Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 27, 1960, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Texto 3 '.k.tn. J 1 IV ZZ . X r v 111 I'lllW B BBB MMMM J. i tr X ' v - t4Jt'awiiiiiiiMMM Emergency Service Important Aspect Of Area Hospitals HEADED FOR CHILE - A 19,500 pound water purification van is loaded aboard an Air Force C-124 Globemaster as part of a 40-plane airlift to Santiago, Chile, of two complete Army field hospitals for relief of victims of quake-devastated South Chile. (UPI Telephoto) By lynn M Small Worlds Around Watkint The Family Council Editor Note: The Family Council consists ol a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two wrltera Each article Is a summary of an actual .ase history The Council reports on problems that have been dealt wt b by responsible agencies and Karen R, I don't know whether I really love him. Mrs. L. R. - This is no time to back out of the marriage. 'Strange' Salamander Always Misunderstood The salamander had a fish for an ancestor back a few hundred thousand years ago, and some of them just can't teem to get over it. Of the hundred or so varied kinds, scattered pretty gen erally throughout the United States, some live only their early lives in fresh water ponds. But at a certain stage in their development they leave the home pond and spend a couple of years on land.' Then, as if remembering their early life, they return to pond, some to spend the rest of their life in the water. A salamander is a tailed amphibian, sort of a tadpole like creature that never sheds Its tail. They are lizard-like, but they have no scales or claws. Many Names Salamander names, because there had to be so many, are mostly descriptive words de noting color, preferred habi tat or some other individual characteristic. So we have tree, worm, two-lined, long tailed, blind tiger, slimy, four toed, purple, red, spotted and cave salamanders, as well as painted, red - banded, dusky and others to numerous to mention. The fresh water newt, mudpuppy, water-dog and hellbender are all sala manders, and all of course look like wet lizards. These strange little creat ures always have been mis understood. Mythology pic tures them in a strange and unjustified light. It gave the poor things a reputation that a real dragon couldn't pos sibly live up to, crediting it as a creature that breathes (ire. To make the poor thing even more fearsome, the cre ators of these legends imagin ed the salamander as assum ing the form of a man who groveled in the dirt and wait ed with bared fangs for human victim. The salamand er of mythology was only the brainchild of an over-stimulated Imagination. Other su perstitions gave the creature a fire-proof reputation. Advocates of this idea be lieved the creature could walk through fire and emerge un harmed. Newt Relative About the nearest relative the salamander has is the fresh water newt. It is also related to frogs and toads, all of which belong to the chilly blooded family of creatures known collectively as "the amphibia." Unless the pond where the strange little creatures live dries up, few people suspect the presence of the salamand ers that may be living there. Even then the creatures may bury themselves in the mud and live for some time in a emi-dry environment. They are all pathetically harmless and relatively help less. They are sometimes used as aquarium pets, and make Interesting inmates of a gold fish bowl. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Karen R. - I am 19, en gaged to be married and wor ried to death. My fiance is 33, very nice looking and a good provider, but I am beginning to feel I don't really love him. We have had physical relations and ever since I haven't felt the same about him. It isn't that I found love-making disap pointing. I realize this may change in time. It is more that I see many things about him that I don't like John is arro gant and pushes everyone around. Maybe he'll start treating me like that. My parents think a lot of John and my mother thinks I should go ahead with the mar riage. My dad washes his hands of the whole thing be cause ol what I ve done. Mrs. L. R. - This is no time to back out of the marriage. If Karen doesn't marry John now, I don't know what will become of her. I feel I've failed as a moth er. I tried to bring Karen up with the right attitudes. I never suspected she would go and do a stupid thing like this She seems to think it's better to find out before the mar riage mat tnings are not as they should be, but I can't make her understand she will feel differently once she is married. I am annoyed with John for inducing Karen into having relations with him, but out side of that I feel he is a good man for her. She needs a strong person to keep her un der control. The Council: We don't go along with the idea that any adult woman should have someone else "to keep her under