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SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, November 25, 1957
This Week's
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secured long before 1813 is attested to by a
comment made that year by Alexander Henry of
Astoria.
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- 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."
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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
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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.
So then a mighty Paul Bun
yan show could be built up for
the coming world fairs. Yay-hey!
P. S. And this,, readers and
friends, winds it up. Now aged
65 years, I am "retiring" to the
writing of books "of which
there is no end." Thank you all.
So long! ,
Newspaper Repeats Its Claim Denied by Official
Nicosia. Cyprus (IP) The
E n g 1 i s h-language newspaper
Cyprus Mail Sunday repeated
its report that a British officer
warned that his men would fire
on young Cypriot children if
they did not stop booing him.
An official spokesman had
denied the newspaper's state
ment that the officer command
ing British forces in the village
of Akanthou threatened to open
fire or clamp on a curfew un-
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Chicago (IP) A Chicagoan
advertises his car-wash busi
ness with a huge sign that reads
"collectors of external residue."
less the children stopped making
the derisive sounds.
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