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o O o SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, November 25, 1957 This Week's HISTORY MYSTERY 9' " " ' ............ .'. ! ;., MfSA t V ,,... . u..A o lyfcz Significance of This Object? CLUE: This object is connected with a shipwreck off the Northern coast of Oregon. That the disaster secured long before 1813 is attested to by a comment made that year by Alexander Henry of Astoria. euosy 4? xeMsaaq siii 6uip4 sjom supipuj dosjeQ eij jei pauaiutuoa Afied JOsy snoiupi eu,i jo Ajua( japuexajy g u uiajeipN jeau sboq uo6ajQ eu,; ijo papaJM pssaA isiuedj v ujojj tupsjal se 4 saijtjuap; pua6a- .xeMsaag luajinjaN,, 04440 eaaid e si 4aa!qo ai aMSNV For i 13 picture calendar depicting beautiful scenes from Oregon history lend $1.00 to tne - OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY PORTLAND, OREGON The Medical Roundup Ilk Emeritus' Consultant In Medicine, Mayo Clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicine. Mayo Foundation lupus erythematosus and what can be done for it. It is a fairly rare disease, which attacks not only the skin but also a number of important organs in the body. It is related to rheumatoid arth ritis, and some rare chronic dis eases of the skin called sclero derma (a hardening of the skin) and dermatomyositis (an inflam mation of the skin and the muscle under it.) Fortunately, today, the pa tient with these serious diseases can often be tided over one of the recurrent flare-ups, with the help of cortisone or a cortisone like drug, or with the help of an anti-malarial drug, such as atabrine. . Now, I hear that there is a lupus erythematosus Founda tion which will foster research such as may lead to the discov ery of new and better drugs for the relief of this strange and puzzling disease. The address is 341 S. Vermont ave., Los An geles 5, Calif. WHEN TO OPERATE I was just pleased to see a list of the optimum times for 'operations on children with a defect of some ' kind, publish ed by Dr. Thomas J. Zaydon and Dr.- H. Clin ton Davis of the Universi ty of Miami. They advise the. removal a birth Dr. Alvarez Of -mark between the ages o two and six years; they advise op erating on prominent or flaring ears around the. fifth or sixth year; they think a rupture in the groin should be operated on when it is found; a rupture at the navel, if it persists, can be operated on at about one year. Undescended testicles should be operated on between the ages of four and 10 years. Certain types of congenital heart dis ease should be operated on be tween three and 10 years of age; a hare-lip had better be operated on within 4& hours after birth, but a cleft palate can be operated on after from 18 to 21 months. Some experts may, of course, disagree a bit with some of these figures. Body Covered With Hair At the recent meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Dr. A. Z j- McDowell, of North Holly wood, Calif., reported the case of a boy who was born with a huge dark - brown birthmark with hair on it as thick as that of a dog's. Like a bathing-suit, it covered much of his body. He also had smaller moles scattered all over his face, back, chest, lower thighs . and feet. Before the child was two.years old, 31 of these smaller moles were re moved. Later, when the boy was two and a half, five operations were performed in which siz able parts of the giant birth mark were removed and re placed with grafts of skin taken from normal parts of the child's trunk and lower extremities. As a result, now, the boy when he grows up will be able to go swimming without the terrible " embarrassment which he other wise . would have had. :. Many persons ask what is Arms Accusation Denied By British Bury St. Edmunds, England (tn British Foreign Secretary Elwyn Lloyd Saturday night de nied that Britain sent arms to Tunisia to undercut French in fluence in North Africa. "Our sole purpose was to pre vent Communist infiltration of North Africa," he said in a con servative party speech here. The . American and British shipments of arms to Tunisia caused great concern in the French government last week with French legislators walking out of the NATO parliamentary meeting then in progress. Informed sources said also the dispute almost wrecked plans for an Anglo-British summit con ference, but Prime Minister Har old Macmillan and Lloyd will fly to Paris Monday for talks on the issue with French Premier Felix Gallard. Lloyd said he regretted the "difference of opinion" with France over the supply of Brit ish and American arms to Tu nisia but that the differences "arose after much discussion and consultation with the French authorities." LP 1 " LUCERNE AUXED AND READ FOR ENTERTAINING 111 m at SAFEWAY Fairbanks Fire Faial To Woman, Fireman Injured Fairbanks, Alaska -r-m One woman died and a fireman was injured Saturday night as a re sult of a fire which spread through the second and third sto ries of the four-story Lath rop building here. Mrs. 