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Si Emotionally Disturbed Women Get More Operations Than Others o o By DELOS SMITH United Press Scienct Editor New York (U.R) In weal thy, fashionable Westchester, a suburban area adjacent to New York City, the women who are emotionally disturbed have man ged to get many more surgical Operations than the women who rent. Dr. William A. Triebel looked intd the situation carefully. He couldn't know, of course' whe ther all the women deserved all their operations but he was frankly suspicious that many of the women with disturbed emo tions had hoodwinked their sur geons into futile slicing. Dr. Triebel, of the staff of New York Hospital - Westchester division in White Plains, had been roused by a 26-year-old nur sery school teacher. Her symp toms, as she described them (and as she acted them out physical ly) all pointed clearly to a mal formed stomach. Normal Stomach This was confirmed by a ser ies of standard gastrointestinal tests. Confidently, the surgeon opened her and found a quite normal stomach. In retrospect, said Triebel, one could see that her stomach troubles had all ori ginated in her mind. Yet she had produced symptoms and signs which fooled doctors and tested positive. So Triebel took 300 women who had been patients in phy- In and Around Jacksonville Jacksonville Sgt. Verne L. Vincent has completed visit I in Jacksonville with his aunt, Mrs. Anna Rumley, and his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lamb. Sergeant Vincent is the U nephew of the late W. C. Kass- hafef, Saras Valley and Jackson- ville. 'a 3 He has completed his second 9 (Overseas tour in the Far East 2 (ince 1950, and is planning to make the Air Force his career. His next assignment is the 3rd (Strategic support squadron, Shreveport, La. " u Miss Simonne Petard, daugb (Jer of Mr. and Mrs. Auguste Petard, Jacksonville, returned Aug. 1 from a three month trip to France. Miss Petard flew over and home by Pan-American Air lines, and from New Ydfk to Medford by United Air lines. 'She visited in Paris, .Havre, c Mentes and spent most of her ;.: time with her aunt and uncle, f Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Pousseur, at Colombes. At the harbor in Havre she visited the Ship Lib- o erte. After Paris, Miss Petard stated, even New York's sky- S scrapers remained unimpressive, Dr. Patmont, who was a guest & at the H. L. Berntson home for s several days last week, left last a. Jfbnday by plane for Seattle From there he was to go to & Alaska and distribute New Testa ments printed in the language of the native Alaskans. Dr. Pat- 01 mont speaks 22 languages. Philip Kano, a native of Japan, Q was also a guest several days last week with Bcrntsons. Here for a two week visit with 3 Mrs and Mrs. Tom Burnell is q their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Burnell and twin daughters, Jane and Judy, 4 months old. They're from Havre, Mont., at the Air Force base there, Mrs. Louis Burnell's moth er er, Mrs. Aevermann, is with 0them. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Zempke, 'Beason lane, Medford, were af ternoon., visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bailey last week. 0 Mrs. Irwin R. Boyd reported this week that they had killed two large rattlesnakes in their yard on upper South Third st. One had eizht rattles and a but ton and the other nine rattles isand a button. They were both about two feet long. Residents in that locality should be on the lookout for snakes as they may be coming down low in search for water. Mr. and Mrs. George Wall and grandchildren, Judith Ann and Kenneth Flett, Toppenish, Wash., were guests of his brother, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Wall, last week. While here they all mode a trip to Klamath Falls and Lake O' Woods resort where they called on Mrs. Edwin Wall's daughter, Mrs. Tom Neeley. The George Walls enjoyed a tour of the pioneer cemetery and a visit to the Museum as well as other spots of interest in Jacksonville. Also guests at the Edwin Walls over the week end were Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Alexander and children, Susan and Steven, The Dalles, Ore. The Walls also had a family picnic in the Ashland park a week ago Sunday. Those attend ing were Mr. and Mrs. James Knapp and daughters, Linda and Dona May, Medford; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Houston and children, Craig and Karen, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Huston and Mrs. El enor Watkins and daughter Bar bara, Medford; Mrs. Elsie Turn- bough and children, Valorie and Glade, Phoenix; John Davis, Tal ent, and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Wall and