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30 A FRIDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1962 MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON The Medical Roundup Emeritus CnniulUnt In Medkrnt Mayo Clinic Cmcrltui Profenor of Mcdlcint Mayo Clinic (RegliLtr am. Trlhunt Syndicate, 19C2) ; Many a man write me ask ing whether "blood grouping" tests will establish the fact that he is or is not the fa- r.VC ther of cer ' , tain child, and my an swer is inn u u a 1 ly all that the tests show is that the man could not pos ibly be the fa ther of the Alvire. p a r i i cuiar child. I think today most courts and judges are becom ing sensible and scientific enough to accept as evidence the testimony of blood ex perts. It stands to reason that if a man hasn't in his blood several of the common "types," he just cannot give them to a child of his. Hence, if the child has them, the man cannot be his father. Recently, I read that a study with blood tests has shown that in many a case the man, who did not bother ' to contest a woman s claim that he was responsible for her pregnancy, was not the father. Apparently in such a case, out of two or three pos sibilities the young woman chose the man most able to assume the responsibilities of bringing up and educating her child. Every year now, with more peculiarities identifiable in the blood items like the Rh factor the ability to prove definitely with blood tests the possibility or im possibility of a certain man's being the father of a certain child is getting stronger. People With Emphysema Some few persons with se vere emphysema a disease In which a loss of the elas ticity of the lungs makes it hard for the patient with each breath to get air out of his chest - In their fifties be come so short of breath, on the least exertion, that they have to spend most of their days sitting on a chair. In the last few years, Dr. A. L. Barsu-h and his associ ates in New York City, and Drs. J. E. Coles and J. S. Gilson of England, have de vised light - weight cylinders : which contain oxygen that en ables Ihese emphysema pa ticnts to get up and walk. Some of these cylinders weigh two or three or five pounds each, and they can be carried on a belt which is slung over a shoulder. Still smaller cylinders are the size of cigars, and can be carried in a pocket. A woman can carry , several In her hand bag. With the help of the oxy gen supplied by these little cylinders, emphysematous In valids can engage in activities from which they were once debarred - they can take walk, they can go for an auto ride, or in the evening they can go to a theater. The more they walk, the stronger and more comfortable they get varez, Dept. MMT, The Reg ister and Tribune Syndicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. rrnf Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn W. Watkint (Restaur 4t Tribune syndicate. 1S62I More details about these cylinders and the companies that supply them can be found in my booklet on em physema, and a new supple ment to it. You may order (he booklet by sending 2S rents and a stamped, self-ad nrcsscn envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Al For greater home comfort! I Extruded Aluminum MVl DP-5000 Combination DOOR STOP & WEATHER STRIP A. I- door Hop in) Mlkrl door iHiniiiiriHtf llfhlprnof. W '-" - v rHYWIHI! Bears, Boys and Birds Clean Out Briar Patch The big, black bear from up on the ridge knew the exact location of the patch where the "high bush blackberries" were turning from red-aftd-green to black; knew, too, just when they would be at their juiciest. With his bulk, thick fur, and stubborn detcrmina- tion, he could force his way to the very center of the brier patch where they grew. The farm boys also knew where and when the big, black, oblong berries would be heavily festooning the bushes. The black bear had no oc casion to know, in fact didn't care at all, that the boys call ed the high bush blackberry a bramble." "Bramble," however, was n appropriate name for it was a tangle of several acres. The boys always estimated the crops as "bushels and bushels." It was a race every summer to see wno got me lion's share of the berries, the boys or the bears. Bears Winners Usually the bears were the winners. They were In on the ground floor - could work the patch day or night, rain or shine and, being scornful Df the spines and prickles and the saw-toothed leaves, they waded In and gathered a little more than their fair share of each year's crop. The wild birds of the area knew, too. They took priority over all the others. They built their nests in the tangle and watched as the white flowers decorated the bushes. As a matter of personal safely, they took every advantage to hide in the tangle. Small animals, pursued by a hungry predator, scampered into the base of the black berry bushes. The fox, the wildcat, or