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8 E THUR8DAY. MAY 9. 1963 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Mechanical Chopsticks Late Invention Tokyo-fllPD-A U.S. Air Force officer has invented what he hopes will be the biggest thing in Oriental cuisine since the fortune cookie; mechanical chopsticks. They should be a boon to the Westerner who finds Mm- self In an Oriental restaurant with neither the expertise to use chopsticks nor the nerve to ask for a knife and fork. But Capt. George A- Dawes of Okmulgee. Okla., is think- ing big. His invention, called "E-Z Chops," is aimed first at the tourist trade and then at the Japanese, 93 million potential customers. And there's the rest of the Far East, too. "We are not anticipating a revolution in eating in Japan for another IS years," Dawes told UPI. "My Japanese friends are deft enough with regular chopsticks. But they've told me my invention would be excellent for small children And we're coming out with a junior model. "Imagine a child who has been started on mechanical chopsticks being told he is big enough to use the regular ones. He is going to say, 'No, thank you, I want my E-Z Chops'." Has Patent Dawes, material manage ment officer at Fuchu U.S, Air Force base, has a Japanese patent for his invention and is applying for an American one. He and his friends, Ameri can and Japanese, have form ed a company to market E-Z Chops here and abroad. An Initial order of 20,000 acts is In process of manufacture. They will be distributed through a Tokyo department store and through wholesal ers, mail order and restaurant supply houses in the United States and other countries out side Japan. They will retail for about 35 cents in Japan and rough ly half again as much else where because of customs and shipping charges. They work on something like the pincer principle - one ot tnose oovlous ideas no body had thought of before. Steel Spring The plastic chopsticks are connected at the handle end by a piece of spring steel. This keeps the tips separated wnen not in use but together when pressure is applied to pick up a bite of food. The Medical Roundup fV ( Bran ..rtf Ha. ! Emrttui Consultant in Mcdlclna Mayo tunic Emeritus Professor of Mcdtclnt Mayo Clinic (Register and Trlbun Syndicate, 1963) A! fo please any cat all f una liver 'n meat chicken fish meaty mix kidney 'n meat SHi Types of Muscular Dystrophy Recently in a release from the A.M.A. experts, a report was given on the so-called muscular dys- trop hies, diseases in which the muscles-often of a child-get weaker and weaker. A deseri p t i o n was given of the research work done by Dr. Robert M. Dowben, a pro fessor at the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. Dr. Dowben thinks that muscular dystrophy is due to a change in the extremely thin walls of the muscle cells, which allows the all-important protein to escape fatster than it can be rebuilt. A treatment was suggested, in which two drugs would work together, tending to slow the degenera tive process of the muscular dystrophy. There are four types of muscular dystrophy in which there is an increasing weak ness and wasting of muscles. These diseases are not catci ing; they arc chronic, and they tend to progress. Gradually more and more muscles are affected, and the patient be comes less and less able to walk, It Is estimated that more than 200,000 persons in the United States are today suffer ing from these diseases. Fortunately, in recent years, chemical tests have been devised which enable a physician to make a diagnosis earlier than was formerly possible. Called Progressive The first of the four types is called progressive muscular dystrophy. This makes Its ap pearance in childhood, and it usually is boys who are affect ed. Women are rarely affect ed, but when they are carriers they can transmit the disease to their sons. The disease is sometimes re ferred to as pseudo - hyper trophic. If the muscles really hypertrophled, they would be come larger and thicker, but actually they only appear larger because they are puffed out with fat. The change In the muscles may occur first around the child a pelvis and shoulders. He will soon have a marked sway-back with a peculiar waaniing gait. He may walk largely on his toes, and fre quently he will fall down. When trying to rise from the floor, he will have to eet up in a peculiar way. Later in the course of the disease, the swol- len muscles will shrink and waste away- The second form of the disease is called the facial-scapulo- muscular dystrophy. Tills form affects the muscles of the face, shoulder, and up per arm. It commonly appears in adolescents or in early me, and Doln sexes are af fected. The disease is often so mild that for a while its presence is not suspected. The patient may lust lose expres sion in his face. He may be unable always to open or close his eyes, and he may not be able to raise his arms above the level of his shoulders. This iorm ox the disease usually progresses slowly. A third form Is the limb- girdle muscular dystrophy. Jtnis may begin at any age, ana n auccis Doth sexes. Usually, the muscles of the shoulder-girdle (to which the arm is attached) are so weak that the man cannot raise his arms. In other cases, the pel vie muscles are affected, and then the person has great diffi culty in walking upstairs, Eventually, he gets a sway back. Come, in Young Life A fourth form is the myo tonic dystrophy. In this type, the trouble comes in young adult, life, and it may affect either