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THURSDAY. MAY 3. 198
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
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The Medico Roundup
t ( - Emirltus C
Emeritus
Erasrltus Consultant la Medlclnt
Mayo Clinic
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
(Register and Tribune lyndlcata,
1962)
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MISS DEPAUW-Two Miss DcPauws from Evansville, lnd.
Miss DcPauw for 1962 is Miss Marilyn Lucille Schaaf,
DePauw University sophomore. She was crowned by. Miss
Ellen Myers, left, last year s queen. Miss Schaaf will repre
sent DePauw in the Miss Indiana contest at Michigan City,
lnd., this summer. (UPI) .
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ODD EGG - Double yolk eggs, or even triple-yolkers, turn
up occasionally, but the tukey egg pictured above is some
thing far more rare. There is an egg (complete with shell)
Inside the outer egg. It was found by the Marvin Hart fam
ily, who operate a turkey ranch on the Applegatc. According
to Alton Hart, operator of Hart's hatchery. Medford, this
Is very unusual and out of the millions of eggs his firm h;
handled this is the first one of this kind he has seen. The
bowl contains the "innards" of the outer egg while the out
side of the Inner egg can be seen inside Hie outer . . . well,
Mrs. Turkey must have been a little confused, too.
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On Pravrajilion of Suicida
In one year, some 100,000
Americans attempt suicide
and some 20.000 succeed in do
ing away with
thems e Ives.
Since many
more thou-
sands would
like to have
made their
way quickly
unh a p p y or
distressing or
Alvares painful or ap
parently useless existence, the
problem of suicide affects a
considerable percentage of our
families.
Everyone who has a de
pressed and melancholy rela.
tive ought to know something
about the danger of suicide.
The topic has become so im
portant that, in a number of
places in the world, there now
are kindly, devoted people
Who sit by a phone every
night and all night, ready to
talk to people who have come
to the point where they ser
iously are contemplating sui
cide. These rescue groups are
saving many lives.
I was glad to read recently
that, in England, the ancient
law that prescribes severe
punishment for people who
have attempted suicide, has
been removed from the stat
ute books. Evidently, at last,
the legislators have faced the
fact that a person who at
tempts suicide is not "bad," he
is ill; he usually is suffering
from a depression, and he
greatly deserves our sympathy.
I recently read a new dook,
The Cry for Help," edited
and partly written by Norman
L. Farberow and Edwin S.
Schneidman, of the Los An
geles Pioneering Suicide Pre
vention Center. They have
been studying thousands of
would-be suicides who land
up in the huge Los Angeles
County General hospital. As
the doctors say, many of the
100,000 who las year tried sui
cide and failed, will trv it
out of a veryfagain, and some of them will
3,241 Precincts
Listed in State
Salcm-IUPII. There are 3,241
precincts In Oregon for the
May 18 primary election,
State Elections Director Jack
F. Thompson has announced.
This is 341 more than for
the November, 1960 general
election. The increase is re
flected by such factors as pop
ulation increases, realignment
and annexation by cities,
Thompson said.
Multnomah county has the
highest number of precincts,
and gained the most-up 213
from November, 1960 for a
new total of 1,216 this May.
Thompson said the biggest
factor in Multnomah was a
realignment of precincts for
the convenience of voters.
The number of precincts is
determined by the number of
registered voters, figuring a
maximum of 800 voters per
precinct.
Some counties lost a few
precincts but others besides
Multnomah showing appre
ciable gains include:
Clackamas 221, up 53;
Washington 180, up 30; Jack
son 123, up 10; Linn 104, up
14; Marion 163, up 11; Lane
257, up 8; Douglas 103, up
5, and Benton 50, up 5.
BLOWS A KISS Muss Universe of 1981. Mark-lie Schmidt,
blows a kiss to photographers as she arrived in San Fran
cisco for a round of personal appearances. Marlcne's next
top will be Japan. (UPI)
Petition Deadline Noted
For Beard Appearance
Siilem - May 21 is the dead
line for Oregon property tax
payers to file petitions with
county boards of cqualita'ion
for correction of assessments.
All boards will convene
Monday, May 14, to make
their annual ne)icw of assess
ments in their respective
counties and, under Oregon
law, a property owner may ;
appear or be reprc.9,itcd by j
Rosemary Clooney
Ss'ng Divorce
Santa Monica, Calif. - lUffl -Rosemary
Clooney tearfully
testified Wednesday that hus.
band Jose Ferrer admitted
having love affairs with other
women and told her "he could
not change" his ways.
The blonde singer, seeking
a divorce, also charged that
Ferrer, an Academy Award
winning actor, had "violent
shows of temper" both In pub
lic and at home that con
stituted an act of cruelty.
