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4 Tlit News-Review, Roicburg, Ore. Tues. March 1, 1955 Published Dally Except Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. tatanl u tira hiu Mar t. lata, at tea elttoe Eaaaaart Orates, aato eel af Maroh I. IS7S. CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manaaar Mtmbar of tha Aaaaclatad Praaa, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Aatocialion, tha Audit Buraau af Circulations Baaruaataa r WEfT-BOt-UDAT CO., INC., effleaa la Kw Terk. Caloafa, iaa rraacliee, Lee Aaielei, Seattle, rertleel, Beater SUBSCKIFTION BATEa la Oriu-Br Hall Far laar, tll.tei fix mealke, IIMl Ikrae neotae, Oalilee Oraiaa Br Hall Par er, IlI.eOl ill walki, ' 17. Ml Ikiaa maalhs, IS.M. Br Newi-He-lew Catrlar Par Taar, SlS.ee (la attaaea), In laae eae raat, ear aaealk, 111. SMOKING EFFECT ON HEART Cranti Pasa Couriar Four physicians have joined in a declaration, appear ing" in the February 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical association, tnat'new laooratory tests nave enown that cigarette smoking- has a definite effect on the heart if both normal persons and those with heart disease. Significant increases in heart rate and blood pressure followed smoking of regular cigarettes by 65 pewons test ed, including both normal persons and those with coron ary disease, according to Drs. Henry I. Russek and Vir gil J. Dorset, Staten island, and Dr. Burton u .onnman, Brooklyn, all of the U. S. Public Health Service. Another series of tests on 400 normal persons resulted in abnormal changes among 10 per cent, rising from 5 per cent in the 20-80 year age group to 15 per cent in the 30-40 year group. Dr. Isidore E. Buff, Charleston, W. Va., who made these tests, recommended that disease-free persons whose heart tests show abnormal results following smok ing should quit. He could not say whether heart disease eventually would develop in these persons. But he said he felt that evidence so far makes it "highly desirable that these patients stop using tobacco in any form." The New York physicians said denicotinized ciga rettes caused the same disturbances among heart disease patients as regular cigarettes. However, denicotinized cigarettes caused less abnormality in patients without dis ease who had unexplained symptoms similar to those in heart trouble, such as sweating, dizziness, headache, and irregular heartbeat. The presence of such symptoms is termed "tobacco heart," and can be confused with heart disease unless proper tests are made. In such patients tested, symptoms disappeared when smoking was stopped entirely. The physicians tested 28 normal persons, all habitual smokers, ranging in age from 21 to 60 years. Nine of them , had sought medical aid because of "heart" discomfort, and the other 19 reported they had noticed some symptoms aft er smoking. There were 37 patients from 42 to 70 years old with coronary disease. Of these, six were non-smok ers, 10 smoked occasionally, and 21 were heavy smokers. After a two-hour nonsmoking period, the subjects smok ed a cigarette and then were tested by an electrocardio graph and a ballistocardiograph, which measures the im pact on the body of the heart's thrust as it pumps blood. After smoking, 25 of the 28 apparently healthy subjects showed increased heart rate and two a decrease, while 20 showed increased blood pressure and five a decrease. Among the 87 heart disease patients, 30 showed in creased heart rate and four showed a decrease, while 34 had increases in blood pressure. The physicians said there seems to be a difference in the mechanism of abnormal changes in heart disease pa tients, normal- persons, and those with "tobacco heart." In heart disease patients, the disturbance seems to re sult from weakness in the heart muscle which smoking brings to light by constricting blood vessels throughout the body. In "tobacco heart" patients, the changes apparent ly reflect a poisonous effect of nicotine on the heart mus cle or nerve cells. The amount of nicotine in the cigarette makes a difference only in this type of patient. The physi cians also debunked the notion that whiskey counteracts the effect of tobacco on the heart, but said it has a slight effect on circulation only. They said the "protection" af forded the heart by whiskey during smoking is "purely an illusion." Their evidence does not prove that smoking presents a "direct danger" to coronary disease patients through constriction of the heart arteries, they said. Nevertheless, smoking is bad for them because of other undesirable ef fects, such as increases in heart rate and blood pressure, heart spasm, irregular heartbeat, nose and throat irrita tion with "troublesome hacking and coughimr," stomach trouble, and lowered vital capacity. They called it "un sound medically" to allow use of tobacco by patients al ready below pur in heart and breathing efficiency and con ditioning for activity. " "Smoking