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Handkerchief Is Big Trouble-Maker For People With Stuffy Noses, Doctor Says By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) A big trouble-maker for people with stuffy noses is the handkerchief. The authority for that is a nose ' specialist. Dr. Leland G. Hun nicutt. He regards the handker chief as a baleful invention of civilization. Having both a stuffy nose and a handkerchief, these people blow the former into the latter. Maybe if they did it only once in a while, they'd get away with it. But they do it again and again which less civilized people never do and so they're in trouble. You see what civilization does when you reflect that constantly congested noses are common among "so-called civilized peo ples in contrast to those who eat less refined foods and live in a less intense existence," said Dr. Hunnicutt. But the big trouble-makers are handkerchiefs and nose med icines. Take the handkerchief in relation to the normally uncon gested nose: "The normal nose," continued Dr. Hunnicutt, "blown 10 times into a clean white handkerchief will produce spots of blood. Break Occurs "This means that a break has occurred in the continuity of the surface of the mucous mem brane. This injury, while heal ing, will result in congestion, ex cess mucous, crusts and post-nasal drip. ' "For two or three nights the nose will be stuffy and there will be an urge to blow it because of the congestion and accumulation of mucus. About three or four days are required for the mem brane to heal but if the desire to blow is acceded to, the healing will be delayed." Now, take nose medicines in tended to constrict its interior surface blood vessels: "The use of a vasoconstrictor in a normal nose several times in one day, will cause periods of congestion, excess lubricating mucus, and postnasal drip," said Dr. Hunni cutt, in the technical journal, "Postgraduate Medicine." "The physiology of the nose is such that the airway ordinarily is open most of the time, and ljr fastest 1 ' service to 1 I SAN FRANCISCO I SEATTLE rthru I DENVER f CHICAGO ioy I f NEW YORK wh. I jZJj MrperHminal. 1 a6"" fa MechW Call 3-3643 1 there is just enough mucus to create a mucous blanket without an excess to cause postnasal drip. The balance of this mech anism may be upset for several days following the use of a vaso constrictor." Possible Allergy When Dr. Hunnicutt under takes to take the stuffiness out of a chronically stuffy nose, he first finds out if allergy could be the cause. He checks to see if a disturbed bodily function is involved. Certain drugs will stuff up the nose. And, further more, he said: "When vasomotor instability is present, the patient is usually of unstable temperament, tense and worried. These characteristics are manifested through a ten dency toward nasal congestion, and in such cases it is necessary to attempt correction of the un derlying factors which precipi tate tension." But his . experience has been that most people with chroni cally stuffy noses get unstuffed "if they avoid excessive blowing of the nose, as well as the reg ular use of nasal medications." The time it usually takes, he added, is about four days. .Theyll Do It Every Time ..tzt. Tuesday, January 8, ISS7 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN QU45Mif?E !! GUESS WrttfT!! OUR LITTLE RET1M4 UAS BEErt SELECTED FOR A rWnOiJL. BEAUTY CONTEST KE4LLY (HE ARB OOMIMG TOMORfTOW TO T4KE HER PICTURE"- WOW MdVBE rrlL GET UER IN TME MOVIES OR OH T.V. WE SURE COULD USE THE DOUSM First National Tells Deposits, Loans Figures released by the Med- ford branch of the First Na tional Bank of Portland show deposits at the branch were $28,623,442 and loans were $12,779,102 according to C. E. Hedberg vice president and man ager. Released at the same time were comparable totals for the branch for Dec. 31, 1955. On that date, deposits were $33, 845, 117 and loans totaled $12,724,334. First National's branches re ported loans and discounts of $431,742,185, a gain of $11,067, 663 over a year ago, but down $12,376, 695 since the Sept. 26 all-time record high figure re ported to the comptroller. Deposits on the last day of the year were $808,810,991. This is $12,314,585 off from the same day one year ago, but a $24, 006,422 gain since the fall bank call. The decline in deposits over a year ago is attributed to the consumer buying boom, the record high tax bill paid by Oregonians in 1956, and the fact that many persons are paying off