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f MAIL TKIBUNt, Me4W, Ongo. TmufiT, Jewry 20 ,tIt Eruptive Diseases Of Skin Traced To Disturbed Emotions By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York - (UPD - At least 18 eruptive diseases of the skin have been traced to dis- tions. This is for the infor mation of peo ple skeptical or curious about the mind influenc ing the body. 1 Sf i,1 "borne sKin - - '2 diseases are Deios smtui s o commonly associated with emotional dis turbances that the nature of the dermatologic (skin) condi tion itself sometimes suggests the possibility of psychogen esis" (that is, the disease was set off by the mind), said Dr. Philip F. D. Seitz. Emotions Show Effect Seitz is a Chicago mind physician who was lecturing physicians who deal in the main with the body in the Technical Journal of the American Academy of Gen eral Practice. Psychosomatics still rouses controversies in medicine; some body (somatic) doctors have reservations. The lecturer reminded that there is no question whatever of certain emotional states producing reactions in the skin. A shamed person blush es, an angry man flushes and a frightened person pales and sweats and gets goose pimp les. When these emotional states fade, the changes in the skin fade, too. But what if the emo tional states are prolonged? "If a person stays angry, or is constantly afraid, or con tinusously unhappy and de pressed, the associated (cu taneous) reactions of flush ing, blanching may also con tinue," he said. "In this way, chronic states of emotional tension may produce sustained alterations in the physiology of the skin." And this predisposes the skin to make sick reactions to almost anything that comes along. Micro-organisms caus ing skin infections, for in stance. Or allergic reactions to chemical contaminants in air or soap or wash clothes or whatever. Or to digestive idiosyncracies to certain foods. Check Disturbing Experiences The causing emotions are unconscious the person who has them doesn!t know it, or, perhaps, he has a vague idea which, in no case, does he want to admit to his aware ness. Seitz advised somatic phy sicians to think of this ques tion when confronted by a skin eruption for which they find no body cause: "Imme diately prior to, and at the time of onset of the cutantous disorder, were there disturb ing life experiences that might account for emotional upheaval?" He said some "life situa tions were especially prone to precipitate chronic states of emotional tension" which could have eruptive reactions in the skin. He listed them as: Friction inside the family; death of a loved one; mar riage; leaving home; rivalries among brothers and-or sisters; birth of a child; a new mem ber entering the family group, especially if an in-law; love affairs, trouble with the boss and increased responsibility, no matter the kind. Dates for Summer Training Announced The annual National Guard summer training program will be held June 13 through 27, according to 1st Lt. Don ald M. Ivie, commanding offi cer of headquarters company, First Battalion, and 1st Lt. Jack C. Phillips, commanding officer, of company A, 186th Infantry., They reported that the lo cal guard units will leave Medford by train at midnight June 12. A total of $52,012.08 in sal ary payments has been made to the members of the local units during the past, year, administration personnel of the units report. This amount, it was explained, does not in clude the pay of six regularly assigned administration per sonnel. , The average American trav els about 4,300 miles a year. SEEKING TO EASE BERLIN tension and to find if there mc wiu wen, x-icaiueiii. n,isexuiower meets wim xtussia s Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan and U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington, D. C: Stand ing, left, U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Mikhail Menshikov, Russian am bassador to the United States. Mikoyan met President, Dulles Saturday at capital. Boy Scouts Official Visits Local Council Horace Gorton, assistant di rector of the volunteer train ing service of the Boy Scouts of America, arrived in Med ford Monday for a' two-day service visit to the Crater Lake Council. Gorton met with the Roar ing Rogue district leadership training committee Monday night in Grants Pass and the Big Pines district leadership training committee today in Medford, . John J. Patton, chairman of the council's leadership training commit tee, announced. Gorton also met with the Exploring Committee ofxthe three-county Crater Lake Council this morning and had two meetings with the coun ters executive staff, Patton said. Plans will also be made for a return visit so that the rep resentative of the national or ganization may assist in a series of "train - the - trainer" meetings, Patton explained. More than 85 billion paper, towels were used up in the United States in 1958, accord ing to The Tissue Association, Inc., which figured it out to 500 paper towels for every man, woman and child in the country. ' Court Says Pound The Jackson county dogi pound should be moved to some other section of the county, County Judge Earl Miller said today. "I'm not a bit proud of the pound but don't think it is as bad as has been stated," Mil ler said. "Under' ' certain weather conditions it can be bad. It should be located in some remote part of the county." Judge Miller said last week end he had received many telephone calls on the condi tion of the pound. ' 'Judge .' Miller . said more adequate dog control , meas ures are needed and the gen eral public should be en couraged to take better care of their dogs instead of let ting them run loose. One means of better dog control might be to raise the license fee of unspayed female dogs to $5, he suggested. It is, now $2.50. County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt said the dog pound has to dispose of an average of 200 dogs a month. The problem is what - to do with all. the dogs brought in, Wendt commented. The -present facilities " I is any real hope of endine Should be Moved simply aren't Commissioner said. large enough, Ralph James Eagle Point Juniors Schedule Class Play Eagle Point - The junior class at Eagle Point High school will present