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Today's The Value Of Your Dollar MEXICO (MO.) LEDGER Page A Friday, Nov. 16, 1973 The dollar you earn has continued to decrease in value. It buys less. And less. This fact is called inflation.

We have had inflation a long time. We have never been able to control it not really. It gets worse and worse. Why? Because you and I vote wrong. So it's our fault.

We would not elect to office men who did what has to be done if inflation is to end, if the value of your dollar is to be maintained. Instead we vote only for men who advocate policies that add up to a package of assuring less purchasing power for the dollar you earn. For example, higher and higher taxes plus higher and higher wages plus government policies that discourage more production and less return on investment all add up to inflation. Can you imagine voting for somebody who says and really means he will cut taxes and be against programs that must be funded by higher taxes plus saying and meaning he will advocate wages not be increased unless production is increased and that all businesses and investors should make more profit and put more of that profit into more modern machinery for more production? Nope, that isn't going to happen. At least not that way.

So, the smart money boys in the big banks and other financial institutions are advising people to expect a faster rate of inflation in the 1970s than we had in the 1960s, which was faster than in the 1950s, which was faster than in the 1940s What could really be done to help control inflation? More production is a must. It is possible if labor leaders, policitians and management could get together and agree on it. It is the first step a vital step, in keeping the dollar earned by each of us buying as much or more than it does now. If production does not increase, the price of products continues to go up. It's'jifst that simple.

Production is the key. At the End of the Day Now I know that the Lord is greater than all 18:11. When we read the many injunctions in the Old testament that we should worship the Lord God of Hosts and no other god or gods, we feel that these teachings are for a bygone age. And yet, how many people today worship the gods of gold, worldly wealth, prestige and temporal power? ANN LANDERS LETTERS COLUMN Owner Let His Dog Get Killed In Charge Of Longest Space Flight Dear Ann Landers: This afternoon I saw a driver hit a small dog and drive on. I was so upset I didn't take the license number.

It seemed more important to get the dog to the vet if it was still alive. Well, the dog was dead when I got to him, but it really wasn't the driver's fault. It was the fault of the owner who allowed his pet to run loose. I would like that owner to know that his previous pet died with a crushed head, in a dirty gutter, with no one but a stranger who tried to shield him from the sun. And now the body lies in a garbage pail.

You will probably cry your eyes out and tell everyone how much you loved your dog, but I don't believe it. If you really loved your dog you'd have taken better care of him. Thank you, Ann, for letting me get this off my chest. Perhaps someone will see himself in your column today. I hope Animal Lover From Atlanta Dear Atlanta: So do I.

Thank you for writing. Dear Ann: I never thought I'd write to you but I have a story to tell that might be useful to the girls who wonder why they don't get asked for a second date. Last night I took out a chick I've been panting after for three months. She's sensational looking and I was dying to explore her head. Well, that dolly never shut her mouth to come up for air.

She talked, talked, talked until I thought my mind would blow. I dig smart birds but enough is enough and too much is plenty. I hope you will print this, Ann, and if Miss Non-Stop-Talker-of-1973 thinks I mean her, I sure In Racine Dear Boinged: The Bible tells us that Samson slew one thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Through the ages, countless romances have been killed with the same weapon and it's a crying shame. The smart girl knows how to listen.

If she is so busy parading her knowledge that she doesn't pause to ask a question or give a fellow a chance to express an opinion, she lacks something more vital than intellectuality. It is called common sense. Dear Ann Landers: How old does a girl have to be before she can: (a) Go on a date with a boy in a car. (b) Make a long-distance telephone call to a friend and talk awhile. (c) Shave her legs and armpits.

(d) Go on an overnight camping trip with no chaperone, just a couple of friends. Thank In The Family Dear (a) When she's a freshman in high she has good judgment and a record of dependability. (b) How far away does the friend live? How long is Is she willing to pay for the call out of her allowance? (c) It depends on what's there. Generally, 13 or 14. (d) Are the friends boys or girls? If they are boys, I say nix.

If girls, I'd say 17. You are welcome. Confidential to Want To Be Honest: Fine. But being honest doesn't mean telling everything you know. Kindness is important, too.

