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AS flQ LlVQ By ELIZABETH HURIOCK. PH.D. Friday, March 30. 19S6 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE WWW' Senile Father' Money Need's Court Decision With advancing age, people frequently become extravagant with the use of their money. (Q) "My fa ther, who is in his late 70s, has always been a success ful busin e s s man and has saved a con siderable amount of money, more Bm. HuMlsak Inan enougn 10 lire very comfortably for the rest of his life. As a younger man, he was very careful of his money, though never actually light. He was very generous with all his family. However, in the past few years, he has worried me byhis extravagance. He buys expensive clothes, tips much too generously, gives bigger contri butions to charity than he can actually afford, and is coming to be an easy target for some of the people he goes around with who have less than he. My husband and I are worried by this be cause, if it keeps on, we wonder if there will be enough left to lake care of him should he have long illness. When we talk to him about his extravagance, he gets angry and tells us he made the money and he will spend it s ha wishes. Is there anything we- can do to check this extrava Sanee?" L.D. (A) If you have noticed other signs of senility, or mental fail ure, in your'father you could get his doctor to report to the court that ho is mentally unfit to han dle his money and the court would then appoint you or the bank as your father's guardian. This would merely protect his financial status but arrangements could be made for him to use a certain amoust of his money as he wished. He would merely not be allowed to draw out of the bank any amounts he wish ed and use the money in an extravagant way. Doesn't Realize Foolishness Your father doubtless does not appreciate how foolish he is act ing with his money and is get ting pleasure from spending what he hesitated to spend when he was younger. But, because he is mentally not as alert as he was when he was younger, he does not realize he can over spend and run himself into debt or become dependent. The less you say to your fath er about his extravagant spend ing, the better. He may misin terpret your concern to mean that you are worried about whether there will be any left for you to inherit when he is ; not here. And, this may annoy i him to the point where he be-! comes even more extravagant. Let the bank and the court handle the problem so you will not arouse your father's anger. (COPYRIGHT 1956, GENERAL FEATURES CORP.) Non-Communists Win Italy Union Election Rome U.R) Non-Commu nist labor unions inflicted a crushing defeat on the Commu nists in shop steward elections in the Fiat auto shop and avia tion empire in Turin, official re sults disclosed today. The results were announced as Italian Communist party boss Palmiro Togliatti and French Communist boss Maurice Thorez prepared to meet in Rome to study the upheavals in their parties that followed Moscow's denunciation of Josef Stalin. Togliatti already had called a nationwide party meeting for next week in an effort to restore order in Italian Red ranks con fused by the down-vith-Stalin i program. Other prominent mem bers of the Italian party still were denouncing the Moscow The anti-Communist victory at Turin was believed to reflect the disgruntlement of Italian workers over the Moscow anti Stalin campaign. 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