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Si MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Tl t;SI).Y. OCTOMJR I, VM3 ' In the Day's News Jhe Medical Roundup By FRANK JfcNKINS i The other day this column dealt with an incident on high way 99 (now U.S. No. 5) in which motorists picked up a hitch-hiker and later beat him up. robbed him of all his po sessions and left him lying be side the road where he was later found by kindly travelers who ministered to his needs including getting him to a hos pital. The incident moved this writer to say nostalgically: Wouldn't it be wonderful if the olden, golden days when one .uld unhesitatingly pick up some stranger who needed a ride and safely carry him on his wav would' come back again? What has happened to us. anyway? by on the ther side. And like wise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side." "TJL'T a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was and when he saw him he had compassion on him. And 'ne went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil-ad eMta-3nd set him on his ocn beast, and brought him to an inn. and took care of him. "And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two pence and gave them to Uie host, and said unto him. "Take care of him: and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee." I see that a red shirt was red. And so probably, by the end of this fall, there will be the number of dead hunters. will alwavs be 'i- men vill shoot at anything that and there will alwavs Mavn riling rV- "t " "HU Mil llllIIIM.'n C trr.entus 1'rofcsMtr ot .Medicine Mayo Clinic (ItesiMrr aid Tnhuii syndicate. 19631 a f. 1 moves, lh tmeruui I'miMilljnt in Medicine u , .l. member well the dav that man asked my chum Reeves if he could borrow Reeve's shot gun. When the friend asked if i bro fought a letter from a reader who wishes to remain in cognito. In his letter he says, in subslaiYw: "Am 1 a pessimist ... or a realist ... or just plain in human? I am a Western movie. TV and book fan. and from what I read in the books and see on the TV and movie screeny"attr-led to believe that in the old days tTiere were evil people, just as there are evil people now. And there were good people, also just as there are good people now. "I have read the Bible,' and the Bible story of the Good Samaritan is an old-fashioned hitch-hike story, differing in no essential way from this story of what happened to the bitch-, hiker the other day on Highway 99." pKOBING questions x Is the world getting better? Or is it getting worse? j t NSWER.S are hard to find, j 1 Referring to Lord Byron, I Joaquin Miller wrote a long ; time ago: j "In men whom men condemn i as ill "I find so gmch of goodness ! still, "In men whom men pro , nounre divine ! "I find so much of sin and blot "I do not dare to draw a line "Between the two, where God has not." Hope ollelps Patients I ceding to find he was cured. With lancee But in spite of the fact that Every so offen"fn"tiriolumn he had no pain or indigestion I like to call ati?jtion to the worth oomplaining about, gradu fact that.!ome persons with even ally the lump got a little bigger. scattered can- Finally, he had it removed, it 1 cer have so remember correctly, after three great a resist- j years. ance to the I wrote up his experience in growth of the a medical journal (or several it was loaded. Reeves said, "No. tumor that they j reasons: one. to show how slow- but take a look." So the friend will go on living v a cancer can grow, and how ears. For i0ne it can be in a stomach here hPfore it causes distress; two. to desk show how much improvement comes a letter ran come when the person thinks he has been cured las when he -kes.kome medicine prescribed by perhaps an en- wnne araggmg a loaded gun through a fence. There will al ways be men who pull a trigger w hile the gun is pointed at some one, and there will always be men who will leave a gun lying took a look down thi around the house, loaded. r - u empty, pumped the It is dangerous even to leave gun and pulled the trigser. A Los Angeles Has Cooler Weather 1 LOS AXl.Kl.KS ilTP - A temperatures U degrees in I-os siege of heat that kept tern- Angeles yesterday down to peratures above the 1WI - de- a "cool" Kit from Sunday's 102. 1 gree mark in mostof southern The hottest it got in Los Angeles . California for five straight dining the five days was til!) days apparently had enilotMo- on Thursday. i Sherman County Shooting Probed Cold ocean breezes rolling in land from the coast dropped s barrel. a shell in the, magazine. I re- blast of shot barely missed blow ing Reeves' head off. A shell had been left in the magazine And that is a sample of the several ways in people each vear killed. continued cooling for the rest of the week A maximum of K:t still above normal was the forecast for l.os Angeles today. e Tlie normally cool beach areas welcomed the night and morn ing fog and low clouds that usu ally persist this time of year. Weather men credited a high offshore with inland to end struck by revolver. which many pressure area are shot and lorcing cooler ; hot spell. the REAL WESTERN'S PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (UPI) Movies have become so long that a new drive-in theater here I Mas iwu iu insiaii watering THE DALLES (CPI)-Sherm- Th.' Ta . ' ,alS. The a's and water are placed an County Hist. Atty. T. Lester j near hitching posts provided by Johnson today was investigating the drive-in for equestrian mo the fatal shooting of Keith Slur- vie goers. devant. 