Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 02, 1961, Image 27

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE SUNDAY. APRIL 2. 1961 - The Week in California ' Altitude Record, Eisenhower, Defense Department in News B7 United Press International The X15 rocket plane climbed to a world altitude record of 160,000 feet, carry ing test pilot Joseph A. Walk er, 40, to a dark, unexplored frontier 30 miles above the earth. Walker took off from Ed wards Air Force base, Calif., in the X15 carried under the wing of a B52. . The B52 climbed to an alti tude of 45,000 feet at a point near the California - Nevada line. Then the rocket plane climbed into the sky from the B52. . Ground control kept saying on the radio, "You're looking good, Joe." ; - At one point ground con trol suggested a change in his course and he replied, his voice quavering,' "I can't do anything about course for a while." , Period of Few Seconds This may have been a pe-' riod of a few seconds when he experienced moments of weightlessness at zero grav ity. . A few second later when he was around the 150,000 foot mark, he said, '.'It's nice KTY 1-40-52-45 ffL66-74-77 STAR GAZER By CLAX K. KJLAAN' 24-27-33-4V 56-60-81-841 GEMINI . MAY 25 JUNE 22 Ann no it JO SC54-57-72 CANCER JUNE 23 JULY 23 lf 3- 7-12-19 rV30-38-76 JULY 24 L,AUS. 23 KjYI 3-21-35-44 &55-75-79-89 VIRGO AUG. 24 SEPT. 22 , 8-10-11-341 '58-67-efra; M . .Yoir Doily Activity GuMe 24 , According fo fho Stars.' " il 7 To develop message for Sunday, ' read words corrcspondir.g to numbers or your zodiac birth sign. SEPT. 23 OCT. 23 o L 17 14, 29-64.83-88 r 1 Recognize ..2 Help 3 Expect -Try i 5Tliii 6You i -' . 7Ullle ' . 8 dwell . 9To lOYour 11 Bills 31 Brings. 32 Little 33 Find 34 Be 3SStond 36 Fortunate 37 Don't 38 Recently ; 39 Company u Your 41 Your 12Coooerotlon 42To 13 Deceitful 43 Easier MToke 44Ready 15 Prepare . 45 Don't 16Thlngs ..,::. 46 Waste 17 Give ... 47 Push 18 For I.'- ' 48Seek 19 From 49 Your 20 Unexpected 50 And 21 People . 51 Luck 22A - 23 Fine 24You 25 Sunday 26 Others 27Moy 28 Day 29 Will , 30 Someone 61 Pleasant 62 On 63 Can 64 Be ! 65 And 66 Don't 67 Hard-headed 68 A 69Show 70 Realize 71 Happenings 72 Desire ; 73 Troublesome . 74 Expos 75Givo , .. .. 76Met ' . 77 Them 78 Impatience 79You" ..- . 80 In . 81 And 122-32-43 52 Shortcomings 82 Something 53Time : .-. 83 Well 54A ' 84Controry 55To 85Neurotic - 56 Mote 86 Wonted 57Heort's . 87 Transactions 58 More 88 Rewarded 59 You ' 89Troubl - . 60 Impatient - 90 Person ; (Good () Adverse Neutral SCORflO CO. 24 fcjaj, NOV. 22 4- 9-14-16 (fl SAGITTAItlUS NOV. 23 DEC 22 m 15-18-20-39f CAPKlCOtN JAN. 20 VS 47-49-51-59C? AQUAtlUJ JAN. 21 FEB. 1 6 50-61-71 VS'-I PISCES FEB. 20 b7-46-5W2i"l ks-7M5-90'lJ The Medical Roundup by .i . Emeritus Consultant In Medicine Mayo Clinic Emeritus Professor ot Me6Ucln Mayo CUnlo (Reenter and Tribune Syndicate, , 1981) dark blue up here. I do have time to look around. On the way down, after hitting 160,000 feet, Walker said, "Good heavens, we are shaking to pieces here." " He landed at Rogers Dry Lake at Ed wards. Streaking along a path sim ilar to one made by a ballis tic missile, Walker was sub jected to weightlessness for 90 seconds at the top of his climb. Engineers said. It was the longest period of weight lessness ever recorded, but Walker apparently suffered no ill effects. ; Breaks Altitude Mark i . Alvarez t'.eir backs Can an Old Person Be Safely Operated On? !j Hundreds of old people, (many of them over 80, write "to ask me if they, dare have a much - need ed operation. Perhaps they need to have pot Hi-ants re: 'i moved, a big i u p. l ure.' im paired, p a i n ful gallstones removed, a big fatty' tu mor taken off or a goiter cut out. Always I say that if the pld person is thin and spry and wide-awake, and can .walk quickly along the street -if he is not short of breath, or asthmatic, if he hasn't a ihronic