by the National bynv phony Orchestra this week with Bazclon himself on the podium. Furthermore, the events leading up to this climatic moment were more or less as outlined in the scenario above. Large Audience Hears 'Messiah' Ashland - In spile of flood conditions throughout tile v il ley floor, a large audience assembled in the Southern Oregon college gymnasium Sunday afternoon for liie fifth annual presentation of Handel's "The Messiah." However, Maynard Iladley, Medlord vocalisl who was lo have sung the bass solos, was flood -bound and could not reach Ashland to take part in the presentation. Richard Graham, Ashland Shakespear ean actor who was serving as narrator for the program, also read the lines of the bass so loist. Graham's rich, clear : voice is particularly well-suit-cd to the delivery of reverent and meaningful lines, and the applause Indicated that the j audience was well pleased with the adaptation. Olher soloists were Mrs. Virginia Cecil, who has sung the soprano part every year since "The Messiah" has been an annual offering by the Southern Oregon college music department, and Rich ard and Charlsia Schall. This was the first lime thai the two vocalists had been heard in these roles and their voices, while sweet and adequate as lo training and interpretation, lacked the volume and strength for tht Handel music according to some listeners. Dr. Herbert Cecil, head of the SOC music department, directed the Southern Oregon Lillle Symphony nrches t r a and chorus. WILL BUY SMALL FIR LOGS 6" & LARGER DIAMETERS Especially Interested in Salvaging Timber Blown Down by Recent Storm For More Information Phone or See CHENEY FOREST PRODUCTS Phone 664-1271 Central Point for All the Details! If this taxes your credu lity, you and I are not alone. Bazelon said he has trouble believing it, too. He is not exactly nervous about getting his big chance, but he plans to conduct with out a baton. He is afraid it might slip out of his hand and impale a piccolo player. If all goes according to script. Bazelon's symphony will be nationally acclaimed and he will go on to musical glory. 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