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Thursday, Norember 28, 1937
Heart Specialists
Say Ike Will Live
Longer If Working
San Francisco IP) Four
noted heart specialists believe
President Eisenhower will live
longer if he goes back to work
rather than stay in bed.
The doctors held an unusual
press conference Wednesday to
discuss the President's illness.
The conference was sponsored
by tfce California Heart associa
tion. "The idea that a stroke brings
an end to a man's career is med
ically and socially unsound,"
said Dr. Vernon C. Harp, presi
dent erf the San Francisco Heart
association.
Dr. Gregory Bard, director of
rehabilitation at University of
California Medical Center, said
doctors nowadays try to get a
patient who has suffered a stroke
"out of bed, back on his feet,
doing everything he is capable
of doing."
Old-Fasbioned Treatment
"The old-fashioned treatment
of severely restrictinz a man's
life, of making a permanent in
valid out of him, is gone," Bard
(aid.
Dr. Hilliard J. Katz, a past
president of the heart associa
tion, pointed to the example of
Winston Churchill, who suffered
"massive stroke" in 1953, when
he was 78.
"He had a serious stroke, one
which impaired his speech and
paralyzed his arm and his leg,"
Katz said. "His political opon
ents and even many of his
friends and supporters counted
him out then and there.
"What a mistake! The old man
Is still functioning well."
Churchill will be 83 on Sat
urday. Dr. Walter Treanor, chief of
physical medicine at St. Mary's
hospital, said "All of us have
patients who are doing well In
many fields after having suffer
ed strokes, some of them more
serious than the President's."
The four doctors said the
White House has been "unusual
ly candid" in Its statements about
the President's attack, more so
than private physicians or indi
viduals would have been under
similar circumstances.
'Country Roads' of
Brain May Help Speed
President's Recovery
First steps to establish a sys
tem of federal civil service were
undertaken in 1872 during the
administration of President
Ulysses S. Grant.
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press Correspondent
Washington HP A noted
neurologist said today the
"country roads" of the brain
will help speed President Eis
enhower's recovery from his
slight stroke.
These "country roads," the
medical specialist explained in
an interview are the myriad tiny
blood vessels which intercon
nect the arteries of the brain.
When an artery is blocked by
a clot or nerve spasm its traf
fic of life-giving blood may be
detoured through the smaller
vessels. Doctors call the process
anastamosis.
The neurologist declined use
of his name because of medical
ethics. He emphasized he had
not personally examined the
President but based his observa
tions on official medical bulle
tins issued by the attending phy
sicians and known medical facts.
Still Function
He said brain cells in the area
normally supplied by a blocked
artery can get along with a re
duced supply of blood for some
time without necessarily suffer
ing any permanent damage.
As long as the artery remains
closed the substitute blood sup
ply brought in by anastamosis
may be insufficient for the af
fected brain area to perform per
fectly its accustomed function
for example, control of speak
ing. But when relaxation of the
spasm or dissolving of the clot
permits circulation to resume
through the artery the deprived
cells frequently recover their
full vigor.
Bui, Not Always
Not always. The larger the
blocked artery and the longer
it remains closed the greater the
danger some brain cells will die
or be permanently injured by
lack of blood-nournishment. That
is why some stroke victims are
left with lasting paralysis, speech
disability or other handicaps.
In the President's case the
blocked artery was a compara
tively small one on the left side
of the brain. White House doc
tors believe the occlusion may
have been caused by a nerve
spasm rather than a clot.
A spasm is something like a
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cramp in a leg muscle. It may
relax moments after it constricts
the blood vessel or take a bit
longer. In any event circulation
is usually restored much more
quickly after a spasm than when
the block results from a clot.
Antibiotic Study
Will Be Conducted
In Vet Hospitals
A study to determine to what
extent antibiotic drugs are los
ing their effectiveness against
certain infections has been an
nounced by S. T. Brannock, in
charge of the Medford Veterans
administration office stated to
day. Six VA hospitals located in
Atlanta, Ga., Batavia, N. Y.,
Brooklyn, Manchester, N. H.,
Minneapolis, Minn., and Wash
ington, D. C, and the Dominion
of Canada Department of Veter
ans Affairs are cooperating in
the project.
The study is part of a new VA
program for research in surgery.
Brannock said it has been
widely observed in many parts
of the world an increasing num
ber of microbes are developing
resistance to antibiotics, such as
penicillin, so the drugs are no
longer useful against infections
which the germs cause.
The VA study will begin with
one of the most important groups
of these antibiotic-resistant mic
robes, the staphylococci, some
of which cause infections in
wounds and following surgery.
Since staphylococci are com
monly present in the air, on ob
jects in everyday use, and on
the skin of humans, antibiotic
resistant staphylococcal infec
tions could become a serious
problem in all hospitals, Bran
nock said.
