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Smyrna times., 1962-11-29
School Lunches

SOUP AND SANDWICHES A
VALUABLE AT ALL SCHOOLS
EVERY DAY.
Clayton Elementary School
WEEK OF DECEMBER 81
Monday: Clayton Pizza. Mix
ed Vegetables, Chilled Fruit,
and milk.
Tuesday: Bologna and Cheese
Sandwich, Vegetable Soup & Sal
tines, olives & Pickles. Apple
Crisp, and milk.
Wednesday: Baked Beans &
Ham, Sauerkraut, Peas, Bread.
butter, and milk.
Thursday: Spaghetti In Meat
& Cheese Sauce. Tossed
Greens, Pineapple, Roll. but
ter and milk.
Friday: Tuna Fish Sandwich,
Vegetable Soup & Saltines, Car
rots & Raisins, Pudding, and
milk.
Smyrna East Elementary School
WEEK OF DECEMBER 81
Monday: Baked Ham. Sweet
Potatoes, Green Beans, Apple,
Bread, butter, and milk.
Tuesday: Hot Dog on Roll.
Vegetable Soup, Potato Chips,
Jello, and milk.
Wednesday: Meat Loaf, Oven
Brown Potatoes, Beets, Cake,
Bread, butter, and milk.
Thursday: Bar-B-Q Beef on
Roll, Cole Slaw, Pickle Chips,
Mixed Fruit, and milk.
Friday; Fish Sticks, Wax
Beans, Celery Sticks. Peaches,
Bread, butter and milk.
John Bassett Moore High School
WEEK OF DECEMBER 81
Monday: Macaroni & Cheese,
Wax Beans, Baked Tomatoes,
Apple Sauce, Bread. butter, and
milk.
Tuesday: Baked Ham, But
tered Potatoes, String Beans,
Fruit Jello, Milk, Hot Rolls,
and butter.
Wednesday: American Chop
Suey, Lima Beans & Corn, Cole
Slaw, Pie, Milk, Bread, and
butter.
Thursday: Creamed Turkey,
Mashed Potatoes, Relish, Peas,
Pears, MILK, bread, and butter.
Friday: Tuna Fish Sandwich,
Vegetable Soup, Cookies, Fruit
Juice and milk.
Smyrna Elementary School
WEEK OF DECEMBER 81
Monday: Hot Dog Sandwich,
Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, Ap-
pies, and milk.
Tuesday: Meat Loaf, But
tered Potatoes, Cream Beans,
Gingerbread, Bread, butter, and
milk.
Wednesday: American Chop
Suey. Pear Salad. Beets. Cook
les, Roll, butter, and milk.
Thursday: Chicken & Dump
lings, Peas, Relish, Peaches.
Bread, Butter. and milk.
Friday: Fish Sticks, French
Fries. Wax Beans. Cake, Bread,
Butter, and milk.
Smyrna times., 1962-11-29

1861 for a gain of $9.o49.80.
Horty announced that Emory
Postles was first among the
toll collectors In the monthly
efficiency contest and received
a $50 US. Savings Bond. Fran
els Riley was in second place
and received SIS bond. HUI
bert Cassidy, Rudolph George
and Stephen Zielinski placed
In that order.
Smyrna times., 1962-11-29
Students Cited
at Review

Luke Lackman, a senior, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Lack
man. l0l6 W. Church Rd., New
ark, was cited as a "dis-
tinguished military student" at
a recent ROTC review. Also
cited were seniors Ronald Nc
Coy, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Bur-
rill F. Mccoy, 1856 Lake Dr.,
Smyrna, and Norman Pratt, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Holt Pratt,
Middletown.
Smyrna times., 1962-11-29

N0ISE-FIGHTING INGREDIENTS in Super Shell work
for quiet engine at all speeds Shell scientists even use
stehoscope above check eecto Super Shells anknock
ingredients One of these ingredients antknock mix, is
effective that teaspoon per gallon boost anknock
rating five points Alate another Super Shell Ingredient
is noted for controlling knock in hot engines at high speeds
better than anything else yet available.
Smyrna times., 1962-11-29

