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o JtfEWOTfD IA1L TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OHEGOtf The Medical Roundup Emeritus Coniultant In Madlcint Miyo riinle Emeritus Professor of Sledicin Mayo Clinic (Re liter 2nd Tribune Syndicate, mi) Piychic Injuries Produced By Deformity As I keep saying in this column, I am always distress ed when, as commonly hap pens, I get a letter from some young person, oft e n a teen age girl, who says that she has a marked de formity, per haps on her lace, w 11 1 c tt Alvarez makes her cringe every time she has to meet someone, and which causes her great unhappiness and untold mental suffering. What saddens me particu larly is that so often the girl says that her parents have no sympathy with her desire to nave the defect corrected; they do not seem to realize how much she suffers. Some, of course, are against an oper ation because they haven't much money; and a few are against changing the defect be cause "God made it that way." I wish all such parents could read a letter I have here on my desk - a grateful let ter written by a girl to the plastic surgeon who rebuilt her ugly nose and brought for ward a depressed upper lip. This poor girl was so homely that for years she could hard ly bear to go out among peo ple. Today, her picture shows a pretty girl with a nice-looking nose and an upper lip which is out where it be longs. She wrote, "My dear Doc tor: Although I know how familiar you are with the mental twists of a person with a defective face, and I know I am only one of thousands who created in her imagina tion a magnified, frightful pic ture of people who seemed to keep turning around to look at her and to ridicule her. I must now write you a letter of heart felt thanks. Warped Personality "All of the many hurls left over from my childhood, cre ated a warped and very un happy personality. The ado lescent with a deformity may seem to be normal, but she has deep clefts beneath her scars which will constantly influence her way of think ing. "All this you know; never theless, I feel the urge now In slinnt in the world that I used to be bitter; I used to hate everyone. Now, as tne surgical wounds in my face are healing, the deeper wounds in my mind are also healing. No longer will i De afraiH In hnarri a bus Or to walk down a crowded city street. At last, I am a normal person. No one will stare un nlpasantlv at me. And now, at last, I can hope that some man will love me; and l am so capable of loving, and so desirous of love. "Likp a Dlant. I feel a fresh bud bursting within me; I havo hppnmp real, and li'ue to myself. The autumn leaves which you have helped me to ehoH havp made way for clean good shoots. They were always inside me but were kept hidden beneath a mass nf lies ahout DeoDle - lies which I had come to believe so fully that to me they ap peared real. I want you to know now that you have re stored a soul. I will be thank ing you all my life." Man May Have To Choose Between Trees and Fish Washington - lUPn - A Wash ington state forester suggest ed Wednesday that man may have to choose between saving trees or fish in his battle against insects. The difficult choice was of fered by Don Lee Fraser, su pervisor of the Washington Department of Natural Re sources, during testimony be f 0 r e a Senate Government Operations subcommittee. Fraser expressed fear that an "anti-pesticide" movement would hinder efforts to pro tect the nation's forest re sources from insects. The subcommittee which is holding hearings on the con trol of pesticides and other chemicals in view of fears that the balance of nature is being upset by their use. Dr. Emil M. Mrak, chan cellor of the Davis campus of the University of California, told the subcommittee that pesticides were needed to halt crop losses of hundreds of mil lions of dollars to insects. At the same time, he said, care ful controls were needed to prevent injury to man and other forms of life. Bank Robbery Charge Faces Missouri Man Portland - UP1 - Gerald Lee Mudd, 24, of Monroe City, Mo., is to be removed to St. Louis Mo., as the result of court action Wednesday. He will face charges of robbing a Madison, Mo., banK. Mudd walked into the Lane county sheriff's office last Fri day and surrendered. He said he was broke and tired of running. FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. 