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T MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE WINE Tuesday, January I, 1957 Vlf t . KEEPING BABY ENTERTAINED, Major John Eisenhow er, son of President and Mrs. Eisenhower, makes face at Mary Jean, one year old, youngest Eisenhower grandchild, during visit at White House. (International Soundphoto) Inflation Kits Australia; Living Jumps 130 Per Cent Sydney (U.R) Inflation has hit Australia with the wallop of a kangaroo kick right where it hurts the most In the pockeM book. Bank economists list present living costs at 130 per cent high er than In 1945, compared to a 75 per cent increase in Britain and a 50 per cent raise in the United States. The average Aussie knows lit tle and cares less about bankers and their adding machine sta tistics, but the spectre of infla tion now shadows him through all his waking hours. Any attempt to get by on his 1950 budget would change liv ing In Australia today to a mere existence. The average "bloke or wage-earner would only be able to half fill his morning tub because of increased gas and electricity rates. The cost of the traditional gteak-and-eggs Australian break fast would leave him with just the eggs and some onions on the plate, at today's prices. To day's Australian can ride only one mile on the buses, street cars and electric trains for the money that formerly carried him two and three miles. Due io National Growth This creeping inflation, with Its ever-rising cost of living, is the price Australia pays for na tional growth. Australia now has 25 per cent more people than it had at the end of World War II. This means larger physical output in both primary and secondary indus tries. Never before has there been as much money and labor spent on public works, factorv building and new industries. There has been greater capital investment on the nation's arms and sheep stations in machin ery, buildings and pasture, plant and livestock Improvement. All the same, this better "na tional" picture leaves the wage earners unimpressed. Their sal aries creep up with "basic wage" hikes, but never catch up with the heavier expenses involved in the mechanics of living. Australia took its worst infla tion jump in 1951 when the Korean War shot wool prices to record highs. With too much money around, the cost of living Jumped to 70 per cent above the 1945 figure. At that time Britons were tightening their austerity belts against a 40 per cent rise in living costs, while Americans only faced an over-all rise of 12 per cent. Those are over-all cost-of-living figures, according to the economists. Individually,' some items have risen much more than 130 per cent. This applies to essential items like food and transport. Worse still, the trend remains uncurbed as government and employer battle the vicious cycle of higher wages, higher costs, higher wages. In the past 12 months, food and groceries have gone up another 10 per cent, for instance. Kents, already up by 40 per cent since 1950, went up eight per cent. Some Figures Official figures, however, oft en grind down the facts into "average" figures, which the av erage man finds difficult, if not impossible, to match with his paycheck. Take rents, for ex ample. Where pegged by official con trol, they may even be under the 48 per cent above the 1943 figure, in some cases. But for. the person who hits Sydney now and wants to find a two or three room flat, the price starts at $22 a week for the lucky ones and goes up to S24 or more. The same furnished flat would have been available for $11 to $13 In 1950. Cold statistics also don't mean as much to the wage-earner as the more than doubled elec tricity, gas and phone bills. Post age rates have just recently gone up for the third time in the last seven years. And just to make it a little more difficult for those who depended on over time earnings, employers are paving less and less overtime. The average man today gener ally makes at least S40 per week, compared with $26 in 1950: the average woman, $33, compared with $22. For the above-average, ex panding production has created a new "executive class," draw ing $66 per week and rising to $110 and over. Bigger firms have not yet come to the stage of Japan's padded expensa ac counts, but frequently provide their up-and-coming junior ex ecutives with a car, and in many cases with assistance in buying a home to solve the housing -problem. German Currently Serving in Army Of Fourth Nation Honolulu (U.R) German born Henry Holik is an inter national soldier who can't stay out of an army no matter where he goes. During the past 16 years, he has served in the armies of four nations and is presently a Spe cialist First Class with the U.S 25th Infantry Division at Scho field Barracks. His background is so diverse that when he came to the United States in 1947 he completely confounded immigration author ties by being a German citizen, wearing a British uniform and identifying himself with Polish discharge papers. Holik was born 39 years ago in Hindenburg, Germany, and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940. Four