any predator lesser than the black bear, avoided the sharp prickles and the stabbing spines. Neither the black hears, the boys, the birds that nested there, nor the rabbit that hid in the tangle realized or cared that the high bush blackberry belonged to the family that proudly claimed the rose as a relative. Neither did they know that most cultivated blackberries came from this wild slock. Some visitors, maybe a lit tle more observant than their fellows, might remark it was a little peculiar that a black berry might be red, when It's green. Wid.ly Distributed The black bears from Ihe ridge knew that the high bush blackberry grew profusely along many county roads, in abandoned fields, and along fence rows. What they didn't know was that this "bramble" has a very wide distribution throughout most of our coun try. The hybridizer, the plant experimenter, and the nurs eryman have done some won- iderful things with the domes ! tic blackberry. The seeds have become fewer, Ihe fruit jui cier, the berry plumper, and the prirklrs a little less sharp. But the fannhny still pre fers those that grow In the tangle and the thicket. So docs the black bear and he has been enjoying high bush blackberries a much lunger time. F.ipy to install, I'se to re place smhmI ilnnr Mop or in cnnjiini'liiiii with it. t. Inner of Anmlicil .Natural, Ann di.cil Alliras or Alarrnme finish, Nile strips are pre eopeil at lop for perfect fit. Trouble free. W on't rot or warp. Get It At A Corner 6th I fir St. Phoni 773-5333 Plenty ef Free Plrktrtf Ex-Medford Woman Author of Story A story In the February issue of "True West" maga zine Includes a story on the Appaloosa horse entitled. "Spotted Horse of the West." It was written by Mis, Rob ert Arlandsnn, under the pen name of Lee H.vlsnd. Mrs. Arlandsnn, formerly of Medtord, now makes her home in San Diego. Mrs Arlandsnn s hook. ' Mr. Puffer-Bill's Invention." orig inally scheduled for publica tion this month, has been de layed until next summer. Previous commitments' of the artist was noted as Ihe cause of the delay. I Number Working On Farms Drops From 1961 Total Washington -TO- An aver age of 6.910,000 persons worked on farms during each of the first 11 months of 1962, according to the Agriculture Departments statistical re porting service. This is almost 4 per cent less than the average number of workers on farms during the comparable period of 1961. The number of family workers decreased about 4 per cent and hired workers decreased 3 per cent. Down 10 Per Cent Compared with averages for the five preceding years 1956-60-the total number of workers in 1962 was down 10 per cent. Family workers were down 12 per cent and hired hands down 5 per cent The rapid decrease in the number of smaller farms dur ing recent years has reduced the number of farm family workers more than hired workers. This has occurred despite the continued advance toward perfection of ma chines for replacing hired labor in a long array of tasks. Sam Relative Decrease In the farm labor survey week of Nov. 13-24 there were 6,033,000 persons working on farms. This was 4 per cent lower than m the correspond ing week of 1961 which was the former low mark in total farm workers for November. Both family and hired work ers showed the same relative decrease in numbers of about 4 per cent from last year. Family workers in Novem ber totaled 4,648,000 and hired hands totaled 1,385,000. In terms of numbers, family workers made up about 77 per cent of the entire working force, which is about usual for the month. Hired workers this year, as usual made up the largest part of the total in summer months, reaching more than one-third in July. Publisher Asks Kennedy Assistance New York -MPlu An appeal has been made by one of the publishers of the nine major daily newspapers closed down by the seven-day-old printers strike for intervention by President Kennedy to effect a back-lo-work truce. Joseph Kingsbury Smith, publisher of the New York Journal - American, proposed Thursday night that Kennedy, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller or Mayor Robert F. Wagner, 'or all three," issue "a public appeal to the striking workers to agree to a 60-day truce in the strike." "During that lime, they would return to work with the understanding that talks would continue day and night during Ihe 60 days to effect a settlement of the dispute, Smith said. "I am frankly ap palled at the apparent altitude of the federal mediators thai nothing can be done to bring about a quick settlement of this strike." The Family Council Kditor't note: Tht Family Council (obiiMi of a Jude. phchialr1ftl, thret clergvmen. three editors and a wumcn'i editor, fcach arUr-Jr Is a summary of a family dliiireemsnt presented U the Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance rounselora and tonal workers, fcdlted bjr by Mrs. Alma Denny (Copyright