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0e The Medical Roundup Treatment Of Skin Diseasee I just reading a special article written for the Journal of the American Medical Associa tion by Dr. L. Edward Gaul, . of Evansville, I n d i ana. He was comment ing on the tend ency of many persons to treat their skin disease by themselves. Often they get "sf re hold of ointments or lotions that are much too strong for their particular skin, or thy use med icine to which their skin is high ly sensitive, and then they get themselves Into a mess. The The worst feature is that when tneir skin gets inflamed they don t realize that this is due to their treatment, and so they keep using the hurtful medicine, or an even stronger and more harmful one. Sometimes a man will take a' medicine or an ointment that worked well on his toes, perhaps for athletes foot, and will put it on the svotum,or bag that holds the testicles. The skin there is so sensitive that it can- react to certain strong medicines with an acute inflammation. As Dr. Gaul says, the com monest and most frequently ovcrtreated disease of the skin is "contact dermatitis," a trouble due to contact of the skin with some irritating chemical, such as a soap or detergent or cos metic or some '"dope" or varnish or solvent or cleaning fluid used by the man ors woman'- in the factory where he or she works every day. Anyone who' is hav ing a terrible time with some skin rash ought to stop all .treat ment for a while and see if he gets well. If he doesn't get well, then he ought to go to. a good skin specialist and take his ad vice. Often he wiil have' to go back a few times to the skin specialist because in many cases,' the treatment has constantly, to be modified or adjusted. Mentally Retarded Child Every so often I get a letter from some woman with a' re tarded child who is distressed because, living far out on a lone-' ly ranch in the West, she is' un able to "get help with the child's education. Because of lack of money, she cannot send the child to a school for retarded, children, and she wonders if anywhere she can find a book which will show Jier how to help her child at home. I just received a letter from Mrs. Polly Culbertson .who tells me that years .ago a virus in fection left her boy with an in jured brain. So much damage had been done to his speech center that it was very "hard for him to learn to talk. Mrs. Cul bertson went for help to the Bancroft School of Hajdonf ield, K. J.-, where she studied the , methods used in teaching handi capped children, and finally she rime home with a notebook full of suggestions. ' Recently, she decided . to col lect these, suggestions, together with much material that she has gathered through the -years, into' 150 tttCUUOCH D-44 Direct-Drive Chain Saws to be iven away free! Absolutely nothing to buy! See Us Today for Details of the exciting Mcculloch saw-draw SOUTHERN OREGON EQUIPMENT CO. 3540 N. Pacific Hiway Why Suffer Longer? 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The book contains lists of inexpen sive things that a mother can buy and use in the training of her child. The Gift Of Happiness One of the greatest inner gifts that a person can have in this world is the gift of happiness: of being happy most of the time, and being able to radiate happi ness and good nature. Often I can tell what a person is like by watching his (or her) face in re pose when he docs not know that anyone is looking at him. Too many persons, when by themselves in this way, look sad or discontented or even annoyed or angry at the world. I guess that is the way they feel inside. Doubtless many were born to be sad or dull and without joy or eagerness or enthusiasm; while others have been hit so hard by life's vicissitudes that ;one can hardly blame them for feeling sad. And yet. what impresses me is that some of the merriest and lovliest and most interesting per sons I have known had been treated pretty roughly by life. One of - the merriest persons I have ever known was the head cleaning woman in the labora tory in which I used to work 40 years ago. We were great pals. Some women, if early widowed as she had been and compelled to work hard to bring up and put through high school a num ber of children, might have felt abused. But not Mrs. Barton; she enjoyed life to the fullest. Nerre Deafness People ask me what to do for nerve deafness, and often I have to say. "If you have some hear ing left, go quickly and buy a hearing aid." As any sensible layman can see, if something has injured the nerve that runs from the ear to the brain, or something has destroyed part of the hearing center' in the brain, there is little -that any doctor can hope to do. There is no med icine known that will make a new ear nerve or a new hearing center. 