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Medford Kd Ptm Foil Incased Wlr Tribune ull Leaied Wlr Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1956 Pages 1-6 Doctor Describes Violent Allergy Reaction From Shot of Penicillin B7 DELOS SMITH Uniiad Pimi Science Editor New York (UP) Having a sore throat. Dr. Irving Wein stock prescribed for himself, naturally. lie twisted around and injected 600.000 untii of penicillin into his right buttock Within two minutes, a million needles seemed to be pushing deeply into his feet and legs Very rapidly this sensation spread over his body. He felt nauseated. It seemed to him he couldn't get air into his lungs Black clouds appeared before his eyes. Then he went out like a light. That would have been cur tains for the doctor if another doctor hadn't arrived promptly. Dr. Michael B. Albi found his colleague collapsed and uncon scious on the floor. He could feel no pulse, could barely de tect heart sounds. The eye balls were turned up ward. The skin was cold and clammy and covered with an eruption. The face was bluish Sfafe Convention for Labor Merger Tuesday Portia nd (U.R) The state merger convention of the AFL- CIO is scheduled to open here Tuesday with officials predict ing quick clearance of the mer ger by the some 700 delegates expected to be on hand. Earlier officials had expressed fear that opposition to the state level tnerger might develop from some memhers of the Oregon State Building and Construction Trades council who reportedly were ready to attend the merger convention armed with a reso lution to block it at this time. Meeting Saturday, top nation al officials of the building and construction trades organization, hammered out an agreement, however, the ended opposition by the organization. Oregon leaders immediately announced, upon receipt of the news from the national head quarters, that the piropdlrwl mer ger in the state is expected to be completed without any op position. ' and swollen. There was t marked arrest of breathing, and blood circulation was near col lapse. Emergency Call Dr. Albin put in an emergency call for the Police Department's oxygen respirator. He had to push rhythmically on Dr. Wein- stock's right arm with the sole of his shoe to get a vein to fill enough for him to get a needle into it. Through the needle, he began applying various medications. The police arrived with the oxygen and the oxygen mask. Twenty minutes had passed since Dr. Weinstock blacked out. When he regained conscious ness, his urge was to thrash about in order to avoid pain. The urge was almost uncon trollable. He felt as if he was being pressed down against two railroad tracks on each side of his spine. Breathing was ex tremely difficult. This filled him with fear. In spotty fashion, his mind began functioning realistically. Being a doctor, he knew what the other doctor was doing. He approved, and felt recovery merely was a matter of time. Then he felt the needling sensa tions in his legs again. Feared Relapse Panic seized him. He felt that if he had a relapse, he'd never be able to summon enough strength to survive. So he screamed that he was receding and needed more medication. It was given and it got him out of the woods. Forty ( minutes had now passed since the penicillin injection. It was six weeks before he felt himself again The two doctors made a joint report to the technical journal of the Medical Society of the state of New York. Very little had been known of what the vic tim of massive, sledge hammer allergic shock feels and for what reason Weinstock's account was unique. But it also emphasized that penicillin, "wonder drug" thought it 4s something to re spect. Allergic reactions to It are rare considering the amount of penicillin prescribed daily. Nevertheless, such reactions as Weinstock had can be fatal and doctors these days are under standably cautious in using it. Mysterious Explosion Rocks Munitions Firm Saugus, Calif. OJ.F) Mili tary officials clamped a tight lid of secrecy Saturday on their investigation into a mysterious explosion which ripped the heart of a security-classified munitions plant, killing three employes and injuring three others. The blast occurred in one of the many buildings of the $2, 500,000 Bermite Powder Co. plant here Friday shortly after some 500 employes had return ed from their noon hour. Two years ago one woman was kill ed and 17 others injured in an explosion at the plant located in desert area about 70 miles from Los Angeles. Authorities identified the dead as Pablo E. Avila Jr.. 25, of Piru, Calif.; Herman Zachow, 50 of Saugus; and Mrs. Alma Trowbridge, 35, of San Fernan do, Calif. Avila and Zachow were killed instantly while the third victim died later at a hos pital. Three other women suf fered shock and burns. Reporter