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i o The Medical Roundup MULTIPLE DIVERTICULA I hate to be devoting so much space to repeated comments on diverticulosis of the colon, but from the large number of re quests for in formation on this s u b j e ct th.it pour in, it seems ob vious that, of late, thousands of us physic ians are being Or Alvarez either too this harmless alarming about situation, or are not being clear enough or reassuring enough in what we say. From the letters I get by the dozen, it is obvious that we doctors are leaving peo ple all mixed-up about the com mon and harmless diverticulosis, and the rare and serious diverti culitis. I suspect, also, that we are ordering diets for diverti culosis, . which I think is un necessary and unwise. During 45 years of looking at x-ray films of people's colons, I have seen so many thousands of films showing diverticula, in persons who appeared to have had absolutely no distress from them, that when I see the little out-pouchings I hate to mention them. If I do mention them, it is only to protect the patient from being alarmed later, when, per haps, some physician much more pessimistic than I am, views with great concern the tiny pockets, which, so far as I can see, are just a sign of aging. They can be found in the wall of the colon of four out of 10 persons over 50 years of age. From the experience of many years, I am satisfied that these little pockets do not produce symptoms, and do not constitute any danger to the person. Two years ago, when I found that a few had shown up in me, it never occurred to me that I should worry about them or change my diet in any way. When I get a little indigestion it never occurs to me to blame it on the little pouches, because I had the same type of indigestion long ago, before I had any div erticula. As everyone should remem ber, all that diverticulosis means is that the man or woman has some of these harmless little pouches on the colon. Diverti culitis means an inflammation of some of the pouches. This di sease is apparently rare because I haven't seen a case in many years. The trouble can easily be recognized by the coming of severe pain in the left lower quadrant of the abdomen as sociated with the presence of a tender,, sausage-like mass. The person is likely to get consti pated, and he may pass a little blood by rectum. Often he has Hearing Set on Gas Company's Proposal San Francisco (IP) Pacific Gas and Electric company's ap plication for an increase of ap proximately 7.7 per cent in its natural gas rates will be con sidered by the Pacific Utilities commission at a public hearing Jan. 2. The hearing will be conduct ed before Commissioner Ray E. Untereiner and Examiner Man ley E. Edwards. The proposed increase would raise the company's annual rev enues by 18 million dollars. COMPACT TABLE MODEL NOW -ONLY NO MONEY DOWN 50c WEEK ntui Consultant In Mdletn. Mayo clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicine. Mayo Foundation to be operated on. Many a person gets much worried when the doctor drops the idea that possibly he can get a cancer in a diverticulum. For many years I have studied the world's statistics on this pos sibility, and the conclusion I am forced to is that the presence of the little pouches tends to pro tect one from getting cancer. I cannot remember ever having seen at autopsy a colonic cancer that seemed to have arisen in a little pouch. Many people write and ask, "Should I be operated on for diverticulosis?" and my answer is "Most assuredly no." I would as soon be operated on for my gray hair or any other sign of aging. The pouches form when the muscle of the bowel gets somewhat weakened with age. Briefhand Writing Introduced At OSC Corvallis A new system for abbreviating longhand and in creasing writing speed will be introduced on an experimental basis for the first time in a col lege classroom next quarter at Oregon State college. Called "Briefhand," the new system has been found to speed up longhand writing from the usual 30 to 40 words a minute to 80 or 100 with a little practice and training, according to the OSC professor who helped per fect the system. It differs from shorthand and other short-cut writing systems in that no special symbols ' are used for words only letters and abbreviations that cut down the writing load. Under the Briefhand system, speed-up is achieved by such things as dropping the silent vowels and using word abbrevia tions. Number becomes nmbr, service is srvc, address is adrs, a is abbreviation for an, and at, about. "The system looks interesting" is written "e sstm loks ntrstg." Writes Book Dr. Theodore Yerian, head of the departments of business edu cation and secretarial science at OSC, worked on the Briefhand