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Inability of Doctors
To Recognize Bite of
Black Widow Feared
Br DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) Medical
men are afraid Black Widow
spiders may be increasing, and
there is a reason for fear: If
you're an M.D. where there have
been no Black Widows around
are you going to recognize the
results of a Black Widow bite
' when you see them?
Looked at-Results
Dr. Richard R. Grayson, a Mis
souri country doctor, has reas
sured all other doctors. He
looked at the results, and he
knew what caused them. Had
to be the Black Widow; nothing
else could have. In Perryville,
where he practices, a Black Wid
ow bite had been a rarity. But
all of a sudden last summer, five
persons were bitten.
For Black Widows to show
up in sufficient numbers to bite
enough human beings to merit
a formal medical report was re
garded by epidemiologists as
"significant." If it happened last
' summer, what will happen this
summer when Black Widows are
even better established In new
surroundings, they asked.
Dr. Grayson's first case was a
young workman. When he was
brought to the doctor's office, he
"was barely able to stagger"
"he was moaning and groaning
and twisting about."
Rigid Abdomen
Somehow the doctor got him
onto a table for an examination.
"The entire abdomen was rigid,"
Beatfy Circus Due;
Yets Will Sponsor
The Clyde Beatty circus will
be In Medford June 16, it was
announced Saturday. Its appear
ance will be sponsored for the
first time by three local veterans
organizations, who announced
the plan to make It possible for
very local youngster who wants
to to attend.
The sponsoring group are Am
erican Legion Post 15, Veterans
of Foreign Wars Post 1833, and
Disabled American ' Veterans
Chapter 8. The joint committee
handling arrangements has start
ed formation of a "kid brigade,"
to bo sponsored by merchants
and veterans, to. see that every
youngster can see the circus.
Only children's tickets will be
en sal in advance of the per
formance. Proceeds from the project will
go for programs of child welfare,
veterans rehabilitation and wel
fare of veterans' dependents
conducted by the sponsoring or
ganizations. The 1955 production of the
Clyd Beatty Wild Animal circus
and aerial show has been aug
mented by new acts, the commit
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said the doctor. "There was no
question of localized tenderness
or rebound tenderness inasmuch
as the abdominal wall could not
be depressed at any point."
His thought was of the chance
of a hernia. But the patient said
he had been "bitten by some
thing," and it clicked in Gray
son's mind the Black Widow.
To check that, he injected 10
cubic centimeters of 10 per cent
calcium gluconate, and "the pa
tient exclaimed that the pain
was gone. He smiled ' happily,
arose immediately, and stated he
wished to go home."
"Not so fast," said the doctor,
and. persuaded him to go to the
hospital, where "it was noted
that even though the pain im
mediately subsided after the cal
cium, the rigidity of the abdom
inal muscles was undiminished
until many hours later."
'Missouri Medicine' Report
In his report to "Missouri
Medicine," Dr. Grayson pointed
out that in not one of the five
patients "was the history of spid
er bite available when the pa
tient needed treatment the most.
In other words in most cases,
apparently, the diagnosis of
Black Widow spider bite will
have to be made on clinical
grounds and the physician will
have to be thoroughly aware of
the disease in order to make the
diagnosis." . .
But any doctor who has seen
one case will recognize the next
one
"The best bet," he continued,
"apparently is the intravenous
injection of calcium gluconate.
In no other disease, perhaps, is
such instantaneous relief grant
ed from such agonizing misery
as here. One could almost say
that this test is specific for the
disease."
Free Water Request
Referred to Medford
Jacksonville The Southern
Oregon Historical society this
week requested the city of Jack
sonville to furnish water with
out cost to the Jacksonville
museum. The city council, on
recommendation of the water
committee, suggested the society
submit its request to the Med
ford city council.
The city of Jacksonville pur
chases water from Medford, and
the council did not feel it should
furnish water for the museum
with city funds.
Miss Claire Hanley, president
of the society, submitted the re
quest to the city council. Art
Davis is chairman of the water
committee.
The council also sot 8 p.m.
Tuesday night for a meeting of
the Jacksonville budget commit
tee. The meeting will be in the
city hall.
