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Traffe Accidents New York - ll'PD - Traffic accidents cost $7.9 billion dur ing 1961, or an average of $42.93 for each man, woman and child in the United States, the Insurance Information In ititute reported Monday. The toll was the highest in history. The institute also said that fires in communities with populations of 2,500 or more caused a property loss of Sl, 209,042,000, also a record. MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY. AUGUST 14. 1962 Average Oregon War II Veteran Making $6,( Portland-Wli-The Veterans Administration drew a por trait of Oregon's 172,000 World War II veterans today on the 17th anniversary of VJ-Day. Regional Manager R. J, Novotny said the average ex- GI of World War II, based on national figures, is 44, mar ried, has three children, and earns jurt under $6,000 a year. Nearly 98 per cent of the veterans are employed, most of them in manufacturing trade, transport and construc tion. Ten per cent in the na tion live on farms. Almost 88 per cent still are married to their original wives. Those who made use of the GI Bill's home loan plan are living in homes costing an average $14,500. In Portland, Novotny said, 509 veterans daily can be found in the city's VA Hos pital. The hospital treats some 6,000 individuals a year. An other 17.000 receive VA out patient clinic treatment. The VA conducts a $471 million insurance program for Oregon veterans. An eduction- la and training program al , ready has more than 84,000 alumni, including 4,600 en gineers, 3,600 teachers, and 1,300 doctors, dentists and nurses. Oregon ex - GIs received more than 39.000 loans worth more than $226 million. More than half of the loans have been repaid. More than $34 million a year in compensation and pen sion payments goes to some 49,000 Oregon disabled vet erans, and widows, children and dependent parents of de ceased veterans. Goliin KniRht you'll be a very Special person in Portland at the Western Hotel Enjoy the city's finest food and service in the Golden Knight, comfortable accom modations, downtown location, tree parking and TV. For Reservation! Call Your Travel Agent or Writt Reservation Office Multnomah West ern Hotel, Port land, Oregon Anniversary of V-J Day Noted By Domiciliary White City - John S. Glea son Jr., administrator of vet erans affairs, has taken the occasion of the 17th anniver sary of V-J Day, when World War II came to an end with the capitulation of the Japa nese empire, to summarize the benefits and advantages now handled by the Veterans ad ministration. Pointing to the normal ad justment made by the ex-GI's of World War II, Gleason made public figures showing that 97.9 per cent of these veterans are employed and 87.8 per cent have been mar rid once. "This settled character nf the average ex-GI and the lack of unrest common among vet erans in some other nations is, I believe, due largely to the laws passed by Congress," the administrator stated. "It began before the war had actually ended with the passage of the GI Bill and con tinues to the present day in a series of laws passed to bene fit veterans and their depend ents." The Veterans administra tion maintains the largest hospital and clinic system in the nation and between 500, 000 and 600,000 veterans are patients in VA hospitals in any one year and another 1.5 million are treated at VA out patient clinics. More than 7,000 research projects in geriatrics, mental disease, heart disease, cancer and other disabilities are be ing conducted in VA hospitals and clinics, he noted. The Veterans administra tion handles a $40 billion life insurance business, and an ed ucational and training pro gram that already has more than 11 million alumni and is still in operation. The admin istration's GI loan program has already made more than 6.2 million loans valued at more than $54.5 billion. Near ly $14 billion has been repaid with the loss sustained by the government amounting to a fraction of one per cent. The VA compensation and pension system makes pay ments of over $300 million each month to more than four million disabled veterans and widows and children and de pendent parents of deceased veterans. To handle these programs, the VA has an annual budget of $5.5 billion and more than 170,000 employees sprejad through every state in the union, the comonwealth of Puerto Rico and an office in the Philippines. A total of 18.000 full and part time physicians are con nected with the medical pro gram and more than 1,000 dentlsts and some 14,000 nurses working in the largest organized nursing service in the world. There are 170 hospitals, 91 outpatient clinics, 67 regional offices, 18 domiciliaries, three insurance centers and the most modern automatic pro cessing equipment to carry out major programs. According to domiciliary registrar records, more than half of the veterans on the roll at White City today have disa bilities resulting from service in World War II. Percentages are World War II, 53 per cent; World War I, 43 per cent; peace time (service connect ed) 2 per cent; Korea, 1 per cent; and Spanish American war, 1 per cent. BIRD LIKES HOT DOG St Paul, Minn.