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TUESDAY. AUGUST 7, 1962
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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
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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
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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."
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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." Send 25 cents and
"Nature" magazine) that a stamped, self-addressed cn
whether or not table salt , vclupr with your request to
raises the blood pressure de- Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept.
pends on the family predispo
sition - whether it be ii mice
or men. Some persons who
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