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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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