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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. MARCH 7. 1963 PIGGLY WIGGLY lsTAMP IsTAMpJ m Blade Cut U.S. D A. Choice blade cut beef pot roasts . . . they're carefully trimmed to remove excess fat and bone to -give you more edible meat per pound. VE GIVE I GREEN STAMPS, lb. 7-Bone Chuck Roast U.S.D.A. Choice Lean Ground Beef Save at Piggly Wiggly Medium Sharp Cheese Tasty cheddar lb. Luncheon Meats Swift's Premium package Bologna, Pickle & Pimiento, Salomi or Olive loaf Simple Simon Fruit or Lean Beef Chuck teaks 29c " S.D.A. Choice beef marinate or ten deriie for added flavor. lb. LlCo) Northern v . Tissues Soft and gentle tissues at a special low price Regular 23c T""l I Xi Plus S & H Green Stamps All Grinds HILLS BROS. COFFEE 49c : 97c Save On Hills Bros. 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Pricos effective March 7, 8 and 9. limit Rights Reserved Florida Pink 2Lfor2LHC Operations For Stomach Ulc.rt The more patients I see with an ulcer - and I have been seeing them for 58 years - the more reluctant I am to let one of them be oper ated on. S o often I can give the man perfect relief if I can only get him to stop worrying and to ease up on the strain of his life. He may even have to change to a less tense or exacting Job, or he may have to get away from a boss who is constantly driving him or fussing at him. A few hundred times, a man with an ulcer has said to me, "You know, Doctor, it's the strangest thing; for the past few months I have been walking the floor every night with pain. And then the day I locked my desk and bought a ticket to come and consult you, I lost the pain. For the past week I have been sleeping like a baby and eating everything I want to cat without any distress. I maintain that when a va cation or a let-up of strain can do so much for a man why should one cut out most of his stomach and perhaps leave him more or less of a physical wreck, perhaps with a new ulcer? Why put him on a strict diet? Why not, instead, try to se cure for him mental peace? I could tell of dozens of cases in which a patient had a flare up of ulcer pain lust because something went wrong In his business or in his home. For Instance, ' a boyhood friend of mine was perfectly well until his early fifties when his adored wife found out she had a cancer of the breast. With this, he got bad ulcer for which someone operated on him. He was well until his wife's cancer came back when again he got a bad ulcer and a surgeon removed more of his stomach. He was then well until his wife died when he had a terrible flare. up of ulcer symptoms. After that, he was well enough un til he got into a nasty law-suit over his wife s estate - and again he got a very painful ulcer. There are cases, of course, in which an ulcer cannot be kept under control, and then the man is glad to try an oper ation. But I have seen many of these men who, on return ing to their work and strain, got their ulcer pain back again, fn one of the worst of these cases the man could not be helped at all - even after an operation - because he lived with an avenging con science which would not leave him alone. I often say to a man with severe ulcer, "If an oper ation would surely cure you, or if it would surely do you no harm, I would gladly let you be operated on. But there is a considerable percentage of persons who are not cured by an operation, and are even made worse. A number of them get a new ulcer that usually is more painful and more dangerous than the original one. Many a consultant sees so many of these poor or bad results of surgery for an ulcer that he hates ever to have one of his ulcer patients operated on. A while ago, I read a fine report by Dr. Everett D. Kiefcr of the great Lahey Clinic in Boston who told of the results obtained by 572 patients who had most of their stomach removed for a duodenal ulcer. This Is the operation usually performed today. The surgeon s nope is that with the removal of most of the stomach there will be so little gastric Juice formed that the old ulcer will heal, and a new one will not develop. But unfortunately, a o m e- limes a new ulcer docs de velop. Four of the Lahey patients promptly died from the operation, and 2 per cent more died soon afterward, which shows that the oper ation, especially In the cases of older persons, Is not to be accepted throughtlessly. Dr. Kiefcr and his assocl ales studied the surviving pa ticnls some 10 yeara after the operation to see how they were getting along. Twelve per cent, or one In eight, said that the operation had not completely controlled their symptoms. Eight per cent were suffer lng from what Is called a per sistent "dumping ayndrome" which means that every time the person ate, he waa much distressed, perhaps with nau- a fecting of bloating, fevcrishncss, chilliness, sweat ing or a need for moving his bowels. Naturally, such persons read to eat; some go down to skin and bones and stay very thin. Without much of a stom- h, 34 per cent of the Lahey Clinic patients had