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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY. APRIL 17. 1962 The Medical Roundup IN f. LmcritDi Ct VP Lmcriios Consultant In Medici tit Mayo clinic Emerttut Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Reenter ud Tribune Syndicate, Alvarez Years ago, What It Pneumonia? The National Tuberculosis Association has published an Interesting folder called, "Pneumonia, the Facts." As many people know, there is a broncho pen u monia, which affects only part of a lobe of a lung, and there is lobar pneu monia, which involves one or more lobes of the lung, with a lobar pneumonia, a person would have about one chance in four of dying. We doctors then had no remedy of any value. Lobar pneumonia is caused often by germs and often by a "pneumococcus." Under the microscope, these germs look like little round dots. As we all know, pneumonia can come when the person has been severely chilled, or has had a severe cold, or per haps has been drinking heav ily, or has an accident like a broken hip, which causes him or her to have to remain in bed for a while. Today, many pneumonias are avoided by quickly get ting old people out of bed and into a chair, and then us ing a "walker." Those of us who were living in 1918 can remember that during the terrible epidemic of influenza, there were many persons who had pneumonia and died of it. Many of us know also that pneumonia is more likely to come during the winter. Men are more like ly to get it than are women. Even children can get a se vere type of pneumonia, per haps after measles or whoop ing cough. Terminal Pneumonia Often we doctors speak of a terminal pneumonia which helps a sick old person to leave a life that perhaps is no longer worth living. Alco holics often end up with a pneumonia. In cases of pneumonia, a high wHlte blood cell count is likely to indicate a bac terial cause, while a low count will suggest a virus in fection. Sometimes, if penicil lin won't work, streptomycin or aureomycin will. One trouble with bronchopneu monia is that sometimes there Is a relapse, and the patient gels sick again after he has appeared to be on the mend. Often a pneumonia begins with a shaking chill. Then the temperature shoots up up perhaps to 103 or 104 de grees: the patient may get much pain in his chest; he is good and sick, and he be gins to cough. He may have what is called red or rust colored sputum. In the old days, all the doctor could do was to hope that the man woe'd soon have what is call ed a "crisis." Often, this came in a week or on the ninth day. If he didn't get a crisis, he was likely to die. Today, with penicillin and other antibi otics to help us, often the re lief obtained is dramatic; it comes quickly, and few peo ple now die. The big danger comes when a person has a virus type of pneumonia be cause unfortunately, few vir uses are affected by antibi otics. Bronchopneumonias are us ually not so severe; and often the patient has only what looks like a bad bronchitis. The disease often attacks chil dren who have measles, or it can come after an operation when it seems to be due part ly to the ether that was given. The temperature may not be high. The disease may last from five to 10 days and the person is likely to get well without a dramatic crisis. In the old days. Dr. Osier used to speak of lobar pneu monia as the "old man's friend" because so often it came to ease him out of a life that had been made ut terly miserable and undesir able as by an inoperable can cer. Twitching of Eyelids Many people write to ask why their eyelids twitch. They want to know what the cause is and whether they are like ly to get into any serious trouble because of it. Also, they want to Playmate Killed By Accidental Shot Hattiesburg, Miss. - Ojpp -The 10-year-old son of Lt. I Gov. Paul Johnson accidental ly shot and killed a 13-year-old playmate with a 38 cali ber revolver Monday. The playmate, James W. Stanley, died from a bullet wound in the throat. A coro ner's jury ruled that the re volver discharged while young Shelby Johnson was placing it back in his father's closet. Authorities said the two boys were playing in the yard at the Johnson home when one of the youths snagged a fingernail. The two boys went upstairs to get a nail clipper and found the weapon. They took the revolver out to look at it and it discharged while young Johnson was replacing it in the closet. SPECIAL CHARTER FARES Washington-IUPD -The Civil Aeronautics Board Monday approved special transatlantic charter fares that will allow groups to fly to and from Eu rope at rates 38 per cent below present economy fares. casionaly, and it never caused me any trouble. At the first sign of a svmn- know whom i torn of faulty vision, vou should they consult about it? should see your doctor. Dr. My impression is that, in Alvarez' booklet, "How To most cases, it aoesn I mean Safeguard Your Vision." will anything serious. My favorite eye specialist says that he thinks it is due just to nerv ousness and fatigue. Students who have been studying for long hours, and accountants at income tax time who have been under strain, frequently get twitching of the eyelids. I know that I have had this oc- help you to differentiate be tween serious and harmless symptoms. It may be obtained by sending 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed en velope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. Dept. MMT, The Register and Trib une Syndicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Lenten Message Lent Should Call People To Repentence, Faith County Chairmen For Hatfield Reelection Named Sa lem- fl'PI) - The comm ittcc seeking to reelect Republican Gov. Mark Hatfield Monday named campaign chairmen in each of Oregon's 3P counties. The campaigners are to be known a? "Marksmen." In addition, Mrs. Harold S. Strawn of Raleigh Hills and Mrs. Charles S. Campbell, Salem, were named state co chairmen of the women's ac tivities phase of the Hatfield drive. County chairmen include: Baker-Gene Rose and Mrs. Edith Gildersleeve; Benton Robcrt Mix; Clackamas-Ben Weiler; Clatsop - Robert S. Lovell; Columbia -S. Heinie Hcumann; Coos -James B. Bedingfield Jr. and Thomas J. O'Dwyer; Crook - James B. Minturn; Curry-Arthur Knox; D e s c h u t e s-J. Pat Metke; Douglas-Selmar A. Hitchins; Gilliam-R. E. lib. ; Harney O. W. Corbett Jr.; Hood River -Kenneth Abraham. Snider Named Jackson -John W. Snider; Jefferson-Louis G. Kinkarie; J o s e p h i n e-Walter Holm; Klamath-R e j b e n Larson; Lake-Robert Bennett; Lane William D. Carlson; Lincoln Mrs. M a r j o r i e Kauffman; Linn-Russell Tripp; Malheur -Orval Cavcrhill; Marion -A. J. "Tony" Nunn; Morrow -Henry Peterson; Multnomah -Robert Hazcn and Irving Enna; Polk - Warren Hunter; Sherman-Irving Hart; Tillamook-Douglas Kaufman; Um-atilla-Lowell Stecn; Union David S. Baum; Wallowa -Dean Erwin; Wasco-Mr. and Mrs. Bert Keith; Wheeler -Milton D. Boring and Yam-hill-Ezra Koch. Cards for Everything White House Dinner Invitation Shatters Nerves of Congressman BY THE REV. President The United Church of Christ Written for UPI In every year in every place Lent should call people to repentence and faith; 1962 and America are no excep tions. The hatred, prejudice, poverty, injustice, crime, im mortality found on our door steps express the sin of our world. Part of the guilt lor that sin is yours and mine. Beyond that, ' unless our consciences are calloused, we know that as individual men and women there is a great gulf between what each of us resolves and what any of us achieves; be tween the way of Christ and the way we live. How can we fail to cry out: "God be mer ciful to me and to us!" But confession, if it is to be sincere, must be followed by change. Cintrition that does not eventuate in transforma tion is hollow. But to change our ways is so difficult! It was true in the First Century and is still true in the Twentieth Century that Broecresf Ranch" In U.S. Angus Group Braccrest Ranch, Sams Val ley, owned by W. J. Bray, has been elected to member ship in the American Angus association at St. Joseph, Mo., announced Frank Richards, secretary. This ranch received one of seven memberships issued to breeders of purebred Aberdeen-Angus in Oregon dur ing the past month. the evil we would not do. we do; the good which we would do, we do not. Where is there help and hope? Our hope in everv age is in faith in God as God reveals himself in Jesus Christ. So beyond repentence we must turn to God, for in Him "we are more than conquerors." 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But, all troublesome issues on the Grants Pass mill have been ironed out. Meeting at the home of Medford Lawyer Frank Van Dyke, Morse told the group he had received the news from his administrative as sistant in Washington D. C upon arriving for the meeting He was referring to the pro posal of West Coast Plywood in connection with that firm's plans to buy and re-open the now idle local glue-up plant of Grants Pass Plywood, Inc Lcn Grovcr, Grants Pass, told the senator the Grants Pass group felt that the 15 years specified for repayment of the loan is too short a time to allow for expansion and modernization of the plant Since the Small Business Ad. ministration had specified 25 years originally, the group is puzzled over the shorter term proposed, he said. Morse said he would work with his small business com mittee on the problem. (pdenendence Man's Body Found Crescent Cily, Calif. - IUPII -The bdy of Roland Harriman, 61, of Independence, Ore., missing since his light plane crashed off the coast near here last Dec. 20, was found by two fishermen Monday. The body was discovered in small cove, where it had apparently been carried In by the ocean. The crash, which also took the life of Mrs. Ella Schafer, 53, of Eureka, occurred about 10 miles north of here. Mrs. Schafer's body was recovered shortly after the accident. -The two were on their way to Eureka, Calif., to spend the Christmas holidays with By DICK WEST Washington - il'Pti - By no standards that 1 know of could Kcp. John F. Baldwin be described as a bumpkin. He is a grad uate of the University of California; he was president of his law class for three years; he was a practicing attorney for five years, and he has served in Congress since 1954. You would think a person with this background would feel at home in almost any company. Yet there is some thing about a state dinner at the White House that makes even a relatively sophistica ted congressman uncertain about his manners. Baldwin was one of the guests at the dinner that President Kennedy gave for the Shah of Iran last week, and 1 suppose it was the in vitation that put him on edge. Nothing Taken For Granted As he related in a report on the affair to his constitu ents, the envelope contained not less than five cards, which seemed to take nothing for granted. The first card told what the occasion was. The second one gave the time and place of the dinner. The third one told him what to wear. The fourth one told him where to re spond. And the fifth one told him what gate to enter. When he and his wife ar rived at the White House, they were handed still an other card which told them where to sit. At the table, they found a seventh card which made it clear they had found the right place. It was at this point, appar ently, that Baldwin's confi dence in his table etiquette was shattered. "I must confess that my main concern during the din ner was whether 1 was using the proper knife or the proper fork at the right time," he said. "There were three dif ferent knives on the right, and three different forks on the left" Used Wrong Fork Once Expressing hope that he "represented you properly at this state dinner." he said, "I think I only used the wrong fork once." Well, gee, I don't want to embarrass the congressman or anything, but I must point out that when you have three forks it is impossible to use the wrong fork only once. Silverware errors arc cu mulative and cannot be recti fied as the meal progresses. In other words, if Baldwin used his dinner fork on the salad, then he must have used his salad fork during the main course or dessert. But Baldwin needn't feel chagrined about it, for it was the fault of the White House staff. 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