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should provide health insur
ance for old people is shaping
up as a major 1960 election
issue.
The House Ways and Means
Committee brought the issue
center stage in recent hearings
and a special Senate commit
tee will keep it in the spotlight
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Senate committee on problems
of the aged plans to keep its
investigation going even after
Congress adjourns.
The recent House hearings
were on a bill sponsored by
Rep. Aime J. Forand (D-RJ.).
The Forand bill would add
health insurance to the pres
ent security system.
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The insurance would be fi
nanced by having workers and
their employers each pay an
extra one-quarter of one per
cent in social security taxes.
Self-employed persons would
pay an extra three-eights of
ore per cent. At retirement,
those under social security
would be eligible for the
health insurance benefits.
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The benefits in the Forand
bill include up to 120 days of
hospital and nursing home
care a year. Surgery also
would be covered. The pa
tients would pick their own
doctors, similar to the way
they do under current Blue
Cross and Blue Shield plans.
The Government would run
the program.
Pro and Con
Forand contends there is no
other solution. He says old
people cannot get adequate
health insurance from private
sources at reasonable rates.
The consequences are often
the wiping out of life-long sav
ings or forcing oldsters to go
to relatives or the government
for help. '
The Forand bill is backed
by several national organiza
Indonesia
Country N
Judged by
Jakarta CDPD - Officials here
plead with visitors not to
judge Indonesia by its capital
city of Jakarta alone but to
"get out and see the rest of
the country, the real Indone
sia." :
Good advice. But just try
to follow it.
Attempting to travel out
side Jakarta is not only frus
trating and time-consuming.
Sometimes, it's almost impos
sible. In prder to leave Jakarta,
foreigners must obtain a per
mit from police or military
authorities, whether it is on
ly a short drive to Bogor for
a look at one of the presiden
tial palaces and the famed
botanical gardens or to the
far reaches of the archipelago.
Some areas are closed com
pletely. Control Necessary
The regulation was put into
effect recently by the army
which said "in connection
with the security conditions
at present an intensification
of control over foreigners is
necessary."
The real reason, it is gener
ally agreed, is to exercise a
tighter control over alien Chi
nese. Officials said the tourist on
a brief visit is exempt from
the permit. But many who
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tions, including the AFL-CIO
and American Nursing associa
tion. Nelson H. Cruikshank,
AFL-CIO social security chief,
told the House Ways and
Means Committee that the
Forand plan actually would
help private insurance by tak
ing on the high risk old peo
ple. Hp said private health
plans will never be able to
give adequate coverage at
reasonable rates to old people
because of the high risk.
"Waiting for this to happen,"
he said, "is like waiting for
a hippopotamus to fly."
The Eisenhower Administra
tion and American Medical
association are at the fore
front of those saying that priv
ate resources, given time, can
do the job. Both oppose the
Forand bill. The AMA shouts
Urges
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have attempted to go from
Jakarta to Bandung or other
nearby points without one
have been turned back.
Obtaining the permit is on
ly half the battle. A bigger
problem is actually getting
from one point to another.
Rail travel in 20th century
Java is slow and dangerous.
There are frequent wrecks
and attacks by rebels or ban
dit gangs and almost every
train is escorted by armored
cars filled with soldiers.
No Easy Matter
Anyway, the would-be trav
eller must first get a ticket
and that is no easy matter ei
ther.
Under a new regulation is
sued by the War Administra
tor, every person who wants
to travel by rail to points out
side the commuter areas from
Jakarta must first obtain a
letter from police or military
authorities approving his trav
el. Only those persons in pos
session of such a letter may
obtain a ticket, which is non
transferable. After the ticket there is the
reservation. The trains are
crowded and reservations
must be made well in advance.
Even then the military may
suddenly take over part or all
of the tram, leaving ticket-
holders stranded.
Air travel is even more un
certain.
