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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'
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a child interested and learning
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that are within his or her cap
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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.
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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
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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-
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which is of the earthenware var-
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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the Navy as the U.S. service" to
provide logistical support to the
U.N. police force in Egypt.
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on the piano. To complete .the
switch, the performers even ex
changed jackets. Presley put on
Liberace's gold jacket and gave
him hit striped brown sports
coat.
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