U MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfotd, Oregon. Sunday, March 1. 1959
Many Drivers Do Not
Take Advantage of Law
Aiany Oregon drivers do
not take advantage of a 1951
law which permits right turns
against red lights, after first
stopping, Chief of Police
Charles P. Champlin remind
ed motorists today.
Under the same law motor
ists may make left turns
against the red lights when
enterting one-way .streets aft
er stopping, he said.
Such turns can be made at
on red" sign specifically pro
hibits the move, he said.
Champlin explained that
drivers who fail to take ad
vantage of the law do so out
of ignorance of the law as
much as the fact that they
cannot break the habit of
moving only on a green light.
Habit Not Dangerous
Although the habit is not
dangerous, the chief added, it
does, however, slow traffic
au locations unless a 4 no turn and add to downtown conges
tion.
Drivers who received their
licenses some years ago
should occasionally check
some of their old habits when
it comes to traffic, he said.
Among the bad driving hab
its which can prove to be
deadly include failing to
make complete stops at stop
signs; not using the rear view
and side view mirrors often
enough; backing out of pri
vate driveways without
checking closely enough on
both foot and vehicular traf
fic which might be in the
way; and changing ' lanes
without signalling.
Snider Endorses
Wildlife Week
Medford Mayor John W,
Snider has endorsed stimulat
ing public action to bring
more conservation into the
school program as the goal of
1959 National Wildlife Week
in Medford.
National Wildlife Week will
be observed throughout the
country March 15 through 21.
Mayor Snider pointed out
that National Wildlife Week
should demonstrate the im
portance of making conserva
tion, as it affects day to day
living and the present and
future welfare of the nation,
a part oZ the learning experi
ence of young people.
Proper care and protection
of natural resources, he said,
can not be provided without
the support of an informed
public. He urged all citizens
and public and private agen
cies to further the objective
of Wildlife Week by helping
to assess and publicize the
need for conservation train
ing in the schools so that the
education of young people
can be expanded through pub
lic understanding and support.
Air Charter Service
Formed at Airport
Formation of Valley Avia
tion, an air charter and. air
craft brokerage firm, has
been announced by Lyle Es
telle, former manager of the
Rogue Flying service.
Valley Aviation is operated
from the Medford airport ter
minal building and is the au
thorized dealer of Piper air
craft here. The company is
using a Piper Tri-Pacer for air
charter and taxi service, and
plans later to furnish a Piper
Comanche for such service.
Traffic Shows
Increase in Area
Average daily traffic for
January at four highway loca
tions in Jackson county show
ed an increase over January,
1958, the state highway de
partment has reported.
On Highway 66, five miles
east of Ashland, 812 vehicles
were recorded for the average
daily volume compared to
701 for January, 1958, an in
crease of 15.8 per cent. An
increase from 418 last year
to 464 this year, an 11 per
cent increase, was recorded
on.Highway 238 one mile west
of Ruch, the department re
ported. Traffic on Highway 62 four
miles south of Shady Cove
increased from 1,100 last year
to 1,223 this year for an 11.2
per cent increase, and the
average daily volume on High
way 99 two miles south of
Talent showed an increase of
9.8 per cent from 6,013 last
year to 6,600 this year.
The figures are compiled
from permanent automatic
traffic recorders on rural
highways, the department
noted.
Statewide highway traffic
increased 1 per cent during
January, 1959, compared to
January, 1959, traffic. Traffic
counts are taken at 72 loca
tions throughout the state.
Urban traffic trends show
ed an increase of 3.8 per cent
during the same period.
Prominent Chinese
Faces Jury Trial
San Francisco- (UPD -Prominent
San Francisco China
town businessman George W.
Yee will face a jury trial
March 30 on charges he con
spired to smuggle $100 mil
lion worth of narcotics from
Red China to the West Coast.
Medford Employee
At Short Course
Corvallis-Raymond S. Fish
of route 2, box 445E, Med
ford, is enrolled at Oregon
State college this week in a
special ewage works opera-
Luis siivi t lulu be. ne is a
Medford city employee.
The short school training
program is offered at the col
lege each year as a service to
cities, sanitary districts, and
private u t i 1 it y companies.
Purposes are to promote eco
nomical and efficient opera
tion of sewage works systems
and to reduce hazards to pub
lic health incident to the dis
posal of sewage and indus
trial wastes.
Sponsors with the college's
school of engineering are the
Oregon State Board of Health,
Oregon State Sanitary Au
thority and League of Oregon
Cities.
