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WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11, lillili MEDI'OKD MAIL TKIUUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Family Council Edilnr's Nate: The Family Coun cil cunilus ol a juilee, a psychia trist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor, and two wrlleri. t:acn article Is a suiumary nt an actual case history. The Council reports on prohlems that nave hern dealt with hv respoa. slble ai'eni'irs and counselors. (Copvrluht 196'J General reatures Corp.) Sarah E He objects to dinner being ready at dinner time! Peter E. She runs the house like a train dispatcher! Sarah E. What's wrong with my husband? Most men kick because their dinner isn't ready when they get home. Pete bawls me out because the HllllBpi 3B20f (SHDGSflSS) . IMm&tixmmmmf. i i ;.- a .1 f-. I-. " ' , i J. " . (. ! - ' n, ' ' ', "? 1t' fit- tjyX:'- 1 t ' ' '"""' ' ' ' j B , , . ,-.!2.-.iHj ..... . . ARRIVES TO TESTIFY Henrique M. Galvao arrives at Idle wild, N. Y., to testify before the United Nations on conditions in Portugal s African territories. Galvae is the Portuguese revolu tionary who hijacked the Portuguese luxury liner Simla Maria, in 1961. (UPI) U.S. Publishers Vie For Encyclopedia Sales By FREDERICK II. TREESII Uniletl Press International NEW YORK (UPI) -With Hie trend from "spoonfed" teaching toward more indepen dent study and research, pub lishers of reference volumes arc finding a booming market in the American living room. About 100 publishers are vy ing for the U. S. encyclopedia market, which last year totalled $:i25 million and is expected to increaso by 15 per cent this year. The potential customers arc the parents of the 47 million American children going to school this year and the prime market place Is the family par lor where nearly 85 per cent of all encyclopedia sales arc made. A mulll-volume reference set Is a major investment and, as such, it behooves Uie potential buver to choose wisely. The problem, Iho experts say. Is not to find the one best book but llin one that is best for the par ticular student or educational situation involved. "No one set is right for ev eryone," advises Dr. Lowell A. Marl in, a former dean of the Graduate ' School of library wienro at Rutgers Univers ity and now editorial director for Giolier Inc. In addition to price, Martin said, the things a buyer should consider am suitability of con tent, the oulhoritativeness of the writers, whether the volume in cludes adequate index, study guides and bibliographies and I day. whether the publisher has a built-in method of keeping the set up to date. On suitability of content, Mar tin said some reference sets are designed for younger read ers including primary grade students, others are tailored es pecially for the high school and college students and others arc more detailed and scholarly to appeal to the most thorough academician. "All good encyclopedias arc written by experts in special subjects not by experts in encyclopedia publishing, Mar tin said. Authors of the sets his own firm publishes (Encyclope dia Americana and Encycloped ia International) include more than 4,(111(1 persons "But we're kidding ourselves if we think wo can put all knowledge inlo a reference set" Martin said. "There is no way you could do that in 2(1 vol umes or even 50 or 1(10. "The point is lo include Iho subject mailer most frequently needed and prepare it in such a way as lo encourage Iho rend er to further examine the sub ject." lie enumerated sludv guides, outlines of additional hooks on Iho various subjects as effec tive means of encouraging ad ditional research. soup is in front of him, piping hot, as he walks through the dining room. We have three hungry children who expect to eat when Daddv gets home, but Daddy wants to turn the sched ule upside-down ana su aown when he's good and ready. At that rate, when will my day end? Peter E. Imagine having a devil of a day at work, then battling traffic snarls all the way home, only to be greeted by hollering kids, and my wife pushing a heavy dinner under my nose! It's easy to see how indigestion starts. If only Sarah would feed the children and give me a chance to unwind, change my clothes, look at the mail, we could have a pleasant meal together later. I'd be glad to help her finish up. The Council: If Sarah can have that last remark of Peter's in writing (and notarized!) her problem may dissolve. For what's pushing her into pushing him is she'd like a chance lo unwind, too. She's counting on those Golden Hours of after-the-kids-are-in-bed and after - the-dishes-are-done. But now her choice is