THURSDAY. DECEMBER 6. 1962
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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.
And FM stereo components
offer an ideal way to bring
the hi-fi music-lover on your
gift list into a new world of
deep, wide, life-like sound.
For those giving (or re
ceiving) hi-fi this Christmas,
here are some important
questions and answers about
FM stereo from Harman-Kar-don.
Inc., a leading manufac
turer of FM stereo compo
nents. What is FM stereo? FM
stereo is an important new
service to the music listen
er. It provides stereo sound
with a sense of depth and di-
reclion . . . and with a sense
of breadth or separation ...
to FM radio listeners.
sending 25 cents and a self-addressed,
stamped envelope
with your request to Dr. Walt
er C. Alvarez. The Register
and Tribune Syndicate, Box
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ors in India, centuries before
Willis Carrier invented air
conditioning.
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