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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
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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).
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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."
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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
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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.
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