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PAIN IN CHEST
A pain in the cheat sends
many a person In his twenties
or thirties to a physician be-
cause ne
greatly tears
coronary
heart disease.
Usually, men
ol this age
can be reas
sured in a
m i n u t e, be
cause of their
youth; women
OrarM can De reas-
lured bacause of their youlh
and also because of their sex:
coronary heart disease, which
Is due to a narrowing of one
of the arteries of the heart
comes In men usually AFTER
the age of 40, and in women
after the age of so or ou
In thousands of cases, the
fact that the pain which the
person complains of Is never
brought on Dy exercise or an
ger is enough to show that it
does not arise in the neari.
Many persons with chest
pain due to anxiety go in
daily fear of heart disease. Of
ten this great fear took noid
of them when a couple of rel
atives or friends suddenly
died of a coronary attack.
Many a woman with fear of
heart disease keeps going into
spells of "air hunger," in
which she will run to a win
dow "to get more air."
This symptom is always due
to nervousness, and it should
be treated only with reassur
ance. To give drugs for it is to
do harm. Missing heart-beats
and palpitation also are al
most always harmless. Many
persons suffer from them for
40 yean, or until they die of
old age.
Anyone who can walk rap
Idly along the street or can
run up atalrs or can play ten
nis comfortably haa a good
heart.
What, then, can be causing
a pain in the chest? Often, the
pain is In the chest wall. It
may be In the muscle between
two ribs, or In the gristle be
tween the ends of the ribs and
the breast bone, or in a nerve
that runs under one of the
ribs, or In the Joint between
the lower end of the breast
bone and the little end-nlcce
of cartilage (gristle). It can be
due to an arthritis in the little
Joints that are located at the
end of a tenth rib In fronl
On rare occasions, it the
chest pain comes with a deep
Dream, ii is due to a slight
pleurisy (inflamation of the
lining of the lung or the chest
cavity).
oraaass in Muscles
Every so often when I ex
amine the chest wall of a
man or a woman who is
frightened about a "heart
pain," I find a soreness in the
muscles that move the right
arm. When I ask. "What un
usual work did you do yester
day?" the person says, "I put
up curtains," or "1 papered
the pantry shelves," or "I
painted the kitchen," or "I
played my first game of ten
nis (his spring," and that ex
plains the pain. It Is like a
"charlcy horse" In the leg.
Rarely, a severe pain of
ahort duration is due to a
cramp in a section of the mus
cle between two ribs.
A burning pain can be thnl
of "heartburn." Tills Is due to
the regurgitation of acid Has
trie Juice into a uullet which.
in some unknown way, has
become irritable. Heartburn
can be due to loss of temper,
to eating radishes or onions or
to smokhiR too much. It can
be relieved best by sipping a
half-glass of water In which a
lialf-tcaspoonful of baking
soda has been dissolved. Tak
ing an antacid tablet cannol
work so well.
Pain in the chest is some
times due to a nervous spasm
In the gullet, or in the
"cardia." the valve located
where the gullet enters the
atomach; it may be due to the
pinching of a bit of stomach
In the hole in the midriff
inrougn which thr gullet goes i
a "hiatus hernia." I rarely i
see anyone with a hiatus j
hernia that produces enough
symptoms to warrant an op '
ration.
A pain In the right side of
the chest under the shoulder I
blade can be arising in a dis-1
eased gallbladder, and a sun-1
liar pain in the li ft side of !
the chest can be due to disease
in the pancreas- the digest. 1
ivc gland that lies back of the I
atomaeh.
Medford Man Elected
Secretary of Group
James Sheldon. Medford
was elected secretary of the
uregon i ullccturs association
i ,t... ,
miimai convention
me group held in Portland
Highlight f the conventiot
was the presentation of jchol
arships to thn.r finaliMs ii
the state wide essav contes
tor high school seniors o.
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TUESDAY, APHIL 23. 113
Roundup
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Emeritui LnniulUnt In MtdlClM
Mayo Clinic
Bmtritut Proftnor of Mtdlcln
Mayo Clinic
(Ktiuttr nd Trlbun Ijrndlcat.
IMS)
Pain or discomfort in the
chest can often be due to gas
distending the bowel. A too
full stomach can also produce
pain in the chest. Naturally,
in all cases of persisting pain
in the chest, the chest should
be x-rayed.
Pain arising in the heart
can usually be relieved in a
few minutes by dissolving a
tablet of nitroglycerin in the
mouth. When, as commonly
happens, a man has a typical
anginal heart pain which
comes with exertion but still
has normal electrocardio
grams, a so-called (Dr.) Master
two-step test will tell in a
minute that he has a nar
rowed coronary artery.