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) Hungary Soccer Players Ask Asylum in Mexico Mexico City U.R) Thirty six Hungarian soccer players who refused to. return to their Com munist subjugated homeland have requested asylum in Mex ico, it was reported today. Dm Mall Tribune Want Ada Phone 3-3633 $. I. PONS Herb Specialist CHARLIE CHAN OFFICE OPEN SUNDAYS ONLY 12 NOON TO 4 P.M. , CHINESE MEDICINE ft HERB CO. 424 S. Riverside Medford They'll Do It Every Time n-. By Jimmy Hatlo Is That So? Africa is a land of never-ceasing wonder. Among its lesser known animals is a giant frog, recently discovered, which has a body length of 12 inches. With hind legs stretched out, double the length. It weighs up to 4'2 pounds! In its upper jaw it has tiny front teeth and is quite cap able of catching and swallowing a whole live rat. If you haven't read Gorilla Hunter by "Fred Merfield here are some more samplings: The giant forest hog, biggest wild pig in the world, was "dis covered" by collectors in this century, 1904 to be exact. (Al most at the same time the Okapi, a relative of the giraffe, was "discovered." This huge black pig weighs up. to 500 pounds. It has a pair of gigantic warty growths below its eyes. Natives fear it even more than the un predictable buffalo, reportedly the most vicious fighting animal in Africa. A leopard is no match for its long, upward - curved tusks deadly weapons. And it is incredibly swift. Unlike other wild pigs, these giant forest hogs live in pairs, not in herds. Browsers, not rooters. When the time comes to farrow, the sow pushes together a pile of leaves and crawls underneath while the boar stands guard. He attacks without provocation. The hyraxT a small rabbit-like animal with short ears, teeth like a rhinoceros and small hoofs on its toes, is the nearest living relative to the African elephant. llie gorilla's sense of smell is as feeble as man's; his sight and hearing, however, are probably a little better; and like all wild animals, it can correctly inter pret sounds that to man would mean nothing. Nine times out of ten, young gorillas caught and caged, will turn their faces to the wall and die of sheer despair. The African giant water shrews have the shape and size of small otters except their tail is flattened, vertically. One of the world's strangest animals is the manatee found in the rivers of Africa and southern North and South America. This animal, which may well have given rise to the legends of mer maids seducing young sailors, is ugly and ungainly. But as an aquatic mammal it is surpassed only by whales and dolphins. It has a horizontal fluke, flipper like forelimbs and lacks exter nal ears. Perhaps the mermaid legend arose ' because she rears well out of the water and clasps her suckling babe with a fore- flipper to her human - like breasts. Hippopotamus males, strug gling for supremacy, often fight under water. Birds haaje an incredibly fast digestion: within minutes some have been known to pass indi gestive nuts. Mason flies build rock-hard nests and have been known to build them within a shotgun. Hunters have reported laying a shotgun aside for two days and finding the barrels choked with a nest as solid as concrete. In their migrations, driver ants have been known to march through an animal collector's camp and eat caged animals alive, right down to the white skeleton, including animals as large as pigs and antelopes. These voracious black ants march only on sunless days or at night, toward the beginning of the rain season. Surprisingly, workers, soldiers and females are totally blind. Their columns are so long that they may take three or four days to pass a giv en point. Millions upon millions. As far as known, they have no natural enemies: even the ant- Pottery is a type of ceramics which is of the earthenware var- i iety that is, it is not trans- j luscent. Pottery can be formed : I in three ways by hand, on a j ! potter's wheel or by casting or I molding. i Corn picked at 32 per cent moisture in an Indiana test and stored in a air-tight silo put fas ter and cheaper gains on cattle than corn picked at 17 per cent moisture and stored in a regular I crib. ty EUGENE BURNS Ranter-Naturalist eating pangolins leave them se verely alone. (Copyright, 1S5S, by Eugene Burns) (Released by MeCluxe News paper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. ASC Elections Slated To Start November 19 Election of Agricultural Sta bilization and Conservation com mitteemen will be held by mail starting Nov. 19. and continuing through Dec. 3, according to ASC officials here. Petitions