method and is one of the four authors of the new book that outlines the system. He is convinced that Brief hand has great possibilities not only for students and clerical workers who spend a good part of their time taking notes, but also for "anyone interested in writing more rapidly business men, housewives, salesmen, re porters, lawyers, etc." Yerian emphasizes that Brief hand is not a replacement for high-speed shorthand that en ables stenographers to take dic tation or notes at 125-200 words a minute. For the realy skilled worker, shorthand is faster and better, he says. For the average person, how ever, who is not interested in specialized shorthand training, Briefhand can streamline writ ing, Yerian believes. It is easily self-learned, he said, and has al ready brought favorable com ment from students, business teachers and school administra tors who have heard about the system. ' BUT. CHIEF . . . Atlanta (IP) Detective T. V. Mullinax is taking a special interest in a stolen car case. The mission vehicle is his, taken while he was on duty. ) THIS REMARKABLE PICTURE of the earth was taken from a camera mounted in an Aerobee rocket from 100 miles height above White Sands, N. M. Dark streak at lower left is valley of the Rio Grande. Diameter of picture is approximately 900 miles. (International Soundphoto) The Hollywood Scene Hollywood (IP! When Kim Novak is described as one of Movietown's "brightest" stars the reference is not neces sarily to her acting ability or her IQ. Despite her Greek -goddess face and rol-ler-coaster curves, Kim is characteriz e d Vernon Scott as "the great stone iace: whose performances run from deadpan to lethargy. More than one of her leading men have complained that mak ing screen love to the blonde glamour girl is akin to romanc ing a totem pole. No Overacting, Please But Kim says defensively, and with beguiling understatement, that she doesn't hold with over acting. "I believe the audience should have something more to do than just sit and watch," Kim said be tween takes of her new movie. "I let them do some of the act ing for me." How this attitude sits with Al fred Hitchcock, who is putting the Novak gal through her paces in "Vertigo," isn't known. Kim, however, says rumors of a feud between the rotund director and Woman Slightly Hurt In Three Car Crash Mrs. Robert Jones, 17, of 45 Myers court, was slightly injur ed when a car in which she was riding was involved in a three car collision on North Central ave.t between Jackson and Clark sts., on Wednesday afternroon, according to city police. Police said Mrs. Jones com plained of internal injuries fol lowing the accident. She was taken to her family doctor by private car, they said. Jones and Lowell Curtis Sor enson, 1300 Winchester ave., were cited for failure to main tain proper lookout after cars they were driving were involv ed in a collision with one driven by Anthony Albert Ruchnski, Elk River route, Port Orford, Oregon, police said. They said the Jones car was heavily damaged and had to be towed away. The Ruchnski and Sorenson cars had minor dam age in the accident, they said. Police said the accident took place about 3 p.m. 8 PEAK PERFORMANCE AND TONE! CLOCK RADIO: Set the clock-radio at night ... wake in the morning to soothing music! Exceptionally tine tone. TABLE RADIO: Smartly-styled cabinet mingles harmoniously with any decor! Powerful 5-tube chassis, sweep dial. By VERNON SCOTT United Press Writer herself are not tnue. Her dressing room was lit tered with clothes, makeup, a record player, her script and the usual feminine beauty aids. Only two books were in evidence, "The Psychology of Insanity" and 'Principles of Abnormal Psychology." "For my role in the picture," Kim explained, "I have to pre tend to be insane. You Have It Or Not "I don't know whether I've improved as an actress since I started out. In acting, either you have it or you don't to begin with. "Sure, you can improve tech nically, but that isn't acting it self. I never had any back ground for dramatics, and it was a big thing just learning the me chanics. I'm still learning to read lines, how to look for marks on the floor, and, to say 'I love you' to a light bulb while the camera's rolling." Kim, wearing a brown wig for her role, stood in front of a three-way mirror tugging at her skin-tight sweater and skirt to prevent them from clinging too snugly. "Actually," she smiled, 'my acting depends on my director. I always do exactly what my di rector wants." Though she may never win an Oscar, Kim is in demand. Co lumbia Studios recently came to terms when Kim went on strike for more money. Now the stu dio is buying her a $95,000 home in Bel-Air. 