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Coronary Artery Disease Leading
Killer; Understanding
Editor'! Notr: The "five trtt
killers." the diieases that account
for the greatest mortality rate
among adult Americans, are heart
disease, cancer, cerebral hemorr
hage, pneumonia-influenza and dia
betes. The United Press asked five out
standing authorities in those fields
to write a simplified account of the
causes, svmptoms. treatment, pre
vention and possibility of conquer
ing the "killers'
By ROBERT W. WILKINS. M.D.
Prtiident-Elcct American Heart
Association
Prof. Boston University School
of Medicine
Written for United Press
CORONARY ARTERY
DISEASE
The leading cause of mortality
today is coronary artery disease,
which sets the stage for a "heart
attack' Although it is but one
of a number of different heart
diseases, it is wholly or partially
Quotes From the News
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Washington AFL-CIO Vice President Walter Reuther, declar
ing that the AFL-CIO had "sound constitutional grounds for bring
ing corruption charges against Teamster President Dave Beck
and the Teamsters union:
"The AFL-CIO will not compromise with corruption."
Hollywood Comedian Jerry Lewis, relating how his wife and
two children were watching television while he captured a bur
garly suspect at gunpoint:
"They were laughing at the Jackie Gleason TV show. They
didn't know their daddy was outside with a very unfunny come
dian." Washington Dr. Masatoshi Matsushita, leader of a Japanese
drive to stop Britain's forthcoming hydrogen bomb tests at Christ
mas island in the Pacific, on his talks with Secretary of State
Dulles:
"He told me that unilateral abandonment of nuclear tests was
impractical but that some day all nations could agree."
New York Magistrate Albert Schanzer, in ordering Thomas J.
Higgins. 22. accused slayer of 19-year-old Patricia Ruland, held
without bail for a hearing:
"Of all the gruesome crimes conjured in a girl's dreams you
are charged with the most macabre."
New York Asbestos heir Tommy Manville, disclosing plans
for his tenth marriage:
"It will be a small quiet wedding in some New York hotel."
Back Stairs: The Easter White House
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press White House Writer
Augusta Ga. (U.R) Back
stairs at the White House:
White House reporters travel
ing with a president usually try
to give some slightly distinctive
name to his headquarters when
he vacations for any length of
time. It has been the custom
since President Eisenhower has
been visiting Augusta to refer
to his set-up here as "the vaca
tion White House" or the "win
ter (andor spring) White
House," depending on the sea
son.
At this Easter time, however,
there have been some variations.
One reporter has been referring
to the Eisenhower establishment
as "th Easter White House," but
what this fellow does after to
day remains to be seen.
Other variations have been
the "White House on the green,"
referring to its location at the
Augusta National Golf club, or
"the - White - House - on-fairway"
which is a bit more accurate
since the President's cottage sits
beside the 10th fairway of the
plushy golf club.
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responsible for about 400,000
deaths yearly in the United
States roughtly, 25 per cent of
all deaths.
To understand how coronary
artery disease can lead to a
heart attack, the layman can
best begin by visualizing a wa
ter pipe in the basement of his
own home. In time, its bore may
become roughened and narrow
ed by lime deposits. Then one
day a particle of lime becomes
wedged in a very narrow pas
sageway, and shuts off the flow
cf water.
Reasonable Analogy
This affords a reasonable an
alogy of what happens in a cor
onary thrombosis, or heart at
tack: Normally smooth arteries
which nourish the heart muscle
are narrowed by a long-term
build-up of fatty material called
The White House under any
administration normally receives
a certain amount of mail from
crackpots who rage against the
president and his family for an
amazing variety of imagined
grievances.
Much of this mail is shocking
to behold and the United States
Secret Service maintains an
elaborate filing system through
which most "nut letter" authors
are catalogued, identified, and
if it seems necessary, committed
to mental institutions.
For the most part, the brutal
ly worded mail, threatening
everything from death to physi
cal abuse, never reaches the ad
dressee in the family of a presi
dent. It is screened out by train
ed operatives in advance and
quickly traced down without
adding this extra worry to the
man attempting to run the gov
ernment.
There was a slip - up some
years ago, however. A truly re
volting letter from an obvious
mental case got through the mail
screen and into the hands of
Margaret Truman, daughter of
the former President.
She was horrified and imme
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Sought
cholesterol which becomes hard-
ened and roughened by lime de
posits. - With dramatic suddenness,
such a rough, narrow channel
can be blocked by a small blood
clot, and the part of the heart
muscle that fails to get its sup
ply of blood starves from a lack
of oxygen.
If the area involved is large
or strategically located death
may result. In most cases, how
ever, the patient lives, recovers
and goes back to work usually
at his former job.
What causes the arteries to be
come narrowed, roughened, and
plugged? How can the cholester
ol build-up be prevented? Once
established, can it be controlled
or eliminated?
These unanswered questions
are among the greatest challeng
es facing medical science today
Research investigators, aided by
the Heart Fund, are studying
many promising clues; general
ly, they fall within such areas
as diet, hormones, body chemis
try, heredity and exercise
Understanding
Our primary target is an un
derstanding of the basic causes
of fatty deposiis in the coronary
arteries. Once these causes are
known, we should be able to es
tablish controls, preventive as
well as remedial.
