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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Small Worlds Around lie IIKsliter b Tribune Syndicate, 1X21 If the Door Is Closed, lh Odds Are Thai He's Home Talk about a dilemma. Imagine a ridiculous situation that concerns a door that can only be closed from the inside, a seemingly impossible condi tion where the occupant of this house with the one way door can't close the door if he or she is on the outside. This house has walls,' ceiling and a floor, as well as a doorway and a door, but the silly thing is attached to the house own er's foot, of all places, and the foot is more a body than a pedal extremity. The character harnessed with this single purpose door is a univalve a mollusk, or what we call a seashell-whose slimey home consists of a sin gle shell. The univalves com prise the majority of the mol lusk family. Many Species Whelks, concha and snails belong to this order, along with many other shell crea tures. To move or feed, or to search for a mate, these mol lusks lumber along the sea's bottom on their single tocless "foot." Attached to the foot is a horney operculum, or door, which completely and effectively closes the single opening in the shell when the animal draws ils body inside. Attached as it is to the foot, which comes inside last, the operculum closes out the out side world with the owner safely locked inside. These operculums, which could as correctly be called lids or trapdoors, come in a wide assortment of sizes and shapes. In some univalve shells the operculum forms upon the embryo while still in the egg. The nucleus is the first early layer of chitin to be formed, with succeeding layers growing from below to accommodate the ever-enlarging shell as the animal within grows. Like a cork in a bottle, the lid fits so tightly that not even air or water can enter. But the mollusk needs very little air; it can live closed in for hours without becoming short of breath. Inside the fortress, with the door closed, the soft bodied animal is reasonably safe, but the trouble is it has no idea what is going on in the out side world. It must believe that anyone that knocks on its door Is an enemy so it remains closed. There are, however, mollusks with sharp raspy tongues that can drill a hole in the shell and suck out the shell owner's budy juices. No Way Out The one big disadvantage of its home, seen Irom our human viewpoint, is the fact that every time the mollusk withdraws into the inner re cess of its home, and the door closes, it is nearly insensible to all outside influences. Someone may come along, pick up the shell and carry it and its secluded occupant away. A heavy object may crush the shell; a strong wave may roll it along the ocean flour. If, however, conditions re main favorable, the animal will push itself out, thereby opening wide the door. Dul it will respond to any vibra tions in the water, even be come alarmed at a sudden noise, and hurriedly withdraw into the shell pulling the door closed from the inside. When tins .silly door is closed the occupant of the shell is always home, lor this is a one way door. 11 never can be closed Irom the outside. Perhaps when this charac ter does withdraw itself, and the door is tightly closed, it says to itself, "I wonder where everybody went'.1'' mm fi r 1 HI . V III ., . WklPT :J- 'Kite. Modest Increase in Economic Activity For 1963 Predicted 'Polish Tourists Defect To Vest Copenhagen, Dcnmark-lUPli-1 liner sailed back to Poland Fifteen passengers aboard a Monday night with only 65 Polish tourist liner have de-1 Pengcrs -ooara GIRL GUARDED - A little girl who identi- to the station. Later Mrs. Dickie Htiggms fled herself only as "Toiya" is guarded by telephoned to say a little girl left in her her dog, Dutchess, at a Hollywood, Calif., care had wandered away. The girl's name is police station. Officers found the pair wan- Toiya Ann Houska. She and her parents dcring on the streets alone and took them were reunited. (UPI) The Medical Roundup by, 1 N- I Nehru Sends Urgent Request for Help Washington - - Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru o( India sent President Kennedy an urgent rciiie.l Monday for more U.S. arms to fight Com munist China's bordci as- vaults. U. K. Nehru, the Indian am bassador to the United States brought the message to the While House In an unsched uled visit and told newsmen the military situation was very bHd. lie said the prime mini. ter's letter said the need for more arms is urgent. The am bassador said India also has flskod for help from other na tions, especially Great Britain and Canada, hut not Russia. The ambassador declined to give details of the aid re quested beyond saying it in cluded some transport air craft. The United States already has sent tons of equipment -primarily small arms to India. Eloclroshock Treatments Many anxious people write asking about electroshock treatments: when they should be 'used, will they cure, are they safe, how many should be giv en and when the patient's memory is im paired, will it come back'.' Actually, in a Alvarez number oi cases, 1 have seen four or five electroshock treatments work a miracle. A woman who per haps was so depressed that she paid little attention to her children, her husband or her home, after the electroshocks went merrily about her work again. It Is true that most people who have Just had some of these treatments note some deterioration of their memory, but able psychia trists have assured me that the persons' memory should come back. I personally prefer to see a patient have only a few treat ments. If these don't help, I often wonder whether more will, but I am not an expert in this field, and I have heard of cases in which improve ment did come after many treatments. Some people are afraid of electroshocks because they have heard of the broken bones which used to follow the treatments which were made many years ago Willi overly powerful electric cur rents. Today, a much better type of current is used, and it is on for only a moment. Since t lie change was made m the technique, 1 have not heard of any cases of broken bones. With the modern treat ment, a person just stiffens for a moment and that is all. Feelt Nothing Persons who have to un dergo the treatments usually tear that the shocks will cause pain, but actually the person is unconscious the moment the current is turned on and h e n c e he feels nothing. People ask me to tell them why electroshocks work, and 1 cannot; I doubt if anyone can tell. We do know, how ever, that when the brain is suddenly shocked. Ils func tions can be greatly im proved. Nervous patients of mine have told me ot remark able cures they experienced when they were perhaps in a bad auto accident. 