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knew from which direction the
call is coming; she just isn't get
ting through to him. He waits,
message across to any boy-bug
with romance on his mind. Th
end result will be an interruption
of the species; may even, if
completely successful, eliminate
a bug species entirely. Pretty
discouraging to an insect pest:
and may make a fizzle out of
what othewise might have been
an insect explosion; for a badly
garbled mating call is as bad
as no mating call at all.
They'll Do It Every Time
. By Jimmy Hatlo
Small Worlds
Around Us
hoping the message win ciear
up, but the little girl-bug gets
tired; the sonic control machine
outlasts her.
Neither bug knows that this
confusion is planned, is a direct
result of jamming. If the con
trol works out as planned, the
little girl-bug will never get her
IT'S A SHAME.' TWEVSE JUST TAKING
HAMMOCK 15
DEAD SET
AGAINST
WOMEN WHO
WORK
THE JOBS AW&f FROM MEN WHO ARE j
DICK WEST
The Terrible Life
Of Our Bachelors
in it rsf- wnrcur it s wot ainurtu .
LYNN M. WATKINS
(f hNf and Triby.a)
Sivdicat mil
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fiiirr's A shame.' tweVse just taking -jgsJ
Pi THE JG63 AW4V FROM WEN WHO ARE , p- I
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - One
of the ugly blots on the other
wise shining fabric of our
civilization is the shameful way
we treat our bachelors.
Cruelty to bachelors is sel
dom discussed in polite society,
but occasionally you will find
someone brave enough to speak
out against it.
Such a person is Margaret
Mead, the noted anthropologist,
who doesn't seem to care what
she says as long as it shocks
somebody.
Talks Openly
This courageous and forth
right lady was here for a lec-
IWA Walks Out a!
Coos Bay Plant
COOS BAY, Ore. (UPI) -The
International Woodworkers o f
America struck Weyerhaeuser
operations here Thursday night
in a dispute that started over
the use of power saws by boom
crews.
Pickets were sent out at 9 p.
m. after talks between officials
of Coos Bay Local 3261 and the
company broke down.
About 970 men were thrown
nut of work at the company's
sawmill, particle board plant
and plywood plant at North
Bend and its woods operations
at Allegany.
The union had demanded that
workers on boom crews be paid
more money for using power
saws. The company then sus
pended employes who laid off
work to attend union strategy
meetings Monday and Wednes
day. Only about 20 per cent of
the day shift was on the job
Thursday.
The union also has demanded
that the workers be paid for
the time they are suspended.
GETS MARRIAGE OFFERS
MELMERBY, England (UPI)
James Newbould, 39, who
was given one month to find a
wife, already has received 30
marriage proposals.
He was told last week thai
the. rural council would turn
him out of his bungalow unless! Margaret Mead had been there
he married. I to rnmfnrt him.
it Dennis the Menace
ture recently and at a subse
quent news conference she
talked openly and frankly about
the plight of the downtrodden
bachelor.
"We persecute those who
don't get married," she said.
"We make them feel abnormal
and force them to live in an in
stitution join the Army, the
Navy, the Merchant Marine
or we isolate them and make
them live alone. We distrust
the single life."
Her remarks presumably en
compassed spinsters as well as
bachelors, but everyone knows
that spinsters lead a pampered
life compared to the dismal ex
istence of bachelorhood.
I myself have been in
the serene and secure state of
wedded bliss for so long I
couldn't remember how horri
ble it was to be a bachelor.
So I approached a bachelor
friend of mine, Sam Freeload
er, and asked whether he felt
persecuted.
"It's all true," Freeloader
moaned, his chin trembling and
water coming Into his eyes.
"Everybody picks on us bache
lors."
"There, there, old fellow," I
said, patting his head. "Com-
pose yourself. Do you feel like
laiKing about It '
Basically Homebodies
Freeloader bit his lip. "Basi
cally," he said, "we bachelors
are homebodies. If we had our
way we would go to bed every
evening at eight o'clock. But
people conspire to keep us out
all night.
