MEDFORDliTRIBUNE
SECTION D
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1961
PAGES I to 8
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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.
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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,
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