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TSK MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUKK Friday. October IS. 1IJ8 Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Vermn got A NEW CON NECTION AKO WAS VERy M4PP4BOUT THE GREENER GR4SS-- MES BEEtf WITH THE NEW OUT FIT 4 FEW DAYS NOW HE'S NOT SO SURE- TIP OF THE HdTLO M4T TO LEW 5CMW4I7TZ, ?PO'.NOOHIU-0a MEy KEEP "WIS QUIET, BUT TM ZaA QUITTING TMlS .JOINT NEXT WEEK-J - 5 3 I I GOT MYSELF 4 JOB WTTM J Ij "" JOB WW B6 B'"""-. 4LL My LIFE I WANTED TO FflSJ DOME JMD CO. Y-W GET with bigoome this is ,ffrn I VOU LEFT f"' A R THE WORST COMP4NY IN fl 8 TO COME WTTVI y I r-6iJf3.THE BUSINESS j-f A "fl TUic Pi Fifwr, 1 2urrTKtst , . 'II II pojooaaaaaaBaaal'i '!' ' e, mi, row rn;m trwpiCAT. i. wglp ncari jaivn 1 TTl M Is That So? Strictly for puzzle-wits. Ident ify me by No. 2 and you are an Outdoor Expert; No. 4, a Woodsman; No. 6, a Whistle punk; and by No. 8, a Drugstore Cowpoke full of voice but shorn of knowledge. The an swer is stowed away in the last paragraph. 1. Although born with eyes open and a full set of teeth, I nurse until I am six months old and more but I do not attain adulthood until 4. Youngsters are more greyish than parents. I can scratch with all fours in different directions at the same time. Due to my luxuriant fur, which is in prime summer or winter, I was hunted down to virtual extinction. 2. Close relatives, who re semble me closely, are common throughout the world, with the exception of isolated Australia, Madagascar, and South Pacific Islands. As for my own favorite haunts, they used to along the North Pacific shores from South ern California to the Aleutians and down the Kurile Island chain. No more today, I am SAWDUST Phone 2-8277 McGinty Fuel Go. Br IUGENE IURNS Ranger-Naturalist limited to two herds one in the Aleutians and another south of. Monterey, California. 3. My overall length is from 3-4 feet with another foot for a big tail, my weight may be up to 80 pounds; my forefeet with which I hold my food and youngster are small; my hind feet large and broadly webbed which accounts in part for my superb swimming ability. My fur is soft with long white tipped hairs scattered through it, giving it a beautiful frosted look. My sight and hearing are poor; my sense of smell is acute. 4. I am a member of the well-dressed weasel family al though some of us, like the marten, spend much of our time in the streets; a few, like the badger, in the ground; but as for me, the water is my favorite abode I'm happiest sitting smack-dab in the middle of a big kelp-bed. The longest mem ber of my clan is a native of the Amazon river basin. Peaceful, Playful Animal 5. By nature, I am a peaceful playful animal. For food, I often dive a hundred feet down. My main diet is sea urchins al though I also eat fish, cuttle fish, mussels, clams, abalone and other shellfish. When dining, I usually float on the water and use my belly and chest as a table. So good is my balance Open for Inspection 3 Bedroom House IN PHOENIX Corner of 3rd and Rose Srs. Saturday, Oct. 20 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Or By Appointment OAK FLOORS Formica Kitchen Brick Planter Ceramic Tile Bath Fireplace 2 Nice Shade Trees Dining Area Caulkins Construction Co. Phone 3-1470 in the waves that even during rough weather, my meal seldom slides overboard. Except for man and the killer whale, I have few natural enemies. 6. Although my young is born in the water, he must be taught to swim. While small, he usually relaxes on the chest of his flot- ing mother going to sleep with his little feet folded across his belly. Adults usually go to sleep floating, anchoring themselves to a single strand of kelp wound around their midriff. Excep tional swimmers, we can make short spurts of 10-miles-an-hour. If anyone were to ask you, that's traveling. 