Soft Americans
Tabbed “Tougher
Than They Think”
PHILADELPHIA Ufi — Many a
“soft” American is perhaps tough
er and better able to endure hard
ships than he thinks, a scientist
said Friday.
He faces some dangers and dis
comforts that might have made
the strong men of old shudder,
Albert Biderman of Washington,
D.C., observed.
Biderman said, “we daily hurtle
in automobiles separated only from
others hurtling in the ooposite di
rection by a few inches of yellow
lines on the pavement”—a risk
possibly comparable to that of In
dian raids on the old wagon trains.
Rut Americans are becoming un
familiar with hardship and suffer
ing, Biderman said. And so they
tend to underestimate the amount
of hardship they could endure if
they had to, he told the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science. ,
Biderman, of the Bureau of So
cial Science Research, reviewed
both folklore about captivity and
the experiences of American pri
soners of war.
Few prisoners of war had ever
realistically thought they might be
captured, and so had not mentally
rehearsed the prospect, he said.
Many Americans captured in the
Korean War complained they were
not told what to expect. About one
third of Air Force repatriates said
their treatment was not as bad as
they had expected, while another
third said it was worse, or much
worse.
Many of their answers to ques
tioning, Biderman said, “reflect the
surprise experienced by people who
have encountered extreme hard
ship at discovering what men can
endure.”
“I believe that the ordinary
American who has experienced op
pressive captivity has entered the
situation with a general under
estimation of his ability to ‘take
it’,” Biderman said.
Commenting on one magazine
article “purporting to describe how
readily American prisoners suc
cumbed to minor hardship,” Bider
man said if people knew of the
day-by-day details of what the
men had lived through, “they
would be amazed that so many of
them survived at all.”
It was hard work being a bride
in the last century. A girl’s trous
seau often contained 100 garments
—and she made most of them her
self.
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Cure for rommon Cold
; May Lurk In a Brewery
! ST. PAUL, Minn. UP) — Maybe
that long-sought cure for the com
mon cold is lurking around a
brewery.
Forty-two St. Paul men working
in the chilly cellars and filter room
of the Jacob Schmidt Brewing Co.
claim not to have had a cold
or flue for as long as 31 years.
The cold-free periods range from
9 to 31 years, as long as the men
have gone to work daily in tem
peratures between 32 and 47 de
grees.
Dr. Floyd Thompson, the com
pany doctor, agrees it’s “pretty
amazing.”
“But it is a fact,” he said. “It’s
been checked.”
He said the men wear only a
little heavier clothing than normal
inside workers, with sweatshirts
the main concession to the cold.
“But they do insist on keeping
their feet warm,” Dr. Thompson
said.
Income Tax Time Is
Around the Corner
Suddenly it will be income tax
time again. Jan. 2 will be the be
ginning of the year’s filing period.
Your financial records are impor
tant in preparing your federal in
come tax return. Director of In
ternal Revenue L. J. Cnrad for the
Anchorage Dist. said. Now is the
time to get together your cancelled
checks, receipts, records of con
tributions, and other papers.
Taxpayers who keep good finan
cial records each year should have
no trouble preparing their federal
income tax returns, Mr. Conrad
explained.
Complete records are especially
important to taxpayers who elect
to itemize deductions.
Complete records will help you
determine how much tax you will
owe or how much of a refund you
will get from Uncle Sam.
The carbon copies of prior years*
returns are also good guides in
preparing the new return.
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If there is only one thmg that
j ",n don’t like to do, it’s disciolined
j tanking. That is, sit down and
really think through one particu
lar problem. And if you look back
at most of your troubles in life,
you can pin most of the blame on
noor planning, or the total lack
of it.
Planning is the key to indi
vidual reactions in emergency
situations. The automobile driver
who consistently thinks ahead and
nlans t’w action he will take if
meh and such a situation occurs,
will react far more nuickly and
effectively than the driver who
is forced to consider all the alter
native moves he can make after
the crisis is alreadv upon him.
The same conditions apply to
f'res, or to Civil Defense. If you
don’t know what you are going to
do, and your family doesn’t know
then a more or less simnle situa
tion may become a tragedy because
each family member is forced to
make snan decisions under stress.
You can’t plan for everything, but
you can work out the main details
for your family civil defense plan.
To do this you need to know the
local defense plan so you can work
your family plan into it.
If you have children in school,
you need to know about the school’s
civil defense plan so you will know
whether or not you should go and
pick up your children in an emer
gency.
If you work, you need to know
the plans for the area so you can
arrange for your family even
though you may not be at home
at the time.
Everyone in the family should
know where the shelter area is.
And they should know the supplies
and equipment that need to be
moved to the shelter area if it is
stored or used somewhere else.
Planning is an uninteresting
word that sounds boring and dif
ficult. It need not be. Simply plan
logically in time sequence.
First, what needs to be done
before hand. Do you have a shelter?
How good is it? What can be done
to improve it? Your local Civil De
fense officials can help you do
this.
What equipment and supplies
should be in the shelter? Your
Civil Defense officials, the nearest
Cooperative Extension Service of
fice, and your post office have
publications offering detailed an
swers to this question.
Now, the next thing is to carry
out the plan that fits your situa
tion. Put the things to do on a
list in the order they must ge done
and then split up the responsi
bilities. Who will do what, and
when?
