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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY. AMUL IS. MM The Medical Roundup by Dennis the Menace Encrltiu Conniltant in Mtdlclnn Meyo cllnle Emtrttui Profcisur of Mrdlcme Myo CUnlc Inesliter mil Tribune Syndicate. 1113) A Mental Htillh Clinics There are many thousands of persons who, when mental illness comes to them or to some member of their fam ily, gr e a 1 1 y want to know know where they can find a clinic in which they can get expert advice. I am thinking par- vsrei ucui any o: people who cannot afford to pay large fees which many a psychiatrist gets for a half hour or so of time. I would advise these people to find a copy of the new "Di rectory of Out-patient Clinics and Other Mental Health Re sources in the United States." It would be well worth the couple of dollars it costs. It is now obtainable from the National Association for Men tal Health, 10 Columbus Cir cle, New York 19, N.Y., and its divisions and chapters throughout the country. This directory also lists state mental hospitals, public institutions for mental defec tives and epileptics, psycho pathic hospitals, Veterans' Administration mental hospi tals, mental health associa tions, state departments deal ing with mental health and regional offices of the Pub lic Health Service. From now on. each year this direc tory will be brought up to date and reissued. As Robert H. Felix of the National Institute for Mental Health says, "This is one of the most exciting and promis ing movements in the entire history of the care and treat ment of the mentally ill." I agree with him. Overweight Operation Several kind readers sent me pictures of a young man, who, before his death, weigh ed 670 pounds. He said that with him, the eating of food was just as much a compul sion as the drinking of whis key is to an alcoholic. I can quite believe him, if only because recently I re ceived a letter from a stout young woman who said that her body keeps shrieking at her all the time, demanding more food and ever more food. Much as she hated to get tat, whether she wanted to j or not, she always felt com-! pelled at the table to eat. nuge meals, and then, be tween meals, to raid the re frigerator. There is now a possibility for helping these excessively overweight people. Dr. Irvine Page, one of the great re search men in medicine, and now at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, tells me that some of his associates have been trying out an operation in which much of the small bowel is short-circuited, surg ically, and put out of func tion. The patient can eat all he or she likes, without being able to absorb much of it. Unable to absorb much food, the person stays thin. Before long, we will know whether this operation is suitable for many people, and entirely safe. According to a recent pub lic opinion poll, there are some 34 million people in the United States who are over weight. About one-third of them are trying to do some thing about their obesity. In his booklet on "Weight Con trol," Dr. Alvarez tells the one scientific way to reduce, and comments on other so- called" weight reducing meth ods. To obtain a copy of this booklet, send 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed en velope to Dr. Walter C. Al varez. Dept. MMT, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Tentative Approval Given To Bridge Bids Salem - (UPD - The State Highway commission has given tentative approval to two contracts for completion of the Astoria bridge, but fi nal approval will be delayed pending approval of Wash ington state and the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads. OH . $U&! I 'mm NOW! YOU LIVE INTHATQREErJ HOUSE BrCN Of TQWvJ ONLY I NfcVfcK SEEN XW tuMIW Ur oervfe. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn W. 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Equally silly it is, it would seem, to construct, design or use various packaging meth ods to wrap up an egg, when the thing is already packaged more perfectly than any extra covering could possibly ac complish. Pretty packaging, some would have us believe, adds eye appeal, beauty or useful ness to any object. A cheap gift, for instance, is supposed to be made more attractive when done up in pretty wrap pings, fancy bows and filigree. The merchandiser says, "Things sell better when beau tifully packaged." In one way, at least, the packaging engineers have at tained the ultimate, and should be proud of their ac complishments. They have wrapped many foodstuffs so securely the buyer or user must use a chisel, a pipe wrench and a hacksaw to get at the contents. If the inten tion was to make opening more difficult, the engineers have succeeded. Rose Packaged, Too Even the lily which needs no retouching or the rose that is already fragrantly beauti ful is now packaged in a pretty box, be-rlbboned and festooned with gee-gaws and bric-a-brac. The hen's egg, al ready perfectly packaged, keeps many folks working nights knocking themselves out to design a better contain er or more ornate, artificial covering to make the things more "eye appealing" or long er lasting or fresher tasting. Next time you open a gaily wrapped birthday gift and re mark. "It's much too pretty to open," consider for a moment how very cleverly Nature packaged an egg . . . symetri cally perfect, ideally propor tioned and hermetically seal ed against contamination. There, in a lowly egg, is the "one perfect package." You would never admit the eggs of that universally hated insect, the roach, are beauti fully wrapped and packaged in a snug, moisture proof case. The space - saving con- ! talner is snugly cemented into some dark corner or crevice. Mrs. Roach is not at all con cerned over a package with "eye appeal." What she as pires to. and attains, is effi ciency. She accomplishes the ultimate in packaging. Clever Wrapping We call the outer covering of an orange or an apple a rind, but it is a mightly clever piece of wrapping material. much more perfect than any artificial covering man has ever made. The peel on the banana is rather neat, too. It protects the contents, posses ses all kinds of eye appeal and can be opened with a flick of the finger. The hard .outer covering on the crab, lobster and a few hundred other living creatures comes pretty close to perfect packaging, also. These ani mals discard the wrapping when they are cramped