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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
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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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