control." If Karen is mature enough for marriage she must be her own super visor. If she is not mature enough, it is doubtful whether the marriage can be a success. We suspect there has been a bit too much parental pres sure behind this relationship trom the beginning. Karen may have had doubts about John she didn't dare confess to herself or her parents. Pos sibly she thought having phys ical relations with him would be a "trial ' of whether she really loves him. Now she feels she has a more legitimate basis tor her negative feelings. Of course Karen should be aware of the fact that she has had the worst possible intro duction to the physical side of marriage and that her immed iate reaction is no indication of what the future holds store. But we don't think her objections to John's personal ity should be completely glossed over by her parents. Mrs. L. R. is evidently airaia ner aaugnter will "go wild if she continues unmar. ried. We think, however, that the danger may be just great if she is pressured into an undesired marriage. No man can "control" a wife who doesn't respect him and deep ly wish to give her loyalty and love. Mrs. L. R. attaches too little significance to John's role in this affair. She doesn't seem to realize that the maturity and strength with which she so strongly credits him failed him completely on a crucial issue. Karen needs help in gaining emotional maturity, but prob ably from a qualified doctor not from a man who has proven his lack of good sense and moral stability. (Copyright 1960, General Features Corp.) Alan's Request for Cup of Tea Leeds To Request by Wife To Obtain Divorce (Editor's Hotei This U the last ia a series ef articles ia which financial problemt and major services of hos pitals are diacuasad. Today's article, which discusses emergency service, was pre pared in cooperatiea with two valley hospitals and the Jackson County Medical Society.) Forty per cent of all wives in the U.S. also have jobs out side the home. Emergency service is an im portant responsibility of both the hospital and the medical staff of the hospital. The responsibility is great er in an area where demand and financing do not warrant resident physician at the hospital, as is the case with Sacred Heart and Rogue Val ley hospitals. The emergency service at both hospitals is manned by the medical staff of each hos pital on a 24-hour, seven-day a week basis. Each staff phy sician is on duty for one 24 hour period, although he may not be at the hospital during the full day. He is, however, easily located by hospital au thorities in an emergency. A patient should try to call his family doctor before go ing to the hospital, since this would speed up handling his case, hospital officials suggested. Emergency Nurse Each hospital maintains an emergency nurse on duty at the emergency ward on an a r o u n d-the-clock basis all week. It is the nurse's duty to comfort the patient as much as possible until the arrival of the physician, either the patient's family doctor, or the emergency doctor. But she cannot, without doc tor's orders, proceed with treatment, nor can she offi cially diagnose an emergency case, even if the patient's case is apparent, such as a broken leg or other injury suffered in an accident. It is the physician who makes the final diagnosis, in structs the nurse as to treat ment and decides whether the patient needs hospitalization. Emergency Defined An emergency as defined by hospital administrators is "a situation in which the hu man's life is in danger." Not all cases which enter the emergency ward are of this type, administrators say, Many of them, even those which at first are considered emergency cases, are not even admitted to the hospital For example, last year both Sacred Heart and Rogue Val ley hospitals handled about 4, 000 mergency cases. Of that number only about 5 per cent were actually admitted as hos pital patients. In a recent month, 63 per cent of the cases handled in the emergency ward of one local hospital were consider ed actually as legitimate emergency cases. They in clude accident victims and similar type incidents i n which a person was injured, or suffered an acute attack of an ailment. But the other 37 per cent were cases such as influenza, common colds and other mi nor complaints, which both physicians and hospital ad ministrators agree should have been cared for at the physician's office or clinic. Many of those included in the 37 per cent are persons who repeatedly appear at the emergency ward for a variety of reasons. Hospital administrators u. 