-IUPIl - Carl Newton, 66, of Sioux City, Iowa, was bitten by an os trich. The ostrich at the Como Park Zoo is fond of hot dogs. When the big bird spotted Newton eating one, the ostrich tried to grab the frankfurter from Newton's mouth and nip ped his lip. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan mm FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS, SELECT A CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT. F. R. Brennan, C.I.A. QUALIFIED There art Two Qualified Insurance Agents at MEDFORD INSURANCE Agency PHONE 773-7343 27 North Holly Street if if rmmf I 1 ' '- -I : COOLING OFF Pretty Anne Spence, 19, "Miss Wool" of Texas, tries to beat Austin's 104 degree temperature by sit ting on a 100-pound block of ice while fanning herself and sipping a tall lemonade. Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Spence, is a sophomore at the University of Texas. (UPI) The Mcdkal Roundup by ,tmer"u, AJ (Register Consultant In Mayo Clinic Professor of Mayo clinic and Trlhune 1062) Syndicate, Alvarei These Women Need Help of Expert Hundreds of unhappy wom en, usually past middle-age, write asking me if there isn't something that can be done to protect them from losing a little urine w h en they cough or sneeze or walk up or down stairs. This is called "stress incon t i n e n c e of urine." Com monly it follows a perineal tear during childbirth, but occasionally one hears of it in a woman who has never married but has weak and relaxed muscles in her "pel vic floor." Also, it can be associated with some inflam matory process in the blad der or some neurologic di sease, such as multiple scle rosis. Many of the women have trouble with urgency and urinary frequency. Often they know that they are going to lose a little urine before they do, and this sug gests the presence of trouble in the bladder. The inflam matory type of incontinence is sometimes added to that of the stress type. Always be fore a surgeon operates a urologist ought to look into the bladder with his cysto scope. At the Mayo Clinic they have so many of these patients that for years Dr. Richard E. Symmonds has made a par ticular study of their prob lem, and recently he wrote a very helpful article on it (Journal "GP," May, 1962). He tells first about the sev eral types of a tearing apart of muscles which can lead to stress incontinence, and then the several types of op erations that have been de signed in an effort to help these women. Some women can be helped by daily ex ercise of the muscle of the outlet of the bladder. In a given case it is hard to say to what extent a mus cle tear is responsible for the incontinence, because many a woman who has a bad tear does not have any trouble in holding her urine. Ideal Operation Surgeons do not know all they would like to know about what is called the internal sphincter (the circular mus cle which relaxes when one urinates, and then closes). The external or "voluntary sphinc ter" (tightening muscle) ap pears to be less important than is the internal sphincter. The ideal operation for an incontinent sphincter should be one designed to correct at one time all of the existing abnormalities at the outlet of the urinary bladder. It should lift up the dropped uterus, vagina and bladder. Dr. Symmonds is not in favor of performing opera tions for minor degrees of cystocele (a fallen bladder) with prolapse (a falling down) of the womb. Often a cystocele can be present with practically no symptoms. Ob viously, it is not advisable to perform an operation on a woman who plans to have sev eral more children. Their coming can tear down again what the surgeon has built up. Factors that influence the sur geon in deciding whether to operate are obesity, or a bad bronchitis with much cough ing, such as is likely to tear open the stitches right after an operation. Unfortunately, it is not easy for even an expert sur geon to decide on just which operation is most likely to give a good result. Much de pends on the experience and good judgment of the man. As Dr. Symmonds says, no single operation should be used on all patients with stress incon tinence. To be successful the opera tion must result in an eleva tion of, plus an elongation of, and to some extent a narrow ing of the lumen (caliber) of the urethra (tube that carries urine out of the bladder). Commonly the initial satisfac tory results