Meanwhile, dramatic advanc
es already have been made in
the diagnosis, care and treat
ment of patients with this disor
der. Lives are being prolonged
through the application of this
new knowledge even after an at
tack has occurred.
Yet great gaps remain to be
bridged gaps that can be filled
only through costly, time-consuming,
basic research. Clearly,
this is a task for the nation's fin
est minds and best research fa
cilities.
If we give our dedicated scien
tists the financial and moral
support they need, I am confi
dent that we shall speed the day
when we can effectively control
this leading affliction of man
kind. diately took it to her father who
blew up over the fact that any
one, however anonymous, should
write his daughter such a letter
He. quickly issued orders that
the letter writer be traced down
and it was a tricky case.
Agents of the Secret Service
and the Post Office Department
persisted in their efforts, how
ever, and finally after two years,
found the poison penman and
took legal steps to see that he
no longer annoyed and fright
ened the daughters of the nation
by his abberational fan letters.
If the current weather in Au
gusta doesn't clear up Eisen
hower's cough, there is little
left for him in the way of warm
climate except the equatorial re
gions. For the first few days, of
his Easter trip, at least, the
weather here has been ideal
bright, sunny and the tempera
ture above 80, with cool nights
ideal for sleeping. His first day
was muggy and humid, but that
cleared away last Friday and the
swimming pool at the Bon Air
Hotel was as crowded as in mid-
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By EUGENE BURNS
Ringer-Naturalist
A quarter million blooded
dogs were recruited for World
War II. Many of these served-at
the front. And certainly,, they
performed in a greater variety
of ways than ever before.
Japanese burdened their dogs
with timed 50-pound anti-personnel
bombs to carry into Ameri
can-occupied positions in- the
dead of night.
The Germans, who opened the
war with some 100,000 highly
trained doberman pinschers and
German shepherds, taught their
patrol dogs to point an enemy to
4-aa-sT
his handler at distance of 100
feet. The British developed
hounds who ferretted out Ger
man non-metallic land mines
which escaped electric magnetic
detectors.
But the Russians surpassed all
other fighting nations in their
unique use of dogs. To give you
an idea, in snow country, the
Soviets used white samoyeds
with matching white harness
and sled on which rode white-
clad snipers. They trained anti
tank suicide does which de
stroyed many German tanks in
the Kalinen front. This we know
from the Germans but the vital
secret of how the dog performed
and why the explosions occurred
at exactly the right time is still
undisclosed.
The Russians also used thous
ands of ambulance dogs for dou
ble duty in deep snow which
stopped vehicular traffic; the
dogs hauled wounded to hospi
tals in sleds and returned with
loads of ammunition. One team
of four such dogs on the Central
front in five weeks hauled 1,239
wounded soldiers through waist-
deep snow who might otherwise
have frozen and perished and on
the return trip brought 327 tons
of grenades, machine gun bul
lets and shells to the frontline
troops. Hundreds of such teams
were in operation. Other dogs
worked singly, even packing dis
assembled 20mm cannon.
Even more unusual, the So
viets developed canine para
chute troops; dogs equipped with
self-opening 'chutes strapped ,to
their backs and trained to wear
gas masks. Their duty was to ac
company human paratroops on
missions deep within enemy ter
ritory. The units were complete
so that when they made the drop
and were released from the
'chutes, the dogs could protect
their masters from the local citi
zenry and once the post was set
up, act as sentries, vicious kill
ers, messengers or scouts.
Then, too, many dogs were
used for Red Cross duty during
World War II. To an ambulance
dog, friend and foe were alike
when wounded and dying. When
great offensives are in progress,
causalties lie bleeding to death
in gullies and thickets and under
debris because men tend to
crawl away to hide to protect
themselves from further harm.
There as he hides in fear, his
wounds grow stiff and sore. He
- VUE OF
YEAR!
Jerry Lewis Nabs
Burglary Suspect
Hollywood (U.R) Comedian
Jerry Lewis said today that he
was cold but not frightened
when he held a burglary suspect
at gun-point for ten minutes
Saturday night while his wife
and children were watching
television.
Lewis said he got his gun and
guarded the suspect, identified
as George W. Sheffield, until
police arrived.
"I was ready to shoot to pro
tect my family," Lewis said. "I
held him at gunpoint for ten
minutes, - half frozen to death.
All I had on was a T shirt and
trousers."
Lewis said Sheffield came to
his home earlier and made re
marks about "killing people."
The comedian said he ordered
him to leave and then got his
gun, Lewis' wife and children
were unaware of what was hap
pening. Sheffield was booked and
later jailed on suspicion of bur
glary. Lewis said police told
him that the suspect had a burg
lary record.
grows weaker. Often, too, man
gled unconscious men will lie
side by side with corpses both
looking horribly alike. This is
the way it is on a battlefield.
