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s MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Or. Monday, Dec 14, 1959 About 300 million persons in the world still suffer from malaria. In 183 years, 604.773 Amer icans have died in battle. In the past 40 years, 1,182,959 Americans have died in high way accidents. Almost two and a half times as many Americans died of cancer in World War II as were killed in action in the armed forces. $ $$$$$$$ $ $ $ $$$$$$$ $ $ $ Shop EarlylShop With Cash! Buy Better! Buy More! No need to keep track of small bills when you get your Holiday CASH from $TARK FINANCE CO. because you have only one place to pay - - And, don't forget, you get a better selection when you shop early ... So come in or phone and get your CASH promptly. Stark Finance Co. $TAN $TARK, Mgr. 2739 North 99 SP 3-1817 i -tA -tA tA tA $SS $ SSSS $S$$$ $$$$ $$$$ CPAs Ref urn From Annual Tax Forum Oliver P. Taylor and John Graff, Medford certified pub lic accountants, attended the 10th annual tax forum in Eu gene Friday sponsored by the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants. . Talks included Oregon tax developments, tax aspects of buying and selling a business, highlights of federal tax leg islation, changes in tax . ac counting methods, and prob lems confronting the taxpaper who will use the new 1040 form. Boy's Auto First To Cross New Bridge Miami-(UPD-A new $14-mil-lion causeway between Miami and Miami Beach opened Sat urday, but despite the de tailed planning of city fathers the governor's car was not trie first to' cross the ribbon barrier at the Miami end. , .That honor went to 4-year-old David Costa, who pedaled a toy fire chief's car around the concrete bridge and back under the ribbon. Social Security Benefits May Be Sweetened Before Election Washington - If election- year history is repeated in 1960, Congress will find some way to sweeten social secur ity benefits before voters gatherat the polls next Nov. 8. Changes enlarging the cov erage of the Social Security Act of 1935 have been voted in the last five election years. Both Administration and Democratic leaders already have promised that 1960 will follow the pattern. Activities during the be-tween-session recess have served "to focus attention on the issue. Hearings held this fall by a special senate subcommit tee on problems of the aged and aging unearthed strong sentiment for legislation to ease the plight of elderly per sons unable to make ends meet or pay for adequate medical care. Drug Costs Aired The senate judiciary com mittee antitrust and monopo ly subcommittee, headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D Tenn.), currently is exploring pricing practices of drug man ufacturers at hearings which opened Dec. 7. Complaints by social security recipients that their checks have not been big enough to cover costs of medicine are expected to be aired. Seymour E. Harris, a Har vard University economist, Nov. 26 submitted to the joint economic committee a report calling for an increase to $9,000 in the amount of wages subject to social secur ity taxes. At present only the first $4,800 earned by a work er is taxed each year. Harris also declared that more than $200 billion will be in the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund reserve by v the year 2020, and that it would be sensible to "increase ben efit rates now and not build up such large reserves." Battle site for -the, 1960 de bate on social security legis- I This Weeks' 10 1 TURKEY WINNERS! 4 3 VELMA LULL, -5. Old Stag Road GERALD KEESEE, r... 3216 Madrona SIXTH and GRAPE OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK TIL 9 P.M. BIG FREE PARKING LOTS Room For Nearly 100 Cars! Lane J M. A. KUBLER, -.. 725 Grant Street J BESSIE MICHAEL, ..... 475. 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The Forand bill would set up a federally administered program provid ing hospitalization, surgery and nursing home care for social security recipients." The plan would be financed by raising social security tax es by one-quarter of one per cent for both employer and employee. But legislators are wondering whether voters will accept further tax in creases, particularly since the tax rate goes up one-half of one per cent (to three per cent) on Jan. 1. Combined employee-employer social secur ity taxes already are sched uled to reach nine per cent of the payroll by 1959 with out further legislation. Cold Water Dashed Ways and Means Commit tee Chairman Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.) on Dec. 5 sprinkled cold water on hopes for the Forand bill when he cau tioned against proposed changes that would raise so cial security taxes. Mills also indicated he questioned the advisability of trying to enact any across-the-board increase in monthly benefit payments. But he did say his committee would probably want to consider legislation similar to a bill Rep. Burr P. Harrison (D-Va.) has announced he will intro duce expanding the disability insurance program. Leading the fight for the Forand bill is the AFL-CIO, which considers a health in surance plan the most import ant objective in the social security field. The American Medical Association heads the opposition, claiming that vol untary health insurance plans eventually will be able to handle needs of the -aged. At present, persons 50 years or older who have par ticipated in the social securi ty program are entitled to regular benefits if they be come totally disabled. Harri son's measure would elimin ate the age limit. He believes the cost of his amendment could be covered from existing or anticipated surpluses in the trust fund. , Arthur S. Flemming, Sec retary of health, education and welfare, Dec. 2 disclosed the administration would of fer a '"positive plan," hot yet announced, for medical care for recipients of old age and survivors insurance. He also said he would ask ' congress to approve a new federal pro gram for independent- self care for the infirm and se verely handicapped on public arristance rolls. Robert M. Ball of the so cial security administration predicted early this month that congress would, broaden the disability pension pro gram. He also disclosed that the administration was con sidering a plan to tie social security payments .to the cost of living. Oldsters in the years to come will constitute a potent political force. The nearly 16 million persons over 65 now compromise 8.8 per cent of the total U.S. population. Their number will increase by about one million every three years. The aged are not too old to vote. Both the Republican and Democratic parties want' to show they are friends of the 13,486,122 retired or dis abled workers and survivors now receiving social securi ty checks. (Copyright 1959. Congres sional Quarterly Ine.) Titan Explosion Data Under Study , Cape Canaveral, Fla. -(UPD-lyiissilemen today studied tele metry data and movies in an attempt to learn what caused Saturday's second straight blow-up of a Titan intercon tinental ballistic missile. IU. was undetermined im mediately whether the ex plosion would affect the launching schedule for two other Titans now at the cape. The $2 million rocket and several months of work went up in the ball of liquid flame and dense smoke that com pletely engulfed the Titan and its tall tower a split - second after the 300,000-pound thrust booster engine ignited. The missile did not even rise one inch from its pad. No . one inside the heavily shielded blockhouse 800 feet away was injured. 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