NEAR-TRAGEDY Perry Luth, 12, of Los Angeles, was trapped under this huge
concrete drain pipe for seven hours, after it settled on him while he was playing un
der it His father (left) attempts to comfort him while police and firemen work to
raise the pipe. Police believe the boy escaped death only because of the soft earth
under him. He suffered a broken leg and possible internal injuries.
Job of Page Boy in Congress Not One
Of Glamour and Fun But of Hard Work
Washington -UPD-If Jimmy
Johnson . fails to get a Con
gressional page boy's job,
there is one consolation for
the 14-year-old Chicago Ne
gro. A page boy's life isn't
all glamour and fun.
The boys who get the 50
jobs each session of Congress
have their problems. An av
erage day goes like this:
Up at 5 in the morning to
eat and get to a special page's
school by 6 . . .
Concentrated instruc t i o n
until 9:45 a.m. ...
Lunch and off to the House
or Senate well before noon to
do advance chores, distribu
tion of copies of the Congres
sional record, etc. . . .
Stay for the duration of the
LMV' '
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NURSING HOME FIRE Anna O'Malley (wrapped in
blanket), aged resident of Glen Acres nursing home in
Glen Ellyn, 111-, is led across snow covered ground to
waiting ambulance as firemen (background) continue to
battle blaze which swept the home, killing eight persons.
Officials tentatively blamed faulty wiring for the fire.
Putting Alcoholics
In Mental Hospitals
For Cure Favored
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York-UPD-A ground
swell is running In favor of
hospitals for treatment and
cure, but med
Delos Smith
ical science is
4 not ready
M wixn a worna-
WlL bl e' detailed
I JP nro e r a m of
treatment.
This is the
warning of
UWs U Selzer of the
University of
Michigan. He detected the
groundswell both in the gen
eral public and among public
health authorities, and the
reason for it is only too clear,
he said.
The public is realizing
there are some 4,500,000 alco
holics in the country who are
costing the taxpayers several
hundred millions of dollars
annually, he continued, and
all this money is largely wast
ed because it doesn't perma
nently sober any appreciable
number of alcoholics.
Suggests Confinement
Many states already com
mit certain alcoholics to their
mental hospitals. And in
North Carolina and Michigan
up to 41 per cent of those
committed were rehabilitated,
he said, "despite the fact that
the hospital treatment pro
gram was not geared toward
the specific therapeutic needs
of the alcoholic."
Confining the alcoholic for
treatment is a good idea be
cause the true alconoiic won i
anything about his ax
on his own, beizer saia.
fact, "most alcoholics ei-
do not recognize inai
have an alcoholic pro
gram or mistakenly feel that
they can cope with it themselves.
do
ness"
In
ther
they
. Selzer laid down several
principles for the forced treat
ment and cure of alcoholics.
First, the state should com
mit them to one mental hos
pital so , there would be
enough to justify a treatment
program for them, and not
scatter them around among a
number of hospitals.
Stay Hospitalized Indefinitely
And they should be com
mitted and taken to the hos
pital while still under the in
fluence of the jag which got
them into the toils of the law.
Let them suffer the agonies of
"the withdrawal symptoms"
under medical supervision for
its psychological effect. Under
these circumstances, they
hardly could deny even to
themselves that they had "a
drinking problem."
Keep them in the hospital
for a definitely stated period,
say two months. This would
prevent them from devoting
all their energies to schemes
for getting out, and also pre
vent their well - meaning
friends and relatives from
abetting those schemes. It
would cause them to relax
and divert their energies to
breaking their alcoholic
chains.
The actual treatment should
be psychological and educa
tional, Dr. Selzer said.
day's session, which may end
in mid-afternoon or at mid
night.
Of course, these are consid
ered only small annoyances,
and thousands each year seek
the jobs which pay $1,800 a
session.
The pages live in approved
boarding houses near the cap
itol or at the homes of family
friends and relatives.
No Special Dormitory
Almost every year one con
gressman or another has pro
posed settmg up a dormitory,
supervised by a house mother,
but all such proposals have
died.
Congress set up a special
committee several years ago
to look into reports that some
pages were seen smoking and
possibly sampling a few beers.
The committee never met, but
reported the situation, if it
ever existed, had been clear
ed up.
The page school, conducted
in a room at the Library of
Congress, gives the high
school-age boys a concentrat
ed education in English, math,
etc. There is a full staff of
teachers, complete with prin
cipal. The District of Columbia
has staffed and run the school
since 1949, when Congress
found the job too unwieldly.
Once on duty in the House
or Senate, the pages work un
der two chief pages and sev
eral overseers. They deliver
messages, bring in bills, and
do every sort of errand short
of bringing food into the
chamber. That's forbidden.
No Specific Qualifications
There are no particular
qualifications for the page
boy obs-beyond good politi
cal connections, but a fleet
foot and fundamental grasp
of the geography of the House
and Senate office buildings
helps.