by flencril Features Corp.) Mr. L. I. - They'd stop tience and failh to tackle one Influenza Increases Throughout County Influena Inrroased in Jack son county during the week to account for 37 of Ihe BH cases of communicable dis eases reported in the county. Of the cases, '12 were re ported in Medford. B in Shady Cove, S in Ashland, and 2 in Jacksonville. Second oti the list was measles with 15 cases. Of these Shady Cove reported 10, Medford 4, and Ashland 1. Six cases of nuinips were reported, with Ashland re porting 3, Central Point 2. and Medford 1. Medford also reported 3 rases of German measles, 2 of chicken pox, and one each of whooping cough and infectious hepatitis. Talent reported two cases of pneumonia and Eagle Point and Ashland reported one case each of pneumonia. quarreling if they moved to a brighter home. Saul I. - If Peg is a baby, she d be a baby no matter where we live. Mrs. L. I. - My son has been married a year and it's been the longest year of my life. One week he's happy, the next week he talks of ending the marriage. It seems to me that their differences are the usual ones over money, late meals and a messy home. But I think they're each extra edgy because of the gloomy, dark apartment they have. It's on the ground floor rear. Its win dows face a dirty brick wall and there's never a ray of sunlight. They must burn lights during the day. How can anyone avoid the blues in such a place? I learned that they can get the same layout on the ninth floor of the same building for only $5 more a month. I'm sure that would save the mar riage. But Saul won't even try it out. Saul I. - Nothing can make this woman grow up. Just moving up a few flights won't change things because it won't change Peg. That job was up to her parents and herself. They've left her still a headstrong baby. Only they were clever enough to hide the fact until they'd hooked a sucker to marry her. Now I must figure how to bow out and hand the job back to them. For instance, every single day she must put In a call to her father. She still calls him Daddykins. She's home all day with nothing to do, but unless her mother stops in to tidy up, she waits for me to help her with the dishes and dusting. As for marketing, she still blows the whole week's food bud get on nonsense like shad roe and cheese cake. What's all (hat got lo do with a ground floor apartment? The Council - The only time a change in housing can solve a problem is when the problem is completely one of bad housing. When a basical ly compatible couple is un happy because they must double up in someone else's home, naturally moving to a home of their own ends the distress. But we agree with Saul here. Lifting the scene of operations by eight stories won't make the bugbears vanish. After the novelty of the new vista wears off, the quarters will look like the same old battlefield. However, Mrs. l.'s sugges tion is a good one for another reason. Surroundings do af fect mood. No matter how glum these young folks feel, a bright sunshiney apartment might perk lliein up sufficient ly to try to resolve their in compatibilities. It might do what liancpiilizers are sup posed to do make them calmer, more relaxed, more amenable to marriage coun seling. At present they face each oilier in sombre shad ows 'round the clock, with no rays of cheer to penetrate the deep blue funk envelop ing them. Miraculously one small change leads to another. Merely planning lo move will get Peg and Saul back to talking on a responsible lev el. Part of the talk may be about a few sessions with a counselor, first for Peg who must learn what being a mar ried woman involves, Ihen for Saul who must develop pa- problem at a time in his mar riage, rather than chuck it over because of the quick piie-up. We assume this marriage started off with love, of a sort. And by now these two realize that's not enough. The lovers must also have enough maturity to know they must work at their marriage. Peg definitely hasn't. Maybe a "change of venue," as they say in the courts, will im bue her with new determina tion to establish a real mar riage, defined by Ambrose Bierce as "a community con sisting of master, mistress, two slaves, making in all two." Tax Foundation Observes 25th Year of Founding New York-1'PD-Twenty-five years ago this month, a few business leaders headed by Alfred P. Sloan and Lewis H. Brown met in the University Club here and announced plans for an organization which they knew faced an up hill battle from the start. The organization was the Tax Foundation Inc., which got its papers of incorporation as a not-for-profit group on Jan. 19, 1938, in the month following the meeting. It was dedicated lo the task of keep ing the electorate informed on government fiscal activ ities at all levels-federal, state and local. In an article included in a booklet marking the passage of 25 years, chairman