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Family Council Editor'! Note: The Fimlly Coun. CU consists of a Judge, a psychia trist, Uiree clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article Is a summary of an actual case history. The Council reports on problems that nave oeen aeait Wltn ny r.spon. ftible aiteicles and counselors. (Copyrlfht 1861 General Features Corp.) Wilma D, - On account of her, I can't tell my brother anything. Mamie G. - I don't see any thing so confidential in her talk. e Wilma D. - Because my sister-in-law is such a blabber mouth, I don't dare tell my own brother what's new with me and my family. He'll tell Mamie, and she'll tell the whole world. She uses any little tid bits about us she can collect, as bait to get invited around. That's how she holds her audience. She hands out her version of every littlf: family Item she lays her hand on. For instance, I told my broth er I'm getting a new fur coat. I planned to tell my friends, one by one, as I saw fit. What was my surprise to get a few phone calls the very next day from friends who wanted to hear the details. How's that for a quick Jeak? You see now why I must keep secrets from my brother. Mamie G. - What's all the secrecy about? You'd think Wilma is working for the FBI the way everything she says is supposed to be so important. I can keep a secret as well as the next one, provided it's labeled a secret. Otherwise I feel free to use my own judg ment on what to tell, when to tell it, I'll whom to tell it. But I don't see where I've done Wilma any harm to mention that she's getting a sheared racoon. It was the same when she joined a gym. After all, 1000 other women are signed up there, so I couldn't imagine her trying to hide the fact. But she didn't talk to me for weeks because I wrote the news in a family letter to a cousin. My husband feels as bad about this as I do. Wilma has rto case at all. The Council - Here we're back to the old joke on How to Spread the News, - tele phone, telegram, and tcll-a-Mamie. As to what's tellable, all depends on what about and to whom. Obviously when it's about Wilma and to the pub lic at large, she deems it un tenable except by herself. But with more relaxed peo ple, anything that's destined to become public knowledge eooner or later may be band ied about sooner by anyone who needs conversational fod der. Some folk tell you it's Fri day as though it's a State Sec- j ret. Peering to the right and J Jeft, with one hand over their ; mouth, they whisper sweet nothings which are really nothings. Scclusiveness. sec retiveness is a mannerism, a way of life with them, whether they arc FBI men or j merely nontrusling, sc!f-im-1 portant souls who won't part with a word without a price : attached. ! This disagreement boils ; down to whether Mamie is ; circumspect, sensitive and dis- j erect with her tidbits of con-1 versation, and whether Wil- j ma is unduly touchy, sus-', picious, and self-dramatizing j about "routine" news. j As in-laws their "feelers" j may be askew. And who's ; caught in the squeeze? Ma mie's husband, of course. His ; easy chatter with his wife : turns him into a "grapevine" as far as his sister is con cerned. The happy compromise may lie in Mamie's realiza tion that Wilma needs items about herself as attention getters. When Mamie beats her to the punch, what's left? So it behooves Mamie to give Wilma the pleasure of talking about Wilma. Mamie can lim it her conversational pearls to talk about Mamie, hersc'f, and less self-conscious friends. Go ahead and talk natural ly, Wilma. to your brother (even if you consider him a fieve) and to Mamie. But you, Mamie, must clam up "un naturally" so as not to steal Wilma's thunder. She needs it more than you. People Outnumbered By Dogs on Airline New York - m - Ozark Air Lines reported that during a recent 30-day period it ship ped more dogs than people from one of its normally busy pawncer terminals. More than 400 dogs of var ious breeds were shipped from Ml. Vernon. III. weigh ing approximately 6,319 pounds. HEALTH COSTS Chicaco -il'IT- The Health Insurance institute reports In dividual costs for health pur poses rose from $87 in 1956 1 to $116 last year. SECTION B Medford PAGES 1 to I MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1963 News About Servicemen COMPLETES SCHOOL Dennis E. Henderson, ma chinist's mate fireman ap prentice, USN, has completed the Navy machinist's mate school at the U. S. Naval Training center. Great Lakes, III., and is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hender son, 1532 Terrace dr. On Jan. 6 the sailor will re port aboard the USS Monti cello at San Diego. PEN SALES 'BULLISH' Fort Madison, la. - (DPI) - Unit sales of fountain pens and ballpoint