7. The single young pup is born in a thick bed of kelp al most any time of the year, after a 9 months' gestation. It's a close-knit family: the father caresses the female by stroking her; the mother bounces her young, grooms it meticulously with claw and tongue; and the baby remains with its parents even after another young may be bore. The parent's devotion is almost fanatic even when death threatens. As a result when hunters succeeded in cap turing a baby, the parents be came easy prey for clubs and spears and guns. Separated, the young whines like a human; the parents cry bitterly. Dense Fur Valued 8. In older times, Chinese mandarins, Indians and Eski- moes valued our beautiful dense fur. But it was not until the white man found us Russian, Spanish, and Yankee that my numbers were soon decimated. Small wonder. Even in the early 1800's, my pelt brought $100; before International Laws for bade our killing, our pelts often sold for more than $2,000. 9. Fifty years after white man found us, our pelts became rare. Take this example: Two Rus sians landed on the Pribilofs. The first year they slaughtered 5,000; the next year, 1,000; and within five years not one an imal was left. By 1912, reports said that the sea otter was" ex tinct. Fortunately a few of us survived with the result that today we number almost 400 near Monterey; and almost 5,000 in the Aleutians. (Coypright, 1956, by Eugene Burnt) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Ency clopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal raft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. B. F. Goodrich Certified RECAPS Only perfect tires recapped. All work dene in our awn Medford plant, with first grade rubber. Full treads. Fully guaranteed. ONE LOW PRICE to ALL 995? $4A95 800-15 111 SJO-15 I V cte-it 640-15 819-15 719-15 'Exchange with kacaepable Tire; add $3 etharwisa. TRAILMAKER RECAPS $1095 $11 95 10 DOWN 6 MONTHS TO PAY JOHNSTON STORES 112 South Riverside The Medical Roundup Emeritus Comttltant In Medicine, My Clinic Emeritus Professor ul Medicine. Mlvn FnnndatlnTi Dr. Alvarez What To Do For A Cured Gonorrhea? This title will doubtless puz zle physicians who see it, but, actually, I get many requests for informa tion about what to do for the supposed residual bad effects left in the body. The only ones left in some highly worrii ome men are in the brain, and con sist of fears. Today, when a man is cured of gonorrhea, he is "cured," and can stop worrying. In the old pre-penicillin days a man who had had gonorrhea was often left with a stricture of the urethra, or the little tube that carries the urine from the bladder to the outside. Such strictures often made it hard for the man to urinate; and from time to time throughout his life, he might have to have the tube dilated with so-called sounds. In many cases gonorrhea was fol lowed, also, by prostatitis, or by an infection in the seminal ves icles which hold the semen. They lie just above the prostate gland, which surrounds the neck of the bladder and produces most of the fluid part of the semen. Men with prostatitis and seminal vesiculitis were often uncomfort able. Often they were the more uncomfortable because they wor ried much about the situation, and feared that it would inter fere with their sexual powers. In the old pre-penicillin days there were a few men who, dur ing an attack of gonorrhea, got a bad. flare-up of arthritis in per haps one knee-joint. Today such troubles are rarely seen. Women Suffered in Past In the past, women have suf fered terribly from, gonorrhea. Commonly, during her honey moon, the bride would get the disease from her husband, who had married thinking or hoping that he was cured. In women, the infection can go up through the womb and into the tubes that run out each side from the womb toward the ovaries. Because of the marked inflammation in these tubes, in many cases they later had to be removed surgical ly, oftentimes with ovaries and the uterus. Often, also, the wo man was left with a great deal of chronic peritonitis in her pelvis. In women and also in men. gonorrhea used to be one of the greatest causes of infertility. In cases of men whose seminal tubes had been gummed up by gonor rhea,, the sperm cells could not get from the testicles up into the seminal vesicles; and in women the ovum could not get from the ovary into the fallopian tube, or if it got into. the tube, it could not get through into the womb. Fortunately, today, with the quick cures commonly achieved with the help of penicillin, both men and women are far less likely, unwittingly, to go on and give their disease to others. The innocent wife is far less likely to be infected. Today, no man has any excuse for marrying or having sexual intercourse when he is infected. No Long-Lasting Effects As