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SECTION B PAGES 1 to 8 Medford MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1963 Diefenbaker Raps U.S. Criticism of Defense Policies Ottawa - 0!PD - Prime Min ister John Diefenbaker Thurs day struck back at U.S. gov ernment criticism of his de fense policies as an "unwar ranted intrusion in Canadian affairs." Diefenbaker said the State Department statement, which made clear the U.S. belief that continental defense would not be complete unless Canada accepted nuclear war heads for its air defense force, was "unprecedented" in the affairs of the two na tions. He told the House of Com mons that the statement was released by the State Depart ment to the Canadian Embas sy in Washington and t : Ex ternal Affairs Department in Ottawa only a half an hour before it was given to the press and covered subjects which were "surely matters for decision by Canada." Said Improper An open press release of this sort was an improper way to "exchange views be tween equal sovereign na tions," Diefenbaker said. He added that the government "sees no need to modify the views" expressed in his speech on nuclear policy to Commons last week. Defenbaker rose to a Com mons hushed by the tension invoked by the U.S. move. All the galleries were packed with crowds standing and overflowing in the corridors. Social Credit leader Rob ert N. Thompson, said the U.S. statement on the agreement could bring about "the fall of the government or the calling of an election." Liberal Opposition leader Lester B. Pearson and New Democrat leader T. C. Doug las noted the U.S. statement differed from the prime min ister's account of current U.S. Canadian nuclear negoiiations ana about Canada's future role in the Western alliance. Statement Denied The U.S. State Department release denied Dicfenbaker's statement of last Friday that Canada's nuclear role in NATO had been put in doubt by the Kennedy-Macmillan Nassau agreement in Decem ber to attempt to set up a multi-lateral nuclear force in NATO. "The agreements made at Nassau have been fully pub lished," the statement said. "They raise no question of the appropriateness of nuclear weapons for Canadian forces in fulfilling their NATO or North American Air Defense role." Applications Being Accepted for Positions The board of U.S. civil service examiners, Corps of Engineers, is now accepting applications for mess attend ant and wiper at the Portland office, 628 Pittock Block, Portland 5. Application forms for the two positions are available at the Medford post office and at any first or second class post office. They will be ac cepted until March 21, L. B. Nelson, examiner for the U.S. civil service commission in Medford, announced. The Family Council Kdltor's note: The Family 1'ounril consists of ludre. a phychiatrist, three elercvmru, three editors and a women's editor. Lach article is a summary o( a family disagreement presented to the Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by Mrs. Alma Oentiy. (Copyright by General Features Corp.) Yolanda B, - I'm willing to wait for him to decide what he wants. Mri. F. B. - He won't want her, because she's throwing herself at him. Yolanda B. - I've been dat ing Jerry for a year and I'm in love with him. I'm 20 and he's 25. He says he loves me too, but he wants to test his feel ings by going away. He says he's not quite ready for mar riage and wants to fulfill his lifetime dream of knocking around the world on tramp steamers for a year or two. He and his best friend have it all worked out to get jobs. Jerry's an expert radio operator. Of course I'm not wild about - his leaving. But I'll promise him to wait. I know how much the trip means to him. My mother thinks I should just say goodbye and go out with others when he leaves. Mrs. F. B.-Jcrry just hands Yola excuses for not marrying her and she falls for them. The truth is he'll never marry her. She makes things too easy for him. Anything he says goes with her. For the past 10 months she hasn't gone out with any oth er boy, although she's had many invitations. Now she's ready to shut herself up for another two years and just wait for Jerry. She doesn't realize that if he were really in love with her he couldn't bear to leave her. He's just afraid to get married and he's trying to wriggle away. Marriage can wait for a man but not for a girl. Yola should make no promise. The Council: A wise Amer ican humorist, Gelett Burgess, reminded us over a half-century ago that it's "not the quarry, but the chase" that hunters enjoy the most. And here's Yolanda taking all the suspense, all the strain, all the tease out of the pursuit every suitor is entitled to. She offers herself to Jerry as a caught bird. Wo concur with Mrs. B. that she, like Jerry, should wriggle loose from a too-risky pledge. Yolanda is right to agree that he pursue the adventure his heart is set on. If he didn't it would gnaw away inside him the rest of his life and af fect his feelings and dealings, not only with his wife, but with friends and fellow-workers. She is right, too, to con fess her deep love for him at the moment. But her mother is right in urging her not to promise that the relationship will "freeze" at status quo for two years. For certainly Jerry will go out with others-exotic sirens, playgirls, hospitable native types. He seems willing to take his chances where Yolan da is concerned. The trip is the dearest thing in his life right now. If Yolanda wants to sit by the fire and wait