pens during the 1962 holiday gift season are expected to set an all-time high mark for the writing in strument indLlStrV Atari; ntin. analysts at the Sheaffer Pen company predict an increase of 5 to 12 per cent over the 20 million Dens that mnviut over retail counters in the several weeks before Christ mas last year. BACHELORS LOOK AHEAD New York - (ITD - Bache lors head the list of cedar chest purchasers, according to statistics compiled by the Lane company, large manufac turers of the chests. Eighty per cent of all cedar chests are bought as gift items, mostly by men for their fi ances, the company said. Congressman's Life Is Difficult Job, Durno Concludes By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Spccial)-"The life of a congressman," con cludes Rep. Edwin R. Durno, . vi-st after two ie.5 'ears ' expe rience in this role, "is a dif ficult and de manding one." In a final news letter before leaving office, the Medford phy- Smith sician s u m -mcd up his observations about the important task to which a few hundred Americans de vote themselves year-in and year-out because this is a free socieiy. Inasmuch as newspa permen seldom take time to report, along with the hard news developments, the per sonal routine of a congress man, Congressman Durno's fig summation of it probably rates as news to many citi zens Here is what he wrote: "He must live a dual life in trying to satisfy 51 per cent of his constituents', and, at the same time, live with his conscience and do the things that are morally and economically proper for his district, his state, and his country. "The job is exasperating, frustrating and yet most re warding. An average day is from 10 to 14 hours without scanning the newspapers and glancing at the many new books and governmental re ports that cross his desk. (Editorial note - Dr. Durno found time, however, to read the news-papers from Oregon, and some days he was frank to say that what he read only intensified his exasperation, a not uncommon experience for men in public life.) "Dictation and Mtcr sign ing, 100 - 200 daily; commit tee work, 9:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Congress assembles at noon. The sessions n ny last from two to six to eight hours. Visitation by his constituents; luncheons and dinners wind up the day and he is usually home by 10:30 to midnight. I And then there are special j projects, hearings he must al- tend, 'phone calls, telegrams to answer, and myriad lesser I duties. j "The Congress itself: wicldy in committees where laws arc actually hammered out; most unwieldy on the floor of the Mouse, where it is difficult and nearly impossible to write legislation. I often think of what the unitiau H must think when they see the House of Representatives in session for the first time. Noisy, sparsely attended, poor aramslk's for the gallery. There is seeming confusion most of the time, and indef- I ference is evidenced by those ; members who are present." I It is not surprising that Durno would comment on this aspect of life in the House, for he was much more consci entious than the average con gressman in attending daily legislative sessions and listen ing to the debates, or what passes for debate, in order to inform himself of the pros and cons of issues on which he had to vote. "It would seem that I am writing an indictment," he continued. "I am not. I re peat, laws are made by com mittees, by men behind the scenes, and are fashioned by seniority, friendship, equity and necessity." Influence Recognized Therein, Durno offers a clue to his reason for bowing out of the House (he unsuc cessfully sought the Senate nomination last May instead of seeking a second term in the House). He recognized that influence is greatest among certain senior con gressmen, that the House was a good place for a younger man to stake out a career bin that an older freshman congressman could have less expectation of serving long enough to gain the necessary seniority. With this in mind, he thought it better to gam ble on a crack at the Senate, where individual influence is often greater. "What a funny feeling onej gels in the pit of his stomach as he casts an 'aye' vote for I an appropriation of $48 bil hat it takes your ote and lion. You suddenly realize; only 218 others to commit 185 million Americans to pay the bill. How easy it is to vote for something that gives peo ple something - education, health, welfare, agriculture, urban renewal. Increased sal aries, medicare, pensions. How difficult It is to vote against those things even though you know that as a nation we cannot afford them if we are to continue to be the big benefactor of more than 100 other nations of this world. 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