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MKDFOKD MAIL TRIBliMi. MEDKORD. OKKUON TIIIjKMIAY. NEFTEMHUK 19, 19KI A 3 2nd Fighters Go By JOOP MARMELSTEIN United Press International SOESTERBERG AIR FORCE BASE, The Netherlands UP1 A piercing warning alarm shat ters the evening calm. Two men who could be mistaken for outer space visitors rush to their jet fighters. Minutes later only an eerie vapor trail is visible as the jets streak toward a possible rendezvous with death. Although this Is just another test, pilots of the U. S. Air Force's 32nd fighter-interceptor squadron attached to this Dutch air base arc deadly earnest. They never know when a mis sion might be for real. The 32nd has the distinction of being the only American squadron commanded by an other NATO country. It sends its fighters up on command from the Dutch base operations center. "This is unique in NATO," said Col. F. E. Broers of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, who commands the Soesterberg base. Col. Gelvin S. Nicely, com manding officer of the 32nd squadron, said nowhere in NATO is the spirit of partner ship better demonstrated than at this air base. Dutch Considerate The pilots themselves enjoy one aspect of operating under the Dutch more than they did back home. "In the states", said one, "they think nothing of sending you up at four in the morning. But here, the Dutch hardly ever send us out on a practice alert at that ungodly hour." Night alerts are kept to a prescribed minimum because of the noise problem. There are Bids Called for Keno Road Work PORTLAND Invitation for bids for surfacing of a segment of the Keno rd. are now being accepted by the bureau of pub lic roads, 302 Mohawk building, 23 SW Morrison St., Portland, according to the U.S. depart ment of the interior. The bids will be received un til 2 p.m. Sept. 30. The project is located in the south adminis trative area of the Mcdford dis trict, approximately six miles west of Keno. Plans and specifications may be examined by prospective bid ders at the Mcdford district of fice, bureau of land manage ment, 1133 South Riverside ave., Mcdford, or by contacting bu reau of public roads representa tive, D. D. Lein, Keno. A field review of the project started today and will continue tomorrow. Individuals planning to make this field trip are asked to be at the beginning of the project on Highway 66 at 9 a.m. Thursday. Up at Dutch Commamid Marijuana Seized, 10 Held in Seattle SEATTLE (UPI)-Police raid ed a University District room ing house Tuesday night, ar rested 10 persons and seized marijuana and pep pills as the climax to a week of intensive investigation. Nine of the persons arrested were minors and the other was a 28-year-old woman. A member of the police de partment's special patrol squad, Joe Cordas, acting as an under cover agent, said he made sev eral purchases at the house dur ing the past week. His last purchase, amounting to $30, came Tuesday night just before police raided the house. Police said a large amount of marijuana was seized. Three women. 18. 19. and 28, and seven young men were ar rested. The young men included four who were 18 years old, two 19, and one 20. Bids Are Called for Tree, Shrub Planting Bids for a roadside improve ment project over a distance of 9.58 miles between Medford and Ashland on the 12th street North Ashland Interchange Sec tion of Interstate 5 will be re ceived by the state highway commission Oct. 8. The Nds will be received in Salem. The plans call for plant ing trees, shrubs, and vines on the roadside and slopes and in stallation of an irrigation sys tem at the south end of the Barnrtl road interchange. Com pletion of the project is sched uled for Ihe fall of 1964. Multnomah Stadium Put Up For Sale PORTLAND I'PI ) - Multno mah Stadium has been turned over to a local realtor for lease or sale for J2.1 million. Franklin Drake. Multnomah Athletic Club president, said it was still the hope of the club (hat a local civic or governmen tal body could continue a civic stadium facility here. But, he said, Ihe club needed the money from the sale or lease for its new building program. many Dutch villages in close proximity to the air base. Alerts are, however, a daily "must" in the 32nd. Two pilots, wearing flight gear, are on duty 24 hours a days and never stray more than 100 yards from two perfectly-tuned Convair F102-A Delta Dagger jet fighters. The pilots' helmets lie on the side of the open cockpits and the cockpit hoods are always raised. A diesel generator stands between the two aircraft, ready to warm up electronic systems inside both jet-fighters. Five Minutes Even at night, the time that elapses between the first alarm . and the time when pilots report j they are flying at 15,000 feet is never more than five minutes. Often it is less, and three min ing the daytime is about aver inig the daytime is about aver age. No pilot lives more than a half-hour's travel from "Nieuw Amsterdam," as the American enclave on this sprawling Dutch air base is called. A piercing blast announces an alert. If it is a steady sound, only one fighter has to "scram ble." But if the alarm warbles, both planes must go up. The pilots, lounging in com fortable chairs, or sleeping in side their flight uniforms, race into the air-conditioned alert hangar and rush up the ladders into their cockpits. Warning lights glow to report that vital systems are ready. The canopies close after the pilot shows his crew chief Ihe safetypin taken from his ejec tion mechanism. Only then does the crew chief pull away the chocks from the landing gear. Toward Iron Curtain The big doors of the hangar, moving on counterweights, slide open and the pilots "give her the gun." In the air, they will ' receive the coded operational ' ' data vital to their defensive mis sion. They will be on their way , by then because their runway ' leads due cast in tne direction ' of the iron curtain, j "Only if there is a cross wind I of 35 knots or more do we use another runway," one pilot said, i Capt. William Foster, from Milk Creek, Calif., and Lt. 1 Bruse Mosicr of ( P.O. 5, Box 1 224.) Erie, Pa., said they re : garded