for room. Shortly thereafter, they grow another efficient cover ing, tight-fitting and carefully sealed. The bark of a tree, scales of a fish, feathers of a bird and skin of a human being are all other perfect examples of packaging. No bows, ribbons or colored paper . but these are "package deals" that have never been equaled. Bofh Truck and Safe Located by Police Both the truck and safe taken from Jim Busch Motors, Ashland, have now been re covered, state police said. The truck was recovered near Lincoln on the Green Springs highway. The safe was found by the Ashland police chief, a state police man and a Busch Motors sales man near Pinehurst yester day. The safe had been rolled over and peeled open, state police said. Khrushchev Says He Will Have To Quit Some Day Moscow - HOT - Premier Niklta Khrushchev has pub licly declared that he will someday have to give up one or both of his posts as lead er of the Soviet government and Communist party, the of ficial Tass News Agency re ported Thursday. The agency said the pre mier, speaking to a Kremlin meeting of Russian Federa tion Industry and Construc tion Workers, stressed the need for acceptance of the au thority of the Communist par ty and its Central committee. "I believe that no one will suspect me for stating this. I have no special standing of my own in the party. I am already 69 and I have the right to say so. For everyone understands that I cannot hold for all time the posi tion I now have in the party and the state," he said. A Tass summary of the premier's speech did not in dicate if Khrushchev had any time limit in mind for re linquishing the posts he now holds as party first secretary and premier (chairman of the Council of Ministers). The premier, who celebra- i.u Ills Usui uii uiuay cauici this month, has held the top party job, the most powerful post in the nation, since 1953. He has been premier since 1958. His statements gave added impetus to periodic specula tion that he would give up one or the other of his posts to concentrate on one job only. k 7 Research at OSU Improves Quality of Storage Peart Corvallis - Fresh, delicious pears can now be on your table almost year-round, re search conducted at Oregon State university during the past ten years shows. According to Elmer Hansen, OSU horticulturist, improved storage methods now enable winter pears, which are har vested in September, to be sold the following June with out any loss in quality. What does this mean? To Oregon growers, it means that more fruit can be sold because there is a longer time in which to market it. Pear production in Oregon has Increased rap idly, and the extra marketing time gives growers a better chance to sell their surplus fruit. In addition, longer stor age means that Oregon can now better compete with Eastern growers. 1962 Production Figures Oregon's prod u c 1 1 o n of pears in 1962 totalled approxi mately 153,750 tons - 82,500 tons of the winter variety and 71,250 tons of Bartletts. The latter are used mainly for canning, while winter va rieties are packaged' for fresh markets. In 1981, Oregon's pear crop brought approxi mately $18,000,000. With pears, as with other food products which are marketed in the fresh state, there has always been the problem of maintaining quali ty during the interval be tween harvest and sale to the consumer. Without proper storage practices, winter pears break down, become mealy, scald, and otherwise deterior- REPORTERS PICK SMITH Washington -HOT- Merriman Smith of United Press Inter national was elected president of the White House Corres pondents Association Thursday. ate rapidly, Hansen explain ed. The early 1950 s marked the beginning of a new era in the pear industry when the use of polyethylene film for lining pear storage boxes was initiated. Fruit packed in plas tic kept longer than with pre viously used methods, suffer ed less damage in handling, looked fresher, and, at that time, sold for premium prices. Polyethylene which is now al most universally used, teemed to be the answer to the stor age problem until it was dis covered that pears stored in polyethylene developed a con dition known at brown core. Ask tot Help Growers and shippers turn ed to the OSU Experiment sta tion immediately for help. It was soon found that the im mediate cause of brown core was a build-up of carbon dioxide Inside the plastic stor age bags As an immediate measure, researchers recommended that the plastic liners be perfor ated to allow the carbon di oxide to escape. This was strictly a stopgap measure however, because the holes also allowed oxygen to infil trate. Low oxygen content is desirable for main t a i n i n g keeping-quality of the fruit. Following the lead of a Canadian scientist, a paper pad containing hydrated lime as a carbon dioxide abtorbant was developed. Growers could then return to the unperfor- ated, sealed box linen - thus maintaining the proper oxy gen content - while the chemi cal would maintain a safe level of carbon dioxide. Shortcomings Noted Use of polyethylene bags still had its shortcomings. One small hole accidentally made during handling would allow oxygen to leak in and lower the keeping-quality of the fruit.- Hansen and hit asso ciates are now working to solve this problem by con ducting research on controlled atmosphere storage whereby the levels of carbon dioxide and oxygen can be precisely controlled. Research has shown that by properly controlling the at mosphere, it it possible to ex tend the storage life of winter peart another tlx to eight weeks without peart becoming dry and mealy as they did lata in the season when stored by conventional cold storage methods. Controlled atmos phere storage hat been used successfully for applet for ap proximately 20 years. Hansen, cooperating with the branch experiment sta tions at Hood River and Med ford, it currently doing re- searcn on another pear stor age problem. He Is trying to determine the cause of pear scald - a physiological disorder of peart wnicn occurs late in the stor- proved methods for eUaataaU ing the condition by con trolled atmoaphare stud tea This three-year study it Mag conducted under contract a the United States Deoartment of Agriculture. AUTOMATIC Transmissions Exclusively IbBBBBBBI Bar Vreeeeeeeeeee.e. 0r. .eotv Peeler i Units la Sleek MEDFORD TRANSMISSION RIIUIIMM U10 TaMe Heck U. 77J-774I set Utilise. 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