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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1963)
s- . 3 ! v tlT TW sttKfMft ff!QMOMY? O.I In view of the way the ward in IMS, wny ao we neea a tax cm: A.i In order to keep it moving atrongly upward in 1964 ao we'll create enough jobs workera and put our Idle plants Q.I Would a tax reduction Of Jan. 1. Hot. be aare , coniiaering mc orignicr economic background? A.i Probably, for the economy is perceptibly gathering momentum on the upside. In fact, the odds arc increasing that Congress may decide to nlng Jan. 1. O.i What might these changing circumstances do to the fll.0 billion budget deficit projected tor the year starting July 1? A.: Reduce it. The government's tax take is likely to rise above original (estimates because profits and paychecks are rising above original estimates. The expenditure side of the budget is due for some slashes. If tax reductions do not take effect until 1984, this timing also will cut the estimated deficit. In Washington and in major financial centers across the nation, there is rising confusion about the timing as well as the details of the administration s tax rcaucuon-rciorm pro gram the White House's primary legislative target for 1963. The situation was confused enough before the economy began to perk up. From the start, the President's reform proposals were "poisonous" and most of them are dead. His submission of a multi-billion dollar hike in spending along with a substantial lax reduction progrem has arous ed widespread concern about our record of budget deficits, now comes this economic rebound. Business Is raising its plans to invest in new factories and equipment and the lag in this vital area of spending has been a key explanation for the sluggishness in our economy since 1(57. Consumers are apending freely for goods and non-goods and every new survey emphasizes they intend to continue' spending freely. As the economy enters its 27th month of advance, it Is getting renewed vigor. Why, then, in the face of certain budget deficits and an Increasing public debt, should Congress vote tax reductions for Individuals and corporations? Here are four basic reasons why: (1) Despite the fact that business Is increasing its invest ment! la new plants and equipment, the record $40.1 billion total. Just projected by McGraw-Hill for 1963 still is "short" of What ft should be If we are to keep our industries fully competitive. Instead of running around 7 per cent of our Grass National Product, Douglas Greenwald, McGraw-Hill's chief economist, figures It should be around 7v4 per cent which would raise the 1983 total to 54 1 billion and greatly spur our economy's growth. Businessmen admit that over $1 billion of their 106344 spending directly results from the Investment Incentives they were given last year in the form of liberalised depreciation rulea and a tax credit against purchase of new plants and equipment. Now tax cuts would keep them Increasing their Investments and this would be great news for alt of us. (I) Good as the economy's performance is, It still is not good etsMujh to cut Into our unemployment rate and then Into Idle plant capacity In many of our Industries. Consum ers will boost their buying of goods if more dollars arc left In their pockets. Corporations will boost their Investment In plants!! It their sales to consumers Increase and more dollars are left in their cash registers. A continuing upturn after 26 months of advance Is heartening, but the pace till is not strong enough. () Out tax structure Is obsolete, geared to war and Inflation rather than today's realities, and a drag on our growth. Were we in a recession, the cuts would ba urgent. As It Is, Congress can vol a program with deliberation and aaave us late a period of solid, sustained upturn. (4) Expectation of tax reductions has been a factor in the obvious improvement In confidence. Shelving the program could Jolt confidence, abort this new upswing. The fundamental argument for tax reduction always has been that It Is needed to spur our growth, create enough Sroftti and paychecks to provide the taxes to bring the udget into balance. The argument Is as valid today as ever. THE NATURAL DIET-AID THAT SIMPLY WON'T WEIGHT In duds healthful, refreshing Ournigold in your diet ... be sura of mora protein, vitamins, and minerals . . so necessary for good health. And, Ournigold has a low calorie content that keeps you slim the way nature Intended. Drink all you want. OumxgoM won't weight you down because it's specially designed for low-calorie diets. Pronounced Ourn-iee-gold, It's produced from famous Golden Guernsey Milk, the best milk money can buy. If you're counting calories, you can count on Ournigold oi a natural diet-aid. CALL TODAY Snider s Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER tU.yri.ht, Hill