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oO Theyll Do It Every Time , By Jimmy Hatlo CU8EB, THE COMMUTED, LIKES TO READ HIS PAPER. UMDISTUP6ED TH4TS ONE RE4SOM HE WAS DUCKlMO PESTERTOM TOD4y ccfo JUST , wwcr ME. WTI PC. nnuM BIG VINOYOU (CAH'T WIN, FELLAS fHANX 4M04TIPOP THE HATLO HAT TO HER8JAOSOM, 0BOKEM,N.J.' GREETINGS, B4L miss yooTl-S ' REGULAR TRAIN? ME,TOOvg III PfIlll&I Mechanism Failure Said Possible Cause Of Heat Discomfort By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York (UPD In hot summer weather it will cool you to know there is a scien-rymigsg-. t i f i c move f X merit afoot to ftxA Din the tag. , "neurotic," on some of the j people who I lose their pep when the sun is boiling and the humiditv fe-afaf ' is high Pe- Deio smith pie who can t work, eat, or sleep right and get extremely irritable. More cooling scientific news Is that the term, "sun stroke," is obsolete and some scien tists want to abolish it. The term is inaccurate, that's what It-'. w is wrong with it. It isn't the I sun which strikes the victims down, but the failure of their own "heat regulating" chem istry. It probably wasn't too good in the first place. All this stems from planned revisions of the international statistical classification of the World Health Organization. Its main idea is for all medi cal men of all countries to classify all bodily disorders in the same way. Then they can all be given code numbers which will have the same meanings everywhere. Abolish Number ' The code number for "sun stroke" now is N 981.1. The proposal is to abolish the num ber and rely entirely on the number for "heat stroke" N 981.0 which is something that be sure... GE ccane sugar p ike emt hojt- ml . can be set off by any intense, sustained heat, such as that of a furnace or the deep in terior of a coal mine. There now is no code num ber for what the revisers have classified as "chronic heat neurotic reaction," and they would like for it to have one. It is caused by "prolonged ex posure to a hot environment," they said. The symptoms are "loss of energy, initiative, in terest; difficulty in concen trating, working and sleeping; complaints of dizziness, "blackouts," loss of weight and appetite; irritability, bad temper, depression." There may or may not be something wrong with them physically, but there is with their emo tions and nerves. But on the whole matter of heat and the human body, there is much medical confu sion, the revisers said, and they suggested reducing a hodge - podge of descriptive terms, many of which do not describe, to a mere 14. These would be grouped into gener al categories, such ast Failure .or impairment of the bodily heat regulating "mechanism,"- which by open ing and, closing pores, by wid ening or narrowing blood ves sels, by increased or decreased blood 'Circulation, and by other means, keeps the in terior body temperature the same no matter how hot or cold it is outside. Complete failure of this "mechanism" is a grave occurrence; it is often fatal. Salt Needed t - "Salt deficiency in a hot en vironment." This causes a va riety of bodily disturbances, mainly muscular cramps. Much sweating takes body salt with it. More salt in the diet corrects that. Various disturbances of the sweat glands themselves. Per haps the chemical thermostats are messed up and the glands don't respond. Maybe the channels are blocked and though they want to produce sweat, the sweat doesn't get out. This leads to summer dis- Medford High Graduate Tells of Hitch-Hiking Around World (Editor's note: Jeff Wil- liams, a 1956 graduate of Medford High school and son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. Williams, 1317 Queen Anne ave., is on a hitch hiking trip around the world. Printed below is a letter from him to the Mail Tribune, written July 10 in Iran. Young Williams has attended the University of Oregon for IV2 years, and from January to April was a member of the ski patrol at Sun Valley, after which he left on his trip. His fam ily also includes ' a sister, Lynne. a 1958 MHS gradu ate, and a brother, Robert. 