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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, June 14, I9S6 On The Side By L V. DURUNO (Distributed by King Fmtutm Syndicate, IncJ The divorce rate continue! to increase alarmingly In t"h 1 1 country. In the majority of the cases it is the wife who seeks the separation. In many instan ces she is not really an injured party but wants to get into cir culation again to enjoy a wider variety of male company and ul timately acquire another hus band. Too many husbands are now carrying the torch for 1 ex wives. Perhaps the time is pro pitious for Cecile B. DeMllle to produce a revival of that film titled "Don't change your hus band." Remember that? It fea tured Lew Cody, Gloria Swan- son and Elliott Dexter. Asides The Duke of Edinburgh, spouse of the British Queen Eliz abeth, has some Indian blood in him. One of his ancestors was Pocohontas , . . the world's best cooks are the natives of Tuscany. It was the Tuscan culinary ex perts who went to Paris with Marie de Medici who taught the French how to cook. Page Boys Page boys at the Capitol at Washington, D.C., whose ages are from 14 to 18, are paid ap proximately $60 a week. To be exact, their monthly pay check is $246.95. Not bad for a teen ager. These high salaried juven iles are political appointees. Asking Queries from clients. Q-. What was George M. Cohan's first starring vehicle on Broadway? A. "Little Johnny Jones." Q. What is your suggestion for nam es for boy and girl twins? A. How about Adam and Eva? Q. Has there ever been a song written about a business girl? Some secretaries would like to sing such a song at a party they are giving for their employers. A. All I can think of is that touching ballad titled "Heaven will protect the working girl." Widows A "grass widow" is a married woman who is separated xrom her husband but not divorced. The inspiration of one. of the greatest of all love poems was a grass widow. While visiting Ed inburgh, Robert Burns engaged in a romantic interlude with, a grass widow named Nancy Mc Lehose. She inspired his poem, "Ae Fond Kiss," which includes the immortal lines: Had we never loved sae kindly-Had we never loved sae blindly. Never met or never parted We had ne'er been broken hearted. Sidelights A woman's severest critic is seldom her husband. It is usually her teen-age daughter . . . Twen ty years ago, in 1936, the radio personalities with the highest ratings in the order named were Jack Benny, Major Bowes and Eddie Cantor. Geography Detroit is. of course, the larg est city in Michigan. What is the second largest in that state? If you can't answer that quick as a flash, don't pick geography for your category if you get invited to appear on a quiz program. Dancers Most fat men are excellent dancers. Very light on their feet. The best dancer among United States presidents was William Taft, who weighed nearly 300 Incidentally, the fat men of Bal timore once staged a ball. Heav iest man present weighed 430. Heaviest woman tipped the beam at 315. Must have been interest ing to see that couple doing a tango. In Reply To That great jockey, George Woolf, once received the follow ing letter from a feminine fan, "My beautiful wrist watch is now in the pawn shop. Why? Be cause you lost the fifth race yesterday on the favorite. Shame on you. Mr. Wooif, a very gen tlemanly fellow, replied, "Dear Madame: There are 67 ways a favorite can lose a horse race. Over 62 of these a jockey has no control. Kidd Convicted On Auto Charges Salem (U.R) Richard R. Kidd 23-year-old confessed firebug from Portland, was convicted in Marion county Circuit Court here yesterday on two counts of unauthorized use of an automo bile. Kidd. an inmate of the state hospital after admittedly start ing numerous fires in Portland, was released from the hospital May 4. The unauthorized auto use charges stemmed from an escape Kidd made from the hospital in which he took the two cars on his flight to eastern Oregon where he was apprehended. Sentence will be pronounced Monday. Maximum penalty for the charge is two years on each count. Bolivia is the fifth largest country In South America. Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo raiNECKEf? SUVKS P HIS FBAU TAXES MORE THAN THREE SHAKES TO S4P4 BE4UT1FUL SCENE .... But when he's projecting s4id shots for his friends HE'S EVEN SOtWWKIER". fv&JMO ffhilMM- PlOTILL4 TOOK ' , VM ' XXK RdNGS V Vf&StiWtWt "WIS OE TOO" - ( (Cfe'WT 4 findeps aho X irTl'IfeK too twzy-didn't J r (scrrLli UGtfT METERS- W4ft HdVE THE RIGHT " X3, H OOrt SHOOT t-C'-J i 7. J OPENINS.K1DOO I x n 4K0 6ET A Yg(3T W4STE OP MOHEy . N?Ti$i( IT IT OVER & rT&nr--QT Russian Millionaires Better Off On Taxes Than Are Americans By WHITMAN BASSOW United Press Correspondent Moscow (U.R) For income tax purposes, millionaires are better off in proletarian Russia than in the capitalistic United States. Corporation presidents and Wall Street bankers might envy their Soviet counterparts, who are treated with sympathy and understanding by the Ministry of Finance, which like the U.S. Treasury Department, is respons ible for collecting taxes. First of all, there are few mil lionaires in Russia. For a Rus sian to make the equivalent of, say, Harlow Curtice, president of General Motors, still would leave him outside the millionaire category. His income after taxes would be about $625,609 at the official exchange rate of four rubles to the dollar. General Motors last year paid Curtice $201,400 salary plus $575,000 bonus, which he will receive in five annual install ments. GM estimated that after taxes, Curtice was able to keep $121,328 out of the total of $776,400. Probably no Soviet citizen earns that much money. If he did, the tax bite would be com paratively small. But virtually the same system is used in Russia as in the United States to collect taxes. Pay As You Go A Soviet worker's tax is de ducted monthly from his pay at his place of employment. The big difference is that in the Rus sian pay as you go system, there is no steeply graduated levy as salaries get larger. The miximum tax is 13 per. cent on incomes above 1,000 rubles ($250) per month. Taxes start on salaries of 151 rubles per month, on which 2.25 rubles (roughly 60 cents American) is paid. For a 1,000-ruble salary, the bite is 82 rubles (20.50) plus 13 per cent of everything over 1,000 rubles. As in America, cuts are made depending on the number of per sons a worker is supporting. Rates can range from six per cent for a childless worker to a bite of 0.5 per cent for a person with two children. Special rates apply to authors and artists who have incomes outside their places of employ ment. Higher Rates Doctors and lawyers who have private practices pay higher rates, as do members of the clergy. For persons employed outside the government, the Finance Ministry, like the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue, runs an in stalment plan payment scheme. Monthly or quarterly pay ments can be made. Small in terest charges are made for late payments. Best of all, there is no com plicated form, long or short, for filing tax returns. Pay-as-you-go taxpayers fill out no forms at all. Others make a simple statement of income to the tax collection office. One reason for the simplicity and the low tax rate is that the Soviet government has other sources of finance. It does not regard income taxes as a major method of ac cumulating money as does the United States government. ' f $ ' - - f ; WW. " MOVING SWIFTLY against pro-Peron revolutionists, Argentina smashes rebels, executes estimated 40 leaders. From left' Gen. Francisco Zerda, commander in chief of government forces, and Lt. Col. Oscar Cogorno (right), who emerged from retirement to lead rebels, was executed when captured at La Plata. (International Soundphoto) Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Pren Correspondent m Hollywood (U.R) College commencements are a usual sight this month, but at one ex ercise the hero w a s a Holly w o o d Oscar. The gold statutte stood on a home made pedestal inalecture room in the University o f Southern Cali- Aline Mosby f o r n i a's cin ema department. It was a prize for the students' "final exam" a movie titled "The Face of Lincoln." The film had a microscopic budget, no actors, scripts or sets. But it beat many a supercolossal movie including MGM's "Get tysburg" to win an Oscar as the best short subject this year. "We're happy to have won, but in a way it hasn't been good," admitted Robert Hall, head of the department. Aspirations Soar "It has put the level of aspira tion of the students to a height we never expect to produce to." "The Face of Lincoln," as Hall modestly says, was "one of those happenstances w e capitalized on." The head of the campus department of sculpture, Mer rell Gage, often takes a lecture in which he sculpts the head of Lincoln as he talks about the president. Since Gage soon is retiring, the students decided to film the lecture. Watching the artist's hands mold age on, the face of Lincoln is so unique that Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters made it a shoo-in for the Oscar. The film has been shown In Los Angeles and New York the aters and soon will be distributed around the country. SC also has sold 148 prints of the movie to schools and libraries. The SC cinema department, the oldest in the world, was formed in 1928 with the help of the academy. 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