Ros well Magill, attorney, teacher and author in the tax field, said that "well-informed citi zens can be relied on to insist On better government at less cost." Cost Nearly Doubled Comparing the fiscal situa tion today with that of 1937, Magill said "the cost of gov ernment, as a percentage of the nation's total product of goods and services, has nearly doubled. The bare figures do not portray the vast extension of governmental regulation and control into areas of the economy once regarded as en tirely private." Magill noted that those who started the foundation felt that government tax matters should be examined and ana lyzed constantly by an "ob jective, n o n - governmental group." Frederic G. Donner, chairman of General Motors Corp., wrote in the same pub lication that research such as that done by the foundation, "effectively presented and widely distributed, is basic in a democratic society which depends for its guidance on an informed electorate. "In many ways, the issues are too large and too import ant to depend on the research of government alone." U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), chairman of the Sen ate Finance Committee, and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.), chairman of the House Com mittee on Ways and Means, also hailed the need for work such as that done by the Tax Foundation. The average adult weight in the United States is about 15 pounds above the weight that corresponds with the best health record. FIRE LOSS UP New York-iUPD-The nation's annual fire loss has gone up about $130 million a year in 12 years, the Insurance Infor ma tion Institute estimates. How much of the loss is rep resented by shrinkage of the dollar was not estimated. 100 tram neutril spirits SO proof, Inlinulionsl Distilleries Co., L A. NEW DISPOSABLE Chirac-- - UTH -- A "Ihrow Bway'' nxyurn ma.sk just in troduced lo U. S. hospitals is a far cry from the heavy rub hor masks commonly used for this type of treatment. The new disposable ma.sk. in troduced by Chemetron cor porations N C G division, weighs but half an ounce. GEMSTONE JEWELRY Give A Gift That Will Be Cherished A Lifetime SUGGESTIONS: NfCKLACtS BROACHES IARRINGS SWEATER GUARDS SCATTER PINS RINGS IOLO TIES TIE BARS TIE TACKS CUFF LINKS SETTING: DENDRITIC AGATI MOSS AGATC TIGER EYI RHODONITE JASPER AGATE JADE PETRIFIED WOOD OPAL CARNELIAN AGATI MANY OTHERS ALSO Native Gold Nugget Jewelry I Arrow Head Jewelry APPLEGATE RIVER ROCK SHOP AT McKEE BRIDGE Opan Until 9 00 P.M. Phone 899 1054 V i L 5 Announces the Opening of a Continuous Buffet Dining Facility in the MATADOR ROOM Starting Sunday, December 16, 1962 ALL DINNERS... $1.95 Includes Roast Beef, Baked Virginia Ham and Roast Turkey plus 20 different salads prepared by our master chef and assorted desserts. Stop in and enjoy your dining from this elegant buffet in the restful atmosphere and decor of the New Matador Room. Children always welcome. Children under 12 95c. This buffet dining room will be open 7 days a week and will serve lunches Mondays through Saturday at $1.25. We will continue to serve the exquisile foods from our unique gourmet menu In the BOLERO room everyday. This menu features charcoal broiled steaks, prime rib of beef, flaming Chateaubriand, veal scallopini and delightful fish dishes as broiled rock lobster tails, swordfish steak, frog legs and COQUILLE ST, JACQUES. 1206 No. Riverside Phone 773-5474 DANCING Oasis Ballroom Saturday Night-Eagle Point Jay & Ray and the Dixie Drifters Invite You to Country Style Good Time. Join The Fun From 9 Til 1:00 "Y'all Come" THE TIMBER ROOM 5 South Riverside Under the Supervision of Elvera Walker SPECIAL MEXICAN DINNERS Served after 5 P.M. OPEN 6 AM to 10 PM DAILY With a Menu of Your Favorite Dishes WOODEN SHOE The 1 J?" w(tl IN HOTEL HOLLAND Plan Now to see this LAUGH, DANCE or LISTEN Presents the "LIKE-ABLES" TRIO Tha KATZ Brothers, a fttt moving N.vjda Typo Show-bir unit from Navadl's Top Night Spots. PROJECTED SHOWMANSHIP, COMEDY GOOD VOCALS Now Playing lively, Swinging Group They're good in all of it! EDANC DREAMLAND BALLROOM SATURDAY - 9 to 1 Bill Lively's Western Swing Band Good Danceable Country Western Music MCE DA COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE (8 Miles up Elk Creek Road) Every Saturday 9 till 1 Margaret Hanson Pick Woods Don Gillespie Bob Burton Dave Johnson Music tor ill ages Western Rock & Roll Pop Twist Help Your Carrier Boy obtain New Subscribers for The Annual MAIL TRIBUNE Christmas Contest For every new subscriber he obtains by December 17 your carrier will win points toward his Christ mas Shopping. You can help him by giving tips on new families who have not yet subscribed to the Mail Tribune. To be sure that he gets full credit tell him or . . . Phone Mail Tribune-772-6141 and ask for "Circulation Dept." MEDFORDt-aWTRIBUNE .crtWUIll.. 'ij.sw""w r -- .'X. a
