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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE WINE
Tuesday, January I, 1957
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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. The chest apron was
reduced by exercises; the abdo
man apron was eliminated surgically.
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A STRANGER
Burlington, Vt. (U.R) Ferry
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made some 10,000 trips between
his home port here and Port
Kent. N. Y. Asked what he
thought of the terminus across
Lake Champlain, Turner said. "I
don't know; I've never been
ashore there."
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