Someone will have to take care
of rotating food supplies and
changing the water in the water
containers. The ‘who’ and ‘when’
information could be put on Be
Ready Calendar of Action.
Then make a plan of action for
the time of nuclear attack. This
should be kept handy, with copies
for everyone. It should take into
consideration the fact that some
family member or members might
not be home, so others would have
to take their responsibilities.
Consider all the alternatives.
Then try your plan and make
changes to correct the bugs.
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GLEN COVE, N. Y. UPI — The
Soviet government has paid more
than $23,000 in back taxes owed
this Long Island community rather
than face loss of the lush estate
it owns here.
Mayor Joseph Reilly of Glen
Cove picked up two checks drawn
on Chase Manhattan Bank and to
taling $23,132.96 in payment of
back taxes on the sprawling estate
known as Killenworth.
Reilly said he picked up the
checks at the United Nations Mis
sion headquarters, where an Am
erican diplomat said the Soviets
made the payment under protest.
Several months ago the com- :
munity put up for auction the 1960
tax liens against the estate, which
the Russians use as a retreat for
their U.N. delegation.
There were no bidders on the
liens and the community bought
t’ em back. The Soviet government
argued that because the estate is
used by U.N. delegates, it is im- j
mune to local taxes.
Glen Cove officials contended
the estate is not used as a main
residence for the Soviet U.N. dele
gation and as such is not immune
to taxation.
Returning to Fairbanks today is ;
Margaret Steinbreck, former Nome
teacher, who now teaches in Fair- 1
banks and spends her Christmas |
holiday here with friends each :
year.
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Proclamation
WHEREAS, January 1963 marhF
the 25th anniversary of the March
of Dimes’ successful fight against
disease; and
WHEREAS, partnership of the
American people and science
through the March of Dimes ha?
j produced the Salk and Sabin polio
: vaccines; and
WHEREAS, the March of Dime?
supports scientific research de
voted to the protection of human
life t rough the study of the causes
and means of preventing disease;
| and
WHEREAS, the March of Dim®
is sponsoring the building of the
Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
where some of the world’s greatest
scientists will conduct fundmentaf
research aimed at conquering all
remaining major diseases of man
kind; and
WHEREAS, the March of Dimer
supports medical care for children
and adults through a nation-wide
network of treatment centers —
more than 50 now in operation —
for victims of birth defects, arth
ritis and polio; and
WHEREAS, the March of Dim®
supports public and professional
education to increase understand
ing of t e problems of chronic
crippling diseases and makes avail
able the most advanced knowledge
concerning care and treatment; and
WHEREAS, more than 250,000
American infants are born each
year with a significant birth de
fect; thousands of our children are
disabled by arthritis and rheu
matic disease; millions of dollars
must still be spent annually to
aid those stricken by polio:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, William
A. Egan, as Governor of the State
of Alaska, do proclaim January
I 1963 as
25TH ANNIVERSARY
MARCH OF DIMES MONTH
and urge all Alaskans to support
this campaign to “Give for the
Life of a Child.”
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the Seal of Alaska to be affixed,
this twenty-sixth day of December
in the year of Our Lord, nineteen
hundred and sixty two.
/s/ William A. Egan,
Governor
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Unsung Heroes
When crises flare and we!
read of the deliberations of a
few top Government officials, I
we should be aware of the !
many whose activities make
top decisions possible. The
lives of all of us are affected <
by these unsung heroes. The
nation will depend more and
more on them in the years to
come.
The spotlight shone briefly,
on five men in Washington,:
D. C., last week. They were
the winners of the 1962
Rockefeller Public Service
Awards of Princeton Univer
sity. Distinguished, each in
his own field, for outstanding
service to the nation as "ca
reer” government officials and
widely known within their
own professions, most of these
men were for the first time
brought to the attention of
the public.
Among them they had
served 158 years as foreign
service officer, scientist, at
torney, statistician and ad
ministrator in the service of
Uncle Sam. President Ken
nedy congratulated them as
exemplifying "the very best
of those in the career services
who make it possible for the
Government leaders to de
velop and execute the policies
of state at home and abroad."
These men — Ambassador
at-Large Llewellyn Thompson,
NASA Deputy Administrator
Hugh L. Dryden, Assistant
HEW General Counsel Regi
nald Conley, Assistant Census
Bureau Director Morris H.
Hansen and J. Stanley Baugh
man, president of the Federal
National Mortgage Association
— are members of a large
group of public servants who
daily share the responsibilities
of our better-known leaders.
John D. Rockefeller 3rd, who
has personally financed the
Awards program for the last
ten years, called them "un
sung heroes.”
“In recognizing these un
sung heroes in many different
fields,” he said, "we may very
well influence some of the
young men in our universities
to think in broader terms of
the kind of career they want.”
While we salute the 1962
Aw'ard winners, it is well to
keep Mr. Rockefeller’s point
in mind. The nation needs
more top brains and top per
sonalities in its regular career
services. For, as he said, "to
a great extent we are judged
abroad by our effectiveness in
dealing with our problems at
home.”
We have come far enough
along in our growth as a na
tion to divest ourselves of
an erroneous but widespread
view of Government workers
as “bureaucrats”, with its
connotation of ineffectiveness.
The vast majority of career
public servants are men like
the five Award winners who,
in performing their basic
tasks well, are contributing
to the welfare of the entire
5' country.