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THURSDAY. OCTOBtfl 2S. lvbi MEDFORD MAIL IHlBUNt. McDruttU, uncuOn The Medical Roundup iiiwiswiwwMiiia m , ftp's: .vm. , , . .) l A' ' ' lys . Vy Emeritui Profe.sor of Medlcln Mayo Clinic fftMlxrr and Tribune Syndicate, Emeritui Consilium in MedtcLiu Mayo Clinic 1962) Or Pregnancy in Diabelic Women . the dangers lhat face her, the Prof. E. Jurgen Plotz of Al- pregnant diabetic woman WHAT IS IT? No, it is not a cat. It is not a rat. Actually, the old guy who seems to be winking at the camera is a Harbour Seal, trying to get some sleep between shows at the Miami, Fla., Scaquarium. (UPI) Cost of Reburying Indians Dampens Land Sale Proposal By JOSEPH H. CAHTER United Press International Kansas City. Kan. - WD -The winter of 1843 struck the heart of the Wyandotte Indian nation camped on the banks of the Kansas river. Cholera killed hundreds. Braving sharp winds, survi vors carried the dea dup a slpep slope to a two-acre site where the frozen ground was broken and the blanket-wrapped bodies buried. Thus was the "Wyandotte National Burying Ground" es tablished. Years passed and the Wyan dottcs prospered in homes away from the damp river bottom. White men continued their move westward and Kansas City sprang up around the cemetery. Eye Cemetery Shrewd businessmen eyed the cemetery as a department store side. The Indians, up rooted from their Ohio homes, had chosen a plot fronting the main street for their burial ground. Politicians, a group of Wy andottes in Oklahoma and lawyers joined the fight to have the graves moved and the property commercialized. Indians and others here fought to have it named a national park. But today it stands a loneiy cemetery in a busy metropolis, neither a store sito nor a national park. It is neatly mowed and the stones are eroded, some be yond reading. Eliza Burton Conley, a Wyandotte maiden, devoted her life to the fight to pre serve her people's burying ground. "Only woman ever admit ted to the United Stales Su preme Court," reads the in scription on her tombstone dated May 28, 194B. Argue Against Lew Miss Conley went before the high tribunal in 11)08 In argue against a law passed by Congress to soil the ceme tery. She said it violated a treaty the U.S. government had with her nation. Miss Conley lost the case and returned home saddened, but not defeated. She joined her sister, Hel ena (Floating Voice) Conley, in a shack they erected in the cemetery and shI as armed guards over the burying ground. They posted a sign that warned, "Trespass at Your Peril." The shanty was dubbed 'Fort Conley" and it served well to protect the dead In dians from ambitious while men. Soon Congress repealed the law. Floating Voice later was buried near her parents and upon her headstone they wrote ", . . cursed by the vil ban that molest their graves." The apparent value of the real estate overcame the corse's threat, Name Oklahoma Branch Congress named the Okla homa branch of the Wyan dolles the official tribe in 1034. Those Indians, who ap parently had only distant kin in the cemetery here, started the battle anew to sell the land. The Interior department, acting on the wishes of the official tribe without heed to some 250 unofficial Wyan duties in this area with rela tives in the cemetery, placed the land on the sale block. The best bid was SI 28,000 in 1960. A funeral director, Ralph A. Fulton, said it would cost $180,000 to exhume and rebtiry the Wyandottes. With upwards of 500 buried on the plot and only 98 graves marked, the challenge and expense cooled the land sale. Meredith Jeered By Students al Union Building Oxford, Miss. mm A crowd of University of Mississippi students cursed and jeered James H. Meredith and tried to hjock his exit from the Student Union Building Wed nesday in the first serious harassment of the Negro since the university banned such activity. No attempt was made, how ever, to harm Meredith, 29 whose admission to "Olc Miss" under federal force touched off rioting that killed two persons and injured hun dreds of others Sept. 30. Escorted by Marshal A U.S. marshal escorted Meredith through the demon strators without incident. Stu dent heckling of Meredith vir tually had stopped after the university warning earlier this month that unruly sin dents would face swift and harsh disciplinary action. The incident began when Meredith entered the dining room of the Student Union building and sat down at a table. Wbout 311 students got up and left the room. Only a coed remained, studying at another table. The students went outside the room and stood al the door. They shouted for the girl to join them. She appear ed reluctant to do so but later left the room. Entrance Blocked Five male students, arms folded across their chests, stood In a line In front of the door, blocking the en trance. The crowd of stu dents in the hall soon swelled to around HID. They shouted insults at Meredith, who sal thumbing through his text books. A U.S. marshal, one of a contingent stationed on Ihc campus to guard Meredith, rushed back from a lunch counter where lie had gone for a cup of c.f'cc. He told Meredith to follow him and shouldered his ivhv through the five students and (he crowd in the hall The students let them out with no effort at violence Several hours later. Mere dith ale dinner al the univer sity cafeteria without incident. bany said recently that before insulin was discovered, dia betic women rarely became pregnant, and when they did. the child AinA Ft, or, for- f-V years after in sulin was dis covered, a dia- 'jf betic woman ff (could rarely Aivirez Dear a live child. Dr. Plotz said that