MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Dennis the Menace
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER S, I9B3
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The Family Council
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by
JSusun P. I wish he'd make
firjme plans about his retire
ment. Mr. W. A. I'm tired of
plans. I'll just sit and watch
grass grow!
;
iiusan P. My father will rc
liiie in April. He doesn't seem
to1 realize that the change af
fects my mother and me, as
much as it does him. When my
mother tries to set up a new
schedule, he snaps at her. I'd
work out a design for him if
he'd let me.
Mr. W. A. The trouble with
Susan and her mother is that
they're afraid I'll hang around
them all day once I stop going
to business. I wish they'd stop
worrying. I'll just take one day
at a time and there'll be plenty
to occupy me. Maybe I'll read
"War and Peace."
The Council: What people say
they want for their retirement
years sounds so simple. A lady
we visited in a nursing home
was counting the days till she
could get home to "my TV and
my knitting." Another friend,
rounding out 35 years of school
teaching, looks forward to "a
cup of coffee every morning at
10:30 and not having to talk
unless I feel like it."But honest
ly, Mr. A., face to face with a
length of days" stretching
ahead, these retirees and you
too will find that you want more.
In "A Full Life After 65," Edith
M. Stern recommends filling
me post-retirement vacuum
purposefully" to promote good
mental health. Mr. A. dreads
bom catapulted into a routin-
ized way of life not of his
choosing a lob. studies, hob
bies, and the usual "busy" pat
tern. His family dreads having
him "at loose ends," perhaps
Decoming a nuisance in his ef
forts to fill (and kill) time.
Neither fear need materialize.
Mr. A. may be the contempla
tive type wno finds peace in
reading, thinking, and ambling
about at his own pace. But even
so he'll fare better if he draws
up a blueprint now of how his
new life will touch the lives of
his family and community. It
will and should.
SCARED BANDIT
FORT WORTH (UPI) - Mrs.
Dorothy Kingry reacted quickly
Monday when a bandit entered
Walker's drug store and de
manded money.
nun tne macnine gun on
him Mr. Walker," she shouted,
- The bandit fled. There was no
machine gun.
Your Money's
Worth
By SYLVIA PORTER
Cf ett. Hail Srcatt, Irw.
AUSTRIA'S TAX CUTS BOOST TAX TAKE
In the past 10 years, Austria has cut her income tax rates
four times. The tax reductions have been steep, have slashed
the rate on low-medium income families by more than 50 per
cent.
As a direct result, the Austrian government's tax collections
have almost tripled since 1952.
Spending by the Austrian people has more than doubled.
Simultaneously, savings are at an all-time record. While the
pace of Austria's economic expansion has slowed recently, her
over-all economic growth since the 1950s has been astounding.
Can it be that the U. S. government will collect more in taxes
after it puts through tax reductions totaling $11 billion a year?
Repeatedly, skeptics ask this question and understandably. There
does seem an upside-down logic in the claim that the Treasury's
tax take will be higher after rates are reduced than before.
Yet, Austria's answer to the question is a flat YES.
In an exclusive statement. Dr. Rcinhard Kamitz. world-known
president of the Austrian National Bank, summarized it for the
united Mates:
"Austria's record is proof for the correctness of my opinion
that public revenues primarily depend on the volume of economic
activities much more so than on the height of tax rates.
"Economic expansion is much more dynamic at low tax rates
than at high tax rates."
Of course, our economy can't be compared with Austria's
in size or in diversity, in stage of development or in living
standards. Nevertheless, the story of Austria's economy after
each tax cut is so striking that it demands study by all of us
and particularly by the Senate cynics who insist that tax re
ductions will dangerously reduce tax revenues and thus swell
our budget deficits to catastrophic levels.
Austria's first tax cute became effective Jan. 1, 1954. As an
illustration of its size, it reduced the tax on a married couple
earning $3,600 a year from $1,453.44 to $1,128.96.
In 1955 Austria's tax collections were a whopping 12.4 per
cent higher than in 1954. The increase in her gross national prod
uct the measure of her economic growth was a remarkable
14.7 per cent.
The second tax cut became effective Jan. 1, 1955. As an illus
tration of its size, it reduced the tax on that $3,600 a year couple
to $987.44.
In 1956 the Austrian government's tax collections were 8.7 per
cent above the previous year's totals. Her gross national product
jumped another remarkable 10.1 per cent.
The third tax cute became effective Jan. 1, 1958. This one re
duced the tax on that $3,600 a year couple to $843.92.
In 1959 the government's tax take was up 6.8 per cent over
the year before. Her gross national product climbed agein, by
6.2 per cent.
The fourth tax cut went into effect July 1, 1962 and it reduces
that married couple's tax to around $800. Figures on its impact
are not yet available but with employment, consumer spending
and total productions at all-time records, the likelihood is that
the Austrian government's tax collections are up too.
While the timing of Senate passage of the tax bill continues
fuzzy, passage of a bill generally along the lines of that ap
proved by the House in September appears certain, with the
cuts to begin taking effect in 1964.
It would be unrealistic even to hope that the tax cuts will so
spur the economy that our Treasury's tax collections will sky
rocket immediately. They won't.
