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MONDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1953 PAGE SIX HEKALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON 1 They'll Do iFEvery Time .. By Jimmy Hatlo FRANK JENKINS BILL JENKINS Editor Managing Editor Entered as second class matter at the post office at Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 20, 1806, under act of Congress, March (, 1878 ' MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all local news printed In this newspaper as well as all AP news. SUBSCRIPTION RATES MAIL CARRIER 1 Month , 1 1.M 1 Month 1 1.50 6 Months S7.50 ( Months 9.00 I Year SU.OO 1 Year 118.00 1 -- J'l ra j t o n w J" lip (ft iw, ici'-t, mint nawm . wnm hqhth n.nnt;n mJiLuM Most columnists In all probata!! lly discover that it is difficult to slay in one pasture when the fence about It contains so many open places, so U Is with this column which has a habit of straying from some well trod path Into side enclosures whose pastures for the moment appear greener. Our course was headed along the well trod trail of agri culture when we suddenly strayed away with Malthus and his in fluence upon the minds of two freat naturalists, the fence, how ever Is not too far away especial ly when we wandered back on a dim track dealing with the im proved healthiness of the Ameri can people and the lengthening period of life. People today have acquired a new robustness never known be fore In the history of the world. Psrtly, this has developed from a number of technological develop ments; but a higher general level of health and vigor grows out of a deeper understanding of foods and diets which gets us right back to the trail from which we wandered. We have learned about the effect not only of quantity of food as measured by calories, but also about the wide differences that exist In the quality of protein, quality of fat, and quality of car bohydrate and the differences this makes In what happens to food In the human system. Then, too, minute traces of vita mins exert other profound effects on us which we are only now learning to evaluate properly. Dur ing World War II, and after, most of our diets Included ample quanti ties of known vitamins. Some of these are naturally present, but added amounts of either natural concentrates or synthetic vitamins give to our foods optimum effec tiveness. For example, synthetic vitamin B-l la now universally added to while flour to raise the nutritive effectiveness of bread made from It to the best level. In part, this restores values lost in milling wheat, but It also raises vitamin content beyond nature's original value. These additives to bread In the baker's Uncle has an Interesting history that goes back to a time just before World War I and to Ward's Vtt-o-'Vlm bread made by a large baking concern on the east coast. This particular bread was 'an early eflort on the part or the baking, concern to provide the utmost In human nourishment In loaves of white bread, and, no doubt provide its advertising de. parUiient with something new to boast about in an old, old, product The Ward Baking Company pio neered in adding vitamins to bread partly bv accident. This company had difficulty In making good bread in its bakery in Boston. This happened In spite of the fact that all of the mater ials used, the recipes, and proce dures In Boston were Identical with those employed In other bakeries of the same company elsewhere. THE DOCTOR SAYS By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. Deficiencies ' in most of the senses, such as seeing or hearing, constitute serious drawbacks to human activities but one of them the sense of smell is perhaps relatively less important. Q Up to the past six or seven years J. had a keen sense of smell, now only occasionally can I detect an odor. Will you kindly clisc'u .s the sense of. smell? Mrs. F.B.S. A The keenness of the ability to drteel odors- is certainly much grenter In many of the lower ani mals than It is in human beings. A large portion of the head of an animal like the dog, for example, ts Given over to the snout which contains nerve endings which re ceive the sense of smell: no hti- mnn being can match the dog in ability to detect odors. The mini Is, I think, that the human sense of smell Is already raiher poor " is prouauiy mnoe wor.se tor many of us by. smoking, lack of use, overpowering odors in the surrounding atmosphere, and per haps other factors. For one whose sense of smell has become les wied, as Is the case with Mrs. S.. there really Is not much to sug gest in the way of treatment un less some specific disease process. Murder Triol To Resume Today SAN RAFAEL (UPi The mur- oer trial 01 Rodney Slieran. ac cusrd of slaying his wile. F.sine on May 35 on a Mount Tsmalals nr trail, was to resume today in in ,uiiuiy