MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Six Appear in
Circuit Court
Homer William Prosser, 21,
of 421 West 10th st., Medford,
had a 2V4 year sentence to the
Oregon state penitentiary for
burglary not in a dwelling sus
pended in circuit court action
Monday.
He had pleaded guilty to
the charge earlier.
The case of John D. Abel,
52, Grants Pass, was continued
until Aug. 26. He was ar
raigned in circuit court on a
charge of forgery and bail
was set at $1,000.
He is charged with forging
the name of Francis A.
Krouse, Applegate rancher,
on a check and cashing it at
a local store.
Nancy Lee Kime, 19, and
Janice Gail Houghton, 20,
both of 203 Elm St., pleaded
guilty to charges of attempt
ing to obtain property under
false pretenses. Pre-sentencing
reports were ordered and
bail was continued at $500
feach.
y'(.They are accused of at
fmpting to cash a false check
at a local store.
Troy 1 A;. "MoCpy, 49, Long
Beach, Calif placed on
probation for two" years after
an eight months' Jail sentence
was suspended: He had plead
ed guilty to obtaining prop
erty under false pretenses. He
was ordered to make restitution.
Anna Belle Brennan, 3523
Grant rd., Central Point,
pleaded guilty to uttering and
publishing a forged check and
a pre-sentence report was
ordered.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1963
If Mao's Farm Policy Liberalized, Chiang Counterattack Said Unlikely
A 5
By KENNETH GALE
Taipei - (UPD - A senior of
ficial of Nationalist China's
Communist Affairs Research
department has reported that
if Red China continues to lib
eralize its farm policy there
Four Grass Fires
Reported in Day
The Medford fire depart
ment Sunday responded to
several small grass fires in
the Medford area.
At 1 p. m. Sunday, firemen
were called to 2685 Connell
st. to a small fire burning in
a vacant lot. The fire was
extinguished and cause of the
blaze has not been determined.
Later on in the day at 4:30
p. m., a fire in the Modoc
area at the end of Lynn st.
was reported. Firemen ex
tinguished the blaze which
burned two acres of grass.
A fire, resulting from trash
burning, was reported to the
fire department about 5 p. m.
It was extinguished and
minutes later firemen put out
a blaze in the 2200 block of
Barnett rd.
Earlier firemen were sent
to Grandview market at the
scene of a burglary to remove
gas fumes that resulted from
the safety mechanism that had
been tampered with on the
safe.
NOW YOU KNOW
United Press International
Ceylon has one of Asia's
highest standards of living
because of its huge tea, rubber
and coconut plantations, ac
cording to the National Geo
graphic Atlas of the World.
The
weight-leas
refresher
tvith
special
sparkle9
special I
pr
1 In 12-oz-, no-deposit, I
I no-return bottlet 1
I low caforie J
1 Lemon
The flavor's up . . . the
calories are down! With
Canada Dry's exclusive
'special sparkle', this
weight-less refresher is
brighter, livelier, better
tasting by far. All your
favorite flavors: ginger,
orange, lemon, root beer,
cherry. Buy them in con
venient 12-oz. no-deposit,
no-return bottles wher
ever you shop.
will be little if any chance of
a successful "counterattack"
by Chiang Kai - shek's Na
tionalist forces two years
from now.
The researcher, who asked
not to be named, also said
Mao Tse-tung was firmly in
control of the leadership in
Communist China.
He said despite reports of
possible purges in the higher
ranks it was very doubtful
anyone in the Chinese Com
munist party was strong
enough today to overthrow
Mao.
He said there were some
Your Money's
Worth
By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc.
On-the-job alcoholism has now become a staggering $2 billion-plus
a year "hangover" for American industry.
It is hitting hardest at the young-middle age man in U. S.
business - including the expensively trained, crucially im
portant middle-management executive.
It is boosting the cost of "sick leave" and other fringe
benefits to levels far beyond any dollars-and-cents figures in
a wage contract. It is similarly ballooning absenteeism and
the accident rate in corporations across the land.
It is, in bluntest words, a "hidden" cost to industry of
startling magnitude which is deliberately concealed by the
afflicted worker.
The common estimate that employee alcoholism costs in
dustry around $1 billion a year is unrealistically low because
of the traditional reluctance of corporations to acknowledge
the extent of the problem, Lewis F. Presnall, industrial con
sultant for the independent, non-profit National Council on
Alcoholism, flatly stated in an interview last week. "The
total cost is at least double what anyone suspects."
Even the new estimate of over $2 billion a year could
be low. because, says Presnall, "Industry's attitude toward
the problem has resulted in a shocking unwritten company
policy to pay an economic premium for the concealment of
alcoholism. This premium comes in the form of keeping an
alcoholic on the job. promoting him and paying him fringe
benefits. When the alcoholic is in the late stages of his dis
ease and can no longer conceal his condition, the company
ordinarily fires him."
The estimate is that about 3 per cent of all American
workers are alcoholics-about 1.7 million to 2 million work
ers, with the ratio five men to one women. Of these, nearly
90 per cent are between 33 and 55 years old. There are no
class distinctions among alcoholics. The NCA's studies dis
close they are "proportionately distributed rather evenly
throughout a plant population from top management to the
unskilled labor group."
