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MEDFORDliTRIBUNE SECTION D MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1961 PAGES I to 8 S ! DESIGN CRITICIZED-L. B. DeLong, head of the DeLong Engineering firm of New York, left, criticized the design of Texas Tower No. 4, and said he was "very surprised" that the offshore radar platform withstood the battering of Hurricane Donna. He testified during an inquiry by the Senate Preparedness subcommittee into the tragic collapse of the structure last January that took the lives of 28 men. Here he shows a model of the tower to Sen. John Stennls CD-Miss.), chairman of the subcommittee. (UPI Telephoto) The Medical Roundup by Emeritus Consilium la Medicine . Mayo Cltntc Emeritus Professor of Medicine Mayo CUnte (Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1961) Help for Bleeders ' I have noted in a book recently edited by Dr. Ken neth M. Brinkhous on "Hemo- p h 1 1 i a and Other Hemor: rhagic States" that at the last Con gress on blood disease held in Rome there was much interest in a paper on the use of the so-called Anti hemophilic globulin, which is often called Factor VIII. This product contains Factor VIII concentrated into a small vol ume. It is particularly helpful when a hemophilic patient has to have an emergency operation. At the Congress there was much discussion of another trouble, called Wille brand's disease. This involves two genetic defects: one, a weakness in the walls of the tiniest blood vessels - the cap-' Maries - a weakness which makes bleeding easier, and the other is a deficiency in Factor VIII. Today, we know that many people who used to be thought to have hemo phelia have another similar disease called Christmas dis ease. It has this name because a man named Christmas came to a clinic on Christmas Day -with this disease. Skin Diseases Hundreds of people write asking me to treat their skin disease. Sometimes they tell me what their doctor has call ed it, and sometimes they tell me that three skin spe cialists have somewhat dis agreed as to what it was. I wish everyone who reads my column could know that I will never attempt to treat a skin disease by mail. Years ago I spent part of a year with a very able professor of dermatology, and I learned then that the treatment of many skin diseases is not easy. One reason is that often a number of drugs have to be tried, and perhaps tried in different strengths, depending on the results obtained. Aneurysm An occasional person writes to say that he has an aneu rysm - a near blow-out in one of his large arteries. As the doctor says, if it ruptures, the man probably will be dead In a minute. The good doctor wants the patient to go to a surgeon who has made a specialty of operating on ar teries. He will take out the bad section, and will replace it with a substitute tube of gome kind. The patient dreads this and wants to know if there is some way in which he can avoid the operation. Mv advice is that he go im mediately to the surgeon, and that he keep thanking God that today there are able men who can remove an aneurysm, and can thereby save many lives. Why Soma People's Knees Crack Many people ask why their knees crack when they kneel down. I cannot remember ever having read scientific articles on this happening, which I imagine Is common. I would suspect that It is more than usually common In ' persons who have a tendency to fibrositis or arthritis. I know that I always have had a tendency to fibrositis and for many years my knees have cracked. The fact that, today in my seventies, . my knees still carry me around com fortably can reassure those of my correspondents who fear that the cracking will lead them into serious trouble. Small Worlds Around Us Lynn W. Watkins (Re(lter Tribune Syndicate, 1961) Don't be frightened by old wives' tales. If you're ap proaching or now are in mid life, read Dr. Alvarez' infor mative and reassuring book let, "Menopause i nd Hysterec tomy." It may le obtained by sending 25 cents and a large, stamped, self-addressed enve lope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Trib une Syndicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. , Graduate Training Program Planned Eugene - A program for training graduate students for research in physiology at the University of Oregon will be financed during the next five years under a grant from the Public Health Institute. The grant, of $175,000, has been made to the university's biology department to support the training of four or five graduate students annually. From the annual portion of $35,000 the graduate students will receive stipends during the academic year, and dur ing the summer if they con tinue work on their research projects. Students will be allowed to pursue research subjects of their own choosing, but they will be encouraged to work in the areas in which members of the biology staff are con cerned. These are the physiol ogy of reproduction and com parative physiology. The lat ter area is unique among re search in physiology carried on at most universities, ac cording to Dr. Bradley T. Scheer, head of the biology department here, in that the physiologists he"-e are study Ing inv?iebrates ar.d low ver tebrate animals and applying the findings to oi.ier animals ' Students for the training grants will be selected by biology department faculty committee. Trainees will be chosen primarily on the basis of ability, with attention giv en to their Intentions to com plete work for the doctoral degree. California Man Pleads Guilty To Charge Tom Ray Hamilton, 25, San Francisco, Calif., pleaded guilty in Jackson county cir cuit court Friday to uttering and publishing a false check The case was continued for an FBI report. Robert Grant, Mcdford lawyer, was appoint ed his attorney. Hamilton Is charged with issuing a bad check for $20 to local motel Medford Chief To Preside at Meeting Of Peace Officers Medford Police Chief Charles P. Champlin, presi dent of the Oregon Associa tion of City Police Officers, will preside at the associa tion's annual conference in La Grande May 