superior uourt. A Jury of rich! women and four men last week visited the hillside scene here the stale contends tnsi sneran beat his wife to death Accompanying ine jurors were Sheran and Superior Judge Carlos R Frellns. The jury also visited the Bon Air Apartments In Larkspur where the Sherans lived. FREE ROOF CHECK Save rnitly Inside repairs and painting from leaky roofs. DIAL 8866 . Also New Asbestos Sldlnj. No Down Payment ' 36 Months to Pay ROGERS ROOFING The Boston bread was never as good as, and often far inferior, to bread made In Chicago or New York. At about the time this problem became acute, William 8. Ward, president of the com pany, heard Robert Kennedy Dun can talk about the value of indus trial research. Dr. Duncan wat tle first director of the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research in Pittsburgh and was one of the great promoters and promulga tors of this valuable service ol research to Industry. Mr. Wart! was greatly interested In Dr. Dun can's remarks and aiterwara talked to him about the problem of the Boston Bakery and its poor bread. Dr. Duncan thounht that this would be an admirable problem for the Mellon Institute, then In its early beginnings, to undertake. Consequently a fellowship was es tablished and the study began. In due course, the young men who worked on this problem under Dr. Duncan's direction proved that bakers' yeast needed certain nu trients, (chemicals) for its healthy growth and that these nutrients were not being supplied to It In Boston. Furthermore, these yeast foods occurred naturally in the water used in other Ward baker ies but not in Boston the water supplied to the Boston Bakery was loo pure. Consequently, the re searchers suggested that the Bos ton bakers make up the deficiency by adding mineral salts to the dough to supply enough - of the necessary yeast nutrients. Then all of the ward bakers found that adding the carefully balanced yeast food to their dough helped their bread. Mr. Ward was a canny Indi vidual and had no notion of re vealing to his competitors what tnis, researcn had taught him. Consequently, he made a proper mixture of mineral salts contain ing the requlslt amounts of phos phate, potassium, nitrogen, but composed principally of calcium sulfate, a common mineral ele ment of "hard" water but in pow dered form (plaster of Paris, if you will). Tills mixture was sent to the bakers in barrels like those used for flour. Each barrel was labeled (from the Initials of Rob ert Kennedy Duncan) A ready flour, even though It contained no flour at all. The mineral mixture was to be added to the dough at a rate of only a few ounces per barrel or nour. This solved the problem of poor bread from the Boston bakery and It also Improved the quality of products of other bakeries. The research, had succeeded and the result was all that one could ex pect. . Some time later, trouble de veloped between Mr. Ward's com pany and certain political figures in Boston. Just why need not con cern us other than as an Illustra tion of bureaucratic action, but this Is a subject for another column. such as a sinusitis, can be Identi fied and corrected. Q Can you explain why some people catch colds easily and oth ers seldom or not at all? Mrs. F.D. A I cannot give a good explana tion though there is no question that It does happen this way. Not only are some more susceptible than others but people vary In a single lifetime In the frequency and ease with which they catch cold. Probably, it has something to do with resistance or Immunity of the Individual, but there are not any good methods of measur ing this quality or of increasing resistance to colds. Q Please say something about osteoporosis. Its esuse, and its cure. Reader. A Tills is a condition in which there Is a lessening In the density ot the bone. Since this can result from a number of causes there Is no single treatment. It may be due to detective bone formation, disuse, injury, or lack of normal hormone secretion. It sometimes occurs In malnutrition and can be present as the result of unknown cause in such disorders as acro megaly (this may be classified as a hormone disorder also). Treatment, therefore, depends on identifying the particular var iety of osteoporosis and using methods which are Indicated for the underlying disorder. The re sults of such treatment, therefore, will vary widely. Q Please say something about pinkeye Mrs. N J B. A This ts a highly contagious term of conjunctivitis produced by a germ. It is treated by slmnle soothing preparations and recov. ery without complication Is the rule. Its principal importance Is the speed with which it spreads to oihers unless great care Is used. Dr. J. W. LOWE CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Com pUtt Spirit! Adjuttmtnt Phona Office 2-1131 Residence 2-0182 111 U. 4th St. In Sttreni Holt) lldf. Sam Dawson NEW YORK I American slock markets are watched today by mil lions of persons around the world who don't own a share of stock. Why? Because they feel In their bones that broad trends of stock prices may fortell what will happen- to their business, their job, their sav ings, their prospects. Others say: "So what? I don't own any stock." They may dis miss the daily ups and downs of stock prices as the mere carrying on of speculators the pros who constantly are in and out of the market looking for a fast buck. The detractors hold that the old tradition of -the market's impor tance as a barometer or as a di rect influence on business Is out dated. 