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NEWS-REVIEW, R05EBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949
Old People Growing in National
Importance Despite Foolishness
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK. UP) Old people are growing more Important.
Every year there are more of them, every year from now on
there will be still more.
For despite Its long foolishness the human race is living longer.
The population is growing up chronologically If not morally and
intellectually.
And that fact In Itself makes elderly people more Important
In many ways.
It makes them more Impor-1
tant economically. The day Is
anout gone wnen poor old worK
worn grandpappy must observe
to himself mournfully: "The only
real friendly smile I get any
more is from the undertaker."
Other business men arc going
to have smiles for grandpa and
grandma from now on. Because
the old folks, more and more,
are financially Independent. Few
er bank failures, the growth of
social security, the enlargement
of Industrial pension plans these
things are enabling millions of
men and women to retire with
some semblance of a nest egg.
So old people are In them
selves a tremendous market for
people with things to sell.
More Political Pull
And the old folks are going
to have more influence with poli
ticians. They will become a tre
mendous pressure group for
themselves. They will probably
ask and get from the govern
ment more of what they want.
And, In a Democracy, that seems
fair enough. Does anyone doubt
that, If schoolchildren could vote,
there would be more and better
school buildings?
Old people also are getting
more important to the medical
profession. Having cut the birth
mortality pretty much to a mini
mum, the doctors now find that
diptheria and the whooping cough
are taking less of their time
than hardening of the arteries
and that ancient misery "my
rheumatLz."
Many physicians are specializ
ing in the new science of geron
tology tne study of old age.
Pride Awaits Shock
And they have found that It
Isn't enough for old people mere
ly to be of some economic Im
portance to others. Thev have to
be made to feel still important
to tnemseives.
And that's a problem. Their
pride and self-confidence suffers
a terrific blow when they rea
lize they have passed the peak
He's Got a Lot of Crust
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Abolishment Of
Federal Gas Tax
Asked by Oregon
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13t&
From Oregon, the first state to
levy a tax on gasoline and oil
to support its roads, has come a
proposal that the federal gov
ernment be prohibited from levy
ing similar taxes.
Earl T. Newbry, Oregon's Sec-'
retary of State, has written Rep. !
Angell (R-Ore.) asking support I
for legislation to repeal federal j
excise taxes on gasoline, oil, tires,
tubes, automobiles, trucks, motor- i
cycles and automobile parts and
accessories.
Newbry said the federal tax, j
levied in 1932 during the de-1
presslon, was all right then to j
meet an emergency but now j
should be repealed and that field
of taxation should be left to the i
states. ;
The federal tax raises approxi- i
mately $1,850,000,000 a year, said
Newbry, and contended that now
with the states facing a situa
tion where they must Increase
their taxes, the federal govern
ment should withdraw.
He said that Oregon's share
of the total tax amounts to about
513,000,000 a year. The state now
has reached the point where it
must levy additional taxes for
major highway improvement, he
said, which will require about
511,000,000 a year for 15 years.
Angell told a reporter he is
heartily In favor of repeal of the
federal levies and added he be
lieves the gasoline, oil and auto
mobile taxes should be exclusively
state matters.
Oregon had to fight through
the Supreme Court to establisil
the validity of its gasoline tax.
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With 150 pounds each of cranberries, apples and sugar and a lOu-pound crust, this ponderous
pastry is the largest pie ever created in New England. It was baked in Quincy, Mass., and Quincy's
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of their powers. As Dr. Martin
Gumpert told the Gerontological
Society here last week, the self-
reanzation or aging Is " perhaps
the most profound shock of our
me span next to dying."
This fear of being old, whether
it starts at 35 or 60, causes many
people to go through a kind of
irouDieo second adolescence. Both
men and women do foolish thines
iney anerwara regret.
They take what they call
last fling" at life. A friend of
mine, who handles financial af
fairs for many neonle. has a
name for this period.
"T call it forty-vear fever." he
said. "And it's the devil of a
thing to go through. It destroys
a lot of people."
hmce there are go ne to be
more and more old Deonle in the
world, why not prepare them for
iney can be educated in a
way to lessen the shock and to
emphasize the serene pleasures
in store.
