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1 Chinese Goat Hair Erases Bad Luck For Lifelong Cripple in Midwest St. Louis (U.R) When Wil liam H. Zimmerman's idea in volving the use of goat hair clicked two years ago, it snapped a string of bad luck that had dogged him since childhood. Zimmerman was five years old when he tumbled off of a school yard fence and severely injured his right hip. Tuberculosis of the joint followed. Seven years later he broke his right knee in another fall and the resultant infection nearly proved fatal. The series of misfortunes kept Zimmerman in the hospital and away from his studies. When he was graduated from the eighth grade in 1930, he was 19 years old. Lame and broke, Zimmerman went out to California to regain his health and find employment. A caddying job helped him re gain the use of his game leg and Starts Wednesday VALLEY DRIVE-IN THEATEI THE SCREEN'S FIRST PASSION PLAY IN 53 Bible Tableaux Colt of 3.000 TIE SIEITEST STIIY EIEI TILI J COLOR f J I J- ! ems. Itdm HAM DINNER Sunday, Apr. 16, 12 :30 to 4 p.m GRIFFIN CREEK SCHOOL Adults $1.00 Children under 12 50c Benefit Lunch Fund also enabled him to add 100 pounds to his skinny, 96-pound frame. Jobs Hard to Find Recuperation, however, proved much easier than finding a steady job. Zimmerman tried everything, from selling vacuum cleaners to publishing business directories. Then fortune smiled. He got a job as a clerk in a San Diego radio repair shop at $22.50 a week. Within six months, am bitious, energetic Zimmerman had become a joint owner of the store. By the end of the war, a profitable $75,000 business had been developed. But adversity again plagued Zimmerman. Competition in the over-crowded radio repair field forced the shop into bankruptcy. Zimmerman, now married and the father of two children, de cided to try a different tack. For a long time he had thought about inventing a device, attached to the tone arm of a phonograph, whieh would keep the needle clean and records dust-free. Savings InvttUd Zimmerman took his life-savings, $2,700, and used them to finance his invention. Working long into the night, day after day, he eventually completed the device except for one item hBir. Zimmerman needed a hair for his needle brush that, while porous, wouldn't generate static electric ity. "I guess I tried out more than 100 different kinds of hair, everything from human hair to dog hair," he recalled. A tip from a national brush company put him on the trail of the Chinese goat. The hair off its ears worked perfectly. Zim merman was ready to sell his product. Demand Grows After a slow start, retailers were soon demanding the device, contained in a plastic brush-cup and secured by a Y-shaped met al holder. The inventor formed the Zim Products company in October, 1948. 9 TRIBUNE Classified ADS THE CHEAPEST WAY TO BUY OR SELL Your Health and lis Care By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, M.O. Readers should address inquiries is: Dr. William Brady, 265 El Cimino, Bavarly Hilts. Calif. a VI Tdi u NNNFi DRIVE IN theatre MS8nS?AMi-H-' Once you recommended o good medical cyclopedia for women, but x have mislaid the nnme of It. If any good book is available I'd like to net a copy. I am approaching the critical age. (Miss E. W.) Answer You're lucky. I mean lucky that you mislaid the name of the doc tor book. Your education wai neglect edelse you would have no morbid dread of the so-called "critical age" forty or fifty is as "critical' a period an ten or twenty. Quit listening to old wives tales. Send stamped, self-addressed envelope for pamphlet THK MENOPAUSE. Indigestion. Rh? Had I the information in your In digestion booklet when I was younger I might have avoided much suffering. My physician in hospital tent me home and assured me I could not do better than follow your advice about acidity ... he Is the rioted . )R. J. I Answe r Any reader may send five rents and stamped self-addressed envelope for the booklet SO YOU HAVE INDIGESTION? NOT PROPERLY FRISKED COLUMBUS, O. tU.Rt A woman bandit forced Martin Knudson, 28, to ride in her cur for several blocks and then robbed him of 50 cents. She misled four $1 bills he had in his bakedy uniform under reg ular clothes. THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER AND THE SPECIALIST It has been said that a special' 1st is a man who knows a great deal about very little, and as time goes on he gets to know more more and more of less and less until ultimate ly he winds up knowing ovprvthine . w eW &i w - A atI about nothing rl 41 And a gen- if erai pracuuon- 14 I er is a man I who knows verv little oi. Brady about every thine and fin ally winds up knowing nothing about everything. 85 of all the ailments of mankind medical, surgical unci obstetrical are handled very competently by general practi tioners. In large cities particularly there seems to be a growing ten dency for people to seek spec ialists rather than general prac titioners,' to treat self-diagnosed illnesses. Thus a man feeling pain in his back may assume he has ' weak kidneys, or kidney disease," and thereupon decies to look up a specialist in mat line in order to get what he as sumes is the best care available, In some sections it is socially humiliating for a young mother to have to admit that her oaoy is under the care of the family doctor. The hoity-toity members of her "set all of whom taKe their children to a baby special ist are, she suspects, inclined to regard her with ill-concealed contempt as one who is not too bright and, possibly, unable to afford the care a specialist offers. A specialist is indispensable in the present day setup of medicine. When all or nearly an of his professional time is spent in devotion to a limited field of medicine, it stands to reason that he will have more