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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 11. 1962 A u - ... '. . . 1- j 1 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MOUNTAIN MOVING JacK Rooi jr. OaKs, Caul. En.-vt.-n persona he mo. .id rescues a Century plant from the path of a from the homes as a result of the earth moving mountain as his father directs the movement, which has knocked down re operation. The mountain threatens to dc- taining walls and a carport. (UPI) strop two expensive homes at Sherman for Your Kitchen 1 mm The Medical Roundup tn,""", I (Keeiiter Consultant In Mcdiclnt Alavu clinic Profesmr of Medicine Mayo clinic and 1'rlbune Syndicate, 1962) 7303 Treat your kilchen right; lot this toaster cover lend It beauty and protection. This embroidery is in sim ple stitches. A puppy waches one door, kitty the other. Pal tern 7303 transfer of 2 motifs 9x! 6's inches. Thirty - five cents (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for 1st - class mailing. Send to Alice Brooks, care ot Modford Mail Trib une, Nectllceraft Dept., P. O. 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The doctors report sev eral cases in which the inter nal carotid artery in the neck was not carrying enough blood because it had become twisted and kinked. In the first case, a man of 47 had had a spell with diffi culty in talking, then numb ness of his tongue, paralysis of the right side of his face, in ability to write, and weakness of the left arm and leg. These symptoms cleared up in three days, except for a slight hesi tation in his speech. For the next six months, the man went on having episodes in which he would become diziy, he migiil see flashing lights, and he might walk like a drunk. Troubles Typical I This story of a series of brain troubles is typical of these people. The story is not like that of the man of 50 or tit) who, out of a clear, sky, gels a terrible stroke, and drops to the floor, paralyzed on one side and perhaps un able to talk. In the second reported .''-'If. - t v ?fe -tj ! Vt'Jri-iM :! 4 'WW WW t J! I Vj .('." aV. case, the doctors tell of a man who, for a year, had been developing more and more difficulty with talking. What the doctors do now in such a case is to inject into the artery a chemical which makes it visible with the x rays. If they find an obstruct ed place or a kink, they op erate, and In one way or another restore the ability of the artery to carry blood up to the brain. With this, recov ery may be spectacular. In the third case, a 50-year-old man had had several epi sodes of dizziness and inabil ity to talk. He would be in trouble for an hour or so, and then would talk again. In the : fourth case, the man had had four years of trouble with sleeplessness, irritability and bodily discomfort. One night, as he got out of bed, he faint ed and lay unconscious on the floor for 15 minutes. After that, he had severe discomfort in his chest, and a brief weak ness of his right arm and leg. A year later, he fainted while in a store, shopping. Then for two or three months he had spells of slight dizziness and faintness which came when he turned his head to the left side. He would feel all right when he turned his head to look straight ahead. Obviously, turning of his head caused an extra nar rowing of the diseased artery. Work Ability Impaired In another case, a 40-year- old woman had been having episodes in which her memory i would suddenly fail for a ' while; also her ability to work would be impaired. The doctors have now studied 000 palienls like those described, 40 per cent of whom hud some obsl ruction in one of the very important arteries in the neck. Many a person writes to me to say something like this that six months or a year ago. their old father suddenly had a bad stroke with paralysis and an inability to talk. In all of this time, he has not im proved much. They wonder if they should now take him half across the continent for an op. oration, and 1 am almost cer tain they should not. His brain has been severely damaged and if he has a pluggcd-up artery, the chances arc that by now, it is a solid cord which never can be opened up agnin. Tile best time for operating on the neck arteries is within hours after the last of a se ries of strokes. Usually, also, if after a stroke, the man has degenerated mentally, a sur geon will not want to operate on him. Planted Acreage 01 Feed Grain To Eoual 1961 Washington-ll'Pli-Th e Agri culture Department says the total planted acreage of feed grain this year will about equal the 130 million acres planted in 1961 if farm ers carry out their March 1 intentions. Such an acreage would be 18 per cent below the 1955-59 average. Increases of 3 per cent over 1961 are planned for corn and 2 per cent for sorghums. Offsetting are pros pective reductions of acreage for oats and barley. Influence Reflected The department said in a review of the feed situation