As the famous heart spec
ialist, Dr. Paul Dudley White,
has said, "distressing indigest
ion can lead to a wrong diag
nosis of coronary heart dis
ease." In his booklet on "Heart
Trouble," Dr. Alvarez ex
plains In detail the "Master
two-step" test and describes
what happens when a heart
attack occurs. You may ob
tain a copy of this booklet by
sending 25 cents and a
stamped, self-addressed en
velope with your request to
Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept.
MMT, Box 9S7, Dea Moines 4,
Iowa.
Man, Boys, Animals and
Insects All 'Usad' Bridge
The placement of the cross
over was sheer accident; the
great tree had grown at the
edge of the little, fast-moving
stream. The water, made swift
and strong by heavy rains,
had washed the soil away
from the roots, toppling the
trunk athwart the little riv
er. On the opposite bank,
the farther end was securely
wedged; the stream was
bridged.
Some years ago men or
boys with axes had hacked
away the roots and branches
from both ends; what remain
ed was only the trunk. A
log across a stream, a natural
cross-over that had been there
a long time, much longer
than any of those now. using is
could remember, but over the
years, countless feet had
crossed It, sometimes maybe
Just to get to the other side.
During most of every year
the little stream was deep
and swift moving; the cross
over log, as it was referred
to by those that knew of It,
saved considerable distance
for those who moved across
the area; it was a short cut
to the other side.
Ax Marks Halped
Sonic one, some lime or
other, had tried to flatten
out the roundness of the up
per part of the tog. They had
only partly Succeeded, but
the ax marks helped a little;
afterwards, the trunk was n
little less slippery. The bark
had long since rotted away;
the bare wood showed pa-sty-
whltc and semi-smooth.
There was very good reason
lo use the cross-over when it
was wet, for it was then, aft
er heavy rains, that the
stream ran bank - full, and
noisily swift. Then, too, all
of the boys In the vicinity
scurried back and forth along
the trunk displaying their
sense of balance and sure
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Shady Cove YFW
Elects Officers
Shady Cove Jobie Bryan
was elected commander of
Steelhead post, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, at a meeting
April 19.
Others elected were Mel
Gibson, senior vice command
er; Clifford Shelby, junior
vice commander; Reed Mc
Kay, quartermaster; Clarence
Meyer, post advocate; Sam
uel Apling, chaplain; John
Holgate, surgeon; and Ken
neth Clair, trustee for three
years.
Officers who have been
appointed so far Include Rob
ert Hammons, adjutant; John
Wilson, officer of the day, and
Harry Birch, service officer.
Visitors at the meeting
were George Conncil, Rogue
River, district commander;
Jim William, commander
elect, Fred Kerby and John
Jenkins, Ashland post, and
Frank Otley, commander. Ed
Smith and John Loomer, Med
ford. Refreshments were served
by members of the auxiliary.
THANKS FOR PUBLICITY
New Boston, Mass. - HIPP-
The Board of Selection of this
Berkshire Hills hamlet (pop
ulation 150) passed a resolu
tion Monday formally thank
ing the officials and residents
of Boston, the state s capital
and largest city. Taking note
of Boston's designation as an
all-American city this year
and the promotional cam
paign featuring the slogan
"The New Boston," the se
lectmen's resolution thanked
Boston for all the free publicity.
Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. W ATKINS
(IUa liter tni Trifcunt
Synakara. '.Ml)
Others besides boys, and
men taking a shortcut to
work, used the cross-ovcr-log.
Of all, the squirrels and rac
coons accomplished it the easi
est. Lassar Beings Stayed
After the last human cross
ed over during daylight hours,
the log became a highway for
the wild creatures of the
field and the forest; skunks,
foxes and oppossums made
regular trips over and back.
During the darkness of the
nights the old log-bridge was
their's alone, and they made
the most of It.
Too, there were many less
cr beings present that had
no intention of crossing; they
moved In to the log itself.
Wood boring beetles, large
and small, ants and termites
all labored constantly to tear
apart or reduce the cross-over.
Sawdust from many of these
tunnelcrs fell into the hur
rying waters below and float
ed away to some unknown
and distant lodging place.
Dry rot, mildew and oth
er agencies of devastation
worked at it; water deposit
ed in cracks froze in winter
cold and exerted forces little
suspected by the scampering
leet that traversed the length
of the cross-over. By slow de
grees, the old fibers of the
dead wood snapped and
broke; every insect chewed
harder as if intent on has
tening final collapse.
