THE NOME NUGGET
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THE COST OF MEDICAL CARE
Human nature being what it is, people will com
plain about paying a comparatively modest sum for
something they don’t enjoy but must have—and will
cheerfully spend much more for something they want,
but don’t urgently need.
The cost of medical care is certainly a fine case
in point. At regular intervals, we hear bitter criticism
of the bills charged by doctors and hospitals and phar
macists. An uninformed person might conlude that
these costs are one of the very biggest budget prob
lems in the life of the average person.
Well, it just isn’t so—as a brief pictorial chart
published in Medical Economics, based on Department
of Commerce estimates, proves.
Each year we spend $1,600,000 for drugs—and
$2,600,000,000 for items involved in personal care,
such as hair lotions and toilet waters.
Each year we spend $2,600,000,000 in hospitals—
and nearly twice as much, $5,300,000,000 for tobacco.
Each year we spend $2,800,000,000 for physicians’
services—and well over three times as much, $8,800,
000,000 for alcoholic drinks.
Each year we spend $2,900,000,000 for health care
other than that mentioned above—and over four times
as much, $11,900,000,000, on recreation.
The fact that we have more fun smoking or drink
* ing or playing games than in visiting the doctor should
n’t be allowed to warp our attitude toward the facts.
Dag Hammarskjold Holds
Seperate Meetings With
U.S. and Chinese Envoys
GENEVA, Uf) — Dag Hammer
skjold, Secretary General of the
United Nations, held separate
meetings today with U.S. ambas
sador Alexis Johnson and Red
China’s ambassador Wang Ping
Nam.
The two ambassadors are talk
ing privately here on steps to
ease Far East tension. The talks
were in recess today while both
sides awaited instructions from
their capitals on the question of
repatriating civilians who want to
return home.
None of the parties concerned
would discuss the nature of the
Hammarskjold talks. I
Crown Prince Rupprecht
Dies of Heart Attack
STRARNBERG, Germany, Ufi—
Grown Prince Rupprecht, pre
tender to the Bavarian throne,
died yesterday at Leustetten Cas
tle, the family seat. He was 86.
A priest administered the last
rites of the Roman Catholic
Church Monday night. The prince
had suffered a heart attack dur
ing the weekend.
Millions of Bavarians were
grieved by Rupprecht’s illness. A
field marshal in the World War I
and an enemy of Hitler in the
Third Reich, he had become a re
vered symbol of “the good old
days.”
His throne was toppled by a
socialist revolution in 1918.
Air Force Secretary Talbott Resigns
Following Probe of Outside Interests
WASHINGTON, UV-Harold E.<
Talbott will step out as secretary
of the Air Force a week from
Saturday lest his profits from an
outside business interest “embar
rass” the Eisenhower administra
tion.
President Eisenhower, prompt
ly accepting Talbott’s resignation
late Monday, told Talbott “Your
decision was the right one.” There
was widespread agreement with
that view.
Some said Talbott had done a
good job as secretary. Even one
Democrat said that. But no one in
Washington said publicly Talbott
shouldn’t have quit.
Eisenhower, in an exchange of
letters made public by the White
House, praised Talbott’s official
services as having been “effec
tively and loyally performed.”
Talbott, a 67-year-old Ohioan,
had come under crtical scrutiny
by the Senate Investigations sub
committee because of an outside
business connection which re
turned him $132,032 in the 2V£
years he served as secretary. He
had told the senators he would
give it up, effective last Sunday.
Chairman Paul M. Butler of the
Democratic National Committee
and some of his fellow party
members had called on Eisen
hower to fire Talbott, asserting
the secretary used his official
position for personal gain. Talbott
disputed that.
Beyond saying Talbott had
made the right decision, Eisen
hower did not discuss the ethics
of the situation in accepting the
resignation.
Eisenhower had taken the rec
ord of Senate* subcommittee hear
ings on Talbott to read, saying he
would make his decision on Tal
bott “on the basis of ethics in
volved.”
Talbott wrote the President
that he himself was “clear in my
mind and conscience that my ac
tions have been within the bounds
of ethics.”
Three’s a Crowd in Jeep
When Rattlesnake Rides
PORTSMOUTH, Va. UR—'Three’s
a crowd in an Army jeep, espec
ially when one of the three is a
rattlesnake.
Capt. John F. West and Capt.
George N. Sanders were bowling
along gaily at a 40-mph. clip near
here Monday in their jeep when
said rattlesnake reared its head
betwixt them.
West shouted, “Don’t jump!”
Sanders didn’t hear him; he’d
already jumped—into a roadside
ditch, head first.
West stuck it out a few mo
ments, decided discretion was the
better part of valor and jumped,
too.
The jeep rolled into a ditch and
stopped, unscratched. The rattle
snake slithered off into the grass.
West and Sanders, bruised and
dizzy„ still wonder how that snake
got into their jeep.
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CAB Denies Petitions
For Reconsideration Of
States-Alaska Routes
WASHINGTON, (AV-The Civil
Aeronautics Board has denied
petitions of Alaska Airlines and
Pacific Northern Airlines for re
consideration of its May 27 order
establishing air routes between
Alaska and the States.
The CAB said the petitions fail
ed to raise matters not previously
considered by the Board.
The May 27 order temporarily
renewed the States-Alaska cer
tificate of Alaska Airlines and re
newed and modified the tempor
ary States-Alaska certificate of
Pacific Northern.
It also granted Northwest a
permanent States-Alaska certifi
cate — with a temporary New
York-Chicago-Anchorage author
ization—and modified the States
Alaska certificate of Pan Am
erican World Airways.
It's The Husband Who Pays
SANTA MONICA, Calif., UP) —
Mrs. Bernice Troyan accused her
husband, Joseph, of striking her
with a baseball bat, but when the
time came to testify against him
she wouldn’t.
Result: she was held in con
tempt, fined $200 and placed on
probation for two years yester
day by Superior Judge Orlando
H. Rhodes. The couple was es
tranged when she charged that
her husband struck her when she
refused a goodnight kiss. They’re
reconciled now, which means that
Troyan is responsible for his ob
ligations, including the fine.
Dulles Sees Easing
Of Tension With
Communist China
WASHINGTON, WV-Secretary
of State Dulles said Tuesday the
United States hopes eventually
to obtain from Red China a dec
laration renouncing the use of
force.
Dulles told a news conference
such a broad commitment by the
Chinese Reds would clear the
way for extensive negotiations on
major problems between them
and other countries, including the
United States.
He said the United States will
not negotiate with a pistol at its
head.
And the most important thing
now, he added, is that the pistol
should be permanently discarded.
Events, including the release of
11 American airmen by the Reds,
appear to be moving in the direc
tion of a peaceful Chinese policy,
Dulles said.
What seem to be signs of
change might be misleading, the
secretary continued.
But he declared developments
including release of the fliers,
new talks with the Chinese Reds
at Geneva and a recent speech by
Premier Chou En-lai of Red Chi
na, may mark the beginning of a
new phase in Chinese Communist
relations with the rest of the
world.
Japan-Soviet Trade
TOKYO, UR—A privately spon
sored Japanese trade mission will
leave for Russia early in Septem
ber to plan Japanese-Soviet trade.
Kyodo News Service said the
group will represent business and
industrial firms.
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