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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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