MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1963
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Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. W ATKINS
(Register and Tribuna
Syndicate, 1963)
What We Call A 'Vicious'
Attack Is Only Way of Life
We call it a vicious attack,
,that sudden pouncing of a
predator upon a lesser ani
mal; terrible, we think too,
is the killing and the even
tual eating of the poor thing.
Actually the attack is a way
Fully Automatic
Weather Station
Records Data
Washington - IWU - The Ag
riculture Department has
'established a fully automatic
weather station, operat i n g
"around the clock, to collect
and record nearly a dozen
weather elements at Athens,
Ga., for researchers.
' The station, devoted ex
clusively to agriculture, was
.built by the Agricultural Re
search Service in cooperation
with the Georgia ricultural
'.experiment station.
.Varied Uses
. Scientists are using data re
corded by the station in their
research on solar heating for
.farmhouses. Agronomists and
soil scientists also will use
-the weather information in
.studies with various types of
ground covers.
." Among the weather ele
ments the station records are
temperature (dry bulb and
dew point), wind speed and
-direction, radiation from the
sun, difference between gen
eral and sky radiation, evap
oration, rainfall, soil tempera
ture and moisture, and black
globe temperature. Black
globe temperature is a mea
sure of the combined effects
of heat radiation, wind move
ment, and air temperature.
Senses Elements
Instruments, located out
doors, sense the various wea
ther elements, which are re
"corded by electronic equip
ment kept in a small build
ing nearby. Wind speed and
direction, for example are
measured by an outdoor ane
mometer and vane positioned
'some 20 feet about the
ground. These instruments
are wired to the recording
equipment in the building.
r Every 30 minutes all wea
ther and soil data and the
'place and time of day are ac
curately recorded on data
processing cards. This record
ing takes only a few seconds.
, The automatic equipment
-operates around-the-clock, day
after day, without attention.
The punched cards are period
ically collected and run
through a computer, which
translates the data into casy-to-read
form.
Religion in America
Lutheran Article Counters
Reasons for Quitting Ministry
Clackamas Boy, 2,
Presumed Drowned
Clackamas IUPD Terrance
0"Grady, 2. Clackamas, was
missing and presumed
drowned in the Clackamas
river today.
' The boy apparently fell
into the river Wednesday
"afternoon after wandering
away from his home.
of life. Unlike a human mur
derer who kills in anger or for
revenge, the wild beast kills
only to sustain itself.
Those who do not entirely
understand the way of the
wild look upon the predator
as a cruel and heartless beast,
entirely forgetting that the
human animal is a predator
too, probably the worst in all
the animal kingdom.
The flesh eating animal
whose appetite is satisfied
will tolerate the lesser one,
even though it would eat if
it were hungry. This eating
takes place with no malice,
no anger, no emotion what
soever. The animal is hungry
and must eat in order to live.
Once satisfied by eating a rab
bit, the great horned owl
would go to sleep beside
another rabbit with never a
thought of eating it.
Human Trait
To be angry enough to kill
seems to be an undesirable
trait of the human animal
alone. The wild creature will
stalk its prey, will take any
advantage over it but never
because it is angry. It is not
necessarily a vicious beast,
just a hungry creature. It
seeks no revenge, it cares not
to get even, it is not "mad at"
anything or anybody.
The predator occupies a
very important place in Na
ture's scheme of things, prob
ably even more important
than we realize. The animal
whose reflexes are a little
slow, who is sick or crippled
or over age, falls prey to the
one that seeks flesh on which
to feed. The sick, crippled or
diseased that fall prey to the
hunter is eliminated from the
scene. It cannot become a par
ent and beget children that
are diseased, crippled or for
any reason not able to adapt
to the way of life it has to
live. Also, the food supply is
never over abundant. The
killing of the unfit saves what
food is available for those
better able to survive.
Same Formula
The same formula operates
in the realm of the predators,
too. Those with slow reflexes
fail to make a kill. Old age,
the loss of teeth or disease
that renders them less active
works for their downfall.
Some of these animals, un
able to secure their normal
food, become man killers. If
they are jungle animals and
discover that man is easy and
available, they prey on hu
mans and become hunted
down as criminals. Like man
and the lesser creatures, they
all want to keep the stomach
full, and toward that end they
become man killers or, in the
case of smaller predators,
chicken killers.