debt, according to C. B. Stephanson, president of the statewide banking system. Washington (U.R) A multi- million dollar harbor develop ment program for Yaquina Bay and Siuslaw Harbor on the Ore gon coast has been proposed in legislation introduced in the Senate by Oregon Senators Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neuberger. How This Newspaper Helps Advertisers... With a Strong Right Hand We're newspaper people, with our ears to the ground and strength in our right hand. For a long time it has been our job to meet the people of our area in their homes, work, schools, churches, and in their civic and social activities. It has been our job to understand , their needs and desires; to report their joys and sorrows. Few know this area and its people better than we. Many merchants look to this background of experience and understanding for assistance in reaching their audience most effectively. It is an unusually strong right hand to their merchandising efforts an effective source for in formation and advice. Let us show you how the combination of this experience and audited circulation facts can help you to get maximum results from your sales messages. Call us this week. L7 W L II 2 By Jimmy Hatlo So JUST BEFORE VELL"-WE'RENt tme picture boys au- reaw to p F4L.L IM DE4R SMS?';WUE'S RETIhM'S TWO VL FGOKT TOOTS yJZllZ fcQLP EIGHTS FEL " Scientists Use Sun to Turn Sapphires, Rubies Into Boiling Liquids in Utah No Law Against No Shoes While Driving Trenton, N.J. (U.R) Fred erick J. Gassert Jr., state director of motor vehiciles, says there is nothing in the New Jersey law to ban shoeless driving, but the person who tries it could get into trouble. In answer to a letter Gassert wrote: "There is nothing in the law to prevent a person from driving an automobile sans shoes, but why anyone would want to do so, except perhaps for a short jaunt at the seashore, in summer, is hard to understand. "If, however, the absence of footwear could be . proven to have contributed to a violation, or an accident, the shoeless one could possibly be charged with careless driving." Salt Lake City (U.R) Scien tists in Utah can use the sun to turn rubies and sapphires into boiling liquids. They do it with a unique solar furnace with a bargain base ment price tag on it. A solar furnace is a glorified version of the magnifying glass which a Boy Scout uses to make a fire. The curved optical glass concentrates the rays of the sun the source of all energy into a small pinpoint, thus increas ing the intensity of the heat. Temperatures of more than 5,000 degrees fahrenheit can be obtained from the solar furnace atop the roof of the Kennecott Copper Corp. research center on the University of Utah campus. Low Cost , For demonstration purposes, Dr. William M. Tuddenham, 32-year-old red-haired director of research with the solar furnace, uses the instrument to' melt aluminum oxide, basic material of rubies and sapphires. He said that even the gems themselves, which melt at 2,800 degrees centigrade, will boil un der the heat of the solar furnace. The Kennecott solar furnace is unique for two reasons: First. because it cost far less money to build than most other such fur naces: second, because it con tains more than the usual num ber of mirrors. The furnace cost only $3,500 while most solar furnaces cost $25,000 to $50,000. The low cost was achieved through the use of surplus ma terials in its construction; main ly a war surplus searchlight. A Third Mirror The searchlight frame holds the parabolic mirror, which was the reflector of the searchlight. The stand of the searchlight was used as the base of the "helio stat" mirror which first catches the sun's rays. Most solar furnaces, Tudden ham said, use only the heliostat and the parabolic mirror. It is the cup-shaped parabolic mirror that concentrates the sun's rays to a pin point. Some furnaces use only the parabolic mirror. But Kennecott's solar furnace has a third mirror placed at a 45-degree angle. The extra mir ror reflects heat and light into the parabola, which faces down ward. This makes it possible to put materials into the furnace in an upright position, Tuddenham said. He said materials must be placed upside down in furnaces with fewer mirrors. The solar furnace has one OiffdFTMslgfaTmst ggpyTJHI STEVENS g S - DO SAte&. H . HARDWARE S cT7Tx MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE This newspaper is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a nonprofit, cooperative association