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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1956
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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.
But he decided to stay on for
another year. The branch val
leys of the Columbia were bo
tanically unexplored. The deci
sion led to his discovery of the
sugar pine.
HEADS-0R-TAILS
DRIVING
that's
KID STUFF!
The show-off who says, "Bet I
can make it!" risks too much on
the flip of a coin. Too bad, when he
flips, he takes other lives, too.
Let's get him off the road!
"Careen driving it deadly KID STUFF'
PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR
Milwaukee (U.R) Charles
E. Wampler drove to Green Bay
and parked his car in a lot be
hind the Wisconsin Telephone
Co. building. Later he found a
note on his car saying, "This is
a private parking lot please do
not use it again or your car will
be towed away at your expense."
Wampler is president of the
Wisconsin Telephone Co.
in" light of Attorney General
Brownell's recent ruling that
the government security pro
gram no longer applies to em
ployes in "non-senitive" jobs, he
felt the Air Force had no choice
but to reinstate him.
He said that he had written
letters asking for reinstatement
to Air Force Secretary Quarles
and to the commander of the
Tinker Air Force base.
The skin on the human ab
domen has twice the elasticity
of skin on the back.
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