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>SSOCI»"S 'JJfi, ws?mr • .PAGE 14 - PLAINDE ALER - WEDNESDAY, JULY It . 1*7* 'Sill Editorial • ' No Easy Dieting The American Medical association recently published a guide to help Americans regulate their weight the sensible way. The guide debunks fad diets and easy solutions designed to solve overweight ^•problems. >% What the AMA Guide says, in effect, is that one must change ; bating or exercise habits to lose welg>t-U>ere's no safe super-easy ' >ay. Protein supplements are not needed if one enjoys a normal ;^fjftet. Nor must one spend a lot of money on special, low-calorie •' sfocds, though some are helpful. Basically, the best weight reducing program is a do-it-yourself ; program. The average individual needs 15 calories per pound of ; 'weight daily to maintain a stable weight. Each pound Of fat stored • oy your body contains 3,500 calories. A ISO-pound person (needing ! JBSO calories a day) thus must cut his calories by 7,000 a week to j* lose two pounds. < TheGuidesuggestsnotlosingmorethantwopoundsperwedi.lt •utters sound advice on how to burn up calories. Office work, for ' *?, consumes only 120 to 180 calories an hour. Walking burns 200 to 300. Running or swimming can burn up to 600 an hour. Reasonable limitation of calorit intake, and exercise, then, can ') easily control weight-without the necessity of fad diets and Extreme remedies. « ir ft I L Each year thousands drown because sensible precautions are not followed. . The following rules are suggested: I. Use supervised pools with young children. Where's the best place to buy your weekly groceries? Not in ftascow, according to an gnomic-comparison chart released by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). The tricolor poster - comparing the stan­ dards of living in Washington, D.C., London, and Moscow - indicates that the U.S. city is your best bet. Americans would work 12.5 hours and Britains 21.4 hours to buy the weekly groceries in­ cluded in a Soviet diet for a family of four. Soviets, however, toil 42.3 hours to buy the same items. The above example is just one of the comparisons found on the 1979 edition of the poster, "What's the Difference? Washington, D.C., , London, Moscow." The publication compares 19 consumer products in the three cities in terms of work time - rather than rubles, pounds, or dollars • - because of the fluctuation of Drowning Time p, 2. Stay ashore in heavy weather. k '• Keep children out of boats not equipped with life-preservers, without swimmers aboard. »; 4. Teach children to swim early. ^ 5. Use excessive caution when fishing from a boat after dark, ^specially in strange waters. 4' 6- Always carry extra life-preservers in boats. 7. If you are deathly afraid of water, stay away from it. k; Many people can float indefinitely without any effort if they will ' hold their head back so that only the nose is above water. The feet «$ay extend downward almost vertically but if one will be careful I to keep his head back, he can sometimes float for hours in this ^position. Knowing this could save your life. The Farmer's Plight Parti Americans have been reading about the plight of the U.S. farmer, and seeing his protests on TV, for several years now. To understand conditions which have spawned these protests, the analysis of the House Appropriations committee, just released, is timely and enlightening. Committee Chairman Jamie Whitten (D-Miss) believes all Americans should read this analysis, for the future good of the nation. As a public service, this newspaper reprints excerpts, in two installments. The first follows: As Industry and Labor have been able to obtain a larger percentage of the consumer dollar (increasing from 54.4 percent in 1973 to about 61 percent in 1973), the share ; for the farmer has decreased (fatt 45.6 petcentj /^percent in 19TO). As ~tfce farm share of the consumer dollar has decreased, prices received by farmers have fallen further behind prices paid for farm inputs and other expenses. As a consequence, net farm Income (adjusted to 1967 dollars) has gone down from $25.1 billion in 1973 to $14.5 billion in 1978, a 42 percent drop. \ During this period of decreasing farm income, money required to purchase and equip a Midwest corn farm, for example, has increased from $400,000 in 1973 to over $1 million in 1978. As a result, farm indebtedness has increased from $53 billion in 1970 to about $119 billion in 1978, a 125 percent increase. Farm debt is expected to reach $136 billion in 1979--the equivalent of about 5 years of total net farm income for all farms in the United States. In the industrial sector of our economy, prices have continuously increased-from 133.1 percent (of 1967 base) in 1973 to 202 percent in November, 1978. Wages have increased from $145.39 per week in 1973 to $209.79 in November, 1978. Returns to equity for manufacturers in the private sector have increased from 12.8 percent in 1973 to 14.6 percent in 1978. Farm income as a percentage of investment or equity, however, bas decreased from 10.6 percent in 1973 to 3.6 percent in 1978. Although 58 percent of the programs in the federal budget have escalator clauses provided by law guaranteeing an increase in funds to meet inflation (which increases costs and taxes to the