Srndic.te, Inc. U.S. economy is moving up or our mounting numbers of to use. effective not in 1963, but as schedule tax reductions begin MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. f I gsBBSBBs) x I t. TALL WINNER Marge Licdtke, 20, a secretary, has been named Miss Tall San Francisco. Miss Lledtke, who is five feet, 10 inches tall, will participate in the Miss Tall U.S.A. contest in San Fran cisco July 2-7. (UPI) Family Council Editor's Note: The Family Coun cil consists ot Judge, a psychia trist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor, and two writers. Each arUcle Is a summary or an actual case history. The Council reports on problems that have been dealt with by respon sible agencies and counselors. (Copyright 1SS3 General Features Corp.) Gay T. - Every time I mem- tlon serious study, she dis courages me. Lola C. - She has a good marriage and shouldn't risk It. Gay T. - I've always en joyed singing In amateur per formances, and believe I have some talent. Yet whenever I ask my sister lor tips o n turning professional she tells mo to slick to my pots and and pans. That's tunny advice from a woman whu has done Just the opposite and is a world - famous headllner to day. I've Just turned 40, my children are grown, my hus band approves. Only Lola throws cold water at mc. e Lola C.-Evcry woman must make a choice. Gay chose to forget about a career and concentrate upon her mar riage and family. She did a good Job of it. She has fi nancial security, a husband to take care of her, and a nice life. She's free to take sing ing lessons, go to shows. study languages. I, on the other hand, was hellbent for artistic success. Emotionally 1 m alone. A woman can t have it both ways. The Council: We've used Lola's private-life name. Her professional signature is flushed on theatre and TV signs regularly. We under stand her answer to her sis ter. -But we break it into two parts, and agree with only one. A woman can be "hell bent" in only one direction. Lola refers to the Intense, one-track application required for success in n highly com petitive field. She's right in saying that a marriage would quickly be starved during a w o m an' a uncompromising fiRhl for a career recognition. Marriage asks "equal" . . . But we disagree that a woman must stay in her original slot not when it begins to feel like a rut. Gays husband. more wisely than her sister, recognizes that marriage and children are not The Whole Story for Gay. There's an other chapter clamoring to be written. If Lola won't listen - can it be envy? Medford Unit Gets Superior Certificate Vancouver, Wash. - Hfl - Medford Army Reserve unit has received the Secretary of the Army superior unit cer tificate for training in 1961-62. Col. A. E. Blewett. com mander of the Oregon Reserve sector, made the announcement. The Medford unit is lh-.td- quarters ami Head quarters Co., 2nd Battalion. 4Hth In I Inntry Regiment, commanded ! oysterTreasuri: Thousand Oaks, Calif.-ilTt-! Housewife Mrs Charles Va : tencia was cleaining oysters I for her husband's dinner when she heard something I hard clatter in the pan. It h as a pearl later appraised by 'a local jeweler at $75. A MEDFORD. OREGON Correct Posture Week, May 1 to 7 May 1 through 7 is Cor rect Posture Week. Proclamations regarding the observance nave been issued by Oregon Gov. Mark O. Hat field and Medford Mayor James Dunlevy. Dr. Stanley G. Ricks, Grants Pass, Southern Oregon dis trict president of the Ore gon Association of Chiroprac. tic Physicians, explained that the week serves as a reminder that correct posture is a sign of good health and that good health is a strong contributor to the social and economic strength of the nation. In his proclamation. Mayor Dunlevy said that it is hoped that civic organizations, edu c a 1 1 o n a 1 institutions, and youth groups cooperate with the correct posture education al program of the chiropractic profesion in making the pub lic aware of the value of cor rect posture. No local activities are planned, Dr. Ricks explained, but a contest for Miss Posture Queen will be held in the state during the week. She will later compete for the title on the national level. Small Worlds Aroint! Us y Lynn W. Wstkins Bti Istnr Tribune Syndicate, 1I3 Man Must Marvel At Mysteries of Creation We all know mechanies who can tear apart a television set or an automobile or who can delve understanding!? into the complex workings of an elec tronic brain, but no one, ap parently, can tell exactly how, or why, a knee-hinge works In an Insect's leg that is smaller than a speck of dust. This ap pears more mystifying than how a machine works. The knee-hinge is only one of the many mysteries In Na ture. The more we ponder, the more we should realize how very limited our knowledge is, when measured against the magnitude of living things. Even our human ego must admit that the