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SATURDAY, DEC. 23, 1944

AXIS AFRAID TO |$2.000.000 'Jackpot' Ordered

; _Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance DISON GAS "DENVER, Dec. 23. — Colorado's old-age pensioners are doing -very 4 nicely at having their cake and Officer Says Allies Ready eating i too, thank you. Sa Through a court order just issued, To Face Possibility, [the 40000 pensioners are assured of v having a “jackpot” of $2,000,000 split of A tac . between them in January—approxit k mately $50 for each pensioner. By Science Service This 1s in addition to the regular WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. — Our maximum pension of $45 for Jantroops have such readily available, |Uary, so aah wg RensiOer Wir get a maximum o or at effective methods both of protection month, and’ each married couple and treatment in case of gas attacks that the enemy does not dare to use ®t, Col. Cornelius P. Rhoads, chief of the medical section of the chemical warfare service, declared before the Senate subcommittee on wartime health and education here. Col. Rhoads, who in civilian life was a pathologist, cancer researcher and director of Memorial hospital, New York City, made the statement as evidence of one of many accomplishments of federal governmentsupported medical research, The subcommittee, under the chairmanship of Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, is conducting hearings on the role of the federal government in promoting research on health problems. Developed by Research The protective and remedial measures against poison gas were developed by research in army laboratories and in civilian institutions co-operating through the committee on- fhedicine of the office -of scientific research and development. A great deal of the physical and mental disability and unfitness for military service on which the subcommittee was informed at earlier| hearings exists because knowledge

of its causes and prevention is

lacking. No amount of hospitals, physicians, X-rayy and laboratory equipment, Col. Rhoads declared, will help solve this problem until medical research has given us more knowledge, .

Effective Pattern +

An effective pattern of how the federal government can assist medical research after the war exists in the system used to mobilize the nation’s medical research resources for the solution of war problems in medicine and health. This is the

system by which the office of scientific research and development and its committee on medicine, with the advice of the national research council, has given research problems to existing institutions, both government and private, with federal government funds paying for equipment, supplies and salaries. This system, which many of the scientists appearing before the committee praised, can be continued without any change in existing laws, Dr. R, E. Dyer, assistant surgeon general, U. 8. public health service, and director of the national institute of health, told the subcommittee!

Committee Needed

All that would be necessary would be the appointment to the national advisory health council of a committee to function like the committee on medicine of the O. 8. R. D. The health council is appointed by the Surgeori General of the U. 8. public health service. Of its 14 scientist members, four are exofficio, representing the national in- | stitute of health, the army, the navy and the bureau of animal industry of the department of agriculture. In appointing the other 10, the Surgeon General seeks the advice of the nation’s leading medical scientists, Such a committee could not only arrange for various suitable institutions to carry out needed research with federal government aid but might also give fellowships to promising young scientists. The most important single factor in furtherance of medical research, on which its future depends, is, Dr. Dyer declared, the finding of and giving opportunity to young men and women in science.

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SHOES—No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 “airplane” stamps in Book 3 good indefinitely.

MEAT-Red stamps AS through Z8 and A5 through S5 are good.

- Meat dealers will pay two red points

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CANNED GOODS-Blue stamps AB through Z8, A5 through Z5 and A2 and B2 in Book 4 good indefinitely for 10 points each.

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GASOLINE-A-14 coupons good for 4 gallons each and are valid through March 21, 19045. B4 and C4, BS and C8 good for ‘5 gallons; T (4th quarter) good for 5 gallons through Dec. 81. El and E2 good for 1 gallon; R1 and R2 are good for §

(each spouse is eligible for full pension) up to $190, Meanwhile, less than a month ago, Coloradoans voted nearly two to one to establish a first lien of $750,~ 000 a year on the state's general fund to insure that the pensions will never fall below the monthly $45. The original amendment set aside 85 per cent of all sales tax revenues —from the. state sales tax of two per cent—and 85 per cent of all liquor tax and license revenues, for

the pension fund. That total is| If,.in the latter months of 1048

matched by the federal government. | or. any succeeding year—a surplus |ing the

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The other 15 per cent of each fund is left as revenue for all state welfare activities beside pensions. Like all: the: Colorado pension en actments, the new. provision is.oneway. * It funnels money into the pen‘sion fund, but no.money ever comes out. If the pension fund falls short of enough to pay the full $456 in any month, the pension fund draws enough out of the general fund to make up the difference.

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Old-Age Pensioners in Colorado as January "Bonus"

builds up in the pension fund, pensloners will get another “jackpot” in the succeeding January, the pension fund will be cleaned -out to the last dime, and will start the succeeding year afresh with nothing in the treasury, It all comes about because in planning the original constitutional amendment of 1036, its astute backers, the National Annuity League, were afraid that thrifty

minded state administrators might good many months of the promised|limit pension.

prefer building up a surplus to pay-

ghest possible pension.

80 they provided—the ' so-called “Jackpot” provision—that any surplus remaining in the pension fund on ‘Dec. 31' of each year must be divided pro rata among pensioners. There was one “jackpot” before. In January 1938, about $800,000 was split among pensioners, averaging about $27 apiece in addition to the regular $45. Since then the pension funds available have fallen short for a

$45 maximum, so pensioners main. tain that even if they get “jackpots”

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for many years to come, the state|pension. In. 1045, for instance, the. d will still owe them money. $50 jackpot and the lien in the gens In the. original 1937 enabling act|eral fund will guarantee a maximum to put the old-age perision consti-|pension per person of ‘about $500, tutional amendment ‘into effect,|or slightly more than $40 a month, state legislators provided that the| A justification for the withdrawal minimum pension, set at $45/from the state's general fund, as monthly by the amendment, should | claimed’ by pensioners, is that i also be the maximum. would cushion the shock against Actually what pensioners have possible post-war depression, done, thérefore, is to circumvent] The current $2,000,000 “Jackpot*® this provision, and establish a no-{came from the turning over, by Whenever Jackpot | court order, of surplus administra funds accumulate, pensioners will|tive welfare funds to the pension get an effective hike.in the yearly|fund.

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