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I They'll Do It Every Time Byjimrny Hado v. 1 ; v MET?E WE GO 1 CEdD W- UE S VECV B SCMCOt-dND YJUNOK-eUT COLLEGE YE4R-J SEEMS I RECOL- BOOKS-HE ONLY LECT HOW HE WENT OUT FOR GOT4SPLINTEI? THE DEBATING f FROM THE BENCH, T&4M.4HO HE 4SD THTT ENDED DIDM'T HIM BEIN71 MOTHER THAT SOMETHlM&TOS4y HPM?WELU IN THE STANDS I I 4BOUT TU4T.' fT LL iHcn,wnfl r i anv Zav, IHffTS A kOO HIM GOOD.' IT I V DID? V. My KID.'" mnifr no me S , nl V 1 auv uicM.mn f P mm V W that S. It comes up every rau-THE POP IS FOR 4ND MOM 7Ar -fvo TIP OP W fATLO HAT to BfllLIS VOH VOLKtHSlKGU, WIHtnOM- SALEM, H.C. Blue Shield Plans, 'Scalpel Wielders' Attack in ACS Speech San Francisco (U.R! An official of the American College of Surgeons believes Emily Post could have written a "much better" code of medical ethics than the American Medical As sociation. This observation came from Dr. .Paul R. Hawley of Chicago, outspoken director of the col lege, in the course of talks to two groups attending, the 42nd annual congress of the ACS. At the same time, Hawley also attacked the "questionable activities" of Blue Shield plans The Medical Roundup by . f Emeritus ConmlUnt In Maditia. Mayo Clinic Krnrrttus PrttckMr ol Mdl ina. Mtfn FnnnrJUtn Jir. Alvarez UNFAIR CRITICS OF MEDICINE I get many letters from fair ly well-informend men and wo men who express their convic tion that the medical pro fession consists 1 a r g e ly of a group of stub born and nar row - minded men who take delight in ig noring and perhaps per- ecu ting lay men and even a few physicians who supposedly have discovered a cure for cancer or some other terrible disease. When I receive such letters I sometimes try to find time in my terribly busy day to write and tell the man (or woman) what is trne, and this is that I was acquainted with the person who was supposedly persecuted, and I am sure that his failure to sup ply the world with a great medicine was his own fault and not the fault of the American Medical Association. No one "persecuted him" or "hounded him to his death." All my life I have had much sympathy for those men who narrowly missed genius and suc cess. In many cases I made a pilgrimage to see the man; we became friends, and remained friends for years. Often I tried to help the fellow to plan his work better, to write it up more convincingly, and to get it pub lished. Usually, I found the man was a keen and original type of observer. He had much or iginality and he was an indefatig able worker day and night. Usually he was a solitary sort of fellow who could not or , would not work with others, and this was a great handicap. Some of these men worked hard all their days but they ignored the work of others in their field. Some wrote in a jargon of their own which other workers in the same field could not easily understand. Editor Doesn't Feel Safe All of them made Interesting observations, but they were not good at writing them up well enough so that an editor would feel safe in taking the paper. He would wonder if the man was a crackpot, and he would suspect that the work was not well done. Often when he did publish the paper the readers could not understand it. As a result, in many cases, the man published his work in a book printed at his own expense. Without prominent publisher to handle the sale of the book it remained unknown, and perhaps sold 50 or 100 copies. When later I read the material, with every desire to get something helpful out of it, I was often left puzzled, and with a feeling that perhaps the mand had a big message but 3C U DJ REMOVES in IATHTUBS ' SINKS ottMBtf com; pots THE FLOORS METALS AUTO IUMPEKS ALUMINUM STORM WINDOWS M B SOLI - HSUOCHS. RUSTAIN PRODUCTS HARDWARE. DEPT. EAIKLAWN. NEW JERSEY UCEXTSIQ1ES I could not be sure what it was. The other day an obviously educated man scolded , me and the medical profession for hav ing, as he said, hounded to death an old doctor "who had shown that many diseases could be cured by keeping the patient under a pressure of 2 or 3 atmospheres." A very wealthy man gave him the money, first, for an experimental tank in which to put his patients, and later for a huge tank big enough to house a hospital. Doctor Didn't Know To my critic I said, "Hold on; don't scold me. I made a pil grimage to see that fellow and his remarkable hospital. I liked the old chap and later had him visit me at the Mayo Clinic. We were friends. I tried hard to find out what type of disease or