night itself is bigger than all the works of man put together. We must view with awe the regularity of the seasons; the morning, the day and even the rain that falls; the fluctuations of cold and warm air that cause the winds to blow. We know that rain is little more than the condensation of moisture, a simple funda mental fact, the law of heat ing, cooling and condensing, but it's marvelous just the same. We know, too, that those raindrops, falling through the atmosphere are carrying more than just wa ter. A Timid Look Timidly we look with be wilderment at the restless bosom of great waters and try to adjust our limited perspec tive to a thing of this magni tude and the complexity of the life that lives within it. Even mountains are not as inspiring, for in time they can be worn and eroded away, but still the waters of the seas will be intact. In the presence of the ocean, we should stand aghast, for the sea is eternal. Even the penetrating eye of the X-ray cannot explain the mysterious and silent changes that follow their measured course within the tissues of a worm as it changes its shape and character within the confines of a cocoon. Meta morphosis, we call it, but it's hard to understand the com plex process. The arrangement and growth of genes, and all the other peculiar things that change a fluid inside an egg to a living bird, Is rather con fusing. No thinking person can observe the result the birth of a living bird complete with all its facilities without wondering about the miracle of it. How Trail a Life How very frail a life glows within the tissues of a moth or a butterfly. How delicate and seemingly fragile, as though a light breeze could destroy it yet the creature lives, flies and is driven by a powerful force we call in stinct, a more compelling force titan a human mind can comprehend. Pretty difficult to think that the fluids inside an insect egg can separate and reorg anize themselves into nerus, legs, jaws, digestive organs and all the other parts that go to make up a living creature. But somehow or other it is all accomplished, effectively and silently. A microscope can show us a cell growing, multiplying and dividing, but it can't show us exactly how or why All these things and many more should amaze us Even if we think we have it all figured out. we might glance up into the night j sky or stand aghast at the edge of the sea. still pretty much a stranger to us. and I marvel at the profound mys tery of creation. The Medical IV l. j Iodine in the Blood People are sometimes puz zled because a "breathing test" for activity of the thy roid gland (the eland in the front of the neck which, when enlarged, is a groiter) show ed a decided i n a c t i vity, while the P. B. I. (or measuremen t of the "protein-bound-iodlne" in the blood) indicated a rie. cided overactivity. A number of these people tell me that their doctor, when faced with these con flicting reports, gave them pills of thyroid substance to take each day. Most of these people - almost all of them women - say that all the drug did was to make them jittery and very nervous. This means usually that the thyroid func tion was normal, and hence the medicine was not needed and not tolerated. If it had been needed, the woman would have felt immensely better as soon as she started taking it. Many readers ask. "But can the result of a laboratory test be wrong?" Of course it can; lab workers are human like the rest of us, and it is human to make mistakes. One of the sad features about modern medicine is that when we doc tors are given a laboratory re port that is fairly obviously erroneous, it does not occur to us to send the patient back for a check-up. We look on reports of laboratory tests as Holy Writ. But they aren't. Especially reports of P. B. I. measurements can easily be wrong because in this test the amount of iodine must be measured In thousandths of a thousandth of a gram (a gram Is a fourth of a teaspoonful). Obviously, only a well-trained chemist can hope to make such a measurement with accuracy. e '&sa 1 i 'HPPSflH&IBlrSi lb' HsW j' I 'W fa. .'LJ&j&zt Rsfcv "ssafJllsai I i tkmal'" Even t cabin cruiser ill sail easily up the steepest hills behind this new 198-hp V-8 . . . ruggedly V-8 engineered l;om the wheels up, to handle the extra thrust ol V-S power. Special Roundup ' Emeritus Consultant In Medicine Mayo Clinic Emeritus Protestor or Medicine Mayo Clinic (Reamer and Tribune syndicate, IMS) A few years ago, I saw a woman whose physicians had been much puzzled by con flicting reports of her "basal metabolism" and her P. B. I. When I had these tests re peated in a laboratory run by men I trust, both of the re ports were found to be within normal limits, and Litis ex plained why the woman could not take thyroid extract with out getting jittery. When I had a long talk with her, I found that her illness