34. at a Rufus trailer house Sunday night. The mouth o( lhe Yuk(m river Johnson said witnesses were i is on the Bering sea in western being questioned but no charges I Alaska. had been filed. . The fatal shooting, the third in six months in Sherman coun ty, apparently followed an ar gument between Sturdevant and another man at a tavern, au thorities said. Sturdevant was bullet from a .22 VOTE NO ON OCTOBER IS We Need Sales Tx! Pd. Pol, Adv., T. A. Culberlson 2615 H, Merest tVjgi for year; 'fir 1 instance: '&jf J t o my .iirci trom a woman who tells me that in June 1956, when her brother's abdomen was opened, the surgeons found so thusiast or a quack : and thrqe. M AYBE we'd better leave it there. IT'S an interesting thought. It prompts this question: Just what did happen to this traveler of the long ago? St. Luke tells the story thus: "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jeri cho, and fell among theives, which stripped him of his rai ment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. "And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him he passed I'refand To Purchase I Homes of Presidents I RF1 FAST Knrlh Ireland (UPI) .The Northern Ireland government, noting the tour ist business which Eire has promoted around its Kennedy homestead, said it plans to buy the family residences Of 'two previous U.S. presidents. It said the father of Pres ident Chester Arthur once liv ed at Cullybackey and t h e grandfather of President Wood row Wilson lived at Strabane. Both men later emigrated to America, government officials said, but their old homes still are standing. MEDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS ADULT . EDUCATION CLASSES - Fall term began this week. Please register at the first class meeting. Courses run eight vyeeks. For com plete schedule of classes, call Adult Education Office, 773-7220. Fall Term Schedule GENERAL EDUCATION Music Appreciation Speed Readtrrg Public Speaking Conversational French Conversational Spanish English Review Arithmetic Review Algebra Slide Rule (S weeks) Basic Layout Blueprint Reading and Mechanical Drawing MOMEMAKING Cake Decorating Knitting 8ishop Clothing Dressmaking bff Tailoring Upholstery' much cancer in his liver, and all over, that they just sewed him up again, anil gave him only a month or two to live. Actually, he got along well for five years until July, liiiil when he had to have a colosto my (an opening of the large bowel onto his abdominal wall), for a growth in the colon, which probably started all the trouble many years before. I Recently a brilliant scientist had a similar experience. His abdomen was opened surgically and immediately closed because his liver and abdomen were full of masses of cancer. Instead of dying, as he was expected to do, my friend lived on comfort ably (or four years. Every so often a man writes to scold me for not urging peo ple to try some quackish "can es' cure" which, he says, some what lengthened the life of a relative, or made him more comfortable. My answer is that an occasional case like that does not prove a thing, and does not stir my enthusiasm. Why? Be cause I have known so many people who didn't tak any med icine at all, and who went on living for years, perhaps with a cancer which 1 looked at oc casionally with x-rays. Refused Surgery I remember well the minister who consulted mc at the Mayo Clinic many years ago. He had a cancer of the stomach as big as a golf gall. He refused opera tion because he wanted to try the influence of prayer on his tumor. Actually, with prayer alone, he soon became comfort able enough, and at times he would return to be x-rayed ex- to show that if a man past 50 wants to avoid dying of a can cer of his digestive tract, he had better be x-rayed once ev ery year. Dr. Alvarez discusses danger signals of cancer in his booklet, "What Vt8 Know About Cancer." You may obtain a copy of it by sending 23 cents and a self addressed, stamped envelope with vour request for it to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. Dept. MMT. Box !)ST. Des Moines, Iowa 50304. Hunting Accidents This fall, millions of American men wjll go out into the woods and "mountains, hoping to shoot and brin back an animal of some Rind. Unfortunately, at least 200 of these Kunters will be brought home dea some trigger-happy hunter will have shot at some thing he saw moving behind a bush, and that something hap pened to be a reanL. Obviously, no hunter should ever shoot un less he can see clearly what it is that is moving. Also, it it very unwise for two hunters out in wooded country to get sepa rated. They are then likely to shoot one another. Some years ago. many hunt ers adopted the custom of wear ing a red cap and a red shirt, but now I read that this hasn't worked well enough. Recently an eye-specialist tested the vision of a large number of hunters who had mistakenly shot a man in the woods, and"Ttnyn found that some 80 per cent were so color-blind that thev could not n BUSINESS EDUCATION Brief hand ShoHtfajSfi;..'' Machine Bookkeeping Typing HOBBY & CRAFT Wooc'-oftting Photography Oil Painting Tempera Painting 3 Call 773-7220 for Further Info. A Pjfalie Servif2-Avertijennjit of . . JCF Jackson Ceunty Federal Savings Cr c1Loan Assn. Try and Stop Me By ftENNETT CERF JOHN STRALEY tells about a rich man's son who was so slow on the upiake it took him seven years to go through high school yet he longed to go to college. The father re luctantly agreed to stake him IF he could answer a lew simple questions. The first question pro pounded by Pop was "What's what?'' "I don't know," admitted the son and was promptly put to work in a menial job at Pop's plant. Came the time for the son's first vacation, and off he went to the big city to see the sights. 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