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Newspaper Page TextPage 6bxx EUGENE REGISTERGuard, Wednesday, May 23, 1962 To Your Health : 'Morton's Toe' Is Painful By DR. JOSEPH G. M0LNER Dear Doctor Molner: What about "Morton'a Toe"? I drive a truck and sometimes the ...pain is so severe that I can "hardly apply the brake. I had a pair of arch sup- ports fitted the doctor . ' .claims my metatarsal arches cause this burning pain under f).my third and fourth toes, es . pecially on my right foot, and "that pressing on the brake "Started the trouble. After seven months I still n pet pains every day. Is surgery the only cure? C.B. . T.Morton's Toe (or Morton's "Disease) is named after the 'surgeon, Thomas G. Morton, vho first described this trou ble painful foot usually in- - voiving the base of the fourth "toe. : ;'The cause: Apparently a re laxed or faulty arch, along with ' a callus on the ball of the foot, "puts excess pressure on that Joint and perhaps pinches or irritates a nerve there. '""Narrow shoes, and, if present, i plantar wart (wart on the plantar part of the foot, or the 'Sole) aggravate things. It's not surprising that press ing the brake with such a dam aged foot is agonizing; I would 'doubt, though, that braking 'Started the trouble. " "The first efforts to alleviate rite trouble includes shoes built up with padding to support the irrch. A metatarsal bar on the til do sole sometimes helps. Ex orcises and massage to strength en foot muscles, and hot ap plications to ease muscle spasm jliay bo beneficial. m, But when these are not enough, it sometimes is found .that the pain is basically due -to a neuroma, or tumor of the . nerve in that part of the foot, -and surgical removal of the .tumor is the obvious recourse. ...Since C. B. is still in pain 'after seven months with the ..special shoes, I certainly think his next visit should be to an orthopedist a bone specialist. He may or may not find surgery advisable, but there's no rca--son why C. B. should have to continue suffering. Morton's Toe occurs in both men and women, but more often in women, perhaps due to their footwear, which doesn't give as much support as men's. Besides, you know the reputation wo men have for cramming their feet into shoes a size too short or too narrow. The trouble usually doesn't occur until after age 30.) t IB62, Field Enterprises, Inc. Ask Andy Barnacles Are Crustaceans Andy tends a complete, 20 volume set of the World Book Encyclopedia to Amelia Con ley, age 12, of Ashland, Ky. and to Gay De Ho, age 12, of Phoenix, Ariz., for their ques tions: a a What are barnacles? These little shellfish were discovered centuries ago, when the first boats put out to sea. They are still cement ing their stony houses to the undersides of our ocean-going ships, to piers and even to the backs of whales, deep sea tur tles and other living marine animals. But science did not learn the truth about them until about a hundred years ago. The ocean is home to some 800 different barnacles and as adults they never venture forth from their stony shells. They are crustaceans, cousins of the lobsters and shrimps and in some ways resemble the insects. We are used to the idea that a grubby caterpillar can become a glamorous butter fly. The barnacle also devel ops through four distinct stages. But science was slow to discover this fact because the strange little shellfish spends its youth swimming in the vast ocean and its early