Doctors in private practice
see more patients suffering
from respiratory diseases than
from any other single group of
ailments. Christmas Seals fight
respiratory diseases.
Smyrna times., 1962-11-29

MILEAGE INGREDIENT in Super Shell is Platformate
Shell scientists in many many places In recent
test San Francisco (above exactly $50 (about half
pn of fuel without Patfoate was fed into test car Car ran
until fuel used up, then coasted stop Qef Distances
686 feet Test repeated using blend Of fuel with
Patformae added Same amount of fuel Same car Same
conditions In this test Super Shell with Platfomate took
6+54 feet (gh) gave mileage bonus of 43 percent
Smyrna times., 1962-11-29

TCP* AND FOUR OTHER INGREDIENTS complete
Super Shells 9ingredent blend TCP addive can help
store power lost due combustion depostscan also extend
spark plug life Butane for quick Peane mix helps
engines smoothly during "wam-up" The gum preven
tive ingredient is to help keep carbureors clean inside And
when the weather calls for Super Shell contains anti
cer That's nine ingredients in Super She'll scientifically
blended to give your car top performance
Smyrna times., 1962-11-29

POWER INGREDIENT in Super Shell works for world
champion driver Phil Hill (above in Fenari racer Fl
first American win the World Championship for Drivers,
relies Super She'll One important power Todays
Super Shell contains "catcracked" gasone-a power nge
dent made by cracking heavier petroleum molecules into
lighter liveler 1t works give you the power you
need for top per- erforma'lce.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24
Thursday Nav "a 1887 ccMrINcI MONTGOMERY
I-'' - - e ! ~ { 1 COUNTY,
Small Poll by Sentinel
Finds Public uniformed

After talking to Montgomery County physicians
this week on their views concerning the Presidents
medical care program, and hearing them contend that
the public, generally, does not understand how the
Kennedy program would work, a Sentinel reporter
conducted small poll on his own.
OF l5 persons asked the following question:
What is your impression of what it is the President
is proposing in his medical care program" Ia said
they believed he was advocating full medical and
surgical care for all persons 65 through social
security Only the 18th person knew that under the
Kennedy plan no private physicians surgeons fees
would be paid that there limitations on the kinds
and extent of medical care that would be available
under the Presidents plan that many persons not
under Social Security would not be covered and that
the bill would put the federal government into the
medical field through granting of wide powers to the
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to con-
troll and regulate hospitals.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24
-

Clearly the need for a pro-
gram to help older people meet
their soaring health costs is no
longer narrow or parochial.
This need is as critical and ur-
gent today as the need for a
basic system of old age insur-
ance was a quarter of a CEN
fury ago.
1t is therefore very puzzling
to me to find this logical, con-
sentative, and fiscally sound
proposal called "socialized medi.
cine"
BY accepted definition, $50
cialized medicine" means sys-
tenn in which the Government
owns and controls the hospitals
and hires, pays, and controls
the doctors.
The plan President Kennedy
has proposed would do none of
these things. What he has pro.
posed is simply a means of fl.
nancing the costs of hospital
care, nursing home care, home
health care services, and out,
patient hospital diagnostic serv.
ices.
Each person would have the
same freedom of choice OF
physician and hospital that
exists today. There would be
no supervision or control over
the practice of medicine by any
physician or over the operation
OF any hospital.
l know that many doctors
have not read the King-Ander.
son bill They are busy people.
Most of them have been exposed
only to the literature from the
ANA that comes to them with
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24
We Believe Present
Program Is Adequate

The Kerr-Mills law, passed by
Congress in 1860, enables the
individual states to guarantee
to every aged American who
needs help the health care he
requires. Maryland is one of
38 states that now receive
Kerr-Mills funds. Under this
plan, the federal government
matches medical aid monies
spent by the states with the
Federal government paying
from so to 80 per cent of state
programs set up to care for
the medically INDECENT.
This program helps those
people who need help. And we
support it.
In Montgomery County, the
following eligibility rules are
laid down for free medical care
under the present (Kerr-Mills)
program: one person cannot
earn more than $95 a month; a
family of two, not more than
$13O a month; family of three,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24

