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Medford United Prei Full Leased Wire TRIBUNE United Press FuU Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAYJUNE 13, 1955 Pages 1-8 SOVIET CHILDREN HAIL NEHRU Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Heft) is greeted by a group of Russian schoolgirls in Moscow. Ludmila Butuzova places a kerchief around Nehru's neck as a gift from the young Pioneers as others applaud. ... Pressure for Use of Drugs To Relieve High Blood Pressure Declared Growing By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) The pres sure on doctors to use drugs for high blood pressure is high and getting higher, an outstanding specialist said. In his opinion it's a shame because the best way to treat , high blood pressure is with diet or not to treat it at all. The pressure comes from the drug manufacturers and it "raises the problem of profes sional huckstering for the hyper tension patient and more particu larly for his medical advisers," said Dr. Robert Sterling Palmer", assistant clinical professor of medicine at Harvard University. Of "the multitude of blood-pressure-lowering drugs ... 38 preparations in more than a doz en colors and shades have come to my attentio n," he said. "Equally colorful brochures ancq advertisements present the man ufacturers' attractive claims for the various drugs, which may be listed as a composite thera peutic triumph." High Pressure Methods The high pressure selling of the medical profession begins with advertising in medical jour nals, with scientific conferences sponsored by pharmaceutical houses, with closed-circuit tele vision programs and "through public press releases or special articles." "The sale itself," continued Palmer, "is left to personable callers, the detail men with their samples, their brochures, their succinct and informative words.' What supplied "the potent urge' behind all this effort, he con tinued, are the "15,000,000 Americans with hypertension. If not 80 to 90 per cent but only half to two thirds should use four hypotensive tablets daily at $5 per 100, the annual value of this market would be $500 to $750,000,000." All the pressure has resulted in "a regrettable decrease in the use of diet in general, and the rice-fruit-sugar diet in particu lar," he said. He found diet highly effective" even in grade four malignant hypertension, which is the highest classifica tion and for this grade he "usually" combined diet with a hypotensive drug. Results in Trend It has also resulted in a trend among physicians to prescribe drugs for patients whose blood pressure is not much above the studies of excretions of the in- so-called "normal. These nor mals" established by "insurance actuarial study benefit the insur ance companies and harms some patients if one regards anything above their standard as disease." As for himself, he said in a "review and commentary" for the New England Journal of Medicine, "the blood pressure level by itself is not an obliga tory indication for treatment, especially by hypotensive drugs. "The unanswered problems" of what causes high blood pres sure still are unanswered. He found hope for answers in ternal glands, particularly the adrenals. In criticizing the drug makers, also "remember that the drug companies investigate for - the medical profession and discard many unsafe drugs, that they also manufacture and market items auxiliary to health, that they aid research and, above all, that they must make a profit to serve physicians and their patients." Sheppard Lawyers In One Last Try Cleveland (U.R) Attorneys for Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard made one last try for a new trial today for the 31-year-old osteo path in oral arguments before the court of appeals. Sheppard has remained in his cell at the Cuyahoga county jail since his second-degree murder conviction last December after a nine-week trial. He was sen tenced to a life term in the Ohio State Penitentiary with eligi bility for parole after 10 years. The time spent in the Cuya hoga county jail does not count toward the sentence. Several appeals made previ ously for Dr. Sheppard have failed. Today's appeal was based on a defense claim that new evi dence indicates someone else killed Sheppard's wife, Marilyn. It is an appeal of .a decision by Common Pleas Judge Edward Blythin who rejected the origin al new evidence. Conference Approves Car Shortage Study Eugene (U.R) An emergency conference here has approved Gov. Paul Patterson's plan to set up a committee to investi gate the current shortage of railroad boxcars in Oregon. The governor made the pro posal to some 300 delegates from railroads, grain, lumber, cattle and seed industries and labor groups. The governor's proposed com mittee would be composed of representatives of all industries effected by the shortage. James Corbett, Southern Pa cific executive, said railroads had made a poor guess about 1955 business volume, but were attempting to alleviate car short ages. Army Handbook Designee! To Cut Through Red Tape Washington (U.R) The Army today got out a neat