stages do not resemble the adult stage any more than a caterpillar resembles a butter fly. The shell of the adult bar nacle is usually dome-shaped with a hole in the top which can be closed by a hinged trap door. The smaller varie ties are a quarter-inch wide and greyish white. The larger varieties are two Inches wide and colored purple, red, blue or yellow. The stony house is firmly cemented to a ship or floating log, to a whale or other marine animal, to the underwater posts of a pier or to a rock on the floor of the sea. A small forest of fringed legs pokes out from the trap door, trawling for scraps of food. Algae and small sea dwellers are caught and stuffed into the barnacle's mouth inside the shell. An adult barnacle is usually both male and female and the eggs, millions of them, are produced and fertilized inside the shell. The eggs hatch and swim away as tiny larvae which look like water fleas. Each has one eye and six legs. It eats and molts three times in the first week. After the fourth molt, the barnacle changes its shape. It now has twelve legs, two eyes and two feelers and its fat round body grows almost as big as a marble. Now it is ready to settle down. It holds onto a surface with its feelers and one of these feelers pro duces a sticky cement to keep it anchored. Then the barna cle builds its shell from limy chemicals extracted from the water. For the rest of its life it remains inside the shell, standing on its head. The hard shell of the barn acle remains cemented where it was built long after the barnacle has died. This a great problem to marine ani- i mals and ocean-going liners. A fair-sized ship is cluttered with about 30 tons of barn acle shells after a year of ocean travel. These crusty shells must be scraped away, for they slow down a ship and force it to use extra fuel. Andy sends a Hammond's International World Globe to Robert ScottBuccleuch, age 10, of Peterborough, Ont., for his question: How cold is absolute zero? Temperature measures heat and, as heat is lost, the tem perature falls, When all the heat is lost, we reach the colder than cold temperature of absolute zero. No sub stance can get any colder than this. On the centigrade scale, absolute zero is equal to minus 273.18 degrees, on the Fahrenheit scale it is equal to minus 459.72 degrees. Experts working with tem perature use the Kelin for ab solute temcprature scale. The 0 degrees at the bottom of this scale is absolute zero, the temperature at which every substance has lost absolutely all of its heat and can get no colder. Andy awards each dav a rf full act ol the World Book K Encyclopedia lor tba flrat H question be aelecta to answer Hi When a second question Is snswered a large world globe or atlas Is awarded Questions li sre accepted from teen-age $ or lesa-thsn-teen-age readers & They should be addressed to 3 the Register-Guard. 175 High :'j St., Eugene Andy prefers t that questions be written on ? postcards, rather than In let. Q ter form. R MR. DITHERS, I WAN?) one gooo reason r whv voo i L-i I CAK1 1 vjon't erirv (GIVE VOU A GIVE ME a fS. -HUNDRED i GIVE ME ONE GOOO I"..." Treason --just one ) w GOOO REASON i ' 9 Z& .u2pr I ' 11 ill! 