has long been known to reduce physical fit ness for exertion even in normal persons, a fact responsi ble for its prohibition among athletes," they said. "Since this is so, every patient with coronary disease who is a smoker may make a valuable contribution to his own re habilitation by total abstinence. Peak physical fitness at a safe level of activity should be as much the objective of the patient with coronary disease as the athlete. "Okay, Men, Put Your Guns, if Any, on the Table!" druce (J3ioA5at' J4al iJ3ouie NEW YORK W) It's a wonderful world, and here are a few things in it to wonder about: Why are women afraid of mice, when the average mouse can run at a speed of only about four miles an hour? Since most men today prefer rubber heels, why do manuiactur ers still go on turning out so many snoes wun leainer heels7 pine and a skunk fell in love? How long has it been since you heard a streetcleaner singing at his Does everybody have a secret work? Or banker? yearning to hold up a bank? If not, why do you (yes, you!) always have a guilty feeling that the bank guard Is keeping a careful eye on you as you sidle up to the teller's window to cash your payiheck? What makes an otherwise sen sible, middle-aged dog lift up his nose and howl at a full moon? Is he bugling from an inner hurt, crying for a lost time in the past when dogs had a more important place in the universe? Who can exptain the odd fact that, as a man's hair begins to thin on his scalp, he often grows more hair on his chest? Is he just the victim of a bunch of crazy, mixed up follicles? How come when you go to a guy's funeral you so seldom see his doctor present among the mourners? What makes most men feel so vaguely depressed when they see their reflection in a three-way mir ror in a clothing store? Is it be cause they are Harlled to find out how they really look to other peo ple all the time? Do porcupinea actually find each other attracUve, or do they marry in self-defense, realising that noth ing else on earth would put up with a porcupine except another porcu pine? Would it work out it a porcu- Wht is the life exnectancv of a mothball? And what happens to them anyway? Do they wear out, or just fade away? Is there any market in second-hand mothballs? Can you trade in old ones on new ones? Why is it so many people want the rose named as America's na tional flower? Doesn't the simple homespun dandelion, the children's delight, have any supporters? Fracklos And Films Where do some girls get the fool ish idea that freckles aren't a fem inine asset? How many conversa tionally dull women have husbands today merely because the guy of their choice was so preoccupied with counting their freckles during their dales that he never really heard the nonsense they were talk ing, and which might have fright ened him away? It science can solve the nrnblem of filtering radioactive wastes from atom power plants, isn't there some hope it will also be able in time to separate those old movies from our television screens? Ana while we re brooding on the prospects for a better world, why doesn't Congress help the common man by inventing a self-paying WASHINGTON (NEA) As is proper for a lady, Oveta Culp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Edu cation and Welfare, has done a better job of keeping her foot out o( her mourn tnan any otner mem. ber of the Eisenhower cabinet. Mrs. Hobby has achieved this distinction by violating Rule Num ber One almost constantly, out py In The Day's News (Continued from Page One) which is presently shadowed by a set of crazy despots in the Krem lin, who themselves are crazed by the fear that hangs always over despots STAND UP under the strain of living in a world in which at any moment doom might rain from tne skim. Will we crack under it? Will our children be MARKED by this tension? I think NOT. An ancestor of mine followed the trail blazed by Daniel Boone over the mountains into what is now Kentucky. There in' the Dark and Bloody Ground, he settled down and built a cabin. To this cabin he brought his young wife. In the nat ural order of events, and with out too much delay, his wife brought him a son. All around this little family there were RED INDIANS, who were angered by this invasion of what had been their ancestral home. They were plotting revenge. AT ANY MOMENT, their revenge might take the form of an attack on this little cabin that sheltered this little family. Such an attack could have meant death by an arrow, death by a knife thrust, death by the stroke of a tomahawk wielded by a savage arm, death in the flames of their cabin home fired by sav age enemies. Or- Worse still Death by savage torture. All this was EVER PRESENT. Consider for a moment the NIGHTS in this little cabin back in Uie Dark and Bloody Ground. The noises of the night. Every time tins little family heard a hoot of an owl, it might be merely the hoot of an owl. But it could have been a signal