farmer), programs of the Department of Agriculture which assist farmers in their farm production activities are included in the 42 percent not so protected. Therefore, the farmer feels the effect of inflation twice-first in increased costs and second in declining income. The Farmer's Dilemma: The American farmer, desiring to get his limited income from the marketplace, finds that much of his earnings comes from storage of his crops on his farm, from participation in an acreage diversion program and from an extra job in town. He is faced with a farm program which again restricts his production and holds his commodities off world markets, while the hungry people of the world desperately need his production. He is again faced with being used as a residual supplier by the large international exporters, five of whom control 85 percent of total U.S. food exports. They sell from their stocks of foreign-produced commodities where it is to their advantage and turn to the U.S. for soft- credit sales or to meet residual needs of the world markets. The American farm producer finds himself in this situation, despite the fact that the U.S. economy urgently needs earnings from agricultural exports to help offset increased costs of oil imports and urgently needs a healthy agriculture to under-gird the entire financial structure of the Nation. Roll Call Report (Your Congressmen's Vote) ' «> Here's how area Members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes in the days before the July 4 recess. HOUSE Windfall Profits--The Home adopted 286 for and 183 against, an amendment reducing from 70 to 60 percent a proposed tax on "windfall" oil company profits. Such profits will occur when federal price controls are lifted from domestic oil, allowing today's artificially-depressed price to rise to world market levels. The amendment also set a 1990 expiration date for the jtax. As approved later and sent to the Senate, the windfall bill (HR 3919) waif weaker than the version sent to the floor by the Ways and Means committee but toughter than President Carter's proposal. Supporters of the amendment said a lower tax rate would encourage domestic oil production. "Your constituents may think (a tax) is necessary to protect them from profits that will be made by decontrol, but your constituents also want more energy," said Rep. Henson Moore, R-La. Opponents favored a higher tax, with the revenues used to find new energy supplies. "When (the oil companies) get these profits in their hands, they might decide that something else, not energy at all, would yield a better return," said Rep. Joseph Fisher, D-Va. Members voting "yea" wanted oil companies to keep a larger' share of windfall profits resulting from decontrol of oil prices. Rep. McClory, R-13, voted "yea." . Rep. John Anderson, R-16, did not vote. Fraud A Waste--The House adopted, 263 for and 152 against, an amendment cutting $500 million from the $73.6 billion fiscal 1980 budget for the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). The cut applies to HEW programs where audits show excessive fraud and waste. The amendment was attached to HR 4389, later passed and sent to the Senate. Rep. Robert Michel, R-Ill., the sponsor, said: "I think it is important that we continue to hold HEW's feet to the fire on the matter of waste, fraud and abuse. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., an opponent, said the amendment would only penalize states because HEW would pass the cut through to state allotments for Medicaid and Aid to Families with Dependent Children. "My own state is going to lose $18 million in federal sharing money this year," lie said. Members voting "yea" favored the amendment. McClory voted "yea." Anderson did not vote. Rhodesia Sanctions--The House defeated, 147 agajptt, an amendment to require President C on U.S. trade with Zimbabwe-Rhodesia , Issed thill (HR 4439) giving Carter sanctions as early as Oct. 15 if he so chooses. The issue will be resolved in conference with the Senate, which has voted to immediately end the sanctions. Rep. Eldon Rudd, R-Ariz., a supporter, said: "The U.S. should provide this opportunity for the new nation to demonstrate its strength." Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., an opponent, said lifting the embargo would allow the Soviet Union to portray itself as the champion of majority rule in southern Africa, "while simultaneously portraying us as the defenders of minority domination." X Most members voting "yea" are sympathetic to the new Rhodesian-Zimbabwe government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa; most members voting "nay" want to take a harder line against his government and continue the U.S. trade embargo against the African country. McClory voted "yea." Anderson did not vote. SENATE Virgin Islands--By a vote of 35 for and 43 against, the Senate rejected an amendment to delete $20 million earmarked to the Virgin Islands government during the current fiscal year. The amendment was offered to a supplemental appropriations bill (HR 4289), later passed and sent to conference with the House. The Virgin Islands, a U.S. territory, receives a payment from the U.S. Treasury based on the aihount of federal taxes paid by island residents. The $20 million is an additional appropriation requested by the island government to cover an expected deficit in its fiscal 1979 budget. Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., sponsor of the amendment, said: "This problem comes up year after year....If they are unwilling to enact a surtax as recommended by Congress and their own governor, (and) feel the necessity of raising the pay of their legislators by 66 percent...then I say let them pay for it themselves." Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., an opponent, said: "I do not see anyone on the floor of the Senate advocating income tax increases here in the U.S. to offset the deficit which we are obviously going to have....When one comes into court seeking equity, he should come with clean hands." Senators voting "nay" favored the additional payment to the Virgin Islands. Sen. Charles Percy, R, voted "yea." Sen. Adlai Stevenson, D, did not vote. currencies on th* world market. Prices, surveyed in March, 1979, were converted into work time based on the hourly take- home pay in January for fac­ tory workers: U.S., $4.61; Britain, $3.25; and Russia, $1.38. Health insurance preihiums, income and Social Security taxes wore deducted from U.S. and British wages, while unemployment insurance was deducted from British wages only. Family govern­ ment allowances given in Britain and the U.S.S.R. were added for a family of four. Despite inflation in America, the U.S. comes out on top overall. For instance, if a citizen in the U.S. capital needs to drive to work, he or she can buy a middle-sized car for 4.1 monthly paychecks. A Lon­ doner spends 8.5 months (based on a 44.2-hour workweek compared with the U.S. and U.S.S.R. equivalents of a 40.6- hour workweek). The price tag on a comparable car in Moscow would confiscate 35 months of pay from the average factory worker there. Some items, such as lipstick and panty hose, could not be found by surveyors in Moscow in any state retail store at the time of the study. But the poster does include a 72-minute lipstick along with a 427-minute pair of panty hose in Moscow, for and 242 to lift the 1. Let ition to A. G.Edwards & Sons,Inc. WEEKiy MARKET REPORT Up unto Friday of last week, it wss still a "Three Faces of Eve," Market. Since early May, the split personality of the market was characterised by some bull trends, some bear trends, lots of neutral action in trading ranges. The positive advance-decline ratio Airing that period showed that on balance stocks were attracting money and most broad indicators of market activity confirmed this trend. Glamour stocks lagged but the Dow Industrials were the major disappointment to many and the one crutch held on to by the bears. Well, this past Friday even that indicator got with the broad market and put on a good show which extended into early this week. Wehsd been looking for a test of 850- 860 and it's upon us. We remain bullish long term, but this market is getting over­ extended short term and vulnerable, particularly in the energy area. We see many stocks higher short term but then a pullback and better buying Opportunities in late July to early August and we see it coming on in one of two ways. If 860 is bested, many bears will throw in the towel, create at least a mini buying panic up to the 880-900area and result in a blowoff and a sharp downside reaction. If, however, the advance slows down in this general area, we believe the market would have much less excess enthusiasm to correct and thus could do it in a more mild fashion. The two most popular explanations for this rally of the past two days are the producer price index for June being up a modest 0.5 percent and anticipation that President Carter will emerge from his energy and economic summit with a quick fix for all our problems. The former is as good a guess as any-the latter, no way, we obviously hope Mr. Carter starts this nation in the right direction as to energy exploration, conservation, development of alternative and synthetic fuels. But these are very long range programs and will place many necessary hardships on our nation. In fact, the top of this rally could come with his speech or with a preliminary release of proposals. With stock prices up sharply, our enthusiasm is down. 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In addition to commodity- cost comparisons the poster includes statistics from government sources on such items as energy resources, productivity, trade, and transportation^ It even points out the U.S. has over 10 times as many telephones as the Soviet Union per capita and almost twice as many as Great Britain. The comparative-pricing statistics come from the research arm of Radio Liberty, the U.S. government-supported station in Munich, West Ger­ many, which broadcasts to millions of listeners throughout the Soviet Union. NFIB and the AFL-CIO requested the study and funded the research. Copies of the poster are available by writing to the Education Department of NFIB, 150 West 20th Ave., San Mateo, Calif., 94403. NFIB is a non-profit, non-partisan organization representing the legislative viewpoint of small and independent business. With more than 581,000 members nationwide, it has the largest individual membership of any business organization in the United States. '? 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