'Hill BECAUSE I'M SUCH (A CHEAP-) Moving Maple World's most widely traveled Hem of air cargo is a gavel wielded by president of an in ternational air transport associ ation. Carved from a block of Canadian maple, it has been used in annual meetings on six continents and has been ship ped a total of 140,000 miles. Northwest Indians Plan to Hold Final Potlatch Ritual in 1962 Six dozen -and the others were for ten and eiaht. That's 24 dozen. IjCgg88"' . ,7- It's right on "V Another neuiVfl n. 17 f' r wag. Lets rusnmpr-for WtTS, "lucu": "?". '9 He thinks M-in Vw fwiner anoiueo . Ahere iti!f Y&WTk It's kind of m XJgSSN At SO a cute with WJirTrriiil dozen that's i The trees I'ffl fffrf I &rg V a"d all.- fyi! li J i little bit lUhg are pe lKaali?l I'VE HEARD ABOUT A WONDERFUL REST ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN, LARRY.. .RUN BY P DR. SINDOOI THINK WE 5H0ULD TAKE r EISA THERE j STOP SAYING THAT ELSA'sl . , MENTALLY ILLALLSHE Jv ,' ,l NEEDS IS AECT,jaa - ' ' I TOOK THE LIBERTY OF CALLING Pffidfr DR.SINDOO.' HE SAID HE'D STOP jfjm BY THIS AFTERNOON TO INTERVIEW f ; j' Xuf ELSA...T0 DETERMINE WHETHER i , 1D-rh OR NOT HE'D ACCEPT HER AS A . J-f wrH0 ' Gone but unmourncd is the potlatch, the American Indian custom which carried "keeping up with the Joneses" to fantas tic extremes. Reports from British Colum bia say that at a last big pot- lach, or winter festival, will be held by West Coast Indians in the late autumn of 1062. It will commemorate a distinctive fea ture of aboriginal social life in the Pacific Northwest. In the old days, clan chiefs were expected to give periodic potlatchcs, as a mark of pres. tige, to distribute gifts to guests, the National Geographic Society says. Rivalry among the hosts grew so great that they often stripped themselves of all wealth canoes, cedar-bark blan kets, furs and food. Dancing, Singing and Feasting The winter festivals assumed elaborate pageantry. Hooded men impersonated legendary animals. Brilliant costumes were worn for the dancing, singing and feasting. Competition and increasing extravagance robbed the pot latch of its onetime gaiety. "The actions of each dancer were scrutinized with great care, and any little mistake noted and remembered," said a historic report by the Smith sonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. "The strain upon a dancer was conse quently so great that, if a fine dancer died soon after the feast, it was said, 'The people's looks have killed him'." The word potlatch is a corrup tion of the Nootka word, pat shatl, or "giving." Potlatchcs of the Pacific Northwest, having no religious significance, were held on occa sions such as the assumption of chieftainship, the naming of a child, building of a new home, or erection of a totem pole. The custom was practiced by many affluent tribes, including the Tlingit, Haida, Kwakiutl, Bcllacoola and Nootka. These Indians were among the most aristocratic of American aborigi nes. They set great store on family status, wealth and pos session of slaves. Not infrequent ly, slaves were sacrificed at pot latch ceremonies. The tribesmen's talent for art found expression in fine wood carvings, stonework, blanket weaving, native copper, and, later, in silver. Required Long Planning Because it took time to accu mulate the necessary beautiful objects and food, a spectacular potlatch might be announced three years in advance. Small, impromptu potlatches were sometimes given to save face when a family had suffered a slight or imagined indignity. With the decline of Indian cultural life among Northwest tribes in the 19th century, pot- latches became more infrequent. The United States government discouraged them because chiefs began to get into bitter disputes and minor warfare. Indian lead ers were known to commit sui cide rather than face the shame of being unable to repay pot latch debts. By the beginning of the 20th century, the potlatch was prac ticed regularly by only a few isolated clans in remote valleys, National Geographic reported. (000 MORHIHt, itTSUal , MAY I HVi MY KEY, Ft EASE? t r r ii ii rjk?rffirffE? 