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Dedication Ceremonies for
BY WARD COLWELL
United Press Correspondent
.. Kansas City, Mo. U.R)
When former President Truman
turns the first spadeful of earth
for the Harry S. Truman Library
today his 71st birthday he will
be thinking of yet another job
in his already busy schedule.
He said he intends to be one
of the guides to direct tours
through the $1,750,000 structure
when it is completed in about
14 months.
The library ground-breaking
at Slover Park in Mr. Truman's
home town of Independence,
Mo., will be the first part in an
elaborate observance of the for
mer chief executive's birthday
anniversary.
In the evening, at the Hotel
Muehlebach, a dinner will be
held in his honor. Tables were
sold at a rate of $80 each, the
money to go to the library fund.
Horseshoe Shaped
The library itself will be an
expansive, fully air-conditioned,
horseshoe affair nestling in the
elm shade center of the city
donated park at the north edge
of Independence.
The stone structure will be
of simple, modern design. It will
contain stack areas for Mr. Tru
man's private papers accumu
lated during his eight years in
the White House. There will be
reading and study rooms for re
searchers and the former presi
dent himself will maintain an
Class in Geology To Begin
Tuesday; Chrome Stockpile
Report Given
A course in geology will open
in Medford Tuesday, May 10, at
the Medford High school, it was
announced here last week.
Arrangements for the course
were made through the efforts
of the Northwestern Mining
Council in cooperation with the
state system of . higher educa
tion and the state department
of geology and mineral indus
tries. Max Shafer, geologist in
the Grants Pass office of the de
partment, will be the instructor.
Great Interest
Bruce Manley, attorney for
the council who made arrange
ments for the course, told a
council meeting Thursday eve
ning that much greater interest
in the course than anticipated
has been shown. He said that
the class will have to be limited
to 30 persons, but that it maybe
possible to arrange for a second
section.
He added that every effort
will be made to accomodate all
who have expressed interest and
that another series of classes
may be held in the fall. The cur
rent series do not carry college
credit, but it may be possible to
arrange for credit in a fall series.
Some 150 persons attended the
Thursday meeting.
Stockpile Report Mad
A report on th chrome stock
pile program in Grants Pass was
given, indicating that the office
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office in the library.
From it, he said, he expects to
personally conduct guests on
tours of the premises.
He made no secret of his hope
that many of the tours would be
made up of school children. Al
though Mr. Truman is deluged
with invitations to speak to var
ious groups, the ones he accepts
most frequently are from high
schools, colleges and universi
ties: Country's Destiny
"These are the young students
who will take over the destiny
of our country," he often has
said. "They should' understand
what this republic stands for
and should be prepared to fight
for it both physically and spirit
ually. I hope the library will pro
vide a source of information and
inspiration to carry this out." -
It was his hope, too that fu
ture presidents will join former
Presidents Herbert Hoover and
Franklin Roosevelt and himself
in making their private papers
available to the government and
the people.
Although the guest list for to
day's birthday observance is
made up largely of national gov
ernmental, education and politi
cal leaders, the active partici
pants will be from a regional
level.
Dr.. Elmer Ellis, president of
the University of Missouri, will
deliver the principal address at
the library ground-breaking. At
for Council
of defense minerals has post
poned renewal of the present
program with two years still to
go. This has caused a consid
erable drop in interest by capi
tal investors, it was reported,
because of the lack of sufficient
time for recovery of investments
Current production and stock
piling are far below consump
tion, council members were told,
and it was recommended that
immediate action " be taken to
prevent a breakdown in the de
velopment of local deposits.
The council authorized a reso
lution to be drawn and for
warded to, the Senate committee
interested, urging immediate ac
tion toward a 10-year extension
of the program. It also urged
all those interested to write com
mittee members, including the
chairman, Sen. James E. Murry,
and the members, including
Senators Knowland, Neuberger,
Magnuson and Anderson.
Plan Exhibit "
The council decided to place
an exhibit of local ore speci
mens in the rock show to be held
June 16 and 17 in the. Medford
Junior High school by the Roxy
Ann Gem and Mineral club.
