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W4 How's Your IQ? Oxford Dictionary Supports West's Recollection By DICK WEST Washington - lOT - In the long run, I'm convinced, life's little irritants are more dam aging to nervous our, 's- terns than the niajor shocks and fissures. A trifle that has been gnawing away at me, making Swiss cheese of the fabric of my Weil composure, daily news- paper feature called How's Your IQ?" I can't just dismiss this question as rhetorical, reply tine, thank you. How's J jours?" and go on about my f f ' "ave to siop ana.eignt on the nose lake a little test that it in-1 . I SOCIAL SECURITY TAX BOOST TO HIT NEXT WEEK One week from tomorrow just about every employee, em ployer and self-employed individual in the United States - will be hit in the pocketbook. On Jan. 1, your Social Security lax is going up for the ninth lime since the Social Security . system came into being in the late 1930s. The tax on you, as an employee, will rise from the present 3-' per cent to 3-5s per cent on your first $4,800 of earn ings. You maximum tax will increase from $150 this year 1o $174 next year. The tax on you, as an employer, will go . tip an identical amount. The combined tax will be 7-' per cent, up a full 1 per cent, and will pull out an additional $2 billion from employees and employers in I9B3. ; The tax on you, as a self-employed person, will rise from the present 4.7 per cent to 5.4 per cent on your first $4,800 of income. Your maximum tax will climb from $225.60 this year to $259.20 next. If you earn considerably more than $4,800, your take-home pay will be substantially reduced in the early months of 1963. For instance, if your income is $200 a week, you'll pay $10.80 a week in social security tax alone until you have paid up your tax for 1963. What's more, under the law passed last year the com- bined employer-employee tax is due to rise again to 8-'t per cent in 1966 and to S-'A per cent in 1968. On self-employed persons, it's due to rise to 6.2 per cent in 1966 and to 6.9 per cent in 1968. And this doesn't consider what rales might be set if new benefits ere voted. (If Congress had passed Medicare which would have been financed through Social Security taxes the rate would have been boosted . to 9-34 per cent.) Even the most violent anti-welfare conservative no longer argues about Social Security bentfits. These taxes are help ing millions of Americans to be financially independent in their older years. The system has become a major prop ' tinder our economy because the benefits paid to so many millions are immediately and regularly spent day after day. While we who are now paying (lie taxes are providing bene fits to others, eventually we loo will receive benefits. As the taxes have jumped, so have the benefits. In 1940-49. the maximum an individual worker retired at 65 could get was $45.60 a month. Now, the minimum is $40. the maximum is scheduled to go to $127 in 1963, and widows with young children can get much more. Still, it's a heavy tax, and the rates already in the law well may be approaching the limits taxpayers will stand for. We're carrying an income tax load which is obviously a drag on our entire economy. We're struggling under a mount ing burden of state and local taxes. We'll not retreat on Social Security taxes. Willi our soar ing population and expanding needs for hundreds of state and local services, there's scant hope that the load will be eased at these government levels. What's the way out, then? The way out is through across-the-board, loplo-botlom cuts in federal income taxes on individuals and corporations the reductions President Kennedy has once more pledged he'll fight to get from Congress in 1963. By increasing our lax burden when we so much need relief, the Social Security tax hike will add urgency to Kennedy's request. This table will put the maximum Social Security tax you'll soon be paving in perspective. (Combined rate is for employers and employees.) - Period Combined Wage-earner Employer Self-employed lax rate payment payment payment J937-49 2T- $30 $30 None 1950 3 $45 $45 None 1951-53 31-; $54 $54 SB1 :954 4 $72 $72 $108 1955-56 4 $84 , $84 $!26 J957-5R 4'-r; $94 50 $94 50 $141.75 J959 5"; $120 $120 $180 J9K0-61 6"; $144 $144 $216 1962 li'i'; $150 $150 $225.60 J963 R5 7'1r; $174 $174 $259 20 1966-67 8' 4 $198 $198 S297 60 19B8-? 9',r; $222 $222 $331.20 If a 10 per cent social security rate is, as many experts believe, the limit taxpayers will stand for under our coun try's present tax structure, where do we go from here? Where we go is to federal income lax reduction .... Roof Damage Losses . . . On Christmas Eve Caused by Reindeer Hooves and Sled Runners will be promptly paid under Extended Coverage by this office. r y. IN at VI aVaW. F. R. Brennan, C.I. A. r - 1 B 11 -J MEDFORD INSURANCE Agency PHONE 773-7343 27 NORTH HOLIY STREET of Grundy's Demise troduccs. The test comes in 10 parts and in order to be rated as a "memory genius" you have to average 9 or ID correct answers dailv. This is what has been galling me. I have had many near misses, getting 7 or 8 right for a "very superior" rat ing, plus a whole flock of 5 or 6's for an "excellent." But I have never been able to measure up as a genius. If 1 remember the name of the chief mountain range of Mexico (Siena Madrc), I am certain to stumble over the relationship between Lou is XIV and Louis XV (grand father and grandson). And so on. A year or so ago I hit in quiz which included the fol- Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. "?r A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! lowing: "Solomon Grundy was born on Monday; on what day did he die according to the nursery tale?" My answer was "Satur day," but according to the published answer list "Sun day" is correct. This kept me out of the genius circle. 