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MEDFORO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON DENNIS THE MENACE MM 4-H News Wagner Creek Achievement awards were presented to members of Wag ner Valley 4-H Clubs by Karl Slack, assistant cashier of the First National Bank, Phoenix Boo fa From SWEM'S 217 E. Main MEDFORD, OREGON Phone 772-9331 WESTERN HISTORY THE OLD TRAILS WEST by Ralph Moody The author of the well-known "Little Britches" tells the human story of all the major trails that led to the development of the west. Many maps and old prints. $6.95 MARK TWAIN'S SAN FRANCISCO Contains his best writings about the city in which he lived and wrote approximate ly 100 years ago. $6.95 THE GOLDEN FRONTIER by Herman Francis Reinhart -Recollections of an early day prospector who mined in California and South and Western Oregon, and hauled freight with teams and wag ons all over the west. $6 00 WESTWARD VISION: THE OREGON I KAIL by David Lavender A new and excellent entry in the American Trails series, which is a distinguished historical enterprise. (8.95 WESTWARD TILT: THE AMERICAN WEST TODAY by Neil Morgan A well honed reportorial talent ob serves the population explos ion in the west. Among many conclusions: "San Fran cisci is a miserable failure!" - $6.95 COVERED BRIDGES OF THE WEST by Kramer Adams A guide to covered bridges in Wash ington, Oregon and Califor nia, illustrated with photo graphs. Includes several in near-by areas $5.95 If In Doubt, Give a Gift Certificate for Christmas Your Complete Book Store Branch, at a recent dinner meeting. National awards were present ed to Lorna Fowler for achieve ment, and Mark Wright, for estry. Farm Bureau awards were given Bill Bagley, poultry ana miss owier, forestry County record book awards went to Bill Bagley, poultry, intermediate; Miss Fowler, for estry, senior; Mindy Hackett groom your room;" Marcia McGeary, easy meals; and Mark Wright, forestrv. iunior. The county club team mem bers in foods judging to be awarded Were Phoenix Happy nomemaicers, Karen Dill Mindy Hackett and Ann Skjaer- iuna. First year awards were pre sented Ed White, Joe White Leslie Welburn, Mary Welburn Kathy Turpin, Anne Skiaer- lund, Karen Richey, Jeanette Quinn, Charles Miller, David Logan, Debby Kidson. Don En loe, Mary Commons, Dale Birk- lana. second year awards were given Mark Wright, Margaret Redding, Don Quinn, Jim Nun ley, Karen McGinnis, Marilyn Marsh, Debbie Marsh, Sharla Mankins, Donna Kidson, Mary Sue Emerson, Anne Dube, Mitch Burrell, Mindy Burrcll. Receiving third year awards were BUI James, Judy Boettch- er, Dennis Creel, Pat Davis, Douglas Day, Joan Dube, Karen Dill, Dana Morris, Christine Moon, Don Marsh, Kathy Mc Ginnis, Marcia McGeary, Patty Zapell, Carolyn Young, Neva Morris. Fourth year wards were taken by Jackie Tuggle, Linda Has- mussen, Mindy Hackett, Glenda Daugherty, Mike Davis, Mary Campbell, Kenneth Boettcher. Fifth year awards went to Sam James, Kenneth Harris Louise Herzog, Sharon Boettch er and Billy Bagley. The seventh year award went to Steve Chapman; eigtitn year Kathy Zapell and Lorna Fowler, and ninth year. Linda Sommer, Renee Johnson, Faye Chapman and Chip Buffington. During elections Steve Chap man was elected president of Wagner Valley 4-H Clubs; Mary Sue Emerson, vice president: Allene Harris, secretary; Cathy Turpin, treasurer; Judy Camp bell, reporter; Mr. and Mrs. Quinn, community leaders. Desert Pearls The Desert Pearls 4-H Knit ting Club met recently in the home of our leader, Mrs. James Dunn. All members were present. We made knitting boxes and everyone got started on their knitting. Final plans were made for our Christmas party, Dec. 14. We invited our mothers. Gina Krambeal, president, ad journed the meeting. Louise Humphrey, Reporter WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1963 The. Medical Roundup By Emeritus Consultant In Medicine Mayo clinic Emeritus Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1963). jar 4T1 1 ill Painful Periods In Girls Many mothers write to sav that a daughter has so much pain each month that she has to lose a day or two from work. In a recent article, Dr. J. C. Warren and Sarah Cheatum of Kansas City, Kan., say that they have found ovarian hormones of several types helpful in treat ing dysmenorrhea (abnormal or painful periods). A drug like stilbestrol, given in doses of three mg. a day for 24 days can suppress ovulation (the putting out from the ovary of a tiny ovum, or egg-like cell). On the 