If the over-age tiger turns
to man, we say the animal is
a cruel, vicious killer. It is
not a killer because it is angry
though, or wants to get even
with man for some act of vio
lence he might have done to
it. Being "mad at" is solely
a human trait; the wild beast
of the jungle kills because
that is a way of life, because
he is hungry, not becaus he
is angry.
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPl Correspondent
A few months ago, the ven
erable Saturday Evening Post
published an anonymous ar
ticle entitled, "Why I Quit the
Ministry."
The author, a young Presby
terian, left the impression that
the ordained ministry is an
unsatisfying vocation, willed
with frustrations and disappointments.
How many young people
were discouraged from enter
ing the ministry by this widely-read
article can only be
conjectured. But even one
would be too many. For the
Post article did not present a
fair and accurate picture of
the ministry. As many clergy
men have pointed out, it was
apparently written by a man
who did not belong in the
ministry in the first place.
And a misfit is a poor judge
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A FAMOUS foreign director who has conquered every
thing in Hollywood but the English language was super
vising a furious sword fight between two stalwart actors,
waicnea oy aiargeciuwu iwtr"" C
of costumed extras. The V.U' SL
fight started, the cam
eras turned, the extras
held their breath. Sud
denly the director shout
ed "Lunge!"
Unfortunately, the ex
tras thought he said
"lunch" and made a
mad dash for the com
missary. The scene was
ruined, at a cost of con
sidering what . stalwart
stars draw down these
days approximately
$20,000!
In Ottawa, 111., Colonel Duffy advised an aspiring young hu
morist, "The only way you'll ever get your stuff laughed at is
to read It to a girl who has dimples." And in Hollywood, a pro
ducer told the author of a current best-seller, "I've read worse
books In my time but you wrote all of them!"
An Ingenious hostess in Westport kept her guests reasonably
contented during a sudden Sunday thunderstorm by demanding
they attempt these four tasks:
1. Describe the taste of chocolate.
2. Assume that I am color blind. Describe the color blue to me,
3. Keep your hands folded and describe how you tie your
shoelaces.
4. Keep your hands folded and describe a spiral staircase.
C 1963, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
School News
Edited by: Karen Lord.
Billie Sue Graber, and
Sue Patterson
The Future Homemakers
of America is sponsoring a
dance Feb. 8. The theme will
be "Valentine Fantasy," and
there will be live music: "A
king, queen and two princes
and princesses will reign over
the ball. The royalty will be
announced during the intermission.
Every year at tl.is time,
students of McLoughlin and
Hedrick Junior High schools
participate in an es-sa con
test. The contest is sponsored
by the American Legion aux
iliary. The topic this year is
"Americanism, Today, Not
Tomorrow!" Mrs. Dorothy
Sutter is in charge of the
contest at McLoughlin. The
winner will be announced in
March.
The winner and his parents
will be honored guests of the
American Legion Birthday
dinner in March. The student
will read his or her essay
at the dinner and will be
awarded a cash prize and
medal. His or her name will
be placed on the plaque in
cither of the two schools. The
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essay will then go to the state
contest. So far, McLoughlin
has had the plaque for three
years. '
The dates pertinent to reg
istration for sophomore
classes have been sev. Feb.
18 and 19 deans will explain
and deliver senior high hand
books during homeroom per
iods. Feb. 21, Miss Josephine
Kirtley, assistant principal of
Medford High, and the sopho
more counselors will meet
with interested ninth grade
parents in the cafeteria at
7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb.
25, the sophomore counselors
will start individual registra
tion conferences and continue
as needed.
This year 12 McLoughlin
students will journey to Lin
field college in McMinnville
to participate in the speech
tournament there. The tour
nament is to be held Feb.
14. 15 and 18.
The students participating
this year are Anne Bannister,
Doug Black, Linda Dorroll,
Tom Hampson, Dick Hows
ley, Janice Lampkin, . Gall
Lyon, Carole Pcsenti, Brerida
Powers, Greg Smith, Marali
Stedman and Karen Waldron.
Miss Sandra Lien is the ad
visor for the group this year.
At the end ot this nine
weeks period there were 98
students receiving an honor
roll average of 3.5 or above.
In the seventh grade there
were 44 honor students;
eighth 36: and the ninth 18.
Six girls received A's. They
are Anne Bannister and Jan
ice Lampkin, ninth grade;
Nancy Eakin, Judith Rickard,
Carol Stuart, eighth; Carolyn
Giles, seventh grade.