Don't pass on information that can't help and might hurt. What's prudish? What's O.K.? If you aren't sure, you need some help. It's available in the booklet: "Necking and Petting What Are the Limits?" Mail your request to Ann Landers, 1 P.O. Box 3346, Chicago, 111. 60654, enclosing SOc in coin and a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope.

To Your Good SSSSKS Dark Glasses After Eye Test George C. Thosteson, AA. D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: I had my eyes examined and the doctor put drops in my eyes.

He fitted me with glasses as I am becoming increasingly near-sighted. I did not realize that I had to wear dark glasses going home after the examination. My A More Sensible America James Reston in the New York The craziest notion that has hit this country in a long and we've had quite a few nutty notions that shortages of gas, beef and a lot of other things are bad for the American people. What America really needs is more shortages. It is not our shortages but our surpluses that are hurting us.

Too much gas, too much booze, too much money, talk, noise me much newsprint are our problem. We need to cut down, slow up, stay home, run around the block, eat vegetable soup, call up old friends and read a book once in a while. Americans have always been able to handle austerity, and even adversity. Prosperity is what's been doing us in. For most of this century we have been told by our leaders that it was our right and destiny to have two cars and a boat for Sundays.

The more. we consumed, the more the nation would prosper. The. voice of America was the voice of the hawker; the prevalent melody of America was the singing commercial. Buy more, consume more, get more even if you can't afford them.

The sky's the limit, and happiness is acquisitiveness, getting more things. Wouldn't you rather have a Buick? And if you can't believe in the latest salesman on TV, who can you believe in? Nobody suggested that the nation's resources were finite' or that our power was limited. We thought money talks and the big guns win. The biggest is the best. We are No.

1. But lately, it appears that No. 1 is running out of gas, that the big money and the big guns didn't win in Vietnam or in the; 'Middle East and that we; might be cold here and there in America this winter. The Almighty Dollar has: teen devalued twice in the test il months. The Japanese and the Western Europeans have mastered the arts of the computer and the scientific revolution and seem to know more about labor- management relations we do Accordingly, the recent talk of shortages of gas has brought a lot of people down to reality.

President Nixon has asked us all to conserve energy by keeping our cars to 50 miles an hour and keeping the thermostats down at home to 68 degrees, and he has offered to set an example. He is turning off the lights, and. presumably the tape- recorders, in the White House at 10 o'clock every night. No doubt he will conserve fuel by staying home more, or will travel to Camp David, Key Biscayne and San Clemente from now on by train. This is all to be good.

The Arab nations have done us a favor by cutting off their oil and forcing us to be self- sufficient at home. Suppose everybody in America suddenly became is quite an kept their cars to SO miles an hour and their houses at 68 degrees to save energy. Also suppose that all those advertising signs were shut off, and Junior's car was sold or junked and he had to walk to the corner drugstore to loaf and watch the girls in the evening, or even that the old man had to get to work in the morning on the bus or in a car pool. Would this really destroy the Republic? The chances are that everybody would be safer anc healthier, that the old mar would know more about other people's problems by riding the bus, that Junior's options would be limited and that, without a car, his contribution to the population problem would probably diminish. None of these potential bounties to American life would have been possible if it had not been for the blackmail threats of the Arab oil states in the Middle East.

By ourselves, we would probably never have had the common sense or discipline to cut the speed limit to 50 miles an hour or stop steaming ourselves in our houses, or blinding ourselves with optic noise from electric signs for pills and triple- edged shavers, and sexy movies in Times Square. But now the threatened shortage of gas, oil and heat has finally brought people to their senses, and the only trouble with Henry Kissinger's successful compromise diplomacy in the Middle East is that the Arabs may agree to sell us their oil at higher prices and encourage us to go on with our foolishness. eyes hurt when I came out into the sunlight. I drove home, which took about 15 minutes, keeping my eyes as closed as possible. Now friends tell me I should have asked for dark glasses and that my eyesight will suffer.

As yet I am experiencing no difference in vision, and my new glasses are helping my nearsightedness. Please tell me what happens when drops are put in your eyes and the result of being out in the sunlight, even for 15 G.H. All the drops do is dilate the pupils of the eyes, so the doctor can see inside your eyes better. He doubtless used a little flashlight sort of thing while examining you, and since light causes the pupils to contract, the flashlight rays would have caused that to happen and it would have been much more difficult to examine you. The drug wears off in a matter of three or four hours and your eyes return to normal.