little hand book designed to help its people wade through the tangle of mil itary red tape. A 106-page pamphlet, it is called "Index of Blank Forms" and, of course, it has a number, 310-2. vThe booklet is trimly divided into halves, the first part listing by number the thousands of forms that most any Army man has to deal with, the second half listing the forms by title. Uses D.D. 388 For example, take the iceman : km WOWS THE POWs Brook lyn's Terry King is placed be hind bars after being chosen "Miss P-O-W" in New York. The Copacabana dancer was selected to reign over the 8th Annual Convention of the Ex Prisoners of War in New York's Hotel Governor Clin ton. ' He looks under foor service and finds that he uses D. D. 388 which is an "ice issue slip." But also he must enter an "ab stract of ice issues and sales" The D. D. is important. It means Defense Department. The D.D. 201, the booklet explains is a reserve officer's payroll and mileage voucher, quite different from D.A. 201 which is an Army man's personnel record. D. A. means Department of the Army. Suppose you want an inter view. The request goes on D.D. 510. Referral, presumably up the chain of command, goes on D.D. 359. And then there is the interview and evaluation card, D.D. 237. After it's all over, there may well be D.D. 96, dis position form. The Army said at the begining of the book that it was to be a guide for the "conduct of of ficial business," not a guide to overstocking storerooms with "unneeded forms." Labels Have Numbers Not only forms have their own private number in the Army. Take labels. A "radition hazard" label is known as num ber 15 while a "radiation warn ing" label is known as number 26. About the only form that has no number at all is the applica tion for admission to the United States Soldiers' Home. Some forms still carry the prefix W. D. with their num bers. That means War Depart ment, which there has not been one of since the unification act vas passed in 1947. But printed forms last a long time. North Park Entrance To Open on June 15 Crater Lake National park will officially begin the summer season with the opening of the North entrance road June 15, ac cording to Thomas J. Williams, park superintendent. Rim road, which encircles the crater, will not be clear until somewhat later, but lodging, din ing, transportation, and other park facilities will be in full op eration. Trails to the lake and to Sinnot Memorial inside the crater will be opened as soon as snow conditions permit. Superintendent Williams stated a change in snow removal procedure and several weeks of favorable weather have made possible an earlier opening Seed Hue for SmtOay ffeettffse' i at noon Saturday. Telephone Directory Covers For Medford Directory Assorted Colors Keep Your Phono Book Looking Neat A Tidy Sw em 5 217 E. Main Medford NARROW MINDED Chicago (U.R) Mayor Richard Daley said it would be okay for city hall secretaries to accompany their bosses on a Civil Defence evacuation - test even though government girls in Washington could not do so. Washington wives reportedly had something to do with the ban. The Baltic sea Is said to be less salty than the ocean. SKA fly United Qo MEW VBCZ WAhn. and AII f&e East" FIRE DESTROYS PLANT Klamath Falls (U.R) A pumice block plant about threa miles north of here was almost totally destroyed by fire Satur day. Loss was estimated at $30, 000. The main plant, which in cludes mixer and block-making machinery, was described as a total loss. Cause of the fire was not known. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada Truman To Speak Af UN Meeting In San Francisco Portland, Ore. (U.R) Former President Harry T. Truman was en route home today to prepare for his next major public ap pearance a speech at the 10th anniversary meeting of the Unit ed Nations in San Francisco. Mr. Truman, chipper as ever, left Portland last night after a whirlwind' two-day visit to the Rose Festival and a speech to Oregon Democrats. While Mr. Truman was in Portland, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold announced that the former president has agreed to address the UN at a special night meeting on June 24. Dulles' Invitation Declined Mr. Truman accepted the invi tation from the UN secretary general after turning down an invitation from U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. He explained previously he thought the invitation should come from the UN itself rather than a par ticipating nation. The UN was organized in San Francisco shortly after Mr. Tru man assumed the presidency in 1945. He flew here to address the closing session then. Mr. Truman declined yester day to comment on his forthcom ing UN speech. Warns Democrats Mr. Truman appeared in the Rose Parade Saturday before 425,000 spectators. That night, he warned 800 Democrats in a nationally broadcast "give-'em-hell" speech against allowing private industry to gain control of atomic energy development. He also charged that President Eisenhower is being "used" in a campaign against public power. 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