Flights to such boasted tour
ist attractions as Bali are fre
quently cancelled without no
tice. Tourists making reserva
tions from abroad, either di
rect or through travel agen
cies, seldom get confirmation.
As for going by automobile.
the police and military main
tain so many checkpoints that
even a supposedly one-hour
drive into the mountains takes
three to six hours.
Traveller Must Report
Once the . traveller reaches
his destination he must report
within 24 hours to the local
police and register or face a
year in jail or a fine of up to
100,000 rupiahs ($3,000). .
In some areas hotel manag
ers have been instructed not
to accept guests from other
areas who have not registered
with the police.
An Indonesian News Agen
cy story from Padang, Sumat
ra, reported recently that trav
ellers were forced to sleep
in the streets because the ho
tels were not allowed to ac
commodate them. The police
office was closed, making it
impossible to register until
the following day.
Last Civil War
Veteran Near Death
Houston, Texas (UPD "Old
Reb" Walter Williams, 116,
lay near death today. His phy
sician said the end. was "only
a matter of days" away for
the last Civil War survivor.
Dr. Russell Wolfe said Mon
day that the aged Confeder
ate veteran was "sinking" and
has to be fed through an eye-
dropper.
"He's getting weaker every
day. There's nothing ve can
do about it." Wolfe said Wil
liams has been able to take
only a mixture of milk, eggs
and water for several days.
The old rebel recently won
a battle with pneumonia, dur
ing which he spent about half
the time in an oxygen tent.
Williams gained his status
as last Civil War survivor
when "General" John Sailing,
112, died on March 16, 1959
The last Union veteran, Al
bert Woolson of Duluth,
Minn., died in August, 1956.
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to
Issue
"socialized medicine" when
the Forand bill is mentioned.
It fears the bill would result
in the Government running
medicine.
The nrivate insurance com
panies are against the Forand
bill, too. The threat of Federal
health insurance has spurred
them to come up with a rash
of new plans for the elderly.
So far, however, the coverage
offered is modest.
There is no chance of the
bill becoming law this year.
It is too late in the session.
But the Forand bill does have
a eood chance of coming up
for a vote in the House in
1960.
RpsiHps such backers as the
AFL-CIO and nurses organiza
tions, the Forand bill will get
a shove in 1960 from the old
sters themselves. The Census
Bureau estimates there will
be almost 16 million persons
65 years old or more come
1960. That is one-fourth of all
the people who voted for
President in 19o6.
Both political narties. know
ing that the aged represent
one in every four votes, ai
readv are mapping plans for
wooing oldsters. The Presi
dential candidates themselves
will be forced to take a stand
on the Forand bill, a measure
of prime interest to this new
political force.
Forand himself says he will
keep pushing the bill until
it is passed. A lot of the con
gressmen tell me the doctors
are putting on terrific pres
sure against the bin, ne says.
"So I tell them there are a
lot more old people back home
than doctors.
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Speaker Slated at
Domiciliary Lunch
Miss Elizabeth Baldwin of
Portland, chairman of the
Oregon R ;gional Conference
committee of the Oregon
Commission on Aging, will
speak at a luncheon meeting
of the Rogue Valley council's
executive board Thursday at
the Camp White Domiciliary.
The no host luncheon will
be at the Domiciliary can
teen, Frank Glonning, chair
man of the local council on
aeine. said. The board is
asked to meet in the theater
building about 12:15 p.m. be
fore lunch, he said.
Miss Baldwin will discuss
plans for the regional confer
ence as well as the local coun
cil's responsibility.
She also plans to visit the
Senior Activity Center on
West Jackson st. and attend
a meeting of the local 50
Plus club. Accompanying -ner
is her sister, Mrs. Hariet
Baldwin.
Warren Praises
Work by Nixon
Moscow-IUPD - Chief Justice
Earl Warren Tuesday praised
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's performance in Rus
sia and Poland as a "mag
nificant job."