A color motion picture show
ing the formation of the Grand
Canyon was shown at the meet
ing, through the courtesy of the
Mobil oil company and local
Mobil dealers.
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the evening banquet, Dr. Frank
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Kansas University, will speak
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The ground-breaking cere
mony starts at 5:30 p.m. (EDT).,
the birthday dinner at 8 p.m.
(EDT).
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Sunday. May 8, 1951
Vast Storms Hit
Midwestern Area;
One Person Killed
By UNITED PRESS .
A vast band of thunderstorms
and showers followed Saturday
in the wake of tornadic. winds
which killed at least one person.
The storm pattern early Sat
urday stretched from the North
ern Great Lakes across the mid
Mississippi valley and into the
Eastern Central Plains.
Woman Killed
Tornadic winds hit Temple,
Tex., Friday night, killing a wo
man and a tornado ripped a four
block wide, path of damage in
Harlan, Iowa.
The winds at Temple collapsed
a 30-by 260-foot masonry build
ing, killing Mrs. Mamie Bennett,
40. A worker in the building was
critically injured and part of a
Temple theater roof caved in.
The 15 patrons were uninjured.
The winds also damaged the
Academy School gymnasium
eight miles south of Temple, and
hit the Taylor, Tex., area, caus
ing heavy damage to the John
Jansky farm.
Elsewhere in Texas, a rain
slicked road was partially blam
ed for a bus-truck crash near
Farmersville in which 17 persons
were injured.
The Iowa twister hit the
ground at Harlan, bounced up,
and touched down again near
Kirkman, nine miles away.
The roof of a large building
was torn off at Harlan and far
mers reported widespread dam
age. Winds of 60 miles an hour
whipped Des Moines v and What
Cheer, Iowa, and an inch of hail
was measured at Fredericksburg
and Ossian.
Cool air meanwhile swept
"across the Northern Plains, drop
ping temperatures five to 15 de
grees. But the temperature
climbed to the East and a spring
heat wave had pushed deep into
the South.
Thomson Sentencing
Delayed Second Time
Newport, Ore. (U.R) Sen
tencing of Richard Thomson for
assault with a dangerous wea
pon was held up again Friday
because Lincoln County Circuit
Judge Fred McHenry was pre
siding at a trial in Corvallis. .
Thomson was convicted April
29 of attacking his former busi
ness partner, James Mueller, in
September, 1953. He was origi
nally scheduled to be sentenced
Thursday.
The county clerk said the sen
tence would probably be read
here Monday.
Carpenters Elect
Portland Resident
La Grande, Ore. (U.R) Ore
gon State Council of Carpenters
Saturday concluded their three
day convention here and named
Eugene as site for the 1958 meet
ing. E. B. Weber, Portland, was re
elected president and Ivor T.
Jones, Salem, was reelected ex
ecutive secretary. New officers
included Walter Dage, Roseburg,
first vice-president, and Leo M.
Neal, Portland, second vice-president.
Salem's Crime Rate
'Remarkably Low'
Salem (U.R) Salem averaged
less than two crimes a day in
1954, the FBI said Saturday,
adding that the figures were
"remarkably low" for a city of
its size.
No murder was recorded and
only two armed robberies. The
FBI figures, based on Salem po
lice records, showed that the
city had 145 burglaries, 75 cases
of larceny involving $50 or more
and 451 larcenies under $50.
Auto thefts totaled 38.
The FBI report said "few
American cities of the size boast
a better showing for law-abiding
citizenship than Salem."
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First Payment Made
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Portland (U.R) The A r m y
Corps of Engineers has paid
$600,000 of a $15,019,640 sum to
Yakima Indian tribe Nf or loss of
the traditional Celilo Falls fish
ing grounds due to construction
of The Dalles dam.
Col. James U. Moorehead.1
Portland District Engineer, said
a check for the $600,000 sum.
was passed to the tribe Friday."
Also to be paid by the federal
government is a $4,047,000 sum
to Warm Springs Indians and
$4,198,000 to Umatilla Indians. .
Payment was made at the rate
of $3754 per tribesman.
Total payments will be made
before, the falls are flooded by
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