that feed grain acreages last year and this year reflect the influence of the feed grain program. The 1962 program carries about the same pro visions for corn and sorghums as last year's program. Barley is included this year. Through March 22 farmers had agreed to divert a total of 22.6 mil lion acres of the three grains to soil conserving uses. De p a r t m ent economists. basing their predictions on March 1 indications, said a favorable growing season this year likely would maintain total feed grain supplies at near the 1961-62 level's. Higher Yielding Crops Corn and sorghum grains are higher yielding crops than oats and barley. Therefore, the additional output from the prospective increases in corn and sorghum acreages could more than offset reductions in oats and barley. This could result in a little larger total feed grain production in 1962 than the 141 million tons last year. But since around seven million tons less feed grains arc expected to be carried over into 1962-63 than in 1961-62, total feed concentrate supplies for the 1962-63 sea son would not differ greatly from the 256 millions tons of a year earlier. Feed grain prices have been comparatively stable during the first half of the 1961-62 feeding year, the department said. Prices of feed grains and high-protein feeds ad vanced only 3 per cent from November to March this year, much less than the rather sub stantial increases that occur red in that period of 1960-61. Fascinating Discoveries Dropping Tomato on Hard Surface Found To Cause Enternal lnury Wen tomatoes are Seoul News Troop 43 Tribute was paid three Boy Scouts of Troop 43 at a chief recognition ceremony recent ly conducted by Cub Scout Pack 43. Scouts who received Den Chief honors were Billy Dye, den three; Ronald Court land, den one; and Kent An derson, den two. Master of Ceremonies was Cub Master James Kenny. The den chiefs had previ ously been presented shoulder cords during a regular Boy Scout Troop 43 meeting and received certificates of recog nition from the troop. Cub Scouts of den two pre sented a skit on America, and scouts of den one presented the Cadence Count. A Latin dance was presented by Cub bcouls of den three. A film strip on "Den and Pack" meetings was shown. Lylc McGrady, new commit teeman chairman presided at the business session. The next pack meeting is scheduled Saturday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room at Patrick Elemen tary school. By DICK WEST Washington - HJPD - Friends, that tomato you picked up, so fair, unblemished and seem ingly in the pink of condi tion, could be a case of beauty being only skin deep. The poor i thing may be j suffering from i internal 1 n -juries. The j theory that highly suscep tible to internal bruising has just been resoundingly con firmed in the research labora tories of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A report on the study brings to light some of the most fascinating discoveries that I have seen in many a day. First of all, the researchers established various ways that tomatoes can be bruised. They found that bruising can occur when tomatoes "are squeezed tightly together in a box," when there is "rough handling of the boxes." and "from dropping individual tomatoes on hard surfaces." As far as I know, nobody had previously suspected that Hrnnn in0 a tomato on a hard surface might cause it harm. The researchers then made some laboratory tests "to measure the amount of dam age at various stages of ripe ness when they were dropped distances ranging from 6 to 18 inches on a hard suriace, and when dropped on a sur face covered with a layer of foam rubber." This led to the startling rovplation that "injury to those dropped on hard sur faces was much the more serious." If I interpret that correctly, it means that tomatoes are more badly bruised when dropped on a hard surface than when dropped on a soft surface. Eureka! And that isn't all. The re searchers also found that -hold onto your hats! - "the ripest tomatoes were injured most" by the dropping. Stated As Fact That may be hard to be lieve, but the report states it as a fact. Furthermore, it says that injury from the dropping "was found to be cumulative; that a Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicate 19621 China'i Birds Saved More Food Than They Provided Once not so very long ago, and in happier times, there was a classified list of over 700 species of birds in China. Then as now, there were many people, all seeking el bow room and all competing for a dimishing food supply. As would be expected with a people who arc short-sighted and at the same time hungry, they looked with jealous eyes at birds feeding in the rice fields and presumed they were eating the grain that could feed the hungry people. That, they stupidly reasoned, is the cause of our hunger; the birds are consuming our grain. 