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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.
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