But until that happens, the pupils remain dilated and the eyes admit much more is uncomfortable. So some folks take a pair of dark glasses with them when they are going to have drops in the eyes, and I suggest that you do so next time. But as to this having caused your eyesight to The world has an oversupply of folks who, for some reason or other, seem to enjoy being calamity howlers and telling their friends that they have done something that is going to harm them. Forget their gloomy tales. am Dear Dr.

Thosteson: I pregnant and I have a tooth bothering me. Can the dentist's x-ray or novocain shot harm the baby? My aunt had a retarded baby and she credited it to the novocain shot her dentist gave her. Is there any reason I should suffer and wait four more E. SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) After nearly 20 years as a Marine officer, Lt. Col.

Gerald P. Carr gets his first command Saturday when Skylab 3 streaks away from earth to start a record space mission. Carr, a 41-year-old astronaut, will be the man in charge on history's longest space flight an 85-day stay aboard America's space station. The spaceman says he has a light-handed style of command and doesn't plan to run a really tight ship. "I guess I would be called a benevolent dictator," said Carr, an easy-going, relaxed man with an infectious grin.

"We have a free interchange of ideas. Neither one of the guys on my crew are the least bit reluctant to let me know how they feel about anything." Carr and his crewmates, Dr. Edward G. Gibson and William R. Pogue, are all space rookies, but by the time they return to earth they'll be history's most expereinced travelers in space.

As first-timers in orbit, Carr said he expects to "make some adjustments" and maybe a few mistakes. "I think it would be awfully naive to think we can go up there and not expect any problems caused by inexperience," said Carr. "I think we'll have to adjust to certain things that we don't understand and don't have the experience to understand right now. But I don't see anything major." Carr was born in Denver, but moved at an early age with his family to Santa Ana, the place he calls his home town. His mother, Freda L.

Carr, still lives there. The move, said the astronaut, played an important part in the selection of his profession. Southern California, he recalled, was a hot bed of aviation development when he was a boy during World War II. Often he saw "some of the crazy fighter planes they were; developing over my house." Carr quickly learned that! for the investment of a little sweat, he could become briefly a part of that world of aviation in bloom around "As a boy it was no problem at all for a couple of buddies of' mine and me to hop on our! bikes and pedal out to Orange County Airport and wash air-, planes for rides," Carr said. The youths would work all morning for a 20-minute hop in a light airplane.

He joined the Naval Reserve in high school and trained as an aviation crew chief. The next year, he entered the University of Southern California on a Navy scholarship, fully intending to become a naval aviatior. As a junior in college, said Carr, he became interested in "the espirit of the Marine Corps, something that has appealed to me all my life." He took his commission in the Marine Corps after graduation in 1954 and earned his aviator's wings. After five years as a jet fighter pilot in the United States and the Orient, Carr went back to school to earn a masters degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton. In 1966, he was selected as an astronaut.

Carr served twice on technical support crews for moon missions and also helped to develop and test the lunar rover car astronauts drove on the moon. The astronaut is married to the former Joann Ruth Petrie. They met as pupils attending Santa Ana High School and married after college. Carr and his wife have six children, including two sets of twins. The oldest is Jennifer, Gibson Is Scientist SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Thirty years ago, Edward G.

Gibson was a bed-ridden boy in danger of losing a leg to a bone disease. Soon, Gibson, a former high school and college athlete and now a highly qualified scientist, will be launched into orbit on Skylab 3, man's longest space journey. Gibson, a 37-year-old scientist-astronaut and an expert in solar physics, spent much of his boyhood battling a bone rotting disease called osteomyelitis. The ailment causes bones to develop soft spots and then atrophy. He spent months in hospitals at ages 2, 4 and 8 and at one point amputation seemed to be the only hope.

"They were going to saw the leg off," said Gibson, "but penicillin had just come out. They tried it and arrested the disease." But the long months in hospitals had a devastating damage by taking other pata- effect on his school record, killing medication than by which was a i rea dy far from You are five months along in your pregnancy. Obviously your dentist knows this. Your abdomen can be shielded and a single X-ray of the tooth should have no bad effect. The novocain is usually given in a single small injection and has no effect on the fetus.

