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
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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.
FATALLY INJURED
Green River, Utah '(U.R)
Mrs. Georgann Glenn, 31,
Springfield, Ore., was fatally in
jured about 14 miles west of
here yesterday afternoon in a
two-car accident.
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Former Idaho Solon
Dies in Los Angeles
Boise iftJ.R) Former Demo
cratic U. S. Senator D. Worth
Clark of Idaho died suddenly at
his home in Los Angeles last
night, relatives were informed
here today. He was 53.
Clark's uncle, Federal District
Judge Chase A. Clark, said he
was told that his nephew had
been, watching a television show
shortly before his collapse.
Clark, a native of Idaho Falls,
had moved to Los Angeles from
Boise to continue his law prac-
Body of Youngster
Located in River
Yakima, Wash. (U.R) The
body of Walter Greenfield, 3,
was found in the Klickitat river
yesterday.
The youngster, and Terry Wil
liams, three-year-old girl, drown
ed in the river May 10. The girl's
body was recovered two weeks
ago.
tice.
The former senator was
known as a conservative Demo
crat. He served two terms in the
U.S. House of Representatives
from 1935 to 1939 and one term
in the Senate from 1939 to 1945.
Lakeview Girl Wins
In Driving Code Test
Portland U.R) Melba
Snow, student at Lakeview High
School, is winner of a $250 U.S.
Defense bond for first prize in
the first contest of a three-year
Responsible Driving Code com
petition sponsored by the High
way Lifesavers Committee.
Second prize, a $125 Defense
bond, was won by Kay Pierce,
Lebanon High School student.
Sharon Cox of Portland's Frank
lin High won 3rd prize, a $75
Defense bond.
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