Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 07, 1956, Image 17

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Newspaper Page TextTeen-Agers Said Responsible for About Half Of All Venereal Disease Reported in Nation Editor's Note: It venereal dlseavs y1ia1 rtrnmivnitv nartimilarlv I Aiirplvps to the nrnstitutp" he eonquered? Far from It. from a eon-, D,mici. i Dr. Abraham Gelperin, health accepted as a natural part of director of Des Moines, la., told the venereal disease conference that teen-a?e cases of gonorrhea have increased so sharply that ference here last week, from a eon. Krevsional investigation, and from a rerent nationwide survey, one big fart emerced: Despite the mirarle ol peni cillin, I'D if on the upswing In this country. This situation is summed up in the following dispatch. Br MICHAEL J. O'NEILL United Prats Correspondent Washington (U.R An alarm ing number of carefree Ameri can teen-agers are playing Rus sian roulette with venereal dis ease and losing. The Public Health Service says about 200,000 teen-agers are now getting syphilis and gon orrhea every year. That's nearly half of all the cases reported in the nation. Until recently, the venereal disease rate was declining sharp ly under the impact of effective treatment and control programs. Now it has started to climb. Professional prostitutes were once the chief source of infec tion. Now it is the teen-age ama teurs, the casual pickup date, so called ''respectable" people in every walk of life. These facts were reported here last week at the first Interna tional Symposium on Venerea Diseases. They also figure prom inently in a Senate investigation of juvenile delinquency and in a joint statement issued by the nation's leading VD-fighting or ganizations. Penicillin is an almost sure fire cure for VD. Ironically, it also is one of the chief reasons for the current slump in the cam paign to wipe out one of man's greatest scourges. The wonder drug has proved so effective that much of the na tion's elaborate VD control ma chinery has been dismantled. And, more important, it has re moved much of the fear which once applied a heavy check to the "15-19" aae group now must I rhea. growing up . . . our youth does not learn, is willing to take the chance, is grossly misinformed, or is contemptuous of gonor- be considered the key to any control program." "No longer dare we restrict Some Important Facts Gelperin said a detailed study of the teen-age problem in the Des Moines area showed that broken homes were only "an infinitesimal factor" in VD cases. Far more incriminating, he said, were such facts as these about voung people who contracted VD: "Practically all the parents interviewed did not know where their sons or daughters were or what they were doing at any time other than school Sex education was "anywhere but home." None of the infected teen-agers attended church, except occa sionally, or belonged to any church group. There was often a certain lack of "mutual respect" among the various members of the family. Gelperin and other VD fighters called for long-term , Magnuson and his tides have Medford n-utetf Pra-sa Full LtMfd Wire Tribune United Press fuU Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956 Pages 1-1? Grant Girl Named Portland Rose Queen Portland U.R It's Queen Sharon I. Thousands of subjects of the realm of rosaria waited breath lessly at Multnomah stadium last night until 10:20 p.m. when the dark haired princess from Grant high school stepped out to acknowledge the plaudits of the crowd and the best wishes or her regal court, made up of seven lovlies from seven other city high schools. Queen Sharon is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Frey. Sharon, the tallest of the 1956 court, stands 5-feet 7'4 inches. A crowd of 15,149 braved cool, threatening weather to witness the annual queen selec tion, traditionally one of the highlights in the week-long pageant. Use Tribune Want Ads wnm mi m, .1, r-yt mm .w . , , g if W i rfj lif '-I : " ' 1 VACATIONING IN RUSSIA, American pilot Gari Ketcham (left), of Trans World Airlines, was asked by Soviet Cap tain Boris Bugaev (right), at Moscow Airport if he'd like to fly new Red jet airliner TTJ-104. Ketcham enthusiasti cally accepted and became first American to pilot late type Russian plane. (International Sorivtiphrtto) Princess Margaret Attends Theater London tU.R) Princess Mar garet went to the theater Wednesday night with Billy Wallace, less than 24 hours after dancing till nearly dawn with another highly eligible bachelor. Margaret and Wallace, step son of American writer Herbert Agar, went with four friends to a charity performance of T. S. Eliot's "The Family Reunion" at the Phoenix Theater. Night before last-the-pretty princess danced until 3 a.m. at the American Embassy with Dominic Elliot, handsome son of the Earl of Minto. But Wednesday night she was Court Records POLICE COl'RT Henry Pfalf. no operator's license, S3. William David Baize, excessive noise ipipesi. $10. Guy Ray Page, failure to yield right of wav. $10. Joe F. Trenlie. failure to yield right of way. $10. Ernest Harrison McKee, failure' to stop at red light. $5. Susan Jean Brill, excessive noise rpipesl, $10. Robert Morton Jones, excessive noise Uiresl. $10. Thomas Elliott Spatz, violation of basic rule. $10. Tommv Joe Nurton, excessive noise (tiresl, $10. DISTRICT COURT John Wesley Kerns, overload. Sfll. Carlos Ellswort hMorrison. over load. $K7. Roy George Pursel. overload. S62. David Elmer Robertson, overload. back with the man who has been tipped as a possible husband for her for more than five years. SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY - JUNE 8, 9 & 10 CANTALOUPE Sweet, Ripe LARGE SIZE RADISHES Crisp, Tender Fresh Bunch NIBLETS LAM CORN Thm qusci-cooirwc mj-li .i. mii.iiin.i saw mil iliaeasr'SO's? 