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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
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Emrttui Consultant in Mcdlclna
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Emeritus Professor of Mcdtclnt
Mayo Clinic
(Register and Trlbun Syndicate,
1963)
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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.
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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
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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.
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ry about frozen foods thaw
ing while Junior raids the re
frigerator. Opening the outer
door of a conventional refrig
erator actually lowers tha
temperature in the cold-stor-ase
area, ty household equip
ment specialists in the U.S.
department of argiculture.
The reason? A rise in tem
perature in thegenoral-stor-
Kenneth Bruce Coggins. impro- I dL I,uivi,l'-a ,c
per changing of lanes. to mosls. And, because the evap-
Garland Nceley Lorton. angling , porator coils "surround" the
with prohibited method. a3. (low- temperature space, the
Donald Lewis Coltranc. fa.luie frozen
to slop, S3. I f
Axel Albert Peterson, exct-ssive ' .
overhanging load. $10.
food pets the benefit
of the lowered temperature in
' these coils.
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