Payments for sick leave and other fringe benefits run
three times as high for alcoholics as for those without the
disease. One company surveyed puts the average fringe
benefit cost at $500 per year for each alcoholic. Absenteeism
also averages three times as high among alcoholics and com
panies pay extra millions per year in overtime to workers
to fill in for the sick person.
As for the accident rate, this may be double the non
alcoholic average and this doesn't take into consideration the
costs of off-the-job accidents which impair efficiency of the
worker and make him an absentee. A full 25 per cent of all
absenteeism in some corporations is traced to alcoholism.
The scope of the problem is immense, the problem is
growing, and industry finally is waking up to it.
The first alcoholism program in a major company was
begun in 1944. As recently as four years ago, only 35 big
U. S. companies offered these programs which involve
round-the-clock personal counseling, psychiatric treatment
if necessary and close cooperation with Alcoholics Anony
mous. Today, the number is up to 80 large companies, re
ports Presnall, and many smaller companies are joining in.
The results are remarkable, for the NCA emphasizes that
50 to 75 per cent of alcoholic cases identified can be success
fully treated.
One New York City agency, which has studied more than
2,000 cases in a six-year-old program, estimates its savings
from the program will run to $750,000 in 1963 alone. A major
Detroit utility reduced its alcoholism-caused absenteeism
from twice the company average to half the company aver
age. A large midwestern farm machinery firm cut' its ab
sentee rate among alcoholic workers 65 per cent and slashed
its firing rate among them from 95 to 8 per cent.
What's of first importance is to end the secrecy and admit
this is a $2 billion a year cost which can be drastically re
duced. Then every company in which there is even the possi
bility of this problem should adopt a realistic treatment pro
gram tailored to its own organization setup and designed not
only to save money for itself but also to save the life of the
worker.
Dennis the Menace
dissident elements opposed
to Mao but that they were in
no position at this time to
rebel.
Speaking from the knowl
edge of his daily full time
studies of Communist China,
the researcher said that food
relief in China had lessened
the chances for a popular revolt.
He said the famine of three
years ago was partly man-
made.
"The Chinese people are
mostly simple farmers and
they are not interested in
any government," he said.
"They are only interested in
living their own lives inde
pendently. "When the .Communists
tried to force them all into
communies the people lost
their privacy and they did not
like it.
"The Chinese farmer only
wants to pay his taxes and
have nothing more to do with
the government. Then he can
say 'see, I've paid my taxes
and the government can no
longer bother me.' "
The researcher said that
with the restoring of person
al incentive to the farmer
production had increased and
would continue to be suffi
cient as long as the liberaliza-
They'll Do It Every Time
'- - By Jimmy Hatlo
p&AROW NEEDED A SPEClAL
NURSE WHEN HE WAS LAID LOW,
BUT NURSES WERE UN&ETTABLE-
I ufED TRYING
-ruit PATIENT HAS
TO WAVE A SPECIAL
' iinnccl nou'T VOU J
KNOW ANYBOUY j
FOUQ DAVS LATER, AFTER DOIN&
WITHOUT-IN COMES MISS CUTLET
REPORTING FOR DUTY-.
I- I
. i'VE I I I'M VOUR . I
"V-f I FVT WWW 111 CDPriAl Uiincc -l
i . l i ia i -wi"- "uwjc l
II AT REBtolK""' tl I v MISS CUTLET-, .d I
IWMTRVIN& T f l YOU'RE LUCKVT I
VOU CAN Ofci r mnrri I V S w' "'-"'hew iLSr-w
tion policy was in effect.
"As it gets better, it is go
ing to become increasingly
harder for our counterattack
to succeed," he said.
"If the Communists do not
revert back to the commune
system the chances for a suc
cessful counterattack will be
very slim if not Impossible
two years from now," he said.
But he said the Nationalists
would never give up their
goal of ousting the Commu
nists from China.
"It is our national policy,
we cannot abandon our poli
cy," he said.
Insurance . : . at Its Best
Fred R. Brennan, CIA
"Mr. Insurance"
Lowell A. Iversen
"Mr. Homeowners"
PACKAGE INSURANCE SPECIALISTS
Let us check your policies and provide Homeowners' and
Package Policies, reducing cost and the number of expirations.
Your individual problem determines the package and the com
pany. It's your money we are spending, as if it. were our own!
Medford Insurance Agency
The R. A. Holmes Agency
"The Insurance Center"
25 West Main Street
Dial 773-7343 772-4444
At near ai your telephone
Over, under, around and through...
PALL MALL TRAY
PLEASURE TO VU1
PALL MALL's natural mildness
Is so friendly to your taste I
See for yourself! PALL MALL's famous length trav
els the smoke naturally over, under, around and
through the finest tobaccos money can buy. Makes
it mild, but does not filter out that satisfying flavor,
so friendly to your taste. Buy PALL MALL Famous
Cigarettes. Outstanding and they are Mild!
B-Ss2&ffl You can light '
I fStee either end
n. rj- aTvrEra i irituiii imiiiu i
t csl IA1IN OUfUJW a
j Aw.
HURRY!
To Big Savings During Our
ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION
BEAVER
Electric I Plumbing Supply
2740 North Pacific Hiway
1-