He added that "he left noth
ing to be desired."
Warren gave his evaluation
of the Nixon visit to cor-
resDondents while inspecting
the American Exhibition at
Sokolniki Park.
The chief justice said he
was spending two days here
as the guest of Ambassador
Llwellyn Thompson purely as
a "visiting fireman.
He will do simple rubber
necking and sightseeing and
does not intend to see Soviet
courts or discuss legal prob
lems with Soviet jourists.
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Fantastic The Places
Nature Put Some Organs
You would hardly believe
that many fish have "taste
buds" and "smelling organs"
on the sides of the body and
some both tasting and smell
ing organs next to the base of
the tail. These "food sensitive"
organs make it possible for
these fortunate fish to detect
or taste the odor of food just
by brushing past it.
The prominent lateral-line
that runs horizontally from
the head to the tail, on either
side, is actually a series of
small "pores" that act as feel
ing, smelling or tasting or
gans. Detecting food by taste
buds in the body or tail is an
accomplishment that probably
assists many fish to survive in
the competitive life of the
sea.
Ridiculous as all this seems,
there are other creatures,
with misplaced organs that
are just as absurd and located
in seemingly impossible loca
tions. By our human stand
ards, eyes on the ends of arms
or legs would be extremely
silly. Yet the common star
fish who may have three, five
or a dozen arms, has "eyes"
on the tip-end of each, and it
can "see" with these brilliant,
jewel-like "eyes".
Series of Eyes
The common scollop, or
Pecten shell, has a series of
eyes, in a row located right in
its body. Having no head or
arms, this mollusk has to have
its "eyes" on the body mantle
or else go a sightless way
through the forest of sea-weed
where it lives.
The garden mole of the yard
or lawn has a complicated se
ries of nerve-ends in its tail.
The little creature can run
backwards as rapidly as for
wards, depending on the sen
sitive tail to give him warn
ing of any obstruction. He
can't 'see anyway, so his nose
keeps him informed as to
what's ahead, and his tail
functions equally well when
fie is backing up.
Fantastic too, are organs of
various kinds in the insect
world. Imagine having a
"brain" that is not located in
the head but in the stomach.
A housefly's brain, what there
is of it or more rightly what
answers for a "brain", is lo
cated, of all the silly places,
in the. insect's stomach, right
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on the floor of that cavity.
Control Center
In its stomach is the fly's
control center where the
nerves meet an4 where all the
decision are made. Cut the
head off a fly and the poor
jerk will starve to death, but
until that happy event takes
place the fly will stumble
around in a semi-daze. How
ever an injury to the stomach
brain will cause the fly to die.
The grasshopper and the lo
cust have "ears" at the base
of the abdomen on either side
of the body, just under the
wings. These "ears" are small,
round membranes. Nature se
lected some mighty strange lo
cations for many common fa
cilities; some as ludicrous as
"a hole in the head".
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Letters Carried
By Thor Rocket
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (DPD-
Two letters postmarked in
Florida were shot 5,000 miles
in a rocket nose cone in only
33 minutes last May 21, the
Air Force has disclosed.
In order to preserve the
cone intact for scientific study
after the shot, the letters were
not dug out of the cone until
two weeks after the Thor
Able rocket hurled them to
Ascension Island in the South
Atlantic.
But the Air Force seemed
pleased it had established a
record for speed in mail-carrying.
Never before had a
piece of U. S. mail traveled so
far in such a short time. The
rocket reached a peak speed
of 15,000 miles an hour dur
ing the flight.
TOADS WIN AT CRICKET
Instow, England (UPD The
North Deveon-Free Forester
cricket match had to be de
layed Tuesday when thous
ands of toads took over the
field. The toads arrived after
a heavy rain, and the cricket
match"was resumed only after
they hopped away. Some of
them even broke all customs
of British courtesy by hopping
uninvited into the bar near
the cricket pitch (field).
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