1 But the way the market rates the shares of one corporation, or of most corporations, still can be of real Importance to many people. Workers get nervous if the price of their company's stock continues to sink. So does the board of di rectors. Price weakness could mean al though not necessarily that stock traders believe either that man agement Is lax, or that the com pany's products are slipping in public favor, or that Its competi tive position is being undermined by rivals. If the stocks of an entire Indus try rise or fall, it may be the public's first intimation that the economic pattern Is changing. This can affect Job and earnings pros pects, or telegraph a blow to an entire community or reaion. When the entire 'market mills around the way it did last week, wilh a sharp break followed by rallies and hesltance, It could mean either one of two things: 1. That the world and domestic political situation Is such a touch. and-go affair that the health of one man, the President of the United States, could color overnight the prospects of good times or bod, or peace or conflict. 3. That the public Is already nervous about "how high is up." and is fearsome tnat stock prices are due for a revaluation anyway. In either case the Initial Impact Is psychological. It tends to make some Individuals think twice about their own plans. Paper profits take on the look of tissue. New York merchants report that in the past a bear market has co incided . with a slump In store xalcs. Elsewhere in the nation this Is much less likely, since New York seems more prone to emo tional ups and downs about busi ness. When last week's sharp market break didn't turn out to be "an other 1929" as a few may have feared, there was great and obvi ous relief. This relief was felt by the many Americans who don't own stock nnd don't stand to make or lose a dollar Immediately. But many of them felt that a prolonged market break would make their employers nervous, cut work schedules, per haps imperil ' Jobs. The market's rp lly tile following day Just as surely reassured many - thai the economy appeared sound to the investing segment of the public. Benny's Daughter, Husband Split Up HOLLYWOOD i.ti ComcdiBi Jack Benny's 20-year-old adopted daughter Joan and New York stockbroker Seth Baker, 27 wed In a lavish ceremony here IB. months ago have separated a spokesman for Benny said last night. He said the rause was "incom patibility." Asked whether a di vorce was contemplated, he re plied, "I don t know." The spokesman said the counle came here with their 2'2-month-old son Michael for a visit with Bennv and his wife Mary Livingstone over tne Labor Day holtdav. Buker returned alone to New York two or three weeks ago. he added. EVEREST & JENNINGS WHIll CHAIRS nrf VVAIK1M for fh Hancftp4Md Sturdily constructed and easily controlled. Ivertst A Jennings folding Wheel Cham and walkers inspire coaiplf te con6dence in the user. Two of many fine Everest It Jen nings aids for the handicapped. Aa)HISjM ' CURRIN'S- for drugs 9th ond Main Ph. 2-347S Rentals and Solos Researchers Develop New Tests To Detect Dread Disease Of Childhood By FRANK CAREY AP Science Reporter CHICAGO Ifi Development of a simple saliva test for easier de tection of a usually fatal and 'oftentimes misdiagnosed" chil dren's ailment called "the disease 0! salty tears" was reported to day. A team of University of Mary land researchers said the new test consists simply of placing a wad of cotton In a child's mouth, col lecting saliva and testing it for its salt content. Dr. Samuel P. Besman and two colleagues told about it at a scien tific exhibit at the opening today of the 24th annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Tile disease, technically known as "fibrocystic disease," can cause Abortion Case Opens PHILADELPHIA Wl .Selection of the October grand Jury which will hear witnesses in the abortion death of Mrs. Doris Jean Ostreich- er begins today. Meanwhile, the district attor ney's office made final prepara tions for seeking the indictment of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Schwartz In connection with death of the young food stores heiress. The fury selection, may be car ried over until Tuesday since it frequently is difficult to obtain a complete panel of Jurors in a sin gle day. When the panel is completed, the district attorney's office will summon more than a dozen wit nesses who will appear to support the charges of abortion, perjury and conspiracy aired at a hearing for the Schwartzes Sept. 19. Also under preparation is evi dence which will be used in an attempt to indict the dead girl's mother Mrs. Gertrude Silver, who s under treatment in Philadelphia Psychiatric Hospital. Mrs. Ostreicher. 