cough, and if he isn't a chain smoker-he is very : likely to survive the' opera tion. ' : V i- I will never forget the spry little wide-awake and attrac 'tiv., woman of 82 who came ,000 miles to ask me if I .would take her part and talk her doctor son-in-law - into 'letting her have some very .painful gallstones removed, r She said she had put up with 'them since she was 40 and she thought that was long 'enough. I agreed with her; i one of my surgical friends Agreed, and so a few days ' lLter, she; was operated on. Next , m d r n i n g, when - I dropped in to see how she ' was getting along, I found her ' sitting up in bed, as bright as could be, with her hair 'nicely arranged. She recover ed much more rapidly than many young people do. Operations Reviewed . Two European surgeons re viewed a series of 565 opera- . tions performed on persons over 70. seventy-two were over 80 years of age. For the persons who were under 80, the immediate mortality rate was 9 per cent, while for those who were over 80, the corresponding rate was 22 per cent. As one would expect, the immediate mortality after an emergency operation, like that for an . acute intestinal obstruction, was higher than normal. It was 21 per cent, while operations which could be put off until the patient was in good shape, had an immediate mortality rate of only 5 per cent, v , . - The commonest of the three causes of post-operative death was embolism (the passage into the lung of a clot which had : formed,, probably, in a vein in the thigh). The other two V common causes were heart failure, and pneumonia. Skill of Anesthetist Fortunately, today, anes thesia has become .so good and so easy on' the patient tl at much of the success of surgeons when' they operate on old people is due to the skill of the anesthetist. The surgeon must be a skillful and fast operator who will do his work in an hour or less. The immediate mortality of operations for cancer is con- siderably higher than that for operations on less serious dis eases. When a patient over 70, or certainly ' over 80, has a cancer, the surgeon hates to take out the stomach or half a lung. The reason is that although the patient's life may be lengthened, he is likely to be miserable and unable to enjoy the extra year or two that may be given him. He may not be able to get rehabilitated, and hence he may not be grateful for what was done for him. . PLAN TO SELL YOUR HOME? We suggest you see US for an FHA, commitment . . . It will HELP YOU SELL! FUNDS AVAILABLE ' for Residential, Commercial and Industrial Mortgage Loans i New and Older Homes ' fa Conventional Loans jlr Maximum FHA Loans 100 Gl Loans to $22,500 -Construction Funds Available JACKSON COUNTY MORTGAGE AND ESCROW CO., Inc. In the Mail Walker, test pilot-engineer for 16 years with the Nation al. Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration, broke the alti tude mark of 136,500 feet set by Maj. Robert White last Aug. 12.. : Meanwhile, in Washington, the Defense Department list ed 52 military installations in 25 states which it will shut down over the next three years..1 The department said that among the most signifi cant facilities to be closed was the Benicia Arsenal. The So lano County Arsenal was scheduled to be phased out over a three-year period. . . Elsewhere, ' there were these developments: - ' Finch: "I love you, Carole. I'm sorry." The speaker was Dr. R. Bernard Finch, as he approached his mistress, Car ole Ti-egoff, only seconds aft er -they were convioted of murdering the surgeon's wife, : He grabbed her, forced her into an embrace - and then suddenly, tears streaming down her face, she withdrew coldly and walked out of the courtroom, without saying a word. Their worlds - their 15-month fight for. freedom through three trials - had collapsed. The once wealthy surgeon,; now broke at 43, faced the gas chamber or life in prison on a first-degree murder