signed by 10 or more eligible voters favoring nomina tions of additional candidates will be received by community election board chairmen up to Nov. 20, and will be included in the slate of nominees if the candidate is willing to serve and eligible under regulations of the department of agriculture. Nominees for community com mittees and delegates to the county convention include: Applegaie community Clar ance Buck, James F. Corson, Ed ward Finley, John Horner, W. H. R. Nortrand, Fred Offen bacher. Lance Offenbacher. Mel vin Rodwen, Dr. J. Robert Tolle and Fred West. James F. Corson, route 2, box 51, Jacksonville, is chairman of the election board. Ashland community Joe Dugan, Don E. Grimes, Calvin Hayes. Richard Hein, Clarance Holdridge, John Kesler, Jewell Lofe, Homer Moore, Don Nichols and Dewey Penrod. John Kesler, 5050 South Pacific highway, Medford, is chairman of the Ashland election board. Central 'Point community Roy Colpitts, Robert Fields, Leonard Freeman, Edwin Geb hard, Scott Hamilton, A. T. Lathrop, W. H. Penninger, Nor man Smith, Ray Vogel and Robert Wolff. Bert Caster, route 1, box 589B, Central Point, is chairman of the Central Point board. Eagle Point community Merton Bradshaw, William C. Calloway, R. Bruce Grieve, Her man Huebner, John Ousterhout, Henry A. Owens, A. C. Silver, SHUCKS! WAIT FOR iff V i APPEAR HERE The Ink Spots quartet will being a 10 day engagement at the Y club, Ncrth Pacific highway, Friday night. New managers of the club are Don Adams, Cave Junction, and Dean Wooley, Medford. They announced that reserva tions may be made but are not necessary. The Ink Spots have recently concluded tours in Honolulu, Korea, Hawaii, Japan and Australia. Darrell Stanley. Roy Vaughn and Leonard Ward. Delbert Mon gold, route 1. box 126 J. Eagle Point, is chairman of the Eagle Point board. Jacksonville - Medford com munity Miss Fay Carver, Archie Ferns, Oscar Gysin. Floyd Hamlin, Marvin L. Hixon. Charles Hockersmith, Claude Hutton, Melvin J. Lattie, Mrs. Sprague Riegel and Ralph Swingle. Olin V. Poe. 5127 South Pacific highway, Medford, is chairman of the Jacksonville Medford election board. Rogue RWer community Thomas A. Carlton, Ken Damon, H. S. Deuel Jr., D. Estremado, William Hitson, Russel B. John son, Walter Kasworm, J. E. Parsons, Chavner Thompson and Charles White. Glenn Birdseye. route 1, Gold Hill, is chairman of the Rogue River community election board. Sams Valley community Durle Burreson, C. W. Duggan, Fred Konschot, C. W. McDon ough, R. E. Nealon, Earl Peffley, E. E. Robinson, Ray Ryan, Dale Schulz and Albert Straus. Lester E. James, route 2, box 540, Cen tral Point, is chairman of the Sams Valley election board. TRAFFIC TOTAL San Francisco KU.P.) The Na tional Automobile Club reported that 451,177.610 vehicles had passed over the San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge as of June 30, 1956. The Badlands National Monu ment in South Dakota is becom ing an increasing popular attrac tion. Six hundred thousand per sons toured the vari-colored Bad lands area this summer, four per cent more than in 1955. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads Tha Low Cost Way to Sail SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 18th Friday, Korember IS, 1958 Elvis Presley, Liberace Team Up For Unscheduled Musical Session Las Vegas (U.PJ Elvis Presley traded his guitar for Liberace's piano to join the pianist in an unscheduled back stage jam session the other night at the swank Hotel Riviera. Deputy sheriffs held back some 1,000 screaming fans as Presley walked into Liberace's dressing room and handed the entertainer the guitar. Liberace began strumming away on the guitar as Presley accompanied him on the piano. For more than an hour the two entertainers came forth w it h tunes ranging from "The Girl of My Dreams" to "Deep In The Heart of Texas." Presley was on hand Wednes day night when Liberace open-' ed an engagement at the Riviera. Liberace and Presley greeted each other like old friends and during the show the pianist did several takeoffs of Presley's stnging technique. The audience roared with laughter when Liberace told Presley, who had a ringside table: "Keep your sideburns if you like them and I will keep my gold, jackets and piano swim ming pools. By golly, we can af ford them." Following the first show, the audience attempted to mob Pres ley and he fled to Liberace's dressing room. It was then that Presley hand ed over the guitar and performed Washington (U.PJ The De fense Department has designated the Navy as the U.S. service" to provide logistical support to the U.N. police force in Egypt. Roseburg iU.P.) 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