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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1963)
1 w ftoTJ? Wi -r r f II 1 Hearing Tests To Be Held The Oregon Stale Board of Health will have representatives in Klamath Falls Thursday from 3 (0 5 p.m. to give audiometer tests to pre-school children. The tests will be given at tlie Klamath County Health Center, 1949 Main Street. Dr. Seth Ker ron, county health officer, said 30 appointments have been made so far and he indicated there will be facilities for two or three times that many children to receive these important hearing tests. Dr. Kerron urged all parents of pre-school children to call the health center to make appoint ments for their children Thursday. The tests are given free by the slate board and all parents are urged to take advantage of this opportunity while the state test ers are in Klamath r alls. MOST UNUSUAL The most unusual product at the 39th National Housewares Ex hibit in Chicago is a dust mop which has 28 accessories and is sold for the housewife who needs "everything." Here, Mrs. Hane O'Connor views odd gimmick which re tails for $149.95 and includes such items as steering wheel, horn, bell, siren, turn sig nals, mirror, radio, pencil sharpener, headlight, etc. It is one of 200,000 houseware items on display. UPI Telephoto Pony Express Spirit Remains Alive NEW YORK (UPD-The Ponyi Express is many years gone, but in Oklahoma its spirit is still alive. A modern, mostly water-borne version of the Pony Express passed through here recently car rying letters from Catoosa, Okla., a small town northeast of Tulsa, to Washington, inviting President Kennedy, other administration of ficials and Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas congressional delega tions to attend the dedication of Ooolagah Dam on July 20. Ooolagah Dam is the first com pleled unit in a $1.2 billion river. dam and locks complex that will make the Arkansas River naviga ble to the Mississippi and to the sea. Two Oklahoma rivers, the Ar kansas and Verdigris, arc now lazy, usually shalluw streams. By 1970, they'll be deep waterways! to busy seaports. There will be a port at Catoosa on the Verdigris, and that was the launching site for the letters. Two Tulsans, John O. Whitney, head of an advertising agency, and L. W. Grant, president of a sav ings and loan company, began the modern express." Bobcat Now House Pet . BLY-Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Dil lavou have an unusual house pet a bobcat cub. Dillavou found the cub in a cabin near the Oben chain reservoir and since there was no sign of the mother, he took it home with him. He and his wife, Lillian, fed the cat milk with a medicine dropper until it became accus tomed to its new surroundings and could take care of itself. The bob cat now thrives on a diet of raw meat and fish. Although the family kept the cat in a cage when they first got it, he now has the run of the house and plays with the two Dil lavou children, Mark, 1 ' -j , and Violet, 3. He also enjoys playing with the dog, and the two ani mals romp together as if he were an ordinary house cat. Wednesday. July 17, 196J PAGE J-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klanuth Falls. Oregon APPROPRIATIONS ' w. 7-rr f-:,. . ... .. l "When you say 'at slight additional cost,' General, can you be more specific? One billion ... two billion dollars?" Conformers Have Trouble Conformers are people w ho find I it extremely difficult to give vent to their feelings of aggression or' Hostility even in situations where such reactions might be social ly accrplable, according to a Uni versity of Oregon psychologist. Dr. Louis Breger, assistant pro fessor of psychology, has report ed on a portion of his work in the study of conformity in the June issue of the Journal of Personality. The need to conform is so deep sealed in these people that most of tliem are not fully aware that tlwy are being "too agreeable," and no simple, short-term, ration al attempt to change them has proved successful. Dr. Breger re ported. Extreme conformers, in their efforts to be "cooperative," will agree to statements they know to be untrue and deny the evidence of tlieir own senses, experiments by Dr. Breger and other research ers elsewhere havo shown. The conformity under study is not the normal acquiescence to law and social custom which makes civilization possible. Dr. Breger explained, but "the blind, irrational conformity for confor mity's sake, the knuckling under to group pressure when tlie group is wrong, the changing of pre viously staled ideas and opinions! in order to agree with the ma jority, the giving in to social pres sure to be tlie same for no good reason." Although much conforming be havior is harmless, in some cases it can have serious social conse quences, the psychologist indicated. The confoi mer looks upon oppo sition to group pressure as a form of aggressiveness or defi ance, an emotion he finds diffi cult to express. This arouses anxi ety which he resolves by follow ing blindly. He then employs var ious rationalizations to justify his actions to himself, according to Dr. Breger s theory. "In each case, yielding allows tlie individual to escape from the unacceptable, aggressive position of independence, while the ego-de fenscs allow mm to retain his image of himself as a more-or- less rational and sensible person, Dr. Breger said. Although the conformer cannot express aggressiveness openly, he docs show hostility in various covert ways, lie added. In one series of experiments in volving college students, the con formers were identified when they were asked to count the number of metronome "clicks" played on a tape recorder. When others m the group, working in concert with the experimenter, gave tlie wrong answers, the conformers also gave the wrong answers, even when tlie clicks were slow enough to bo easily counted. Next, tlie subjects were given a psychological test in which they were able to make up stories or fantasies. Tlie conformers' stories bristled with accounts of sickness es, accidents, and violence, dem onstrating their hidden hostility. . Then, they were asked to per form a simple manual task, dur ing which they were purposely heckled and criticized by the ex perimenter. In a free period away from the experimenter, they were then encouraged to give vent to tlieir anger, but instead the con formers changed the subjeci, blamed themselves, discussed the details of tlie experiment, and in other ways avoided showing what would have been natural hostility. Recent experiments Involving visual problems have yielded re sults similar to those recorded in the auditory tcsls. Average annual rainfall on the Caribbean National Forest, in Puerto Rico, is 180 inches. Girls have been cherishing dolls, and boys toy soldiers, since 3000 B.C. 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