of publishers, advertisers, and adver tising agencies. Our circulation is audited at regular intervals by experi enced A.B.C. circulation auditors and their reports are made available to our advertisers without obligation. o MEASURE OF SERVICE.. .MARK OF INTEGRITY J. J. Astor I John Jacob Astor and David Thompson both came to North America in 1784. Thompson was 14, and his state was that of a Hudson's Bay Company appren tice. He was penniless, a poor boy from old London, when he de barked on the frozen shore of Hudson Bay at Port Churchill. For 13 years he worked his way upward in the fur trade of Hud son Bay and the regions west ward to the Athabaska country. He worked to live. He lived to study life and books. Astor was also a poor boy. He left his birthplace, Waldorf, near Heidelberg, Germany, at the age of 16. He emigrated to England, served in trade, dreamed of the United States of America, and when he was 21 and free, he earned a passage to Baltimore. He worked his way oh to New York. Soon Astor had his own little shop for retail trade in furs and musical instruments. Then it was his excellent fortune to marry a German-born girl who had business genius of her own. Astor then became a highly suc cessful pioneer in the trade of merchant ships with China. At the same time David Thompson was founding posts and opening Athabaska Pass, on the Upper Columbia, as Western fir-trade chief of the Montreal Northwest company. He was a strong leader of men, a builder of friendship with the Indians, and a genius of land exploration who was second only to Alex ander Mackenzie in the history of the North American fur trade. The maps he made are true today. The young explorer was a fluent reporter and a scholarly diarist. His notebooks keep a place of high authority in the reference library that grew out of the records and reports of the Far West fur trade in Can ada and the United States. In tegrity speaks from every line. David Thompson came along in the Canadian fur trade when the rivalries of the Hudson's Bay and Northwest companies brought about the use of thous ands of gallons of alcohol each year lo control Indian sources of fur supply. Thompson would have no part of this traffic. He barred rum entirely from his Columbia dis trict. And he demonstrated this to be wise business policy. He sowed everlasting friendship with the Upper Columbia Indians for white people. It was his good fortune, of course, that Lewis and Clark had done es well be fore him. Astor and Thompson pioneered in the timber of Washington State and Oregon. The year of forest industry's birth on the Columbia river was 1811 the year when white settlement, de velopment and commerce really began there. In sharper focus, the chief en terprise of David Thompson in the spring and early summer weeks of 1811 was to build a big, fast bateau of canoe cedar and use it for transport from Kettle Falls (now under Coulee Dam lake) to the estuary of the Columbia. At the same time the Astorians were at work, clear ing an acre of land on the south bank of the Columbia, at Point George, about seven miles from the remains of Fort Clatsop. The felled trees were shaped into buildings and a stockade. Spars and planking material were made to fit the frame of a 30-ton shallop. This frame, with frames for buildings and two other ships, had been prefabri cated in New York. From these beginnings timber commerce on the Columbia grew and moved on continuously, us ing bateaux, dugouts, sailing craft, steamboats, deep-water ships all mainly made from native woods. Even so did Astor's acre, first opening of trade in the Columbia river forests first logging lead to other log ging operations until an infant forest industry was born. As toria mothered Fort Vancouver and settlements ui the Walla Walla and Okanogan regions. And from David Thompson's Spokane House the city of Spo kane took root and grew. very distinct advantage ovi other furnaces. "The 'fuel'," Tuddenham point- j ed out, "is absolutely free." Edmund E. Hass Vice-President LCIFIC il0RTHWm CoMPANl Since 1913 HOTEL MEDFORD LOBBY Phone 2-8379 Consult With Mr. Hass on INVESTMENT and RETIREMENT Programs Using the Securities of . . Utilities Banks Insurance Industrial Investment Company Shares. Dependable Incomes of 3 to 6 Can be Obtained. 'Other offices in Portland, Salem, Eugene, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, ASerdeen, Bellingham, Yakima, Wenatchee and Walla Walla. 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