11, now in the Shrine hos pital in San Francisco. His father is superintendent of Crater Lake National park.) By JEFF WILLIAMS I am writing this from a a small bus station in the northern Iranian city of Mes hed. Being so close to the Russian border exerts certain restrictions, for instance, be fore my friend could invite me to his house he must first have permission from the pol lice. A short resume of my trip seems in order. From San San Francisco, I caught a ride across the States and sailed from New York on May 9, bound for England. On May 17 I landed in South hamp ton and was in London that evening. After three days in that most interesting city, I began hitch-hiking to Scotland and then over to Ireland in a pouring rain. Trouble with Police At the border of Northern Ireland and Eire I had a bit of trouble wth the Northern Ireland polish. There is still active rebel warfare being waged and the police are very wary. When I took a picture of the barricaded police sta tion, I was immediately sur rounded by police with Sten guns, who wanted to know if I was a rebel reconnaissance man. After a thorough search, we were released, only to go through the same process farther down the road. Those Sten guns certainly keep your movements slow and easy. On my way again, downJ through Ireland, across to Wales, and back to London. From there I crossed to Diep pe, France, and hitched into Paris. There I expected to see police bristling with weapons, but it was far from the case. After Paris I went to Brussels for the, World's Fair. What an absolutely tre mendous place! I walked for a day and a half and still saw comforts of a number of things, such as prickly heat and similar skin troubles. In cidentally, medical science de plores efforts to prevent sweating. Sweat whether hon est or not is healthful. - The proposed revisions, worked out by the British Medical Research Council, are being considered by co-operating groups here and in all oth er countries. less than half of it. And the American Pavilion was every bit as wonderful as I expect ed it to be. In there is really put across our way of life, through television shorts and the displays, and the guides are so friendly. It is quite a contrast to the cold machines and cold reception of the Rus sian pavilion. From there up to Amster dam and then across to Ham burg, Germany. There I had a most delightful stay with a free lance photographer I met on the ship from America. Then down through the Black Forest area and into Switzer land. Generosity Shown All my travelling is by hitch-hiking and it presents the opportunity to meet and befriend people from all walks of life. You can't realize the generosity shown to me by them. Never a day goes by that someone doesn't buy me a meal. In northern Italy I was treated for two days by some photographers. In Rome I was treated for two days by a doctor and his wife. In central Italy a poor fanner invited me to dinner. All through Greece and Turkey people were constantly invit ing me for a bite to eat. In Eastern Turkey the coun try becomes very remote, and rides extremely difficult. But the luck of the Irish was still with me, and I got a ride with a German all the way to Tehran, Iran. It took us nine hours to get through customs at the Turkish-Iranian border, and it was 120 degrees in the shade. While looking for a hotel Bridges To Attend Teamsters Meeting San Francisco (UPD Harry Bridges' International Long shoremen's and Warehouse men's Union has agreed to at tend a "common policy" meet ing with the Teamsters Union and the East Coast Interna tional Longshoremen's Asso ciation. The meeting will be held Aug. 14 in Washington. Bridges said Wednesday he would take some of his union's top leaders to the ses sion with him. James R. Hoffa, Teamsters president, recently announced plans to link all transporta tion workers in a combine to settle union disputes and pro mote collective bargaining ef forts. The meeting next month was announced as a move "to reach common policy on new techniques in the shipping industry." All three of the . unions have been expelled from the AFL-CIO, the ILWU for Com munist leanings, the Team sters and ILA for corruption. PORTRAITIST DIES Pelham, N:Y. (UPD Wil liam Oberhardt, 75, a noted portraitist, illustrator and sculptor, died here on Tues .-TOM THUMB TABLE ROCK ROAD AT 4 CORNERS PHONE NO 4-1511 SWIFT'S PREMIUM FRYERS u. 47 ORIOLE BACON s : L.m OCEAN FRESH FILLETS .2 U.S. GRADED GOOD BEEF ROAST . 53 FRESH BEEF HEART - TONGUE 2f FRESH LOCAL SWEET CORN .. 29 U.S. NO. 2 SHAFTER POTATOES 1003.19 SWEET CALIFORNIA ONIONS ssu 529' EASTERN GRADE JUMBO i CANTALOUPE 8 l.i V . 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