parents more expensive health
services;
. 1t would permit a growing
family to give it's children adj
ditional health and educational
advantages.
. 1t would relieve the grow.
ing pressures on the general
revenues to meet the health
needs of the aged.
1t is, as I have said, a logical
step, a conservative program,
and a fiscally sound one.
The President has recon.
mended it to the Congress. I
know that the American peo.
pie want this program and we
shall do everything we can to
expedite its enactment in its
present form. And although
we have and shall continue to
welcome fresh ideas for any i'm.
provements, we shall not make
compromises that will alter the
sound principle upon which
this proposed legislation is
based.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24

not more than S155 a month:
family of four, not more than
$50 a month; family of five,
not more than 1920 a month;
family of six, not more than
SPAS a month.
1t is true that person must
pass this means" test in order
to qualify for free medical care
today in the county.
But there is no other way to
assure that public funds are re.
stricted to those who need them.
Any one to qualify for Social
Security must prove that he is
not earning above a certain
figure. Labor unions that are
pushing the King-Anderson bill
also use a means test when
they have a strike, to deter.
mine which of their members
are eligible for strike benefits.
We fear that enactment of
the Kennedy program will
bring bureaucratic" control of
hospitals over the country -
and $4,000 physicians employed
by them who perform service
functions the radiologists.
pathologists, and those in the
fields of physical therapy and
unsatisfactory.
The language of the King.
Anderson bill itself, now in the
House Ways and Means Com.
mittee, spells this out
In the first part of the bill.
this language is set down:
Nothing in this title shall be
construed to authorize anyoFed-
eral officer or employee to exer.
else any supervision or control
over thee practice of medicine
or the manner in which medical
services are provided, or over
the selection, tenure, or compen.
sation Of any officer or EN-.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24

their mail. 1t is difficult, how
ever, to believe that officials of
the ANA have not yet read the
bill. If they have read the bill,
the circulation of their litera-
ture, with its categorical mis-
representations of health insur-
ance as socialized medicine
shows a contempt both for their
own membership and for the
American people.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24

ployee Of any hospital, skilled
nursing facility, or home health
agency; or, except as otherwise
specifically provided, to exercise
any supervision or control over
the administration or operation
of any such hospital, facility or
agency"
The words Except as other.
wise specifically provided" COM
pletely destroys the fine words
appearing in that paragraph.
The bill then goes on, to
make the Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare a vir-
tual medical car" of the
United States.
The measure empowers the
HEW secretary, to approve
what kind of teaching program
hospital interns or residents in
training shall have, what kind
of records a hospital shall keep,
what patients shall be admitted,
what generalization standards
shall apply and even what hos
pital costs shall be.
And there is a sweeping, all
inclusive stipulation in the bill
making it possible for the HEW
secretary to establish all hos
pital criteria. That clause is one
that requires hospitals partici-
pating in the program to meet
"such other conditions of par
ticipation under this section as
the Secretary may find neces-
sary in the interest of the
health and safety of individuals
who are furnished services by
or in such institution"
Another provision requires
the Secretary to consult with
a 14-member Health Insurance
Benefits Advisory Council APP
pointed by him without regard
to civil service laws" as well
as appropriate State agencies
and recognized national listing
or accrediting bodies.
But there is nothing in the
bill requiring the Secretary to
abide by the recOmn1enda-
tons of these bodies after he
cOnsults them.
There is absolutely no limita-
ton on the power of the Secre-
tary to control hospitals if he
so chooses.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24
Many Aged Can't
Afford Good Care

The average person of s. can
expect to be hospitalized two or
three times during his remain
ing years; the average medical
bills for any year disqualification
occurs win be over $500. And
the usual pattern is this:
Savings go with the first
illness; a home is mortgaged
with the next; and with the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24

ward to growth in supplement
tary private health insurance,
just as old-age and survivors in
surance under social security
has been accompanied by a
growth in supplementary pen
sion plans and life insurance.
The Federal-State medical as
sistance programs, also, would
become much more effective as
a desirable and necessary sup
plement to health insurance for
the aged under social security.
The number of aged people
who need help under the as
sistance programs would be
greatly reduced and more effec.
tive State programs could be
DEVELOPED.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24
Major Expansion
OF Program Seen