24th day of the girl's menstrual cycle, some progestin (a differ ent type of hormone) is given by mouth and then, perhaps, four days later, the girl has a plainless period. The giving of the stilbestrol is started again on the third day of menstrua tion, borne 90 per cent of the patients have been helped with this type of treatment. Often, after from four to six months, the treatment can be stopped and the improvement continues. For the teen-age girl whose main trouble is that she flows too much, Dr. Warren gives drugs of the progestin type. Usually these girls do not need any extra estrogen; they have enough already. He gives the progestin each month for a few months. In all these cases of menstrual difficulties, the phy sican who is best trained to help is a good gynecologist. Moving South Many people with lung trou ble, or bad sinuses, or arthritis, write to ask if I think they should move from a Northern state down to the Southwest. Usually, my answer is that it would be advisable for persons with asthma, sinusitis, bronchi tis, or frequent colds to consult an allergic cause. If so, and the distress in their nose is due to an allergie cause. If so, and the allergist can determine what the cause is such as ragweed pollen then he can tell-where, in the United States, relief can be found. But even this plan does not always work well. I remember a young woman who fled to a Western desert with the hope of avoiding a severe hay fever. But there she got into trouble because it happened that she was highly sensitive to sage brush, and in the desert, sage brush is everywhere. Later, she found perfect relief in San Fran cisco. I thought of this problem when recently in the question and answer department of the JAMA I read an answer to this question of moving South to avoid flare ups of a bronchial disease. The expert consulted was not opti mistic about moving because, as he said, two surveys by differ ent groups have shown that the annual per capita rates of acute respiratory illness are about the same all over the United States. I have read, however, that a high percentage of the storms which roar down from the re gion of the Aleutian Islands and enter the United States around Seattle, usually travel eastward until they go out over the At lantic in the region of Maine. They do not often go down into tne soutnern states. These storms can be distress ing to persons who have trouble with their lungs and joints. The rarity of severe storms in the Southwest might improve the health of some people. Nodes on Fingers . Very common in women past middle age are little knobs on the last joints of several fingers. Around 100 years ago, Dr. He berden became famous simply by asking in an article "What are those little knobs that devel op near the ends of women's fingers as they grow older?" Now Dr. Robert M. Stecher of Cleveland, Ohio, says that they can be inherited; the knobs rep resent a form of "osteoarthri tis," or arthritis in which there are changes in the ends of the bones that make up a joint. It is strange that nearly all the per sons who have these little pea- sized nodules on their joints are women. One-half of their daugh ters are affected in the same way. As Dr. Stecher says, for a man to be affected, his mother must have the disease and his father must be a carrier. Fortunately, these little nod ules seldom give a woman much difficulty. Only very rarely have I seen one of the little nodules break open and discharge fluid. Usually there is no need for any treatment. If you suffer from allergies you'll want to read Dr. Alvar ez' booklet, "Asthma, Allergy and Hay Fever." To obtain your copy send a cents ana s stamped, self-addressed enve lope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. mmt, Box 957, Des Moines, Iowa, 50304. Doctor Warns on Birth Control Pills WIMBLEDON, England (UPI) A British doctor warned that the use of birth con trol pills instead of other con traceptive devices could lead to a dangerous venereal disease eDidemic. Dr. Ernest Claxton, assistant secretary of the British Medical Association, said in a lecture. "oral contraception gives no protection against disease, and if it comes into widespread use there could be a dangerous epidemic." A 3 France Impressed By Takeover of Reigns by Johnson PARIS (UPD PrPSldpntl In fact thinliino oinnnn frh H, .h..1. r V. 1. !