No one will ever know
what human or animal was
the very last lo use the old
"bridge that spanned the
stream,' for it collapsed one
night broken in two. The
next day's light revealed the
damage; one lection had been
carried away by the stream,
the other end slanted sharply
downward from the bank, its
end causing a constant swirl
in the water. Gone was the
cross-over, unknown the ani
mal or the human that was
the last one across.
3y
American
BY LYLE C. WILSON
UPI Correspondent
It is bad news for the tax
payer that President Kennedy
encouraged organized Amer
ican Negroes
to make poli
tical medicine
in behalf o f
more foreign
a i d spending
in Africa. 1 1
is bad news
because organ
ized A m e r i
can Negroes
Wllion
comprise a
formidable polit
ical pressure group. If they
demand that Congress and the
Kennedy Adminstration in
crease foreign aid spending in
Africa, Congress and the Ken
nedy Adminstration are like
ly to increase it.
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Miss Sfacey Named
Teaching Assistant
Pamela Stacey, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Stacey
of Harbrooke rd.. Medfurd
has accepted a position a:
graduate teaching assistant at
the University of Illinois,
where she will work (or her
master's degree in French
Miss Stacey will graduate
from the University of Ore
gon in June. During her uni
versity career she spent a year
in Paris, studying at the Sor
bonne and the Institute of Eu
ropean study. She is a grad
nate of Medford High school
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Negroes Campaign
a committee representing
various Negro organizations I York, the committee decided
called on President Kennedy ! to establish a permanent link
in December. He told them between the American Negro
that the 20 million American leadership and the new Afri
Negroes had a responsibility , can nations. At this meeting,
for the U.S. role in Africa and ! American Negro leaders criti-
that he valued the concern
American Negroes felt for the
African peoples.
Pearson To Acquire
Nuclear Warheads
Ottawa-IUPII-Liberal leader
Lester B.Pearson Monday be -
came Canada s 14th prime
minister and immediately said
he would acquire nuclear
warheads for the nation's
armed forces. He pledged the
"friendliest possible" relations
with the United States.
4-H Club News
Weslsidt Club
The last meeting of the
Westside Home Improvement
4-H club was held at the home
of Corine Florey April 15 aft
er school.
The treasurer's report show
ed that the club made $9 at
the recent cake sale. Plans
(or entertaining the dads at
supper were discussed.
All members participated in
judging of table settings.
Refreshments were served
by Corine Florey.
Sandra Mayficld,
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, A (ortnignt ago in New
rized the recent Clay Commit
tee report on foreign aid and
the administration's proposed
reductions.
Roy Wilkins, executive sec
retary of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement
of Colored People, deplored
what he regarded as insignifi
1 cant ori(,ina anocation for
African aid. He raised this
question: "Is there a color line
in our foreign aid program."
Whitney M. Young of the
National Urban League said
he had been shocked by the
attitude of the Clay Commit-
Nutty Niltin Needles
Sandra Mayfield was host
ess to the recent meeting of
the Nutty Nitten Needles 4-H
club. Connie Varner, presi
dent, presided and members
answered roll call by telling
of a funny experience. Plans
for presenting a skit at the
Veterans Administration dom
iciliary were discussed.
A new reporter was elected
to replace the member who
dropped out of the club.
The next meeting will be
held April 23 at the home of
Rita Ford.
Sandra Mayficld,
Reporter
For More Foreign Aid
tee toward aid for African
nations. The attitude of the
Clay Committee was:
Immediate U.S. security
interests are less evident in
Africa than in countries closer
to the Soviet Union. But, the
United States definitely has
a stake in helping the new
African nations create a cli
mate of stability and growth
in freedom.
Western European na
tions should and do logically
bear most of the African aid
burden.
Clay's committee refused
to accept the view that the
United States always must
provide aid lest the new Afri
can nations accept help from
the Communist nations with
resulting political penetration
and eventual subversion. The
committee said it rejected this
iew because it did not be-
j lieve the new African nations
wisned to acquire a new mas
ter, having but recently shuck
ed the old or.e.
African Aid Proposals
The committee noted that
U.S. aid programs in the Afri
can area uniformly tended to
increase. As an over-all policy
guideline, the committee said
this:
"In the light of its other
responsibilities, the United
States cannot undertake to
support all of the African
countries."
Ii proposed that U.S. aid
to the Congo be limited to
half of all aid extended by all
of the other free world na
tions together.
The foregoing summarizes
the Clay Committee's report
on aid to Africa that shocked
the National Urban League s
spokesman. African aid cost
the U.S. taxpayer SI, 776,700,
000 in six years. 1955-62, in-:
elusive.
The only shocker in all of
this is that the Clay Commit-1
tee felt it necessary to report
that the United States could
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