between more hours with less gold that is, with a grumpy husband glowering at her or less hours with pure gold Illuminating them. Picture the latter alternative: Pete gets home, beat, a mere shell of a man! He slinks into his private quarters, sheds his necktie, gets into slippers. Maybe he even stretches out, yawns, grabs 40 winks. Half-an-hour later, per agreement, he enters the bosom of his family, greets the kids benignly, downs the meal they and their motner nave ust finished. Meanwhile Sarah "set tles" them down, returns to have her dessert and coffee with Pete. Then, with that clause above in effect, he'd see that she was able to call it a day a nol-much-longcr day than If she'd been rigid about his din ncr. HONNl'.VII.I.E VISITORS PORTLAND (UPI) -Despite chilly weather, Bonneville Dam drew :ia,!M(l visitors (luring Nov ember, Army Engineers said lo- Sfafe's Employment Hits November Record SALEM (UPI) - Oregon's mid-November employment to taled 695,600, the highest Nov ember total on record, the State Department of Employment re vealed Tuesday. SUSPECT HELD COKVALLIS (UPI) -Dale A. Hargravcs, 19, Myrtle Creek, was being held in the Benton County jail today for Douglas County authorities following the wounding of Mrs. Mary Camp bell, 211, in Ihc southern Douglas County community Monday night. r. . V. I i TURNS OUT VERSE Computer Specialist Clair Phillippy reads some machine-made poetry that came out of electronic computer. Tile machine, fed with words and instructed to come up witn four-line verse, produces 150 poems a minute. (UPI) Computer Turns Out Selections of Verse Ann Gargan Is Inconspicuous Companion of Joseph Kennedy By IS.MIELLE MiC'RAIC. II Y ANN IS PORT, Mass. (UPI) Ann Gargan, least known member of the Kennedy family, Is a niece and quietly inconspicuous ' companion of Joseph P. Kennedy the lalo President. She has been with him like n shadow since he suffered a stroke more than two years ago with her uncle, the late Presi dent Kennedy's father, Ihc day of his attack. She has rarely left his side since. She rends to him daily from Ihc newspapers, the latest books, and watches television and movies in the father of family theater with him almost every evening. Each morning Miss Gargan visits the post office here and collects the voluminous mail for the former ambassador. Fre- and she has helped him through j quenlly she visits a llyannis the trying days since the death of the President. . . . Of the young woman who has been a guardian angel for the bookstore where she picks up a half dozen or more books. After an early breakfast, she and her uncle usually ride to the elder Kennedy, a friend of the j family (arm near Osterville former First Family said this: where, before his Illness, he "She is the only saint I know regularly rode the horses. Miss who can plav louch football like , C'argan is a horsewoman of pro nn All-American. In bare feel tcssionnl ability, she can run like a deer and hit When the weather is favorn- mains nut of the limelight and rarely has been photographed. She has dedicated her life lo her beloved uncle, but Miss Gar gan is a friendly, outgoing young woman In her early ails, attrac tive with dark hair and dark eyes and a fine "Cape Cod" complexion. Like the rest of the Kennedys, she loves dogs and has two tov, black French poo dles. Miss Gargan is equally de voted to her aunt, Mrs. Rose By GERALD S. SNYDER United Press International "If you put a million mon keys in front of a million typewriters and let them peck away for a million years, one of them will write 'Hamlet.' " Anon. NEW YORK (UPI) - At a data processing cenler on New York's bustling Wall Street a group of engineers stopped in Iheir tracks. Had one of their computers busted a circuit? From out of the mouth of the electronic marvel came poetry real beatnik stuff. To wit: "Our bloomflaycd evilly through ugly bodies And water loomed evilly o'er inhuman loves Your dream blazed freely 'round guly hovels A foe ilclicd" "The stars flayed slowly upim furtive hndies Anil light Rayed blindly o'er crowded faces While gloom blazed foully from broken loves Our genrs giggles." Shades of T. S. Eliot? Not exactly. About a year ago, Clair Phillippy, 26-ycar-old RCA computer specialist al Lancaster, Pa., looked at his cold, calculating electronic com puter and got an idea. If the brainy machine could turn nut figures on blanks why not blank verse? Phillippy got up a basic vo cabulary of too words which he fed with some minor instruc tions lo his machine. He sepa rated the words accordingly, inlo nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, and inslructcd the machine to come up