'Arthur Schaible, about 45, a professor of biological sci ence at the University of Alaska and wife of a prominent physi cian here, died in her third floor apartment. Witnesses said Mrs. Schaible was last seen calling for help from her window when she sud denly collapsed and fell back in to her apartment. A fireman lat er was within reaching distance of her body but was forced to withdraw because of intense heat and smoke. A Ladd Air Force base fire man was injured and taken to the base hospital when a ladder he and two other firemen were using at the back of the building collapsed. The three-story cement build ing includes several apartments and the offices of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. A News-Miner reporter, Chuck Hoyt, tele phoned: "I'm calling from down stairs in the newspaper office and the fire is heading down the back stairs. I have to hang ro7mlYoWsi trJla 5TB YENS .agi Paul Bunyan News Two grand operas have been written on Paul Bunyan, Babe the Blue Ox, Johnny Inkslinger, Hels Helson, Cream Puff Fatty and Hot Biscuit Slim. The first grand opera or operetta was written by Richard L. Stokes in the 1920s, when he was music critic of the New York Post, and his composer was Howard Hansen, head of the Rochester School of Music. It was publish ed by G. P. Putnam & Sons. The second was written by W. H. Auden 17 or 18 years ago, with music by the noted English com poser, Benjamin Britten. The operetta was given one perfor mance as a Columbia University production in May, 1941. Ever since it has withered on the vine. At one time the Auden libert to was announced for publica tion, but the poet began to win up now, I don't know how much longer the phone will last;" Hoyt said he had just talked to George Sundborg, managing editor ol the newspaper, who said the billows of smoke and flames erupted on the second floor and forced residents to evacuate through windows. Firemen " battled the flames with torrents of water from the outside where the temperature was 15 degrees. Hoyt said the up per floors of the building house about 40 persons. fame and fortune from his "Age of Anxiety" and other volumes of his poetry. In any event, the composition, words and music both, has been withheld from publication and production and kept in storage at Columbia un iversity. Meanwhile, curiosity and other phases of public in terest have mounted. And, at last, a movement has been start ed to produce Auden's Paul Bunyan opera in the Paul Bun yan country. Chore for a Chorus The job can be done at much smaller cost than the tradition al opera requires. Auden and Britten have described their work as an operetta for a chor us, with many small parts, ra ther than a drama with a few roles for "big-shot" singers. The part of Paul Bunyan him self is described as being only that of a voice off stage. It is, says the authors, "a projection of the collective state of mind of a people whose tasks were primarily the physical mastery of nature." The story Is a string of leg ends that tell, in music and song, the story of America's develop ment from before Paul's time un til the end of the pioneering pe riod. Its form is such that it can be presented as a chorale in costume. The Grand Circuit Now here is good art, the kind teachers talk about,, created by Hollywood (tH Actress Dorothy McGuire plays a farm mother in "Old Yeller," who as a frontier woman manages live stock, cuts lumber and handles other outdoor chores with com plete competence. "It all ends when I get to my own home," she said. "I can't even grow grass successfully in my backyard." artists in. poetry and music who have risen on in world fame since their opera on the life and times of Paul Bunyan was composed. It has not only the stuff of popular appeal in it. An opera, or chorale, that is not about a bunch of Italian dukes, dames and dopes, but about our own Paul Bunyan and .his log ging men. In short, a show that would bring out a crowd in any sizable center from Vancouver island south to Humboldt bay. All that is needed is a simple chorus and able band, with cos tumes and scenery, to make a successful ground tour of the Pa cific Northwest, in any season, presenting the Auden-Britten "Paul Bunyan" (as taken from the books by your Uncle Jim. Here is a prime challenge, it seems to me, to the musical and dramatic organizations of Seat tle, Portland, Tacoma, Eugene, and other centers. Auden and Britten ought to be pleased to cooperate on the experiment. 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