7 to 9. City police officers from throughout the state are ex pected to attend the confer ence. The opening general assem bly Monday will be devoted to OACPO programs and ob jectives. Programs in the fields of police training, legis lation, and false arrest will be reviewed by chairmen of the respective committees, and possible further program de velopments in these and other areas will be discussed. The organization and objec tives of Oregon's driver im provement program will be reviewed by Vern D. Hill, di rector of the department of motor vehicles, at a general session Monday afternoon. He will discuss developments in the statewide program and ways in which the state pro gram can assist local law en forcement officers. Will Review Programs Lt, Thomas Simmons, Port land, will review legislative programs of interest to police officers, and Lt. Oakley V. Glenn, Eugene, will report on the rrimemobile which has been developed by the Eu gene department. The Eugene crimemobile, a crime lab on wheels, can be quickly dis patched to any scene for the examinalion of evidence. It has been made available to the county sheriff's office for use outside the city. Police officers will partici pate in a discussion of the rights of a person in custody at a general session Tuesday. Discussion leaders will - be Joseph E. Thornton, special agent In charge, FBI, Port land; Kenneth Morrow, for mer Lane county deputy dis trict attorney; and Willard Carey, La Grande attorney. To Address Delegates Thornton will address the conference delegates at the association's annual banquet Monday evening. Speaker at the Monday luncheon will be David R. Johnson, Portland chief of police. Chtef Clyde A. Warren, Salem, will speak at noon Tuesday. "Serving with Chief Champ lin as officers of the OACPO are Patrolman Charles Ship man, Klamath Falls, vice president; Lt. Oakley V. Glenn, Eugene, secretary-treasurer; and Robert E. Moulton, staff attorney of the bureau Thieves Break Into Talent Lockers, Start Talent Thieves broke in to the Valley lockers and gro cery at Talent sometime Fri day night or early Saturday morning, William Young, Tal ent police chief reported. An Investigation by state police and Young showed the thieves used a crowbar to pry open the back door. Young said 20 cartons of cig arettes, candy, miscellaneous groceries and a flashlight were missing. of municipal research and service, University of Oregon, executive secretary. A marksmanship contest open to individual police offi cers and department teams will open the conference this afternoon. The meeting will close with the association's annual business meeting and election of officers Tuesday afternoon. SILVER HARDENER I metal most generally used for Pittsburgh - Copper Is the the hardening of silver. Canada and Alaska CRUISES i?5 Wide Choice of Sailing Dates Priced To Sell From Vancouver, B.C. 2Vj Days to 8 Days Duration See George Lewis ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE Phone SP 2-6779 TIT East 8th You Can't Live Long Enough To Know All Insects Whoever you are, wherever you live, you are acquainted with ants, flies of half a dozen kinds, grasshoppers, roaches, bees, wasps and some of the butterflies and moths. But that's about the extent most of us ever reach, and really we have not scratched the surface. Not so strange either, that no one on this earth, regardless of how far he has progressed in the study of insects, can possibly know them all. 40-Year Job If you were a very serious student and wished to name all the known species, and you worked at it every day with no time out for Sundays or holidays, and you learned the names of 50 new Kinds every day, it would take you about 40 years to name them. At the end of 40 years you would only have caught up to where, the "bug naming business" is as of today. The discouraging part of the whole deal is that science is discovering and naming about 4,000 brand new and different species every year. By the time you finished the 50 a day for 40 years, there would have been 160,000 new species added to the already top-heavy list. Today there are about 773,- 000 known kinds and the sci ence of entomology, and the confused men who make lt their life's work, say there probably will be about two million- kinds when all the bug precincts are heard from. Strangely enough, but a relatively few species of in sects have received much more than a casual study; none have had their life his tory completely worked out. Those that have been exam ined closely are those that have been the most trouble some to us, either those that eat our food or bite us or dam age our property. Total Strangers The overwhelming major ity are total strangers; and among the strangers are a great many of mankind's friends. Undoubtedly there are spe cies of insects whose total number of individuals could be counted in dozens, In sharp and stinging contrasts to the uncounted billions of ants, and sand and fruit flies. Thir total numbers are be yond human calculation. And for what purpose, you might reasonably ask? Why so many kinds, and of such strange habits and ways of life? What possible reason for such galaxy of living crea tures - and was it just an accident of creation or is there hidden purpose for which we have as yet found no explanation? So many there are and so very few are known - thousands of strang ers among a familiar few. St. Mary's Class Jours Mall Tribune Plant Members of the St. Mary's High school Journalism class visited the Medford Mall Trib une facilities Friday morning. Touring the plant were Bar bara Lewis, Mary Ann Car negie, Mike Stinson, Linda Metz, Mickey Ford, Bryan von Buskirk, Patty O'Hara, Mike O'Brien, Eileen Pullman, Err ill Zwan, Carole Doyle and Karen Crevler. Accompanying them was their adviser, Richard Paup, YOUR DOLLAR BUYS MORE AT PENNEY'S Downtown Medford TTnTTi-rN ti- Ttn-n t9i aaan.:. asanas W ! M - II m I s. X II I 1 1 r mm - ii f i is a at .l ii I II 11 11 f I II 11 1 11 II II 1 VZ3 U V U U U U U o O O I Mother's Next Sunday May 14th! 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