with a four - line verse, allowing 71) words for the initial three lines and 30 words for the final, punch line. The result is poetry. Or so claim Phillippy's bosses with a smile. "The poems are at times reminiscent of Donne, Blake and such modern poets as Eliot and C u m m i n g s." they an nounced to the world. Phillippy himself doesn't like poetry "I've never liked it," he declared during a visit to New York lo demonstrate the technique. To date, Phillippy and the RCA 301 computer have pro duced more than 4,000 selec tions of beatnik verse tomorrow . . . the spark you have produced may ignite a flame ... a flame of . interest and motivation " Phillippy was adamant. "I still don't like poetry," he said. "I did it as a demonstration lo show what this machine will I do." What the machine will do for budding poets having trouble putting words together is 150 poems a minute. Rentals begin at $2,820 a month. Medical Theory May Be Boon For Heart Cases LOS ANGELES (UPI) -The day appears to be around the corner when physicians will he able to "see" a heart seizure coming on. When electrocardiograms were found to be inconclusive for predicting coronary thrombosis or coronary occlusion, four Los Angeles doctors in the depart ments of radiology and medi cine at the University of Cali fornia School of Medicine be gan work on a test that prom ises to be a reliable indicator of heart disease. It's called Coronary Flow In dex (CF1) and, broadly speak ing, is a comparison by x-rays of the rate of flow between va rious parts of the body and the coronary arteries (the arteries that feed the heart). The comparison is the CFl and in test studies of 31 pa tients, tlie researchers found 25 cases of definite occlusive dis ease whose CFl was much low er than thai of normal pati ents. In their report in a recent issue of Radiology, a medical journal, the four researchers said the advantage of CFl is not only its accuracy, but its relative speed and simplicity. It's done by a single small intravenous injection which makes the x-rays possible. Then serial x-rays arc taken in about 30 seconds. The results ire fed through a digital coro llas science gone too far IhisiPuter nlul recording equipment time? Apparently not. I for the results. Wrote one school teacher who The doctors. Harry A. Bish hcard about the process: "I rc-iop, Albert A. Kattus. Leslie R. alize that computer time is ex- j Bennett, and Ismael Mena. arc tremely valuable and costly: I optimistic that this new ability however, what is in the mind of to "see" an oncoming heart a child in my classroom today I case through relatively simple Kennedy. The two 'often attend ! ""tf )? Einslein or . a Max-j tests will lead to greater con- earlv Mass together as SI. Fran- ""' "m l'"."" ' " me nnnon s inp Kmc cis Xavier Church in llyannis. Miss Gargan attended Sacred Heart High School, Newton, Mass., and the Maryknoll Acad emy, Tarrylown, N.Y., before she entered the convent. She is the daughter of the laic Joseph F. Gargin, a Boston vou so bard your teeth rattle.' Actually, Miss Gargan has been a member of the Kennedy family at Bronxville, N Y, llya nnnis Porl, Palm Beach, Fla., nnd on Ihc French Riviera tol as long as friends can remem ber. Only for a little less than a vrar when she entered a am nio, she usually goes aboard Ihc ! lawyer, who died in I'.Hfi. Her ! yacht Marlin with her uncle, his i nurses and therapists, for lunch ' ami an hour or so sail on Nan- I tucket Sound. Miss Gargan almusl always is aboard the family plane. Caro line, when the former ambassa dor goes to Chicago, New York. Washington. Palm Beach or . i,li,vv h,,,- ia,n ,.rt.... i it... . , , i - v. .-in mini vi?Ml- nil- vent wiin me imcmuui i ue-, wiio Huse with him but re-; mills away from Ihc family, especial ly former Ambassador Kennedy, for even a day. i Dedicated 1 II was being away from the activities of Ihc family that fi nally made her and the Mother SuH-rior of the convent the Convent of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Intl. decide that she should return to her life "out side" lo serve her religion and lier foster family. J She was t I Ihe golf course mother, the former Agnes Fitz gerald, died in 103li. Miss Gargan's sister, Mrs. Richard Clasby, of Detroit, is the wife of a former Harvard football star. Her brother. Jo seph, Jr., is active in politics behind Ihe scenes and is cred ited with an important pari in the Kennedy successes at Ihe 1960 RAMBLER STATION WAGON Slnd. Tram., HoaTor, Economical 6 $1099 PAUL LEA MOTORS 12TH AND RIVERSIDE NOW-A NEW BUDGET FINANCE PLAN OFFICE IN &V1EDF0RD! 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