Universities ought to offer a
post graduate course In how to
grow old gracefully.
Happenings At
Yoncalla Related
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Roche and
their two children, of Eureka.
Calif., visited at the D. J. Rovers
home over the week-end.
Mrs. Kittle Jobe has purchased
the lot between the Rltchey home
and Dickey's Service Center.
Mr. and Mrs. John Simmons
and their two children left last
week to make their home In New
loi'K state. Mrs. Simmons will he
emembered as Ida Thiol, riaueh-
tcr of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Thirl.
Mrs. Al Hoffman, who under
went an apiHMidicilis operation in
i-oniann (luring the holidays, re-
turned to ner home at Yoncalla
Thursday.
Mr. and Mr. Fred Softon. .Tr
and Mrs. Softon, Sr., left Sunday
morning for Salem and Portland.
Mrs. Sefton, Sr., will remain In
Salem during the current session
of the Legislature. Mr. and Mrs.
Seftnn, Jr., went on to Portland
to visit relatives for a couple of
days.
Naxarene Church Has New
General Superintendent
KANSAS CITY. Jan. 13 PV
Dr. R. I. Vandernool of Walla
Walla. Wash., veslerdav was
elected general superintendent of
ne imirvn oi ine Nazarene.
He was elected bv district mi.
pedinleiidents of llie church to
mi me vacancy created nv the re
rent death of Dr. Howard V. Mil
ler, chairman of the board of
genera I su peri nt endenl s.
Dr. Vandorpool will be associ
ated with four other members of
the board of general superintend
ents, including Dr. llardv C.
Powers of Dallas, and Dr. Orval
J. Nease of Pasadena. Calif.
International headuarters of the
denomination are here. It serves
3..KX) churches in this country.
Canada and the British Isles as
well as mission stations in 28
other world areas.
Dr. Vanderpool has been chair
man of the board of regenls of
Northwest Nazarene College at
Nampa, Ida., the last five years,
lie also has served as chairman
of the Hoard of Trustees of Pasa
dena College.
Extension of Rent
Ceilings Proposed
In Two Measures
By Marvin L. Arrowsmith
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 -P)
Legislation to extend rent ceilings
21 months and put thousands of
dwellings back under rent control
will be introduced by Senator
Myers (D Pa), probably today.
Senator Mavbank (D-SO.
chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee, told a reporter the
measure might become the ad
ministration's rent bill. Mr. Tru
man has asked for tightening of
controls and extension for at least
two years.
The present law exDires March
31. Myers' bill would extend con
trol tnrough June. 1951.
Rep. Spence (D-Ky) said he
plans to introduce a rent control
bill drafted by the administration.
An oflieial of the housing expedi
ter's office said that measure and
the one Myers will sponsor ap
pear to be very similar.
Under Myers' bill as shown to
a reporter, rent control would re
vert pretty much to its status
prior to cnanges authorized, over
Mr. iruman s protest, bv the Re
publican-cant rolled 80th Coneress.
jew uwcnings, including tnose
rented since tney were de control
led, would he placed under rent
ceilings again. So would convert
ed dwellings and permanent hotel
accommodations, including apart
ment noieis.
A rent control official said re-
control of new construction alone
would apply to thousands of
dwelling units.
Transient hotel rooms and
motor courts would remain decon
trolled. The bill would give the housing
expediter authority to control or
recontrol whole addition ' areas.
The measure also would ban
any more 15 per cent increase
leases.
Engraver 5-Day Captive
Of Counterfeiter Gang
VANCOUVER. B. C. Jan. 13
(CP) Trapped by a gang of
counierieiters, truest w. con
duit, 66-year-old engraver, was
held prisoner five days four
chained to a bed and the fifth
in a celllike basement room,
held by chains to a metal box.
He was found Monday night
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that no one had left or entered
the place for several days.
In his story to police, Conduit
said he was taken prisoner when
ne answered an advertisement
concerning a job.
"I was met at the door by a
man wearing a hood, with slits
for eyes, and carrying a Luger
automatic gun," he was quoted as
telling officers.
"I was chained to a bed in an
upstairs room by two men. They
showed me a $20 bill and told
me I was going to engrave a
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