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.
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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.
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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. Hollywood studios
often send producers, directors
and other creators to lecture to
the 250 students.
As part of the commencement
exercises, the students showed
us visitors "The Face of Lincoln"
and other films they made dur
ing the year in their little studio.
The other films included "The
Black Cat," from the Edgar Al
len Poe story, and "Bunker Hill,
1956," a documentary on a slum
clearance program in Los Angeles.
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