trouble keeping their weight. Such persons, if their work is hard, may find it impossible to go back to their old job. Eighty- two per cent found that they could eat normal-sized meals without distress. Obviously, the ideal opcr- tion for an ulcer has not yet been devised. This is why, in my experience, physic i a n s nd surgeons with ulcers al most never permit anyone to perate on them. My esteemed and learned friend, Professor Owen Wang- enstcen of Minneapolis, is now trying to cure ulcers by freezing the lining of the stomach, and I surely hope this idea works well. If the freezing can stop the stomach from secreting acid the ulcer should heal. If you have "hunger pains" n the pit of the stomach or just to the right of it before meals, you may have an ulcer, For a list of symptoms which usually are NOT due to an ulcer, send for Dr. Alvarez's booklet, "Ulcers of the Stom ach and Duodenum." Just send 29 cents and a stamped self-addressed envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. ' MMT, Box 9S7, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Novel Seat Belts Made in Sweden New York - 'UPD - A unique auto seat belt, a combination lap and chest type that is anchored at three points in stead of the usual two places. was demonstrated here re cently. The three-point belt, which is standard equimcnt on all Swedish made Volvo cars sold in the United States, consists of a single band extending di agonally downward over the chest and across the hips. The band is anchored to the car on the door pillar above the shoulder, on the floor be low the door and on the drive shaft tunnel where the single catching device of the belt locks into place. Tests have shown the belt can withstand a force comparable to 8,000 pounds. When not in use. the bell. which the Volvo company says exceeds all current med ical and technical safety re quirements, hangs at the door pillar so that the strap does not clutter the seats or floor of the car Paintings by Bend Youth on Display Salcm-flJPIl-Paintings by a Bend youth are beine His. Diavcd here in an unusual nnp. man show in the Capitol cof- tee snop. The arlist is Charles O'Brien Donley, 10, who paints from a wheel chair. Donley was stricken with muscular dystrophy in grade school. POPULAR ITEM New York - IUPII - Consump tion of latex foam rubber in the United Slates is expected to rise to 157 million pounds in 1963. a 10 per cent increase over the domestic total - of last year, according to the La tex Foam Rubber council. Army Weans Missile From Launching Pad The U. S. Army is weaning its maturing Pershing missile from the launching pad. Within a few weeks, the sturdy little rocket should be ready to take over Its Job of replace the Army's Redstone missile in the European de fenses this year. Redstone is reliable but It Is cumbersome and uses diftlcult-to-handle liquid fuels. bolstering the ballistic missile Pershing is considerably light- striking force on the European I cr and uses comparatively safe continent. solid fuels. Pershing then will have shed Its reliance on the DAALIA. fl'iuAr of UUUIVICO WIU launching pad. This Is one the last steps toward making It combat-ready. So far, the results look good. Monday night, missile ex perts wheeled a Pershing mis sile off the concrete firing pad and shot it from a mobile transporter-erector, launcher parked at a slight angle on a sand bank. The nccdlc-noscd missile bolted from the vehicle and struck out on a successful 200 mile shot to a target area in the Atlantic Ocean. The Persh ing thus racked up its 41st success in 4D shots from the cape, a record unequalled among ballistic rockets being tested here. Braak Dependence Army experts are anxious to break Pershing from de pendence on a launching pad because the missile was de signed a "shoot and scoot" weapon that could be carted around a rugged countryside and set up and fired on a few minutes' notice. Pershing, In effect, is the mightiest field artillery piece ever developed, at least In the Free World. The two-stage missile will Workers Advice White Plains, N. Y. - (UN) -How much radiation can the human body safely absorb? What pimple measures can be taken by workers engaged in industrial radiography to eliminate radiation hazards? What Is the differenc- be tween a "curie" and a "roent gen?" These are some of the questions answered in a 53 page brochure, "Safe Hand ling of Radioisotopes in In dustrial Radiography" Just published by Picker X-Ray corporation. Radioactive iso topes such as cobalt 60 and Iridium 192 are now used for "x-rjylng" steel pipe, struc lual welds, missile compon ents, auto engine parts and many other products to spot hidden defects. They can be handled without danger to life or limb, the booklet says, but you have to know how. The safest time to drive a car is between 9 and 11 a.m., according to Dodge safety engineers. raw i m CLOCK THROUGH WINDSHIELD-Tlme stood still In Bes semer, Ala., Tuesday when a tornado tossed a Jewelry Iter) clock Into a truck windshield. The ornamental watch no mil ly hung outside the store. (UPt)
