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MEDFOHD MAIL TH1BUNE. MEDKOHD. OREGON f. .V ,- " .. - TUESDAY. AUGUST 7, 1962 fie Alecfico Roundup by V Fmeritui AJ (Rccisirr Lupus Erythematosus Dr. Victor E. Pollak has made a particular study of the abnormal proteins (com plicated chem icals) found in the blood in half of the pa tients with LE (lupus erythe matosus) stud ied. One of the most in t e r e s t -ing things that he found is the relatives of have, in their type of ab- Journal of the AMA, it was reported that Drs. M. L. Fur colow, Joseph Schubert, Ph.D., K. E. Tosh, Irene L. Dolo, M.A., and Hf J. Lynch Jr., of Kansas City, Kan., made a survey of 45.001) pa tients .found in more than 80 hospitals, and found 7.5 per cent who reacted positively to the test for histaplasmosis. About a fourth of those with positive tests for the fungus could be shown to have an more often and with a Rieater c,iv0 "f'it'". 'th or with degree of accuracy. Fortunate-1 0,11 tuberculosis. Because the ly, today, t h e diagnosis A 5 states of the United Stales, add very little salt to their one rarely finds the infection. food will get high blood pres Evidently all physicians who surc, while 0(ners wno uso large amounts will remain lonsuttant fn Mau clinlr Prnlemir nf Mayo clinic and Trlhun 11S3) EXPLOSION CRATER The above picture, made Aug. 7, Jf)5fl, shows a portion of the devastation in Roseburg after an explosive-laden truck exploded in the downtown area. The picture was made at the edge of the crater where the truck had stood. (-UPI) Roseburg Notes Third Anniversary of Fire Truck Explosion Which Claimed 14 Lives By JAMES J. DOYLE Roseburg-IUPti-Three years ago today this Southern Ore gon lumber community was rocked by an explosion that tcarred the face of the city and etched a dark memory in the minds of its people. Aug. 7, 1959, about 1 a.m. A fire of unknown cause began in the crinkled paper of a trash can in a near down town garage. Ten minutes later the flames licked at the sides of a truck parked near the building. The truck was load ed with several tons of ex plosives - dynamite and am monium nitrate. The truck's driver. George Rutherford Jr., Chehalis, Wash., was awakened at his Jiolel a few blocks away by the cry of "fire." He leaped from his bed and headed fran- lically for his truck. More than a block away, he was stopped in his tracks and hurled backwards by the force of a blast. Six Blocks Leveled The explosion leveled about six city blocks. It rocked the downtown area of the city; it blew out windows and scat tered merchandise on the streets: it made a shambles of stores: autos were over turned and set aflame; splin tered glass flew on a path of destruction; it twisted the frame of a three-story school building: pushed in walls more than 15 blocks away; it caused property damage more than a mile away. Fourteen persons died as a result of the explosion. The last one to die was a teen aged boy, Jerry Stiles, who lay in a coma for a year and Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF GATE CRASHING, for one reason and another, seems to be on the increase. One particularly brash specimen crashed a wedding party in the Bronx recently, liberally sampled the champagne and the hors d oeuvres, and then attempted to embrace the bride. The bridegroom, discovering that he was a crasher, promptly booted him down two flights of stairs. The crasher had the proom arrested for as sault and battery. When the police captain heard the groom's explanation he turned on the crasher and demanded sternly, "You attend a wedding without being invited, get into an altercation with the bridegroom, and now complain that the latter kicked you downstairs. Can you produce witnesses?" "I sure can," asserted the crasher. "All seven men I in vited to the wedding." Jam's Thurber once encountered a lady at a cocktail party who assured him that his books were even funnier in Ficnch. "Ah, yes," mused Mr. Thurber, "I lose something in the original." Radical books both on the extreme left and the extreme tight--have lost a lot of their sales appeal in recent weeks "The only way you can sell these lunatic fringe tomes today," rem planned one bookseller "is to throw in free an extra pair of pamphlets." Jonathan Winters overheard a beatnik mother threatening her young son. ' The next time you say naughty words, I'm going to wash your face with soap." C 152, by Bcnncrt Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndi'-ata Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS, SELECT A CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT. F. R. Brennan, C.I. A. QUALIFIED There i'c Two Qualified Insurance Agents at INSURANCE Agency PHONE 773 7343 27 North Holly Street a half. The injured cried. They were taken to windowlcss hospitals. There were more than 50 hurt, many of them critically. Asst. Fire Chief Roy Mc Farlane and Patrolman Don ald DeSues died in the blast as they were answering the fire alarm. Mrs. Dennis Tandy, expect ing a child, told how her hus band saw the fire, sent her home and stayed to fight it. "That was the last 1 ever saw of him," she said. Mrs. Alvin Kuykcndall, 41, was watching the tire from her window. She died a few days later from the glass that was hurled in her face and eyes when the explosion took place. Searches Begin Aflor the shock wave passed, the terror began as residents looked for missing loved ones, relatives and friends. The explosion dug a crater in the earth 40 feet across and several feet deep. Only a line around the foundation re mained of the garage. Here and there in the six-block area a wall remained standing in a swirl of dusk and smoke, a solitary pillar licked by flames, stood upright in a pile of rubble, nearby railroad tracks were twisted and charred. By dawn the city had mo bilized. The National Guard roped off the area and begun patrolling the streets. The day dawned hot and sticky over a mist of acrid smoke. The police chief walk ed back from the devastated area, slumped and tired. He asked with grim humor, "any body want to buy a town?" There was