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THE BEND BULLETIN The Bend Bulletin. Monday, .'SOMETHING TO DROOL OVER "Eitel Mere II" drools after being Judged Grand Champion Steer of the American Royal Live stock and Horse Show in Kansas City, Mo. The 105r-pound Black Angus Is being exhibited by' owner Kenneth .Eitel, 29, of Green castle, Mo., who also showed the Grand Champion Steer of the 1948 American Royal Psychiatrists Ponder Case Of the 'Living-Dead' Hindu By DELOS SMITH 1'nlted Press Scleooe Editor i NEW YORK (UP) Psychia trists the world over are ponder- ing the exceedingly strange case of the living-dead, Hindu who for seven years departed from tills world yet, In the flesh, remained around. You may enjoy pondering 1, too, since It shows there are still mysteries within men which pale mystery fiction. This Hindu was 56 when it start ed. He was father of 10 children, had been an employe of a govern ment department for 22 years. His chief had died. He was in line to succeed. But other government workers Intrigued. First, he was transferred to another department. Then he was suspended. No one would tell him what the charges against him were. He fretted and fumed. Two months passed, while he kept say ing he didn't feel too well and was afraid he might become ill. One day his temperature shot up to 103 degrees. He was semi - conscious. Malarial parasites, but of the be - nign type, were found in his blood. After two days of fever, he became like a dead man except he was alive. No Folk Tale It is a state in which the Word "stupor" is applied, but in its med ical sense. Living-dead is the clear est way of describing that sort of stupor. His body kept -right on functioning. But his mind no long er cared to exercise sovereignty over it. He was gone, yet he was there on a bed and breathing. Mind you, this is no folkish tale from mystic India. It is a sober and factual medical account o! something that happened. One of the man's sons was a fully qualified physician. Thus,' the resources of modern medicine were brought to bear. Every test wus made to find out what was wrong with this vegetating human body. The collective result was nothing was wrong. Temperature was nor mal. But reflexes were non-existent. No part of the body moved, unless it was moved. An arm or a leg could be twisted into a grotes que position and it would stay there until gravity straightened it There was no evidence that the .body felt sensation of any kird. In this state the man remained lor seven years. Once each day, all his joints were massaged, includ' ing the small Joints of fingers and toes. Each day, nutrition was put into the body by injection or by stomach tube; each day, waste substances were removed. -Explanation Wanted During the seven years, pneu monia developed. It was treated with penicillin and cleared up In eight days. During the second year, he developed an abscess on the back. It was treated surgically without anesthesia, and "the pa tient did not show the slightest movement of his body during the operation." One evening the man's tempera ture which, remember, had re mained normal suddenly shot up to 105. Blood tests were normal but again revealed malarial para sites. For four days his tempera ture readings were on a two-way escalator. On the fourth day. he had convulsions. Thereafter, the body moved again on Its own, at long last. The first movements were in the fingers. Within a few days the toes mov ed and so did the eyeballs. Slowly, over weeks, the mind came back. exercising more and more sover. eignty. Now the man Is normal "bright and cheerful as he was before his illness." The charges against him were dropped during the Bret year he was away from the world, nil memory i Kjunuj November 7, 1955 save for the seven years. For them. It is a blank. The report on this strange case was made by Dr. N. S. Vahia of Bombay to a technical journal of the American Psychiatric Associa tion and to journals elsewhere In the world. Science would like an explanation. FUNNY BOSS One of Holly wood's best laugh-getters isn't a movie comedian ' or even a working actor. He's Don Hart man, hailed as the funniest (root-office roan in Hollywood. The Paramount ' production chief is said to have a better sense of humor than most co medians. Now just about the most popular after - dinner speaker in the film capital, Hartman says "Comedy isn't my job, but I consider the laugh at a valuable tool of mv trnda-" f Li i'M ZM m ull m--Trr-i..; 'Km ini emu eora en Chock full of tender pieces ' of pure beef... like real home-style chili Lean, tender beef free of til fat and gristle , , . plump, red beans simmered to perfection ...beans and beef blended in rich, full-bodied sauce. That's Dennisoa's the home -style chili with the just-right tangi oess co please the whole fam ily. Buy Dennisoo's today coses mere pennies per serving