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TUESDAY. MAY 28, 1963 Tugman Memorial Park Dedication Set Salem-UIPD-Dedication cere monies for Tugman Memorial Park south of Reedsport will be held June 6. The park, which adjoins Eel lake, was named for the late William M. Tugman, former chairman of the State Parks Advisory Committee and edi tor of the Eugene Register Guard and Port Umpqua Courier here. Liver Transplant Patient Succumbs To Pneumonia Eagle Point Youths Cited for Violation ' Two Eagle Point boys, aged 16 and 17, were cited by Med ford city police for curfew violation about 1:35 a.m. Sun day. An appearance In mu nicipal court will be sched uled. In court Monday, a 15-year-old Medford girl, cited for curfew violation on May 10, was placed on 60-days' pro bation by Judge Justin Smith Jr. A 17-year-old Medford boy was giver, a suspended $10 fine on the same charge. Ha was also cited by police on May 19. In the Day's News Denver - UPI) - William Grigsby, who for three weeks survived a precedent stccing operation to give him a new liver, lost a battle with pneu monia Monday night and died. The 47 - year - old Denver County Jail janilor was the first human to live through a delicate liver transplanting, patterned after a scries of suc cessful kidney transplants at Denver in recent months. His doctors had hoped he would continue to improve, but he contracted pneumonia last week end in his sterilized room at the Veterans Admin istration hospital. An autopsy was ordered, and the results were expected today. One of the surgeons involved In the case said the cause of death was not deter mined definitely, "but as near as we can tell, it was pneu monia." Transplant Successful He said Grigsby was hav ing no trouble wilh the liver, but had been "deteriorating" for 24 hours before his death, which occurred about mid night. "Technical aspects of the transplant were entirely suc cessful," the surgeon said. "More liver transplants will be tried. There are certainly plenty of people who need them." Grigsby was dying of can cer, which had destroyed a third of his liver, when doc tors at the hospital suggested the transplant. He agreed readily and the operation was performed May 5. Another patient who had an incurable brain tumor volunteered to donate his liver, and it was taken out moments after he died and placed in Grigsby's body. By FRANK JENKINS A research report issued recently by the American Cancer Society contains this paragraph: "Cigarettes, along with substances in the air and in food, contain agents which can produce cancer in certain experimental animals. These agents are known as carcino gens." the report then adds: "CITY AIR supports car cinogens too. Dr. Paul Colin of the National Cancer Insti tute, has poduced genuine lung tumors in mice by first infecting them with flu and then subjecting them to sim ulated CITY SMOG." This osteoporosis, deriving its name from two Greek words, causes POROUS bones that break easily especial ly from a bad fall. WORDS are indeed interest ing Innls. They help to describe ac curately the interesting things that are going on in this fas cinating modern world which is finding the answers to so many of the problems that troubled the ancient world. TO GET DEGREE Salem - Ronald Mansell James of Medford is scheduled to receive a bachelor of laws degree from Willamette uni versity Sunday, June 2. MEDFORP MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OHEGON If , i PREPARED FOR SHOW Mrs. Robert Machinski o Little ton, Colo., combs down her seven-months-old terrier, Bo Man's Sugar Foot, before showing him at the Terry-All Ken nel Club's dog show in Denver, Colo. A total of 666 animals from 13 states were entered in the show. (UPI) Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- ATOWN IN SOUTH DAKOTA was in the process of elect ing a new mayor and board of advisors, and Mrs. Hub bard thought it would be educational to take her seven- year-old daughter with her to the polling booth. On the way home the daughter asked, "Mom, do you always vote for the men you love most?" "Whatever put an idea like that in your mind?" wondered Mrs. Hubbard. "Well," said the daughter, "I saw you put kisses next to their names." Colonel James Cokesbury Albright, the pride of Dal las, says that when it comes to gallantry, Texans can not be beat He cites as an example a rough old gaffer from the oil fields who was just preparing to dig into a succulent piece of roast pig at a barbecue when someone careened into him from behind and knocked his plate to the ground. In a rage he bel lowed, "You hawg! You want all