The ultimate decision for this should rest with your obstetrician in consultation with your dentist. Generally speaking, the need to keep yourself in good mental and physical health during the pregnancy would be a major consideration. Four months with a nagging tooth is not going to help and you might even do more Yesterday in Mexico Saturday, Nov. II, IMS Julian C. Stoy of Mexico has been elected president of the Central Missouri United Cerebral Palsy at their annual meeting in Fulton.

Others attending from Mexico were retiring president Lester Meeks, Duane Rankin, Mrs. Stoy, Mrs. Meeks and Mr. and Mrs. Lon J.

Lewis. Judge and Mrs. Joseph McQueen of Kansas City and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William R.

Burkhart and sons, Bruce and Mark, of Shawnee Mission, Kan. are spending the weekend here with the McQueen's daughters, Miss Betty McQueen and Mrs. Warner Williams and family. Anita Buie, Susan Wegener, Patty Mayes, Marva Spradlin, Rita Every, Jackie Elliott, Martha Henderson, Nancy Durham and Susan Haerer are majorettes in the Dixie Grey band this year. Monday, Nov.

1C, 1153 William Haas attended a meeting of the Missouri Advertising Managers Association in Columbia at the Daniel Boone Hotel. He is vice-president of the group. A "pretty fast" 400-pound black Angus calf didn't want to be sold so he romped all over the south section of. Mexico and was finally bulldogged into captivity after a half-hour of freedom today. The calf, belonging to John E.

Elich, 627 S. Olive was being unloaded at the Mexico Stockyards. Miss Bette Garner has gone to New York City for a two weeks' vacation. Friday, Nov. It, 1923 Miss Myrtle Smith, one of Audrain County Hospital's charming nurses, who was operated on last week for appendicitis, is getting along nicely this week.

Ellis Brothers have shipped 17 head of their show sheepp to Kansas City to ben entered in the American Royal Show. Oren Kable, who was injured a week ago last Sunday when a horse, which he was riding, reared back and fell on him, is steadily improving. He is still confined at the Amanda Hospital. O.E. Tucker has leased the Meyers building on the West Side of the square.

having what needs to be done done quickly. I strongly doubt your aunt's theory about her child. Dear Dr. Thosteson: I am 80 and quite active and feel well. My blood pressure is 144 over 80.

Is that too high for my age? What is the best blood pressure for my E.M. No, that's not too is excellent for someone your age. There really is no "best blood pressure" but 17080 or even 180-100 would be acceptable at your age. Blood pressure has to be coordinated with other health factors to be interpreted properly. Such factors would be the condition of heart and kidneys, degree of hardening of the arteries, other symptoms if any.

Dr. Thosteson welcomes all reader mail but regrets that, due to the tremendous volume received daily, he is unable to answer individual letters. Open Forum Editor, Ledger: We would like to thank all those who supported the recent wiffleball game sponsored by the class of '76. The proceeds from the will go toward the junior- senior prom this spring. Thanks again.

MHS Jr. Class Robin Johnson Secretary outstanding. "I was never a good student; in elementary school," he re-j called. "I went through the: first grade twice and just to prove that wasn't a fluke, I went through the fourth grade twice." Athletics and a late intellectual blooming turned his life around, he said. "My dad got me into athletics, swimming in particular, to build up my leg," Gibson said.

"The athletics is probably the one thing that kept me on the straight and narrow as a teenager. I think I learned an awful lot from it." By the time he was in high school, Gibson was playing halfback on the football team and running track. He also discovered math and science. The interests carried him on to the University of Rochester where he played quarterback, ran a 2:02 half mile on the track team and graduated with a degree in engineering. He went on to earn masters and doctorate degrees from the California Institute of Technology.

The dark-haired and handsome astronaut is a native of Buffalo, N.V. He grew up in Kenmore, N.Y., where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calder A. Gibson, still live.

The spaceman's father owns a manufacturing firm and Gibson studied engineering in college with the idea of going into his father's business. "I thought it would give me a good background," he said. "But after two or three years, I concluded I was just not cut out to be a businessman. My nature was more science- oriented." Gibson turned permanently toward science in his senior year when he won a National Science Foundation fellowship and enrolled in Cal Tech. The astronaut is married to the former Julia Ann Volk, his childhood sweetheart who was raised in Tonawanda, a community near Gibson's boyhood home.

