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EUtiEN'E REGISTER-GUARD, Friday, AprU 6, 1962 Page SBxix
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The deep green waters of
the McKenzie are flowing
swiftly from pool to pool. A
faint tinge of color is present
from the melting snow. In the
quiet pools a fish rises for a
May fly and an occasional
kingfisher wings his way up
river to a better fishing pool.
But this peaceful scene will
be replaced by a colorful ar
ray of some 200 boats next
week (April 15) when the 24th
annual White Water Boat Pa
rade will float the river from
Redsides to the Leaburg Dam.
The first W.W.B.P. was
held by a group of guides on
a family outing in 1938. On
succeeding years other river
runners joined them and soon
the boats numbered over one
hundred. This year will see
more than 200 floating crafts
of all kinds shoot the 20 miles
of rapids.
Thousands of spectators line
Ask Andy
Quicksilver Is a Fascinating Substance
Andy sends a complete,
20-volume set of the World
Book Encyclopedia to Scott
Woodside, age S. Ottawa On
tario, for his question:
What Is Quicksilver?
Quicksilver is that shiny
grey thread in the thermome
ter which goes up when you
have a fever. It is the same
shiny thread which tells the
temperature on a weather
thermometer and it is the
same thread which rises and
falls to show air pressure on
a barometer. If you have seen
it only sealed away in one of
, these thin glass tubes, you
would never guess what a fac
cinating substance this quick
silver is.
If you break a thermome
ter, a few drops of quicksilver
may run out from the tiny
glass tube. It looks like silver
and behaves like drops of
water. A small puddle may
separate into drops like sil
very beads and, when several
drops touch each other, they
merge again into a puddle.
Watch out, or the silvery
beads will run down a slope
or run right off a table. Watch
out also to keep this frisky
silver away from your mouth
Andy awards each day a
full set of the World Book
Encyclopedia for tho first
question he selects to answer
s When a second question Is
answered a large world globe
, or atlas Is awarded. Questions
are accepted from teen-age
Si or less-than-teen-age readers
rhcy should be addressed to
the Register-Guard, 975 High
y St., Eugene. Andy prefers $
that questions be written on h
postcards, rather than in let-
ter form.
HAIN'T NO MORE.
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the banks to see the boats
come by and to see an occa
sional boat capsize. This hap
pens quite frequently. In the
past years ten per cent of the
boats have tipped over. Clover
Point, just above Nimrod, is
the first place where accidents
are expected. The parade
reaches this point about 11:30.
In the afternoon the hot
spot is Martin Rapids, which
is reached about 2:30. This is
the biggest rapids on the riv
er and every minute is filled
with spills or near misses.
Hundreds of cars cross Good
pasture Bridge and go up
river to watch the excitement
of boats coming through.
The McKenzie River Guides
have patrol boats throughout
the floating craft to pick any
unfortunate adventurer out of
the water. They ask all par
ticipants to wear life pre
servers because this is a very
and food for it is poisonius.
We call this wonder stuff
mercury, though the old name
quicksilver was a very good
one. In days gone by, the
word quick used to mean liv
ing and mercury certainly acts
like living silver or quick
silver. Actually, the wonder
ful material is metal. It is so
full of life because it is the
only metal which reaches its
liquid state at ordinary tem
peratures. Iron, copper, gold
and aluminum are stiff and
solid because they are frozen
at ordinary temperatures.
Mercury too can be frozen
solid, but the temperature
has to be a chilly 38 degrees
To Your Good Health
Tic Douloureux Strikes With Savage Pain
By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER
Dear Doctor Molner: We
read your article on tic dou
loureux with great interest,
as my husband had it for 14
years. Six years ago he had
an operation performed by a
neuosurgeon. It has given
him great relief.
The surgeon said my hus
band would have to trade,
pain for numbness, which he
was very willing to do.
MRS. E. G.