"They invite us lo dinners,
parties, theaters, night clubs,
concerts, dances, anything to
disturb our rest. And that isn't
all.
"Man is by nature monoga
mous. But a bachelor is virtual
ly forced to take out different
girls. A blonde one night, a
redhead the next. It's terrible.
"It wouldn't be so bad if we
could meet plain, simple girls,
but bachelors only meet coun
tesses, heiresses, fashion mod
els, movie starlets and
other ..."
Freeloader tried lo list other
atrocities, hut he was sobbing
too hard In continue. 1 wish
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BP5pa VOUR HUSBAND I'D UIVE ,
LIT HOW ABOUT P-Ccs HIM AN ESTIMATE ON PAINTING
WIM ON NluWTS j THE HOUSE DO VOU NEED AN" I
AND WEEK ENDS? Si BBCKWORK DONE? I ALSO DO
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The Medical Roundup
By
Emeritus Consultant In Mfdirlne
niayn Liinic
Kmrrltus Professor at Medicine
Mayo Clinic
(Remitter and Tribune Syndlrala,
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Recently, I reported in this
column that Drs. G. M. Howard
and H. E. Kaufman reported
having found a new and very ef
fective drug called (for short)
IDU, which cured acute herpetic
blisters (due to the virus of
herpes, a shingle-like disease) in
from three to six days. Since
then, many people have written
me asking for some of the drug,
to see if it would clear up a long-
lasting or chronic or old disease
of the eyes. Others hoped it
would lessen the pain which, in
older people, often remains for
months or years after an attack
of shingles.
Actually, the drug is still so
new that we physicians do not
know exactly how far it will go
in the treating of chronic blis
tering infections, and the "fever
blisters" and shingles-type of
trouble in several parts of the
body away from the eyes. Right
now it appears that the drug is
of value in the healing of acute
blistering herpes of the cornea
(the clear front window of the
eye). In the next six months we
will find out it the drug is of
any value in healing chronic dis
eases ol the eye or chronic
herpes of the skin.
Hoviow Article
Considerable information on
(he subject is to he found in the
American Journal of the Medi
cal Sciences for August, 196.1,
where there is a splendid re
view article by a Dr. Henry L.
Birgc, of Hartford, Conn. As he
says. Dr. Robert .1. Huebner, of
the National Institutes of Health
in Bcthesda, Maryland, has
made a study of over 100 vir
uses. In many cases we still
don't know what type of disease
a particular virus produces.
The one which produces the
terribly painful and destructive
little blisters on the front of the
eye is thought to be the same
as that which produces chicken
pox in children, and which pro
duces "shingles" in adults. Act
ually, in Ihe cases of blisters on
the eye the virus appears to af
fect also one side of the brain,
as well as the nerves to the eye,
and even the iris and other tis
sues inside the eye. Ihe pain
many persist for years in the
eye or the (ace. Sometimes a
cataract or glaucoma ( a serious
disease) will develop in the af
fected eye.
Before last August, when 11)11
was discovered, only 10 per cent
of so-called herpetic corneal in
fections (with little blisters on
Ihe front window of the eye)
cleared up spontaneously. On Ihe
' average, Ihe eye remained con
gested for 41 days, and usually
in Ihe end there was some loss
of vision.
Drs. Howard and Kaufman re
ported that they had obtained
good results in all but one of 7li
cases of herpetic ulcers of the
cornea, and Ihe cure came in
from three to six davs. Now.
10 years, from 1941 to 1952, the
mortality for the surgical re
moval of the gallbladder dropped
from 1.9 per cent to 0.7 per cent.
Also, many persons who, years
ago, would have been operated
on the day their (perhaps silent
and harmless) gallstones were
discovered with X-rays, are now
permitted to wait and see if they
ever have some indigestion or a
colic that can be attributed to
the gallstones.
