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Pharamcy New Drug Corvallis - From "medicine man" and "pill roller" to pharmacist and finally drug consultant. In a sentence, that's the Centennial Year past and fu ture of pharmacy in Oregon, according to Oregon State col lege pharmacy school leaders. At present, the pharmacy profession is in its -greatest period of change, they point out. An average of one new drug has been introduced every day for the past 10 years and 80 per cent of the prescriptions written today could not have been filled in 1949 because the drugs were unknown then. "Natural" drugs, or those made directly from medicinal plants, are giving way gener ally, to synthetic drugs manu factured by pharmaceutical chemists. The synthetics are equally good-or better, are less expensive, and the supply can be matched to demand. Antibiotics and hormones, however, are important excep tions. They are still obtained from natural sources. Life Changes Life has changed for the pharmacist too. Dr. Ben F. Cooper, associate professor of pharmacy, notes. In the old days, a druggist spent most of his time com pounding the medicines at his store counter. Pills were roll ed by hand and extracts made by percolation. Today, less than 10 per cent of the pre scriptions need compounding and that figure is still going down. And while this trend means less work of one kind, it means tremendous new re sponsibility for knowledge of uses, actions, and dosages of all the new drugs. In the years ahead, Cooper sees the role becoming one of a "drug consultant" to doctors and others who simply are un able to take the time, or lack the professional background, to keep abreast of changes in medicines and their uses. T - 1 Drug stores also are chang- From the early days, the uui nan. wins ill uvi a"c tuuata i i it ecause income from prescrip- 11111? WdX IIUL MLUIILICIIL LU keep the business going. To day, professional-type phar macies that handle nothing but drugs are increasing in number, and such sidelines as the soda fountains are disap pearing -from drug- stores across the state and nation. Oregon's pharmacy history must go back to the Indian medicine man, Cooper said. Medicines made from na tive plants were their chief stocks-in-trade, along with ritual and mystic, and Oregon grape, now state flower, found wide use in this connection. It was made into a popular tea and was the chief ingred ient in a famous spring tonic called "Pf under's Oregon Blood Purifier." Dr. John McLoughlin, "Father of Oregon," was also its first pharamacist. He had studied pharmacy in Quebec before taking his medical de- WE (GIVE r CRIMEN STAMPS BET PURE PORK COUNTRY STYLE SAUSAGE SWIFT'S PREMIUM FRYERS SWEET SMOKED HAM HOCKS FANCY BEEF POT ROAST LEAN DRY CURED SALT PORK SUGAR CURED HAM Real Nice Whole or Part 7 GREEN .STAMPS 4 Profession Sees One Per Day for 10 Years grees. Alter coming to xne Northwest in 1824 to take charge of" the Hudson Bay company fur trading post, he kept a big supply of drugs secured from the head office in London. Fint Drug Store The first drug store in Ore gon was established in 1847 in Oregon City. Today, Ore gon has 560 drug stores and some 1,400 pharmacists. The OSC school of phar macy was established in 1898 Enemies Stood Together In Force of the Flood - Deep in his underground burrow the rabbit heard the murmur of the waters grow ing always1 a little louder, a little more urgent. He shifted his position. Later he awakened as wa ter dampened his feet. He stirred, then ran along the dark burrow. The walls were wet. As he approached the tunnel entrance the water was deeper. He rushed out of the den-mouth into a strange and unfamiliar world; a world of water. It stretched away as far as he could see. It was whispering gently round the grass roots. It was running now down into his burrow opening with a gurgle. Bewildered The rabbit hopped over the J higher ground. He met other Slogan Chosen for Oregon Licenses Salem - (UPD - "Pacific Won derland" has been chosen as the slogan for Oregon auto-r mobile license plates, Gov. Hatfield announced today. The winning words in the high school contest was sub mitted by Barbara Sutter of Alsea high school. Second place went to Shar on Sauer, Central high school, Independence, for "Empire of the West." The slogans will be placed on Oregon plates as soon as practicable according to judges Hatfield, ex-Gov. Rob ert D. Holmes and Superin tendent of Public' Instruction Rex Putnam. OPEN 8 o.m. 7 p.m EVERY DAY it kP 4 TOM TH OREGON SLICED BACON 2 lbs. Cut or whole 229' lt. 53 29 lb. LAURA SCUDDER'S mm m a m u a h filHYUIJIJUISc OCCIDENT FLOUR 25.bsS1.98 COLD BEVERAGES, ICE, FISHING TACKLE, PROPANE TANKS FILLED, WHITE GAS to supply trained workers for drug stores of the state. Since then it has graduated 1283 students. The OSC school was one of the first in the country to adopt a five-year course re quirement for graduation, de signed to give students both a professional and general education. Beginning next year, all schools of pharmacy in the U.S. will be required to have five-year programs of study. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins rabbits. They seemed be wildered. A fox trotted past but paid no attention to the where the rabbits hopped and the fox patroled became a small island. The rabbits even ignored their traditional ene my, the fox. They hopped within inches of him. They were faced with a greater danger. The milling animals were being enveloped now with rising water. The island grew smaller and smaller. A cur rent became evident. Leaves, sticks, tree branches and debris of a dozen kinds began floating past. The sound of the water became a roar, creeping relentlessly higher. Current Quickened Offshore the speed of the current quickened. Small trees sailed past on the crest of the flood. Some small ani mals clung to some of the floating debris. Perhaps that gave the fox an idea, for he waded out and climbed aboard a drifting tree that lodged for a moment on the little island. Fox and tree were swept away. Panic stricken, the rabbits rushed about but there was no place to run to. They were faced with powerful forces. There was no instinctive knowledge to guide them. A tree crashed against the island just as the water inun dated the island. One of the rabbits hopped up on the floating trunk. The tree hung for a moment on the land, then went twisting and turn ing away on the crest of the flood, a lone rabbit clinging to. the branches. He at least might survive until tomor row. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) Midget Prices CRISP SOLID CABBAGE ,,89 RED RIPE $1.00 TOMATOES GOOD SIZE 37s lb. 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Each side in this blossoming controversy is well armed with statistical arguments. Businessmen point out that U.S. exports declined from an annual rate of 820.000,000,000 in the first part of 1957 to an annual rate of $16,300,000,000 at the end of 1958. Spells Difference This drop is serious, they say, because a healthy export trade often spells the differ ence between prosperity and recession for a nation's entire economy. . : Businessmen blame the de cline on U.S. inflation, in which, they say, rising wage costs are a major causative factor. "We have to face the fact that in many lines we are pricing ourselves right out of the world market," said John J. McCloy, Board Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Ernest R. Breech, board chairman of Ford Motor Co., said auto workers now get an average wage of $2.44 an hour in the United States, com pared with $1.05 in Britain and 69 cents an hour in West Germany. He thinks this is a basic reason that British, THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 4' ib. 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"European 'and Japanese steel producers are even now underselling American steel right here in this country," the ads warn. "Certainly it will not help America if the spread between U.S. and for eign wages is increased. It will only serve to export jobs." An AFL-CIO economist re torts that this argument is "industry propaganda, trans parently aimed at whipping up public sentiment against wage increases for the Steel workers' Union." A "fact sheet" prepared by the AFL-CIO research depart ment makes these points about the export situation: Exports Lower It is true that exports were lower in 1958 than in 1957. But 1957 was an "abnormal" year in world trade. The Suez crisis compelled Western Flu rope to turn temporarily to the United States for oil and cotton normally purchased from the Middle East. A Euro pean crop failure boosted ex ports of U.S. wheat. If 195? exports are com pared with "normal" years, the picture is different. 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"It is obvious from these figures," said a labor econo mist, "that we are a long way from being priced out' of world markets." President Eisenhower's re cent economic report to Con gress, prepared with the help of his three-man Council of Economic Advisers, provides some ammunition for both sides. The report attributes the NEW Friskies Cat SPECIAL! This coupon . worth MIMtfli Shots Exchanged, At Henderson Textile Mill Henderson, N. C.-(UPD-Shots were' exchanged between strikers and non-strikers at the Harriet-Henderson Mills Wednesday night when mill workers ended their second shift. . One striker was wounded and two non-strikers were ar rested. A small fire broke out at the firm's South Henderson mill. Gov. Luther M. Hodges, who has been attempting to mediate the strife-torn strike, asked the company to halt night shift operations and cancel a proposed third shift, thereby confining work to daylight hours. 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