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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
She needs an Oscar like she
needs a new skirt and sweater.
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New Transcontinental
Non-Stop Flight Mark
Set by Two AF Pilots
Ontario, Calif. OP A new
transcontinental non-stop flight
record was set Wednesday by
two Air Force RF 101s Voodoo
jet planes, both cutting the old
mark by a margin of nearly
three hours.
The jets zoomed over Ontario
International Airport approxi
mately 20 minutes apart on the
return leg of their roundtrip
run between Los Angeles and
New' York. The new time for
the trip was 6 hours, 42 min
utes, 6.7 seconds.
Capt. Robert M. 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.
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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.
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Elberon Park, N. J. HP)
Few leftovers were expected
after Mr. and Mrs. Edward J.
Manning and their "immediate"
family finish a turkey feast to
day. The "immediate" family
consists of the Mannings' 15
children, 11 daughters and sons-in-law
and 30 grandchildren.
Mrs. Manning figured two 24
pound turkeys would do the
trick.
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