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McKay in Oregon For Most oi August Portland -.UP.) Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay arrived in Portland last night to spend most of August in Oregon and said it would be several days after Congress adjourns before its work this session could be appraised. McKay said there has been confusion the last week or so but he adds that it is nothing un usual. "It's just like the closing days of the Oregon legislature," 0 said. "I've been through them." JcKay said he thought Presi dent Eisenhower came out of the session with just about every thing he asked for except school construction and the highway bill. The secretary and his wife continued on to Salem last night. SCIENCE AT WORK By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.P.) To a pub lic confused by the word "place bo," it may be comforting to know that doctors themselves are confused as to when to, when not to, and whether to at all. The public didn't know the work until it started being kick ed around in the big Salk polio vaccine discussion. To listen to some of the doctors, they didn't know the word either. Dr. Charles K. Hofling, of the department of psychiatry, Uni versity of Cincinnati, found that out when he questioned his col leagues about their placebos. He found them self-conscious and defensive. He went to the "literature," meaning the vast body of medi cal knowledge contained in books and other papers. He thought it a "matter of some curiosity" that in the "litera- Open Wednesday Nights Til 9 Cannon Sheet Blankets 60 x 76 fine cotton sheet blankets in choice of all white or plaids in blue gold, green or coral. A $1.49 value. SPECIAL EA. Bed Pillows Full size, crushed chicken feather fill ing. Feather proof ticking. SPECIAL EA. special Purchase -i 7 to 5 Yd. Remnants of Better Unholsferv Fahriric r il -i j - Values to $7.98 yd. 62 in. width. YOUR CHOICE $ $ 67 YD. See Our Regular Advertisement Wednesday Night for Many Other Dollar Day Specials! Sixth and Central Medford's Bargain Corner ture" the subject is "largely ig nored." If there's any mystery in this, let's end it at once. A placebo is a medicine just any medicine. But it has little if any medical powers. The doctor prescribes it because the- patient expects to be given something to take, and he's not going to feel better unless he gets it. "Magic" Medicine The placebo, said Dr. Hofling, "is a point at which medicine ap pears to become magic again, and therefore such a discussion can become a source of some un easiness and embarrassment to physicians trained in a tradition originating in 19th century scien tific attitudes." Yet, the fact is that suggestion is a powerful medicine with peo ple of high suggestibility, and with these people a bottle of get well pills, even if made of dough, is a high in medical suggestive ness. Therefore, Hofling said, placebos have been "in wide spread and continuous use over a long period of time," even if they're not mentioned much in the literature. - - He was telling a medical audi ence the readers of the techni cal journal of the American Aca demy of General Practice when to and when not to give patients placebos. His studies and his own experiences show the typical pa tient for whom a placebo is good medicine is: A patient "with a chronic, nearly unmodifiable character disorder, with little or no insight and with physical complaints largely on an emotional basis. This type of patient will at once be recognized by any physician in geneal as comprising a con siderable fraction of his case load." When Not To By "character disorder" he re ferred to a manifestation the person who won't face up to what should be pleasant news from the doctor that there's coining wrong with him, tha he doesn't need any pills, and he might as well tolerate his good health. When not to prescribe a place bo depends a great deal on the doctor himself. The very idea of a placebo rubs some the wrong way. To prescribe a medicine he knows won't do anything or much for a specific complaint can strike some doctors as out-and-out malpractice. Those doc tors had better leave placebos alone and resign themselves to the patient who merely wants to be sick but isn't telling other peo ple that his doctor doesn't do things for sick people. For the patient to -know he's getting a placebo isn't good. So the doctor who is irked with the patient and is going to give him just anything that is harmless in order to get rid of .him, had bet ter not. The patient's intuition is likely to make the doctor as transparent as glass. ONE TALL DRINK Burlington, Vt. (U.R) Ver mont milk that goes into the marketing system would equal a tower of quart milk bottles over 100,000 miles high, accord ing to Robert Sinclair, agricul tural economist at the University of Vermont. 