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In All Departments at GRAND VIEW MARKET Summer Store Hours: Week Day$-8:30-8:00 Sundays! 0:00-7:00 Nunley Committee Election Expenses Reported To Be S536 Salem (U.R) The Oregon Kefauver committee, with Wil liam L. Josslin, co-chairman, spent $3,488 on the Democratic presidential hopeful's Oregon campaigns, reports submitted to the State Elections Division showed today. Other primary expenditures, included: John Merrifield for national Republican committeeman,- $3, 795. , C. Girard Davidson for Demo cratic national committeeman, $1,183. .Pat Dooley, for Democratic national committeeman, $1 4 8. Committee to elect Pat Do- Klamath Falls (U.R) A meet ing is scheduled in Washington, D.C. next week to iron out any possible objections remaining against a proposed interstate compact on use of upper Klam ath Basin water. SSI. Robert Warren Doty, defective tail lights. $8. William Maurice Derushe. llleKal possession of intoxicating liquor. S15. Jack Miinoan.. reckless driving. SJU. Elmer Albert Bollack. overload. S24.30. James Albert Huces. violationh of basic rule. S15. Lavern Boogdon. violation of basic rule. S7. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Daniel Peter Fix. Grants Pass, Linda Ann Wiltgen, Phoenix. James Byron Spencer. Rogue River, and Ruby Mae Hicks, Rogue River. and oley, $983. Jess Gard, for delegate at large to Republican national convention, $191. Fred H. Cockell. delegate to Republican national convention, $233. Robert G. Ingalls for delegate committee, $430. Kathleen N. Bash, for delegate to national convention. $180. Walter H. Dodd, for delegate to national convention, $564. Kenneth S. Groves, for del egate to national convention, $148. Wayne Stewart, in behalf of Dan Thorton for vice-president of the United States. $1,590. Elmer Deetz, Republican candidate for U. S. senator, $1,047. Woody Smith, Democratic candidate for U. S. senator, $1,167. Phil J. Roth. Republican for Congress, $1,664. Grant county keep Elmo Smith governor committee, $663. Mark Hatfield, Republican for secretary of state. $500 Sig Unander, Republican for state treasurer, $320. Walter T. Nunley for Jackson county district attorney commit tee, $536. Ted R. Gamble, in support of various Republican candidates, $1,100. obtained community programs to alert teen-agers to the dangers of VD and to steer them into whole some and healthy channels. Dr. C. A. Smith, head of the Health Service's venereal disease program, also urged a nationwide physician cooperation program to help health officers track down and treat VD contacts to prevent the disease from "spread ing unnoticed in the communi ty." For a variety of reasons, most VD victims are now going to private physicians instead of to public clinics. This has made control, investigation and treat ment of- contacts more difficult. In a joint statement in Febru ary, the state health officers and the major venereal disease asso ciations called for a big federal aid program to help maintain a permanent, nationwide control program. Better methods of treatment and diagnosis still are being sought. There is even hope that science may some day be able to develop a vaccine against the venereal diseases. At the VD symposium here, however. Dr. Harold J. Magnu son of the Health Service said there is little immediate prospect for an effective vaccine. been able to boost the immunity of a victim of late syphilis with injections of killed treponema pallidum, the micro - organism which causes the disease. But the vaccine seems to provide no immunity to persons with early syphilis or no syphilis at all. For some reason the blood antibodies which defend human beings against viruses do not seem to help much against syphilis. Magnuson said, however, that there has been considerable pro gress in developing better diag nostic tests for syphilis. The trouble with most tests is that they produce a number of "false positives" which cause consider able trouble and embarrass ment for both physician and ! patient. 1 A new test the treponema 1 pallidum complement fixation ! (TPCF) test seems to be more ( accurate. It uses a chemical frac- j tion of the syphilis germ to ! detect the presence or absence ! of the germ in a person's blood ! stream. 1 "Today we are under constant attack by these virulent dis- ! eases," Smith said. "Haphazard j vigilance and a token attack ' offer only a false sense of secu rity. Our only real security will come from world-wide vigilance an a concerted attack. Instead of merely containing these dis eases, we must conquer them, or pay tribute year, after year." 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