daughter, Thelma, Jacksonville. Seventeen persons were pres ent at the monthly potluck sup per at the IOOF hall in Jack sonville Friday evening. Out-of-town guests were Mrs. J. H. Hos kins and granddaughter, Roberta Rogers, Blackfoot, Ida. Mrs. Hos- kins is Carl Hoskins' mother. Guests from Medford were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Newell of Bear Creek Kennels, South Pacific highway, Medford. j Surprising Mrs. Carl Hoskins on her birthday Aug. 4, were guests from Blackfoot, Ida, James Hoskins, her son and his two children, Steven and Treasa. Also calling at the Hoskins home on the 4th was Mrs. H. E. Griffith, Auburn, Calif.. They all remained to see part of the Jack sonville Jubilee and James Hos kins, his son Steven, and Carl Hoskins went to Crescent City and surf-fished Saturday. They got a nice catch of sea trout. About 400,000 automotive pa tients have been issued in the United tSates since 1896, the in dustry estimates. chiatric hospitals or had been treated by psychiatrists. Each one of the 300 he matched .with a woman of the same age, mari tal status, and social and econom ic setting. The second 300 wom en were his controls not one had ever been in a psychiatric hospital or treated by a psychia trist. Of the first 300, 129 had had major operations. Of the 300 con trols, only 69 had had major ope rations. The 129 had had 183 operations among them. The 68 controls had only 83 operations. He had his 300 emotionally disturbed women sub - divided into categories according to the nature of their disturbances. Of the neurotics among them, 65 per cent had had operations while only 23 per cent of their matched controls had had opera tions. In the other categories, the relationship was about the same, save that for schizophrenia. Here there was no significant differ ence between the disturbed and their controls. Triebel, in his report to the New York State Journal of Medi cine, could offer only a series of "perhaps" in trying to explain it. Perhaps, he said, emotionally, ill persons might have some "constl tutional inferiority." Or perhaps "events" in the mind had effects in the body. Or perhaps emo tionally disturbed persons made much more of symptoms than un disturbed persons, and conveyed this enthusiasm to their doctors. Or perhaps surgical operations have great psychic value to the emotionally disturbed and they determinedly seek operations. Of course, there must never be any surgery for other than or ganic disease, Triebel said. Yet "in the area of a surgical emer gency the benefit of the doubt should certainly be on the side of the existence of organic disease." But he suggested that surgeons give "careful consideration of the elective surgical procedures . . . from the psychological point of view." McLeod Martin, Lewis Reach Working Agreement Hollywood U.R) Dean Mar tin and Jerry Lewis, the nation's highest paid comedy team, re mained "cool" toward each other today although reaching a "working agreement" to con tinue together in pictures and television. The comedians, who recently split over a misunderstanding, were brought together yesterday by Paramount studio head Y. Frank Freeman after a lengthy conference and agreed to fulfill their outstanding obligations as a team. "Maybe in time we will get back to the old friendship," Mar tin said after the conference, indicating their personal differ ences had not been settled de spite the working agreement. Grange Griffin Creek Grange Griffin Creek Grange will meet Thursday, Aug. 11, at 8 p.m. The Farnsworths and Lar sens are the refreshment committee. McLeod Dinner guests at "Harding's Paradise" on Mon day, Aug. 1, were Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Lorton, Lynwood, Calif. They also visited Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dahak, Eagle Point, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Reed; Eagle Point. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dussen berry and twin sons were din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Hume and twin daughters Wednesday, 'Aug. 3. The community extends its heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Mur- tha Schnider in the loss of her father, Angus Scongale, on Aug. 2. Mrs. Donald Vaughn and Mrs. Leo Hoeg were dinner guests of Mrs. Jim Clevenberg in her home at Ashland Tuesday, Aug. 2. St. Martha's guild of Prospect and St. Martin's guild of Shady Cove are holding their annual "Buck-a-roo" breakfast Sunday, Aug. 14, from 7 to 11 a.m. in the Upper Rogue Grange hall with church services by the Rev. Robert Greene of the Episcopal church of Prospect. The public is invited. Col. and Mrs. John Richardson of San Francisco have been the house guests of the former's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Richard son. They all attended the plays at the Shakespearean Festival in Ashland. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding Sr. spent the week end of July 30 visiting relatives in Roseburg. Ray Gillespie has gone to northern California on business. : House guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carlton are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Booth, Fresno, Calif., and Claude Garrett, Ashland, their grandson. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Anderton were hosts to a dinner party at their home on Rogue River Sun day, July 31, honoring the birth day of Harvey Anderton. Those present were Mrs. Harris and son Richard, Mrs. Pearl Adair, Shady Cove, and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Alworth, Medford. House guests of Mrs. Audrey Collier are Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Collier and family, Creswell, Ore. Monte Axtell and Bob Congor have been deep sea fishing on the Oregon coast with good results. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Scott, San Francisco, are visiting at "Fir lough Lodge" on Rogue River, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Young. On Friday, Aug. 5, din ner guests were Mr. and Mrs. J. Dreffer of Portland. Mobile Blood Bank will be in Medford Aug. 10. All ladies who want to go from Prospect may contact Mrs. George Hub bard, i BOY SCOUTS Den J. Pack A Cub Scout Den 15, Pack 6 of Washington school visited the Boy Scout camp at Lake O' Woods last Tuesday. Those making the trip were Steve Cox, Jack Groves, Bruce Kaye, Boby Fish, Dick John ston, Bobby Stearns, Dwayne Turpin and Eddie Lesnowicz. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. David Stearns and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cox and Pa tricia Ann Cox. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday:- 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. Tuesday, August 9, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Panama, C. Z. (U.R) A cow held up traffic in the Panama Canal Monday when it was dis covered swimming in the Gatun Lock chamber. Officials towed bossy from the lock and sent her on her way by land. Des Moines, la. (U.R) Polk County Auditor Harold Anderson said one Iowa taxpayer appar ently really scraped the bottom of the barrel. The citizen sent in a $10 gold certificate, out of cir culation for 22 years. u'NDY'S STORY FILMED Brig. Gen. Charles A. Lind bergh (right) one of most rarely photographed of our famous men, chats with producer Leland Hayward at Zahn's Airport in North Amityville, N. Y., where the latter is engaged in filming "Spirit of St Louis," the story of Lindy's flight across Atlantic. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pr chir Writer Washington (U.R) Mrs. Jose Figueres impressed me because she acts like a parent which, it turned out, she is. I rapped at the gate of the Costa R i c a n E m ba s s y. A maid said Mrs. F. would be down in min ute. Mrs. Figu e r e s happens to be the American wife Human Michol of the presi dent of Costa Rica. She was in the country to show off her new baby to her folks in New York. "I have a baby," she said, "he is seven month sold. He weighs over 22 pounds and he's a doll." I expected the blue-eyed blond beauty, who was born in West chester County, N.Y., to act like an ordinary parent. Whip out a picture, maybe. She didn't. "Just a minute," she said. And up the steps she went and down she came, cuddling Jose Jr. A doll he was too. "He cries in Spanish," Mrs. Figueres, the former Karen Ol sen, said. "Want to hear him?" Junior didn't feel like crying but a small pinch of the diaper by his mommy started him into action. The cry came out some thing like "oooo-Eaa-Ah." . "See?" said the mother "that's Spanish. Isn't it wonderful?" It sure was. Jose Jr., was car ried back to the Embassy crib reserved for visiting juniors and Mrs. F. and I had a little talk. It seems that she met her fa mous husband while she was studying architectural engineer ing at Columbia University in New York. Jose at the time was lecturing at Columbia." Time moved along and love came in. And Jose went back to Costa Rica and eventually Karen Olsen became his wife. Karen has managed Spanish pretty well, she said, but she wonders who thought up the line that she is a "whizz" at it. "I still have trouble," she told me. "Particularly with the vow els and some of the nouns. But we get along." Mow Open THE OK Market 1202 NORTH RIVERSIDE UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP! Bob Anderson, Manager Chet Reed, Meat Dept. 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