Miss Clooney answered
questions about the couple's
complex financial affairs. She
told Municipal Judge Mcrvyn
A. Aggelcr that she now is
$29,033 in debt.
After noting that the singer
earned $2 million since 19S3.
Aggelcr commented, "a n d
she's broke?"
The judge recessed the trial
until next Tuesday and in
structed the couple and their
Scientists Discover Moon Emits Rays
Washington (UPB Scien
tists have discovered that the
seemingly inert moon is a
giant x-ray machine.
Dr. Richard W. Porter, New
York, told the International
Committee on Space Research
that the moon emits x-rays in
response to a heavy bombard
ment it receives from solar
and cosmic radiation.
. These so-called secondary
x-rays are among the lunar
character istics which the
United States wants to investi
gate with space instruments
before it undertakes to land a
man on the moon and bring
him back.
Porter, chief U.S. delegate
to COSPAR, presented a sum
mary report of American
space achievements to the
thin! international symposium
on space science.
COSPAR is an organization
of space scientists from 18
nations. Nearly 1,000 are
gathered for the first inter
national symposium to be held
in this country. The 19-mem-ber
Soviet delegation in
cludes cosmonaut Gherman S.
Titov.
Porter said that in 1961 the
United States launched more
than 300 high-alfctude bai.
loons carrying scientific
equipment to Investigate the
upper atmosphere.
In the same period, it
launched nearly 900 high-altitude
weather rockets. In
addition, it shot into space
more than 75 larger rockets
to investigate the environment
in which men someday will
travel on their way from the
earth to destinations among
the planets.
X-Rays Predicted
Accomplishing even more
than these rockets were 31
artificial earth satellites and
deep-space probes sent out to
distances of many thousands
of vHes.
Porter said that it had been
theoretically predicted that
the moon would emit x-rays
as a result of the unremitting
bombardment to which it is
subjected by cosmic and solar
radiation.
He said instruments were
flown on a high-altitude
rocket "to determine whether
or not X-radiation from the
moon could indeed be detect
ed." The experiment was suc
cessful and the suspected ra
diation was found to exist.
ELECTED MAYOR
Woodburn - (UPI) - N. F. Ty
ler has been elected mayor
here, succeeding Delbert G.
Garner.
Hope Abandoned
For Rickenbacker
Malibu, Calif. - WD - Tha
Coast Guard, after an inten
sive two-day air and sea
search, has given up hope the
nephew of famed World War
I flying ace Eddie Ricken
backer would be found alive.
The Coast Guard searched
more than 1,000 square miles
of ocean for missing Edward
D. Rickenbacker, 23, believed
drowned when his 17-foot
sailboat overturned. A com
panion, Richard , Rapaport,
was found drowned when
the capsized craft was dis
covered Sunday.
succeed,
Many Misconceptions
As the authors of the book
say, there are, many miscon
ceptions and mis-statements
about suicides. The common
est one is that people who talk
about suicide won't attempt it.
Actually, 75 per cent of the
people who committed suicide
previously had attempted it,
or had threatened to commit
it, or had talked about it.
The point that many fam
ilies with a depressed relative
should know is that often,
when the invalid seems to be
getting well, he is in the great
est danger. With his increase
in energy, he may gain the
will and the strength to go
ahead and do away with him
self. As I said, most of the per
sons who commit suicide are
in a depression. A well-adjusted
person is not likely to com
mit suicide no matter how
much sorrow comes to him.
The important point is that
whenever a depressed man,
woman or child talks of com
mitting suicide, the family
should know that there is dan
ger ahead. In many cases,
when the person is found
dead, there is some difficulty
in deciding whether the death
was accidental or suicidal.
Commonly, the family could
remove all doubt if they cared
to, but because they much pre
fer that the death be reported
as accidental, they say noth
ing about the person's depres
sion, or the fact that he had
been under the care of a psy
chiatrist, or that he had pre
viously attempted suicide, or
he had threatened to commit
it, or several of his relatives
had been suicides.
The only way to keep a per
son from committing suicide
when he wants to do it, is to
keep him in a locked ward in
a mental hospital. And, even
there, he may manage to do
away with himself. Sometimes
a few clectroshock treatments
will bring a person out of his
depression, will put an end to
his compulsion to commit sui
cide. Today, also, there are a
number of anti - depressant
drugs which may give the pa
tient much relief.
Jerking of the Legs
A few people write, much
distressed because their legs
jerk-espccia'lly at night. Usu
ally, the home doctor has to
say he never before saw a case
of such Jerking; he can't find
anything on it in the medical
literature, and so he docs not
know what to do. He may
find that a strong dose of a
barbiturate at night will help.
