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o o o o c 0 O o I British Health Program Draws Gripes; No Demand for Scrapping London 1? Britain's con- ful consultation, troversial National Health Serv- Yet there are virtually no ser lce is 10 years old next year and ious demands that the plan be few, if any, Britons doubt it is ! scrapped. It is outside of party here to stay. politics and today is accepted by But then very few claim it has ' almost all Britons as a part of been a glittering success. their national way of life On the contrary, doctors, hos pital staffs and most of the 50 million patients gripe noisily and There is no compulsion to join it. Any individual may pay his doctor and receive consequently continuously about its shortcom- j individualized treatment. But the mgs, so much so that many as sert the service is going through a major crisis. Doctors complain they are overworked and underpaid. Hos pitals point to waiting lists of beds totaling more than 430,000. Patients gripe about long waits in line, crowded surgeries and a hasty once-over instead of a care- Miss FLUFFY FEATHER DID YOU HAVE A COLD?... ..YOUR PILLOW STILL DOES! in PILLOmTALIZER mm- fact is that about 97 per cent of the population use the service and that 94 per cent of the gen eral practitioners and 94 per cent of the dentists administer it. A great majority of the medical specialists also .work for the service. This is how the plan works for anyone residing in this country whether a British citizen or not: The individual chooses his own family doctor and registers with him if the doctor still has room on his list. The doctor treats him at his surgery or at home as the need may be, prescribes drugs and re fers him to specialists or hospital when necessary. Virtually every ordinary medical requirement is free and the patient - need not prove evidence of need or fill out complicated forms. There is a 14 cent charge for each item on a prescription. Eye testing is free but a pair of glasses costs from S3. 40 to S6. The scramble for free dentures and wigs which made the service the butt of jokes in early days was ended by putting on charges for such extras. Family doctors are paid by the state on the basis of S2.38 a year for each patient registered. They can have as many as 3,500 which would provide, an income of $9,730 but the average income is around $5,200. Earlier this year the British Medical Association demanded a 24 per cent pay boost for doc tors. The government turned it down and set up an investigative commission. Thousands of doctors threat ened to "strike." They did not go through with the threat but their disgruntlement still simmers. Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Now and then I like to crow about what man himself has con structed with his two hands and a brain to guide them. He has built the Empire State building, New York, which reaches to a height of 1,250 feet. I'm not counting the TV tower which was added in 1950 The Medical Roundup Emeritus Consultant In Medlcln. Mayo Clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicine. Mayo Foundation CLEANED FLUFFED IIIDfllZID nixt net CM CALL DOIf ALL Just call Lou, X.lt She'll gladly osw Aa jcaaiat for you! DOMESTIC LAUNDRY 30 North Stvffsid Avu mm Dr AjTmrec Hardening of the Arteries o Hundreds of people ask me what to do for hardening or ul ceration of the arteries, and I have to tell them that, as yet, we doctors h a v e n't any clear idea what diet or medi cine to pre scribe. If the person is fat, it will prob ably help to reduce weight. Ai yet, we have no drug that we can depend on to stop hard ening of the arteries. As I keep saying in this column, we doc tori are hoping that some day soon we will know what makes hardening and ulceration of the arteries, and then we may be able to tell people what to do to avoid getting the disease, or what to take when they find they have it. Kidney Stones Many people want to know how a kidney stone can be dis- iclved out, and I have to tell them that I know of no such treatment, and I doubt if there will ever be any. I am talking now of treatment given by mouth. I know that logical ef forts have been made to dissolve certain kidney stones by inject ing solvents up through the ureter (the tube that carries the urine from kidney to the blad der). I doubt very much if hard stones could ever be dissolved even in this way. Sometimes it is best to leave alone a large stone in the kidney, and do nothing about it. In some cases, a sur geon can go in to remove stones if they are bothering the person a good deal. Fatty Lumps (Lipomas) Under the Skin Scores of people want to know if they should have soft fatty lumps under their skin so-called lipomas removed. Will they, ever do any harm? Since, in all my years, I have never seen a lipoma turn into anything or do the patient any harm, I very rarely suggest that one be cut out. I do this only in those rare cases in which a lipoma becomes large enough, perhaps in the groin, so as to interfere with the person's com fort. Why some people get these things, I do not know. Perhaps there is a hereditary tendency. Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers will understand that it would be impossible for him to answer requests for information or to attempt to diagnose by mail. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1957) and boosts the height to 1,472 feet. It is 102 stories, approxi mately 20,000 people are em ployed. In passing may I state that the reports of its sway have been somewhat exaggerated. During a 102 mile gale, the maximum re corded sway was just under three inches. At that, no action Is felt because the vibration period is SVt seconds. The largest office building in the world if you haven't guess ed is the Pentagon, Washing ton, D.C., completed during World War II. It houses 28,500 people including a staff of 220 to handle . the 280,000 average calls a day for the 44,000 tele phones. If castles are your dish, the largest in the world is at Aleppo in Syria built some 1,000 years ago. Oval in shape, its outside walls is 1,230 feet long and 777 feet wide. The largest palace in the world is the Vatican palace, Vati can city the smallest principal ity in the world which covers an area of 12M acres. It has 1,400 rooms, chapels and halls Largest Hotel . The largest hotel in the world based on number of rooms is the Conrad Hilton in Chicago. Its 25 floors contain 3,000 