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The Medical Roundup
by
Dennis the Menace
Encrltiu Conniltant in Mtdlclnn
Meyo cllnle
Emtrttui Profcisur of Mrdlcme
Myo CUnlc
Inesliter mil Tribune Syndicate.
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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.
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Pretty Difficult to Improve
On Nature's Fine Packaging
Ridiculous, it has been said,
to gild the lily or perfume the
rose.
Pretty difficult to improve
on those things, for they are
already beautiful.
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.
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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.
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