At the end of the 67-page
king-Anderson bill, which we
wish all citizens would read 1--WE
are even fearful that many
physicians have not read it,,
there is clause requiring that
the HEW Secretary shall carry
on studies and develop recon-
mendations from time to time
to the Congress relating to,
among other things, the feast
bility of providing additional
types of health insurance BEN
efits within the financial re-
sources provided by this Act"
This is thinly.veiIed Ian
guage, to stimulate" the
head of HEW to extend his
nationwide role as medical
car" and to broaden govern
mental control over medical
policies and practices.
Kennedy's compulsory plan
would substantially increase the
cost of medical care for every
one. And as has been the cases
where government medicine"
has been tried, the plan would
overcrowd hospitals through
over-use.
In England, for example. hos.
pitfalls have more than 100000
persons on their waiting lists.
some of whom have been wait
ing six years for elective sur
gerry. And in the British Isles.
only one hospital has been built
in IA years while during the
same period, total of 724 hos.
pitfalls have been built in the
United States.
AS our standard of living
goes up, there is a diminishing
leeu LOT such a program as
proposed in the King-Ander.
son bill. For example only IA
per cent of the aged over 65
receive public assistance today.
whereas % per cent were re.
ceiving public aid in 1850.
The American people now get
the best health care in the
world. The mere fact that
there are II million aged TODAY
speaks for the quality of medi-
cal care here.
We oppose the Kennedy pro-
gram because, if it is passed.
II would adversely affect the
practice OF medicine, the wei
fare of patients, and the future
oil medical care in this country.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24

Our citizens over 65 are i'll
more often than younger people
and their illnesses last longer.
They have medical costs twice
as high as younger people and
they are expected to meet those
costs out of annual incomes
that are only half as much =
not much more than $1,000 a
year on the average. One half
of them have no assets or less
than $500 in assets that can be
readily turned into cash.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24

The Montgomery County
Medical Society is eager to
tell its views through the
columns of The Sentinel be-
cause we believe the public is
not being given all of the facts
in connection with the admins
tration's program.
Because Of this, and be-
cause the issues are complex,
the public, generally, does not
understand everything that is
involved.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24
Private Plans
Are Inadequate

Private, voluntary insurance
organizations cannot do the job
because they must charge prem
iums the aged cannot afford to
pay or else cut the protection
provided to the point where it
is of little value. The only al
tentative open to private COM
panies would be to charge
younger people higher premi.
umS and thus have them bear
part of the costs of the older
group of insured. Then, be-
cause participation is voluntary,
the trend inevitably would be
for the young people to drop
out, leaving only the high-risk,
high-cost group of older people,
paying far less than the cost
of their protection. Thus we
find ourselves right back where
we started.
Our social security program
has been in operation for over
a quarter of a century. There
was opposition to it's enact
ment; there were dire predic-
tons about what it would do to
our form of Government, to our
economy, and to the moral fiber
of our citizens.
Well, social security has not
led to socialism; it has not de-
stroyed free enterprise, and it
has not made our people into
"regimented slaves" or slack
ers."
Today few of the opponents
who made these predictions
would want to risk the ups
and downs of our economy
without the cushion of the 81
billion paid out each month to
IL million retired and disabled
workers, their wives and the
widows and orphans of work.
ers who have died.
Just 25 years ago this month,
in an 8 to l decision, Justice
Cardozo wrote:
''Needs that were narrow
or parochial a century ago
may be interviewer in our day
with the well-being of the Ma
ton. What is critical or ur-
gent changes with the
times -"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24
Here's What Bill
Would Not Do!