exper ience with the rare, complicated or unusual diseases falling witn in the confines of his specialty than a general practitioner might have. But there is no reason to believe that his competence is any greater in the HSVo of cases which the general practitioner handles competently, than is the general practitioner s. The general practitioner re moves an appendix with skill comparable to that of the doctor who specializes only in surgery But in a complicated case a gen eral practitioner may feel that his experience does not warrant total assumption of the responsi bility and will suggest the serv ices of the specialist. This is as it should be. The general practitioner de livers the vast majority of babies with skill and competence equal to the specialists. He may decide at times, in view of a threatening complication, thai the added services of a specialist will further insure the welfare of his patient, and this is as it should be. Ideally, Na specialist should come into action as the result of the family doctor's or other phy sician's request. The referring doctor is in a position to know the extent of the competence of the specialist something the casual "specialist-seeker" would have no way of knowing and a patient thus directed has every reason to proceed with confi dence. In this arrangement, the reputation of the referring doc tor is just as much at stake as is the specialist's. There is no reason moral or ethical why a doctor should not limit his practice to what he likes and to what he feels he is most competent in. And there is no reason why he should not de velop a practice based almost entirely upon patient-recommendation rather than physician-recommendation. But either way he chooses to proceed, his best advertisement is his work and not the sign in his window. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS , Leg Cramps at Nlsht Pleano send me literature on noc turnal vtt cramps. Where can one ob tain tetany? IK. L. D l Answer I have no literature. On written request I'll send a pamphlet on CROWING PAINS AND ADUL'I TETANY In you provide stamped sell-addressed envelope. The Menopause Sunday. April 16, 1950 MEPFOHP (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE "as"' ,-rmTimwiiis-ifisiiiiTiTiiiiiii ifli lit i frji ( nnfrnri ?7 . 4 1 l e1w "A,."" . (Arm Telephoto) UNDERSEAS RECORD The U. S. Snorkel-type submarine Pick erel, shown (above) entering Pearl Harbor, has set a new record for underwater operations by traveling submerged 5200 miles from Hong kong to Honolulu. Sub remained submerged for 21 days according to U. 8. Navy announcement. White Men and Not Indians Started Scalping Practices Congress Told Washington (U.R) Charley Grounds, a Seminole Indian, has asked Congress to remove from its halls a picture of an Indian scalping a white man. Grounds insisted that it wasn t true; that the white man started the scalping. Accordingly, the Association for Indian Affairs. Inc., made a review of the history of scalping. Its researchers checked bmith- sonian Institute publications as far back as 1910 and 1906 and came up with the statement "that scalping was not general among American Indians before the coming of the white man." James ftlooney in the Hand book of American Indians" is sued by the Smithsonian's bu reau ot ethnology in 1910 said: Limited at First "Scalping was confined orig inally in North America to a lim ited area in the eastern United States and the lower, St. Law rence region. It was absent from New England and much of the Atlantic coast rcuion. and was unknown until comparatively re cent times throughout the whole interior and plums area. It was not found on the Pacific coast or the Canadian northwest. "Scalping in its eommonlv known form was largely the re sult of the influence of white people,'' Gcorg Frederic! wrote in the Smithsonian annual re port in 1910. "They introduced firearms, which increased the fatalities in a conflict; brought the steel knife, facilitating the taking of the scalp, and finally offered scalp premiums." Frederic! said the New Eng land Puritans in 1637 were the first to offer premiums for na tive heads and later scalps. The French offered premiums for white enemies as well as Indian scalps. Competition Keen Competition was keen and premiums went at high as 100 for one scalp. The English prices were higher than those of the French, Frederici said. One Hannah Dustin, he said, was reputed to have received 50 from her colony officials for "bringing in with her own two hands the scalps of two Indian men, two women and six chil dren." In 1764 Gov. William Penn listed prices the State of Penn sylvania would pay for scalps. They were S134 for each male Indian scalp and S50 for the scalp of every slain squaw. BABY-SITTING CONSHOKEN. Pa. (U.R) Robert C. Landis, superinten dent of public schools, feels baby-sitting is here to stay. He has started child-minding cours es in the borough's public high school. Walter Pidgeon la "THE RED DANUBE" PLUS "CALL OF THE FOREST" HI Humphrey BOGART "CHAIN LIGHTNING" FOUR MORE YEAR3 MARLBORO Mass IIP) The ambition of 104-year-old uennis Sullivan is to live as long as his mother did. Shrmdicd in Ireland at the age of lire. RECALLS EARLY FUNERAL ARLINGTON, Mass. (U.R) Mrs. Clara H. Bason, 98, clearly recalls the day when, as a girl of 13, she attended the funeral of Abraham Lincoln. OPEN 6t30 - SHOW AT DUSK 20 VAIIfTT SQUARE I nUe "ICIMTIIII JUBILEE SMOKE IF YOU WISH fmes am HElTEtlihm em I i P. A fTVToday! I CONTINUOUS From 2:45 P.M. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY MUSICAL ADVENTURE! munis ismi Coleen GRAY Charles BICKFORD William DIMMEST V . my J PLUCojoartoornetewl Now Showing TONIGHT Mon. and Tues MEDFORD FIRST RUN "COVER UP" with Wm. Bendix D. 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