was due to such things as a hereditary tendency to a distressingly nervous bowel -now kept comfortable with codeine - a husband danger ously ill with a bad heart at tack, and a poorly - adjusted daughter whose escapades kep. her mother in a constant state of anxiety. More information about thyroid gland irregularities is contained in Dr. Alvarez' book let. "Thyroid Troubles and Goiters." You may obtain a copy of the booklet by send ing 25 cents and a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your request for it to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. Dept. MMT, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Kennedy Urges Bond Purchases Washington -IUPI)- President Kennedy today urged every family to buy at least one government bond during the Treasury's freedom savings bond drive beginning May 1 and continuing through July 'Because each one of us has a personal responsibility to help preserve freedom and to build a just and enduring peace, I heartily endorse this drive and ask all Americans to enlist in the cause of free dom by buying savings bonds," the President said in special statement. Rambler brings you a great new V-8 ...and it costs less than many Sixes LEA MOTORS, 211 North Bortlett Savings Now During Your Rambler Dealer's TRADE PARADE ! Choked by Own Choker U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Hosts Washington Press By DICK WEST Washington - ilTt - Good i solid citizen types who come I here to fill high positions of- ten go through a difficult pe riod of adjust ment. Getting acclimati zed to life in t h e capital isn't easy under the best of c o n d i tions. for some, it is west a series of traumatic experiences, not the least of which is meeting the Washington press corps. Such was the case of Ladd Plumley, an estimable Wor cester, Mass., insurance exec utive who has just completed a year of service here as pres ident of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Plumley's term of office ex pires this week and as a part ing gesture he gave a lunch for a group of us newsmen who either had written some thing about his tenure or, as the invitation said, had "threatened to." It was a most pleasant af fair and was capped oft by a short speech by the host entitled "Plumley's farewell to the troops." As a sociological document, casting insight upon the trib ulations of public figures, I think it ranks with another Plumley speech entitled "Cli ches my grandfather taught me.'' There are, Plumley told us, "two truly tense moments that came to all Chamber of Com merce presidents. "The first is when he meets the press and tries to answer their questions as frankly as good taste and a decent sense of responsibility will permit. "The second is when he tries to explain to his friends that he didn't really say it that way." These denials, Plumley add ed, "take a little more skill" when the press conference is televised. Plumley recalled that- "I made my Washington debut early last year before the National Press club, where I outlined the chamber's po sition on such noncontrover- Here's tbe kind of brand-new, super elficicnt V-8 you would expect from Rambler, the car that's famous for bringing you the Best of Both in performance and economy. You can travel V-8 style on a ((-cylinder budget. 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"That appeared to satisfy him but it left mc perma nently scarred - sort of chok ed by my own choker. To this dav, I have not had the cour age to wear a hard collar in i public. 1 3 marvelous variety of gifts to titillate her every whim. the Colonial House at Trowbridge Electric Main at Fir New Rambler Classic V-S Four-Door 770 Se original buyer owns his Rambler. Sec and drive this great new Rambler Classic V-8 today at your Rambler dealer, Based on manufacturers' sugeeMPxl nru I prices. American Motors Dedicate J: Ex Check These Rambler V-8 Estra Values: New exclusive all - electronic Alternator Voltage Regulator New bigger Double Safety Brakes (separate systems front, rear) Cushioned Acoustical Celling ol molded fiber glass cuts road noise 30 e Reclining Bucket Seats, option. RAMBLER 6-V8 Winner of Motor Trend Magazine Award "CAR OF THE YEAR" 30, 10R3 at Luncheon In many ways, I retard this as the Washington pre? s corps' number one accomplish ment." Girl Given Parole To Enter University Nashville. Tenn. - apt - correspondence course coed was given a parole from pris on Monday so she could at tend the University of Ten nessee. The state parole board granted the freedom request of Sarah Jeanett Johns, 22, who was sentenced in 105!) i(, 10 years imprisonment 'or luring a man from a bar so two soldiers could rob him. Miss Johns said she had earned 12 college credits through correspond er.:-a courses in her cell and the university said it would ac- cept her could gel application if sho i parole.