5 - 2 Ai r NffiH r THINK W ACS AM LV-TCOllSP PBO-av-vK4AL A1E ATCCS A; AH, SO THAT IS i 77MT NSW tUEJT AT THT CHERRY Ol AUjl 1.1,1 CCCUC UCOUAlUT "ISINTaKESTeiP. ' NOW SUE APPEARS ID BE MN6 TDUERP.COM IN 1 my wing, then rr nuisr I NAVE BEEN HER MU5BAND ' 1 WHO WENT OUT AN HOUR 1 A60...HW:... SHE WENT i I STEPS DOWN THE HALL, 1 THAT WOULD PROBABLY Bt TO KOOM Zl. CAST U KB AN ACTOR TO COWS TO HCTAtS X CAIW toe Ft or -rue WOMEN ANP MA THE MFNKELLIU J fT PONY CAS vVvJBV gvlt THINa THAT 1 WHAT TM OTH4E HAPPSN4 IN THIS COM- i PC, BUT ItW WA40N To LISTSN TO MOSS Of THK MAINrVMIN4 AVINITY WILL 9a ON THE . HONAU WAHMON0SR. HE-RLS A NICE LI L GUN TO PLAV WIF, HONEST ABE -AM ITS LOAD ED.'.' rr I L UfUll UAVUAUAFBf I A c Ai VK Bl'NE STALK FSOM THE HALL.KtVtAVT l.ICH CntH SUPS OUT ANOTHER WAV ANO AN ANCISNr KITUAL BEGINS... mm I CASE BUT, GITS AKJV SMART o' A I - ft 13 UNt WMUT LU J IC I Arcr Ia.,& J ts A . I tar? m.iy-i USE ITON TH'CASMIER ND'9 ilZ ATTU'RAklK IklfAV P Hi ,1 Si ) HtlUlbUf A r 'I ARG"YMlNT ) I WHAT VO YOU THINK ABOUT THINS, BEETLE? , wJatJ THINS3J 5-:s THINSS f T PONT f IN 1 IWPEPSTANPI - W FROM THE PAPER JLL HOW CAN YOU BE SURE A ) PATTERNS. I MAKE KEY IS GONNA WORK. THREE OP AH. MOSBIE i GRINDER, UNLESS YOU GOT V-ONE OP THEM WILL PIT.' a I nru Ti-i TDv IT Ik. A s I V 1 'criffA EXCEPT THIS OlD XI WONDER WHATS MOOEL.'-yoU COULDN KEEPIN' BIRDIE ? OPEN THE LOCK IT FITS 1 -HE SAID HE D BE WITH A PAPER-CLIP.'. BACK IN AN HOUR. Vol) (EITHER? 1 SEEMS TO ME THIS IS A SORT OF A POOR LOCATION, MR. IOPAR' 5l) I 9l t TjrVr V I 77 HILL IS y 'Ktl A ROUGH j, Y KIM. VOURE WRONG, MY FRIEND-I PICKED VeRY CAKEfULLY. 1 a :l nn 5 ; uu S-2S I'M APRAIO I FCCX3ET IT COP.' ... SO IF . GOT ON6 cant be much I vex.' ce Just vouve anv about that HELP IN THIS PEBFECT FOR V QUESTIONS, IELEPH ANT KINO OF A PEOJECT I'VE" S ASK'EM.X OUT CESEABCHV.HAO IN MIND FOB V ( THECE.' T yK LONG TIAE;... r ""j ly-sr I CAN SEE HOW VOL) SHOOT KOULO HAVE PUT A MOUSES BRAIN IN ITS HEAD ALL RIGHT., i... BUT HOW 010 VOU CRAW THAT BIG OL ELEPHANTS B8AIN INTO THAT LITTLE ' OL MOUSES HEAO? rrCl F012 THAT LieaP. A TUKTLe coulp 5 LXH AT CUTCl'.v) OUT OUR WAY DO sod Y , ( TrlliOK TflATS ) MAJOR HOOPLE L-va ( Dc RyM i Ocuhat An Trig f:eRJ?!' ill a -"T '. - t i AM-N-H, TH' PELiaMTFUL- V,VOO FOOL, THAT'S i'V.f NESS OPTW SEES NUMMIN' ) NO SEES MUW 1 -'"-t A ANP-m' gieps siwoin' is J miw e; sips ' '-' ' jX -i WM"T MAKES 6 .OV SiHKSIW-IT'SA AJ KJv I T'OIT AWAV FROM TOWN" 1 LOCOMOTIVE CMOS- I t J V SO RESTFUL, SUCH y WM' AW WMISTLIW.' WiY,.. seet soowps.' VOU CAM'T HE; irl' U ff S AMV OF WATURB cf fil I I V 1 3 V WiTMATE- - j'vr.r. EGAa,CLV06.,X'MIN AWLFMWl -OOK A TOAF-FIC TICKET A FELLOW .VAS 6iNEN FOB SPEEDING AND SAiD I WAS APEBSOMAL FRlE:NTJ 5F JUDGE COOFEV AND COULD SET IT COOLED DON'T KNOW WHAT CAVE OVEd MS -IWOULD4'T KNOW 3UDSE COOC Ey PROM A FEiJS'AS thEPMECD.' YOU SOT M3LWSELF CAU6HT. IN A TliSHT TRAN50M AN YOO LOOK- BAD FM D,?S YOU COULDN'T 1 6ET TO 3UD&B COOFBV UNLESS YOU WERE A II SH AYlNS I TV TO HAVE MiM CHILL A TICKET AN' HE'LL HAVE YOU IN TH' Smokehouse j t7 -1 39 r - Y i V':