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TheyOl Do It Every Time" By Jimmy Hatlo The arsons TSgjgtpg fucv HAD TO DO TO GET A NEW Jserator was to buy rr- r men ' four inchw wwe- .ue TAklTELL . THE CUV. WMcn UEBUy IMC NEW ONfc ureVCS UAD ! lib- 1 THIS OLD ONE SINCE e HOUSE WAS BUIL.T , But it ?pim im.i, . ... TO BUILD A NEW KITCHEN TO ACCOMMODATE THE NEWBOX- THE spare IS JUST Rin -A BOX TWENTY- WIDE I I v 1 IK THE SMALLEST ..'. -iv!u.fc5T DMCTVAcr - a r-M-irTT TWENTY-EIGHT INCHES VVIOE- RIP OUT THE WALL- CUr ti . kjll I A lWAH)CAMDQUSrtA,TlSOfT:TO .William Andrew vx HIESTANO. .ijwfk 7)1 HILLCREST RD,! J Whatever Happened to Those 'Extra1 Paydays During '59? By DICK WEST Washington (LTD - This has been explained to me about : six times, but I still am NOT sure I under stand why I got that extra week's pay last year. I have look ed back at the 1959 calendar and it didn't seem any dif ferent from Dick west any omer year. I have looked at my bank balance and it also is distressingly normal. Yet, according to my form W-2 withholding tax state ment, I drew 53 paychecks during the year. And so, I un derstand, did most other wage earners who are paid by the week. The arrival of the 1959 withholding statements caus ed a minor flap in our office. Some of us thought the book keeper had credited us with making more money than we were actually paid. Hence we figured we were due a rebate on the extra income tax that had been withheld. 'Dream Soon Punctured This dream was soon puno tured by the arrival of a note from the payroll department reminding us that 52 weeks do NOT make a 365-day year. There is an extra day NOT ac counted for. "As you know," the note said, "every year, except leap year, has 52 17 weeks in it: leap years have 52 27 weeks. Approximately every six years, these extra sevenths of a week accumulate to give you all an extra week's pay." Well, I checked the 1959 calendar carefully and I could NOT count more than 52 weeks. However, I am willing to take his word that an ex tra week sneaked in there somewhere. It occurred to me that if this happened to weekly wage earners all over America, then we all paid an extra week's income tax. That must amount to a sizable bundle of cash So I called up the In- Safety Council Says Belts Reduce Toll Chicago -(UPD- The National Safety Council said Thursday equipping cars with safety belts was "probably the one single factor" which can re duce the highway death toll. A council spokesman said the NSC was "100 per cent" behind a bill introduced in the New York legislature re quiring auto manufacturers to equip every car with safety belts. The New York bill was opposed by Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. ternal Revenue Service. The Revenue Service said it had indeed received a num ber of inquiries about the mat ter. All it knew, it said, was that if anyone got any extra income, he had to pay a tax on it, regardless of how many weeks the year had. Calls Commerce Well, I said, how much ex tra revenue is the government going to receive? That, the Revenue Service said with ir refutable logic, depends on how much additional income the taxpayers received. So I called up the Com merce department and asked what the national weekly pay roll amounted to. The Com merce department referred me to the Labor department, which referred me back to the Commerce department. Undaunted, I called up the Budget Bureau and asked if it took the extra week into consideration in drawing up the federal budget. The Budg et Bureau said it got its fig ures on estimated revenue from the Treasury depart ment. So I called up the Treasury department. The Treasury de partment said the extra calen dar year week didn't matter to it because it operated on a fiscal year. Maybe all of this is clear to you and the government, but I'm confused. The Medical Roundup by AVA I Emetitni Consultant in Me4ieta. Mx.jo CU&le Emnntna Professor of Medicine. Maya Citato CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER WITHOUT SYMPTOMS I'm constantly getting let ters from anxious people who are upset because their doc tor, while giv- y 3x I ing them a amination, made a liver function test and discover ed that they had a small cirrhotic liver. In such a liv- dr. alvarez er most of the functioning cells are gone and what remains are the tough parts, such as the arter- Cattle Companies Are Revoked Mexican Use San Francisco The U. S. labor department has revoked the authorizations of two Im perial Valley cattle compan ies to use Mexican national la bor because of their refusal to give employment preference to qualified American job hunters who were available. The federal action means the two companies who violat ed the article are forbidden by law from hiring any but American citizens in their ag ricultural operations. ies, veins and bile ducts. There are several types and degrees of cirrhosis of the liver. Oftentimes the disease began probably as an inflam mation, the so-called hepatitis, which was probably due to the more injurious of the two viruses that attack the liver. The less harmful type of vir us produces the "epidemic i jaundice," which sometimes will run through a communi ty. This type of the disease seldom leaves any perman ent damage. Doctors used to think that, in most cases, cirrhosis of the liver was due to alcohol and, perhaps, in the old pre-trans-fusion and pre-plasma days, it was. In my intern year, many of my hospital patients with cirrhosis were old bar tenders and saloon owners. Extra Factor There must be an extra fac tor besides the alcohol, be cause there is many a man who, for much of his lifetime, drinks a fifth of whiskey a day, and gets by. Others who try this are soon dying with an abdomen full of fluid. Per haps this type of drinker be gan with a liver that could not "take it" because it had been injured previously by an attack of hepatitis. Many persons who have been found accidentally to have a shriveled cirrhotic liver want to know why they are not ill. The answer is that they still have enough good liver tissue to take care of the health of the rest of their body. They need not get pan icky. But they had better live sensibly; they had better not drink; they had better not dissipate; and they should not over-eat. I am not convinced that they will be any better for taking medicine of even a special diet. By behaving himself such a man may live many years. My old friend Dr. Frank Mann of the Mayo Clinic, showed long ago that a dog can live comfortably with six-tenths of his liver remov ed surgically. Fortunately, the Great Designer of us all arranged matters so that most of our organs have much more strength than we ordin arily need. Thus, a woman with only one kidney can go through the strain of carrying and bearing a child; many a man with a bad heart can get along well for years so long as he doesn't run for a bus; and a man who has had nearly all MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ Sunday, Jan. 31. 1960 of his stomach removed for an ulcer can still digest well enough. He can have one lung re moved and still live comfort ably. He can even have one whole lobe of his brain re moved, and still hold down a good job. For Sale ATHLETIC LD LIGHTS FIE Now Located at Medford Fairgrounds For Details PHONE NO 4-1271 CHENEY FOREST PRODUCTS Ask for BILL ASKWITH II Come Out and Look 11 Come Back and Live! (IDF1E.M 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. -; TODAY 1 McCAY & BREEDEN Present ROGUE MUM-COEQSTRUCTIOIXI- COS IMewesft IHlinnie' 1460 .OLEANDER ST. Dn Blossom fflll Terrace JUST OFF CRATER LAKE AVE. 3 Bedrooms, Activity Room, VA Baths, Double Garage, Service Center, Built-in Ap pliances, Texas Limestone Fireplace and Exterior Stonework. 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