1 had a feeling that some thing was amiss, but I bit my lip and accepted the decision as manfully as I could. This week, by coincidence, the same question turned up again. I again answered "Sat urday," "Sunday" was again lisled as correct and I again fell short of genius. This time, however, I re fused to go down without a struggle. I got a copy of the Oxford dictionary of nursery rhymes and looked up the complete text of "Solomon Grundy." It was as I remembered it from my own nursery days. "Solomon Grunday, born on a Monday, christened on Tuesday, married on Wednes day, took ill on Thursday, worse on Friday, died on Sat urday, buried on Sunday. This is the end of Solomon Grundy." The Oxford distionary, by its own admission, is an au thority in this field. It claims to have assembled between the covers "almost everything so far known about nursery rhymes." I contend that its verifica tion of my answer regarding Grundy's demise entitles me to be recognized as geniuo-for-a-day event though I h e authors of "How's Your IQ?" may dissent. Drop in Infectious Diseases, Nutrition Aids Human Growth By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York (I'PII Newborn babies are no larger than they were a hundred years ago yet school children and even adults are taller and h e a v icr. To ' exDlain this phenome i non, one of the world's most respect ' ed authorities dmos smich on h u m a n physiology offered a two-part theory. Nutrition has improved, said Dr. R. A. McCance. "But this is not the whole story." During the past century there have been remarkable de clines, in infectious diseases. You can't prove anything in people themselves, Mc Cance conceded. But if you keep pigs, dogs, rats and many other animals on "a high nutritional plane" from birth onward and if at the same time you prevent bac teria and viruses from infect ing them, you get a stepped up yrowtli rate. You can easily believe the principle applies to people, he said. Many Mysteries There are still many mys teries for science to explain in human nutrition. For in stance, he continued, the nu trition of a human being be- Portlander, Son Led lo Safety Portland - WH A research engineer and his 3-year-old son were led safely from For est Park early today after being lost for about 1 1 hours in .subfrcczing weather. Daniel Gibson Jr. and his son. Daniel, became lost in the park made treacherous by Columbus day windfall. Portland police had combed the areas trails since dark Sunday for the pair. Mrs. Gib son had called police when the two failed to appear at a rendezvous. A fire was spotted about 1 a.m. today and members of the Mountain Rescue council went through the dark under brush to guide the lost pair to safety. More than 30 persons wrre searching when word of the rescue came. Bloodhounds were also being used. Gibson said he had been in the park alioiit four hours when it became dark. He started a campfire and waited rather than try to get out through the dense fallen lim ber left from the Oct. 12 storm. Bullet Hofes Found in Telephone Equipment Bridal Veil UPI' Five bullet holes were found in three pieces of Western Telephone company-owned e q u i pment here Sunday night. Multnomah county sheriff's deputies said the shooting was the reeult of "vandalism " The equipment, housed in mrlal cabinets, was located jus off a road. MtDFOHD Dennis the Menace ' Hey; its almost Seven People Circuit Court Llewellyn Ford, 44, of 836 Morrison ave., Medford, of Oregon Bookkeeping Service, appeared in Jackson county circuit court Friday afternoon on charges of embezzlement by agent. The case was continued to allow Ford to consult with his attorney. He is charged with embezzling $12,959 from tore it is born "consists of amino acids, glucose, a limit ed amount of protein but ap parently no fat." Once a human being is born it goes onto a milk diet and "all milks contain fat, some nearly 50 per cent, and this probably reaches the blood stream partly as triglycerides but how it is metabolized is by no means clear." Triglycer ides are incriminated in ar tcry-hardening. But regardless of the "nu tntional plane," the large newborn "tends to become the large child and often an obese one." It's true that undcr-nutri-tion slows the growth rale of children, he said, but It is done in a very particular way. The body parts which have "the greater structural stabil ity," that is. the bones, get priority on the limited intake or nutrients. "Growth in height is in terfered with less than growth in weight," he said. Obesity Harmful There is no question that a high nutritional plane is ben eficial but "if it leads to obes ity in an adult man It short ens the length of time he Is likely to live to enjoy it." On the other hand, under nutrition can be advanta geous. He cited scientific experi ments, including his own. which showed that "if rats were subjected to prolonged and severe undcr-nutri lion from the time of weaning, many of Ihem fell by the way side from the hazards involv ed, hut the remainder lived up to three times as long as the normal rat." McCance has been a world figure in science for many years. He is professor of ex- pcrimenlal medicine at the University of Cambridge. He rxprcss-cd his newest views in a recent lecture. 