the play Class Ring" Thursday, Jan. 22, at the grade school gym nasium. It will start at 8 p.m. The three act play is direct ed by Miss Yetta Olson assist ed by Pat Clave. . Cast members include Lana McGraw, Pat Kaiser, Judi Hannah, Bev Tresham, Karen Walton, Sandy Smith, Molly Gregg, Ann Higday, Bob As sali, Rolf Gusland, Duane An derson, Max -Hawks, Dewey Henderson and Bill Harmon. New Orleans (UPI) - Future farms will be '"run like an efficient factory" with elec trical appliances performing every chore from milking cows to irrigating fields and cleaning out the barns. So says G. C. Rawls, vice presi dent of the American Insti tute of Electrical Engineers, who told a conference on rural electrification here that even pig pens will be air-conditioned. - Cancerous Straying From Nature's Way fcditor's note: This is the sec ond of four dispatches on latest developments in the war on cancer. By PATRICIA McCORMACK New York (UPD Cells are your body's building blocks. When they go about their business : as nature intended, there is orderly growth. , But when they stray from nature's way, they turn out grotesque, mixed - up cells. Unless the body can beat them into submission, even tually there is cancer. The law-breaking cells zig when they should zag, go the wrong way on one - way streets, run through red lights and stop at green ones. Some of the anti - social cells turn out their grotesque descendants very slowly. Others, very fast. And some, oddly, get to a certain size, stay that way for a long time and then blaze out all over the body like a flash fire. Some Depart - Confounding the cancer scene are some malignancies that grow to great size and then, without any treatment, turn on their heels and de part. When this happens, it is called "spontaneous remis sion of cancer." Cancer has many faces. It can look like a small or a large cluster of grapes. Some tumors are smaller than a walnut; others, big as a lem on,, grapefruit or basketball. Some may be long like a dog's hind leg. Some look like a mixture of all these things. Leukemia, cancer of the blood, is so small that it can be seen best through a micro scope. It gets into the blood cell factory' in bone marrow and mixes up the production schedule. One out of two cancers will yield to surgery and radi ation. Through these tools, the cancer is apprehended somewhat like a criminal who is caught and jailed. All-out victory in the war on cancer binges on answers to such Questions as these: "What is cancer? What causes it? How can ail canc ers be cured? How can they be prevented? Why will one in four contract the disease, why will three in four, es cape?" Questions Unanswered These bi-r Questions in cancer are yet to be answered: Cells Result of Dr. Michael B. Shimkin. of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md., says it can be "considered established" that cancer is a disease of the cell and that this disease is trans ferred to descendants of the cell. He continued: "Preocupa tion with cause usually means that the event is ill understood. And in cancer this is, indeed, so." But Dr. James R. Heller, director of the - National Cancer Institute, sees science on the verge of major break throughs." To which, Dr. Lo well T. Coggeshall, president of the American Cancer Soci ety, comments: "I cannot tell you that this is so but neither can I dispute, it. The blue print is beginning to evolve." Dr. C. P. Rhoads, director of the Sloan-Kettering Insti tute, New York, summarizes one big gain during the last decade by saying: 'The most basic and beauti ful scientific work has been done in defining the details of the dynamic, constant and specific construction of the chemicals which control in herited traits, thus life itself, and necessarily, cancer as well, since it (cancer) is a mutated and abnormal life." This new knowledge, ; ac cording to Dr. Rhoads, "will bring cancer palliation and cure in the future if given a chance to do so." More Than One Route At Children's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Sidney Farber, a Harvard Medical School professor and member of the National Advisory Cancer Council, said: "It is quite probable that the goals to be achieved in the problem of cancer will be reached eventually by more than one route . Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, Nobel-prize winning scientist, has long believed that viruses have much to do with human cancer since viruses have been found to cause cancer in all other forms of life, with few exceptions In France, Belgium and the United States recently,, specks of virus have been spotted in microscopic slices of cells from human leukemia victims. Virus particles also have been found in specks of tissue from patients with cancer of the colon. . Said Dr. Stanley: "I believe we are now in a very excit ing era where it is almost impossible to foretell the fu ture." Dr. Heller takes this view: "If and When we establish the virus as a causative agent in cancer, then we are around the corner from a vaccine." (Next: Drugs Against Cancer) Pacific Northwest Co. Elects Two Officers Seattle The Pacific North west company board of direct or have announced the elec tion of Robert E. Daniel as president and Lyle F. Wilson as chairman of the board. Edmund E. Hass, a vice president of the company, is manager of the firm's Med ford branch. Daniel has been with the company for 27 years and has been executive vice president for the past four years. Wilson started his business career in 1923 with the invest ment house of Ferris & Hard grove which became affiliated with Pacific Northwest Com pany in 1929. For the past four years Wilson has been president. " The greatest single cause of mortality among infants at or about the time of forth even at sea level, is fetal anoxia insufficient supply of oxygen to the fetus. ...just when you must Then borrow from the oldest company, from folks you trust Borrow confidently from HFC! OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main St., 2nd Floor PHONE: SPring 3-5301 Oregonians Held for Altering $1 Bill San Anselmo -(CPD - Two Oregon men today , faced charges that they tried to pass an altered $1 bill to a fililng station attendant here. 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