The Melo-Macs, McLough
lin's ninth grade boys octette,
appeared on KMED TV's
Fncai Point recently. The boy;
in the group are Mike Allen,
Ken Curtis, Dick Howrlcy,
John Pruitt, Curt Smith, Greg
Smith, Dan Thomas and Har
old Van Sickle.
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Counter-Article
This month the Lutheran
magazine published an article 1
entitled, "Why I Stayed in the I
Ministry."
The author is the Rev. Rob
ert M. Herhold, a former
newspaperman who is now a
Lutheran pastor in Tucson,
Ariz.
"It would be foolish to pre
tend that there are not diffi
culties and frustrations in the
ministry, just as there are in
any job," says pastor Herhold.
But they are no greater, and
in his experience, actually
less, than a man would en
counter in a secular vocation.
The author of the Post ar
ticle indicated that one of his
greatest trials was the wrong
headedness and insentivity of
the lay church officers with
whom he had to deal. Ex-
reporter Herhold comments
that he has yet to meet a
church councilman who can
be as "difficult" as a news
paper editor.
He agrees that most minis
ters, like the Post author,
would like to spend more
lme being pastors and less
time promoting the various
organizations and programs of
the church.
Often Own Fault
"But being an administra
tor instead of a minister is
ften our own fault," he says.
We sometimes take on jobs
like running the financial
drive or overseeing the con
struction of a church build
ing, when laymen could do
these things much better."
He also deals with two
other aspects of the minister's
ob that have come in for
much publicity lately - the
many demands on his time
and the low pay scale.
With regard to the first,
Pastor Herhold says:
'I know of few callings that
allow for greater freedom !
than docs the ministry. No
one tells a pastor just how
to spend his day."
As for ministerial salaries,
lie does not minimize the fi
nancial pinch on clergymen,
but points out that "generally,
teachers and reporters receive
less pay than pastors do."
"There is far too much talk
about the sacrifices a minister
makes, and not enough about
the joys he has," says Pastor
Herhold.
One of the unique satisfac
tions of the minister's voca
tion is the feeling that he is
ministering to man's greatest
need.
"Most men enter the minis
try believing that man's great
est need is to find himself in
God. To be a pastor if often
to be a part of the process by
which people find the mean
ing of their lives. A pastor has
a sense of being related to the
ultimate decision upon which
all other decisions are based."
Enjoy Sharing Privilege
Pastors also enjoy "the
privilege of sharing life's most
significant moments with peo
ple.
"To counsel with a young
couple about the Christian
meaning of marriage is to af
fect many lives. To help new
parents realize the signifi
cance of bringing their first
child to the baptismal font is
to touch family life at its most
sensitive nerve. To stand at
the grave of someone needed
and loved, and to remind
family of Christ's victory over
death, is to say the only thing
that really matters then."
Pastor Herhold suspects
that many young people who
might otherwise be attracted
to the ministry are put off by
a misunderstanding of what
constitutes a "call."
"The 'call' to the ministry is
often confused by pious talk
that doesn't seem to apply to
other occupations," he says.
"Actually, every Christian
has the same call and that in '
to be God's man or God's ;
woman in whatever place ;
they find themselves. Some '
men believe God can use their I
talents best as engineers, or
as laborers, or as lawyers,
while others believe that God
can use them best in the min
istry. "The call to any work is a
persistent awareness that God
wants a man serving in this
particular way. Some of us
have discovered that the hard-
we ran from the ministry,
Steve Eichclbcrgcr, a form
er McLoughlin student and
raduatc of Medford High
school, recently returned from
Japan after studying there.
He spoke to the students of
it.. T..u.. e. .it..-- t
1 . " the harder we were pursued.
i'jiu ui uit amy vviui a urtu-
ansc family
way of life.
md the Japanese
Embezzlement Nets
30 Days in Prison
Portland-t'PH-A former em
ployee at the Citizens Bank
of Oregon at Lake Oswego
was sentenced to 30 days in
prison for embezzlement by
Federal Judge John F. Kil
kenny Wednesday.
Frank H. Yoast, 30, New.
berg, was charged with taking
S5.501 during a three-month
period. The shortage was dis
covered last Dec. 10. Judge
Kilkenny ordered two years
probation for Yoast following
the prison sentence.
simply got
finally we
tired of running
It is clear from his article
that Pastor Herhold has never
been sorry that he stopped
running.
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