of the relatively simple vaginal operations for a tear are only temporary. Several Technics A cure may require a com bination of several vaginal or abdominal - vaginal technics. Experience has shown that af ter 10 years many of the wom en who seemed to have been cured with the old Kelly op eration have gotten into trou ble again. Of late, the so-called Ken nedy operation, variously mo dified, has been the favorite one, but Dr. Symmonds has found that perhaps 40 per cent of the pateints so operat ed on, who at first had a good result, after some years have trouble again. Hence, he be lieves that a more extensive operation should be perform ed. When one plastic operation on the vagina fails to cure a patient, there isn't much chance that a second of the ML ililHHilslraa Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc. OUR 'DISAPPEARING WORKERS The reason the rate of unemployment in our country has just declined an insignificant fraction to around 5.3 per cent of all those able and willing to work is not that our economy suddenly is gaining new strength and a lot more jobs have opened up. The reason is that a lot fewer men and women have been looking for jobs than experts anticipated would be jobseckers at this time. In July, our total labor force, including the armed forces, came to 76,437,000, about 500,000 above the level of summer, 1961, But according to the official projections, there should be 1 million more men and women in our labor force now than a year ago and these year-to-year projections usually have been "safe," for the simple reason that we know how many babies of the 1940s are reaching working age in the 1960s and we certainly can count our adult workers. The latest employment-unemployment statistics have been woefully underanalyied, a real drawback in view of their impact on policy. In the first place, the drop from June to July was not from 5.5 to 5.3 per cent, as officially reported. It was. in unrounded figures, from 5.46 to 5.34 per cent, a decline of only 0.12 per cent, so tiny that it's statistically insignifi cant. In the second place the immediate interpretation of the picayune decline as a signal that no new moves are needed to spur our economy in the months ahead ignores the key fact that the unemployment rate does not forecast where our economy might be going. It just reflects where the economy is. This rate is not one of the so-called "leading indicators" which telegraph a business turn in advance of the turn. It is one of the "coincident indicators" which show what is happening as it happens and what is happening is that after 18 months of business advance, the unemployment rate is still above five per cent. In the third place, the news stories have Ignored the reasons why hundreds of thousands of men and women who were scheduled to be in the work force now aren't in it. Here are three major reasons why. 1. The "disappearance" of many adult women in the words of a U. S. Labor Dept. manpower expert I checked, "the most important deviation from what we expected." Abruptly, the persistent postwar return of women in the 35-54 age brackets back to the labor force has slowed. Why? Is it because they can't get jobs In this sluggish economy? Is It because the women haven't the skills to fill the jobs available? Is It because so many have gone back to work that the movement is slowing naturally? The answer I received repeatedly to the questions was "we don't know, we're puzzled, we have to study this." 2. The "disappearance" of many young men In the 14-19 age group. The proportion in this group in the labor force was due to drop from 49 per cent in 1955 to under 48 per cent as of now; instead, it's down to 46.5 per cent. Why? Is it because the youngsters are responding to pleas to stay in school, get the skills to fill the jobs? Is it because they've tried to get jobs, have found it impossible without training, have lett the labor force to go back to schools? The suspicion is "yes" on both counts a result fine for the youngsters and our economy's future. 3. The "disappearance" of many men over 62 and over 65 at a rate "far faster than anyone foresaw." The projection was thai by 1975, the over-65 would account for 31 per cent of our labor force; the propor tion is down to 31.7 per cent now, already almost at the 1975 levell Why? Is it because as the jobs of many of these older people have been erased, they have dropped out to live on whatever pensions and savings they have? Is it because the steady rise in social security and pension protection permits them to retire voluntarily? "Probably both." The unexpected "shrinkage" in our labor force has good and bad aspects, is part of the "mixed bag" of statistics of of which President Kennedy and Labor Secretary Goldberg have