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EIGHT MTOFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUW1 Monday, June 20, 1955 ASSEMBLING IN PLAZA DE MAYO, thousands of members of General Confederation of Labor, ardent Peronistas, call general strike backing President Peron's campaign against Roman Cath olic Church in Argentina. Excommunication of Peron has cost him much support. (International) SCIENCE AT WORK y DELOS SMITH United Prat Sic Editor New York (UP) Medical science may be completing the full circle and returning to the "pacifier." At any rate, a medical educa tor has dared to speak right out in favor of the Victorian (and even older) method of quieting babies, and an august medical journal has dared to publish his advocacy. Many members of the young er generation of parents may not even know what a pacifier is. In the last few decades med ical prejudice has become a sol id and high wall over which no pacifier could cross. A pacifier is a very simple de vice, usually made of hard rubber. It is handed to a baby who is bawling or sucking his thumb. The baby sucks the pacifier and not his thumb and the nursery takes on the calm of content ment. Dr. Louis F. Rittelmeyer of the University of Tennesee's college of medicine was discuss ing the problem of thumb-sucking which, as any baby doctor will tell you, can become a med ical problem for which there seems to be no real answer. The Statistics There is an answer. Dr. Ritt elmeyer said in remarking that doctors had heard a lot from scientific investigators about why young children suck their thumbs but very little about preventing them "from doing so. "Pehaps the answer to pre vention has been present all along but has been overlooked," he remarked with medical poli teness in the official organ of the American Academy of Gen eral Practice. "I am speaking of pacifiers. Is it possible that this oversight could be attributed more to the physician's person al bias than to poor vision?" Dr. Rittelmeyer supervised an investigation of 364 young chil dren. Forty-nine of them had had the comfort of pacifiers and only three, or six per cent, were thumbsuckers. But the remaind er, 315, had never had pacifiers and 84, or 27 per cent, of them were thumbsuckers. Of the 49 pacifier-babies, all but one had given up the devices quite on their own by the time they were two years old. and never sucked their thumbs. But of the unpacified, 12 still were thumbsucking at seven and well over half were thumb-sucking past the age of two. Unfounded Anxiety The doctor didn't take thumb sucking too seriously. He said that "at best" it was "a nuis ance." On the other hand, "at its worst it can lead to personality and dental disorders." But "be cause it is so common and cre ates so much anxiety among par ents it assumes the proportions of a greater problem than its oc casional complications would in dicate." Then, what is wrong with the pacifier, really? Some doctor say it is "dirty" yet bacter- iologic investigation has proven that the thumbs of young chil dren are "10 times dirtier." Some say it causes babies to swallow air which gives them colic. Yet an eminent specialist has treated infant colic by giv ing the infants pacifiers "and his reults are excellent. "A review of the literature fails to reveal a single scientific objection to the use of pacifiers, continued Dr. Rittlemeyer. But the author of one of the best-known "how to care for baby" books ignored the subject. Dr. Rittelmeyer said he ignored it "because he did not want doctors to consider his book so unreliable they would advise parents not to use it." Actually, he added, that medical author favors the use of pacifiers with out restriction. Dorothy Lee Speaks For Portland NAACP Portland U.R) Former Portland Mayor Dorothy Mc with juveniles could quite easily stem from the misguided notion that discipline prevents a child from epressing himself," she said. Mrs. Lee, now a member of the Federal Parole board, said the most dangerous age was be tween 14 and 19 when young people want to be "big shots. Cullough Lee told a meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People yesterday that "affection, super vision and discipline were the best means of keeping a child from going delinquent. She said discipline was the best deterrent of the three. "Some of the trouble we have Cm Mail Tribune Want Ads Abetter future foryou is this close! Call your Prudential Agent Yovr Bedford Prudential Agents Teeeeere U. SarMrt Ja"" " t. 1017 Mi 3491 lekl Freer. Sears list wiacaester kmm The Prudential INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA WEST i I N MOMI OMiCI tOt AMOItlS Woman Confesses Killing Husband Portland (ll.R) Portland po lice cleared up a slaying within 17 hours with the confession late yesterday of Cherry Lucille Mor ris, 31, that she shot and killed her husband, 42-year-old Claude McCormick Morris." She told police her husband threatened her with a hatchet, hammer and rifle before she managed to wrest the weapon from him and shoot him once through the chest. She claimed she didn't know the rifle was loaded. Detectives Mike O'Leary and John Hunt booked her on a mur der charge. The shooting occurred Satur day night. Blast Disrupts Water, Phone Lines on Border Tel Aviv, ' Israel (U.R) The Israeli army reported disruption today of water and telephone lines along the Egyptian border An army ' spokesman said a pipe-line blast severed the water supply of Israeli desert settle ments along the Gaza frontier Sunday night. , He added that telephone lines into Ksuffim, the hub of Israeli communications, were cut. The spokesman did not fix the blame for these latest incidents in an almost daily series of clashes between Israel and Egypt. Son of Razor Magnate Succumbs in California Glendale. - Calif. (U.R) Fu neral services will be held here Tuesday for King G. Gillette, son of the late safety razor mag nate. Gillette was 64' when he died Saturday at his Newport Beach home. . His father, King C. Gillette, founder of Gillette Razor Co, died in 1932 and left his entire estate of more than $1,000,000 to his widow, Mrs. Atlanta Elle Gillette. She died 10 years ago, three years after the younger Gillette filed personal bank ruptcy. Mickey Jelke Starts Term at Sing Sing New York (U.R) Oleo heir Minot.F. (Mickey) Jelke HI, en ters Sing Sing Fnson today to serve a two to three year sen tence for running a cafe society call girl racket. The chubby, 25-year-old Jelke was twice convicted of pander ing. His first trial was voided because the judge barred news- men. He was convicted at second trial and lost his final bid for a reversal last week. EAGLE DILEMMA Archer, Neb. (U.R) Ken neth and Dick Luebbe and Stan ley Sinsel captured a bald eagle with a lasso after it was wound ed. The boys found they couldn't keep up with the eagle's rabbit- a-day appetite, couldn't kill . it because of a $1,000 fine imposed to protect the prototype of the national emblem and couldn't let it go because it would prey on small farm animals. Nebras ka's game commission finally took the bird for zoo purposes. CLAM DIG Pismo Beach, Calif. (U.R) ome 18,t)00 clam-lovers bagged the limit recently when the fish and game department opened two Pismo clam refuges after they had been closed for five years. Largest catch of the open ing day measured seven inches in diameter. Boy Scouts and lo cal sportsmen assisted depart ment men in returning discard ed and undersized clams to the sands. Two Jets Destroyed In Rocket Mishap At Portland Field Portland U.R) Two F-89 jet fighter planes were destroyed today when they were struck and set afire by rockets of a third aircraft touched off by an apparent mechanical malfunc tion. The accident occurred 'while the planes were parked on the ramp at Portland Air Force Base. An'Air Force spokesman said that, miraculously, no one was hurt, although the area was crowded with mechanics and maintenance men. Mitt Airline Building An unkonwn number ol rockets was fired from the park ed plane. Two of the rockets struck other planes in the group, while the war head of another missile soared across the airport road, narrowly missing Pacific Northern Airlines -headquarters here. One Air Force enlisted man was working on the wing of one of the planes struck by " the lockets, but he escaped injury in the explosion. As a pillar of smoke billowed 30 feet in the air, planes and men were immediately evacuat ed. The swiftness of the evacua tion, according to an air force spokesman, was credited with averting a severe tregedy. 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