for this tasty one-dish meal! Try rhl IIO NIW 2'A-IB. ICONOMY SIZI priced to giv you an IXTtA SIKVINO FRII. Alio at yaw orocar't In th ranulnr MY oz. tin can. Nature's Cure Of Cancer Needs More Study By DKLOS SMITH I lUUti Press Science Editor NKW YOKK (UP) As incredible as it sounds, and despite the many millions and the tremendous ef forts which go into cancer ro search, science has never made a thorough - going effort to undei stand precisely how nature now and then does what man hasn't done yet really cure cancer. Dr. Robert C. Mellors, pointing this out at the annual mating of the American Cancer Society, re vealed that first steps toward a complete, precise understanding "probably" has brought science 'a giant step" closer to the con quest of Bright 's disease, which is remote from cancer but quite serious. Science has always called na lure's mysterioas cancer -cure, "spontaneous regression." They're exceedingly rare but. Dr. Mellors said, they're "fully documented." He cited a recent case at the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases here in New York. The woman's cancer was in. an advanced stage. "Suddenly there was an explosive development of allergic reactions." Dr. Mellors said. Not enough time has passed to show how lasting this "explo sive development" will be, but for the rime her cancer is under a "bi ological control" which was sup-; plied by her own body chemistry. It seemed evident, he said, thai some "alteration" had occurred in the protein of her tumor. It be-! came "foreign, from the view-i point of her body chemistry which set itself to manufacturing the chemical antibodies with which to expel the foreign invader. This 'Immune mechanism" operates in Infectious diseases but it has never been clearly demonstrated to oper ate in cancer. Neglected Research. Problem Dr. Mellors, who is a section head in the Sloan Kettering Insti tute for Cancer Research, granted that his explanation of what hap pened to the woman, was "conjec ture" but "it is clear that a better understanding of the host mecha nisms in the biological control of cancer ... is one of the most press ing and in many respects most ne glected problems in cancer re search today. ( Ways and means of study in, such intricate and well-hidden nat ural mechanisms are extremely difficult, he also granted and then outlined technical niceties with which he demonstrated the presence of localized immune bod ies proleins capable of stimulat ing body chemistry into producing specific antibodies in human body cells and tissues. That led him to a passing, men tion of Bright's disease glomeru lonephritis. Medicine has long sus pected it was an allergic disease, but immune bodies have never been demonstrated in the glomeru li of the kidneys. By his technical method, he demonstrated their presence. I As the result, we are now prob-j ably a "giant step" closer to work ing out a means for the eventual prevention and control of glomeru lonephritis, he said. During the severe winter of 1948, 32,000 catlle and calves and 125,- 000 sheep perished from the ele ments. CHILI CON CARNf . 0WITH MANS) . 2kV -5 V PLASTIC ARMOR A new reinforced nln.tlx rm,i. . cently approved by the Navy and Air Force, makes It poss.ble to protect larger areas on planes, vehicles and vessels from floK and sma 1 arms fire. It is light weight a 20-square-lnch piece weigh ing 10 pounds as compared to 40 pounds for the same size In metal Photo shows test at Bassons Industries Corporation New York City, where researchers proved that a 22-caliber bullet, at veloci ties up to 2858 feet per second, will not penetrate the armor but : will remain imbedded in it. mhvi, uui Life Expectancy WASHINGTON (UP) People who die these days do so prema turely. V The time is coming when hu man beings will live much longer on the average than they do now if they manage to avoid death by accident, natural violence or war. That seems to sum up the views of a number of scientists who at recent medical meetings have ex pressed themselves on the subject of life expectancy. The average American can now expect to live to around 69, or ap proximately the biblical span of three score years and 10. Amer ican life expectancy is 20 years greater than it was in 1900. It could be extended another 10 years just by applying "all the medical knowledge we now have," according to a paper read In Balti more last week by Frederick C. Swartz, Lansing, Mich. At another meeting, in Troy. N.Y., Dr. Maurice L. Talnter Rensselaer N.Y., said that a life expectancy of 100 years will be come a possibility by the end of this century. In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Kobert A. Davison, Memphis, Term., pre dicted a time when everybody will expect to live to 115 or 120. He proclaimed a potential life ex pectancy of 140. By and large such forecasts as sume continued advances in