sex. There may be weakening and wasting of the small muscles of t h e hand Typical Is the patient's em barrassing difficulty in letting go after shaking hands with someone. Sometimes the jaw muscles remain contracted so that it is hard for the man to open his mouth. The muscles of the neck may be so weak that the person is unable to lift his head while he is lying down. This disease progresses only slowly- As many of these patients say to me, they so wish that their parents - knowing full well that this awful disease was in the family - had been Kind enough not to eo ahead and have a number of chil dren, some of whom would have nothing but suffering throughout their lives. There are a number of other diseases, such as polymyositis (or inflammation of m an y muscles), or a Guillian-Barre syndrome (in which the nerves are seriously affected for some months) in which the clinical picture somewhat re sembles that of a muscular dystrophy. In puzzling cases, I get an able neurologist to tell me what is wrong. The hopeful thing is that at last researcn is going ahead on these rare diseases. Today the experts can of ten tell what is wrong by get ting a myogram made. This is n electric record of what happens when a muscle con tracts. Builders Prepare For New Growth Expected by 2000 "Your grandchildren will grow up under Communism!" soys NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV WIN th. ievM threat seme truef WW your aranelcMleJmi live vita's Communism FonjolOear Solute the Soviet flag, f "Never!" you ugr. Bitmpi nrr How csn you oppose Communism? On sun wiy. Help AWie Free n W'hu don ic do? Ii broadcasts the nwi of freedom to 79 million people behind the Inn Curteia. Ii helps keep ihem from turning to Communism. Ii paies mejor ohatacle to the Russians tuning wtr. But Redio Free Europe depends on Individual American! for its existence. Will you help? Give dollar? Girt 1 dollars . 1 1 or more? , Giv Now To.;; RADIO FREE EUROPE The American People' Counter Voice to Cemmunltm Pain in the joints m-obablv is caused by some form of arthritis. If you want detailed Information about ARTH RITIS AND RHEUMATISM, send 25 cents and a self-ad dressed, stamped envelope with your request for his booklet of that title to Dr, Waller C. Alvarez. Dept. mmt, .box 37, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Law Controversy Appears Settled Y r e k a The controversy over law enforcement in Sis- Kiyou county now aDDears settled after the county board oi supervisors Tuesday ap proved a compromise work schedule and pay raise plan for the sheriff's department. The supervisors voted ap proval by a 3 to 2 margin. The proposal puts sheriff's deputies on a 44-hour work week, gives them about a 10 per cent pay raise effective July I, and provides deputies, jailers and the bailiff with an SB per month equipment allowance. Board Chairman W. A. Barr and Supervisor William Ealy opposed the plan be cause it sets up a 44-hour week for deputies while other county employees work a 40 hour week. Sheriff Al Cottar had com plained that his men were working 50 to 55 hours a week while being paid for only 40. He asked for cither raise for his men. or more deputies to carry the increas ed work load. The- resident deputies at Happy Camp, Tulclake and Mt. Shasta, whom Cottar called into the main office a few weeks ago after he was denied his request, will now be returned to their posts, it was announced. Woofworfh Building Observes 50th Year New York -liJPli- America's first skyscraper, the Wool- worth building is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. The AO-story building, ris ing 7 0 2 feet and one inch above the street, "Is so tall," people said in 1B13, it gives you a crick In the neck to look up at It." Today It l enn- cidercd one of the country's arthitecturat classic with its I gothic lines, flying buttresses. gargoyles, a lacc-ln-stonc ex terior, and three-story vaulted entrance arcade. The build ing is still headquarters of the F. W. Woolworth co. By JOHN H. MILLER United Press International Washington - HOT - Eigh teen miles west of Washing ton, surveyors are driving stakes into the gently rolling countryside of Northern Vir ginia. Twenty miles northeast of the capital, surveyors are driving stakes into the green farmlands of Maryland. They are building cities. It's a response to Ameri ca's population explosion. By the year 2000, the population of metropolitan Washington is expected to double. The build ers are getting ready. The Virginia community is called Reston. It will cover 10 square miles and 75,000 persons are expected to be liv ing there by 1880. The new tow in Maryland is called Crofton. One-fifth the size of Reston, it is fore cast 15,000 will call it home within five years. Reston Has Answer Reston's developer is New York realtor Robert E. Si mon Jr. "Reston," he explain ed, "is the possible solution to the twin dangers gener ated by America's enormous population increase un sightly suburban sprawl and haphazard urban spread." Crofton is being built by Crawford Hombuilders, Inc., of Washington. It is a subsidiary of the Crawford Corp. of Baton Rouge, La., which developed such residential areas as New Orleans' Gcntilly Woods and Pontchartrain Park: Planner Buford M. Hayden beams at the thought of Crofton. "We hope to make this one of the best planned towns in the country," he said. "You can't do good planning on a small piece of ground. Crof ton is large enough to let us do a balanced community." Large Enough If Crofton is "large