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.
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tYUf'JkM field's lads
a lot of other
fields, includ-
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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.
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"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.
Portland Considers
Sewer Rehabilitation
Portland U.R If the
Portland city council gives its
approval this week, voters may
have an opportunity at the No
vember general election to indi
cate their opinion of a S5 million
tax levy to overhaul portions of
the city's more antiquated sew
er system.
,.h,ghway but took no action.
Williams said the proposed route
would have to be four-lane to
handle an expected 6000 cars
daily and would cost about $3
million.
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