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I Schizophrenia 54th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune Medfoium May Be Caused by Lengthy Insomnia 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1959 Pages 1-6 -kA XT Chicago-(Science Service)- Y " Jill I " t . J-f DISCONTINUING LUMBERING OPERATIONS, owners of Pondosa, Ore', sell entire town, described as nearest community to new United States geographical center. Numismatist Finds Cure for Inflation In Three, Sources, Including Bible A numismatist looked at in flation here Monday, and found its cure in the words of Capt. John Smith, Presi dent William McKinley and the Holy Bible. The numismatist, , or coin collector, was Walter Jones, Medford realtor and apprai ser. He delivered a talk en titled, "A Numismatist Looks at Inflation," at the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce roundtable. Jones discussed the history of Spanish, French, British and American currency to il lustrate inflation trends. Passes Coins He passed several foreign coins and bills among the au dience, saying he wished them to tell his message for him. But Jones reserved for him self a few comments about the money situation in this country. After tracing inflation's de- Wildlife Reflects Fertility of Soil (Editor's noie: This is an other in a series of articles being published in connec tion with Conservation Week, which was observed throughout the county last week. Today's article dis cusses 'wildlife, and its role in conservation.) By C. R. SHEPARD District Game Biologist Slate Game Commission Wildlife is a product of the soil and reflects the fertility or the barrenness of the habi tat in which it lives. Sound conservation practices with soi land water will aid all wildlife in its struggle for existence. Birds and. animals have three basic requirements, food, shelter, and water. Where these are provided in abundance wildlife responds with increased productivity. Jn former years much land considered marginal for agri culture was earmarked for the use of wildlife with the fond hope that such designa tion would quickly result in fine harvestable surpluses of game birds and animals. Unfortunately, poor land raises poor food, and even poorer cover and is apt to be short of good water supplies or it would not have been deemed marginal land in the first place. On such land wild life production is either poor or lacking entirely. Our three basic require , ments, food, shelter and wat- Judges, Attorneys At Eugene Meetings Circuit Judges James M. Main and Edward C. Kelly at tended a meeting of the Ore gon Judicial Council in Eu gene last week end. i During the meeting discus sions were held on recent leg islative action on matters af fecting, the judges and the general legal profession. Re ports were given also on de sirability of establishing a family court system in Ore- l gon and need for conciliation served within the court sys tern. Other reports covered uniform circuit court rules. pre-sentence investigation re ports, juvenile law, court room design and courthouse familities, and disqualifica tion of judges. A large number of Jackson county attorneys and many of the state's circuit judges also attended a regular spring meeting in Eugene on a con tinuing legal education series. This covered evidence intro duced into Oregon civil trials. Quarles Buried In Simple Rites Washington t (UPD - Simple military honors and burial at . Arlineton National Cemeterv were the final tribute Tues day to Donald A. Quarles, deputy defense secretary who died Friday. President Eisenhower a t tended the services. Quarles. , 64. died in his sleep of obstructive coronary sclerosis, a restriction of blood vessels in the heart. er, were enough for nature s fine balance before man en tered the scene. Now we must add protection if wildlife is to survive in adequate numbers. ' Protection does not simply mean laws and law enforce ment, important though these may be, but also means toler ance, common sense and com passion. A brushy fence cor ner can mean home to a brood of quail or to an insect eating songbird. 1 The hard to farm corner may be better left in cover to provide escape for some small bird or animal. A dog can be restrained so that ground nesting birds may in cubate . their eggs and raise their brood. A car can slow down to allow a hen pheasant to cross a busy highway. In the final analysis wild life is a crop, and can safely be harvested as a crop only so long as conditions permit an annual surplus. Wildlife is a neruage,a resource, a joy, and is worthy of your consid eration. Youngster Helps Michigan Finances Lansing, Mich. -(UPD- An 11 year-old former resident of Michingan sent this letter and 17 cents to Gov. G. Mennen Williams: "Dear Governeer Will yums: j My dad told me Michigan was in very bad trouble we moved to Florida about a year ago from Detroit an we like Michigan very much I saved this from my lunch money I hope it will help you out. Ralph Biddle, 1215 SW 1st St., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. P.S. I am 11 years old now i win vote lor you when I am old enuff." A spokesman for State Treasurer Sanford A. Brown said it has not been decided what will be done with the coins and bills that have been sent to the Capitol