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MONDAY. AUGUST 11. 1M3
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Tho Medical Roundup
by
iMtriMU ConiolUnt la Matlelnt
Maya rutae
Baurttw Prolmar of M4mu
Maya Clinic
(Rafisur aai Triknn Ijttleiu,
IMlt
thildrta Wh Fail at School
I Because o many mothers
write asking what can be done
far a difficult and possibly
111 cmid wno
is falling , at
school, I was
interested in
the report by
R. W. Delsher,
M.D., C. O.
Cressey and
T. D. TJossem,
Ph.D., of their
study of some
Alvare HUOCOU" wiiu
ware failing in a high school.
Eleven of these boys and 1
stir! said they weren't Inter
ested in school work; they
were. 'bored and' indifferent,
Six boys and three girls ad'
mittcd that they disliked
school and they disliked most
4dults.
.
food Prices for
list Half of Year
to Be Unchanged
'Washington - flirt - The
housewife should plan to
spend about aa much for food
In the last half of the year as
the did during the first half
and get . about the; same
amount. '; ' ,
, The Agriculture Depart
ment, in a review of the na
tional food situation, said re
tail food prices for the last
Half of 1983 are expected to
remain, on the average, about
the same as they were during
the first half.
t Retail food prices in ' the
f)rst half rose about l'a per
cent above those of a year
earlier. '
Meat prices, the depart
ment said, are not expected to
follow last year's strong up
turn In the final quarter of
the year. Prices of fruits and
Vegetables likely will decline
seasonally from mid-year but
remain above a year earlier,
Demand Supported
'.The department said gen
(rally rising level of business
' expenditures and . consumer
incomes in the first half of
M03 supported the continued
strong demand for food. Food
expenditures in 1M2 totaled
$73.6 billion, up 3.8 per cent
from 1981. For the first half
qf 1983, the increase was est
ijnated at 3 per cent above a
year earlier.
I The department said total
use of food in 1983 likely wiU
rise around 2 per cent from
1962. A small increase in food
consumption per capita Is an
ticipated. Per capita consump
tion of beef In 1983 may be
UP 4 per cent, and consump
tion of chicken may be up
even more. Declines are an
ticipated on a per capita basis
in consumption of fish, fruit,
and eggs. s.;. ,
DEGREES RECEIVED
i Eugene - mro - The Univer
sity of Oregon summer grad
uation class of 5S9 received
degrees at the second annual
s(immer commencement exer.
cites Saturday.
Several of these youngsters
had already had a run-in with
the juvenile ' authorities. Be
cause of several misdemean
ors, most of them had been
on nrobation a number of
times. The attitude of many
of them was that of defiance;
they were against discipline
of any kind, and to them any
order from a parent or teacn
er was an insufferable insult,
An interesting point is that
these were .not stupid chil
dren; only 10 of them had
an IQ below 100. If they had
wanted to. they could have
graduated from high school
The trouble with many was
that they read so slowly and
poorly that it was no fun
as it is for so many very
bright children. Children who
cannot read easily find school
work so uninteresting and
boring and difficult that they
tend to drop out.
As many experts say, al
though most of our people
are "literate,? in the sense
that they CAN read, they
read with such difficulty that
they can never enjoy even
the "funnies," or a movie
magazine. They would rather
sit on the front porch.' What
is sad is that so many of
these non-readers can be only
day laborers, and they so hale
this life' that they soon take
up criminal activities the
only; , ones that 4 are left to
them. ;v:;;
Eight of the students who
were having troubles needed
psychiatric help, and one even
needed to be put in a mental
hospital. Of each 10 students
who dropped out of school
three were girls. ' Some of
these girls settled down; they
got married, and they became
good mothers. Five boys who
dropped out went Into t'ae
Armed Forces and did well;
three just sat around at home,
doing nothing. One boy who
was expelled from school soon
had two stretches In jail for
felonies. Like most criminals,
he refused to see a psychia
trist. He could not be bother
ed. 111! Influtnsa Virus
years ago it was discovered
that 'the terrible virus which
caused hundreds of thousands
of deaths in this country In
1918, died out in human be
ings, but it could still be
found in swine. The disease
kept' flaring up in such ani
mals every fall. According to
Dr. Richard E. Shope, of the
Rockefeller Institute, swine
has a "lung-worm" which car
ries virus, and the lung-worm
gets It from the earth-worms
which are eaten by the swine.
The farmer is concerned about
this because pigs that are af
fected by the 1918 Influenza
virus cannot be fattened; z
per cent of them die, and the
pregnant sows abort.
Few laymen who are not
farmers realize how often a
disease which affects us hu
man beings keeps living in
a "reservoir" In cattle and
swine,' or perhaps in some
wild animal. For instance;
rabies (hydrophobia) is now
being kept going by foxes,
coyotes, skunks, and bats.