Tic douloureux is an afflic
tion of the trigeminal nerve,
which is particularly sensitive
to pain. The nerve is part of
our protection against damag
ing the delicate organs of the
face eyes, nose, mouth, etc.
When for some reason the
nerve is injured or affected, it
I tranmits pain signals with great
CAREFUL:
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important safety measure.
The parade is slated to leave
Redsides at 10:00 in the morn
ing and reach West's gravel
bar where a lunch is served
about 12:30. An interesting
and lively program, including
presentation of the beautiful
White Water Queen and her
court, will be going on until
time to continue on down the
river. Other good places to
watch the boats go by are
Cooks Rapids about 11:00
o'clock, Bear Creek at 1:30
and Gate Creek towards the
end of the run. Boats take out
at the dam about four o'clock.
Invited guests of the guides
are made up of radio, televi
sion, newspaper, movie and
magazine writers, as well as
state and national dignitaries.
Some funny and unusual
things happen on the run. One
time a large fat lady fell out
of the boat in a big rapids.
below zero. On such a bit
terly cold day, the runny
mercury in a thermometer
would become solid like a
sliver of iron. It could not
move up and down to tell us
the temperature or whether
we have a fever. In an oven
at 675 Fahrenheit degrees,
our runny mercury would
boil away and become a gas
eous vapor.
In the modern world, we
have about 3,000 different
jobs for mercury to do. But
we have to dig for our sup
plies of this wonderful met
al. We find it as an ore,
mixed with other minerals.
One mercury ore is a bright
intensity. Tic douloureux has
been compared to "a toothache
of the face," "a headache lower
down," or "an acute attack of.
sinus that keeps on and on."
It has a tendency to start and
stop, which gives the victim a
little time to relax between as
saults. But it's savage. .
I wish that all who are read
ing this column will never ex
perience it but I know better,
statistically. Some readers, com
fortable now, will have it.
"Tic" is not always as severe
or lasting as in today's case.
Sometimes the situation cor
rects itself. Whatever is bother
ing the nerve ceases to do so.
Alcohol injections are some
times used to deaden or anes
thetize the nerve for a matter
of weeks or perhaps even
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Her husband was trying to
row with one hand and bring
her into the boat with the
other. The over-balanced boat
rapidly filled and soon they
were both in the water. A
low-sided boat will slowly fill
with water in the big waves
and sink from underneath its
passengers. Two or three
boats will get too close to
gether for rowing and all will
float helpless through a white
foaming run. I have seen a
poorly made boat disintegrate
into a mass of boards in the
first rapids it hit. Sometimes
a boat will stall in a huge
wave and throw the oarsman
into the icy water, leaving the
amazed passenger to float
through alone.
This event on April 15 is
the official opening of spring
in the upper McKenzie Valley.
Everybody is invited to join
us.
red stone called cinnabar. In
this rocky ore, the mercury
is combined with sulphur.
When the red rock is heat
ed, the mercury steams off
as gas where it can be caught
and allowed to cool in silvery
drops. A cinnabar mine in
Spain has been yielding mer
cury for almost 3,000 years.
Mercury vapor is used in
ultraviolet and other lamps.
It is combined with other
elements to make explosives,
paints, disinfectants and germ
killers. It is used in making
paints and dyes and there is
mercury in the pretty red
mercurochrome you put on a
cut finger.
months, in the hope that the
trouble will end.
Sometimes it doesn't. Then
cutting the nerve is the last re
sort. With the nerve once cut,
the pain impulses no longer can
reach the brain, and the patient
is permanently comfortable.
It is, indeed, a matter of
"trading pain for numbness,"
and after continued pain, the
numbness is a reasonable price
to pay. -
Dear Dr. Molner: What
causes cold sores? H.C.C.
A virus involving the root of
a nerve. You'll notice that if a
person is subject to cold sores,
they tend to recur in the same
area. Why? Because some par
ticular nerve may be vulner
able to repeated attacks.
Q1S62, Field Enterprises, Inc.
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