Generally boys appointed
as pages are of above-average
intelligence. Several have
gone on to hold seats in Con
gress.
Infrequently a Congress
man will lose his temper with
a page, or complain to the
chief page. Most often the
boys are efficient, and only a
few have been asked to give
up their job.
Like the Congressman who
appoint them, their tenure is
far from permanent. Some
stay several ' sessions, others
only one session or part of one
session.
Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.),
when he was in the House,
had a policy of bringing his
pages to Washington for 30-
day terms.
. Take comfort, Jimmy John
son. Jt isn't all glamour and
fun.
A FAMILY AFFAIR
Catanzaro, Italy (CPU
Farmhand Domenico Sano, 24,
changed his mind on the eve
of his scheduled wedding on
Monday, kidnaped his fiance's
15-year-old sister and ran off
with her. Police arrested him
a few hours later and rescued
the girl.
SAMMY DAVIS SUED
Santa Monica, Calif. -fllPD-
Singer-actor Sammy Davis Jr.
was sued for divorce Monday
on the ground of extreme cuel
ty. In her suit, singer LoraI
White sought $2,000 monthly
alimony from her husband of
one year.
Most Income Tax Errors Found To Favor Taxpayer
Washington -(TJPD- Wouldn't
you know?
When it comes to mistakes
in arithmetic on income tax
returns, for every error in the
government's favor there are
two favoring the taxpayer.
Regardless of which way
the error is made, however,
Uncle Sam's tax sleuths are
bound to catch it.
The Internal Revenue Serv
ice says in its annual report
that tax agents checked the
arithmetic on 58,365,000 of
the 69,202,0000 returns filed
last year.
Mistakes Two To One
'They found 1,908,000 re
turns with mistakes - 1,247,
000 of them helping the tax
payer and 661,000 in favor of
the government. Only 3,000
of the "wrong" returns were
filed by corporations, but the
rate of these mistakes still
was 2 tol against the govern
ment.
Checking taxpayers' com
putations saved the govern
ment $61,878,000 last. fiscal
Endurance Fliers
Continue Marathon
: Las Vegas - 1DPD - Two Air
Force veterans who already
hold the world's non-stop en
durance record, today entered
their 61st day aloft in a light
plane.
Robert Timm, 32, and John
Cook, 34, radioed that they in
tend to stay aloft "until the
engine quits running."
The two Las Vegas pilots,
who have broken the old
record by 11 days, are staging
the marathon flight- as part
of a fund-raising drive for
the Damon Runyon Cancer
fund.
year, or about 10 per cent
more than in fiscal 1957.
Tipsters also helped the
revenue service collect Uncle
Sam's due. IRS reported 694
tipsters received $493,535 in
fiscal 1958 for giving informa
tion on tax che'aters. The gov
ernment collected 28 times
the total of the rewards.
Can Contest Assessments
Enforcement a c t i v ities -such
as checking on taxpayers
who don't report all their income-led
to assessments last
Eisenhower Proclaims
National Fitness Week
Washington -DPD- President
Eisenhower has proclaimed
the week beginning May 3 as
National Youth Fitness Week.
He said youth fitness is the
foundation of the continuing
strength and well-being of the
American people.
year of $1,648,465,000, a six-
year high. But taxpayers can
contest assessments.
Besides checking on arith-
matic and cheaters, the tax
agents also were busy helping
10,988,000 persons who re
quested assistance in making
out their tax returns.
Nearly half of the persons
who asked for help called on
the telephone "and apparent
ly were able to complete
their returns after getting
answers to a question or two,"
the report said.
MASHED POTATOES!
Chicago -(DPtt- An Antigo,
Wis., truck driver's trouble
really started once his over
turned potato truck was right
ed from a ditch. Once righted,
the truck lost its entire load
onto the Illinois tri-state toll
way, blocking all but one of
three southbound lanes.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, February 3, 195t S
Fire Does $9,800
Damage io Building
. Cave Junction The main
house at the Campfire Motel
and Trailer Park on the Red
wood highway south of Cave
Junction was completely
burned Sunday afternoon.
The fire broke out as a result
of an overheated stove.
Four rigs of the IVRFD an
swered the alarm but the fire
in the main building was out
of control prior to their ar
rival. The 27 volunteer fire
men were able to contain the
blaze to the one house, sav
ing the adjacent cabins and
the surrounding timber which
had started to blaze.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Voyers,
owners, were in the building
when the fire broke out, and
with the help of neighbors
and passing motorists were
able to save a few personal
effects. The damage was esti
mated at $9,800, of which
$7,500 was covered by insur
ance. The Voyers purchased the
motel last April.
The Army's highest Insti
tute of learning is located at
th White Sands Missil
Range in New Mexico.
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