INSPECTS EQUIPMENT Soviet Technici- tion system to be installed for use by the
an V. A. Novikov, shown above in this pic- Soviet Premier hd the U.S. President,
ture taken' ' recently, inspects telegTaph ' which will be sent to Washington. (UPI) '
equipment, part of "hot line" communica- . ;
Small Expenditure May Avert
Nuclear War Diplomats Hope
Br DONALD H. MAY
United Prats International
' Washington-flJPD-Dlplomats
here hope that a ridiculously
small expenditure the Unit
ed States is now making
about $32,000 will some day
avert nuclear war.. '
This is about what It will
cost the U. S. government to
install Its . half of. the so-
called -- "hot - line" between
Washington and Moscow,
which will open' soon, per
haps .by Sept. 1.
The line will put Presi
dent Kennedy and Soviet
Premier Nikita ' Khrushchev
in . almost - instant communi
cation. It is to be used only
in times of grave crisis.
to avoid misunderstanding
which could lead to war.
The need . for it became
starkly apparent during last
October's - crisis over Soviet
missiles in Cuba. With their
defense establishments on nu
clear . alert, both leaders
found, -they could not, ex
change messages fast enough
through the usual diplomatic
channels.
Both at timet- resorted to
saying what they had to say
In public statements to be
transmitted by news agencies.
I At one point defense depart
ment sent instructions to U.S.
flee . units in the Caribbean
"en clalr" (hat Is, without
using codes soRussla
Mt
THIS
WEEK
The
FQ9 Honor
Flies nr
l - of...
I f" ' ' VtMrta S
I t" ''-' ' r WUAIAM s
f ! 1 wit I
would not misinterpret move
ments of vessels.
The story is told of one,
relatively small message sent
from Washington to Moscow
during the crisis. It was
drafted at the state depart
ment late at night, and a dip
lomatic official set out in a
car to take it to the Soviet
embassy. , . . , .
Message Dispttchad
When he arrived the build
ing wat dark,' and no one an
swered his , knock. With
visions of perhaps serious
misunderstanding following
if the message were not de
livered, the official banged
repeatedly, on the door in the
darkness. . Finally someone
answered and the message
was dispatched to Moscow.
The hot line called not
because the circuit win al
ways be open will ' be a
commercial, cable link, run
ning from Washington
through London, Copenha
gen, Stockholm and Helsinki
to Moscow.
'At each end -will be tele
printer machines equipped
with devices for automatic
encoding and decoding.
U.S.-Soviet negotiators
considered making it a tele
phone, circuit but rejected
this on grounds - voice mes
sages might -be more open to
misunderstanding than writ
ten ones.
..The- coding . system . will
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CLUB DUES VI .
(Thit it the tlxth in a tarlet of nlnt trtidet.) -
Every business and professional man who has until now
deducted club dues as. a business expense is up against brand
new deduction headaches.
Dues you pay to country clubs, golf clubs, athletic clubs,
hunting and fishing clubs in fact to any social or athletic
club - must meet two tests in order to be deductible.
First, you, the taxpayer, must use the club primarily,
meaning more than 30 per cent of the time, for the further
ance of your business.
Second, if the club is used over SO per cent for your busi
ness purposes, you can deduct only that portion of your dues
"directly .related" to the active conduct of your business.
This is the tough, "directly related'' test for deducting enter
tainment expenses which I described in the third column of
this series. Basically, the idea is that you have to talk busi
ness with your client or customer, not just have a general
goodwill discussion, in order to qualify as "directly related."
There's one Important exception to this, explained below.
Hare's how this rule would work out, assuming you
paid S800 in dues to belong to a country club. To deduct
any part of the $800, you would have to show that over
half the days you utad the club wtra for ordinary and
ntcettary business use. Suppose you cm prove (by your
diaries and such) that you were at the club SO days during
iht ytar and entertained business gutttt on 30 of them. .
You meet ttst one. Your records also prove that on IS of
the 30 business dtyt, you alto mat the second, "directly
related." test. You could lhertfore deduct 2SS0 or one
half your club dutt under tha new rules.
There Is an exception to the tough rule on deducting club
dues, as I said in a previous paragraph, and it is a distinctly
liberal exception.
If you treat your business associate or customer or client
to lunch or dinner in the club's restaurant or dining room,
you come under the famous "quiet meal'' rule, which doesn't
even require that you actually discuss business at the meal
This rule not only entitles you to deduct the cost of the meals
and drinks, but it also entitles you to treat the meal as a
"directly related" expense for which you can deduct an allo
cable portion of your club dues (assuming you use the club
more than SO per cent for business over the entire year).
While this is a liberal rule, the big catch to it now Is that
no one seems to know exactly how to arrive at the portion
of the year's dues which should be deductible because of
the "dlroctly related meals. .
For instance, suppose you wtre at the club only 20 timet
during tha year. On 10 of those days, you used it only for
a quiet meal with a business associate. On tha other 10
days you not only bad a quiet meal with your attocitle but
you also golfed with him. Assume each meal took two
hours, and each golfing session two hours. One wty ol
figuring how much of your 1800 dutt Is deductiblt tt di
rectly reltted would be on a daily basis. This would give
you 10 full and 10 halt dtyt at butinttt metlt or IS out of
20 dtyt. entitling you to deduct TS per cent of your S600
annual dutt. Anolhtr wty to figure Is on an hourly basis
which would give you 40 meal hours out of a total of SO
hours at the club and make only 861) per cent of your
club dutt dtductiblt.