by savagvs creeping in for the kill. The father and the mother nev er could know wheUier it was a SIGNAL or merely an owl hoot ing in uie normal manner of owls. What I'm getting at is that lite back in those days was just as grim, just as full of terrible pos sibilities as life in these modern days when at any moment atom Dontos mignt come dropping down from the planes of marauding communists. But THEY ' SURVIVED IT -rbo.se pioneer ancestors of ours back in the deep forests and the wide plains and the rugged moun tains. And tnev staved sane and clear-headed. They brought forth a sane and clear-headed genera tion to follow them. And a sane and clear-headed America emerg ed from it all. So I'm pretty sure we'll survive this hair-trigger present period In which incidents like the going off its rocker ty this siren in ban Francisco at a moment when planes were over the city in the night and MIGHT HAVE BEEN ENEMY BOMBERS will be more or less common and will send us off into spasms of fear. Over the centuries, the human race has been surprisingly dura ble. I think it is still durable. never, oh never violating Rule Number Two. Rule Number One as every gov ernment bureaucrat should know Is, "Never take yourself too damn seriously." Mrs. Hobby always takes herself verx seriously. Rule Number Two is "Never say anything unless you know absolut ely for sure what you're talking about." As the exact opposite of the anonymous, giddy creature who first said, "How do I know what I think till I've said it?" Mrs. Hobby has made it a rule to say nothing till she knows what site thinks, or until somebody has told her the facts. ' BY STEADFASTLY KEEPING her mouth shut on most public oc casions, there has of course been less chance of getting her foot caught in it. Though a newspaperwoman her self. Mrs. Hobby has granted no exclusive interviews at all. The waiting list for such interviews is long. It took months to get her to talk to the National Press Club. She has held only six press con ferences in two years. Those press conferences are something unique in Washington and the world. They are held in the big DHEW conference room. It is dominated by a huge mural painting of a load of hay going down a level valley in front of high white mountains. Before this scenery stands Mad am Secretary, perfectly scrubbed and groomed as always. She reads from a prepared statement, copies of which have been given to the feoortcrs in advance. THIS IS ALWAYS a great help to reporters, to have long hand outs read to them. When their lips aren't chopped from the cold and their fingers aren't too cal loused from pounding their type writers, they can mouth the words and follow the lines. Left to their own wits, they don't read too well, obviously. And when the stuff read at them, there Is no chance for slips of the tongue or misquotation. At either side of Secretary Hob by's rostrum are seated her staff, Bureau chiefs, department heads, lawyers, technicians and experts by the dozen. Sometimes they give presentations. Asst. Sec. Ros- well Perkins explained the social security changes last year, com missioner of Education Samuel Brownell explained the school aid plan this year. These explanations are done with charts. More charts than have been seen since the days when Chester Bowles was Price Admin istrator. The Bowles charts were usually black and white. Mrs. Hob by goes in strictly for technicolor productions that look like Dan dreams. BY THIS TECHNIQUE and by never staying behind or outside Wouldn't there be fewer crowd- wonder. ed prisons if there were more traf fic jams in churches? In later life can you ever cap ture a rapture as fresh as Ihe mo ment when, as a child, you caught a firefly for the first time in your cupped hands on a soft summer night? in a wonderful world. . . you of what's in the President's mes sages or proposals, smart Mrs Hobby has kept herself above crit icism and controversy. With the President's health and education programs now before Congress, this is going to be Mrs Hobby s big year. Last year, of course, the social security system was made over. There are those who say that former Undersecretary Nelson A. Rockefeller masterminded all tnis. But he's a modest, quiet, behind - the-scencs spade worker, to Boss Lady Hobhy will go the credit. She's doing a job. DAV Chapter Praised For Enrollment Cain The Rose-burg chapter of the Dis abled American Veterans has gain ed national recognition within the ranks of disabled veterans this month by surpassing its membcr ship'enrollment of last year. A report shows a total of 76 members had been enrolled as of Feb. 1. This achievement brought a spe cial message to local chapter offi cials today from Judge Alfred L. English, national commander f the DAV. "Your chapter is to be commended for this fine achieve ment," English said. Dillard Couple Seeks Uranium By ROSA HEINBACH Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Alexander have left Dillard for an extended trip to Southern California and Mesa, Ariz. They are traveling in their new trailer house and are going equipped for prospecting for uranium. Mr. and Mrs. Alexan der and family spent many years living on Kent Creek, Dillard. Mrs. Hunt ill ' Mrs. Jim Hunt has been ill with a severe attack' of tonsillitis the past week at their home in Ford's addition of Dillard. Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Buell left Friday for Tucson, Ariz!, to visit the former's mother, Mrs. Mercy Buell, and his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Laur ance, who have been spending the winter there. They plan to bring Mrs. Buell home with them. Albert Haines and Tom Bisson ette, who have been emplo'cd at the Paul B. Hult Lumber mill, left this week for Corvallis to work in a sawmill there. William C. Heinbach was taken to the Portland Veterans Hospital Sunday for medical treatment fcr a lingering paralytic condition. Mrs. John Lander Sr. is con valescing at her home on C. V. route from a broken right hand. She fell Friday morning in the kitchen of her home. Mrs. Calvin Person of Dillard is reported to be recovering satis factorily from surgery which she had Monday at Community Hos pital. Mrs. Susan Winston, an old-timer of Roberts Creek underwent a leg amputation at Mercy Hospital Sunday. Mrs. Winston, 84, had been suffering from, a complica tion of disease that made the op eration necessary. She is reported to be doing as well as can be ex pected. Kenneth Hull, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hull, is now recuperating at home from the op eration he had at Community Hos pital last week on his broken hand. He returned to the Douglas High School Monday with his hand still in the cast. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Manske left early Tuesday for Washington where they were called by the death of the former's nephew. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Brittain spent the past weekend in Eu gene as the guests of old friends, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Leonard. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McGuire spent the past weekend at Coos Bay visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Broadsword. The two families were former neigh bors in Eugene several years ao. 'Plant A Rose' Month Designation For March March has been designated as "plant a rose" month in Roseburg. The month is sponsored by the Junior and Senior Chambers of Commerce. It is an annual affair, according to chairman Charlie Blanks. Blanks said the sponsoring or ganizations suggest that residents plant roses for the beaut if ication of their own homes and the com munity. Cards telling of the promotion will be placed in local store win dows. Announcements concerning the month will be made in the lo cal newspaper and over radio sta tions. The rose is the first flower ever brought .under cultivation by man, Blanks said. More than 2,000 spe cies are grown today, he added, but relatively few are used for gardening purposes. U. S. Army Signal Corps' New Chief Nominated WASHINGTON ( President Eisenhower Monday nominated Maj. Gen. James D. O'Connell lo be chief of the Army Signal Corps. The President asked the Senate to promote O'Connell to the perm anent rank of major general. His , present permanent grade is briea- dier general. O Connell would succeed Ma I. Gen. George I. Back, whose term as signal corps chief expires April 30. ' ' Grants Pass Man Buys Glendale Firm By MRS. 6. B. FOX Pat Faye of Grant Past has purchased Creston McNeils gar bage disposal business in Glen dale. The new owner will take over the business on March 1. There will be n change in rates, and the present schedule of pick ups will be continued. Women Visif Mrs. Opal McKeown and Mrs. Elsie Meisner of Glendale visited with the Virgil McCollumi near Quines Creek a few day ago. Mrs. Gerald Fox of Glendalt spent a day and a half at the Forest Glen Hospital for X-rays and observation. Dr. J. K. Howard, the Rev. Wayne Wattman, William Wunsch, and Carl Koehler of Glen dale and Azalea were delegates to the Western Area Conference of Presbyterian Men which met at the Senator Hotel in Sacramento earlier this month. Mrs. Koehler and Gary went to Merced and visited with friends and traveled through Yosemite Na tional Park during the conference. The Glendale band and chorus will sing and play April 2 at the Agricultural Building on the fair grounds for the annual Grants Pass spring opening. BIRTHS Drain Service Couple Parents By MAUD DEAVER Mrs. AMpa fipatnn le.fl Cntwlait ahnanrl ttm Sha.eta Tloullaht Parks Air Force Base, Calif., to see her new granddaughter, Becky Lynn, who was born Feb. 17, to Mr. and Mrs. John T. Edwards, at Parks Air Base hospital. Mrs. Edwards is the former Chari Sea ton of Drain. From Eugene Snpnriinp MnMav nio-hf a n A Tuesday with Mrs. Grace Kirtley vtciu injr son ana aaugnier-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Kirtley, of Eugene. Mr nnrt Mm TIo-. fn.1 c left Monday for Portland to attend the Marshall-Wells Congress being held there Ihis week. They were accompanied to Sweet Home by Mrs. Cool's sister, Mrs. A. Wam pole, who remained there for a visst With hpr nn an1 iliiiiahl. in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Warn pole. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jack Roach Sunday were their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. rreu vogier 04 unage urove, and Mrs. Roach's brother-in-Inw srui Sister. Mr. and Mrc William Wise, of Eugene. Mrs. Myrtle Miller left Sunday for a visit with relatives in Myrtle LreeK. Visit Father ter, Mrs. Romie Glover, of Spring field were in Roseburg last week jur a visu witn meir tamer, Henry Ouimbv. in a Rnsnhtirv met home. Rov SDaldin? nnripi-went a riML cate eye operation in the Sacred Heart hospital, Eugene, last week and was sprimiclv ill fnr a lima but is now reported to be con valescing satistactoriiy. Mrs. Spalding's sister, Mrs. Robert Kirtlev. of Gardiner, is staviis with her. Mr. and Mr. Sliprmnn rhart- man and son, Brady, in company with Mrs. Chanmnn'e hrnthor.in- law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Brad ford Fox, of Port Angeles, Wash., lett last wees on the Cascade Limited for Los Angeles, Calif. From there they planned to take the. southern rnnto trin iamm ma. COlintrv with a Qtnn in Manr n- leans, La., for the five day an nual Maroi liras f estival. Enroute home they planned to go to Flint. Wirh . whara tha ThanmaMB ,..11 pick up a new car to drive home. Increased Traffic Noted On Highways Of Oregon Oregon highways carried close to 20 per cent more traffic last month, according to volume data from automatic recorders compil ed by the state highway depart ment. The recorders, permanently in stalled at key points along rural highways, clocked sizeable traffic increases at almost every location as compared with the counts for last year at the same time Heaviest rural traffic was re corded south of Woodburn on high way 99E where the January vol ume averaged 7,537 vehicles a day up 25 per cent from January of 1953. The sharpest increase was a 64 per cent gain on the Colum bia river highway near Troutdale. Urban traffic in Portland and Salem also gained eight and one half per cent during the month, recorders showed. While traffic was heavier, Ore gon drivers managed to hold fatal accidents at the same level of the preceding January, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry reported. Fatalities totaled 22, exactly even with the 22 deaths charged to traf fic at the same time a year ago. Between A.D. 1200 and 1800, world population increased from about 500 million to 900 million and today it is 2,400,000,000. Mercy Hospital ALLEN To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Allen, Box 84, Sutherlin, Feb. 23, a son, Craig Harold; weight six pounds three ounces. HARRIS To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harris, Idleyld Park, Feb. 25, a son, Grant William; weight six pounds fifteen ounces. Douglas Community Hospital HICKAM To Mr. and Mrs. Chester H i c k a m, Updegrave Camp, Glide, Feb. 22, a ion, Mar vin Dewayne; weight seven pounds one ounce. a PEARMAN To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pearman, Rt. 3 Box 791, Roseburg, Feb. 23. a daughter, Paula Kathleen; weight six pounds. GOOD To Mr. and Mrs. Gln Good, Olalla Road, Brockway, Feb. 23, a daughter, Gretchen Kay; weight six pounds eleven ounces. DAVIS To Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Davis, Rt. 2, Box 117, Rose burg, Feb. 23, a daughter, Ber nice EUen; weight seven pounds. KOBEL To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kobel, Sutherlin Housing Project, Sutherlin, Feb. 24, a daughter, Laura Lee; weight sev en pounds five and three-fourths ounces. KEINTZMAN To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Keintzman, Box 217, Idleyld Route, Roseburg, Feb. 24, a son, Bradley Eugene; weight seven pounds fourteen ounces. PERLE To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perle, 727 Strong St , Rose burg, Feb. 24, a daughter, Jimie Lynn; weight eight pounds two ounces. HURLBURT To Mr. and Mrs. Keith Hurlburt, 420 W. 1st St., Sutherlin, Feb. 25, a on, Rob ert Paul; weight seven pounds eight ounces. . HANSEN To Mr. and Mrs. Neils Hansen, 831 W. Lane St., Roseburg, Feb. 25, a daughter, Raylene Denise; weight seven pounds eleven ounces. TRIXIE FRIOANZA DIES PASADENA, Calif. uB- Trixie Friganza, 83, a headliner in musi cal comedy and vaudeville in grandfather's day, died Sunday night at at quiet Catholic retreat where she had lived for 16 years. LAUREL LODGE NO. 13 JL A. F. A. M. iy Rostbura. Oregon SPECIAL COMMUNICATION Work In E. A. Degree WED., March 2 7:30 P.M. Viiiting Brothers Welcome W. M., Rolph B. Cooper See. 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