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I L THURSDAY. MARCH 28, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON The Medical Roundup i 0 Emeritus Consultant la Medicln Mayo Clinic Emeritus Prof e nor of Medicln Mayo Clinic (Rt liter and Tribune Syndicate. 1963) I 'in i IT Alvarez once did; PeopU Who HaU To Go "On the ShoII" A mother has written me as many do-to tell me that she fells terribly distressed i because her children have I grown up into ado lesccncc, I and in a way, lhave left her 4 -mentally and Is p i r i tually f I They no long- er depend on her and need her as they instead, they are finding their own friends and their own interests; so now she is left feeling lonely and lost. She says, "My babies are gone!" She admits that this sounds silly-she knows that children must grow up; if they didn't, it would be a tragedy. But she asks, "What will I do when they have really left me?" She says she hag a fine husband whom she loves de- votcdly, so she will not be left entirely alone. She al ready has found some outside interests; she is teaching part-lime, which is very good but she still feels the need for something to keep her busy and to keep her from think-inn. She wonders if she should have another child. I think this would be unwise. The time to have children is when a woman is young, and can easily stand the loss of sleep and the constant strain of watchfulness that is needed. The woman wisely says that she hopes she won't now "over-protect" her children in an effort to hold them for a while longer. She feels a nervous breakdown coming and she wonders where she has gone wrong. 1 think this woman needs to learn to accept the "stcp duwns" lliul come with the years; she must accept them, and must quietly face the fact that such changes come to all of us. Also, there are com pensations. 1 was just talking to a wom an whose children are now all married and in their own homes. She says she enjoys the peace thai has come to her after SO years of hard work well done every day. She enjoys the privilege of some limes sleeping a little later in the morning, and she enjoys the quiet in her home. She has been wise enough to go out and help others. For years she has been a volunteer assistant in a hos pital; and now, while she is still a fast and accurate typ ist, she is working as part time secretary to the pastor 'of her church. Aging mm also greatly need to learn to "step down" grace fully and without painful emotion. A man who perhaps for years was president of a bank can now, after several years of retirement, go into his old place and be almost unnoticed. This hurts him. He, who was once one of the offi cers of a Bankers Association, can now go to a meeting of this group and no one will ask his opinion about any thing; the chairman will not ask him to "say a few words." This will, of course, hurl him, but he must say to him self, "That is the way life is. so why fuss. The younger men arc now fighting their way to the lop-as I once did 1 am glad 1 don I have to miike that fight any longer.' A while ago I was talking lo a man of 60 who in his youth was his college cam pus's greatest hcro-lhcir All American "end" and pass re ceiver. Ho said, "Isn't it strange? Now when I go to the campus, only the head coach knows me, and remem bers who I once was. Only he pays me a little respect. Luck ily, it docs not hurt mo any more, like it used to." One of the hardest things that comes to many a man is retirement at 65. He is wise then if he goes right out and finds himself a job; or better yet, four or five jobs, as I did 12 years ago when I "re tired." Because of the joy these jobs have given me, I have had more fun than I ever had before in my life. Retirement is all right if men and women will only accept the steppings-down from po sitions of power and respect, and will then fill their days with useful work. Porphyria I suggest that the people who ask me for information about the rare disease porphy ria watch for the book writ ten by my good friend Dr. Geoffrey Dean of South Af rica. It will probably be out in about six months and will be published by Lippincolt and Co., of Philadelphia. In the meantime, the es sential thing for people with porphyria to remember is to keep away from barbiturates, and especially the barbiturate that is given as an anesthetic in brief operations. Some per sons with porphyria and an extremely sensitive skin, must keep out of strong sunlight. There is yet no known drug that cures the disease. People with it should tell their rela-1 tives that all of them should i be on the watch for the typ- j leal symptoms-great nervous-; ness ollen wun aoauniiiiai j pain. j Disease of the gallbladder is seen 3 or 4 times as oiien in women as in men. If you want to know about this dis ease, send for Dr. Alvarez' booklet, "Gallstones and Gall bladder Disease.' Address your request, enclosing io cents, to Dr. Walter C. Al varez, Dept. MMT, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. hree