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-
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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.
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Newlyweds Given
Special Thought
By Italian Town
Merano, Italy (U.R) The
newlyweds, Wilhelm and Hilda
Ahrend from Frankfurt, Germ
any, entered the hotel here and
registered.
Their names were written
down on a special list and kept
at hand and from that moment
on they were subject to a series
of little attentions they did not
expect.
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.
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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.
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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.
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