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BEAUTY CROWNED-Miss Pamela Gilbert, Miss Illinois of
J 962, places the crown on the new Miss Illinois, Miss Judith
Schlieper, 20. The University of Illinois co-ed entered the
contest as Miss Decatur and will represent the state in the
Miss America contest at Atlantic City, N. J., (UPI)
Reading Program
Deadline Is Aug. 3
Rogue River valley chil
dren, participating in the
summer rcadins program of
the public libraries, will have
until August 3 to complete
the reading of 10 books to
qualify for the various ob
servances planned by the
Space Reading clubs in the
nine communities. This re
minder was issued by the
Public Library of Mcdford
and Jackson County.
Three books in the list nf
10 are on the subject of space.
7 may be in other subject
fields.
Registrations have increas
ed for the reading program
this year, Mrs. Bayard Getch
ell of the library staff stated,
in all communities that have
reported statistics.
Medford has had 65n regis
trations compared to 48!) last
year. A party is planned for
Aug. 5 for the club members
who complete the reading re
quirements. Certificates will
be served and a film, "The Or
bital Flight of John Glenn,"
will be shown.
Central Point Party
The Central Point Lions
club, the Junior Chamber of
Commerce and the Parent
Teacher association are com
bining efforts to sponsor a
party for the Central Point
children who complete the
reading program. Hie parly
will be held in the Crater
High school stadium at 7 p.m.
Aug. 14. There were 183 chil
dren registered in the pro
gram last year and there arc
366 this year.
Prospect will hold a parade
to mark completion of the
program. It has been sched
uled for Tuesday. Aug. 6, at
11 a.m. Prizes will be offer
ed for the best costumes and
games and refreshments will
be included in the entertain
ment to be held in the school
gymnasium.
Shady Cove also is planning
a party, but the date has not
been announced. A film will
be shown, sponsors reported,
and refreshments will be
served .
Gold Hill is going to give
t picnic for the reading club
members who qualify by com
pleting the program. It will
be held Aug. 8 in the Valley
of the Rogue State Park.
Talent Event
Talent, where registrations
climbed from 78 last year to
108 this year, will honor the
readers with a party, for
which the Federated Women's
club members wil be hostess
es. Eagle Point children will
have a party Friday, Aug. 9.
Jacksonville children will
be honored with a 1:30 p.m'.
party, including the showing
of a film, on Aug. 9.
Phoenix has announced
plans for a 10:30 a.m. party
wun reiresnmerus. it wwi
also be held on Aug. 9 for
the children completing the
annual summer program.
In addition to the reading
program, Central Point chil
dren have been competing in
a book mark contest.
Status of Congressional Bills
Washington -fl!PD- Status of i scale growers and potential . druggists, and other
Railroad Bill May
Delay Civil Rights
Washington - lUPIt - The Sen
ate Commerce committee may
have to delay hearings on
civil rights to clear the track
for President Kennedy's rail
Kill nrlinif Chairman
John O. Pastore (D-R.I.) said
today.
The committee called Un
der Secretary of Commerce
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. to
a morning session on civil
rights but scheduled testi
mony by Labor Secretary W.
Willard Wirtz on the railroad
measure for its afternoon's
work.
Pastore said the committee
would continue civil rights
hearings at least through
WorincsHav but said the mat
ter could be put aside briefly
in favor of the railroad bill in
view of the July 30 deadline
for a threatened rail strike.
Chairman Oren Harris ID
Ark.) of the House Commerce
committee said his group
would open hearings on the
railroad bill Wednesday.
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major legislation:
Income Taxet - President
Kennedy has proposed tax-reduction-and-revision
pro
gram that would provide net
cut of $10.4 billion in in
dividual and corporate taxes
over three years. HouseWays
and Means Committee has
partly completed draft of
compromise program. Senate
-Awaiting House action.
Stocks and Bond Taxes To
retard flow of American capi
tal abroad, Kennedy has pro
posed that purchase taxes be
levied on Americans who buy
foreign stocks and bonds
from foreigners; securities of
certain under-developed coun
tries would be exempted.
House-Ways and Means Com
mittee will hold hearings af
ter completing action on tax
reduction program. Senate
Awaiting House action.
Military Pay Administra
tion asked $1.2 billion annual
pay and benefit boost for all
servicemen, reservists ana
retirees. House - Passed modi
fied version to cost $15 mil
lion less and providing no in
crease for 832,000 draftees
and enlistees in their first
two years of service. House
included controversial $30.5
million "recomputation" fea
ture for those retired before
1958. Senate Hearings com
pleted. Fallout Shelters President
Kennedy wants authority to
make federal contributions
toward construction of civil
defense fallout shelters in
schools, hsopitals and other
non-profit institutions. House
Armed services subcom
mittee approved limited pro
gram in principle only; Bill
still to be drafted. Senate
Nothing scheduled.