'e all persons to have a fam ily physician, for it is he who is called if the patient seek ing emergency care has a family physician and he is available. If the family physician is not available, or the patient is in such condition that he cannot give the name of his physician, the emergency doc tor is called. In many cases when persons are taken by an ambulance service, the hos pital has been notified an emergency case is on its way, and hospital officials contact physician on emergency call. Physician Contacted Should the case warrant more immediate attention, physician in the building is contacted. H e administers emergency treatment until the person's family physician or the emergency doctor ar rives. Hospital administrators noted that the community also has a responsibility to help maintain a competent emer gency service. Rogue Valley's emergency ward cost valley donors about $80,000, and this, administrators say, "is a large investment by the com munity." The one at Sacred Heart hospital cost about the same. Commenting on persons who seek emergency service for minor complaints and oth- discomforts such as the common cold, hospital admin istrators noted that the total cost of diagnosis and treat ment probably is more. This is because of the hospital' charge for the service. If the patient, administrators say, went to the doctor's clinic or office, he would be charged only for an office call, plus any drugs prescribed. Loughton, England - tWt - When George Lusher's wife bawled him out for coming home late from golf one day, he decided not to say another word to her until she apolo- lzed. The way Mrs. Lusher fig- red it, why should she speak if George didn't? From 1949 to 1956, through the Korean war, a labur gov ernment, leaky plumbing and the rampages of two healthy, young children, the Lushers id not exchange a single word. The Starter Then George asked for a cup of tea. The result-every-one knows how one word will lead to another-landed the couple in divorce court. High Power Line Kills Youth, 17 Milwaukie -(UPD- A 17-year- old Milwaukie high school senior was killed instantly when he touched a power line carrying 12,000 volts Thurs day night. . Killed was William Matson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Matson of Milwaukie. Matson grabbed onto the power line while about 30 feet in a tree. Two other boys, David Hunemiller, 13, and Thomas Cendana, 12, of Mil waukie, also had climbed the tree with Matson but were unhurt. They said they had been climbing about five minutes before Matson grabbed the line. As the judge later quoted Mrs. Lusher, George's seven year reign of silence was just a "sulk." Since the couple were not speaking, there of course could be no talk of a divorce. They remained under the same roof. George-a travel ing salesman - got his own meals. Day after day, month after month, year after year neither George, now 54, nor Mrs. Lusher, now 48, so much as grunted in the other's di rection. "I just let it go on and did nothing to help my hus band out of his silence," Mrs. I Lusher was quoted as telling the judge. "I expect I could have ended it at any time." Finally, she said, she wrote George a letter suggesting the possibility of conversation, and his request of a cup of tea was the result. Mrs. Lusher said the falling out after they started talking to each other again was about George's reluctance to do his share of the dishes. That, she said, made a divorce manda tory. The judge, howtver, did not agree. He turned down e$tUNr, Medlar-, tjfc) Friday, May 27,(t)0 "A" her petitionjWilIng that "in their own way, each la (till fond of tta other." - His honor did concede, how. ever, that George "when up set tends to withdraw and be come silent." I ASSESSORS NEVER MISS Riverside, Calif .-(UPD - Mrs. A. Harold Wishart, complain ing Thursday that she and her husband have been passed by census takers in 1940, 1950 and 1960, quipped "The asses sors never seem to miss us." Ediiorial Writer Dunked in Columbia The Dalles -(UPD- Editorial writer Al McCready of the Oregonian took a bath in the Columbia river Thursday with his clothes on. McCready was dunked in the Columbia with the help of a push from Bob Paulos, editor and publisher of The Dalles Daily Chronicle. It all came about because of a friendly wager between the two men concerning last Friday's voyage of the de stroyer escort USS Edmonds up the Columbia river. McCready had written an editorial saying the Edmonds might have some trouble mak ing the trip. Paulos countered with an editorial in which he offered to be dunked in the Columbia if the vessel didn't make it without difficulty. He also suggested that McCready agree to do the same if the Edmonds did make it. McCready did. The Ed monds did. And Thursday Mc Cready got his bath. Hollywood Couples Planning Divorces Hollywood-OIPD-Two Holly wood couples, both wed 13 years, are heading for the divorce court. Sir Cedric Hardwicke. 68. and his wife, Mary, 32, have their attorneys working out property settlement and ac tress Laraine Day, 40, and her husband, Leo Durocher, 53, already nave signed a prop erty settlement pending di vorce action. 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