mARvTl MONDAY, JANUABv PAGE SK HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Iferaluatiiiletos prank Jenkins bill jenkins : : . Editor Managing Editor ;, Entered ai second class matter at the post office of Klamath Falls, Ore., t on August 20, 1906 under act of Congress, March 8, 1879 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all tie local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL BY CARRIER ; .1 month $ 1.35 1 month i 1.3S .6 months ,. t (.50 6 months $ 8.10 year $11.00 1 year . .. $16.20 BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS First question on everyones lips this morning is "how cold was It?" And down here at the office the phone keeps up a steady jangle with early risers wanting to know bow many shirts to wear. , According to the recording ther mometer here at the office the mercury crept down to three below zero on the north side of the building. The airport gauge regis tered in at eight below. , I don't know. But the water in my office bathroom is frozen. So I guess it was a little on the nippy side. Ob well, not near so bed as Cut Bank, Montana, It was 23 be low there. Once a man gets a doubt of some sort in bis mind he's done for. Got to doubting the correctness of put ting in plugs in the machinery down here Saturday. The doubts burgeoning into their full growth before daylight Sunday, so nothing to do for It but to get out of bed and crawl down to the office to check. If a warlike nation ever conquers the trick of planting such doubts in the minds of men they can rule the world. Or kill it off with sleep lessness. 1 The total of ducks caught in the wire across Link River at the Fre mont bridge is now three. They apparently snag themselves when they come in for a landing on the open water at the source of the river. ( Your 1953 Income Tax , Editor's Note! The followlnr article concerning your income lax, ; ' how to file It and necessary regulations has been submitted by ' the Internal Revenue Service Office to aid the nubile. Any Questions concerning your tax should be taken up with the representative of that office In room 203, Federal Building (postofflce) or by call ing 4204. It ' SHOULD MARRIED PERSONS i FILE JOINT OR SEPARATE ; RETURNS? ' ; If you were a married person on December 31, 1953, you are con sidered married for the entire year 1953. It you were divorced or le gally separated on or beiore De cember 31, you are considered sin gle for the entire year. If your wife or husband died during the year, you are considered married lor the entire year. If husband and- wife have sepa rate Income (for example, if both work), .they may file separate re turns or a Joint return. A separate return accounts for the exemptions, Income, and deductions of only one persons. If married persons living in com,nunlty property States lite separate returns, each must re port half of any community in come. A Joint return must include all the exemptions, income, and de ductions of both husband and wife. A husband and wife may file a Joint return even though one of them had no Income. A Joint return may not be filed If either husband or wife was a nonresident alien at any time during the taxable year. How to Make a Separate Re turnTo file separate returns, bus band and wife must each have In come under the laws of their State and they must fill out separate forms. Tho "split lncome'l' pro visions of the Federal tax law do not apply to separate returns. When filing separate returns, the hus band and wife should each claim the deductions for those allow able expenses paid with his or her own funds. (In community property States, deductions resulting from payments made out of funds belong ing Jointly to husband and wife may be divided half and half.) If one Itemizes and claims actual de ductions, Instead of using the tax table or the "standard deduction," then both must Itemize and claim actual deductions on Long-Form 1040 returns. How To Make a Joint Return You can make a joint return' by including all exemptions, income, and deductions of both husband and wife. In the heading of the return, list both names (for exam ple: John H. and Mary D. Doe"). Both must sign the return. Advantages of a Joint Return The present law usually makes it advantageous for married couples to file Joint returns. The law pro vides a "split income" method of figuring the tax on a joint return which often results in a lower tax thnn would result from separate returns. If you make a Joint re turn on Form 1040A the District Director will figure your tax both on the separate and the Joint basis, and give you the benefit of the lower figure. If you file Form 1040 either the short or loni fnrm a Joint return usually will result In a tax as low as or lower than the tax on separate returns. There are some cases, when husband and wife both have income, where separate returns result in a lower total tax than Joint returns. Joint Tax or Refund When hus band or wife sign a Joint return, each assumes full legal.responslbll ity for the entire tax, and if one falls to pay, the other must pay it. If they are entitled to a refund, the check will be made out to them Jointly, The address of your District Di rector of Internal Revenue Is Room 203, Federal Building, The tele phone number is 4264. JAMES MARLOW ' WASHINGTON (AV-The idea looked good. He was new In office. He faced more problems than any man. just taking on such a Job, particularly ono who had spent his life soldiering, could be expected to master In a few months. So President Elsenhower In 1953 appointed one commission after an other to examine the problems on which he would have to make rec ommendations to Congress in 1964. The ideal result for Elsenhower would be something like this: ' Each commission would be com posed of men who started out with a full range of different views but, after uncovering the realities In months of investigation, would t'irn In a unanimous report. It would be truly Ideal If such a commission contained, beside private citizens, Democratic and Republican members of Congress who wound Up In harmony and unanimity. This would practically smother opposition in Congress when Eisenhower finally sent it his recommendations. Unfortunately for Elsenhower, commissions don't always produce that ideal result. That was demon strated when the 17-man commis sion on foreign economlo policy gave him a report shot through with deep disagreement. This commission had two main fields of study: foreign aid and trade. In 1930, over the protest of more than 1,000 economists, former President Hoover signed Into law the Hawley-Smoot bill passed by a Republican-controlled Congress and setting record high tariffs against foreign Imports, Within two years 25 countries had established retaliatory tariffs. By that time the depression, which had started In 1929, was In full swing. When the Democrats came In Secretary of State Cordell Hull was uble to persuade the Democratic Congress, in the hope of reviving world trade, to pass the Reciprocal : PERTUSSIN has been ! Prescribed by I- linos ol doctors for - bad coughs colds I PERTUSSIN does more than re- ' I Heve local Irritation! PERTUSSIN iworks fnfwnally loosens phlegm r nd thus "breakl-up" coughing , It'i Inexpensive! PERTUSSIN Trade Agreements Act of 1934. This allowed the President to cut tariffs on a country's goods provided such a country returned the favor by lowering tariffs on American goods. The problem then still a prob lem, since the Reciprocal Trade Act still stands was to encourage trade by tariff cutting without let ting in goods that would do dam age, or much damage, to American Industry. ( But before this country was well out of the depression, the war came, and with it American lend lease, which put trade on the shelf. When trade resumed after the war, this country moved to help foreign countries with loans or outright grants to get their economies go ing and at the same time provide them with dollars to buy American goods. - Since 1949 American economic aid, steadily overshadowed by mil itary aid, has been decreasing. Some members of Congress want it onded altogether. And last year Elsenhower faced the question: should the Reciprocal Trade Act, scheduled to die In 1953 unless Con gress renewed It, be kept alive to stimulate International business? Some of the Republicans wanted it ended, Elsenhower Induced Congress to renew it for one more year at least, while he got the study com mission started. Two commission members were heads of the con gressional committees handling tariff questions, and both Repub licans: Sen. ' Milllkln of Colorado and Rep. Daniel A. Reed of New York. Milllkln Is chairman at the Sen ate Finance Committee, Reed Is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.' Both Reed and Milllkln were In strong dissent on much of the commission's report, which, among other things, sug gested keeping , the Reciprocal Trade Act three more years and lowering many tariffs. They'll Do It Every Time '-"- By Jimmy Hatlo SURPRISED 1 TUBV EVEN BOWER GOAT ATALL-TWEy TAKE HOME EvERVTVllNia EUSEAWXJNO HERE WITH' - 796 r,.WV POGO STOn VyZZA time to no AMV rs- U4E STUFF FCR NOThinS U 15 LISTED rnv OFFICE BUSINESS"' jl IP HE OMuy GETS 7 AT $ 6:" HOW YJCE!'-, -rCj TVvENTy-FrvEPFF-Ca MUCHCOOIS) yrl 5fH THEY THlMK HE'S VbUGETV WWT TO 1 I J RXKETIWa THE , IT FOR jj BUY A RAIW I 1--s5" Or V REST - rTir-"W W1WGS FOR AV Y I I Y KID-HOW MUCH 1 lir uftSo LKSifW THEWE 60T IT, t OUT ASKING. 1 I CANyoU6ET A" t AOT V fir. V THEY ALWAYS r-r, . .u- i -"a cttt- j&om: bin- .jzvw ar Hal Boyle wy purchases AGENTS (SET PUNCHY ATA6ES5"" TMamx and a tip op THE HATua HAT - Eddie Carley, FURNITURE. MAKT, Vet's Mailbag For the past four years, Veter ans Administration has conducted the most extensive war on tu berculosis among veterans ever known In the history of the coun try. , - In announcing the results of the program, VA said they nre so significant that they are expected to pay health dividends to the tire nation, . , . In the four year period that the program has been under way on a fully implemented - basis, VA has screened 3,217,000 persons for TB. These Include 2,513,000 patients and 704,000 employes. Amonr? these two big groups, VA discovered 12, 140 cases of active pulmonary (lung) TV and 34,470 cases of inactive pulmonary TB. The segment of the population covered Is so large, VA said, that the results not only will reduce the incident of TB infection among veterans and their families, but also should reduce the number of Tb cases and deaths among the 'general population. Officially known as the tuber culosis case-finding