'Kill Them' The leaders, blinder in many ways than the people they controlled, gave the or der: Kill off the birds and save the grain. Besides, they assured the people, there would be an added bonus-a couple of dozen sparrows would feed, for one meal at least, a hungry human being. So the slaughter and the pit iful feasting began. By every means the mind of man could devise, the birds were killed, their tiny, feather-rumpled bodies gathered, cleaned and cooked. It didn't take very long to find out. Millions of sparrows, finches and other birds were dumped into pots and eaten. Within a short time, a few months at most, all the birds had disappeared. There were no bird songs to delight the car of man and woman whose back was bent by work and by the heavier yoke of oppres sion by a cruel and unjust governing body. Insect Army Lurking Hiding in the rice field, the radish patch, the bean acre age, or anywhere and every where a plant was growing were the nuclei of an insect army. The checks on their startling prolificacy was re moved; they increased with out sense or reason. They gnawed and chewed their de structive path acrois the im poverished land where now there were only bugs and peo ple. Today, China has an ex pensive and labor-consuming spraying project to control a problem once pretty well tak en care of by feathered insect catchers, and only at the cost of very little grain. Old China is today terribly short of bird life. But the land has plenty of bugs. Probably they deserve what they have harvested. People of limited intelli gence and low literacy could be expected to commit such a stupid blunder, but strange ly enough we have, right here i n supposedly enlightened America, some people who ad vocate programs of extermin ation just as ridiculous-a sad commentary on what we are so proud to call human intelligence. is, when tomatoes were drop ped two or more times, the damage was found to extend to more and more internal parts." That conclusion especially came as a shock to me. I had always believed that the more you dropped a tomato, the bet ter. The tomato research, valu able though it may be, had what I regard as one serious shortcoming. Apparently, the tests did not establish whether the damage is greater when tomatoes are dropped at 6 inches or at 18 inches. I trust that point will be cleared up in future expert' ments. And then I hope the researchers will do some com parable work on the effect that dropping has on eggs. on CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS you are a g?vBssssiim PAMPERED m PASSENGER fnlV tf ? enjoying - v exclusive FIVE STAR LUXURY SERVICE HOSTESS ABOARD REFRESHMENTS REST ROOM OBSERVATION 10UNGE LOUNGE CHAIR SEATS OAKLAND FRESNO LOS ANGELES SEATTLE PORTLAND SACRAMENTO SHIP PACKAGE EXPRESS Carefree CHARTER BUS free VACATION PLANNING 5th and Front Phone SP 3-1853 Warning Issued on Learning Devices Salem - IUPII - Dr. Leon P. Minear has issued a warning tn narents concerning door to door salesmen that are trying to sell "questionable" learn ing devices claimed to assist children in school work. The state superintendent of public instruction sa.id the de vices brought to the attention of his office include pocket size punch card equipment and automatic electromechani cal machines said to be capa ble of '.'teaching" a wide range of topics at home. Before buying any such ma chine or device. Minear urged parent to confer with their child s teacher or school prin cipal to make sure that the device is appropriate for him and thai it is reasonably priced. PREMATURE BABY Nurse Mrs careful when handling little Karen Sue lleisc The child, dauchter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman llei.ve of Hempstead. Tex , was born three months premature and weighed only one pound and nine ounces. The tiny baby cannot stand the pressure of a diaper and must be kept In a "rocking ben" to breathe Doctors gave the child lillle chance to survive when she first arrived, but now say they me more en couraged. (UPI) lone to q B Fra inust be1 Potter Boardman Si'fe To Be On Morrow Tax Rolls lleppner - il'Pli The Moarri man Industrial Site will go on the Morrow coumy tax ! rolls Asscvsur Oliver Creswick said the question was settled ! at a meeting with (low Mark Hatfield The original plan was fur the county to get $8,000 in lieu of taxes from the StiO.000 rental Boeing Co. will pay the slate tor use of the site Creswick said, however, the law requires land leased by the stale to private corpora tions to be put on the tax rolls. 11c said the lease pro vides (or taxation at bare hind value. 1 ANNOUNCES NEW MEDFORD APPLIANCE DEALER Check This Factory Special 44trtpxjinJt WASHER All Porcelain Inside and out 10 lb. Tub Capacity Partial Load Control Wash Water Selection Hot or Warm Triple Rinsing Convenient Top Loading trade Tun i mum iii J)fim !! VsJ with LW225 For Any Motpoinl Service Needi Please Call SP 2-4131 for Satisfaction. APPLIANCE HART 1 132 So. 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