what type of patient could be cured with the method, but the old doctor just didn't know. He was not an observer or a thinker or a good reporter. I tried to get him to record his observations so that he could publish a logical and convincing paper, but I soon saw he could not do this. He was just a sweet old crank with one idea which he did not know how to communicate to his fel lows. As a result, his clientele fell away, and when he died, I believe the huge tank was sold as scrap metal." I think that if a hundred other men inclined to accuse my pro fession of being too narrow to accept a supposedly great dis covery were to sit down with me, perhaps in a library where we could pull out the man's papers and books, I could quickly show why the fellow had failed to sell his idea to his brother physi- sians. I admit that we could find instances of able medical in novators who were ignored or attacked by the leaders of med icine in their day, but that was 50 or 100 years ago, and today thing are much better. Also, it is worth nothing that the crack pots are now all forgotten, while the great men who had some thing, like Edward Jenner (vac cination), Oliver Wendell Holmes (child-bed fever), Pasteur (bacte riology). Lord Lister (antiseptic surgery), and Dr. Morton (an esthesia) were soon greatly hon ored, and are honored today. PERISCOPE BRINGS ARREST Los Angeles !U.P.) An un manned Army tank periscope re sulted in the arrest of 21 gam blers Wednesday. Police said a lookout who used the periscope was not around when they staged a surprise raid on a hotel basement card game. throughout the nation and criti cized "scalpel-wielding" general practitioners. Dr. Thomas O. Murphy of the University of Minnesota medical school told the American Col lege of Surgeons that one of the most common operations tor atherosclerosis may not be as effective as thought. Murphy said he and other re searchers at Minnesota experi mented on rabbits to study the sympathectomy o p e r a t ion, in which surgeons cut the sympa thetic nerves running into the legs. Murphy said studies of rabbits who were operated on showed an increase in atherosclerosis not only on the lumbar aorta but also in the smaller vessels of the pelvis and thigh. Yale University surgeons de scribed experiments using a sub stance which promises help in treating blood clotting diseases. . Dr. Michael Hume, speaking to the American College of Sur geons, said the substance, plas min, is an enzyme isolated from human blood. It attacks and de stroys blood clots by' eating away at the web-like network, called fibrin, which holds a blood clot together.- Hawley charged that the AMA code is like the traditional Mother Hubbard dress. "It covered everything, but touched upon very few points," he said. "It overlooked the most important person in the medical practice the patient." Coda of Etiquette The code, he said, is "largely a code of etiquette among physi cians, which Emily Post could have written much better." Hawley said Blue Shield plans, which cover 37 million Americans in 42 states, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, have failed to provide a fair and justifiable solution to health insurance problems. He claimed that the American Medical Association long op posed Blue Shield plans, but ac cepted them at last only to "stop the clamor" for socialized medi cine. "However." he said, "the American Medical Association made certain that the primary purpose of Blue Shield would be protection of the, medical pro fession against socialization, rather than the protection of the public against medical expense." Automatic Charging Machines Placed in Service at Library Electric automatic charging I comparable to a bank's loan of Thursday, October 11. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE machines were placed in opera tion this week at the Medford Public Library. The new machines do routine work formerly done by hand, accomplishing greater speed and greater accuracy in check ing out books to borrowers. Each borrower uses a card with a numbered plate attached to it, similar to the cards now in use in many department stores and gasoline service stations. As this card, representing the bor rower, and a card representing the book being borrowed are in serted together into the machine, the borrower's number and the date due are printed on the book card, making an accurate, legi ble, easy-to-read record. Machinss Rented Such machines, rented at a nominal fee from Gaylord