enough," Reston is enormous. It will spread itself across 6, 800 acres as compared with Crofton's 1,600. Simon "conservatively" es timates his new city's ultimate value at over $500 million. Crofton, five time smaller, could be worth $100 million. Reston builders are half way through constructions one of five golf courses and are getting ready to fill a 35 acre artificial lake and decide how the roads will wind through the trees. Construction of 250 town houses, a lakeside village cen ter and a 14-story apartment house will start In August. Houses will cost between $20, 000 and $50,000 but there will be apartments within reach of average folks mak ing $5,000 a year. Dcscribel as a "city-in-the- country," Reston one day will have 25 schools, including at least one college, and more than 30 churches. Developer Simon predicts that Reston will be a bustling commerce and recreation by ihbo. . . DiSalle is Boss The new Virginia city will be run by former Ohio Gov. Michael V. DiSalle. He will be fulltime "president" and chief executive officer. Reston is the first full-scale. largely self - contained city on the perimeter of a large U.S. metropolitan area. Al though it will have seven vil lage centers and one town center, twice the normal area will be set aside for parks and open spaces. Reston is the result of wor ried planners. Last year, the National Can- Ital Planning commission agreed that metropolitan Washington's population would indeed double by the year 2000. The answer, they said, was to build new com munities on six major corri dors radiating from the na tion's capital. Reston is the first. Crofton will be located In the Washington - Baltimore- Annapolis "triangle." Stress Recreation As with Reston, the accent Us tho nvotopo your nowtpaptuboy loavt for a gtntroui contribution to RADIO FREE EUROPE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Subscribers To report Improper r non delivery of the Mall TTthune In Mtdforri, phone 773-ei-tl; Aah land eall al 416 Rnriae at or phone aaa-.iona: rk. phone Victor? a-aaoa before s as pm. daily and 10.30 rn. Sunday. U regular delivery errivee shortly artor You rail please notify nffiee. thus eliminating apeelal messenger service. Celestial Marksman Helps Chart Heavens Teterboro, N.J. -HOT- A "cel estial marksman" with an ac curacy Annie Oakley never dreamed of has been develop ; ea to neip cnari tne neavens for space traffic of the future. The device, called a Fine Sun Sensor, was built by en tion's Eclipse-Pioneer division, lion's Eslipse-Plonecr division, lo make It possible for space borne detecting and sensing equipment to be aimed "with unparalleled accuracy" at sel ected areas of the universe, said R. F. Charlisle. engine ering manager of the divis ion's aerospace navigation, guidance and control program. Carlisle said the sensor's ac curacy "is comparable to a rifleman's hitting a dime at a distance of two miles." Antolne Sax Invented the first saxophone, first shown in 1R51 at the Crystal palace exhibition in London. Canadian farms, like Ihcir U S. counterparts, are getting fewer, bigger and more efficient. will be on open land and rec reation. There will be an 18 hole championship golf course and swimming pools, tennis courts, bridle paths, playing fields and picnic areas. All there is to Crofton now are those few stakes marking the golf course. But starting this summer, homes will be gin springing from the rich Maryland land. Plans call for 2,000 single family homes and 1,000 garden apartments. Houses in Crofton will cost between $18,900 and $35,000. The community is modeled after contemporary towns in England and Scandanavia with a touch of Americana. It will boast a wooded vil lage green ringed by colonial community buildings and shops, a colonial inn and an outdoor "theater in the woods." In time, there will be a 125 acre international housing re search center, 112 acres for light industry and an office park. Reston, says developer Si mon, was based on two con victions. "First," he said, "people should be able to do things they enjoy near where they live. Secondly, many Ameri cans want the stability of be longing to one community for a lifetime. They are tired of rootlessness." Court Records DISTRICT COURT Connie Baker, Phoenix, drivinf while under the Influence oi in toxicating liquor, 9130. Edo Ed Barlolomei. itop lign violation, 7.50. Le Roy W. Bod ing He Id, failure to atop. 7.S0. Agustus Sherman, making false statement of residence on license application. SIS. Stanley Gene White, violation of basic rule. (15. Clarence Francis Conrad, over length load. 51. Dale Richard Chamberlain, ex cessive noise. S5. Ouane I. Hutchini, over-length load. $5. Fred Sherman Jones, leaking load. 5. Gerald George Mattey, violation of basic rule, $25. Ted Melvin Adams. 321 Board man st.. driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, $300 Charles Henry White, violation of basic rule S23. Luicle Ida James, stop sign vio lation, $7.50. Edgar Jack Storey, violation of basic rule, $125. Walter Michael SkundrLch. no turn signal device. $10. Donald James Savage, no muf fler. $10 Wilfred Henry Warren, no ve hicle license, $3. Samuel Alva Black, violation of basic rule, S10. Jim Dean Roberts, no operator's license, 5. Leona Dolores Cude. no vehicle license. S3. Robert Daniel Richardion, over load. S183. Refrigerator Raidz Aid to Cold-Storage WashinKton-'l'P.i-Don't wor ry about frozen foods thaw ing while Junior raids the re frigerator. 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