conviction. Carole, 24, was convicted of second-degree murder by the 10-man, 2-woman jury. Both also were found guilty of con spiracy to murder,. Finch's wife, Barbara Jean, 33, on July 18, 1959. And although Carole received an, automatic five years to life sentence on the second-degree charge, she technically also could be con- demned to the gas chamber for conspiracy. Conspiracy to murder car ries the same "penalty as first degree murder. And prosecu tor Clifford Crail immediate ly announced he would seek the death penalty for both lovers. ... i ' Eisenhowers R e p r e senta tives of the 120,000-member Japan International Student Council personally apologized to former President Eisenhow er in Palm Springs for the June riots in Tokyo " that forced him to .call off his scheduled visit; v . Eisenhower, beaming with obvious pleasure over the meeting, placed his arm around the group's principal spokesman, Koichi Morita and said the formal apology was "not necessary." An aide of Eisenhower's said he had been eagerly awaiting the vis it as he felt the meeting would help erase a "blot" on his eight years as president. Opera: A feud between the San Francisco Opera compa ny and the American Guild of Musical Artists threatened to cancel the company's 1961 season. Robert Watt Miller, president of the opera compa ny, said there will be no open ing this fall unless the guild- which represents chorus sing ers, minor singers,- ballet, stage directors and the ward robe staff - cuts its demands Boxing: The C a 1 i f o rnia State Athletic Commission is "strongly in favor of proposed legislation calling for a na tional boxing czar, according to Chairman Dan O. Kuroy. He lauded the bill introduced by Sen. Estcs Kefauver before the Senate calling for a na tional boxing commissioner. Theme of Annual Cancer Crusade in April Maintained "Guard Your Family," is again the theme of the an nual American Cancer Society crusade which opened in Jack son county April 1, according to local chairman Reese Alex ander. . For the third consecutive year, tne three-word theme will be used in conjunction with the life-saving phrase: 'Fight Cancer With a Check up and a Check." , . . Alexander said the com bined slogans sum up the can cer problem and what to do about it. ? Regular Chckup. Two of three families here and in the country at large will be eventually struck by cancer. Regular health check ups are best protection against ups are their best protection against the disease, and checks are the means to support-the scientists who are searching for a cancer cure or preventive,", the chair man added. . Noting that - some 85,000 Americans died of cancer each year because they went to their doctors too late, Alexan der said the ACS gives top priority in its April campaign to its educational effort to prevent the loss of life. He maintained that the free literature distributed by vol unteers throughout the city is designed to stimulate regu lar health checkups for early detection of cancer. "The fact that more than one million Americans now living have been cured of cancer," Alexander continued, is proof of the effectiveness of the educational program of the society, the only national voluntary organization fight ing cancer through research, education, and service to can cer patients. Los Angeles Man To Speak Tuesday At St. Mark's Hall The Rev. Stephen H. Frltch man, of the First Unitarian church, Los Angeles, Calif., will speak on "Survival Is Not Enough: What Are America's Proposals for Peace and Dis armament?" at 8 p.m. Tues day in St. Mark's Episcopal Parish hall, Oakdale ave. and Fifth st. Since the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima, Mr. Fritchman has travelled to Japan and Europe to confer with religious groups, scien tists, and political leaders con cerned with banning the bomb and control of force through a strengthened United Na tions. Sponsors of the talk are