every alert as the real ! thing until told otherwise while streaking towards their oper ating area. Foster is a West Point gradu ate, while Mosicr was in the Air Force academy class of I960. Even after 22 hours on alert duty, the pilots must still be at the peak of efficiency. "When the claxcm wakes us up wo just run to the planes and jump in," Foster said. "We get out of the hangar and up in Ihe air while concentrating on the mission. The mechanics of flying are second-nature to us. The Dutch here also have an I alert facility." About his command, Col. I Broers said:. "Our pilots sit in a shod. Our i country just cannot spend the sort of money it lakes to build 1 such an alert facility as the 32nd have. But in spite of that, the pilots gel along fine, and that goes for their social life as well as for the time they spend aloft flying in combined formations." The American enclave at this air base lies close to the center of Holland, in one corner of, ! Soesterberg. lt is the home-1 away-from-homo for 750 U.S. Air Force men and 1,100 dependents ! who live nearby in Ihe towns I 'of Den Dolder, Zcist, Soest andj Amersfoort. All of the Ameri-j jeans intervicd enjoy being sta-j i tioncd in Holland. M-'Sgt. Frank Crocker of (50 jWardear st.,) llowlnnd, Maine, I moved here just two months I ago for a throe-year tour of duty as "top-kick" of the 32nd. ' "The climate here is about i what it is in Maine and 1 like it," Crocker said. "We get along well with the Dutch, most of whom can converse with us. The kids have already started to pick up the language here." The same holds true for most of the American youngsters liv ing near the base. The youngest go to a Dutch kindergarten, and there is a school building in side the base where grades 1 through 8 are taught by Amer ican teachers. Grades 9 through 12 are taught in an English language school in the Hague, about 60 miles away. The Medical Roundup by or- Ememui Consultant In Medteln Mayo runic . Emeritus Professor of Medlcln Mayo Clinic (Register XAd Tribun Syndicate. 1963) Some Problems of Jaundice In the past few years, we have had in America quite an epidemic of the mild infectious hepatitis (d l s ease of the li ver. Also we have had an epidemic of the very serious serum hepatitis (which can come after a transfusion of Uvarr Diuoui; a l s u, much cirrhosis of the liver (de struction of much of the liver). With all this, jaundice has be come a fairly common symp tom. When it appears, it is very important that a correct diagnosis of the cause be made. The diagnosis tends to vary with the age of the person. For instance: between the ages of 5 and 20 years, the in fectious hepatitis, which is due to a virus, will account for nine out of 10 cases. This type of dis ease remains an important cause of jaundice even in the ages between 20 and 35 years. In older patients, and particu larly in the cases of stout wom en, a yellowish skin can be due to a gallstone which is obstruct ing the common duct (which carries the bile from the liver down into the bowel). In the later years of life after 50 or 60 a severe jaun dice, which never lets up for a day, can be due to a cancer of the pancreas, which obstructs the outlet of the common bile duct where it joins the bowel. Another distressing type of jaundice is due to cancer of the liver. Usually this cancer has spread from some place per haps in the bowel and has de stroyed most of the liver cells. Rarely the cancer started in the liver. Yet another cause of jaundice can be a severe cirrho sis due to hepatitis or too much drinking of alcohol. Fi nally, in recent years, some jaundices are due to an unfor tunate side or unwanted re action to one of the many new synthetic drugs. Tests Helpful Often the diagnosis can be made with accuracy by an ex pert in a large clinic, just by looking at Ihe patient and asking a few questions. Helpful evidence can be obtained from laboratory tests, and largely by watching to see if the degree of jaundice varies from week to week. As I said above, if the yellow color stays for weeks without chang ing in its intensity, it is very likely to be due to cancer. Also significant is the fact that with cancer the patient's skin color may be more greenish than yel low; also the poor person will probably itch terribly all over. In some cases, the diagnosis is made by what is called a bi opsy of the liver. A big hollow needle is pushed into the liver, and in this way some of the tissue is golton out for section ing and staining, and study under the microscope. If x-ray studies show that the patient has gallstones; or if, a while before, he had a gallbladder full of stones removed, and if he has attacks of pain on the right side over his gallbladder, there is a good chance that he has some stones left in his common duct, where they are obstructing the flow of bile from his liver into his bowel. If x-ray studies show a nor cally functioning gallbladder, and no sign of gallstones or cancer, and especially if the person has been a heavy drinker for years, or has had a bad at tack of hepatitis, he may well have a cirrhosis of his liver. Certain laboratory tests can greatly help the physician in making the different diagnosis. One of the curious unsolved questions in medicine is why a person who is perfectly healthy and happy for months or years, can be carrying in his blood the very dangerous virus of serum hepatitis. If, while in this state, he gives some blood as a trans fusion to help another person, within two or three months that person may come down with a severe form of inflammation of his liver. A very serious prob lem today, and one that is as yet unsolved' is how to detect these carriers of the serum hepatitis virus, so that they will never be accepted as donors for transfusions; also how to de stroy the virus of hepatitis when it gets into a blood bank. Diabetes Insipidus As many people know, there is a disease called diabetes insi pidus, in which the person keeps constantly drinking enor mous quantities of water, and keeps passing enormous quan tities of urine, which has no su gar in it. 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