survey -. pro gram, the vast scope and impor tance of the endeavor are indicated in the four-year analysis just com pleted. . The figures show that an average of 67,000 persons was screened The Doctor Says By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. "Where,"- writes Mrs. H., "can I get Information about the Rh factor of the blood so I can under stand It?" Although an extremely complicated subject, I shall try to oblige. The Rh factor is a substance which is present in. the blood of some people and not in others. The . blood of anyone can be tested for this substance and today this Is one nf several tests frequently used to find out what blood groups a per son belongs to. The particular Im portance of the Rh factor, however, is In relation to pregnancy be cause It may affect the health of the offspring. The Rh factor Is not easy to explain In simple terms because there are sub groups and many things which doctors have to know concerning the Rh factor. In short, 87 per cent of us have an obscure substance in our blood which closslfy us as being Rh positive. The other 13 per cent are called Rh negative and sometimes they become sensitive to Rh positive blood with possible dangers con nected with pregnancy or blood transfusion. ' If a woman has Rh negative blood and becomes pregnant with a Rh positive child because the father is Rh positive, the child may be born with a disease known as erythro blastosis fetalis. However, this does not always occur. The first child Is usually healthy (and often later ones) un less the mother has previously re ceived blood transfusions with Rh positive blood. This Is something becoming more rare because of greater care in this matter. Only about ono woman In 25 or 50 with Rh negative blood and on Rh positive husband gives birth to a baby with erythroblastosis. It should be pointed out also that even u a child does nave ery- inrooiaswsis much can be done by prenatal core and by giving blood transfusion so that in many cases, it can be saved. From the standpoint of parents it may be useful to summarise the situation: If both parents are Rh positive there Is little to worry about. If both are RH negative there is nothing to worry about. If the mother la Rh positive and the father Rh negative there Is nothing to worry about. If the mother Is Rh negative and the father Rh positive occasional trouble can be anticipated, but this Is by no means Inevitable. Dr. R. T. Lindley OPTOMETRIST 510 Med.-Dent. Bldq. Ph. 42' i Eye Examination Vliual Training BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN! YES, DEAR FRIENDS, I WAS COMPELLED " TO t A K E OVER MY STORE A G A I N AT 150 E. MAIN W feature the best 25c Hamburgers In the city or your money refunded!!! ALSO COFFEE AT 5 ARCHIE "POP" REID 150 E. MAIN each month during the four-year period. Among this group, approxi-1 match 265 pteviously unknown! cases of active pulmonary TB and! 760 inactive cases have been turned up each month. This Is an average of approximately - 1,000 new cases found every month for the four-year period. In view of the Infectious nature of active pulmonary TB, VAj said it considers the number of new cases found and treated each month as an achievement In the nation wide campaign to bring TB under further control. In fact, VA added, with the sources of Tb infection among veterans and VA employees con stantly being discovered and re moved, the population at large al ready is benefiting from the elim ination of this hazard, VA said. Still another benefit cited by VA as of incalculable value to the economic and physical health of the nation is the fact that the search Is turning up so many cases in the early, or minimal, stages of TB when proper treatment has a greater chance of effecting a speedy and lasting cure. Among the 704,000 VA employees screened, approximately 85 per cent of the active TB cases dis covered were in the early, or min imal stages. While figures are not complete for the veterans screened, VA said it is reasonable to assume on the basis of the ex perience with employes that the per centage of minimal cases dis covered among veterans is high, too. , . One of the important byproducts of the program, VA said, is the large number of other chest dis eases and abnormalities discov ered during the survey. Among these are serious conditions, such as cancers and heart diseases, which require immediate attention. Thus early diagnoses and treat ment , was afforded through the survey when delay might have been fatal. Nearly 91,000 other chest con ditions were discovered during the last year of the survey. A minor ity of these were serious cases re quiring immediate care. VA's program is conducted in all of its hospitals, outpatient clin ics In regional offices, and among all employes. This mass type of survey, VA said, already has proven its worth many times over and will con tinue to prove more valuable as time goes on and new sources of infection are discovered and elim inated. QUESTION OF THE WEEK Q. I am a Korean veteran, and I have lust been released from service. I understand that I have four months from my. separation date in which to apply for GI term Insurance. Is that correct? A. No. Actually, you have 120 days from your date of separation in which to apply and pay your first premium. Since