far as we physicians know, aside from the conditions that I have mentioned, gonorrhea leaves no generalized or long lasting effects such as are com monly left by syphilis. Syphilis is an entirely different disease from gonorrhea. Gonorrhea is due to a little germ, called a gonococcus, while syphilis is due to a ery tiny spiral organism, called a spirochete. Syphilis is a disease of the whole body, and one which, if not well treated, can last a. lifetime. In its later stages it is particularly likely to attack arteries, the brain and the spinal cord. In the old days one of the common forms of insanity was produced by syphilis the so-called paresis, or general pa ralysis of the insane. In this dis ease the patient often got de lusions of grandeur. He thought he was a great king or very wealthy. A formerly common type of weakness and lack of control of the legs was also pro duced by syphilis. Sixty per cent of the aneurisms or big blow-outs of weak spots in arteries used to be due to syphilis. Fortunately, today, we physi cians are seeing many fewer syphilitic patients than we used to see. I now.rarely see one, and it is years since I have recog nized a person with congential syphilis. This is not an inherited disease. It is usually disease given by the husband to his wife and then given by the wife to the child in her womb. Some young people feel now the danger from venereal dis ease has been so reduced it can be disregarded; but this is not true. Perhaps 85 per cent of per sons well treated can soon get well, but there is another 15 per cent in which things do not go smoothly, and it is not easy to get a cure. . Many persons who worry themselves sick fearing they have got syphilis in some way, should go right off to an expert usually dermatologist or skin specialist or an internist who will get one or more tests for syphilis made. If the tests are "negative," and if the expert says, "Stop worrying," the per son should take his advice. Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers will understand that it would be impossible for him to answer requests for information or to attempt to diagnose by mail. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1956) Eagle Poinf FFA To Sell First Aid Kits Eagle Point The Eagle Point High school chapter of the Fu ture Farmers of America today started a house-to-house "Be Prepared for Accidents" cam paign in the Eagle Point school district. Members of the FFA will pre sent homeowners with a first-aid chart showing approved proce dures for dealing with various accident, and offer to assist in checking the homeowners first aid supplies to determine wheth er the home is adequately stocked for accident emergen cies. If supplies are needed, mem bers will offer a selection of first-aid kits from which the homeowner may choose a kit which fits his need. Proceeds from the campaign will be used by the chapter for various activities. The campaign is scheduled to end Nov. 5. PASSENGERS INJURED Astoria, Ore. (U.R) Several persons aboard the Matson line's new 14,000-ton passenger liner Mariposa were reported injured Wednesday night when the ves sel encountered rough seas in crossing the Columbia River bar here. According to figures released by the Health News Institute of New York, the pharmaceu tical industry in the United States employs 92,500 persons, including 56,100 production workers. 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What makes you so sure you're getting your money's worth when you say, "I'll take that one"? The answer's obvious. You look for the brand name on the refrigerator your "guarantee." You've learned to follow this first rule of safe and sound buying: A good brand is your best guarantee No matter what kind of product you want te buy, you know a good brand won't let you down. You know the maker stands back of it guar antees it. And so, when you buy a good brand you know you're right. Read this newspaper to find out which are the good brands (and the stores that sell them.) Th'e more good brands you know, the surer you are about all your shopping. BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Incorporated A Non-Proit Educational Foundation 37 Weat 57th Street, New York 19, New York 3 YEAR Guarantee t .Id battery TERMS FIRST m vuzsn-FIRST n tub&bs Medford Mail Tribune 18 N. GRAPE H. M71 9 J