A long-term follow-up study of
the length of lives of persons
who were accepted for life in
surance when they were known
to have gallbladder disease,
shows that they have a very
favorable mortality. Actually,
the mortality of persons insured
was only slightly above average
when the time elapsed after a
gallstone colic was longer than
two years. This would suggest
that those persons who, never in
their lives, have had any trouble
with Ihcir gallstones, ought to
have practically no increase in
their mortality rate. 1 suspect
that the danger of removing the
gallbladder as a safety measure
is greater than the danger nf
leaving the little hag of stones
untouched. Interesting also is
Ihe fact that persons who, he-
fore getting insurance, had let
five years elapse alter parting
with their gallbladder had the
usual (average) mortality. Evi
dently, then, when the gallblad
der is removed, the body does
not miss it, and no harm has
been done.
Our eyes are vital and we can
not ignore any symptoms of eye
trouble. At the first sign of ir
regularity in vision, see your
doctor. The booklet "How To
Safeguard Your Vision," by Dr.
Alvarez will be nf great help to
you. To obtain it, send 25 cents
and a stamped, self-addressed
envelope with your request to
Dr. Waller I . Alvarez, ncpi.
MMT, Box 957, Dcs Moines,
Iowa, 50.W4.
Conservationist
Added to Staff of
Area BLM District
The Medford district of the
bureau of land management
has announced the establish
ment of a new staff position
(or the district that of range
conservationist.
Such a position has long been
needed to provide specialized
leadership, planning, and guid
ance in coordination with the
district's primary mission, tim
ber management, management
of soil and water, forage, and
wildlife, according to District
Manager Donald .1. Schofield.
Pilling the position is Ron
ald J. Younger, recently of
Burns, Ore., where he was em
ployed by the bureau of land
management as a range man
ager. He is qualified for the posi
tion and should be of great as
sistance to the employees of
Ihe Medford district and of
service to the public, Schofield
said.
During World War II, Young
er served in the Air Force,
both in the United States and
overseas.
He graduated from Utah State
university with a bachelor of
science degree in range man
agement. Since graduation he
has worked in three BLM dis
tricts, Vale, Baker, and Burns,
prior to transferring here.
Younger is a member of the
American Soicety nf Range
Management, Soil Conservation
Society nf America, Sigma Pi
Fraternity, and Ihe Isaac Wal
ton League.
Jammed Mating Call Could
Interrupt Insect Explosion
There has been a great deal
said about the mating call bus
iness; we hear about it more
often than we actually hear it.
In some levels of animal life it
does occur, and in various
forms. It may not always be a
bold, brazen cry echoing across
a wilderness, in the depths of a
jungle, or over a plain; it may
be a silent voice and frequently
is a faint, indistinguishable odor,
or fragrance, carried by a
breeze, but just as commanding
as an audible roar or lonely, in
viting wail.
In the wide and wonderful
world of living creatures there
are many that send out the mat
ing call that is only audible to
members of their own species;
mating calls above the range of
the human ear to detect. But by
deduction and electronic ma
chines, scientists have deter
mined to a certainty that many
insects sound the mating call to
others of their kind.
Having had previous knowl
edge of radio jamming, whereby
messages over the airwaves are
garbled, making them unintel
ligible, entomologists wondered
if this jamming couldn't be done
with the mating calls of insects.
They wondered what would hap
pen if the call was garbled, so
the girl-bug couldn't get the
message across lo the boy-bug
that was waiting to hear from
her. Jamming the mating call
might be a way of controlling
the exploding bug population.
Sonic control, if successful, could
be better than the present use of
poisonous chemicals.
The jamming device, with the
taped mating call of the partic
ular insect-species on it, is
played in a field where a crop
is growing, and the boy-bugs and
the girl-bugs are waiting to hear
from one another. Then comes
the time when the love-sick little
boy-bug is expecting to hear the
mating call, loud and clear over
the accomodating airwaves.
