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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
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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
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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)
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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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