1 remem ber a woman with terrible migraines which came every other day or so and who was Instantly cured when she fell and broke her hip. Thomas 11. Huxley once was in the depths of one of the depressions to which he was subject, and unable to work, when he read some thing which greatly angered him. With this, he stormed up and down his house, cursin;'. the writer of the article. Then HAS PERMANENT COLD London il'PI1 Mrs. Kathleen Swinchatt, 3:1, was awarded $4,500 damages Monday for an automobile accident which left her with a "permanent cold." The woman told a court she had been smiling and sneezing for three years since the accident and doe- tors told her that the maladv would remain (or the rest of her life. i Kmerltus ('nnsulUnt In Mrdit'lae Mayo clinic KnltrlOll Promisor of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Iteslsler and Tribune Syndicate, 11162) he sat down to compose an attack on the man, and by the time he got done he was out of his depression and feeling well! In his booklet, "When Men tal Illness Strikes a Family," Dr. Alvarez suggests ways the family can help the patient in a mental hospital. You may obtain this booklet by send ing 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed envelope with vour request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Tribune Syndi cate, Box 057, Dcs Moines -I, Iowa. Additional Expenses Listed for Morse Salem - lUI'll - Additional expense reports for the cam paign of Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) were filed Monday but the State Elections divi sion said an audit will be re quired before the" grand total is known. The division indicated earli er that some $72,780 had been added. This would have tip ped total cost of the Morse campaign to $218,i)fil. Several items were being checked. For one, the Morse cam paign fund while showing a $140,181 expense listed only S7B.671 in supporting data. The fund also showed a $10, 000 contribution from the Committee to Preserve De mocracy in Oregon, but the committee's expense report is not in. Some $1:12,322 was spent by the Republican Senatorial can didate, Sig Unanrier, Portland. Washington-(UPli-Dr. Rex F. Daly, an Agriculture Depart ment economist, foresees a modest gain in the nation's over-all economic activity for 1963. Daly made this prediction at the 40lh annual Agricul tural Outlook Conference. His optimism was in face of a slowdown and mixed trends for major business indicators in recent months. He said prospective in creases in purchases by con sumers, businessmen, and the government will cause some increase in economic activity next year. Farm Increase Stable Dr. Frederick V. Waugh, another department econo mist, told conference delegates that farm income next year would be about the same as in 1962. He described the 1962 farm income situation and said "the outlook ... in 1963 looks like more of the same. "We see no reason to ex pect any significant change, either up or down, in realized net income of farm operators next year," Waugh said. "Barring any major change in the international situation, we expect 1963 to be another year of relative stability in farm output, in the domestic and foreign demand for farm products, and in aggregate net realized farm income." Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman spelled out at the outlook confer ence what he believes the size of basic crop reserves, or sur pluses, should be in a tension filled world. Some ' reserves should be greater, some less, Freeman said. He estimated desirable re serves would be 600 million bushels of wheat, more than 45 million tons of feed grains, and more than 6 million bales of cotton. Present reserves are more than 1.2 billion bushels of wheat, 71 million bushels of feed grains, and 7.8 million bales of cotton. He said stock levels for some other commodities-such as soybeans and dry edible beans - "are perhaps too low to provide for the kinds of emergency conditions we might face." Freeman did not set a de sirable reserve figure for soy beans, but he indicated the present carry-over of 55-60 million bushels was too low. That amount is only about one month's supply. While the department has taken no stand on a desirable soybean carryover, some offi cials have mentioned 75 to 100 million bushels as the proper amount. If the carry over goal were set at 100 mil lion bushels, an increase in price support for the commod ity might be necessary. And if the price support were in creased, there is a possibility the export trade in soybeans would suffer. Tbey might be too expensive for overseas buyers. White House Aides Must Report Talks Washington -IUPII- The ad ministration requirement that government officials report their talks with newsmen also applies to the White House. Press Secretary Pierre Sal inger was asked at a briefing Monday if the newly institut ed policy at the state and de fense departments of requir ing officials to report their conversations with reporters to public information officials also extended to the White House. He said the White House had such a policy which goes back to January, 1961, the be ginning of the Kennedy ad ministration. He said that White House aides are asked to report their conversations with reporters to him. CHRISTMAS CARDS SELECT NOW Have your name imprinted 5 Medford fected to the West, police sources said today. Police said nine have asked for political asylum and the other six are expected to do so within the next 24 hours. The 15 were said to have been among 80 passengers who arrived here aboard the Polish liner "Mazowze." The FIRST OF SEASON Marion, Va. - (UPI) - Roy Gotham failed to bag his deer but gained fame of sorts Mon day by becoming the first hunter lost, on opening day of Virginia's deer hunting sea son. A group of volunteer searchers found Gotham on Mt. Rodgers, highest in the state, waiting to be rescued. It was thought the missing six passengers may go to Nor way or Sweden, which have no passport control w ith Den mark. If found there, they will be returned to Denmark, where defectors from Com munist nations usually receive asylum or are allowed to go to any Western country they choose. SPECIAL ANSCO Fill! 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