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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, July 16, 1956 Regrowth of Nerve Fibers To Severe Burn Areas Slow Process By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York U.R What hap pens to the network of nerve libers when the flesh is burned is very little if you consider what happens to it a few -hours and a few days after the burn. This is new scientific infor mation and very important in formation for surgeons who treat people with burns. In some cases it could possibly make the difference between life and death. When the flesh is burned all that happens at once is that it gels red on the surface and fluid collects. In about 45 minutes, the superficial nerve fibers in the central part of the burned area have disappeared and other librrs show damage. Within four hours, the central part of the bi.rn has no nerve libers at all, and the nerve fi bers around the edges now show A Nkhol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Prtu Future Writer Washington who trudge through snow, rain, the gloom of night, etc., to de- wammrwmm liver the man are smart on their own time, too. Postmas t e r H---. f??J General Ar f W J thur Summer tYUf'JkM field's lads a lot of other fields, includ- Harman MclioJs In .' try. The service is proud of its many parsons. In New York City, unaries A. Distler distributes letters and parcels during the week and preaches the gospel on the sab bath. The 40-year-old letter car rier is a son of a private detec tive and is minister of the Wood side Community Baptist church in Queens. At Clarksburg, W.Va.. postal clerk H. E. Zahn was there to tie a marital knot for a couple when the pair showed up at the post office. Zahn. pastor of the Summit Park Baptist church. shucked his work clothes, put on the cloth and listened to the "I do's." Another postal employee, car rier Rufus T. Griffin, of Grand Prairie, Tex., has just sold his twelfth gospel song. His most popular published gospel song is "When Life Is Over." Art Kercheval of Denver totes the mail. But on the side he writes western stories for the magazines. Art is happy to say that he has received a check lor his 30th sale called "The (U.P.) The men Star and the Man," which, I suppose, has something to do with the law and some character outside the law. A sub clerk named Edward Breen of New York City ped dled a play called "Thirty Year Man" to the U.S. Steel television show. Ed says that he would drop his mail bag altogether if he wasn't in love with the ! service. Frank H. Keith, a letter car rier in Chicago, parlays a talent ; for the poetic with a hot flair for cartooning. Frank tours the Midwest on off time with a heavyduty crayon in hand. He makes chalk talk. He also wrote the lyrics for the Christmas tune "Twinkle Toes." Your mailman also orates. Fel lows like supervisor Paul A. Letzkus of Pittsburg. Paul talk ed himself into the blue ribbon class of a speech contest spon sored by Area l of Toastmasters International. Of course, in passing there is the unsung pavement pounder who at long last- decided to re tire. He was, legend has it, a base ball fan. What he wanted to do instead of wear carpet slippers and roll in the hammock was to run around the country catching foul balls in baseball parks. He did. At length he collected a considerable number of the horsehides and built himself a trophy case in his den. When friends came in for a cold one, the old-timer would proudly point at his case and say: "Look every durn one of 'em a foul ball." damage. Within 24 hours the area without nerve fibers has increased considerably. Within two to four days, this area has again increased and is almost twice what it was immediately zfter the burn. Maximum Size But now it is at its maximum size it won't get any bigger and we want to know now how quickly nerve fibers grow back through the damaged area. The newly-supplied answer is that it is a slow process. Two weeks after the burn there still are no nerve fibers on the surface. A few have reap peared on the underside and there are some isolated, single fibers around the edges. Not until four weeks after ward is there a good network of nerves oA the underside and a fair network on the. surface, beven weeks afterward, the nerve network is more or less reestablished through the burn ed area. This information was gathered by Dr. J. Raymond Hinshaw of the University of Rochester. N.Y. school of medicine and dentistry, in precise experi ments with burns of rabbit ears the ears of living rabbits, of course. The nature of rabbit ears was important to the experi ments because the burned sur face and the underside of the burn could both be stuiied. Critical Decision The information, which pre sumably applies to human flesh vs well as to rabbit flesh, is im portant because a critical deci sion of the surgeon often is whether a given burned area of flesh is second degree or third degree. If truly second degree. it is not so deep that time won't heal it. If third degree, remo val of the heat-killed flesh and skin-grafting may be vital. The decision can be tough. One test has been to stick pins in and around burned areas. The idea of this has been that if the burn victim feels the pin pricks, the burn is not too thick tut if he doesn't, he has a deep second . or third degree burn. The new information indicates that the jabs he feels soon after his injury, he won't feel a few hours later and won't feel for weeks. To feel through the flesh, there must be a network of nerve fibers HANDY INDEED! Showing off their handy abilities with the saw during judging for "queen" of the Do-It-Yourself show in Los Angeles are, left to right: Joyce Winfield, Judy Bamber, Judith Berry, Audrey Lowell and Pat Mal loy. Chivalry must be dead indeed if any one of these lovelies had to do a chore herself. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Prei Correspondent Las Vegas. Nev. (U.R Judy Garland makes her big-time night club debut Monday night on the same Las Vegas stage where Mario Lanza once failed to make his open ing but Judy is sure she'll make it. Lanza, ap parently stricken with Aline Mosby stage fright, couldn't bulge from his room to face the audience at the New Frontier hotel in this gambling city two years ago. Now Judy, admitted terrified to face audiences, is opening at the same hotel for a reported S55,000 a week, a record in this town of dizzy salaries. But Judy insists she'll actually fing on that stage every night for four weeks to collect the salary that makes her the highest paid night club peformer in the land. Stage Fright Told "I'm a victim of the most aw ful stage fright," said Judy, look ing relaxed and happy as she sat in a long red velvet robe in her room. "I always get sick right be fore I go on the stage. Its' such a lonely feeling . . . "But no matter how frighten ed you are you have to do it. I figure if people have gotten in their cars and driven there and paid to see you. you just bloody well have to go on. "Lanza must have really felt that terror. And he didn't have the experience to get him up there. After all, he had gone right from the Army into mov ies." But Judy has been a performer since she was a child, and even performed in small night clubs with her sisters when she was nine years old (they had to pass her off as 16). In recent years she's passed up fabulous offers from Las Vegas hotels because, ' People said I shouldn't do it be cause it wasn't dignified." 'Why Shouldn't I' "Then I realized Noel Coward. Maurice Chevalier and many en tertainers had appeared there so I dont know why I shouldn't," she said. "It's not quite like playing night clubs. The New Frontier hotel stage is like a theater. I thought it would be fun and, besides, gotta get that money," she added with a laugh. Judy's reported 55 Gs a week goes to her alone, unlike Liber ace's $50,000 which also paid for his staff. She's made sure she'll take that fabulous loot back to Hollywood, too. Judy and hus band, Sid Luft, who is producing her show, have agreed not to go near the enticing dice tables. "Some entertainers lose their salaries in the casinos," Luft told me. "But we're not going near them." Highways 99, 30 To Get Big Share Portland (U.R Deleea- Iiams said the highway budget tions who appeared before the State Highway commission here Friday in hopes of getting a share of new federal aid moneys for highway projects in their areas were given disappointing news. ', Commission Chairman Ben Chandler of Coos Bay said only two Oregon highways. 99 and 30. will get the bulk of the fed eral funds since they have been designated interstate highways. Chandler announced to the del egations that "we will have very little more to spend on non-interstate roads than we have had." Deputy Engineer W. C. Wil- for non-interstate routes in 1ST58 would be S21,417,000 and that it would go to S22,046,000 in 1959 and remain at that level through 1969. He pointed out that the ex tensive building programs of the past five years had been financed by Oregon's own $72 million bond issue. With the aid of federal funds, the state's highway construction budgets for the next 13 years will total $674,771,000, Williams said. In other business, the commis sion indicated a favorable inter est in proposals for a new link between Hillsboro and the Sun- Good Intentions End in Big Mess Portland U.R) A well-in- sculptor, Frederick Littman said, tentioned clean-up job ended in a big mess here Friday when city crews attempted to clean with acids the Skidmore fountain in the lower downtown Portland area. Funds for the statue, com posed of maidens supporting the Grecian basin of the fountain, were bequeathed in 1888 by Ste phen Skidmore. The clean-up attempt came as a result of an order by Water Commissioner, Nathan Boody, to clean up the fountain. The job was assigned to M. A. Mosely, head of the construction and maintenance section of the Water Bureau, who in turn consulted with experts on bronze. The workmen started their job with acids, but when the result ing was a nauseating greenish yellow stain, they beat a hasty retreat for further instructions. Both Thomas Colt, director of the art museum, and Francis Newton, curator, were slightly horrifed at the very thought of using acid, or sandblasting to re move the acid, on a work of art like the Skidmore fountain. Portland's most prominent Pak-A-Way Freezer by Schaefer 35 Under List SPECIAL 18.7 Cubic Foot Upright $399.50 3608 Pacific Hiway So. of Medford Open Till 10:00 P.M. "It should definitely not be sand blasted if it can be avioded." In the meantime, A. H. Bar bour & Son were commissioned to start sandblasting operations Saturday morning. Mosely ex plained that the firm will use finesand to avoid marring the metal. 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