Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 21, 1963, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text- THURSDAY,. NOVEMBER 21, 1983 . Nosser reams if Bet t eir Xiffe $m WeiMH MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON By DAVID BISHAI CAIRO (UPI)-In his dreams of a better Egypt, President Gamal Abdel Nasser sees an ordinary fellah (peasant) living in a neat house, working his own' plot of land and making enough money to support his small family. In harsh reality the fellah de stroys the dream. In a life that offers few com forts and no luxuries he aims for the old and traditional status symbol, the big family. In effect, the peasant is push ing ; his country towards the poor house by producing more people than it can support. Egypt covers an area larger than France and Germany with Switzerland and Belgium thrown in. Yet the Nile and Mediter ranean fringe provide a mere 19,000 square miles of cultivable land to feed its 27 million peo ple.' By contrast, Syria has a pop ulation density identical to Egypt's about 68 persons per square mile but uses 10,000 square miles for a population of only five million and could use 20,000 square miles more -if it needed to. , y Builds High Dam v t To make more of Egypt us able Nasser is building the As- wan High Dam, which will add 2.5 million acres to the six mil- lion now cultivated and reclaim Mng the western desert for an ? other one million acres. But his attempt to provide more land 'ifor the average Egyptian goes up in the smoke of a popula f tion explosion matched by very i few countries oulsi4e China. ! In 1832 there were 17 million Egyptians. Last year the esti- Growth of Trees i Per Acre Studied CORVALLIS Research being conducted by Oregon State Uni versity Agricultural Experiment Station in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service is providing foresters with some answers to the problem of how many Pon derosa pines should be grown per acre for maximum growth. J. W. Barrett of the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, and C. T. Youngberg, OSU soil scientist, are heading up the work. They have charted the rate of use of available soil moisture in forest plots as a guide to determining the best spacing for sapling pines in order to take full ad vantage of the site's growth po tential. The researchers found that 1,000 trees per acre used up 1.6 times as much water as 62 trees per acre. Study plots were thinned to 62, 125, 250. 500, and 1,000 trees per acre. Soil mois ture was measured with a neu tron probe. The effect of brush on soil moisture use also was studied. Where brush was allowed to de velop normally, moisture use was increased 45 per cent over plots where the brush was clear ed off. Youngberg says that these results do not necessarily mean that brush should be cleared from Ponderosa . pine stands, since there are other factors besides moisture use to take into account. The research results will eventually serve as guidelines for thinning timber stands. TAKES BIRTH CONTROL PILL To curb Egypt's population boom, President Gamal Abdel Nasser last year took a step unprece dented for a modern Moslem chief of state by advocating birth control. In this photo a village woman is shown taking a pill during the birth control campaign. (UPI) mate was 27 million and by Christmas this year another million will have been .added. At the present annual growth rate of three per cent there will be 40 million Egyptians by 1980, and the benefits of the billion dollar dam and desert reclama tion may be eaten up as fast as they appear., , Pushes' Birth Control To curb the population boom Nasser last year took a step un precedented for a modern Mos lem chief of state by advocat ing birth control. To stave off criticism he enlisted support from Cairo's famed seat of Is lamic learning, the 1,000-year-old Al-Azhar University, which depends on Egyptian ment funds In an historic rereading of Koranic doctrine the univer sity's rector said that "family planning is a wise thing. Islam upholds a plentiful but strong population. Allah wants his chil dren strong. Our government is trying to achieve that with fam ily planning." 1 , Changing the attitude of the Egyptian fellah is more diffi cult. He counts on his children to prove his virility, to help him work his land and to sup port him in old age. If his wife does not produce children, he marries another. If he is sterile he becomes an object of ridicule. govern-"; At the same time, the govern ment s program of free health care and education has cut the country s death rate and made bigger families easier to sup port. Contraceptive's Free To popularize "family plan ning' village clinics now offer contraceptive pills either sold cheaply or distributed free. To Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF DOBERT E. SHERWOOD once signed George M.' Cohan to star in a new play he was producing. To get his sig nature on the dotted line, Sherwood had to make a firm luuuuiMiieiiL wun ionan for ten weeks. The play, unfortunate ly, proved to be a clink er, and folded after one dismal week on Broad way. : Cohan took - his check Sor ten weeks with out a word. Many years later, however, Sherwood, out of a clear blue sky, received a check back from Cohan covering the nine weeks for which he had not played. Attached to the check was a note reading, "Dear Bob: I couldn't go out with this on my mind." The next day George M. Cohan died. . ' . ' In a Republican stronghold in New England, an 8-year-old student held up a picture of Abraham Lincoln in class and grave ly declared, 'This is the president who frayed the sleeves." "You're a bit off the beam," contradicted the teacher. "Mr. Lin coln freed the slaves. The president who frayed the sleeves didn't come along untn many years later." The hard-bitten, tyrannical dean of a theological seminary found this note pinned outside his door one morning: "Tomorrow will be Wednesday, if it's all right with you. (Signed) God." O 1963, bjr Bennett Cert Distributed by Klnr Features Syndicate IK aveon Per $100 per year- Ifa down - up to 30 months to pay Compare! Figure your own loan costs overcome popular resistance to the pills and the inevitable rumors about their adverse ef fects trained nurses have been sent out to explain their use and advantages to village women. Press, radio and television campaings also are being used to promote the use of contracep tives. The drive has had limited suc cess so far but there is opti mism. "Time is on our side, ' said one woman social worker. "Time will prove the pills are safe. And it will show the fel lahin they can live better with fewer mouths to feed." A revolutionary new govern ment law expected to be en acted also soon should help trim the size of Egyptian fnmi'ies. Where Moslem men tradition ally have been permitted as many as four wives, the new law would allow him to take a second spouse only with his iirst wife's consent and the approv al of a judge. Divorce alto would become far more diffi cult. The bill will be one of the first measures put before the new National Assembly sched uled for election later in Novem ber. t' . Meanwhile a .conference of planners, social workers . and university professors is to meet here this month in search of ways to boost the whole birth control program. If it works, Egypt can look toward a future of prosperity. If it fails, the country may re main forever poor. T- . ' Open Friday Nitet Until 9 ' JTjF: La6y hytlie cholmon6ly wears her diamond watch at Ascot. 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