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Buffered, Unbuffered Aspirins Of No Difference, Tests Show Dfloi Smith By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York TO The burning public question of how one should take one's as- . pirin, buffered or unbuffered, the scientific answer is that it makes no differ ence. The unbuffer ed acts as fast ; as the buffer ed and neither . i is likely to upset your stomach. These answers were ob tained separately by Dr. G. A. Cronk of Syracuse (N.Y.) University and Dr. Robert C. Batterman of New York City Medical College by testing both kinds in large numbers of people, using methods which science feels are the only ones capable of produc ing factual answers. Two Techniques Used One of these is the "double blind," in which neither the doctor giving the drug nor the patient receiving it knows which drug is being given and ( taken, "A" or "B," until after ' the results are in and tabu lated. Another is a statistical technique, "crossover," which is something like multiplying after you've divided to prove you divided correctly. These agreeing results from independent i n v e s t i gators caused the New England Journal of Medicine to remark that "many physicians" had been sold on buffered aspirin by high-pressure advertising. "Unquestionably, the medicine-show technique has again demonstrated the power of its approach," commented the Journal which is a consistent critic of the ways medicines are advertised to the public, especially in TV commercials. It recalled that some 50 years ago "the American Med ical Association made a pow erful attack on quacks, quack ery and nostrums of all types, and largely succeeded in forc ing many of the more harmful and useless preparations from the market. Medicine Show Returns But now, "television has brought the ancient medicine show" back to life. Just as the credulous grandfathers of the present generation found the Indian medicine man and old Doc Jones and his cure for rheumatism convincing, so do their grandchildren find 'tired blood,' 'relieves headache twice as fast,' 'like a doctor's prescription' and other ridicu lous statements, claims, half truths and the associated en tertainment convincing to an incredible degree." The New England Journal is among the most respected and influential of medical journals. That gives weight to the final statement of its edi torial, which was: "Apparent ly, the need is great and the time is fast approaching for another crusade against the pernicious practice." 33 Million Forest I Tree Seedlings Set Salem TO In almost nine years of Oregon's multi-million dollar forest rehabilita tion project more than 33 mil lion forest tree seedlings have been planted on 40,377 acres of state-owned forest land and over 54,000 seeded aerially, J. H. Hann, State Forestry De partment project officer reported. Monday, February 10, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS United Nations, N.Y. Tunisian Ambassador Mongi Slim, on the French bombing of a Tunsian town on the Algerian border: "My government and I feel it was an act of aggression which was premeditated and which is contrary lo the obli gations of the charter of the U.N." Tunis, Tunisia An International Red Cross official, on the fact that French bombs struck at mercy organization trucks during the air attack which killed 75 persons: "Our trucks had a red cross on their lops which was well in evidence. The aviators could not have missed them since the planes flew so low. It is horrible." Washington Attorney General William P. Rogers, on a charge that the administration is "procrastinating" on 'civil rights prosecution: "We will enforce these civil rights statutes with the same vigor that we enforce other laws in this, country." Washington Senate Republican Leader William F. i Knowland (Calif.) on whether the GOP again would use "Peace and Prosperity" as a campaign slogan this year: "We're still running on peace and we think by fall we'll be running on prosperity." Once-A-Year Watch SALE ?x ' r J'PN i IMPORTER 5 ENTIRE STOCK FINE lyUALI IT , MliI o, L ft UlLd HKIOI WttlUnLO LESS THAN REG. Va PRICE 2hTS efi YOUR CHOW 5 YOUR CHOICE SELECTION INCLUDES: ...... . WATERPROOF STYLES SELF-WlNDESS UQ M()NEY DOWN XT ' . STRAP AND METAL MACELETS . J ' 14-KARAT GOLD CASES WEEK yj J ALL FULLY GUARANTEED " i uu SPECIAL PURCHASE V GRGJGEI I JA1T3MGSJ a PRICE fAcroev ncnro 7 WATT5MG5 MAN'S GRUEN LADY'S GRUEN MAN'S GRUEN J.OV4 EASY TERMS . . . PAY AS LITTLE AS 50 A WEEHV 122 East Main Street Phone SP 3-5348 Store Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Charges Denied In Senate Probe By Rep Bob Hale Washington (IP) Rep. Robert Hale has denied he tried to block a congressional investigation to "protec t" President Assistant Sherman Adams, Secretary of Com merce Sinclair Weeks and Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R Mass.). The Maine Republican made available a letter sent to newspaper columnist Drew Pearson asking him "in all fairness" to retract the charge which was published Friday. , Hale wrote that "there is not a syllable of truth" in Pearson's claim that he at tempted last fall to block an inquiry now underway by a special House Commerce subcommitte into members of the Federal Communications commission. Pearson reported that Hale and Rep. John W. Heselton (R.-Mass.) members of the subcommittee, attempted to sidetrack the inquiry for fear it would explore the disputed award by FCC of a Boston television station to the Bos ton Herald and Traveler newspaper. Pearson reported that the FCC overruled the recom mendations of an . FCC exam iner and made the award in response to "wire - pulling" from Adams, Weeks and Sal tonstall who "put their pow erful fingers in the FCC pie." The FCC is supposed to operate independently of ad ministration or congressional pressure. Info Agency Gets Criticism From Film Man Chicago (IP) Eugene Cas tle, author and founder of Castle Films, scathinginly criticizes the U.S. foreign aid program and particularly vented his ire at the United States Information agency. "Day by day it continues to cast suspicion on our great press services that not only serve the newspapers of the United States but the entire world," ha said. "The USIA," Castle said, "is directly competitive in many foreign areas with the overseas operations of the Associated Press, the United Press and the International News Service." Addressing the fourth an nual Lincoln day seminar of the Abraham Lincoln Nation al Republican club, Castle charged that the "self-deceiving 'made in Washington pro nouncements" of the USIA all too frequently make our "false sense of security" even more precarious at home and abroad. "This 'cava of the winds' " he said, "already o'verbudget ed by $50 million, is branded round the globe as the gov ernment subsidized propagan da bureaucracy which it is." "No single agency of our government has been more wasteful or harmful to our country and all of its citi zens," he said. The remains of a 13th cen tury building used by monks at Canterbury Cathedral have been found in the garden of the - Archdeacon of Canter bury, Alexander . Sargent. fin w-fwvyf nn uu zj fo) OMLY .10 'DAYS. LEFT TQ ENTER Qnrmrwfui mi 15 G) IT rprp VP o UlAJ NOTHING TO BUY-JUST REGISTER AT BIG Y OR OAKDALE MKTS. 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