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4A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL June 10, 2015 O PINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bad rap Before we say too much bad about transients, I was clean- ing up trash as I often do along Gateway Blvd. and a transient came down the hill from I-5 and asked if I minded getting a little help. For 10-15 minutes he picked up trash and then went on his way. If that isn’t enough, about 15 minutes later, another transient did the same. Jane Rapier Cottage Grove Don’t grow immune to the value of vaccines BY FRANKIE L. TRULL For the Sentinel ence behind them. That has to change. Few medical innova- tions have saved more lives than vaccines, which may play an even larger role in the years to come. It wasn’t long ago that rubella posed a fearsome threat to un- born children. A U.S. outbreak in 1964-65 led to 11,000 mis- carriages, abortions and deaths in the womb. Another 20,000 children suffered birth defects. The fi rst vaccines for rubella arrived in 1969. Of course, the victory over rubella is only the latest success story for vaccines. As recently as the 1950s, polio posed a serious threat to Ameri- can children. A 1952 outbreak of the disease infected almost 60,000 children and killed more than 3,000. The disease para- lyzed thousands more. Vaccines’ past and future ben- efi ciaries may not realize that an important component of vaccine development is animal research. Animal research is responsible for some of the most benefi - cial vaccines in modern history — including those for rubella, measles and polio. And it’s our best hope for eradicating other destructive illnesses in the years to come. Primate studies, for instance, provide unique insight into the immune system. Testing experi- mental medications and vac- cines on animals is also a de- pendable — and FDA required — way to determine whether a new vaccine is safe for humans. The rubella virus used in cur- rent measles-mumps-rubella vaccines was initially developed using animal cell cultures and chicken embryos. Later, tests on a variety of species, includ- ing primates, mice and rabbits, proved the vaccine safe. Animals have benefi ted from this research as well, as vaccines have been developed for animal diseases like rabies, cowpox, West Nile virus and anthrax. Today’s vaccine research also depends on primate experiments. Scientists are researching ad- vanced vaccines for preventing HIV/AIDS, protecting humans against bioterrorism, and treat- ing devastating diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. In recent years, however, vac- cines have been victims of their own success. With diseases like measles, polio and now rubella mostly wiped out, some folks have forgotten how deadly those diseases used to be. Without a clear memory of the potential consequences of foregoing im- munity, many people think of vaccination as less pressing. Today, around 40 percent of parents choose to delay or re- fuse vaccinations for their chil- dren, with little understanding of the public health risks in- volved in such a decision. Many justify their choice with appeals to so-called “herd immunity” - - the idea that if enough people are vaccinated, a disease won’t spread as easily. They free-ride on the fact that most other peo- ple have received their shots. But herd immunity only ap- plies if a suffi cient number of herd members get vaccinated. Eliminated diseases can quickly re-emerge when vaccination rates decline. Less than 50 years ago, ex- pectant parents lived in fear that rubella could harm — or kill — their unborn children. Animal research gave us the tools, in the form of vaccines, to eradicate rubella, measles, and other deadly diseases. We must remember to use them. Offbeat Oregon History fi ed as Thomas James Holden, and the resemblance to Mc- Cullough had been quite star- tling. Holden could have been McCullough’s twin brother. Holden, the newspaper said, was wanted for gunning down his wife and two brothers-in- law during a drunken family argument. He had, apparently, shot each of them once with a .38, and with his fourth shot, grazed the cheek of his sister- in-law. Four shots, three dead. Then he’d fl ed and disappeared. The newspaper said Holden was a train robber, serial bank robber and “product of the mad- dog days of gangsterism,” who had been caught, sentenced to a long stretch at Leavenworth, es- caped and subsequently helped perpetrate a sensational armed prison breakout in 1931. Re- captured, Holden had been sent to the feds’ maximum-security prison — Alcatraz, where he served for about a decade. He was paroled in 1947. It had been 18 months later that he’d committed the shock- ing triple murder for which he was now wanted. The newspaper also quoted the FBI as calling Holden “one man whose freedom in society is a menace to every man, wom- an and child in America.” Such a criminal resume formed quite a contrast with the mild-mannered McCullough that the other men on the plas- tering crew knew. They never once thought they might be the same man, despite the ee- rie similarities. But they teased him about it, an activity that was made even more fun by the fact that he apparently had no idea what they were talking about. He had not, it seemed, read Wednesday’s paper. If he had, he would have dis- appeared immediately, he later told authorities. “McCullough” at fi rst tried to stick to his story. He was John R. McCullough, he insisted — just a laborer who’d come to Portland three months before from Butte, Mont., to fi nd work. But when they reached the FBI offi ce and he learned how much they knew about him, he broke down and copped to it. Holden’s landlady was shocked by the news. He’d been renting a tiny cabin from her in Sahnow’s Motel and Trailer Park since fi rst coming to town. “He was a model tenant,” she told the Oregonian. “I sus- pect a lot of people about being crooks, but not this one. I’m a little shocked. I took his rent ev- ery week. He always was happy and singing Irish folk songs. He had a good enough voice to be in opera.” Holden had been the fi rst man ever put on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, and he was among the fi rst to be caught. His dis- tinctive appearance made iden- tifi cation an absolute breeze. His mugshot shows a wide and fl at forehead, low and straight brow ridge, preternaturally straight mouth — in all, star- tlingly similar to Boris Karloff playing Frankenstein’s Monster in the iconic 1931 movie. Not much is known about Holden’s story, other than what’s in the police reports. But we do know that the wife he shot dur- ing that drunken argument was the woman who’d faithfully waited 16 years for him to get out of prison. During his time on Alcatraz, his only visitor was his son, Tommy, now a U.S. Army private who’d grown into a man with his father behind bars. And we know that Holden got a telegram from his mother, in 1945, telling him Tommy was dying, and asking to see him. Of course, he couldn’t come. gain. The high fi ber and resis- tant starch content of beans also makes them very satiating, al- lowing you to feel full longer and stave off food cravings; these properties make beans an effective weight loss tool. Those who regularly eat beans have greater intakes of miner- als and fi ber, have lower blood pressure and are less likely to be overweight than those that don’t consume beans. Beans protect against co- lon cancer. Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in the United States, and diet is a key contributor to colon can- cer risk. The cells lining the intestinal tract come into direct contact with the foods we eat; the substances contained in our food can therefore have signifi - cant effects on the cells of the colon. Numerous studies have found decreased risk of colorec- tal adenomas and cancers in those who consume beans and other legumes regularly. For ex- ample, a six-year study of over 32,000 people found that those who ate legumes at least twice a week had a 50 percent reduction in colon cancer risk. So imagine the protection we could achieve by eating beans daily! As men- tioned earlier, the fi ber and re- sistant starch in beans pass into the large intestine where bac- teria ferment them into short chain fatty acids such as butyr- ate, which have a number of cancer-preventive actions in the colon, such as halting cancer cell growth and increasing the production of detoxifi cation en- zymes. Beans protect against several other cancers too, not just colon cancer. High intake of total le- gumes (not just soybeans) is as- sociated with a decreased risk of breast cancer. A study of the relationship between legume in- take and all cancers also found that consuming beans and len- tils decreased risk of cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, esoph- agus, larynx, digestive tract, and kidney. Eat beans daily! I recommend eating at least a half-cup of beans, lentils, or split peas every day. Have them on your salad for lunch, in soups and stews, or blended into dips for raw veg- etables. They can be flavored and spiced in lots of interesting ways, and there is a huge vari- ety of beans to choose from; chickpeas, black-eyed peas, black beans, lima beans, pinto beans, lentils, red kidney beans, soybeans, cannellini beans, split peas and more. Dried beans and legumes are very economical, but if using canned beans for convenience, be sure to choose no-salt-added varieties, prefera- bly packaged in BPA-free cans. If beans are a relatively new food for you, make sure to chew them very well to minimize gas and bloating. Start out with a small quantity and gradually in- crease the amount as your diges- tive tract adapts. Over time, you will build up the benefi cial bac- teria that help to digest beans. T he fi ght against rubella, the deadly German mea- sles, has fi nally paid off. Global health authorities say the terrible disease has been eliminated in the Americas. It’s a rare dose of good news in the fi ght against the debilitating dis- ease, which can cause birth de- fects or even fetal death if con- tracted by a pregnant woman. The eradication was possible by one of modern medicine’s most indispensable tools — rou- tine vaccination. Immunization’s value has never been more apparent. Yet Americans have grown skepti- cal of vaccines — and the sci- FBI’s ‘Most Wanted’ gangster was busted in Beaverton BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel T he contractors were get- ting ready to wrap up work for the day when several visitors arrived at the job site, a house on Scholls Ferry Road near Beaverton. The newcomers were a small group of serious- looking men in conservative, well-fi tting suits, accompanied by the workers’ boss, Charles Robinson. Robinson sought out one of his employees, a 55-year-old plas- terer named John McCullough. McCullough, although he’d only been on the job for three months, was already one of Robinson’ best men. He was quiet, easygoing, hardworking, sober and reliable. Robinson led his well-dressed visitors to McCullough and in- troduced them as FBI agents. The other workers on the job watched with astonishment as the agents arrested McCullough and led him away. They’d been kidding him for days about his uncanny resemblance to a pic- ture that had run in the Portland Morning Oregonian a couple days earlier, under the head- line, “Accused Murderer of Three Tops FBI List of Wanted Criminals.” Maybe there’d been something in that resemblance after all, they thought. The picture had been identi- Frankie L. Trull is president of the Foundation for Biomed- ical Research. Please see OFFBEAT, Page 5A Beans: the ideal carbohydrate BY JOEL FUHRMAN, MD For the Sentinel B eans are nutritionally unique. Beans and other le- g u m e s (such as lentils and split peas) are the ide- al starchy food. When many people think of high-fi ber, starch-contain- ing foods, they think of whole grains, which are healthful foods, but beans are nutrition- ally superior. Beans and other legumes have uniquely high lev- els of fi ber and resistant starch, carbohydrates that are not bro- ken down by our digestive sys- tem. Though indigestible, these carbohydrates have a number of valuable health effects. First, be- cause they are indigestible they $ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM 116 N. Sixth Street · P.O. Box 35 · Cottage Grove, OR 97424 ADMINISTRATION: JOHN BARTLETT, Regional Publisher.............................. GARY MANLY, General Manager................942-3325 Ext. 207 • publisher@cgsentinel.com ROBIN REISER, Sales Repersentative...............942-3325 Ext. 203 • robin@cgsentinel.com E. 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Beans help prevent diabetes and weight gain. Since the fi ber and resistant starch in beans and other legumes keep their gly- cemic load low, they are great foods for preventing or revers- ing diabetes. A study on 64,000 women followed for four years found that high intake of le- gumes were associated with a 38 percent decreased risk of diabetes. Also, a recent clinical study found that type 2 diabetics who followed a legume-rich diet had enhanced improvements in fasting glucose, HbA1c, body weight, cholesterol, triglycer- ides and blood pressure com- pared to a whole grain-rich diet. Since beans are high-nutrient, high-fi ber, and low-calorie, you can eat them in large quantities without the danger of weight Dr. Fuhrman is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and a board certifi ed family physician specializing in life- style and nutritional medicine. Visit his website at DrFuhrman. com. 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