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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. February 8, 1955 Tetracycline Found As Effective Cure For 'Parrot Fever' . Berkeley, Calif. U.R) A University of C a 1 i f o r n i a re searcher disclosed today he has cured parakeets and other birds of psittacosis or "parrot fever" with injections of the antibiotic drug tetracycline. Psittacosis is a dangerous lung disease. It can be transmitted to humans, sometimes causing pneumonia and death. However it is more commonly a less severe chronic virus infection often escaping diagnosis. Injected Twice a Day The scientist, Dr. Karl F. Meyer, director of emeritus of the Hooper Foundation for Med ical Research at the University of California, said he cured birds of the disease by injecting them twice a day over a two week period. He said also that offspring of successfully treated birds re main free of psittacosis as long as they are not exposed to in infected birds. The disease has become a ser Toothbrush Said Effective In Preventing s (Editor's note: This is the third in -a series of six articles e dealing Lwith denial health. a They are being published in cooperation with the Southern e Oregon "Dental society in ob servance of National Chil . dren's Denial Health week, to be observed Feb. 7 to 13. The articles were prepared under the supervision of the Ameri- l can Denial association.) The toothbrush when used s properly" remains one of the most" effective weapms for pre- venting dental decay. ' There are two lingering mis bconceptions about toothbrush- ing: Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) Television. producers have decided you viewers are tired looking at Man hattan and Hollywood so this year live TV programs, like movies, are go ing "on loca tion." Several live video shows are hitting the road to get away from those same old AtoeMosbr. :grounds 0J. shots of the palm trees of the plaster city or the skyscrapers of New York. Citizens around the United States expect to see TV cameras set up for national shows on their own main' streets. "These remote control shows are like locations for motion pic tures. You can't always stay in studios. You have to get away from things, studio-wise," said NBC-TV program director Frank Cleaver In the lingo of Holly- .wood and Vine. . "Different backgrounds give excitement, new interest to pro grams." The Colgate Comedy Hour has not only booked out-of-city shows, but last Saturday went on location out of the country. "Well, it was Tijuana, Mexico, on the border, but at least it was telecast out of the country," Cleaver added. He said the foreign program involved no serious problems and it finally was decided that Mexi can technicians would handle telecasting of the fast jai-alai games in Tijuana. Master-of-Ceremonies Gordon MacKae will mave the Comedy Hour next to New Orleans for - the Mardi Gras Feb. 20. TV cameras will be set up outside famous restaurants to catch crowds on the streets between musical numbers from a TV studio. - Another show is scheduled to be telecast from the San Fran cisco Opera House. Cameras will catch outdoor views of the city's famous cable cars, bridges and wharves. The Comedy Hour also plans to originate from Mex ico City, the sand dunes of Palm Springs and the SS United States, the first video show from an ocean liner. The program already has gone on location to Miami. NBC's To day and Home also switched from New York to the Florida sunshine. This Is Your Life moved to Chicago and Bob Hope took his program to Greenland. "The springboard was when we did a show from the Holly wood Bowl last year," said Cleaver. "People liked seeing the bowl. It was so successful we planned more remote shows. "We have 20 mobile black-and-white camera units to send any place. People like seeing "for eign locales." CBS and ABC plan no remote TV shows as yet. But NBC is so interested in the idea that a show consisting of only "loca tion" telecasts, "The Wide, Wide World," is in the works for next fall. ious public health menace in recent years, Meyer said, be cause of the growth of the pet industry and the large numbers of parakeets smuggled into the United States from Mexico. He said some 6,500,000 birds are now sold in this country every year. Treatment Costly, Tedious Treating sick birds with-tetra cycline is costly and tedious but it offers the possibility of free ing aviaries from psittacosis, Meyer said. He said he is attempting to develop a cheaper and easier method of treatment that can be widely adapted to the spe cial needs of aviaries. Other experiments are in the mill now to determine if tetra cycline can be " effective when mixed with bird feed, he said. This program is being supported by a $20,000 grant from the Hartz Mountain Products Com pany in New York, a large dis tributor of pet birds and food. Tooth Decay First, the old rule, which has long been outdated, of brushing teeth the first thing m the mor ning and the last thing at night Second, the scrub-brush tech nic in using the toothbrush, an idea which also has long been outmoded. ' The dental profession urges that the teeth be cleaned im mediately after eating espec ially after eating sweets be cause the buildup of enamel-destroying acid occurs rapidly aft er meals and snacks In brushing, the toothbrush sweeps away the bits of food which otherwise would stick to the teeth and generate the tooth decay process However, the toothbrush can dislodge the sticky food parti cles only if it is used in the right way. Since these food par ticles are most likely to adhere to areas between the. teeth, the best method of toothbrushing concentrates on these areas In cleaning the teeth, the up per teeth should be brushed on downward and the lower teeth should be brushed upward. The bristles should be worked be tween the teeth. The chewing surfaces should also be cleaned as well as the inside surfaces facing the tongue The youngster should be taught to brush his teeth as soon as all his first teeth have come in usually between the ages of 2 and 3. He may not do a very good job and his mother or fa ther will probably have to go over the teeth afterward. But the groundwork will have been laid for a basic dental health habit at an early age As for toothpastes and tooth powders, the Council on Dental Therapeutics of the American Dental association has repeated ly pointed out that the tooth brush used in the right way at the right time is far more impor tant to dental health than any particular kind of toothpaste. (Tomorrow: Fluoridation) aw PENETRATING SUDS find their way to every fibre and float out even hidden dirt you didn't know was there! featured at Applegate Turns Over $430.20 to Polio Fund Applegate A total of $430.20 has been collected here for the March of Dimes, according to Mrs. C. O. Gerhardt, chairman. The amount is 25 per cent bet ter than last year, she said. A dance and auction at Upper Applegate Grange hall Saturday night brought in $190.50, accord ing to Mrs. Gerhardt. Other ac tivities included a Ruch-Apple- gate basketball game with a lunch and candy and peanut sale in conjunction, $117, and a 4-H movie, $32.02. Amnesia Victim To Rejoin Family He Can't Remember New York (U.R) A 41-year-old amnesia victim who disap peared one year ago arrived here today from California and prepared for a reunion with a family he cannot remember. James J. Reilley, 41, broke into sobs as he disembarked from a plane at La Guardia Air port and realized suddenly that the wife and three children who are strangers to him were only a few miles away in Palmyra, N. J. . "I've been hoping and pray ing that when I see them it will ring a bell and clear up my mind," he said. "I haven't slept in a week in anticipation of seeing my family." He was a salesman . for his father's firm in Philadelphia, when, according to his wife, he "just disappeared" while on a business trip to Harrisburg, Pa. Reilley said his memory ex tends back only to January when police picked him up in Arcadia, Calif. He was found wandering in a dazed state, his billfold i and all indentif ication papers missing. Through a fingerprint with the FBI, Reilley said, his iden tity finally was established. But his Army service repord, through which the check was made, failed to list a "next of kin." . He met a patient in the hos pital who took a liking to him and her. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Cooper of Gabriel, Calif., took him into their home as a handyman. Later, they ar ranged for his appearance on a television program where he was recognized by Mrs. Kath erine Ellis of Whittier, Calif., a former school mate of his at Norristown, Pa. Second Grader Gels Ike's Picture Plattsmouth, Neb. 4U.R) Ru ral District School 43 near, here has an autographed picture of President Eisenhower obtained through the efforts of a second grader, Tommy Jones. Tommy drew the letters "I" and "K" on drawing paper and colored them brightly. Since he had no picture of the President, he pasted the letters above one of George Washington. 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