treat ment of disease, more healthful eating practices, and better care generally of the body and mind. Some researchers hold that aging. ItselfiK'a disease for wJi.cn cure nroy oe ioumi. ur. Jonar. New '56 Dodge Coronet Invades Low-Price Held ! Come shin the rewards of the peit Dodge success! Here's the only lull siii, full styltd, full-fashioned KINS SIZE CAR to Invade the low-price field with I full line of body styles! Here is no stripped-down "price special" . . . but a full-size, full styled, full-fashioned beauty that's KING SIZE in every way. This new Dodge Coronet takes the measure of all others in the low-price field on every point of value: Size! Beauty! Style! Power! Roominess! Comfort! It is actually bigger and more luxurious than cars costing up to a thousand dollars more! Win ! 835 Bond Of 190 Forecast Bjoikstcn of the BJorksten R-e search Foundation, Madison, Wis., believes that aging is a molecular process occurring in the protein structure of body cells. He also believes the body pos sesses a mechanism which resists this process for a while. He con tends it is possible that agents may some day be found which will counteract molecular aging. Another investigator of agin?, Dr. James V. Papez, Columbus, O., believes that parasitical fun gus organisms In the brain, nerves, glands, and blood may be the cause of mental disorders and some kinds of hardening of the arteries in the elderly. The consensus at a recent met ing of the Gerontological Society was that extending the life span is not necessarily the most impor tant goal of science. Kquully if not more Important is making the later years of life as comfortable, happy and useful as possible. PURSE STOLKN . HOLLYWOOD lUP) t Actress Barbara Payton reported today" a sneak thief stole her purse when she appeared Wednesday in m nicipal court for a continuance of her preliminary hearing on bad check charges. The University of California has the largest 38.000 student en- rollment of any college or unlver- sity in the United States. . New Dodge for the rest of your life Time Surgery By H. D, QUIim I'nlted Press Siau ioitrftpundent NF.W YOP.K lUP)-Time waits for no man. Everybody knows that. But now, in addition to its wtll-known refusal to tarry, durntd if it ain't going to put the squeeze on us all. A second isn't a second any mure. It's less than a second. The old song advises us to re member this: A kiss is but a kiss, a sigh is -just a sigh. . .but in the light of a recent significant an nouncement from a covey of as tronomers in Dublin, Ireland, the fundamental tilings of bfe had bettor get themselves stirring in order to keep up as time goes by. I These skyboys, in solemn con-! vention,' went and did it. With time on their hands (and stars, naturally, in their eyes), the as tronomers begun tampering. They decided to trim the second Cut it down to size. Now, you'd think, if anybixly was going to monkey with a unit of time, he'd do just the opposite. Pad It out. Stretch it. Give It a little girth so that harried hu manity could move around in it a little more freely give us room to swing a flea, or something, u round. Healthy Cut But what did these boys do? They lopped .0000018 per cent off the second. This thing that they did wus done to a vehicle that al ready was stuffed nigh to busting with time-saving schemes. Now ihut it's going to be slirunk look out, chaos, or worse, looms. The announcement from Dublin said the time surgery was per formed by the ninth assembly of the International Astronomical Union. H. M. Smith, of the British Royal Grenwich Observatory staff, said in making the an nouncement that the second from now on will be calculated as a fraction of a year. Up to now, it's been figured as a fraction of Uie mean solar day. But it wasn't uniform in length that way. Too much variation. Anything reckoned by the way the Earth turns will not be uni form In length because the Earth rolls by fits and starts, astronom ically speaking. It -can speed up or slow down within a given cen tury, and over the long run of centuries it has been slowing down, gradually. So the astronomical union made the second a chunk of a year, in stead of a day, and carved nearly two-millionlhs off the length of each second. What To Do? Well, what're you gonna do? We work and slave, scheme nnd connive, whom ping up ways to save time. We invent time-saving devices. We cram more and more of ourselves into each second, living it up each moment, so wc, can have more time the next sec ond. We take detours. And now this. A squeeze playi undoes our good work. Think o( the coffct people who put In allitook Peleliu after a bitter fignt'while Merrill C. Jones Is asking a that time and sweat Inventing fn- ! Enter fabulous "Dodge for Life" Contest at your Dodge Dealer's HUNNELL MOTORS Bend Is Performed .ttant coffee so we can save tunc in the mornings, and get to