But the tax cuts will leave more money for spending in our
pocketbooks and cash registers. They will help create new jobs
and new paychecks. They will increase the volume of economic
activities" and this volume, as Kamitz says, is what determines
tax collections. ,
Austria's record tells us plainly that lower rates over the years
will produce more taxes than today s rates produce.
Suit lor Libel
By Defeated
Candidate Starts
OKANOGAN. Wash. (UPI) -
The $225,000 libel suit brought
by former State Rep. John Gold
man: and nis wue, sally, went
to trial Monday as selection of
a jury got under way in Okano
gan County Superior Court.
A jury list of 360 names was
being used.
The suit was filed after Gold
mark lost his bid for renomina
tion to his seat in the State
House of Representatives in the
1962 Democratic primary elec
tion. The Goldmarks claim that
statements by the defendants
linked them with Communist
causes and cost Goldmark the
election. v
Neither of his opponents, both
subsequently elected, is a de
fendant in the action.
Defendants Listed
The defendants are Ashley
Holden Sr., Tonasket, publisher
of the Tonasket Tribune, and
his paper; Albert F. Canwell,
Spokane, research director for
Freedom Library Inc.; Don Ca
ron, Okanogan, state coordina
tor for the John Birch Society,
and Loris Gillespie, Okanogan
businessman. Under Washington
law, the wives of all four men
are also defendants.
Presiding at the trial is Judge
Theodore S. Turner of the King
County Superior C o u r t in Se
attle. He was named after the
Okanogan County judge, Robert
Murray, withdrew.
Motions, court orders and oth
er pre-trial documents totaling
4,000 papers were un file as the
trial opened.
Predictions from attorneys In
dicated that selection of a jury
could take as long as a week
and the trial up to six weeks.
Judge Turner indicated jury se
lection should be finished in half
a day and the trial held to one
month.
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Puerto Rico Track
Story Has Moral
Clerk-Stenographer
Hired by Police
Kay Marie Fearcc, 26, ot 1223
E. 11th St., began her duties
Friday as a new clerk-stenog
rapher at the Medford Police
department.
The new employee is a 1963
graduate of Los. Angeles City
College in elementary education.
She graduated from Phoenix
High School in 1955.
LUNCH WITH EDITORS
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Prcsi-
dent Kennedy plans to lunch
Wednesday with a group of 25
Ohio newspaper editors and pub
lishers. It will be the 23rd of a
series of such meetings with
editors from various states.
United Press International
SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPI)-Thc
"It's a small world" phenome
non works very well in Puerto
Rico. I had been here only a
few hours when I ran into Irwin
Tress.
Yes, I said Irwin Tress. You
were expecting maybe Judge
Crater?
I knew Tress about 15 years
ago when he was a photograph
er for the International News
Service in Miami, Fla. It was in
Korea, however, that he became
a living legend.
After the outbreak of the K
rean War, Lee Ferrero, an IIw
man in Seoul, began petitioning
the home office for additional
reporters. Finally, he was noti
fied that help was on the way.
Event Immortalized
But Fcrrero's joy turned to
consternation when his rein
forecement arrived. In fact, the
event was immortalized in a
journalistic folk song, the first
verse of v.'iich went like this:
"My name is Lee Ferrero
"And I work for INS.
"I asked for correspondents
"And they sent me Irwin
Tress."
Tress is now public relations
director at El Commandante,
the San Juan race track, Itap
peared to me that they were
made tor eacn otner.
Only someone like Irwin could
fully appreciate El Comman
dante. And vice versa.
Tress conducted a tour of the
track one afternoon for me and
several other mainlanders from
a group of about 500 who came
here as guests of the Sheraton
Corp. for the opening of a new
resort hotel.
Camcrcro's Grave
"See that floral horseshoe in
the track infield?" he said.
"That is where Camcrero is
buried.
Camcrero won 56 consecutive
races, more inan any omcr
horse in history. Then he devel
oped ulcers and died.
"El Commandante also is the
home track of Pedro Juan Vi-
nales, a jockey who rode for 11
years without winning a race.
He lost 390 races In a row. Peo
ple said he was the only jockey
in the world who could have lost
on Camcrero.
"Finally one day, whei; there
e only three other horses in
race,- his horse won. The
crowd went wild. They rushed
out of the grandstand, hoisted
Vinalcs on their shoulders and
threw him in the infield lake.
"Vinales donated his purse to
charity and never raced again.
He wanted to quit a winner. Un
like Camerero, he is still alive
and hasn't a trace of ulcers.
There may be a moral there if
you care to search for it."
I can believe all of this story
except the last part. I bet on
seven noises that afternoon and
I strongly suspect that Vinales
rode them all.
A 3
COLDEST TEMPERATURE
WASHINGTON (UPD-Possi-bly
the coldest temperature ever
recorded in the earth's atmos
phereminus 289 degrees Fah
renheitwas reported Monday
by the federal space agency
and Swedish researchers.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration and the
University of ' Stockholm took
the reading last August with a
Nike-Cajun rocket It attributed
the low temperature to a high
altitude cloud formation called
noctilucent.
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