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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1962)
10 A Dennis the Menace ' I HOPE OUfeE THIS ANXIOUS TO ktt US frm?f&A OUR Coin-Op Type Cleaning Piid in Advance on Customer's ABB CRESSETT'S DRIVE-IN CLEANERS 702 Watt Main 611V4 East Jackson Gateway Shopping Center, Ashland IFelgpfae please tr MONDAY. JULY 16. 1962 7.(6 VACAW.W?. WILSON SERVICE at Sixth and West Main AT NO EXTRA CHARGE 4.!$1 Hsngerl World Would Grind To Halt Without Use of Tin Cans New York - IDPH - Before that tin can goes into the gar bage bag, take a second look. It has become an inspiration lor authors. "Remove the tin can from today's civilization, and our world would slowly grind to a halt," a booklet said. "Thousands of companies, millions of persons and many countries have come to de pend on the tin can as the basis for their lives and liveli hoods. "The tin can is a way of life to fledgling countries on the African continent and along the perimeter of South east Asia, as well as in the more advanced nations of Eu rope, South America and North America." Before there is a sound of breaking bottles, it should be explained that t h e "litera ture" comes from the Can Manufacturers Institute, Inc., Washington, D. C, in a book let called "The Metal Can Its Past, Present and Future." Tinless Cans The "tin can" is not entire ly that any longer, and never ww A can purely of tin would be soft and unmanage- i able under present or past ! conditions of transporta J tion and storage. The book i let and by no chance is ! it called "The Metal Can," ! etc., for nothing explains that "when the first can was made it was tinned by dip ; ping the iron sncct into mol ten tin." But . . . It even goes so far as to suy in small emphasis on page 10 that "there are even some types of cans without tin." So, it never was a truly "tin" can. Originally, it was tinned, a thin-walled kettle or carrier with a coating of tin to keep its contents from getting rusty or corroded. But in popular speech, say ing "tinned" with the full ev tra sound become? lost in a hurry and comes out "tin." DIRECT IS CENTRAL POINT JACKSONVILLE PHOENIX-TALENT GOLD HILL , ASHLAND mi flie1!Iwisi You now have nationwide Direct Distance Dialing. Now you can dial your own station-to-station calls direct to most places in the nation. There are only four simple steps to remember: 1. First dial "I" this connects you to the Direct Distance Dial ing equipment, 2. Dial the 3-digit area code of the location you're calling (if your call is going outside of Oregon). ,1. Dial the complete telephone numlxr. 4. Give the operator the number you are calling from, if she asks (or it. We have mailed you a reminder folder on this new service. This and your tele phone directory tell you everything you need to know about Direct Distance Dialing - DDD. You'll find Direct Distance Dialing is fun. Try it . . . today. PACIFIC Or eventually just comes out "can." No adjective, ev eryone knows what is a tin can, even if one used to drive one. There are, explains the in stitute, more than 600 sizes, shapes and styles of cans cur rently in production. Rough ly, they are food cans and non-ford. About eight of ten of them, if you want to count what goes out for the garbage man or for the trash man sep arately, are for food, and the "others are for things which are better not to eat, like paint, oil, tooth powder, in secticides, shoe polish, gaso line, varnish. The one which was popular before frozen goods became so prominent in the home generally was cylindrical, un less It held sardines. Like ev erything else, the once-popular shape has changed. Cans now are not only cylindrical (there are the ones which hold beer, beans, stew, soup), oval (these once were used mostly for sardines) but now are oblong, square and flat. Evolution In Labels Most; cans that one remem bers if he is more than 15 years old had a paper label. But, says the institute, this no longer is so. In enamel finishes alone there now are 24 different kinds of coating available, and if you read from the outside in, there are "at least 2,430 possible com binations of metal alloys, tempers, coatings and enam els which are currently avail able to devise the ideal metal container for a product . . ." But since nobody who is anybody looks back at the can that was, what of the fu ture? "The can of tomorrow," says the institute even more efficient, econom ical and versatile than a. y can In existence today.'' "The can manufacturing in dustry will never be content to