They met when he was 18 and a life guard at a swimming pool. She was 14 and a frequent patron of the pool. They have four children, Jannet, 13; John, Julie, 5, and Joseph, 2. After Gibson earned his doctorate in 1964, he and his family settled in San Clemente, Calif. He was doing research in lasers and plasma physics and was planning a long career in science.

Then one morning, Mrs. Gibson was reading the newspaper at the breakfast table and, as she tells it, said to her husband, "Hey, here's a good job opportunity." She read him a story about the space agency looking for scientist-astronauts. "You could see how his interest suddenly perked up," she recalled. "He just dashed out the door to get the application forms and send them in." Gibson was named an astronaut in 196S and spent his first year with the space agency learning how to fly jets. He also learned to fly helicopters, a skill which led to his only aviation accident.

During a solo training flight, Gibson landed a chopper on a flat brown plain near a bayou. The plain turned out to be a mud flat and the helicopter sank, tearing itself apart with its own rotor blades. "It wasn't my aeronautical skill which caused the accident," said the astronaut of his mud flat crack up. "It was that my geological Judgement was bad." Greetings Birthday cake and candles to Mrs. A.D.

Watts, Gail jean loretto Nun- Alma William D. Smith, Randy Williams, Elwood Rice, Donna Sonder and Lura Goslin. Today's birthdays: Actor Burgess Meredith is 64. Col. Gerald P.

Carr, 41, will command the Skylab 3 mission. Carr is getting his first command after nearly 20 years as a Marine officer. (AP Wirephoto) 18, a student at the University of Houston. The oldest twins, Jamee and Jeffrey, are 15. John is 11, and Jessica and Joshua, the second set of twins, are 9.

The "J's" in the children's first names were planned. "We thought it would be kind of nice," said Carr. "Of course, when we started this little gimmick, we didn't realize there were going to be six of them." Mrs. Carr calls her husband "very family oriented." "Really about all he does away from the family is work," she said. "His hobbies are really what I call puttering." In five years of spare time "puttering," Carr built a sports car and reconditioned a bus which the family now uses for camping trips.

The astronaut and his wife also are active in their church and until recently served as sponsors for a high school Christian fellowship group. "My wife and I found you can really get turned on by the kids," he said. "They're stimulating people. It does as much for us as it does for the kids." After Skylab Carr expects that he may have to hang up his spacesuit, but he hopes to remain in the space program. Like other astronauts he believes it must be continued.

"It's our obligation to explore space. Man just can't stagnate," said Carr. "He's got to keep opening his horizons." Pogue Is Top Pilot SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) William R. Pogue will take reading glasses with him into space, but the Skylab 3 pilot is not in the least embar- assed. "Let's face it," Pogue explains with a smile, "I'm 43 years old.

When you hit 40, the old focusing acuity goes down the tube. If I'm going to do close work, I'm going to get my glasses out with no shame attached at all. Anything beyond 10 inches and I'm home free." He's taking a number of books on sociology, economics, psychology and politics with him on the mission. Pogue will celebrate his 44th birthday on Jan. 23, a few days before the end of the planned 85-day Skylab mission.

He is the oldest space rookie America has ever sent into space, but he's also one of the most experienced pilots anywhere. Before he became an astronaut in 1966, Pogue was one of the top jet pilots in the country. He flew 43 combat missions in Korea, was a member of the Air Force Thunderbirds precision flying CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS team, graduated from the Empire Test Pilots' School in England and was qualified to fly more than 50 types of American and British craft. Pogue was born in Okemah, Okla. His father, Alex W.

Pogue of Sand Springs, taught school in a small town nearby. Pogue earned a bachelor's degree in education He earned a master's degree at Oklahoma State University and spent three years as a math instructor at the Air Force Academy. He unsuccessfully applied for the astronaut corps in 1962 but earned the job four years later after duty as an instructor at the Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School. He retains the rank of Air Force lieutenant colonel. Pogue is married to the former Helen J.

Dittmar of Shawnee. They met while students at Oklahoma Baptist. They have three children: William, 20, a junior psychology major at the University of Texas; Layna, 18, a freshman at the University of Houston, and Thomas, 16. The family home is near the Space Center. BHQEILI anna 1.

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