Hew Requirements
Listed by Air Force
New requirements have
been announced for aviation
cadet training, according to
MSgt. Carson W. Campbell,
local Air Force recruiter.
Until recently, two years of
college were mandatory, but
because of the heavy demand
for flying officers, the require
ment has been eased to allow
high school graduates to enter
the flying program, he said.
Single men between 19 and
26Vi years old with a diploma
from an accredited high school
may be eligible to enter the
program. Graduates of the ca
det program receive a second
lieutenant's commission in the
Air Force Reserve with a rat
ing of pilot or navigator.
Additional information may
be obtained from Sgt. Camp
bell at the Medford post office
building or by telephoning
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The Medical Roundup
Emerituj Consultant In Medicine,
Mayo Clinic
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Studies In the Newer
Psychiatry
As I keep pointing out in
this column, a very hopeful
revolution is now taking
place in psy
chiatry. For
last 40 years
or so most of
the writing on
mental disease
has been done
by devoted di
sciples of some
leader like
Freud, Jung,
Dr Aivare Adler or Rank
who every year sat down at
his desk and spun out theories
of the origins of mental and
nervous diseases. Naturally,
these theories were unproved,
and many of them could not
possibly be tested or proved.
Many were so stupid and im
probable and even laughable
that they would never have
been published if they hadn't
caught the fancy of the lay
public. Certainly, most of
these theories should never
have been published in a sci
entific journal.
Now, at last, a new type of
psychiatrist is appearing on
the scene a real scientist, a
man trained in laboratory
technics. He is studying the
functions of the brain in ani
mals, in healthy men, and in
mentally sick men. He is find
ing drugs which, when given
to a healthy man, cause him
in half an hour to become
psychotic for perhaps a day.
The new type of psychiatrist
keeps working with able drug
chemists who are constantly
producing new medicines
which either calm an excited
brain or stimulate a sluggish
and depressed brain.
Studying Menially 111
The modern type of psychia
trist now is studying mentally
ill persons with chemical
methods, searching for nervous
poisons in his blood and other
body fluids. Dr. Linus Paul
ing, one of the world's great
chemists, received a large
grant from the Ford Founda
tion to study mentally retard
ed children. We know of at
least one type of mental re
tardation which is due to an
inborn defect in body chemis
try, and now the search is on
for other similar defects. ;
I have just been reading of
studies recently made in
New York by Drs. Loring F.
Chapman and Harold G.
Wolff. For years, Dr. Wolff
and his associates have been
pioneering in this field of
studying nervous and mental
diseases with exact labora
tory technics. Now, Chapman
and Wolff report that they
have been finding chemical
peculiarities in the cerebro
spinal fluid which surrounds
the brain and spinal cord of
persons with certain nervous
diseases. As yet, they do not
know whether these changes
are the cause or the result of
the disease in the brain.
Discoveries Excites Hop
Particularly interesting to
psychiatrists will be the dis
covery that the cerebro-spinal
fluid of schizophrenics con
tains an abnormal amount of
a protease a ferment which
affects the chemistry of pro
teins. As yet, no one can pro
phesy what this discovery will
lead to, but all such discover
ies excite hope. For one thing,
they show what many phy
chiatrists have long suspected,
and this is that in some cases
of schizophrenia we are
dealing not with a normal
man who in his infancy was
mentally injured by seeing
his parents naked, or some
thing like that. No: We are
dealing with a man who in
herited something wrong in
the chemistry of his brain and
perhaps his whole body. He
would seem to be much like
a diabetic who inherited a de
fect in the pancreatic cells
that make insulin, or like a
man with gout who inherited
a defect in some part of Ms
body which normally gets rid
of uric acid.
As soon as we doctors can
be sure that some mental and
nervous diseases are due to
an inherited defect in body
chemistry like diabetes and
gout out the window must
go the pseudo-scientific mum-bo-jumbo
of many of the psy
choanalysts. Instead, the new
modern and scientific type of
psychiatrist will be searching
for drugs which will rectify
the insane man's brain chem
istry, much as insulin cor
rects the defective body
chemistry of the diabetic
The world does move!
Radar Demonstration
Set at Roundtable
Patrolman Duane Franklin
of the Medford police depart
ment is scheduled to discuss
and demonstrate the opera
tion of the city's traffic radar
set tomorrow at the weekly
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce roundtable.
The roundtable meets for
lunch each Monday noon at
the Jackson hotel, with the
public invited.
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