guest rooms Based on cubic footage, the Wal dorf - Astoria. New . York, is larger. It has 47 stories and about 2,200 guest rooms. The largest stadium is the Strahov Stadium in .Prague which accommodates 240,000 spectators. The largest football stadium is in Rio de Janeiro which has a normal capacity of 150,000 although it has held 200,000. In the U.S., the Muni cipal stadium of Philadelphia seats 105,000. But the greatest recorded stadium crowd in the U.S. was at Soldier Field, Chi cago, 111., for the Eucharistic congress when more than 200, 000 were gathered. If your interest runs to bars, the longest in the world accord ing to Superlatives, is, appropri ately enough, at the Working Men's Club, Mildura, Australia, which has a 285-foot counter. Don t look now and if you can, hold your breath for a year G o TO laving trouble keeping warm? BY I960, ONE MILLION AMERICAN FAMILIES WILL KEEP WARM WITH CLEAN ELECTRIC HEAT! Iwenriy, Leading National Magazines Have Carried Articles Pointing Out the Bt Switch to Modern Electric Space Heating In American Homes. Here Are Some f the Reasons Why Use of Electric Heat Will Triple In Two Years: Cleanliness A Health Electric heat eliminates att messy flame by-products. It is odorless. Thore n no smoke or soot to soil fur niture, drapes and walls. People in homes heated electrically report fewer head colds and less sinus trouble-. Some types of radiant electric heat even destroy germs. Safety & Convenience No type of heat could be more trouble-free and convenient than electric heat. With thermostats set, the home owner doesn't even have to flick a switch. Heat comes automatically when it is needed. And no flame to worry about; electric heat is the safest possible kind of heat for your home. Perfect Room-By-Room Temperature Control With every living area properly controlled by ther mostats, each room of your home has the exact degree of heat necessary. Set the bathVoom for one temperature, the kitchen for another, and the. bedroom for a third. Your heating devices work independently and you waste no heat through vents or flues. Over-All Economy Complete electric hectmg systems are far less ex pensive to install than most other types. There is no yearly furnace cleaning charge, no maintenance ex pense, no moving parts to break down and replace. Reader's Digest quoted one Michigan man as say ing he saved $100 a year on these items alone! IF YOU HAVE A HEATING PROBLEM IN YOUR HOME, INVESTIGATE ELECTRIC SPACE HEATING NOW. JUST CALL THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT OF ANY C0PCO OFFICE. FULL INFORMATION, HELP, AND ADVICE CAN BE YOURS AT NO OBLIGATION TO YOU. LIVE BETTER WITH ELECTRIC HEAT! lit an mmm$ THI CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY A Western Company owned and operated by Western People but the world's highest struc ture is now built in Brussels and will be finished next year. My scouts tell me this pre-stressed concrete tower will reach to a height of 1,935 feet, 5 inches. As of today, the tallest struc ture in the world is in Oklahoma City. It is the 1,572-foot televi sion transmitting tower of sta tion KWTV. The triangular tow er which weighs about 590 tons, rests on porcelain insulators and is guyed by steel cables which radiate 950 feet from the base. From the lop of the tower, the line of sight to the horizon is more than 50 miles. But there isn't much to look at, I'm told. As for the biggest concrete structure in the world, that's Grand Coulee dam on the Co lumbia river, Washington. It is 4,173 feet long and 550 feet high and contains 10,585,000 cubic yards of concrete, weighing about 21V4 million tons. The highest dam in the world is not Hoover (Boulder) dam which is 726 feet high. It is the Grand Dixence in Switzerland and is 932 feet from base to rim. However the Swiss job contained 520,000 cubic yards of concrete as against 4,400,000 for the Colorado river job, not far from Las Vegas, Nev. As for monuments, the largest ever constructed is the Pyramid of Cheops near Cairo, built al most 5,000 years ago. Its original height was 481 feet (now 451 feet) with a base covering 12V2 acres. It contains 2V4 ton stone blocks, totalling nearly seven million tons. (Copyright 1957, Eugene Burns) (Released by McCluie Newspaper Cyndicate) Wednesday, December 11, 1S5 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many f r i e n d,l y letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, , Sausalito, Calif. Link Sought in Missing Girl Case Rockford, 111. (IP) Authori ties today sought to link a con victed sex offender accused of molesting a nine-year-old girl with the mysterious disappear ance of Maria Ridulph. FBI agents and . police were led Tuesday night to the ex-convict's hideaway, an empty stone building on an abandoned mili tary reservation 14 miles south of here, by the little girl found sleeping in a car with Donald Arbuckle, 34. A preliminary investigation showed nothing to identify Ar buckle with the Ridulph case, agents, said, but they said his room in Rockford was stocked with photographs of nude chil dren, some in obscene poses. Police said the arrest of Ar buckle was the first possible break in the case of the missing seven-year-old Ridulph girl. Ma ria disappeared from near her Sycamore, 111., home with a man known as "Johnny" last Tuesday night. Arbuckle was arrested Tues day morning when he and a nine-year-old girl who had been missing 12 hours were found sleeping in his car, he in the front seat, she in the back. Police said Arbuckle denied touching the firl at first, saying that he had only taken her to a movie and for a ride. He later admitted molesting her and was charged with statutory rape, con tributing to the delinquency of a minor, and taking indecent lib erties with a child, police said. Christmas Vespers Planned For SOC Traditional Christmas vespers at Southern Oregon college will take place in Churchill Hall Sun day. Dec. 15, at 3:30 p-m. Tne choir, directed by pscar C. Bjor lie and the ensemble, directed by Louis Clayson, will participate. The candlelight processional will again take place, according to Mr. Bjorlie. Fifty-five mem bers of the college choir will per form, as well as the male quar tet and the sextet from the ensemble. The concluding number will be the Hallelujah chorus from "The Messiah" by Handel. Miss Helene Robinson of the music department will play the organ. 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