1963 Thornton Ruling Asked on Cutbacks Salem - IDPU - Gov. Mark Hatfield Thursday asked Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton to rule whether the executive department could order cut backs in the basic school sup port. In a rare move by the Re publican governor, the Demo cratic attorney general was asked if the executive depart ment could exercise the same allotment control over the basic school fund that it can exercise over other budgets and allotments. The answer could hold the key to whether Hatfield would call a special legislative ses sion if the 1963 legislature's $60 million tax increase meas ure is rejected at the Oct. 15 special election. Loren Hicks, Hatfield's legal counsel, said the school fund totaled about $150 mil lion of the state's $404 million general fund budget. Council Turns Down Apartment Request Portland - IUPI. - Portland's city council succumbed to pleas of several hundred Port land residents Wednesday and unanimously denied a zone change that would have al lowed construction of a high rise apartment house in south west Portland. The vote came after five hours of speeches by propon e n t s and opponents of the building. About 250 indignant Port landers claimed their view of the city and Mt. Hood from the southwest heights would be blocked. . '-SM.74-84-88 , UUIUS APR. 21 I C-7 MAY 21 j25-38-52-57 STAR GAZER" GEMINI -n MAY 22 SJf JUNE 22 A 3- 4- 5- 61 C 7-13-56 UNCI! JUNE 23 JULY 23 19-27-35-47 '54-60-B3-B9 110 ffi JULY It AUG. 23 -?3034.45-53 58-61-85-87 VIRGO AUG 2' f. SEPT. 22 R516.17-36-4M lav 49-55-67 -Bv CLAY R. POLLAN- Your Doity Activity Guide According to the Stars. To develop menage for Saturday, read words corresponding to numbers ot your Zodiac birth sign. 1 Write 31 Involved 2txcellcnr 32 Business 3 More 33 Sports 4 Monev .34 Changes 5 Clothes r5 And 6 And 3ft Sign 7 Gov 37 Favors SOr ?B Woifr-;, 9 Hove 39 In 10 Confidential 40 Paoers 1 1 Talk 12 Don't 13 Times 1 4 What 15 for 16 Don't 17 Borrow 18Worthile 19 You've 20 A 21 Interfere 22 Recreotion 23 Or 24 You 25 Someone's 26 Get 27 Odds 28 Dov 29 Gam 30 Thrilling (J;?) Good UUA :EPT. 23 rft OCT. 4ri 1- 8- 9-10Jl 11-46-62 J 41 Kiev 42 To 43 Or 44 And 45 In 46 With 47 Ends 48 Deals 49 Or 50 Faces , 51 Social I ; 52 For i 53 Horn 54 To 55 Divulqe 56 Shown 57 A 58 And 59 Dnect SO Compleic I Adverse 61 Love-i'e o? Friend od Lite h4 Allcntioo c5 Answer 0ft Places 67 Secret 68 And 09 HapDV 70 Entertain 71 BecLon 72 Now 73 Or 74 From 75 Reman! ie 76 You 77 Celebiote I 78 Opportune 79 Ties 80 Others' 81 Indicoted 82 Fields 83 Then 84 Loved 85 Are 86 Problems 87 Indicated 88 Ones 81 Relax 90 Open & )N'cutjl SCORPIO Ul-50.66-71(-r-l 76-78-82-90Vx SAGITTARIUS N0V-23 J DEC. 22 fS3l 2.15-22-33iOI M4-51-63 VSrJ CAPRICORN DEC. 23 - JAN. 20 VsV 18-32.48-68' fc975-79-81 AOUARIUS EB. 19 rp PISCES MAR 91 1 14-20-28-421 P0-73-77 Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Register and Tribuna Syndicate. .96I) Man's Major Problem: A 3 Poor Sam Wat Humiliated After Causing An Accident He was a 2-year-old chim panzee by the name of Sam. He was exceptionally good at what he was expected to do, which was to entertain people coming into the office of the tourist attraction. He had the run of the office and was never tied or restrained in any way. Never once did he attempt to leave by the front door, or return to his cage in the compound until taken there at the end of the busi nes day when the attraction was closed for the night. During the months he was the office boy, making a host of friends. It was a pretty staid person that failed to re spond to Sam's charm and friendliness within the first five minutes of acquaintance ship. Being a natural born cutup, he was a riot with the children. Many folks spent more time with Sam than they did out in the compound where dozens of animals of various kinds peered from cages or tugged at the ends of chains. Sam's Domain The office was Sam's do main and he made the most of it. There were stacks of travel folders, sea shell nov elties, marine curios, leather belts, hammered silver brace lets, earrings and hundreds of other objects typical of gift shops everywhere. Sam, contrary to animal nature, preferred to walk up right instead of on all fours. He enjoyed walking with vis itors from one showcase to another, all the time holding firmly to one of their hands. He was careful in his selec tion of preferred folks; with uncanny accuracy he selected those folks that enjoyed his company. Given a little atten tion he went all out