Takes Steps For Reinstatement Coos Bay (U.R) A reporter for the Coos Bay Times who was fired by the Air Force in 1954 as a security risk, said here Saturday he has taken steps to gain reinstatement to his job as a fireman at Tinker Air Force base at Oklahoma City, Okla. James S. Martindale, 32, .was fired in February, 1954, for al leged pro-Communist activity. He flatly denied the charges and demanded a public hearing. Air Force officials refused the public hearing but a review board upheld the suspension. Martindale contended that the government had refused to face him with his accusers and that he therefore had no way to de fend himself. Saturday Martindale said that Man Is Convicted Of Army Desertion Honolulu U.R) Army Pvt. Edward Medeiros, who lived as a civilian for 11 years within a stone's throw of the military post he walked away from, has been convicted of de sertion during wartime. An Army court martial board Friday sentenced the 35-year-old father of two children to two years hard labor and for feiture of all pay and allow ances. Medeiros deserted Honolulu's Fort Shafter in 1945 and spent most of the past 11 years living at the home of his mother a few hundred feet from the fort. During that time he worked as a guard at a pineapple plant, supporting his family and five other relatives. He was arrested April 26, but there was no indication in the court martial records as to show why it took the Army so long to locate him or how it finally tracked him down. Medeiros testified during the trial that he planned to return to the Army "hundreds of times," but financial problems and his family prevented him from doing so. His only comment to the sen tence was: "It could have been worse." First Forester . I . David Douglas came ashore from the William and Ann at Fort George (Astoria) on April 12, 1825, nearly nine months after his second departure from England. The self-educated bot anist of 26 years, robust in health, small-boned but big and strong, owning muscular force from dirt-and-dig gardening, was eager for exploration in the wilderness before him. Dr. John McLoughlin came to meet the supply ship and to continue the removal of head quarters from Fort George to Fort Vancouver. He made Doug las welcome "in the most frank and handsome manner" and as sured the botanist that on the Columbia, as in London, the Hudson's Bay Company would support and aid the Royal Hor ticultural Society. He shared his own bateau with Douglas on the return voyage. At Fort Van couver construction was yet only beginning. Douglas lived in a tepee, then in a cedar-bark hut, through six months of mild weather, collect ing plants from the mouth of the Columbia to Celilo Falls and for a good way up the Willamette Valley. A Friend of Man ... Alone or with company, Doug las fed himself on fish, birds and berries, and slept on branch es of cedar or fir. He earned good fame with the Indians, who welcomed him at their sturgeon feasts and other celebrations. In September he became the first white man to travel to Celilo Falls without armed company. This freedom from fear was not due to Douglas himself, in the main, but was a growing effect of the pacific policy and fair deal practices of ' the Hudson's Bay Company in trade with the Indians. The natives were able to learn understanding of Douglas' pur poses in harvesting seeds and plants. They came to call him "the Grass Tyee." By October Douglas had new varieties of lupine, penstemon, primrose, mimulus, blazing star, wild hya cinth, Oregon grape, arbutus, ocean spray, salal, honeysuckles, berries, currants, and many more plants, beside his Douglas fir, Sitka spruce and other tree specimens to send home. Lone Cruiser .... In October David reached As toria just an hour after the Wil liam and Ann had sailed. His collections, ' however, had been shipped from Fort Vancouver in time to be stowed on the brig. A meeting with Tha-a-muxi, brother of the Lower Columbia Chinook chief, Concomly, led yotmf Dougtae on to storm swept foray north as far as Grays Harbor, where he was briefly a guest of the tribe that had once attacked Captain Rob ert Gray. Here again the policies of the Hudson's Bay Company had made peace. Douglas fared on alone, despite terrific rainstorms that flooded the creeks he had to cross to travel up the Che halis Valley. Douglas swam and slogged his way to the Cowlitz, where anoth er peaceful, friendly chief rent ed him a dugout. In this craft Douglas maoV a sfe return to Fort Vancouver, arriving No vember 15. Dr. McLoughlm again mad the brave botanist welcome in his own half-finished house for the winter. Douglas spent the season botanizing in the woods around the fort. His orders from the Society were to start for England in the spring of 1826. 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