I read a European book on
the subject but did not learn
anything about treatment.
The people who suffer from
this very distressing disease
seem generally to be a "bunch
of nerves." 1 was just reading
an article by an expert on
convulsive troubles by Dr.
Raymond D. Adams, Profes
sor of Neuropathology at Har
vard, who says that recently
such jerking has been classi-1
tied as a rare form of muscle
spasm possibly related to epi
lepsy. Hente, he advises all
such persons to have electro
encephalograms made; also
that the doctor try the effect
of an anticonvulsive such as
dilantin.
tlicy can determine the mar
kct (true cash) value.
If the taxpayer feels that j attorney to try again to work
the assessor's determination is, out a financial settlement.
out of line Willi comparable
properties in the district, he
may appeal by petition to the
county board of equalization
up to and including May 21.
Petitions should be sent to the
board or to the county clerk.
If the taxpayer is not satis-
n attorney before the board , fii-d with the hoard's decision.
When It considers petitions tor ! he may appeal to the State
reduction Of assessments. ! Tav PnnimiMinn tnr Hiro.-llv
Taxpaye are reminded Mo the Small Claims division I us,'d " ,hc Job'
that they cannot wait until of the new Oregon Tax Couri-h
Tonne Work Held Up
For Shield Repairs
O'Brien- Work on construc
tion of the Randolph Collier
tunnel onHiglnvay 199 south
of f8re was held up tempor
arily last week while repairs
were made to a shield bciia
Springtime is a good time
to give attention to your
weight. If you would like to
have Dr. Alvarez' booklet,
"Weight Control," send 25
cents and stamped, self-addressed
envelop with your re
quest to Dr. Walter C. Al
varez, Dept. MMT, The Reg
ister and Tribune Syndicate,
Box 957, Dcs Moines 4, Iowa.
they receive their tax state
ments in the fall to appeal
their assessments. If they do
not know the assessed value
of their property at this time,
they can obtain it at the coun
ty assessor's office. By divid
ing the assessed value by the
assessor's poste dratlon (25
per cent in most counties)
O
if the market
is not more
Work waa exDected to be
' . .. . ' .
ilue involves 'csuincci uus wccv nowrvcr.
than . "5 limn Meanwiuie, the Mcrccr-r ra-
However. thOSmall Claims lt-r company h.,s hayn stock
division ruling is final and Piling gravel near the Oregon
cannot be appealed. California Qtate line for the
The tax commission's de-jpast three weeks under sub
olsion may he appealed to the j contract to Morrison-Knudsen.
Tax Coir and the ft x The gravel will be used for
Court's decision to the Ore- surfacing on approach con
on Supreme Court. O 'struction to the tunnel.
&ore flavors
MEDFORD'S FINEST MEATS SINCE 1940
GENUINE SPRING
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GENUINE SPRING
SIRLOIN LAN
CHOPS
11
Well Trimmed
Very Tender
NEBERGALL'S
SLICED
BACON
Thick Sliced
2 Pound
Pk8:
8i)C
Choice Steer
ROUND
STEAK
All Center Cuts
98
FRESH GROUND
BEEF
10
POUND
PKG.
Delicious
Served
Chilled
CRAB
COCKTAILS 3
(Also Shrimp) (In Reusable Tumblers)
Each
39
s-joo
First of the
Season!
FRESH
COLUMBIA
RIVER
SALMON
AM!". 2 POUNDS
UUKucH
Fresh
Ground
Spring Lamb
PIES
BRADLEY'S
FROZEN
Apple Boysenberry
Cherry Peach
Each
BETTY CROCKER
CAKE MIX
White Yellow
Devils Food .
"GOLD N SWEET" SAFFLOWER OIL &3S 79c
"GOLD N SWEET" MARGARINE Wbs: 49c
"GOLD N SWEET" SHORTENING , 3 & $1.19
TENDERLEAF TEA Large 93c ALQt
INSTANT I LA Size Jar O V
LINDSAY SELECT PITTED M No. 1 C
RIPE OLIVES 4
FREE! I Roll Scoltowels CQ
With Purchase of Towel Holder 84c voW
SPAHISH PEANUTS 2K-88c
NEW BLUE CHEER x 69f
IVORY LIQUID k,.49
"FINISH" 1 31
SYRUP ..oo
IVWl LUMBERJACK Bottle A jf
Banquet Dills 3
FILLED CHOCOLATES
"SKYBAR" Assorted Fillings
"ROLO" Toffee Filling
39c
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Pkg.
0 $1
V Pkgs. I
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