the space then is?" and then he perceived the offender whc the dignified wife of his host. Without a second thought he amenucJ ins statement. "Lady hawg, that is, ma'am." Sign outside a deluxe Adirondack hunting lodge: "If you have 4 chance to bag a moose near the lodge, be sure you don't shoot the fellow milking it" C 1963, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed 'by King Features Syndicate , , ANNUAL ' , j : uu it rj FREE T off bacrgaiinie if SILVER DOLLAR or 2-Foot Stepladder Given Free With Your Purchase of Each Gallon of GENERAL OR REPUBLIC Latex or Enamel Paint Look it Thi Values! OUTSIDE WHITE-- $99 ONLY Gal. X SgA fin Gallons of Hi UU Discontinued Colors in I !; Enamels and Latex Gal. 5c Per Quart of Discontinued Colors in ENAMELS AND LATEX SISKIYOU HARDWARE THE MORAL? It seems to be this: Both cigarette smoking and living in big cities are BAD HABITS to be avoided, if possible. QUESTION: What's a carcinogen? Webster says it is "any sub stance that produces cancer." HERE DOES this word carcinogen" come from? It comes from the Greek KARKINOMA, a cancer. Where does karkinoma come from? It comes from the Greek KARKINOS meaning a crab. Words are interesting things, aren't they? INCIDENTALLY, A word has a new just come into the news. it is OSTEOPOROSIS. It was used the other day in Chicago by Frederick J. Stare, of the Harvard Uni versity school of Public Health. He was addressing the Illinois State Medical Society. He told his hearers: "Usually we think of fluori dation merely as a preven tive for tooth decay in t h e young. But, while it is far too late for fluoridated water to do the elderly any good in the prevention of tooth de cay, it is a great help in of fering them another impor tant type of protection. "Fluoridation will prove most helpful to those who suf fer from OSTEOPOROSIS, WHICH CAUSES BONES TO BREAK from routine falls. Seventy - five per cent of the nation's aged suffer from this disease." He then added: "Proper amounts of fluorl dation taken through water supplies OR AS A SEPA RATE SUPPLEMENT help to prevent brittle bones for persons over 60 years of age. 225 W. Main Phone 772-2939 " tion, where does this word OSTEOPOROSIS come from? It derives from the Greek OSTEON, meaning bone, and the Greek POROS, meaning "passage." It is described by Webster as "an absorption re suiting in an abnormally por ous tissue." 1I10ST of us think of tissue as fleshy tissue. Webster, however, defines it thus: "an aggregate of cells, with their inter-cellular substance, form, ine one of the structural ma terials of a plant or animal." Senate Approves Land Fraud Bill Salem (HPD A bill In tended to protect buyers from fraud in land sales passed the Senate Monday. It returned to the House for consideration of Senate amendments. Sen. Harry Boivin (D-Klam-ath Falls) said the bill was designed to "protect the pub lic from fraud, deceit and mis representation that we have witnessed, part icularly in Eastern Oregon, in the sale of subdivisions." He said all parties involved, including the real estate industry, have accepted the Senate version The subdivision bill would require developers to file no tice of their plans with the state real estate commission er. If he thought it necessary the commissioner then could make an investigation or re quest more material. At hi discretion, he would be able to issue reports to prospective buyers. The Commissioner also could require proof of finan cial responsibility. The measure also includes sections aimed at false adver tising, conditions regulating land sales and conveyance of title, and penalties for violators. Management Job on Grazing Lands OK'd Salem - I'PIi - A measure envisioning a S6 million man agement Job on state owned grazing lands passed the Sen ate Monday and went to the governor. It provides for classification and blocking, and would let the ranchers who lease the lands borrow funds from the State Land Board to improve thiiai. i 1 i " . ) 1 ' " ; nTl t wL3 - If ,; s!ll "' I j ' ! i - ; . , ' .. , y ' lr-:, -v "'I ;'--h- as ' j- :t i -.. .i'4 - -y3 - . ' 1 iiAv$ V t i ' " J w44:i i 1 Equitable Loan approved Equitable Loan approvcd.Uome to be built. Milkman notified! This family's enthusiasm for the homc-to-bc is matched only by their satisfaction with Equit able Savings and Loan.Why? Prompt, personal loan service from the ground up. Their Equitable man offered more service. Introduced them to the Automatic Pay OH Loan. Solid security for the wagc-earnefs family-with no additional monthly cost. Soon their money goes to work. 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