He listens. He hears it, but
somehow it just doesn't sound
right; the call is there but there
is a strange and peculiar inter
ference. The call is garbled,
jumbled, and downright confus
ing. The hopeful little girl-bug
continues to send; so does the
sonic control machine.
Imagine the utter chagrin and
frustration of the eager little
boy-bug; he can't tell for sure
where the mating call is coming
from, or know why it is so
garbled. It doesn't sound like the
mating call any of his ancestors
answered! There is nothing in
his bug-knowledge that clears
the situation. He doesn't even
UMTS out mtTHtm ?
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and hislnrv as well as art. His
all over the world, this druR will eventual goal was to become a
People's Choice j
Noted by Morse j
BEAVERTON, Ore. (UPI)
Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., said
Thursday night the people had
a choice of "returning to Ihe
Neanderthal caves'' with Sen.
Barry doldwater or "going
ahead with Kennedy."
Morse, speaking at a dinner
honoring him on his ftlrd birth
day, said the Democratic party
was "ready to lake on the
Republican's Messiah Goldwa
ter." "You will never find out what
final position he (Ooldwater)
takes on any issue." Morse said.
The speech came less than a
week after Coldwaler, Arizona
Republican, and Cov. Nelson
Rockefeller of New York ap
peared al Ihe Western Repub
lican Conference in Eugene.
Morse cited what he termed
"Ihe forward march of Ameri
ca under Ihe leadership of
President Kennedy. He said
Kennedy and the Democrats
consider the parly platform a
"pledge of honor" and that the
administration has a "remark-
nf delivering o n
the platform promises.
Though he had known for a ! rse Diamod a coalition of
number of years that he had an "reactionary Republicans and
incurable case of leukemia, j "n exceedingly small minority
he served as vice president of ! of reactionary Democrats" for
iho snnhnmnre rlnxs last vear I blocking administration goals.
and was extremelv interested j Mm se (ll l'w applause from the
in the fields of noliiical science ! Democratic audience of about
Art Award Created
In Dickey's Memory
ASHLAND Creation nf an
annual art award in memory of
the lale John Dickey, former
Southern Oregon college stu
dent from Medford, was an
nounced this week by Dr.
lames Doerter. head of Ihe col
lege ail department.
"John Dickey was our most
promising art student," Dr.
hnnrt,,,- tjniH "Hp was also on-
selfish in giving freely nf his I We record
time to student activities.
be rapidly tesled. It is to be
honed Hint it will have some
effect on trachoma, a chronic
disease nf the inner lining of
the eyelids, which affects so
many of the Indians in our
southwest states. In many areas
of the world, such as South Af
rica, a high percentage of the
natives have tracoma, and many
college professor.'
According to Dr. Doerter the
award will he made annually in
John Dickey's name and will
be presented to an upper class
man exhibiting excellence in
the art field and in the need of
financial assistance.
A number of relatives and
friends have expressed an inter-
300 when he said no military or
economic aid should be given
lo South American military
juntas which have overturned
constitutional governments.
of Ihem become blind because est in contributing to Ihe fund,
of it. Sulfonamides and chlor-' Others interested in making
tetracycline are two antibiotics such contributions may contact
which will cure tracoma I Dr. Doerter at Ihe college.
Ciallhlaildrr Disease
Recently I read in Ihe Statis
tical Bulletin of the Metropoli
tan Life Insurance Company
that the mortality from gall
bladder disorders has declined
more than .1 5's in the 15 years
between l;W I9; and 1951-5:1.
Much of this decline in mor
tality has been due to the great
decrease in surgical mortality,
resulting partly from greater
skill on the part of Ihe surgeons
and partly from the use of anti
biotics. For instance, at Ihe
Mayo Clinic, in a period of pnm
TIROS OX Itl.IXK
WASHINGTON (CPU - The
Tiros VI weather satellite is on
Ihe blink. The National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion (NASA) said Thursday Ti
ros VI had developed a mal
functioning in its focus current
regulator, creating picture distortion.
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