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Pleads Guilty Allen Fredrick Harris, 27, of 240 Hershey St., Ashland, pleaded guilty to obtaining benefit by false pretenses. He was placed on probation and imposition of sentence sus pended for three years. He was ordered lo make restitu tion on all bad checks issued in Jackson and Douglas coun ties within six months. The case of Tommy J. Bum stead, 26, of 1139 Morrow rd., was continued to allow him to enter a plea to charges of is suing checks without suffici ent funds in the bank. He is scheduled to appear in courl at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 2. William Robert Eberhardt, 516 South Riverside ave., Medford, was sentenced to 2'4 years in the Oregon state penitentiary on charges of re ceiving and concealing stolen property. He had pleaded guilty earlier to the charges. Steven Lee Fowler, 1136 Court si., Medford, pleaded guilty to charges of larceny from a person. A pre-senlcncc report was ordered. BLM Job Projects Employ 149 Men Portland -iliPli- The bureau of land management said to day its two new projects to supply jobs for the unemploy ed currently have provided 28,724 man hours of work at a cost of $167,00. The BLM said 62 people presently are working on the Klamath project and 87 on the Southwest Oregon project in the Roseburg-North Bend Coos Bay area. Both are conservation proj ects. The work so far has in cluded trail and road improve ment, site clearance, construc tion of recreation facilities, limber stand improvement and forest thinning. "ml '1 -""ia mm nip mp PER YEAR PER $100 Vt DOWN ANO UP TO 10 MONTHS TO Pr EXAMPLE: Ynu iwlwt a n w priced il j.;ou Your lrH-ln i worth sflOO. . N nu borrow tl .MIO for .10 mo. N mir flirt I hunk lonn pnvmr-n'S re onlv Vio 7.S er month. I. M.dlorel 701 I. Jackion it. Dotjut Valltr 1109 Court it. HQS LB cor m 4 tar & ii i m m 50 OREGON Post-War Era Sees Boom in Home Owners New York -UW- America has switched from a nation of renters to one of homeowners in the years of the post-war housing boom and it's "dollars and sense" that worked the change. With living conditions at new highs and real income continuing steadily upward, urban Americans have been earning more, buying more and investing more In home ownership, notes H. Dorn Stewart, president of Allied Chemical's Barrett division, a leading building materials producer. Conditions Credited Contacted during the Na tional Association of Home Builders convention in Chica go, Stewart said prosperous business conditions in recent years in which the net in come of the average family living in a large city or its suburbs has been hiked by more than 20 per cent have made it possible and practical for most families to own their own homes. He cited a recently pub lished 10-ycar study by the federal bureau of statistics which indicated an increase of real purchasing power after cost of living expenses and taxes in the seven key metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, San Francisco and Washington. Percentage of increased In come after taxes and cost of living deductions was approx imately 15 per cent in San Francisco, 20 in Atlanta, Wash ington and New York, 23 In Chicago, 17 for Detroit and 44 per cent for Boston. Average family Income, aft er taxes, in the cities studied ranged from $5,400 in Atlan ta to around $6,870 in Boston. "By applying the real es tate rule-of-thumb that a fam ily generally can afford a home that costs about two and one-half times its net in come, the 'average' family in Atlanta could afford a home costing about $13,500 and the average' Boston family one costing about $17,175," Stew art said. Value of $12,500 The median value of $12,- 500 for all U. S. homes, how ever, is below either the At lanta or Boston figures which, Stewart said, helps explain why so many Americans now own, rather than rent, their homes. cial ability, the Barrett execu cial ability, the Barret execu tive said, new styles, male rials and building techniques developed in the last 15 years have helped make home own ing more desirable. For in stance, he said, while 20 years ago only one of every three new homes was properly in- Mutual Broadcasting System A Starting tomorrow, Christmas Day, K-SHA will affiliate with the Mutual Broadcasting System ... the world's largest network. In addition to K-SHA' fine musical presentations we will now offer lop network newt with outstanding personalities such at Fulton lewis Jr., Weitbrook Van Voorhil, Cedric Foster, Del Sharbutt, Bill Stern and Van Patrick, among others. K-SHA will bring you outstanding newt presentation! tuch at "The World Today," "Capital Alignment" and "The Big lie" . . . plus many other feature programs from Mutual, at well at Pacific Adult Radio Net work'! preientalion of