talk about how it happened and why, and a firm resolve that laws would be passed to make sure it never happened again. The truck was parked in the near downtown area be cause the driver had heard that motels outside the city were full. He had been given permission to park the truck. The courts cleared away most of the litigation last year. The suits, for the most part, were settled for a frac tion of the loss. Society Support Needs Education Eusone American society cannot maintain itself if it docs not have an abundance of capital investment in edu cation, according to Dr. Keith Golrihammer, professor of ed ucation at the University of Oregon. In an article in Oregon Higher Education, a quarterly published by Ihe Oregon Asso ciation for Higher Education of the Oregon Education asso elation, Dr. Goldhammer wrote about the economic and social benefits of the invest ment in education. He indicated that the threat to the American economy was in the maintenance of frivo. lous and luxurious living standards while capital invest ment in education was being neglected. "Apparently this uneven ness of the blessings of Amer icans is the result of our fail ure to put into perspective the proper financing of those activities which create mate rial wealth and those activi ties which create social wealth," he wrote. "A major problem confront ing the American citizen to day is the investment in and the wise deployment of our human resources for the pur pose of improving the condi tions under which life is both possible and desirable. 'If it were ever wise policy to be indifferent to the edu cational needs of all children, in this age it is a matter of flirting with social impover ishment if any human poten tial is left to waste on the human ashheap." London -iUPI- Notice in a public library: "Readers are reminded that smoking is for bidden and are requested nol to enc-'ige in audible conversation." wwiiiiiiim a. . .c..r t Alvarei that half of the patient blood, the same normal protein that the pa tient has; and this can explain why the disease can be pass ed on by apparently healthy "carriers." We find the same thing in families of diabetics and epileptics, where a car rier, who docs not obviously have the disease, can pass it on to his child or his grand child. Physirans are becoming ever more inclined to believe that LE is one of a number of diseases in which the person becomes allergic to some of his own proteins. The symp toms vary greatly from pa tient to patient; and hence, sometimes - especially in the early stages of the disease- the diagnosis is difficult. Often, all the physician may see is disease of the heart, the kid neys, the blood vessels, or the skin. The disease is found usually in women, hither it is occur ring today more frequently than formerly, or else the diagnosis now is being made marie more easy with the help of the so-called LE cell, dis covered in the blood by Dr. Hargraves some years ago. Also, now the diagnosis can be made by finding abnormal proteins in the blood. Interest ingly, Dr. Pollack now can show that as a woman gets worse, she gels more of the abnormal protein, and as she gets better she has less of the abnormal protein. What is hopeful is that Dr. Pollak and his associates say that a better understanding of the disease, together with the use of cortico - steroids, has "dramatically changed the outlook of patients with lu pus." They are now more likely to get well and Slav well. Histoplasmosis Since 1948, it has become more and more clear that a considerable percentage of our people, particularly in the Ohio Valley region of the United States, are infected with a fungus-like disease which behaves somewhat like tuberculosis. It is characteriz ed often by enlargement of the liver and the spleen, per haps with fever, anemia, and a low white blood count. Be cause the parasite lives in the soil, flare-ups are likely to oc cur whenever strong winds whip up much dust. Also, peo ple who go from the city to visit a relative on a farm in the Ohio Valley can come down with the acute form of the disease. In a recent number of the disease can be a serious one it is highly important that physicians now realize how common the disease can be, especially in the Ohio area. In certain areas, as in the Northwest and in the western have to do with tuberculosis sanatoria are going to have to test all of their patients with great care to make sure that they are treating tuberculosis and not histoplasmosis, or TB plus histoplasmosis. High Blood Pressure For some time a few physi cians have claimed that an ex cess use of table salt can raise the person's blood pressure. Now come Dr. Lewis K. Dahl with Martha Heine and Lor- normal. This suggests that the person who has a tenden cy to high blood pressure, j such as can show up in youth, might do well not to dump salt on his food before tasting lit. Baby-Sitters Test Is Topic of Article The M ed f o r d "Sitters' Test" for baby-sitters, being used by many Medford par ents gains nation-wide pub licity in the September Fam ily Life Issue of "Together," Methodist family magazine. The test, a printed list of 10 questions prepared by a pediatrician, a police cap tain, a school nurse, a Parent Teacher association leader, and the town's director of public safety, is designed to prevent the tragedies that sometimes result when par ents hire the wrong baby-sitter. If a prospective sitter can't answer at least eight questions right, parents hire another sitter. In addition to passing the test, Medford sitters must have pleasant, stable person alities and be able to cook and serve simple meals, pre pare formulas, bathe, dress, and diaper a baby, provide first aid for cuts and bruises, and - if necessary - give arti ficial respiration, the article reports. A facsimile of. the lest and Ihe answers accompanies the article. Did you know that your blood pressure varies from time to time? For facts about your blood pressure, read Dr. Alvarez' booklet. "High Blood raine Iassinan who say (in Pressure." 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