some months Have 31 days, r!U aays is less than four months. Square Dance Newsnofes By CLAIRE ELLIS Hand over hand and don't you growl While the old bull bellers and the coyotes howl. The jug is empty and the ktg is dry So Kiss you partner and say goou- by. , , In the West Dr. Lloyd Shaw is accepted without question as the dean of square dancing and credited with the revival of this popular, early uay recreation. He is the author of several books on square and round dancing, count less magazine articles anu pam phlets, and in addition, his class es for instructors and leaders arc so popular that registration must be made months in advance. Dr. Snnw has the ability and background, to see the square dance picture as it is today and with this in mind we are quoting oiructiy from ns article in the January issue of "Sets in Order1 "Kemember bow hard it is to get a man to his first square aance? Then he goes overboard. and dresses, and laughs, and has the great lun of a beginner. Then he develops into a general dancer, still having a whale of a good time. Then he begins over-dressing, over-organising, and becomes over- critical. He and his few friends are looking only for the top. Then even his few friends are not good enough for him, and he goes out of the top, and thank God, quits danc ing forever. ' Or else, and more and more are doing it, he finds the' selfishness of the path he Is treading, and turns back for the joy of helping begin ners again. His joy increases. He has fun dancing the old dances, with old and experienced friends. He becomes the salt of the earth, with ever increasing joy, and' ever increasing capacity to spread that joy to others. Let us be duly thank ful that his good tribe is increasing. and wc may enjoy the simple, good dances with him, the dances that have lived for thousands of years. The dances that will last forever, and a day!" Local dancers are looking forward to hearing Dr. Price, Seattle, who will be- here on a return visit to call Wednesday evening at- an open dance at the Do-si-do clubhouse. Dr. Price, who is a Seattle dentist, has been associated for years with all phases of square dancing and is associate editor of the "Square and Round" dance magazine of Washington state. Dr. Price is par ticularly interested in teen dancers and was a Judge at the fourth an nual Northwest teen town square dance festival, White Rock, B.C. The Eagles Square dance club had a whopping big time at their dance Friday night and remind you they will be dancing again Feb ruary 5, according to Bud Parks, entertainment committee chairman, man. NEW YORK W "Ham it up!" This the advice of oldtime crooner Benny Fields to anyone trying to make a success of mar riage or anything else. "If you're not a ham, no mat ter what business you're in, no matter what in life you're trying to do." said Benny, "You'll never be any good in it." To Benny "ham" means a food to the spirit instead of the body, or as he puts it "the ability to keep on enthusing, and not take your next song or your next breath lor granted." Fields, hailed by Bing Crosby as America's first crooner, was a prince in the days when vaude ville was king. And he married a crown princess, Blossom Seeley, famous star who introduced many famous jazz songs as the teen-agers today still like to hum. They have trouped together for 32 years, and most of the years were fat, but some of them were lean. Sometimes Blossom was starred, sometimes Benry; often they shared top billing. Benny said it never made any difference to either of them. If two married people start getting jealous of each other's ca reer, he said, "they don t have a marriage. They've just got a financial arrangement." Blossic and Benny, who don't mind at all being called "Mr. and Mrs. Show Business, are starred together again now on two daily programs over station WMGM here. We aren't exactly disc jock eys," said Benny. "We just ad lib about the old days, and play a 'Goof Balls' Add To The Problem Of The Alcohol (Edllor'i Note This is the fourth in a series ol articles dealing with the disease of alco holism and what Alcoholics An onymous is doing to combat It.) By LVLE DOWNING It is doubtlul whether the found ers of Alcoholics Anonymous ever had any idea that besides deal ing with excessive drumers, tney would also in what has been termed "the age of sedation," have to contend with "goof ball" addicts. For the unltialed we will explain that, speaking in the vernacular, a "goof ball addict" is a chronic user of sedatives. Researchers and others familiar with the disease of alcoholism all agree that the alcoholic who turns to barbituates for relief has conv licated his problem a hundred fold. There is no more pitiful character than the pill-taking alcoholic. Many alcoholics drift Into the barbiturate habit for a simple rea son. The majority ot alchollcs are strictly of the "hair of the dog that bit you" school. But after pro longed binges, they begin to wake ud mornings witn tne "snaxes, "Jingle, .tangle, jingles" and other afflictions and to tneir dismay aiS' cover that the "dog won't bite." REACHES FOR BOTTLE Then the nerve-wracked alco holic reaches for a bottle of "yellow Jackets," "red devils" or "blue birds" as the various types of "goof balls" are known. Among these sedatives are amytal, barbi