now, in spite of the expert use of insulin, injuries to the mother and infant still occur several times more frequently in dia betic pregnancies than in nor mal ones. Before the discovery of in sulin, half of the diabetic wo men died either during the pregnancy or at the lime of labor, or shortly after deliv ery. When insulin first came into use, the diabetic mothers no longer died in their preg nancies, but still, as before, nearly all of their infants died. The woman either aborted in the second or third trimester (three months) or she had such a premature de livery that the Infant could not live. Often even yet, the diabelic woman has more than the average chance of getting the dangerous toxemia of preg nancy. During her pregnancy there is also probably an in crease in the tendency to get swelling of the legs, to get al bumin in the urine, and to get a flare-up of a high blood pressure. Trouble With Chemistry Still, with insulin available to help her greatly, the preg nant diabetic woman tends to have trouble with her body chemistry, and she is espec ially likely to have much dif ficulty during spells of vomit ing or of an infection. Then she tends to get an acidosis (too much acid in the body) which is likely to kill the baby in her womb. Usually the amount of insulin lhat is needed to maintain life and health has to he increased when a woman becomes preg nant; in fact, the dose may have lo he doubled or tripled. During preganancy, some change lakes place In (he glands of internal secretion, and this makes the diabetes more severe. Because of all BPA Accepts Offer Of Crossing Line Portland - UPI) - Bonneville Power administration and Pa cific Power & Light Co. today announced an agreement whereby BPA has accepted PP&L's offer of the use of the firm's Columbia river trans mission crossing west of Vancouver. The crossing enables (he federal agency to replace tem porarily a crossing toppled into the river by the Colum bus day slorm. should keep reporting to her physician every few weeks throughout ther nine months of great danger. Today, even wilh Ihe help of insulin, and with the great skill of obstetricians and ex perts in diabetes, the mortal ity among babies born alive to diabetic mothers is still too large for comfort. I now read that in several series of cases, from 18.3 to 29.6 per cent of the infants died. In some hos pitals the mortality rate of just-born Infants of diabetic mothers is 7 times higher than that of infants born of normal mothers. Among diabetic mothers, the infant at birth is likely to weigh too much sometimes over 10 or 12 pounds. These babies are fat and often drop sical. The large size of the baby, which makes its birth difficult, is sometimes respon sible for its death. In the great Joslin diabetic clinic, 65 per cent of diabetic mothers are delivered quickly by cesarian section. This lessens the dan ger lo the mother, but adds somewhat to the dangers faced by the newborn infant. A pregnant diabetic woman should be hospitalized from 2 lo 4 weeks before the expect ed date of delivery, and kept in the hospital until her baby is born. Should Second Cousins Wed? I get letters from young second cousins who are dis tressed because they would like to marry but have been told by their parents that they must not. They wonder what I think about the problem. Probably the answer of an expert geneticist would be that just as with first-cousin marriages, if on both sides of the family there is no history ; of illness, with no mental or I physical diseases, there will be little to fear. But when sev eral of the forebears suffered from hereditary diseases of the mind or body, the outlook will be questionable. In such cases, if Ihe anxious couple contemplating mar-' riage live in or near a college town, the ideal thing to do would be to consult the pro fessor of genetics taking with them to Ihe conference every bit of information they can get about the illnesses of j parents, grandparents, uncles, j aunts, brothers and sisters and ! cousins. J The point we must remem ber is that when cousins marry, they may both be car-; rlers of a defect that runs ' through the family, and if they are, several or perhaps all of any children they bear may have the defect. But if there seems to be no defect in the family, a marriage be tween first or second cousins ' need not be distressing to the family. Alcoholism and bad tem pers can be related lo a tend ency to epilepsy in a family, says Dr. Alvarez in his book let, "What Is Epilepsy?" It might be worthwhile reading for second cousins considering Spokesmen said (he plan ' marriage. You may obtain the will enable BPA to restore normal power flows Into the Portland area within two weeks and also assui" BPA transmission capacity to meel coming winter month peak loads. Utah law requires big g.mir hunters to wear red colored headgear, shirt, jacket or sweater. United Air Lines Crew Commended Washington - iU'I' - fVdrral A vtnl ion Administrator Na j erh K, llalnhy lias awarded iTi'tiiu-aW's of commendation tn thoerew oi a crippled lh.it cd Air Lines IK'7 that land ed safely at Mather Air Force Base, Calif , Oct. I I. The KAA said Halahy pel sonally j;ave the crew Hip cer tificates m ceremony in Lo Anneles Tuesday niKht. Thf plane, which lost its rudder and most of lis vertical staotl ier, was landed by use of the ailerons and by expert throt tle manipulation. The plane was a chatter liiiht eanyin ;i3 telephone ro-npany employees fiom Hvsuo to Portland, Ore. booklet by sending cents and a si am pod, self-addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. 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