stand still." DISTANCE DIALING MEDFORD NORTHWEST BELL The Med' cat ft or Cause of Beginning Deafness In Children In a recent article in "Con sultant" Professor David My ers of Temple University dis cussed the p r o b 1 em of the "serious otitis media" o f children. Serious means that there is a lit tle fluid pres ent some- Alvar wung iiKe ine serum which forms when blood clots, or like the whey that forms when cheese is made from milk. Otitis means an inflammation of one or both ears, and "media" means that it is the middle ear that is involved. Our hearing mechanism is divided into the external the middle and the inner ear. The external ear runs to the ear drum. From the ear drum the sound waves are transmitted through three tiny bones t the stapes window. Beyond this windbw is the inner rtr with its tiny marimba-like mechanism, connected to the brain by many nerve fibers As we all know, children often can get a serious in flammation of the mastoid cells which make up much of the mastoid part of the "temporal bone the part which is to be found back of the ear. Infection Cleared Until the antibiotics were found, each year thousands of children had to have a mastoidectomy an opera- m will beltoin in which the diseased mastoid cells had to be clean ed out. Of late, ear m"n have been finding cases in which the antibiotic they gave quickly cleared up the serious infection in the ear and mas- MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Roundup iraerttiu C Consultant in Medlrin Mayo Clinic Emeriton Prole our of Medlcint Mayo clinic (Register and Tribune Syndlcau. If) S3) toid cells, but left some fluid in the middle ear. Sometimes the child can feel "something in there," but often he does not complain, and all his mother notices is that h i s grades in school have fallen. The family doctor may then be wise enough to test the child's hearing, but wrh or dinary methods the hearing may seem to be normal. But it isn't, and the child U inattentive at school be cause it is too great an effort for him to keep in touch with what is going on. What is sad is that a fcrious otitis media if not promptly treated can go on to produce serious changes in the middle ear and ultimate loss of hearing. What the doctor murt remem ber then is that the child who was saved from a mas toiditis by antibiotics later can have a serous otitis me dia. He should be sent to be examined by a good ear man who will sec that there are several things decidedly wrong with the ear drum, and i you can bank oil heat costs less than gas or electricity Low cost Oil Heat is like money in the bank. If you are buying or building a home you can save big money for years to come if you insist on safe, low cost Oil Heat. THE FACT IS . . . YOU GET MORE COMFORT FOR YOUR OIL HEAT DOLLAR THAN ANY OTHER FUEL. There's no monopoly on Oil Heal. You have freedom of choice of supplier. And, the cost is kept low by competition. STUDY HOME: LOCATION: HEATING COSTS COMPARISONS: GET THE FACTS ...Ask your local oil dealer or wrile the Oil Heat Insti tute, 43 N. E. ::nd Avenue, Portland, for the HEATING ENGINEER STUDY and prove it to yourself the FACT is Oil Heat costs less. MEDFORD OIL HEAT DEALERS he may be able to see that there is some fluid back of it. Tesi Will Show Loss A test of the child's hear ing with a modern type of electronic machine will show a loss. In such cases striking improvement can result from an early "myringotomy." This means the making of a cut in the ear drum through which the fluid in the mid dle ear can be drained out. In many cases one such drain age is enough, but in other cases there will have to be s-everal drainages. Dr. Bever ly W. Armstrong, Charlotte, N. C, has found that a small plastic tube can be tl into the hole in the ear drum and left for six months or more. It allows needed air f -am, ,9- V this on Contemporary, with 3 bedrooms, 1,600 sq.ft. Medford and vicinity Gas costs 41 MORE than oil heat Electricity , costs 97 MORE than oil heat to get into the ear. Normal ly, this air should come up from the throat, through the Eustachian tube, but in some cases of serious otitis the Eus tachian tube is not working well. What is so helpful is that we now know enough to watch out for what is pretty much a new post-penicillin disease. And, as Dr. Myers has pointed out, it is a disease which should be recognized as early as possible, so that the child's hearing can be saved. One Coacoa Beach, Fla., bar sets up a round on the house for persons at the bar when a rocket goes up at near by Cape Canaveral.