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Sweet, 30, of Barronette, Wis., was credited with the faster time , although his plane came over the air port behind the craft piloted by Capt. R. W. Schrecengost Jr., 31, of Kittanning Pa. Sweet crossed the control point at 2.32.45.2 p.m. . (PST) behind Schrencengost who was timed in at 2:12 pjn. Old Record The previous , roundtrip mark was set on March 21, 1957, by Navy Cmdr. Dale W. Cox of Spirit Lake, Idaho, clocked at Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS San Francisco Dr. Gregory Bard, University of California heart specialist, who says President Eisenhower will live longer if he goes back to work! "The old-fashioned treatment of severely restricting a man's life, of making a permanent invalid out of him is gone." Hunlsville, Ala. Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, commandant of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, on Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy's decision' to order both the Army's Jupiter and the Air Force's Thor missiles into production: "I am grateful for this expression of confidence in the efforts of my agency to provide the nation with- an IRBM capability at the earliest possible date." London Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd when asked by Laborite Aneurin Bevan if British-based U.S. planes carry H bombs on duty flights: "I am quite prepared to assume for the purposes of answering this question that they are." London Actress Betsy Drake on reports of a rift between her and husband Cary Grant: "There have been rumors since we were married eight years ago. But they are now and have always been untrue." Kandy, Ceylon Nelson Poynter, editor of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times in asking the Asian conference of the International Press Institute to call upon all governments to permit news papers and radio stations to get their foreign news from whatever source they desire: "The temptation of any government is to control all incoming and outgoing news, news pictures and features." Thursday, November 28. 1937 9 hours, 31 minutes, 35.4 sec onds in an A3D Skywarrior jet. In addition to breaking the' old round trip record, the Air Force claimed a new east-west mark by the two pilots. In addi tion, all four planes in the flight set a west-east record. ' The Times The mark established by Sweet from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, to Ontario, was 3 hours, 34 minutes, 8.8 seconds, as compared with 5 hours, 14 min utes, 57.4 seconds set by Cox. Schrecengost's round trip time was 7 hours, 12 minutes, 18 sec onds and his east-west mark was 3 hours, 58 minutes, 46.6 sec onds. Both planes landed at nearby March Air Force Base upon com pletion of the historic flight. The Air Force revealed the record - setting plane averaged 721.9 miles per hour for the round trip while it averaged 677.7 miles per hour on the east west run. Capt. Sweet said he timed himself at between 980 and 990 miles per hour several times during the flight. DOUBLE SIZE FLAT BED STYLE Q Qf In green, blue or pink DUAL CONTROL FLAT BED STYLE 5Q QP In green, bin or pink OHilfO Twin Size Contour Style, 6 colors 29.95 Double Size Contour Style, 6 colors 34.95 Duol Control Contour Style, 6 colors 44.95 Tularemia Found In Mice in State Portland (IP) Oregon health j authorities today summoned j specialists from the U.S. Rocky j Mountain laboratory at Hamil-! ton, Mont., and the federal plague laboratory at San Fran cisco to consult about a finding tularemia in some mice collect ed from a southeast Oregon in festation. Dr. Harold Erickson, state health officer, said that at the present time the field mouse in festation in some areas of the state was "primarily" an agri cultural problem. Residents of southeastern Oregon, he said, "do not appear to be in any immediate danger of widespread disease outbreaks" from the mice unless large numbers of the ro dents are driven indoors by cold weather and shortage of food. Experts have estimated that the infestation runs as high as 10 thousand mice per acre in some sections. It is reported to be the largest ever noted in the United States and extends from Madras in central Oregon to northern California and from the Cascades to the southern Idaho border. Such an increase in the mouse population has been not ed only twice previously during modern times, both accurring in Russia, according to the state board of health. Dr. Erickson said it was be lieved that mice might be killed off by disease, but tularemia could be spread to; humans by handling dead mice or from con tamination of food supplies. Tu laremia has a case fatality rate of about five per cent, Dr. Erick son said. LINE FORMS TO LEFT Elberon Park, N. J. 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