The VA study will try to de
termine the magnitude of the
problem in its own hospitals by
a careful survey of all staphy
lococcus infections in the co
operating hospitals, and reasons
the drugs may prove to be in
effective. VA plans to extend the study
and its findings to other groups
of microbes whkh become an
increasingly serious problem as
they develop drug resistance,
Brannock said.
Foreign Students
Join Friendship .
Family Program
Corvallis A record 209 for
eign students from 37 other
countries are enrolled this year
at Oregon State college and
"friendship families" have been
arranged in Corvallis for new
foreign students to give them
greater .opportunity to become
acquainted with American life.
Nearly half of the students
come from Asian countries and
more than half are registered in
the graduate school. Many are
studing scholarships and other
special grants. Twenty-four are
women.
World wide emphasis on the
technical fields is reflected in
the major fields of study, Dr.
Clara L. Simerville, foreign stu
dent counselor, noted. Sixty-six
of the foreign students are in
the school of engineering, 52 in
science, and 40 in agriculture.
Thirty students are from
China; 22 from India; 20 from
Thailand; 14 from Korea; 7 from
Australia; and 6 from Japan,
Turkey, Iraq and Philippines.
The "friendship family" plan
was initiated this year to further
international understanding and
to give the foreign students a
"home away from home." The
families invite the students in
to their homes from time to time
during the year and help them
join in community as well as
campus activities.
Money Donated To
Private Colleges
Household Finance corpora
tion of Medford is taking part
in a program which will distri
bute gifts totaling 555,000 to
privately supported liberal arts
colleges and universities, accord
ing to R. C. Speer, manager of
the local office at 128 East Main
street.
He said checks have been is
sued to 343 four-year schools in
32 states. The gifts run from $50
to $1,000, depending upon full
time enrollment, he said.
Another part of the corpora
tion's program is to provide
grants for research in the con
sumer credit field. Three fellow
ships were authorized for this
coming year, he said. One will
be for work leading toward a
doctor's degree and the other
two for research by professors'
he added.
Poison Oak Hits
BLM Area Staff
John Mannelly, administrative
assistant and safety director of
the Medford office of the Bureau
of Land Management, said Wed
nesday that the only injury suf
fered by members of the Med
for area office in the past year
was from poison oak.
He said the current safety
program has been in operation
about one year. It includes ve
hicle and equipment checks in
addition to a publicity campaign,
he said. He added that poison
oak is a common ill while work
ing in the woods and cannot be
classed with injuries.
Mannelly said BLM safety di
rector Gordon Joslyn from Wash
ington D. C. inspected the safety
program of the local office and
"gave it a clean bill of health."
Joslyn reviewed the program
during the early part of the
week.
Chicago (IP) An exclusive
key club announced Wednesday
it will become a bit more ex
clusive. The club is having its
settee covered with 175 prize
mink pelts.
Princess Grace May Ask
Queen Elizabeth to Lunch
London HP) Princess Grace
of Monaco may ask Queen Eliza
beth II to lunch. But the prob
lem bothering the former movie
star is whether the Queen would
refuse if she did.
Authorities on protocol said it
was almost certain the Queen
would refuse since her social
calendar is usually booked solid
for months in advance.
Princess Grace arrived here
Tuesday with her husband,
Rainier of Monaco,' and the
Queen expectedly invited them
both to lunch at Buckingham
Palace Wednesday.
It brought together for the
first time the royal head of the
British Commonwealth and the
royal first lady of the postage
stamp principality. But it was
more than just a lunch.
Now Accepted
It indicated to the world that
Hollywood's celluloid princess,
daughter of a former bricklayer,
was now accepted by Europe's
most exclusive circles.
The Monegasque couple was
reported put out at the time of
their wedding because the Brit
ish royal family was represent
ed only by the consul from Nice.
They had expected someone
more like Princess Margaret.
The situation was changed by
Wednesday's lunch, but now
Grace has a problem of protocol.
She is on a private, unofficial
visit to Britain and has been in
vited to lunch. Should she re
turn the compliment? Sources
close to Buckingham Palace said
she should not because it was
very unlikely the Queen would
accept.
These sources indicated Grace
will be advised by Buckingham
Palace protocol officials not to
tender an invitation, for normal
ly invitations to the sovereign
are never made until it is sure
the Queen will accept. -
The number of farms in the
U.S. decreased from 6,800,000
in 1935 to only about 5,380,000
in the 1950 census.
More than one-half the area
of Dismal swamp lies in North
Carolina.
Portland Local Names Officers in Election
Portland (IP) All officers of
Portland Teamsters Local No.
255 who had been appointed by
the international union were
elected in what was described
today as the local's first "free"
election in six years.
The union is a local of auto
and service station employees
and was removed from trustee
ship of the International Union
recently along with Portland
Teamsters Local No. 81 of line;
local pickup and delivery driv
ers. Retained in office were Larry
Vance, president; Tom Malloy,
In Portland,
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