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THURSDAY. DECEMBER 6. 1962 2 D MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON SO MANY WAYS TO PLEASE A YOUNG- educational as well," says Lionel Weintraub, STER "Exciting games, a wide variety of president of Ideal Corporation, who has de dolls and stuffed toys, mechanical toys, con- voted his adult life to the interests of struction and scientific kits not only provide children, fun for the child but can be teaching and Inspection of Christmas Tree Lights Suggested It's important to check last year's Christmas tree lights and strings well in advance of tree-trimming time. Be sure to inspect them carefully. Plug each string in separately. If lights flicker after you've tightened all the bulbs it may mean that sock ets are loose or there may be a short in the wire. Ex amine the strings carefully (while disconnected) for bro ken, frayed spots. Replace any defective strings and bulbs you may find. To estimate the power load you need, multiply the num ber of bulbs by the wattage for each. The smallest bulb, used In strings connected In series (when one bulb goes, they all go out) is rated at five watts. The next larger, and now the most popular, used in In door parallel strings is a 10 watt bulb. Floodlight and spotlight are generally 150 watts each. For Outdoors Use only the light strings designed for exterior use for outdoor lighting. Extensions should be of heavy-duty wire with weatherproof covering. Outdoor connections between cords should be wrapped with rubber or plastic tape to seal out moisture. Use an outdoor, weather proof outlet for your power outlet for your power sup ply if possible. Next best is use of an outdoor light, such as a porch outlet, after re moving the bulb. Insulation If a line is being run to a tree or display some distance from lite house, run the line up the side of the house at least seven feet and secure it with an Insulator. Run It from that point to the tree and tie it to a sturdy limb. If a small shrub near the foundation is to be lighted, run the extension to the top of a stake driven in the ground. If floodlighting the house or a display, use weather proof bulbs along with spe cial outdoor receptacles. Indoors or out, don't over load circuits. An average branch circuit, fused to 15 amperes, can handle a load of about 1,800 watts. Circuits of heavier wire and protected with 20-amp fuses can han dle up to 2.400 watts if di vided through several outlels. Replace defective strings. Use strings of lights that are connected In parallel, espe cially for outdoor decorations. Parallel connections permit the remaining bulbs to con tinue burning even though one or more has burned out. The Medical Roundup Emerlrui Coniultant in Medietas Mayu Clinic Emeritus f'rulettur of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Reenter and Tribune Syndicate, 1962) Danger From Epidemics Many millions of people in the United States today cling to the erroneous idea, and rPf&tiCGk even preach " lhat lht're is no longer any danger from the great epidemic dis eases, such as mall- pox. cholera, y e 1- low fever, J and the black Alvaret plague. Ac tually, now with hundreds of thousands of people coming in every day from the Orient and other parts of the world where dangerous epidemics are always present, anything can happen. In the old days, when it might take several weeks for a man to come by ship from Africa, India or South Amer ica to New York or San Fran cisco, the danger was not nearly so great, because a per son who left with the germs or the virus of some danger ous disease in his body, would come down with it while he was still on his journey. Today, he is likely to come down with the disease several days after he arrives in Amer ica. During this interval, he will come in contact with hundreds or thousands of peo ple some of whom he can infect. This is why our health officers are so concerned to day, especially when an immi grant is found to (lave come into the country with small pox. Then every effort has to be made to find the people who were on the plane with him, and who were near him in the air terminal. They must be found and then vaccinated. Many persons, and even educated persons, say to me, "But you know, small-pox is now a mild disease." Yes, often it is, but during my life time I have seen a number of small epidemics flare up in which the small-pox killed perhaps half of the people who came near the man or woman who started the trou ble. We Just cannot trust to the probability that the small pox or other disease will be mild. I remember well two or three weeks when, in a cer tain city of California, per haps two dozen people died of bubonic plague - the awtul Black Death of the Middle Ages. What was particularly frightening was that it was the "pneumonic plague, ' which, before the days of antibiotics was about as dan gerous and uniformly fatal a disease as there is on this earth. Bleeding From Womb Many women ask what they should do when they keep bleeding excessively perhaps just before the menopause. One of America's leading gynecologists recently answer ed this question in the Journal of the American Medical As sociation, He said that the physician should first make certain that the woman has not been taking large doses of ovarian extracts over a prolonged period of time. If a Papanicolaou smear (sometimes called a "Pap test," a laboratory test to de tect early cancer of the neck of the womb) has not been made recently, it should be made: and the womb may perhaps have to be curetted. Every effort should be made to rule out cancer in the womb. Usually if such a can cer is found, the womb is re moved. A beginning cancer m the neck of the womb is some t i m e g treated successfully with radium. If no cancer is found, the doctor will wait a while to see if the curetting (scraping out of the womb) stops the bleeding. If the bleeding per sists, and especially if it is bad enough to produce an anemia, the womb should be removed, but, if possible, the ovaries should be left. It is particularly important to leave the ovaries if the woman is young, and a long way from a normal menopause, such as comes usually around the age of 50. Sometimes, excessive uter ine bleeding can be due to a myoma (muscle nodule often called a fibroid) which is close to the cavity of the womb, and hence produces a change in the lining of the womb. In such cases, a hysterectomy may be needed. Person Who Needs Ear Lobe The other evening, as I chatted with my old friend Dr. Arthur Bulbulian of the Mayo Clinic, we discussed the problem of the man who was either born without an ear lobe or lost it because of can cer. It is very difficult to make an car out of skin taken from some part of the patient's body. Hence, Dr. Bulbulian thinks that it is far better to do as he does, and to make an car out of pink rubber - an ear that looks almost exactly like the one that the man has. Dr. Bulbulian can do this only for patients whom he can see and study at the Clinic. Many persons have mi graine headaches which are so mild they don't recognize them. For others the disease is so crippling it is difficult for them to work. You'll find much information about the disease in Dr. Alvarez' book let, MIGRAINE OR SICK HEADACHES. Obtain it by Questions Are Answered on FM Stereo is big with Santa this year. 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