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THURSDAY. AUGUST 11, 1960 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. vx 1 -y jury WHAT'S THAT? A surprised David Finnix is greeted by a strange sight aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth as the ship arrived in New York. The cello was left by a music student who removed his jacket and cap and placed them on the Instrument case. (UPI Telephoto) Business Conditions Offer Fodder for Debate by Presidential Candidates Washington - IUPD - Will the presidential candidates get mileage out of business con ditions between now and elec tion day? Here are the pros pects: Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican nomi nee, can point to record pro duction, incomes and jobs. But Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, may find political ammunition in unemployment which h e considers high and in per sistent pockets of poverty in some areas. The contenders are likely to find themselves campaign ing in this kind of economic situation: overall business ac tivity rising slowly, without much pep but also without any great danger of deep de pression. Possibility of Recession That is the way most econo mists see the economy for the rest of 1960. Some experts say there is a possibility of a recession - a downturn in total output of goods and services - in the first part of 1961. Others expect continu ation of the gradual rise. Best bets now are that total outputs will rise from the record $505 billion annual rate reached In the spring to a $515 billion rate by the end of the year. Most of the $10 billion pickup is looked for in the fourth quarter, with high production of 1961 mo del autos a major booster. Unemployment, which nor mally dips to a seasonal low in October, is expected to de cline well below four million by election day. Nixon has said that unless the jobless total "moves over 4.5 million it does not become a signifi cant issue in the minds of a great many people." Neverthe less, Nixon is likely to pledge efforts to improve the jobless situation. Kennedy believes u n e m ployment is high for a sup posed period of prosperity. It was 4.4 million in June, or S'A per cent of the labor force. Economists expect seasonal declines for July, August, September and Oc tober. But the experts, and employers surveyed by the labor department, do not an ticipate any cut in unemploy ment greater than the season al pattern. Democrats also like to con trast this year's 5 per cent un employment rate (so far) and 1959's 5lA per cent rate with the 1955-57 average of 4.3 per cent. Working for Nixon and the Republicans is the fact that output and incomes are higher than ever before. But Demo crats are sure to remind the voters of the two business re cessions since Eisenhower be came president in 1953. The administration's tight money policies brought on the slumps and dangerously crimped the nation's economic growth, Democrats say. The Democratic platform pledges a 5 per cent growth rate and "an end to the pres ent high-interest, tight-money policy." Nixon, asserting that there is no one best rate of economic growth for all circumstances, has said he favors "maximum sustainable" growth. Inflation is another vote getting issue each candidate hopes to make the most of. Kennedy's view is that the E i s e n hower administration failed to keep prices from rising while it saddled busi nessmen, taxpayers' and con sumers with higher interest rates. But Nixon defends the Eisenhower record on infla tion as better than former President Truman's. The two candidates are most sharply divided in prin ciple over, government spend ing. Kennedy charges Eisen hower put budgetary consider ations ahead of the nation's needs. The Democratic plat form promises or Implies heavier federal spending for defense, schools, housing and other programs. Nixon is understood to be less economy -minded than E i s e n hower, although he backs the President's fervent belief in "fiscal responsibil ity." The Republicans answer to Democratic spending pro posals is a disavowal of "gov ernment intervention" in the private economy. Instead of spending, the federal govern ment should stimulate private enterprise and state and local government to do the job, Re publicans say. Both candidates favor bal ancing the federal budget in good times. The Democratic platform pledges to do this with existing tax rates. But Kennedy aides say higher taxes may be one of the "sac rifices" the Senator has said he would ask of the Ameri can people. Campaign pres sures probably will force him 4i; FINN TWIN SUBDUED Round two of the "Flying Finn Twins" case features George Finn fighting with authorities who drag him off to jail to serve 15 days on an old traffic warrant. Earlier in the week officers en gaged in a similar fight with Charles Finn whom they arrested in error, thinking that Charles was George. (UPI Telephoto) to be more specific. . Nixon has sDoken of tax reform and . reduction next year - but only as a possi bility, not as a certainty. He said in Mav he would not during the campaign unquali fiedly promise a tax cut. Neither candidate has come out yet with a specific, over all tax program. With business neither rous ingly good nor depressingly bad, economics is not likely to displace foreign policy as the major issue of the cam paign. But if unemployment lags in coming down from its usual summertime bulge which will not be known un til figures for July, August and September are in - tha Democrats may find they have a bonus issue. Psychiatrist Records Whines, Wheezes, Burps San Francisco - (Science Service) - Now psychiatr'sts have a way of recording for future study a patient's grunts, bellows, whines, wheezes and even burps. The sound of a patient's voice often conveys more in formation to his psychiatrist than does the words he used. If the patient says "I'm feel ing fine, Doctor," but says it in a tearful voice, the psychia trist will ignore the words and . listen to and take note of the tone of voice. Dr. Peter F. Ost wald of the University of Cali fornia School of Medicine here describes a method of recording non-verbal noises In the Archives of General Psy chiatry (Aug.). Probably the most accurate and detailed way of record ing these human sounds that are not speech is by speech spectrograph", but this meth od is expensive and requires a highly skilled interpreter, 1 Dr. Ostwald points out. He I recommends, as a simpler method, one standardized by , acoustical engineers for the I measurement and analysis of I noise. A microphone is placed in front of the patient's mouth and his sounds are recorded on tape. Then a small seg ment of the tape Is played backwards into a sound an alyzer. The result of the sound an alysis is plotted on graph paper to show the frequency (pitch) of each sound and also the volume. Four different kinds of voices were disting uished by the analysis. First was a "sharp" voice. This is the kind usually call ed a nagging, insinuating, querulous tone of voice. As many people might ex pect, this kind of voice came mostly from adult women pa tients. One of the records, however, was made by a 10-year-old boy with a behavior disorder. A "hollow" voice, the sec ond kind showing up in the records, is often described as a flabby, rattling, quavering voice. Three of these records came from senile men and the fourth from a young man whose brain was injured in a motorcycle collision. What Dr. Ostwald calls a "flat" voice is a smudged, lus terless, hesitant way of speak ing. The fourth kind of voice. called the "robust" voice is the voice known as extrovert, I aggressive, and confident. The I records of robust voice ob tained by Dr. Ostwald were j obtained from professional ! men and women, some known ' for their excellence at teach ers or lecturers. j Laos Royalists March on Capital Bangkok, Thailand - IUPD -Royalist troops were reported marching on the administra tive capital of Vientiane in Laos Wednesday to put down a leftist pocket revolt against the pro-Western government. The counter-attack was be ing mobilized from Luang . 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