years later he was captured by the British on D- day. He was then allowed to join a Polish unit in Great Britain because he could speak the lan guage. In 1946, the British dratt ed him into the Royal Army as soon as he got his Polish dis charge. U. S. Citizen Now With his European military commitments out of the way. Holik and his wife moved to Buffalo, N.Y., where he re mained a civilian until 1951. In that year he joined a U.S. Army reserve unit which went on ac tive duty for the Korean War just one week later. He became an American citizen in 1952. "The American Army is the best," Holik said. "In the others, if you are a private, you only talk to privates, and the disci pline is a lot stiffer." His present military status may be a permanent one. "I think I'll stay in this time," he told United Press, "especial ly with the world situation right now." Holik, his wife Annie, and their two children, Margaret, 10, and Tom, 9, apparently have found a home in Hawaii. "I took one look at Waikiki Beach and re-enlisted for three years," he said. Legislation Planned To Retain Ceiling Washington (U.R) Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), and Rep. Wright Patman (D-Tex.) both critics of the administra tion's "hard money" policy will sponsor legislation to retain the present Hi per cent ceiling on GI home loan interest rates. The Democratic lawmakers said Sunday night their propos als would save prospective vet eran home buyers $500 million each year in interest charges. This would amount to a sav ings of about $5 monthly for 30 years "for the average veteran who purchases a $14,000 GI home," Humphrey said. He based the estimate on the expectation that GI Interest rates will jump to 5 per cent if the new bill is expected to ask Congress im mediately for a similar increase in the rates on veteran loans. GOLDEN ROOF Boston U.R) The dome of the 159-year-old Massachusetts State House is covered with a paper-thin overlay of 23-karat gold valued at $5,000. The pres ent gold covering is the seventh hammered onto the dome since 1874. Man Loses 255 Pounds Since 1950 Through Dieting, Regular Exercise By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) To en courage the thousands upon thousands of Americans who will start the new year with the re solve to diet and lose weight, this is the story of a .man who lost 255 pounds. That is, he weighed 438 pounds in 1950, when he was 25 years old, and he weighs 193 pounds new. In 1950 he was a vast ob long bulk of blubber, since his height is five feet eight and three-fourth inches. Now, having exercised regularly, he has a figure something like a Hercules. His physician, Dr. Jack S. Ers ner of the Albert Einstein Medi cal Center, Philadelphia, told his story in order to answer the often answered but never satis factorily answered question: "What happens to the face, neck and skin of the individual who loses 100 or more pounds?" Strong Motive Reducing science knows that the fat must be strongly "moti vated" before they can make themselves lean by eating less. This very fat man had a power ful motivation in a groin hernia "the size of a football" which couldn't be reduced surgi cally because surgeons couldn't get to it through the fat. Dr. Ersner, a specialist in the field, gave him a diet and medi cation and close professional watchfulness losing as much weight as this man was going to have to lose has dangerous pos sibilities. He lost 81 pounds in four months whereupon, in the doctor's words, "he became somewhat careless in his cooper ation and imagined himself martyr. So Ersner "weaned" him of the appetite-suppressing medi cine and told him to come back in six months if he felt he could "cooperate." He came back the hernia was disfiguring and embarrassing. Eight months la ter he was down to 234 pounds, and then he got his surgery. No Hanging Skin Two weeks later, he resumed his dieting and seven months la ter was down to 183V4 pounds which earned him a discharge from the doctor. Since then his weight has varied between 181 and 197 pounds. The question remains of what happened to all that fat-inflated skin. "The face and the neck, as well as the forearms and the legs the parts of the body that have added the least amount of weight in any obese individual, Ashland Man Bound Over to Grand Jury Francis Elmer DuPuis, 743 North Main st., Ashland, waived preliminary hearing Monday morning in district court and was bound over to the grand jury on charges of writing a check with insufficient funds. DuPuis is being held in coun ty jail on $500 bond. He is rep resented by Charles Reames. BITE FOR BITE Saginaw, Mich. (U.R) One-year-old Joseph Robinson bit his grandfather's dog and the dog bit back. and incidentally the parts that are unclothed and exposed will reduce favorably from their somewhat abnormal appearance to a normal one without hang ing skin or flaccid muscles if the safety factors in weight re duction are followed." But around the chest and ab domen, the skin had been so stretched its elasticity was dam aged. The man had "aprons" of skin there. 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