tal, nembutal, phcnobarbital and litu-. m n... . .. I Seconal. a top. rating in just 14 weeks, and JT IT M H nsQia Art a v " "' h"o - --o ---- standing are relatively n,i factors in the back.rZt1?1! man or woman who cant like alcohol, are inni.", their selection ot vlctuw, er-lncome nill i "4 ed into the habit stap'vu' suit of learning that dn... 1 to increase the potency, ! cohol he consumed. His .J countermart, mou . duced to barbiturates byVSj ii A WICBB Victims In j. i . .,.,. as one J founders ot Alcoholics Ll Put ",! only dU!ere0bJ the .'high-bottom drunk' ij luw-uuiujin arunx' is n,,, kl Ivlmr in th .).. L."atl - --- w o'ii, gyi it,, bottom drunk' hoe ui. L e curb." (Nextr-Alcoholics are oJ "That girl still flips. And she used to have everything big money, big cars, chauffeurs, maids everything. That's what I mean by ham; you have to en thuse to do good work. And once you really got it, you never lose it." Benny says it's the same way with married life. He pointed out that many famous marriages in the show world had survived the hardships and temptations of a precarious field George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa, and Eddie and Ida Cantor. Why do so many of Hollywood's career marriages break up? "Probably because they don't team their careers," said Benny. "You can't make ;love over the telephone Indefinitely. "Marriage has more hazards than a golf course. Two married people can have careers, but I think they have to have them to gether. There are too many pit ialls If they stay apart too long or too often. . "Blossle and I get up at the same time. We breakfast, togeth er, talk over our business togeth er, . go to work together, come home together;, it has to be that way or it don't make sense. "And you can't bear malice. Back in 1U29 I invested Blossie's money for her. I made wrong guesses, just like a lot of other guys did. I lost $200,000 she had put by, I lost everything I had myself, including a $200,000 insur ance policy. And there were some bad years. 'But Blossle never beefed once about the lost money. Never. She wore cloth coats and was cold, and she had had three mink coats. She never complained. There's a girl with protocol a real diplomat." The phone rang for Benny in the restaurant where we were lunch ing. He answered it, and returned, saying: "I have to go now. Blossie went to get her hair done, and didn't bring along any money. I have to go bail her out that cute little monkey." Does Bad Climate Cause .Golds? No, colds occur In widely different climates at about the same season. They affect about the same percentage of people In one region as In another. Apparently, the greatest contrib uting factor Is the change to Indoor crowding, especially In schools, during the winter months. Children acquire and transmit the disease more readily than adults. Your doctor can give you advice which will do much toward protecting you from colds. Uhen your physician writes you a prescription, bring It to us for filling. Th frUndly druf ttort whtrt customers stnd thsir friends have a wonderful ability to make him feel better, for awhile. His worries and jitters subside. And when he needs sleep, be has only to reach for a pill bottle. When a hard day faces him, the "goofers" will see him over the rough spots. By this time, he is completely "hooked" by the "jolt and bolt" routine .barbiturates taken with al chol. Here is what Dr. Harris Isbell of the U.S. Public Health Service Hos pital at Lexington, Kentucky, has to say about the alcohol-sedative com bination: PITIFUL DISTORTIONS "Severe intoxication with a mix ture of alcohol and barbiturates is far more serious than with either drug alone. Persons so addicted end up as pitiful distortions of the men and women they once were, or hoped to be." Medical experts say that seda tives, especially the barbiturates, are becoming a personal problem lor increasing thousands of men and women each year, Total production of barbiturates In the United States alone in the most re cent year lor which figures are available amounted to 672,000 pounds. It is estimated that this would make 3,057,730,000 'capsules or tablets of the. type . commonly manufactured, the 'equivalent ' of approximately 24 doses for each man, woman and child In the United States. This final conclusion has been reached by leaders of the medical proiession: DRIFT ,INTO HABIT "Money, education and social Log Pirates Losing Out LONGVIEWtlfl-An ogama! imj pil lURS Ul UJC' I bia, Cowlitz, and Will... ers has cut thetts by 90 pe,l "t'1'"11 iwi me uonimbii hub oaivage vo. e5tlmaiM day. Some 37 timber operiu-s Oregon and Washington tow, uumjjituy last May. The d ol the patrol has been to sawmills i and warn against purchasing stolen H uuiigvicw lumuermen estJ uie uiraiing goooied Up u pa u jiiiuiuii uoara leet 01 yearly before the camnulm There was even evidence ifa nad been pulled from nil me oranas removed. Hog Aid Bill Passed WASHINGTON HI - K loss swine growers sulfertd years ago, when their herds filled during an outbreak c cular exanthema, would be by the federal government a bill passed Friday by theSd The bill. Introduced by Sc Cordon (R-Ore), now soes House. It would apply only In which have, made similar cent repayments for the period. 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