And even though the corpsmen
search conscientiously for these
hidden-away wounded, nonethe
less countless would be doomed
were it not for these alert dogs
with the canvas packs strapped
around their middle, marked
with the blessed Red Cross sym
bol, who seem to know if a man
gled body holds the barest
thread of life.
The proof of their work as
if it were needed? One ambu
lance dog in one night found 16
men who were missed entirely
by the medical department. In
another night, on a 20-square
mile battlefield before Rheims,
a corps of nine Red Cross dogs
recovered from the shattered
terrain 252 casualties many of
whom could not have lasted the
night.
(Copyright, 1957.
by Eugene Burns)
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WithWarm-UpAction
Salem (U.R) The House Tax
ation Committee headed by Rep.
Clarence Barton, Coquille Demo
crat, worked diligently today on
its taxation program, hoping to
bring it to the floor of the House
within a week or so.
Meanwhile, as a warm-up ac
tion, it introduced two taxation
measures today.
Inheritance Tax
One, House Bill 797, provides
for payment of an inheritance
tax on the survivorship of joint
ly owned property, including es
tates by the entirety' except
homesteads under $25,000, and
on life insurance policies to
talling more than $60,000. The
measure would remove the
$3,500 widow's support and
$5,000 . homestead i deduction
presently allowed and increase
the tax rates from .5 per cent to
2 per cent, with the average at
1 per cent.
House Bill 798 would increase
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Opening date for the Girls
Community club, now under
construction in Medford, " has
tentatively been set for July 1.
Committees have been appoint
ed to select decorative color
'Bow Street Runners'
Nab Fleeing Driver
London (U.R) Back in the
early days of London the first
municipal police were called the
"Bow Street Runners," and
thereby hangs a tale.
A patrol car of Scotland
Yard's famed "Flying Squad"
chased a stolen Jaguar racing
car through the downtown Lon
don streets Sunday night at 60
miles an hour.
The police car rammed the
fleeing car just outside the Bow
st. police station. The noise of
the crash brought out more po
lice, who ran down the fleeing
driver on Bow st.
Colombia Shaken
By Earth Temblor
Bogota (U.R) Colombia's
worst earthquake in seven years
shook the northern and eastern
portions of this country Sunday,
rocking tall buildings and caus
ing panics in some places.
There was no report of casual
ties or serious damage.
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adjustments to conform to the
inheritance tax changes.
Also -, introduced was a meas
ure, house bill 800, appropriat
ing $27,612 to the Department
of Justice for the Multnomah
county vice investigation and
prosecution in the 1955 bien
nium.
The Senate had 13 measures
up for third reading and final
action today, including Senate
bills 274 and 275 designed to
strengthen the authority of the
public utility commissioner in
the regulation of railroads.
Also up for final Senate action
were two Senate joint resolu
tions. One, SJR 32, would pro
vide for an interim committee
to study the feasibility of com
bining the State Fish and Game
commissions. The other, SJR 36,
provides for an interim commit
tee for highway study.
The House had a light agenda
with only five bills up for final
action.
Open on July 1
schemes and furnishings, and i
the campaign to finance the i
building will be stepped up next j
month, committee members said. I
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Mrs. Marrs Gibbons is in j
charge of interior decorating and '
equipment for the entire down- j
stairs. Other members of her !
committee include Mrs. C. O. :
Lovejoy, Mrs. Mamie E. Sleeter,
Mrs. A. A. Lausmann, Mrs. .
Aletha Vawter and Mrs. B. G.
Harding. On the second floor
committee are .Mrs. Leonard
Mayfield, chairman, Mrs. Hugh
Coleman, Mrs. T. K. Oliver, Mrs.
R. J. Keeney and Mrs. J. B.
Miller
Mrs Dolph Phipps and Mrs.
Martin Luther are supervising
construction of the building.
Mrs. R. G. Owens is assisting
the treasurer, Mrs. M. M. Mor
ris, in tabulating the gift con
tributions. Letters Sent Out
Letters were sent out last fall
asking financial aid for furnish
ings and for the endowment
fund. The quota, $50,000, has
not yet been reached, it was re
ported. Donations received from
civic organizations include $100,
Women of the Rotary; $100,
Daughters of the American Revo
lution; $50, Lady Lions; and
magazine subscriptions from Al
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Balboa, C.Z. (U.R) Some 15,
000 U.S. Marines and airborne
infantry will land on opposite'
sides of the Isthmus of Panama
Wednesday to simulate attack on
the Panama Canal in America's
biggest Caribbean war game
since World War II.
U.S. Air Force and Marine
planes will cover the landings.
A reinforced Marine regiment,
supported by warships, will land
from the sea near Cristobal on
the Atlantic side of the narrow
neck of land linking Central and
South America.
At the same time, an Army
paratroop battalion will be es
tablishing an "airhead" on the
abandoned Rio Hato Airbase, on
the Pacific Coast some 90 miles
west of Panama City.
As soon as the strip is secure,
a second Army battalion will be
flown in as reinforcements.
For purposes of the maneuver,
it will be assumed that the troops
at Rio Hato have been driven
back from the canal and are in
defensive positions. The Marines
will be assumed to have seized
part of the canal's west bank as
a preparation to sealing
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