work sooner. Now they re being under cut by the shrinking second. Think of the high-powered ex ecutives whose time saving tech nique including holding staff meet ings standing up. Wliat will hap pen now? Will they sit down" Something's got to give. Think of the business leatVr who invented a 13-hour clock tb give himself more time. The thing has slirunk on him already. What of our strides in lengthen-! ing life? Now, since that meeting in Dublin, the seconds are crawl ing over us like frightened ants. The speed-up is on. It's even later than later - than - you think. The crack of doom is .0000018 per cent closer. F,ecl frantic? Tell you what let's do. I.et'8 form the STBBTMDN Society To Bring Back The Mid Day Nap. Stragglers Still In W. Carolines By KOBERT O. MtlJ-KU United Press Stuff Correspondent k'OROR, Palau. Caroline Islands (UP) Trust Territory ofifcials es timated today Uiat there are at least seven Japanese military stragglers still in the Western Car olines, and probably more on oth er islands of the South Pacific, One Korean member of. a Japa nese nrmy labor battalion was cap-l hired recently by natives on the neighboring Island of Pel el in. He was amazed to learn of Japan's surrender 10 years ago. District Commissioner Donald Heron said seven Japanese strag glers were known to be on the ad joining island of Babelthoup two years ago. , We have every reason to be lieve they are still there," Heron said. "A Palauan woman claimed she saw a Japanese recently, and there has been no report of any of them dying or leaving tlw is land. Identity Uncertain Police officials on Guam said three Japanese stragglers were ve- ported in the rugged southeastern section of the island several mon beUeved be living in the dense Jungle and remote valleys of Guam, Heron said there waa no. way of knowing whether the Babelthoup stragglers were from the Japanese army or one of the labor battalions recruited in Korea and Okinawa Only two Islands In the Palau group were ocupied during the war PeJellu end adjoining; An guar, the phosphate Island. Army troops captured the 3.5 square mile Island of An guar, and the Marines and heavy casualties. You have a full choice of body styles, a full choice of advanced power features. And . . . you get the Magic Touch of Dodge push-button driving! Come discover the dividend of extra value that Dodge brings you in the Coronet. It's tlie King Size buy in the low-price fieldl Pi Vatut Ladr of th Forward Look Marilyn Ready For Her Return To Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Prces Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD (UP) With Mari lyn Monroe's personal lile appar ently straightened out, Hollywood's favorite blonde finally has served notice she's ready to return to movies, it was revealed today. It's nearly a year since the world famous calendar girl packed her tight dresses and took off to rum over a new leaf In New York. Last Monday her divorce from 'Joe Di Maggio became final, eidhng what friends think was a period of soul searching and development. Studio sources reveal that for a year Marilyn and her studio have not spoken. Only last week near the year's anniversary of her di vorce and flight from movietown did the sweater girl, through her agent, begin contract talks with the studio. Bun Stop Unless the reconciliation becomes bogged down in contract squib bllg, Marilyn's comeback picture will be "Bus Stop', from the Broadway hit play, to go before the cameras early next year. The bouncy yet one-time deeply sad actress moved to Now York to et the wounds of her unhappy mar- lage heal, and also to try to be come a latter day Sarah Bernhardt. For a year she's been studying pear-shaped tones at the famed ac-. tors' studio, spawning ground for Marlon Brando and Julie Harris. She has sat, makeup-less and wide-eyed, in intellectual circles to soak up cuKure. Her friends have been such un-Holywoodish stage actors as Eli Wallach and Ben Gaz zara. But If Marilyn refcirns here for Bus Stop." It may mean she has postponed hor fight to be a dramat ic actress. The role is of another tnampy, dumb blonde-Jthe type of role that drove her from movies. Loves New York A studio source, however, polnti out 'With Josh Logan erecting. the role will have more depth and scone thnn she's had before," Will Marilyn be able to make a comeback? A Wg personality is never hurt by being off the screen. Talent "Is always welcomed back with open to arms," one Fox studio executive snld. But If-when Warilvn cornea wvck nwrtes. Honywooa miroa w- norary home. In New York she told me recently, "I am happier in New York. This is mv home and I'll always five here." DIVORCES SOUGHT Two divorce suits were filed Jn Deschutes county clerks office. ; Ronald H. Dodson is seeking a I divorce from his wife, Carolee G., divorce from Everett L. Jones. Coronet 4-door Lancer now I Phone 26
