Medford mail tribune., June 13, 1962, Image 23

Ashland Takes on!
Cosmopolitan Air
During Summer
Ashland - Ashland has tak
en on a cosmopolitan atmos
phere for the summer months,
with the gathering of nearly
100 actors, technical and staff
people for the 22nd season
of the Oregon Shakespearean
Festival.
Twenty states and the Dis
trict of Columbia are repre
sented. The flavor of the 21 dif
ferent cultural areas gives the
company an unusal opportun
ity for exchanges of opinions
on modern day as well as
Elizabethan problems.
Atmosphere Ideal
The atmosphere is ideal for
the hours of study and prac
tice necessary for the high de
gree of perfection found in
each of the Festival produc
tions each season, Producing
Director Angus Bowmer not
ed. This season, the Oregon
Shakespearean Festival is pre
senting five productions:
''Comedy of Errors," "King
Henry IV, Part 2," "As You
Like It," and "Coriolanus,"
a special attraction will be
seen in "A Thieves Ballad"
which will follow each per
formance of "Comedy of Er
rors" starting August 6.
Rehearsals are in full swing
for all productions, with re
hearsal schedules filling most
of the morning, afternoon and
evening hours of each pre
season day.
The season will open July
21 with the traditional "Feast
of the Tribe of Will" in Lithia
park prior to that evening's
performance of "Comedy of
Errors."
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13. 1962
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The Medical Roundup
Emerltut Consultant la Mtdirtna
Mavo clinic
Emarltua Profruor at Medlclna
Mayo Clime
(RcKliler and Trlbunt Syndicate.
1961)
The first Seeing Eye dog
was brought to the United
States from Switzerland 33
years ago.
Three Accidents Are Reported in City
Three automobile accidents
were reported to Medford po
lice Monday afternoon and
Tuesday morning.
About 5 a.m. Tuesday a ve
hicle operated by John May
nard Francis, 809 Oak St.,
struck a wire fence a'ong Cor
ona ave. about 200 feet north
of Morrow rd., according to
police. No citations were is
sued. Another accident Tuesday
occurred shortly after mid
night near the intersection of
Manzanita and Riverside
ave. The cars were operated
by Bruce Kay Weatherton,
'2938 Henley rd., and Richard
Gordon Parks, Camp White.
Vehicles operated by Alan
Adams, 33, of 107 Valley
View dr., Talent, and Sher
man Taylor Shults, 74, of 714
Narragan St., Medford, were
involved in an accident at
415 North Riverside ave.
shortly after noon Monday.
No citations were issued, ac
cording to police.
RECENTLY ASSIGNED
Army Pvt. Ivan D. Black,
son of Gerald G. Black, Tal
ent, recently was assigned to
the newly-activated First Ar
mored division at Ft. Hood,
Tex. The division is one of
two active Army divisions
created last February to raise
the Regular Army division
strength to 16. Black entered
the Army in November, 1961,
and completed basic training
at Ft. Ord, Calif.
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In his interesting autobi
ography recently published,
Paul De Kruif tells of a con
versation h e
had with Dr.
Jack Fergu
son, head of
the mental
h o s p i t al at
Traverse City,
Michigan. Dr.
Ferguson ask
ed, "What arc
we going to
do to help the
grandmas and grandpas and
poor old Aunt Mary?" In
close to a million homes,
from coast to coast, there ex
ist poor old gentlemen and
poor old ladies, clear-headed
one moment, foggy the next.
They ask their sons and
daughters pitifully, "You're
not going to have to put me
away?"
Dr. Ferguson went on to
say that the number of the
state's cases of senile de
mentia is going up by leaps
and jumps. "People don't die
the way they used to. It's the
power of the antibiotics."
These drugs keep the old per
son from dying quietly with
pneumonia when his time
comes-pneumonia which Dr.
Osier used to call "the old
man's friend."
"So these poor old people
are pouring in on us from
their families, who can't stand
their bad behavior." (As many
a grown person says to me,
"At times, my old mother is
just naughty, and makes end
less trouble for us.") "Others
are coming in from the coun
ty poor houses. They're ar
riving from nurses' homes
that can't cope with their in
corrigible conduct."
Many of these old people
will be perfectly sane for a
while and then they will be
come so confused they will
fail to recognize their own
son, and will order him out
of the house. If the confused
grancma's children hire a
woman to take care of her,
grandma promptly fires her.
When the old person's chil
dren are poor, the problem of
care is big, but even when
they are rich, the problem
may be almost insoluble. Un
fortunately, drugs seldom
help any.
Loss of Calcium in the Bones
Many people write telling
me they have been told they
have osteoporosis. Usually
this is diagnosed by an x-ray
specialist (r o e n tg e nologist)
who sees that the shadows
of the bones are very light
due to the lack of lime salts
in them. In a few of these
cases, the spine will cave in,
especially in its upper por
tion.
Sometimes, an aged person
will become somewhat hunch
backed, and then he or she
may suffer much pain due
to the pressure of the caved
in vertebras on the nerves
that come out from between
them. 1 remember a woman
of 55 who came to me com
plaining bitterly of abdom
inal pain which was due to
the pressure of her collapsing
spine on the nerves that ran
down between her ribs to
supply the muscles and skin
of her abdominal wall.
I keep reading that this
osteoporosis with caving-in
of the spine is due to the loss
of a sex hormone. A professor
at Harvard wrote a book in
which he advised the giving
of sex hormones to these peo
ple, but I am sorry to say
I have not had any success
with this treatment. I fear we
physicians still do not know
enough about the cause of the
osteoporosis.
I was just reading an article
on the amount of lime salts in
bones in older people, which
suggests that these people
might help themselves by
drinking at least a glass of
milk every day-unless they
are allergic to milk. Studies
of the diet of older people
show that especially when
they don't drink milk, they
can easily lack sufficient lime
in their diet, and this con
ceivably can cause trouble in
their bones.
I have never been con
vinced of the sex gland origin
of the disease. So often
women the caving-iii of the
bones of the spine does not
take place at the time of the
mciiupause when the ovaries
shrink up and lose most of
their function. I have seen
the caving-in take place 10
or 20 or even 30 years later.
One of my dear friends, a
famous surgeon, suffered
serious caving-in of the upper
part of his spine-so bad that
his head fell forward, so far
that he could look only at
the floor, and this took place
when he was 90.
I do hope that research in
this field will some day give
us more definite information
so that we can help these
unfortunate people. In the
meantime, they might make
an effort either to drink milk
each day, or take a table
spoonful of the Syrup of Cal
cium Gluconate.
A Suggested Cur
For Sleep-Walking
Mrs. S. H. Gobay of Jack
sonville, Fla., reminds me of
an old method of curing sleep
walkers which I heard of
years ago. One puts a rubber
sheet on the floor beside the
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11, died Monday from burns
suffered May 28 when a tree
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