for him, he'll cross that fireplace when he comes to it. And if he should return to find her not waiting, he won't be ex actly crushed, either. The girl is only 20. The next two years should be viewed as a lucky break, courtesy of Jerry. She has a chance to ma ture, to get to know herself and her heart better. She'd be foolish to promise to stop the clock awaiting the hour when her roving Romeo gets. good and ready to start her ticking again. See what happens, Yolanda. Preference yes, promise no. Hug your feeling about Jerry deep inside, but recognize his isn't as deep about you. Ac cept dates from others. There may really be someone else in the cards for you, someone you'll love even more. II ll t ill V- mum tfAmW IT'S TRADE-IN TIME! ON A NEW FRIGIDAIRE ELECTRIC RANGE! aire Pull 'n Clean Oven Cleans Like a Dream . Exclusive Pull 'n Clean Oven pulls out like a drawer, cleans like dream no squat, no stoop, no stretch, no strain. Automatic cooking with Cook-Master con trol that stops and starts the oven. T59WE;3 S3 NX Instant heat whenever you need it with Speed-Heat surface unit. 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Mock atomic bombard ments invisible to the naked eye, are being microscopical ly observed in the study of a harmless bacteria used to assume the role of war-be-seiged humanity. Dr. Nancy W. Walls, of tha Georgia Institute of Technol ogy. who is conducting tha experiment, noted that most of those organisms that have received an anti-radiation substance survive the on slaught unscathed. T h o s a without it perish. VL rT-1t1 Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc. 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A little known point is that in recent years benefit payments to policyholders themselves (in the form of cash redemptions, health and disability payments, annuities, etc.), which insurance people like to call "living" benefits, far outnumber death benefit payments. In 1961, out of a total $8.8 billion in benefits paid to U.S. families under various types of life insurance policies and annuities, $5.2 billion went to policyholders themselves and only $3.6 billion to survivors. Here, from Gilbert W. Fitzhugh, the new president of the nation's largest insurance company, Metropolitan Life, are other points about the insurance industry's problems and outlook today. Porter: What is your answer to Medicare? Fitzhugh: Voluntary efforts must find ways to provide needed care for the aged and actually there are many plans in existence now. "New York B5," a cooperative effort cov ering over-65 residents of New York state, enrolled 110,000 people in one month on an experimental basis late last year. There are similar plans in Connecticut and Massachusetts and others are contemplated. Also many companies have plans of their own, both life insurance and casualty insurance companies. The number of people over 65 with coverage is rising rapidly. Our longe-iange answer to medical care for the aged is group insurance plans. Around 70 per cent of our own group plans now offer continuing benefits after you retire. The trouble is that people who retired 10 years ago didn't have this kind of coverage. We feel that it doesn't make sense to put in a huge compulsory program to meet this temporary problem. Naturally we should do what we can to fill in the gaps, and insurance companies are offering more compre hensive medical plans all the time. Porter: What is the biggest challenge lacing your industry now? Fitzhugh: To keep up with the tremendous change in bur market, primarily the immense bulge which is coming in the family formation 18-24 year age bracket. This is a prime market for life insurance. The population also is shifting to the suburbs and increas ing its earnings - both of which mean ned' ambitions for children, higher living standards and increased need for in surance protection. Today every man knows he needs In surance, but we have to persuade him to spend enough money to cover his basic insurance needs Porior: What about your competition from savings banks, mutual funds and the slock market? Fitzhugh: We must expect more and more competition from nil sources, but we lioncitly feci th:t the value of guer antecd life insurance are coming more and more tnto their own. During me posi-war inuauunniy upsuigi-, mum I prices were cnmmng constantly, it wai nam m, ., vmi I people that it couldn't last, but since the market crash we look a lot more alluring. In this way competition has helped i us. In cost per $1,000 of Insurance coverage, Hie insurance u- a-... ,utnn In irU;..h vnit M mnrr for vour money today. This is because mortality rates are down, inter est rates we receive on our investments have been at record highs and expenses are not up enough to over-balance gains from these two areas. The major complaint about life in surance benefit dollars is that they won t buy as much as they used to, but it's not our fault that tl" dollar's buying power Is down. The benefits are guaranteed. Porter: What about the problem of investing your funds? Fitzhuah The supnlics of savings have somewhat caught up with demand and there is now more competition for in vestments. But we are finding good investments and are pioneering in new channels. We are increasing our percent, age of investment In mor'.gsgr", "d these will probably com mand a rising ehhre of our investment dollar as formations of new families grow rapidly In the years ahead. 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