Unless and until the Treasury speaks out, I suggest that
you use the method which will give you the larger deduction.
. Dues paid to Kiwanls, Lions, Rotary, Civitan or other
business clubs, or to bar. medical or other professional organ
izations need not meet the tough new tests for deduction.
They continue to be deductible as before, if they qualify as
ordinary and necessary business expenses, as they generally
will. '
Nexti Wives. L. ,4-
use perforated tapes on
which various groupings of
punched holes represent let
ters. The United States will
have a supply of master, each
with a different code. Rus
sia will have an identical set,
Each pair of master tapes
will be used only for one mes
sage, and then destroyed.
In addition to the land cir
cuit there will be a separate
radio telegraph circuit - run
ning from Washington to
Tangier to Moscow. This will
be used for service commu
nications and as a back-stop
in case the main system fails.
The U.S. hot line terminal
will be in the Pentagon's
communications center. If
Khrushchev sends a message
the first signal will be a
ringing of bells.
Translators on Hand
Moscow to Washington mes
sages will be in Russian;
Washington to Moscow mes
sages in English. Each side
will have translators on
hand. U.S. officials estimate
that, including translation
time, a short message could
be flashed to President Ken
nedy, wherever he is, within
minutes.
The origins of the hot line
are somewhat foggy. -A num
ber of private Americans, in
cluding a Sunday magazine,
have claimed they thought it
up. it, --I--
It apparently was first for
mally proposed by the Unit
ed States to the Russians as
one part of an April 18, 1962,
U.S. 1 general disarmament
plan. The Russians incor
porated the idea in a Soviet
general disarmament plan
July 16, ,1962.
The idea lay more or less
dormant among other pro
posals to reduce the "risk of
war" until after the Cuban
crisis when the United States
again pressed for it. Last
April Soviet disarmament ne
gotiators at Geneva accepted
it in principle. Technical
talks were held and the hot
line agreement was signed
between the United States
and Russia. In Geneva
June 20. . ,
MAN DROWNS
Gold Beach, Ore. (UPD
James Kelly, 37, Crescent
City, Calif., drowned while
swimming in the Rogue river
VA miles east of here Satur
day night.
More than one million cat
tle and one million sheep
graze in the range lands of
New Mexico. . . ,
Rotary District Governor To Speak
Dr. William C. Jones, Eu
gene, governor of district 511
of Rotary International,
world-wide service organiza
tion, arrives here Tuesday?
August 13, to visit the local
Rotary club, one of the 27
clubs in his district.
In addition to addressing
Medford Rotarians at their
meeting, he will confer with
Omar A. Bacon, president of
Rotary Club of Medford, and
other club officers on Rotary
administrative matters and
service activities.
Dr. Jones, who is dean of
administration at the Univer
sity of Oregon, is also directo
of the University's Institut
for College Teaching. He
spent fall term, 1962, at Har
vard university as Honorary
Littauer Fellow in the Gradu
ate School of Public Administration.
BREADBASKET BLOW
Paris -lliro - Frenchmen got
hit a financial blow in the
breadbasket today when tha
price of baguette, the long
thin loaf, went up about half
a penny. -
Sleep Like Log
Stop Stomach Gas in 5 Minutes
or yow back at drugiist Itk. BeHjnt
tablets with hot water at bed time. Real) in
bed Jrti" eyes" but. Bell-ans tablett i rel,e
stomach gas due to eicess stomach acid.
SetSrmf'l drugs. Send postal to Bell-ant.
Oraweburi. N. Y.. for liberal free sample.
Postmaster Is
Recommended
Congressman Robert B.
Duncan (D-Ore.) has recom
mended Stephen N.: -Black-more
to fill the existing va
cancy of postmaster at Cave
Junction. The Post Office de
partment requests a recom
mendation from Congressmen
before making an appoint
ment. The appointment must
then be approved by the U. S.
Senate.
Blackmore was the unani
mous choice for the postmas
ter's Job by all interested lo
cal groups, including the ex
ecutive committee of the Jose
phine County Democratic Cen
tral committee and the Illinois
Valley Democratic club. In
addition he was endorsed by
an overwhelming majority of
individual members of the
Josephine County Democratic
Central committee. The mat
ter has been pending for a
number of months.
The Civil Service Examina
tion for the position was held
In November of last year, but
the list of those eligible to be
appointed was . not received
by Congressman Duncan until
June 20.
Duncan said he has receiv
ed letters and wires from
many interested local people
urging an early appointment.
His recommendation to the
Post Office department wrs
made on Aug. 5, three days
alter receiving the letter from
County Democratic Chairman
Cliff Driscoll notifying him
of the choice of Blackmore as
t h e executive committee's
choice.
The 4th District Congress
man expressed appreciation to
Mrs. Alice tOtt) Fowler for
serving as acting postmistress
of Cave Junction during the
long process of picking the
permanent postmaster. She
took office In January, 19
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