the Medford chapter, Oregon United Nations association, and the church and the peace inter-church group. Mr. Fritchman was relig ious news editor of the New York Herald Tribune from 1925-27; associate professor of English, . school of religious education, Boston university, 1929- 30; and a student of the Harvard graduate school, 1930- 32. Since 1948 he has been min ister of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. Dur ing his 12 years of service there church membership has expanded to more than 1,200 persons representing increas ing inter-racial and inter-cultural backgrounds. The Unitarian minister led the battle with Los Angeles county against imposition of a tax-exemption church loyal ty oath, a struggle that ended June 20, 1958, with the U. S. Supreme Court decision af firming freedom of religion. Salem - IUPD - A Senale ap proved bill to extend unem ployment compensation bene fits by about $280,000 passed the House Friday. D" 3 ON LEAVE rv . Lawrence LeRoy Todd, hus band of Shirley Ann Todd, 3653 South Pacific highway, Medford, recently reenllsted in the Navy with the rating of electroniclan's mate third class. Todd, a four-year Navy veteran is spending 30 days leave in Medford, and will re port to Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif,, for further assignment. FOURTH LARGEST Columbia is the fourth larg est country in South America, Recognition Pins Given Junior RC Teacher-Sponsors Recognition pins were giv en Junior Red Cross teacher- sponsors in Jackson county schools last week in the Red Cross building on Hawthorne ave. 'by Mrs. John Day; chair man of the Red Cross recog nition committee. She was as sisted by Mrs. MacLeod Mau rice. . They expressed apprecia tion to the teachers for their help in promoting the Junior Red Cross program. ; Mrs. Reese Alexander, chairman of the Junior Red Cross, reported on the vari ous projects and activities in Jackson county schools. A question and answer pe riod was followed by a dis cussion on possibility of re suming monthly meetings for representatives of the elemen tary schools, i ' Projects on display were layettes, hogan kits, decora tions and favors, mural, paintings, filled-gift boxes for children overseas. , Prepares Lunch The Red Cross volunteer canteen prepared the lunch which was served by mem bers of the Junior Red Cross committee. Decorations fea tured the Easter motif. Teacher - sponsors present . ere Mrs. Marjorle Votaw, McLoughlin Junior High school; Mrs. Esther Fllegel, Hoover school; Mrs. Joan Wil liams, Griffin Creek; Mrs. Barbara Doolen, Wilson; Mrs. Edna Olson, Roosevelt; Mrs Ruth Urie, Oak Grove; Mrs, Norma McCoy, Jefferson: Mrs, Nita Blrdseye, Howard; Mrs. Shirley Kannasto, Phoenix; Mrs. Dorothy Hume, Trail, and Mrs. Gloria Thorpe, Bris coe. Ashland. Assisting with the lunch were Mrs. . Paul Lea, Mrs, Robert Johnson, Mrs. Myers Jones, Mrs. Frank Preston and Mrs. Norris Porter. 1005 E. Main Phon it 3-7447 Two Injured in Medford Accident Two persons were injured, neither of them seriously, in a two-car auto accident Thurs day at the intersection of 11th and Fir sts., according to Med ford police. Injured were Moyne E. Simpson,' 67, of 1550 Oregon ave., Ashland, and his wife, Clara E. Simpson, 64. Simp son was treated and released at Sacred Heart hospital, and his wife was reported in good condition at the hospital. Simpson was the operator of a car that collided with a vehicle operated by James David Barry, 17, of 1918 Mili tary rd., about 2:30 p.m. No one was injured in the Barry vehicle. Medford police said Simp son was cited for failure to BARNYARD FERTILIZER $2.50 Per Yard 6 Yard Load $15 Also Smaller Loads THIS AD WORTH $1.00 ON LARGE LOAD SP 3-6145 WANTED SCRAP IRON CAST IRON COPPER BRASS Aluminum Batteries 442 North Fir Phone SP 3-5473 TROWBRIDGE & FLYIIII Repairs All Sizes and Shapes of . . . 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