- . ... ' . PARIS (UPI) - President Johnson's swift, smooth take over after President Kennedy's death has deeply impressed Frenchmen. Many are asking whether things would go as smoothly here in case of the sud den death of President Charles de Gaulle. In fact, Frenchmen were jolted again by the realization that no sure, tried machinery exists in this country for a changeover from De Gaulle, who himself has narrowly escaped two major assassination attempts. The Gaullist Fifth Republic's constitution does not include the office of vice president. It provides only that in case of the president's death election of a successor must take place within 20 to 35 days. During the interim period, the acting head of state is the president or speaker of the senate. The current senate president is Gaston Monnerville, a 66-year- old Negro from French Guiana. Not on Speaking Terms De Gaulle and Monnerville lit erally have not been on speaking terms since the senate president led an abortive revolt by the old-time middle-of-the-road par ties against De Gaulle in par liamentary general elections a year ago. Several times it has been sug gested that the Gaullist consti tution should be changed to cre ate the office of vice president, as in the United States. The possibility has been wide ly debated again following Pres ident Kennedy's death. Although there appeared to be mounting support for such a change, De Gaulle himself is said to be opposed to it. His ar gument is said to be that a vice president never would wield the authority necessary for a smooth changeover. The fact that John- son s takeover appeared com pletely effortless does not ap pear to have changed De Gaulle's mind. In fact thinking among French politicians now is that the office of vice president might be a useful institution some day but not as a potental successor to a president of the prestige and personality of De Gaulle. However,' De Gaulle himself has given serious thought to the problem. Amendment Voted Last October, after the second near-miss assassination attempt against him, he got the nation to vote approval of a constitu tional amendment providing that France s presidents in future would be elected by direct vote of the whole French people in stead of by a limited college of some 50,000 "notables." De Gaulle's theory was that a president elected by the na tion as a whole would enjoy greater prestige than one chosen by a limited electoral college. So, as things stand, if De Gaulle died suddenly tomorrow, there would be a three-to-five weeks' period during which France would be without a pres ident. Officials agree this could have created a dangerous situation a year and a half ago when the Secret Army Organization (OAS) threat was at its height, Today, it is generally felt, the r We never gueti We look It up WORLD BOOK In Sales st. In Service for your LOCAL representative Write Box 62 Ph. 482-3196 Ashland, Oregon We never guess We look it up 1 nation could weather such a crisis without a major upheaval. mirS AUtBFSIftOMOOW Open 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. Fast Dependable) Service) Repairs While You Wait Carols To Be Allowed In Beaverton Schools BEAVERTON (UPI) -The board of directors of the Bea verton school district Monday night adopted a policy which says teaching about Christ should be confined to the home and church. But the policy does not rule out singing of Christmas carols or Nativity scenes at the schools. An earlier proposal had led some persons to believe they would be ruled out, but officials said this was not the intention. Fog, Ice Result In Area Accidents Fog and icy pavement con tributed to three accidents oc curring on Jackson County nignways Monday state police said. No injuries were reported. Cars driven by John Earl Yoakley, 17, of 42 W. Vilas Road, Medford, and Raymond Rudolph Hrena, 51, Plaza Apart ments, Medford, collided on In terstate 5 overpass at Table Rock Road. Cars driven by Kenneth Longanecker, 23, of Route Box 19, Jacksonville, and Earl Franklin Stevens, 52, of 106 N. Oregon St., Jacksonville, col lided on Oregon 238 and Bybee corner. A car driven by Alicia Gale Funderburk, 24, of 4065 S. Pa cific Highway, Medford, struck a car driven by Kenneth Mac Lain Campbell, 21, McMinn ville, Ore., Monduy night on U. S. 99, three miles south of Medford. for those who think young UllllUtmOllMl.il Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mall Tribune In Medford, phone 772-6141; Aah land cull at 410 Hrldce St.. r plume 4U2-:iOD2; Yreku, phone Victory 2-2(198 before fl:43 p.m. dnily and 10::to n m. Sundny. 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