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THE BATTALION Page 9
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1978
After more than 50 years.
Life of his wife may he in jeopardy Edgar Bergen will he alone
PITTSBURGH — A statistician
us completed a study indicating
tl it non-smoking women married to
unking husbands die an average of
kn years earlier than those whose
[usbands don t smoke.
Cus H. Miller, statistician at
din boro State College, says the
Indy proses so-called "passive
Innking" is harmful.
J rlic Tobacco Institute, however,
liscounts Miller’s findings as ' bor-
| ring on non-science.
Miller, long an anti-cigarette ad-
icate, obtained death records for
trie Counts, Ta., lor the vears
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Miller and his assistants inter-
jinied sursivors of the deceased
jnd recortled detailed information
III smoking habits, work habits.
Inn era! health and weight, and
spouses’ smoking habits. The study
only considered husbands who were
continuous smokers, not those who
started late or quit early,
After more than 8,000 inters Jews,
Miller separated the non-smoking
women into two groups — those
manied to regular smokers and
those married to men who neser
smoked.
He computed the aserage age at
death for wis es of non-smoking men
at 78.8 years, compared svith 74.7
years for svomen married to smok
ers.
I think it is pretty seif-
explanatory," Miller said in a tele
phone inters iesv. "This slum s
somess here near 5 percent reduc
tion in life span for ssomen svhose
husbands smoke — and it seems at
tributable to the fact the husband
smokes, because all the sariables
svere constant.
They svere all non-smoking svo
men.”
Miller has many critics, chief
among them The Tobacco Institute,
Inc., a group funded by tobacco
grosvers to counter smoking criti
cism.
Bill Dxvyer, an Institute spokes
man, said Miller’s study, "has to
[lass under the banner of non
science.
It just flies in the face of the ex
pert medical testimony. This is es
sentially the svas the xvhole case
against tobacco has been made,
through the use of statistics and the
abuse of statistics,” he said.
Dwyer specifically criticized Mil
ler s statistical use of average age at
death. Dwyer cited studies showing
more smokers in the 25-34 age
Wife’ study shows changes
group than in 35-44, 55-64, or 65
and older groups, and said that
meant persons dying young would
have a greater chance of har ing
been smokers than persons dy ing
old.
Miller does not agree.
"That absolutely does not apply in
this instance, he explained. "It is
true that if we get the average age at
death of bubble gum ehewers and
compare it with the average age of
death of the general population,
there will be a great disparity, be
cause bubble gum ehewers are usu
ally young kids.
"But in this case 1 took a single
group of people -non-smoking wo
men. The only difference is the
husband smoked or the husband
didn’t smoke. Average age at death
in this case is a perfectly valid
method.
Miller, who also holds degrees in
chemistry and psychology, forbids
smoking in his home or office, and
regulary runs clinics to help smok
ers shed the habit.
United Press International
I lOLLT \\ OOD — Edgar Bergen
and Charlie McCarthy are retiring,
Bergen to Palm Springs and McCar
thy — top hat, monocle and sass —
to the Smithsonian Institution.
Bergen, 75, the ventriloquist who
lor more than 50 years has been one
of America s top comedians, an
nounced last week that he’s ending
his career. 11 is final appearances wil
be a two-week stand beginning in
Las \ egas next week and perfor
mances in Cleveland and Cincinnati
in December.
I m tired of earning money, sav
ing it and then sharing it with
people who didn’t save it,” Bergen
said, explaining later he meant wel
fare cheaters.
Bergen hit the peak of his popu
larity vv ith a radio show in the 1930s
and 1940s that ran longer than any
network radio program except those
of Bing Crosby and "Amos and
Andy .
Bergen said McCarthy will be
sent to the Smithsonian Institution
to be put on display as a symbol of a
half century of American comedy,
but his partner, Mortimer Snerd,
was not inv ited.
When asked why not, McCarthy ,
perched on Bergen s knee, replied:
1 think the Smithsonian was
exercising good taste."
McCarthy said he isn't sure he
wants to retire. "I really feel I need
a new assistant, a beautiful girl with
a softer lap. Bergen admonished
the dummy that "1 can do things
without you too.
"Yeah, snapped McCarthy. "You
can starve to death.
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Anew survey on the home front
idieates a husband’s approx al of his
rife’s working is closely related to
)e amount of money she brings in
Happiness over his wife’s work
ig crossed all lines of occupations
ndall income levels, say s Suzanne
kCall, who conducted the study.
McCall is an associate professor of
larketing and management at East
rsas State University in Com-
iicrce. She coined the term "work
ale in an earlier study, as the op
osite of housewife, a marrit.
roman who does not hold an out
ide job
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wile the workvvife contributes, the
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ntside job. He also thinks she is
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lappy she s working, she said in
elephone interview. "We used
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be wife worked.
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she doesn t.
A summary of McCalls findings
was released Wednesday at a news
conference and seminar in New
York Cjty co-sponsored by Ken
tucky Fried Chicken and Ladies
Home Journal maga/ine. It was part
of the fast-food company s public
sen ice program to study the chang
ing roles of women in America.
Workwives incomes in main
cases arc liberating their husbands,
she said.
"The men felt a lot freer to buy
more tilings,” she said. Some said
they no longer felt obligated to stick
with jobs they hated. They felt freer
to look for new work.
Some said they could afford to go
back to school.
W orkvviv cs and their husbands
don t alway s agree on why the
women take outside jobs.
A new Nielsen study released at
the conlerence quoted 40 percent of
tin 1 working mothers questioned as
say ing they worked primarily be-
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fDMOND, Okla. — A couple
ooving intq a house Saturdav were
mpriswl to find a World War If
ifevsade, with the pin partially re
moved,on a shelf in a closet, accord-
i"g to police.
% Tom Huey answered their
‘ill, moving the grenade to the front
md and asking the Oklahoma Citv
Mice bomb squad for help.
Officers discovered the powder
ad been removed from the gre-
1:| ric, hut the cap was still jive,"
rinev said.
The bomb squad disarmed the
grenade and there was no damage,
he said.
Missing was the handle, which al
lows a grenade user to hold down a
lever after pulling the pin and delay
the explosion.
"Had the pin come out, the top
would have pulled oil. There would
have been no way to hold it down
and it would’ve gone oil in four sec
onds, Huey said.
Huey said the grenade was prob
ably a souvenir owned by the previ
ous occupant of the house.
cause their families needed the
money .
But 58 percent of the husbands in
McCall’s study answered the same
question with, likes it" or "hap
pier, while only 29 percent named
need.
McCall says this could he
explained by a cultural hangup that
justifies women taking outside jobs
only if it is a family neccssitv .
We also think the word "need
net •ds redefining, she said. It used
to mean actual necessities -r- food,
clothing, shelter.
Now a person who speaks of need
may he talking about the need for a
better lifestyle or to keep up with
inflation, she said.
For years, sociologists and
textbooks hav e said a woman gets
her social class from her husband.
McCall said. "We found an astound-
ingly high number of workwiv cs get
their social class from their work
place. It s a new source of consumer
behav for patterning.
Twenty-seven percent of the men
in McCall s survey said they shared
housework, 22 percent, child care,
and 40 percent shopping; 37 percent
said they had rearranged their work
schedules. Again, the dominant in
fluences were the wives’ income and
both spouses’ education levels, but
mainly the husbands .
McCall s surv ey was conducted in
the Dallas-Fort W orth area among
families with median incomes of
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