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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
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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 ....
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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.
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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.
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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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In other court action, Jake
Albert Toews, 20, Prospect,
was sentenced to 2'.i years in
Ihe Oregon State Correctional
institution on charges of bur
glary not in a dwelling. He
had pleaded guilty to break
ing into a Medford garage last
January.
Paulette Bone, 15 Amy st
Central Point, pleaded guilty
lo charges of forging a check,
She was released on her own
recognizance to await the fur
ther order of the court and at
the direction of the slate
board of parole and proba
tion. 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
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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-
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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
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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
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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. Simmoi.s, Salem,
Department of Education and
Dr. C. L. Anderson, OSU
chairman of hygiene and cn
viromental sanitation.
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transit satellite to be launch
ed in 1963. At the $44,300 a
watt figure, this i eans an
investment of $1,107,500 per
satellite for atomic electricity.
By 1972, it has been esti
mated, there will be need in
space for PU-238 generators
capable of producing a steady
output of 3,000 watts. Costs
may have gone down by then.
But by present standards the
1972 investment would be
$132,900,000.
The AEC refuses to esti
mate the weight of PU-238
aboard these generators of
the future. 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.
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