MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
TUESDAY. APRIL 17. 1962
The Medical Roundup
IN f. LmcritDi Ct
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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."
This faith in God is the source
of the new life awaiting every
one of us in 1962. This new
life Lent can bring to us in
America and everywhere.
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Morse Affirms
Loan for Opening
GP Plywood Firm
Negotiations for a $812,000
loan through the U. S. Area
Redevelopment Administra
tion for reopening a plywood
plant in Grants Pass will be
completed by midweek, Sen.
Wayne Morse (Dem.-Ore.) told
a group of Grants Pass repre
sentatives Saturday afternoon
during a meeting in a Med
ford home.
"We can't meet the dead
line with the Happy Camp
mill involved, Morse told
the group. "More information
is needed there. 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. They should have pro
vided yet another card show
ing which fork to use.
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Milk Marketing
Hearing Set May 14
Salem -IUPII- The Oregon
Agriculture Department Mon
day set May 14 as date for a
hearing on a milk marketing
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State Hospital To
Hold Open House
Oregon Slate hospital, Sa
lem, plans for annual open
house Sunday, April 29, from
1 to 4:30 p.m., are well under
way. Heavy attendance is ex
pected and provision has been
made for nursery care for
small children.
Patient councils on many
wards are busy preparing for
the visitors, choosing host and
hostess guides, making spring
time decorations and plan
ning refreshments. Cakes and
cookies will be prepared by
patients from upplics dona
ted by the hospital s large
group of volunteer workerg.
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