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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
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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
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'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
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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.
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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
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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. In
a bar, a very beautiful
girl suggested that he
buy her a drink or two. The boy pointed to a mole on her
shoulder and inquired, "What's that?"
"What's what'.'" asked the beautiful girl.
"Holy mackerel." gasped the boy. "if I'd' known that
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Q. What has 32 leprs ajid feathers and goes "bah bah bah?"
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