luch outitanding ihowi at "Inside Booki," "Great Momenti In Sportt" and "The Many Facet of Jan." Tomorrow, Chrittmas Day, K-SHA will air teveral fine Christmat Program! Including "The Mettiah," "Chriilmai Fantasy" and olhen, wllh K SHA't Beautiful Mutic. Remember K-SHA 860 for the world't finetl mulic ... Ihe world't large!! network bringing you the fine jf newi presentation! with newi from the Capital of the world . . , .il on K SHA . . . MEDfORD'S OUTSTANDING MUSIC AND NEWS STATIONI ALWAYS good littening on K-SHA 8601 Merry Christmas. Quality Music Radioactive Plutonium, More Valuable Than Gold, By JOSEPH L. MYLER Washington -IITD- There's stuff far more precious than gold out there in space. In another decade tl'-rc'll be enough of it in orbit to tempt the most avaricious space pirate ever conceived by science ficlioncers. This dream stuff of hypo thetical orbiting hijackers is radioactive plutonium-238, a non - explosive form of the man-made fissionable metat used in nuclear bombs and re actors. $450,000 a Pound It is known in scientific shorthand as PU-238. but it is nothing to turn up one's nose at. It is worth $450,000 a pound. It is about 800 times more valuable than gold. Right now nearly seven ounces of PU-238, worth $190,000, is orbiting the earth at regular intervals aboard the Navy navigational satel lites Transit 4-A and Transit 4-B. In another decade, accord ing to projections by space officials, nearly $133 million worth of PU-238 will be or biting the earth or flying among the planets. PU-238 has gone into space because it is an ideal fuel for easily-shielded, light - weight, long-lasting power units need ed to keep satellite instru ments and transmitters oper ating in a hostile environ ment where most other sources of electricity quickly fail. Transmutation of Elements It is manufactured in atomic reactors by nuclear alchemists who have succeed ed - where the gold-hungry alchemists of the Middle Ages failed - in transmutation of elements. Natural .uranium is the ul timate source of all orms of Plutonium, including the rare PU-238. There are two nu clear processes by which PU 238 may be produced. Each involves repealed transmuta tions in a nuclear reactor plus tedious and expensive chemi cal separation processes. Dr. Robert E. Eilson, a member of the Atomic Ener gy Commission, has estimated the cost of PU-238, thus pro duced, at $1,000 a gram or $450,000 a pound. This com pares with $560 a pound for gold and nearly $24,000 a pound for fissionable urani um. Not being easily fissionable, Pu-238 is useless for weapons or power plant reactors. Bui its radioactivity generates heat which may be converted into electricity. It is long-lasling only half of its radioactivity is used up in sulatcd, today eight of every 10 homes built are insulated with mineral wool or other quality heat saving materials. 'Presenting . CHRISTMAS from from MONDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1962 90 years - and it does not emit penetrating rays which would require heavy shield ing. It is more durable than solar energy cells because it is not affected by the radia tions encountered in space. No Moving Parts It operates in the dark and cold of space as well as in light. It needs no moving parts to generate small currents. Transit 4-A, launched June 29, 1961, carried aloft about 3.4 ounces of PU-238 in a 2.7- watt generator weighing near ly five pounds. Transit 4-B, launched Nov. 15. 1961, car ried a similar unit. This one stopped working after last Aug. 2 because of a circuit failure. But the Transit 4-A generator was still going : strong nearly 18 months after launch. In each ca the precious fuel load would remain intact until the satellite, after a life time of years, re-entered the atmosphere and was vapor ized by air friction. The cost per watt of elec tricity produced continuously by large coal-fired power sta tions on earth is about 13 cents. The cost per wall of electricity generated by PU-238-ftieled units aboard space craft is $44,300. Expensive Electricity - This puts' the power price of the 2.7-watt transit satellite gegerators at $118,610 each. A 25-watt PU-238 generator is. nearly ready for another Health Information Center Established Corvallis-IUPh-A health in formation center has been es tablished at Oregon State uni versity to assist health educa tion teachers in junior and senior high schools. Formation of the service was announced today by Dr. Benjamin L. 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Whatever it is, if space pirates have come into existence by then, it will well be worth hijacking. Rep. Edith Green Files for Divorce Portland - 0)PD - Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) has filed for divorce from her husband, Arthur, in Multnomah coun ty circuit court. She charged in the divorce complaint that her husband had been guilty of personal indignities. Mrs. Green sought and was granted a ) :al sep aration from her husband more than a year ago. The divorce complaint asks custody of one son, Richard Allen Green, 20. The couple also has another son, James, 28. TAX WORK MADE EASY Rent or Leaie Adding Machine Typewriter Calculator VOIGHT'S 8rh 9. Grapt 772-4100 Easy Parking Green Stampt Gifts Under $coo Pacific Adult Radio Network YOU Community Interest 4