Foreign Aid Administra
tion asking $4.5 billion.
House Foreign Affairs com
mittee nearing approval of
authorization bill setting ceil
ing on appropriations below
$4.5 billion. Senate-Foreign
Relations committee voting
on amendments. (Actual ap
propriations to come later.)
Health Insurance P resi
dent wants hospitalization
program for persons 65 and
older financed through Social
Security taxes. House Ways
and Mean committee expect
ed to hold hearings later this
year. Senate A waiting
House action
Mental Health Adminis
tration wants long-range pro
gram for community mental
health centers, research on
and treatment of mental re
tardation. House Commerce
subcommittee approved $407
million program. Senate
approved 10-year $848 mil
lion program.
Medical Schools Admin
istration asked long range con
struction aid for medical-dental
schools, loans to students.
House Passed three-year
program that would cost $236
million. Senate No hearings
yet.
College Construction Ken
nedy originally asked for
federal funds to build class
rooms and laboratories as
part of larger $5.3 billion
school bill; agreed later to
separate bills. House Edu- J
cation committee approved!
$1.6 billion in grants and I
loans for colleges, pending in
Rules committee. Senate
Hearings compieted on omni- '
bus school bill.
Schools and Libraries
President wants aid contin
ued for "impacted areas" and
libraries. House Education
committee approved in sepa
rate bills, with amendments
forbidding use of funds for
segregated facilities. Senate f
Hearings completed on om-!
nibus school bill.
Voting President Kennedy
asked for controls on use of
literacy tests, speedier voting 1
rights suits and extension of
the civil rights commission's
life for four years in his origi
nal request last winter. House
-Judiciary subcommittee fin-'
ished hearings on this re
quest. Senate Judiciary
subcommittee approved four- i
year extension of civil rights
commission. !
Public Accommodations
Kennedy's main request in
his second rights message
was for legislation outlawing
segregation in use of hotels,
stores, restaurants, theaters 1
and other puolic accommoda
tions in interstate commerce.
He also asked for new author
ity to initiate school desegre
gation suits and optional au
thority to withhold federal
aid to states that practice ra
cial discrimination. House .
Judiciary sucbommittce hear
ings under way. Senate
Commerce committee hear
ings under way on public ac
commodations feature; Judi
c i a r y committee hearings
under way on full civil
rights package.
Employment Kennedy en
dorsed Fair Employment Prac
tices commission legislation to
bar job discrimination in priv
ate businesses and labor un
ions. House Labor commit
tee has approved FEPC. Sen
ate Labor subcommittee
hearings start Wednesday.
Cotton Administration
backed subsidy plan would
provide cheaper cotton for
U.S. textile mills: Includes
lowy support prices for large
relaxation of planting restric
tions. House Agriculture
committee approved, pending
in Rules committee. Senate
Hearings completed.
Mexican Farm Hands 12-
year-old law permitting im
portation of Mexicans for
ie.Tiporary work on American
farms expires Dec. 31; admin
istration requested one-year
extension with new safe
guards to protect domestic
workers. House Bill to ex
tend program two years with
out change defeated on House
floor. Senate Agriculture
committee approved one-year
extension without change.
Wilderness - President
wants to establish a national
program to preserve public
lands in their natural state.
Senate Passed, with provi
sion covering 8 million acres
immediately and possibly up
to 35 million acres eventual
ly. House No committee
hearings set.
Outdoor Recreation Ken
nedy wants a special land
and water conservation fund
to finance purchase of addi
tional federal and state park
lands and forests for outdoor
recreation. House Interior
subcommittee action under
way. Senate Hearings com
pleted.
Depressed Areas Kennedy
asked Congress to expand
sharply program of federal
redevelopment aid to local in
dustries designed to create
jobs in areas of chronically
high unemployment. House
Rejected. Senate - Approved.
House leaders expect to try
again for House passage later
this year.
Youth Employment Ken
nedy asked new $100 million
youth conservation corps for
outdoor work in forests and
parks; home town youth corps
for local civic projects. House
Education committee has
approved, pending in Rules
committee. Senate Passed.
Domestic Peace Corps
President asking for new or
ganization of 1,000 to 5,000
skilled volunteers to carry out
work in this country similar
to Peace Corps projects
abroad. $5 million first year
cost. House Education and
Labor subcommittee hearings
under way. Senate Labor
subcommittee approved.
Price-cutting - Administra
tion-opposed bill backed by
druggists, and other retail
groups is designed to stop re
tail price-cutting of brand
name merchandise. House
Commerce committee approv
ed, pending in Rules commit
tee. Senate No date set for
hearings to resume.