since Mich igan's fiscal woes started r& ceiving such widespread attention. velopment in the other na tions, he said, "Is there any reason to believe inflation will operate any differently for America? The United States operat ed on a solid currency until March 5, 1933 (when it went off the gold standard) and it never has since," Jones stated. Turning to silver dollars, he added, "At the rate silver is going up, anyone owning silver dollars can melt them down in afew years and make a profit." ;On the subject of U.S. pa per money, he noted that to day there are generally a lot of crisp new, $5 federal re serve notes "in circulation, while most $5 silver certifi cates are found to be old and worn. Back lo Gold Standard Jones, who said he has un proved placer claims in Na- vada, stated afterward the United States will' "have to' go back on the gold standard He deplored in his talk what he called the breakdown of the two-party system in this country. To : Democrats, he said, money is a medium of exchange. To Republicans, he added, it is impounded labor. He asserted that a carpenter working an hour and a half earns today just what he earned 100 years ago, a 50 pound sack of flour. But today the flour is worth a lot more, he added. Jones urged everyone to do everything they can to stop inflation. As for solutions, he first quoted Capt. John Smith, founder of the Virginia col ony: "No work, no eat." Next, he turned to William McKinley, 25th president of the United States, quoting him as saying, "Root hog, or die." ! Turns to Bible Finally, Jones turned to the Book of Ecclesiastes: "What soever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work .or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, . to which you are going." "Sheol," he said, has been defined as "the insatiable re ceptacle which cries give, give and never saith it is enough Jones said he did not know any better definition of infla tion than that. ; Prolonged insomnia is suspect ed as precipitating some cases of schizophrenia, three Salt Lake City physicians suggest ed here. Schizophrenia is' called the "split personality" mental dis ease. Victims become dis oriented and lose contact with reality. Many persons on the brink of a phychotic break suffer from severe insomnia, the in ability to sleep. A few pass through a prolonged period of wakefulness as the schizo phrenic process unfolds, the doctors reported in the Ar chives of Neurology and Psy chiatry. Interests Aroused Such sleep deprivation, when combined with isolation and incapacitating anxiety, may have an illness-causing potential that has not been fully appreciated. Experience with two pa tients who suffered severe emotional disturbances cou pled with sleeplessness and followed by outright psychot ic attacks aroused the doctors' interests. Both patients were "racked with intense psychological pain and overwhelmed by seemingly insoluble prob lems." Both failed to sleep for several days, emotionally isolated themselves, and be came psychotic. The schizo phrenic episode was brief in each case, and the patients re covered rapidly with treat ment, Drs. Eugene L. Bliss, Lincoln D. Clark and, Charles D. West of the University of Utah' College of Medicine and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Salt Lake City, re ported. Confusion Results Further tests on medical students revealed that, sleep deprivation for 72 hours re sulted in confusion, inability to judge the passage of time, and other intellectual deteri oration to their minds. The doctors said that no subject became psychotic. "One can only infer that if these changes were to occur in someone who was also pro foundly anxious and deprived of group support, more seri ous psychopathological seque lae (consequences) might re sult," the doctors suggested. I II I llt,JllIfc v V ? i id 7r.fllf ifC j. "tV Js- aa re l i I . I H t i ?tv Body of Doctor Found in Motel Portland -(UPD- City detec tives Monday found the body of a Portland physician, Dr. Thomas P. Staats, 49, in a Southwest Portland motel. He had been missing since April :o. Police said there was a bul let wound in the victim's head believed self-inflicted. The door of the room was locked and a .32 caliber pistol was on the floor nearby. Officers said the doctor checked into the motel Sun day about 12:30 a.m. He had been dead about 12 hours when the body "was discover ed. The motel owner called authorities after recognizing a car outside as the one own ed by the doctor. Failure To Pay Charged To Duncan Ventura, Cali (UPD A funeral home has charged that attorney Frank Duncan reneg ed on a promise to pay for cremation expenses of his slain wife, Olga. ' The Mayr Funeral Home has filed an attachment writ against the ' slain woman's bank account which it claim ed contained $290. Olga was killed last Nov. 18 by two men hired by her mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan. Both men and Mrs. Duncan have been sentenced to die in the gas chamber. The funeral home said Dun can, who has moved his law practice from Santa Barbara, Calif., to Los Angeles since the murder, also failed to pick up Olga's ashes. Bill Kupszyk, Manitoba, Canada, a brother of the slain nurse, claimed the ashes last week. 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