been speaking. It's a befuddling picture, leaving an objective observer with a flat feeling. And that's what our economy is today "flat" at a high level. Value of Food Increased Under Stamp Program Washington-IUTO- The Agri culture Department conducted extensive survey of the effects of the food stamp pro gram in eight pilot areas be fore the administration or dered it expanded to 25 addi tional areas in 18 states. The findings indicate that: -Food stamp families made significant increases in the value of food used after they started participating. More than 80 per cent of this in crease was accounted for by animal products meat, poul try, fish, milk, and eggs-by fruits and vegetables. Better Diets Recipients of food coupons have better diets than similar low income families not par ticipating in the program. But they still do not eat as well as higher income groups. -Retail food store sales, measured In dollars, increased after the Inauguration of the program-an average of 8 per cent in the same stores sur veyed. -Both small and large stores attracted a reasonable proportion of food coupon sales. -Total food sales were high er in the survey stores in all pilot areas-meats by 7 per cent, produce by 8 per cent, and other grocery items by 9 per cent. Approval Expressed -In a survey of attitudes, more than 90 per cent of the participing families expressed approval of the program, pri marily because it offered a greater variety of food. Fam ilies of moderate and higher Income not eligible for the program felt that low-income families should be enabled to obtain more and better food and approved of the food cou pon approach. Virtually all of the retailers liked the pro gram. So did the majority of local welfare workers and administrators. Prog Twirling ram of Baton Scheduled A 5 A one-hour program of ba ton twirling titled "Girls' Dream" will be shown to the public at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15, Parks and Recrea tion Director Robert L. Ha worth said today. The program will feature about 120 students who took part in baton twirling classes this summer at part of the city's recreation program. Dayle Nesheim, baton In structor, will direct the pro gram, which will be held in Hawthorne park, Hr worth said. Extra Work Made Easy! RENT Adding Machine Typewriter Calculator VOIGHT'S 8th t Grape 772-4100 DOWNTOWN what's new from GENERAL ELECTRIC THE GENERAL ELECTRIC AUTOMATIC TOOTHBRUSH B Atfnt 15 88 . Gives Cleaner Teeth and Gums than. You Get Brushing by Hand Most people do not brush well enough or Ioiir enough. General Electric research has answered this problem with the new Auto matic Toothbrush, with built-in brushing iction that cleans and polishes the teeth as it refreshes the gums. Scientifically selected bristles penetrate between the teeth, reach ing difficult places that are usually missed by ordinary hand brushing. At the same time you get healthful care of the gums. The automatic toothbrush comes in i com plete unit including a battery-powered handle safe, cordless with handy recharg ing holder; four snap in brushes in personal pastel colon. The whole family will enjoy this method of brushing, especially the chil dren. Quality engineered for long life. Ask your dentist about it. Reg. 19.95 NEWBERRYS DOWNTOWN same type will cure. Today the surgeon often performs what is called a urethro-vesi-cal suspension which can per manently cure about 85 per cent of the incontinent pa tients. The impression left on me by Dr. Symmonds' article is that when a man devotes his life to one small field of sur gery, and after years of this type of work still feels that he wishes he knew much more about the subject, a person who needs such surgery had better go to the expert. He is the man most likely to do a good job. Emphysema should be treat ed in its early stages, and you should be acquainted with its symptoms. Dr. Alvarez is in formative on this disease in his booklet, "Pulmonary Em physema - (A Comman Cause of Shortness of Breath.)" To obtain your copy, send 23 cents and a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Al varez, Dept. MMT, The Regis ter and Tribune Syndicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Valley Residents Are Contest Winners Four valley persons were winners in The Gales Tire Jamboree national contest, Bud's Tire Exchange, Inc., Medford, has been notifed. Winners are Vernon L. Fraysher, 2035 Sunset dr., who won a deluxe portable television set; and Roscoe T. Arent, bov 118B, Eagle Point; I. M. Culburth, 2055 Linden lane, Medford, and Carl G. Spencer, 600 Melody lane, Ashland, each won a six-tran-istor radio. WTTTTWirnilii r America's Preferred Bourbon 495 Vi Or. THE OLD CROW DISTILLERY CO.. 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