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They had no sooner unpacked their bags when a messenger-boy rang the bell of their suite and handed them a bouquet of flow ers a compliment from the city of Merano. Out on the street on their first, honeymoon walk they were discreetly photographed. And throughout their stay they were offered free tickets for deck chairs, rides on the cable-car to the mountain-top panorama and tickets to shows. In fact, everywhere they went around. the city, and where they were known as newlyweds, their way was made extra easy and much cheaper than for ordinary tourists. A Tourist Boost Behind all this there is a novel plan which has made this "old modern" city on the Italian-Aus. trian frontier a mecca for young lovers. The plan is no haphazard idea but has been worked out in painstaking detail with the idea of boosting tourist traffic. In April, Merano held its "Miss Italian Wife" contest in which a young wife was chosen not for her beauty, but for her aid and inspiriation to her husband and home. From this contest came the "newlyweds treasury." Every week the "newlyweds treasury" committee puts the names of 10 "just marrieds" in to a hat and picks out pne couple for a one-week free honeymoon in Merano. The couple that win can get a refund on what they have spent or stay another week completely free. The commjttee demands only a few things. 1. A couple must be married no more than a month. 2. They must stay at least a week in Merano. 3. They must have proof of their marriage if a question arises. New Process Named In Sugar Production Chicago (U.R) The first basic change in the process of extract ing sugar from sugar cane in more than a century has been announced by the National Cyl inder Gas Co. The new process is described as continuous diffusion in which the cane is cut up into chips about the size of half a dollar. The chips are put into the bot tom of a cylinder after they have been suspended in a portion of extracted juice. A rotating spiral device forces the cane pieces toward the top, where hot water enters and dis solves the sugar in the cane. As the water moves down, 4t be comes more concenrated with sugar. The syrup is drawn off from the bottom of the cylinder and processed in sugar refineries. The new process differs from the current method in that sugar juice now is extracted from the cane by crushing' the cane through a series of rollers under high pressure. National Cylinder said that with the new process, an equal amount of cane can be processed more efficiently, in a fraction of the floor space and using a quart er of the power, than with the present method. It is estimated the innovation will cut produc tion costs by more than half. BAD TIMING New Britain, Conn. (U.R) A fire, in the right place but at the wrong time, caused $5,000 damage. The fire burned 75 tons of garbage and also badly damaged wiring at the munici pal incinerator. At the time, most of the city's firemen and fire apparatus were involved in a parade. sr. 1 a I ASK J ABOVT A ! PF VACATION LOAN A my S year vacatiee-aiad' ft imimi row. . . let Ma yon Me kw mca- tfeft by supprtof the noeey yoe eeed. 3f PT aeaac money. ..acatioa momy, tern! 9 FrnnLr WilIrmcAn Mnnnfinr & -" ........ a Rmstt or Mone 1 PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL PHONE 3-3989 ANOTHER DISTAFF FIRST British swimmer Margaret Feather, 21, swam the 19 miles from Capri to Naples the first woman ever to do so. Tuesday, August 2, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN A. A. Walker Seated By G. H. Lions Club Gold Hill A. A. Walker was installed as president of the Gold Hill Lions club recently. Other officer? installed included Delos Walker, first vice-president: John Cogswell, second vice-president: Neal P. Smith, secretary; and John J. Cannon, treasurer. Harry Newnham was installed as this year's lion tamer, and Harry Smith was installed as tail twister. Directors elected re cently include L. V. Tulare and Tom Carlton, each for one year, and Newnham for a two-year term. Leland Knox of the Medford club was installing officer. MINNESOTA TREES St. Paul (U.P.) Minnesota's forestry department estimated that between 10 and 15 million trees from state nurseries will be planted in the state this year. About half that number g? to individuals and groups for plant ing on privately owned land. The remainder will go on public lands. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads The Constitution of the United States was signed on Sept. 7, 1787. You'll Always Reliability Uniformjry. Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. 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