so much has been said about
what the Kennedy, or King-An.
derson, bill would do, it would
seem only fair to tell the public
what the proposal would not do.
The measure:
Would not cover 2.5 million
aged not enrolled in Social
Security (these people would
get nothing, regardless of their
health and financial problems.)
Would not be limited to
helping those who needed help
Git would pay the bill for many
well able to pay their own way;
even millionaires would get a
free ride on taxes paid by those
working under Social Security.
Would not favor the low in
come worker Git would require
everyone, regardless of income,
to pay the same amount of tax
at the same rate.
Would not take into consid-
GRAFTON the money already paid
into private health insurance,
now held by nine million aged.
Would not pay for medi-
clnes used outside a hospital.
Would not pay for any,
thing until the beneficiary goes
to a hospital.
Would not cover any care
in any mental or tuberculosis
hospital.
Would not cover care in
any veterans, service or other
government hospital.
. Would not cover all hos
pital costs Git includes a $50
deductible provision which re.
quires patients to pay $40 a day
for disqualification for each of
the first nine days, regardless
of his ability to pay.
. Would not cover full dag.
nosis (patient would pay first
$40 on diagnosis).
. Would not cover dental
bills.
. Would not cover private
surgeons fees.
. Would not cover cost of a
private Doctors services at
home, office or hospital.
. Would not be financially
sound (health insurance experts
say that even with the drastic
ally trimmed benefits, the cost
OF the program would be more
than twice the amount of esti-
mated revenue from the pro-
posed payroll tax.
. Would not cover the costs
of preventive medicine.
What the Kennedy plan will
do, Is to provide partial pay.
ment Of hospital bills for aged
who are under Social Security
and some nursing home care.
Under present medical care
practice in the United States,
the well.to-do elderly already
have good medical care and the
aged poor are cared for under
state medical INDECENT plans.
That leaves, then, the aged
who are in economic brackets
in between, and a majority of
these are already covered in
large part by health insurance
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24
The Doctors Say

Montgomery County physicians
And
There thought at this
200
will
to social security,
But believe
in
that opening nt-conton
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24
Kerr-Mills Plan
Is Still Limited

Although the Kerr-MilIs bill
enacted in 1860 provides Federal
grants to the States to match
State and local money for medi
cal assistance to the aged, only
half the States have as yet put
such a program into operation
The bulk of THE money now
paid out - almost 80 cents Out
of every dollar - is being spent
in 4 States = New York, Massa.
chusetts, Michigan, and Califor.
mia. And nearly half of all the
cases opened in these 4 States
through the end of February
1862 were transferred from old
age assistance rolls.
There is a sharp contrast
between this approach and a
program under which work.
ing people would be able to
build up health protection for
their later years through
small additional contributions
in the social security taxes
they and their employers now
pay toward their retirement,
survivors, and disability pro.
lection.
Moreover, there would be no
guesswork with the social Sc.
curity approach. Both the bene.
fits and the financing would be
clearly set forth in the law and
could be changed only by
changing the law.
The social security system
was soundly financed in the be,
ginning; it is soundly financed
now = both for the years i'm.
mediately ahead and on into the
long-range future. No other as.
pect of the social security sys.
tenn has received more careful
attention - by the Congress,
by the Executive Branch, and
by outside experts than the
provisions for financing bene'
fits. Every study has shown
the program to be fiscally
sound, and the passage of time
has borne out these judgments,
Like the present system, the
program of health insurance
under social security would be
self-financing.
l know of no better way to
protect the soundness of a pro
gram than to tie the benefits
directly to the costs, and to
make both the benefits and the
costs of those benefits known
to the participants who win be
paying those costs.
This method Of meeting the
problem is both conservative
and consistent with our Amer.
lean tradition of self reliance.
1t let's people help themselves,
lets them hold their heads
high.
1t can be put into effect
quickly, and it would be effec
tive in meeting the problem fol-
the present and for the future
. 1t would help those still In
the work force to prepare fol-
the health costs of their own
old age;
. 1t would relieve these
younger people Of the respon.
sibility and the cost of their
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24

policies including Blue Cross
and Blue Shield plans.
More than nine million, or
SO per cent of the aged al
ready have protected them
selves against the cost of un-
expected illness and accidents
through health insurance. The
number of these has tripled in
the last 10 years. And the aged
are buying health insurance at
a faster rate than any other age
group.
A major argument Of the
King Anderson bill propO.
nents is that no American
should be required to take a
"pauper's oath" in order to
qualify under existing pro.
grams for care of the medi.
cally INDECENT.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-05-24

The bill will be paid one way
or another. If it is not paid
through the social security
trust funds out of contributions
from workers and their employ
ers, it will be paid by every
taxpayer in some other way.