Accidents Are Reported in City Three automobile accidents were investigated by Medford police Tuesday. Treated at Sacred Heart hospital for injuries suffered about 1 p.m. in a automobile accident at the intersection of Eighth and Fir sts., was Maxene Freda Dungey, 42, of 255'8 Table Rock rd. She was treated and released, it was reported. According to police, the Dungey vehicle was involved In an accident with a car op erated by Asa Lee Lewis Jr., 27, of Glendale, Ore. Maxene Dungey was cited by police for failing to yield the right of way, and Lewis for not having an operator's license. Cited for improper lane usage following an accident on South Grape st. between 12th and Monroe sts., about 3:45 p.m. was Theodore Gun erens Thompson, 76, of 26 Newtown st. Operator of the other vehicle was Lyle Gar vin Mann, 43, of route 1, box 217. Medford. The other accident investi gated occurred about 9:40 a.m. and Involved cars op erated by Howard W. Pin nock, 56, of route 3, box 222A, Medford, and William Docly Liltlefield, 27, of Eagle Point rural route, Shady Cove, ac cording to police. Springfield Man Held On Weapons Count Gerald Thomas Pcclz, 20. of Springfield, Ore., was ar rested by Medford police early yesterday after it was discovered he was carrying a loaded revolver without a per mit. Police questioned the man after a Trailways Bus com pany hostess told officers a man on the bus (old her he was a detective with a Cali fornia police department and had showed her the rcvolOer. Morris Returns from Reserve Training First Lt. Brad Morris, U. S. Army Reserve, recently re turned from two weeks of ac tive duty at Ft. Lewis, Wash., where in addition to his other duties as a quartermaster officer he taught a class on the threat of Communism to the members of the Strategic Army command unit. He was attached to the 114th Quartermaster Com pany, a unit assigned to the Sixth Army. Morris is battalion supply officer for the local Second Battalion, 414th regiment, (BCT) headquartered at 701 North Columbus ave. Record High Use Of Electricity Is Noted by Company Portland, Oregon - Record high use of electricity by cus tomers of Pacific Power and Light company and comple tion of major power transmis sion interconnections for de livery of new power supplies to its service areas marked progress of the company dur ing 1962, stock holders were told Thursday. In the year's annual report to shareholders, Pdul B. Mc Kee, chairman of the board of directors, said PP&L's 396,466 electric customers used 7,371, 407,000 kilowatt-hours of elec tricity, a gain of 5.4 per cent over power use in the year previous. The record use also pushed the one-day peak load on the system to a new high of 1,684,000 kilowatts, more than 100.000 kilowatts above the peak of the previous winter. Residential Consumers Residential consumers used an average of 9,111 kilowatts hours, a gain of 325 KWH over 1961, and a total that is more than double the nation al average household use. In most Oregon and Washington districts the average use ex ceeds 10,000 kilowatt hours annually, the company noted. Supplying electric and oth er utility services to 240 west tern communities and neigh boring agricultural areas re sulted in total operating rev enues of $100,158,000, an in crease of 5.1 per cent. The earnings of the company, after provisions for the preferred share dividends, amounted to $18,296,000 compared to $15, 530,000 in 1961. Completed In 1362 The earnings were equiva lent to $1.28 per share on the 14,276,325 shares of common outstanding at the end of the year compared with $1.15 per share on the 13,445,978 shares outstanding at the end of 1961. Four quarterly divi dends of 24 cents a common share were declared. Completed during 1962 for the transmission network were a 230,000-volt capacity interconnection near Walla Walla, Wash., and similar ca pacity lines between Medford and Roseburg and Roseburg and Albany, Ore., and in cen tral Wyoming. PP&L started service to U. S. Steel's big iron ore mining and milling oper ation, one of the largest new industries in the West. It also finished a hydroelec tric plant of 18,000-kiIowatU capacity on the Klamath river and started work on a 200,000 kilowatt steam-electric addi tion to its big generating plant serving Wyoming. The new unit will double the size of the plant, which is located near the company's Glenrock coal field. Speaker Noted for Clinic Meeting Dr. Joseph H. Trevleaven, state administrator of the mental health division, will speak at the 10th annual meeting of the Family and Child Guidance Clinic Wednesday, April 17. The dinner meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Rogue Valley Country club. Edward Collins president of the clinic board noted the clinic is now in its 10th year of operation. LOOKI LOOK) ELLIS MARKET Crater Lake Ave. Have LOCAL DAIRY PRODUCTS ONLY! S&H Green Stamps fri GIGANTIC SPRING SIPffiCTACtfJIl SEARS SHOPPERS CERTIFIED VALUES! 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