No date set for hearings to
resume.
Laws Enacted:
Draft Congress granted
Kennedy's reqest for four-year
extension of selective service
and doctor draft.
Feed Grains Congress ex
tended for two years tempor
ary program of paying farm
ers to hold down surplus pro
duction of corn and other feed
grains.
National Debt To permit
government to borrow money
it needs to keep paying its
bills Congress raised legal
limit on national debt to $307
billion through June 30 and
to $309 billion during July
and August. Previous tempor
ary limit was $305 billion;
further legislation will be
needed to prevent ceiling from
dropping to $285 billion Sept.
1.
Silver To combat shortage
of silver for coins, Congress
gave administration authority
it requested to replace exist
ing silver-backed $1 bills with
gold-backed $1 bills.
Women Workers Starting
next June employers must
provide equal pay for women
workers who do the same
work as men; new law ap
plies to jobs covered by mini
mum wage-hour law.
Taxes-Congress in response
to administration request ex
tended for another year pres
ent temporary tax rates in
corporation profits, liquor,
cigarettes, automobiles, tele
phone calls and airline tickets
which had been scheduled to
drop to lower levels July 1.
(Corporation tax rates would
be permanently revised down
ward, if Kennedy's tax-reduction
program is enacted.)
The Medical Roundup
Emeritus Consultant In Medicine
Mayo runic
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Mavo Clinic
(Reenter and Tribune syndicate,
1963)
ESTIMATES FIRE LOSS
New York - IUPII - The Na
tional Board of Fire Under
writers reported Monday that
fires caused estimated losses
of $106,685,000 during June.
The figure was 11.1 per cent
over the loss in June, 1962,
and 12 per cent below last
May's total.
Cystic Fibrosis
Many parents are eager to
know if there is any cure in
sight for the cystic fibrosis
which has at
tacked one or
two of their
children. Be
cause in some
families there
is more than
one child with
the disease, it
is obivously
inherited. The
child is born
with a defective pancreas (the
big digestive gland which lies
back of the stomach). As a
result, there is a poor diges
tion, and perhaps a recurrent
diarrhea. Unfortunately, as
yet, we physicians have no
hope of rebuilding a defec
tive cystic pancreas, or poly
cystic kidneys, or a a cystic
liver.
Incidentally, cysts are little
sacs containing fluid. The
more little cysts there are in
an organ, the less space there
is left for effective and func
tioning tissue. Often when
one looks at a polycystic kid
ney, one wonders how it
could have had any function
at all it is made up so large
ly of little bags of water.
In cases of cystic fibrosis,
the glands in the pancreas
which produce the three very
important digestive ferments
are replaced, not only by the
little cysts, but by fibrous
tissue. Worse yet, what secre
tion there is, instead of be
ing liquid, as it normally
should be, is so thick and
stickly it is slow to get
through the ducts of the pan
creas and out into the bowel.
Because of his poor intestinal
digestion, the child has bulky
and greasy stools and often
bad-smelling stools, and he
suffers from malnutrition. It
is hard for him to gain in
weight and to grow.
Spaces Distended
Changes somewhat like
those in the pancreas take
I place in the child's lungs
that he finds It hard to get
air into and out of his respira
tory tubes. He has sputum
which is so sticky, it is hard
to cough up. He is likely to
develop emphysema-a disease
in which the tiny spaces in
the lungs become distended
and then function poorly.
Because of the handicapped
lungs, the child becomes
subject to attacks of broncho-
pnuemonia. In a few cases,
some of the bile channels in
the liver also are plugged, so
that cirrhosis (hardening and
shrinkage of the liver) can de
velop.
Diagnostic is the fact that
the child's sweat contains
large amounts of sodium
chloride (table salt). When
the child places his hand on
an "agar plate" (made of a
sort of hard jelly containing
silver nitrate and potassium
chromate), If he has an excess
of salt in his sweat, he will
leave on the plate a while
imprint of his palm.
Disease Often Mild
Fortunately, in many cases,
the disease is mild - so mild
that sometimes its presence is
not suspected for some years.
It may be that some adults
who suffer from pancreatitis.
bronchitis, or cirrhosis of the
liver, are really victims of a
mild cystic fibrosis. Some of
the children who suffer from
cystic fibrosis are likely, when
they grow up, to get a peptic
ulceration of the stomach or
duodenum.
The treatment for the child
with cystic fibrosis is the tak
ing of large amounts of pan
creatic secretion, to help with
digestion. Potassium iodide
can help in loosening and
making more liquid the secre
tions that come out of the pan
creas and the lungs. Often,
penicillin and other antibiotics
are needed to save the child
when he gets a broncho-pneumonia.
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