to please. In many ways he seemed more human-like than animal-like. Favorite of Force Naturally he was the favor ite of the office force, they made over him all the time, bringing him good things to eat, and patting the partly bald head every time he came near. He was particularly fond of the young lady that punch ed the cash register. He spent hours watching her forcefully depress the lettered and num bered buttons on the register. He became so enthusiastic when the bell rang he would clap his hands and look at the girl with pleading eyes to re peat the pleasant noise. For Sam's convenience, a tall stool was placed along side his friend at the cash reg ister. He sat there, with his legs crossed, like a little old man, and came pretty close to grinning at the folks paying their admission to tne attrac tion. Regardless of how many people passed, or how many kind words they spoke to him, he repeatedly looked up into his girl friend's face, with adoring eyes. The Accident He was on the stool one day when the great humiliation was heaped upon him. What hurt more was that his friend was the one that humbled him. A sales tax was always collected. This was kept in a glass jar alongside the cash register. Sam accidentally hit it. It fell and crashed on the floor, pennies rolled all over the place. Exasperated, his friend grabbed him and pad dled him good. He scampered to the far side of the office, his head in a corner and sulked. Some time later the cashier fell a gentle tug on her skirt. She lokcd down into a pair of sad, brown eyes. Sam had his other hand full of pennies. The girl's eyes were a little misty as she took the pennies. "I wonder little friend, just how much you really do know?" she asked. Sam didn't answer -slowly and humbly he went about the gathering of the coins. How To Do Away With Insects and Not Offend 'Silent Spring' Author By DICK WEST United Presi International Washington -ll!Pll-One of the major tasks confronting man kind is finding a means of do ing away with insects with out upsetting Rachel Carson. In her book 'Silent Spring' Miss Carson put her foot down regard ing the use of chemical pes ticides. This brought forth suggestions that she should try putting her foot down on a few bugs. 11 was generally agreed, however, that her point about pesticides upseting the bal ance of nature was well tak en. As one who has been feel ing a lille unbalanced myself, I am pleased to observe that Miss Carson's message has be gun to make itself felt. New Laboratory At Gainesville, Fla., this West week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is dedicating a new insect research labora tory to the pursuit of better methods of controlling pests. Among other things, the lab will study various biological measures, such as Insect birth control. I don't have the program for the dedication ceremony, but I think it would be appro priate if they invited Miss Carson to throw out the first cockroach, or something like that. In addition to this project, a team of department scientists at Bcltsville, Md., has started a search for new physical methods of controlling four types of flies. Other Good Newi They are investigating the merits of light rays, sound waves, air currents and geo metric patterns as weapons against these pests. Appar ently they have concluded that the fly swatter is obso lete. No results from Bellsville are expected for a long time yet, but there is good news from the Agriculture Re search Service at Corvallis, vjre. Scientists there have dis covered that female houseflies apparently use some sort of perfume to attract male flies. Proof of the role that scent plays in the romance of a housefly was obtained with a device called an olfactometer. The scientists put some mala flies in one chamber and then put some females in another chamber where the fellows couldn't see them. Despite the absence of sight or sound to lure them, a sig nificant number of the males wound up in the chamber with the females. It is as sumed, therefore, that the per fume got 'em. According to the Agricul ture Department, the Corval lis experiment holds promise of developing into something big in the way of fly control. I would not care to speculate just how. TO MARCH Portland-IUPll-A busload of freedom marchers from the Portland area will leave Sun day for Washington, D. C. to take part in the Civil Rights march Aug. 28, Mayfield K. 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