Li brary Supplies, are now serving all types of libraries public, county, college, school, and bookmobile. Two have been in use for more than a year in the Jose phine County library at Grants Pass. Librarians using the machines say that books are charged two to five times faster than by hand, freeing charging desk cir culation desk attendants for more important duties in the library. They are of particular advantage when a collection of 100 books or more must be checked out at one time for a branch agency or a school station-Use of the machines also frees the borrower from having to copy his card number in his own handwriting. More important even than the time-saving advantage is the ma chine's guarantee of accuracy. Library card numbers cannot possibly be transposed or mis read as sometimes occurs when they are hand - written, even with the signature and double check charging system that has been employed until now. "The library is a business in stitution," Librarian Miss Helen Webster, said. "Each transaction involving the loan of a book is Court Records POLICE COURT Larry Dean Brown, no operator's license, $10. Philip Leon Anderson, violation of the basic rule. $10. Jack Herbert McCandliss, excessive noise (pipes). S10. James Herbert Miller, violation ol basic rule. $10. Robert Morrel Carr, violation of basic rule. $10. Eva May Low, disobeyed traffic signal. $5. Gcorsena Fa ye Slyimate, disobeyed traffic signal. So. DISTRICT COURT James Stanley Pardee, overload. $142.50. Richard Lee Farrell, failure to remain standing at stop light. $10. Robert L. Moss, overload, S61. Frank Lester Proctor, overweight; $15. bail forfeited. George Albert Folk, truck speed ing. $15. Melvin Gerald Sharp, overload, $189. Lavonda Hartley, permitting vicious animal to be at large, $25. bail for feited. Merwin Lowell Cray, inadequate muffler, $15. George Vendelin, failure to stop at red light. S10. Wilbert Paul Lutman, overload. $30 Edith Mae Rauh, passing with in sufficient clearance. $10. CIRCUIT COURT Flora Wimer Stewart vs. Philip T. Stewart, divorce complaint. Zoetta Pearl Morales vs. Francisco S. Morales, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Marvin D. Adams. 425 Manzanita ave.. Medford. and Lois Harden Gardner. 129 Kenwood ave., Medford. Mark Spur peon Toole. Modesto. Calif., and Roberta Lea Clutter, 94- Murray St.. Medford. Roland Marion Roberts. 129 Granite st.. Ashland, and Gertrude Frances Wehinger Svenson, 129 Granite St.. Ashland. 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Library patrons who have not yet been issued the new type of borrower's card bearing the metal plate are invited to re register at their earliest convenience. Fame of Pendleon ' Attracts British Girl Pendleton (U.R) The fame of Pendleton is spreading. Only this week a couple from Temperance, Mich., completed a five-month, 3500-mile journey by horseback to establish their home here. Yesterday the Chamber of Commerce received a letter from a London, England secretary ask ing for help in lining up em ployment. ; Miss Barbara Crawford of Lon don said, she expected to arrive here in the spring of .1958. She said she had read and heard of Pendleton so many times that she had decided to move to the Round-Up city. One Safe, One Presumed Dead in Mid-Air Crash Sheboygan, Wis. (U.R) One pilot parachuted to safety and another was missing and pre sumed dead after a blazing mid air crash of two F86 Sabre jets over Lake Michigan. Planes and ships continued to scan the choppy waters near here early today as survival hopes waned for the missing pilot, Capt. Carleton Berry, 38, Bloomingdale, 111. Lt. Kenneth Hughes, 21, Wil liamsburg, Ohio, was rescued by the ore-carrier Ernest T. Weir about three hours after the crash. Liquor Revenues for Quarter Distributed Salem (U.R) Distribution of 582,693 in liquor revenues for the quarter ended Sept. 30 to Oregon cities and counties was announced today by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. The money was derived from a tax on manufactures and im porting distributors of malt and alcoholic beverages. Read and Use Classiiied Ads Donald O'Connor to Wed In Palm Springs Today Hollywood !U.R) Song-and-dance star Donald O'Connor, 31, planned to marry Gloria Noble. 23, sometime today in nearby Palm Springs. O'Connor said he and Miss Noble would leave here for the desert resort and marry in a ceremony in which he planned to have seven best men. 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