22-year-old daughter of Herman Silver, a vice president of Food Fair Stores. Inc., a large East Coast supermarket chain, died In the Schwartz apart ment Aug. 24. Bomber Crashes In Reservoir YUMA. Ariz. I.Tt Rescue teams probed the muddy waters of a res ervoir today for the body of a B57 demonstration pilot who swooped to his death as more than 1.000 picnickers at an Air Force barbecue gasned in horror. John Birt, 28, was demonstrating the plane Just above the trcetops yesterday when one of his two Jet engines failed and the craft skid ded into the 20-foot-deep Yuma- Air Bnse reservoir. He worked for the Martin Air craft Co. of Baltimore, manufac turers of the cralt. He was the only one aboard. The barbecue was being held to cclebmte the Air Force's world wide rocketry shootoff,, which be gan today. a plugging of certain pathways In the pancreas or lungs. It gets its nickname, "salty tear disease." from the fact that it usually causes malfunctioning of the sweat, sali vary and tear-producing glands, re sulting in an abnormal amount of salt in those secretions. Digestive processes are dis turbed, resulting in weakened bodies and bloated abdomens. When the lungs are affected, chil dren are barrel-chested and sub ject to frequent respirotory ail ments. The ailment also is a common cause of heat prostration in chil dren due to disturbance of the sweat glands. Death usually occurs by age 12. Dr. Bessman told a reporter that the disease has been esti mated to occur in from 1 in 500 to 1 . in 1.000 births, but that it may be up to five times more prevalent than Is commonly be lieved. And he declared it Is frequently misdiagnosed as bronchial asthma or chronic diarrhea. Up to now, he said, diagnosis has involved such things as In serting tubes into the digestive pas sages, or making "complex" tests of sweat and all such procedures are lime-consuming and require special equipment. The new "saliva salt test," he raid, takes only a few minutes and can be dene In any laboratory The doctor said dietary and drug ircaimcnis developed In recent years have prolonged lives in these cases. He added that the new diag nostic test by allowing quick rec ognitlon and perhaps greatly in creasing the number of cases brought to study might enhance the value of present treatments and even lead to a specific cure. Mistakes Lead To Younq Riot In Oslo Streets OSLO. Norway Ifl Man, it was a real cool riot. While those crazy ' mixed up adults were voting in municipal elections Monday. 2.000 kids fought for tickets to a concert by Louis Armstrong. The cats lined up along Akers gata, Oslo's newspaper street, waiting for the newspaper Dag bladet to put the tickeis on sale. While they waited, they horsed around, just for the kicks. But they blocked the doorway of another newspaper office. Aften posten. Reporters covering the election had. a Job getting in and out of the office. An Aflenposten janitor trying to keep the doorway clear lost his temper, returned with a hose and turned the water on. Man. there was pandemonium. But good. Milling, yelling teen agers, dripping with water, fought to keep their places in the line. Then the police appeared. Oirls screamed. Windows were smashed. The fans united against the police. When calm reigned once more, the street was swash with water, tons of sodden newspapers and other trash. Six or seven young men were carried off to the cooler. mm McConkey Drug BJ5 Mom FREMONT JUNIOR HIGH STUDENT BODY OFFICERS were elected by the school'i itudenti ,oon after school began this fall. They (fte: (seated left to right) Carolyn Westlund secretary; Jerry Wickersham, vice president and Louise Borjialli, president. Standing in back art: loft, Ted Blair, treasurer and Julia Lawrenco, second vice president. Counsel Seeks Trial End OAKLAND (UP) The attorneys for Burton W. Abbott will ask the California Supreme Court to halt his prosecution Jbr the kidnap murder of Stephanie Bryan. Stanley D. Whitney, Abbott's chief counsel, said he and his asso ciate, Harold B. Hove, will lile a writ of prohibition with the court tomorrow. Whitney said he will base his arguments on two points already reiecied bv Alameda County Su perior Judge Charles Wade Snook. One is that the Alameda County Grand Jury voted to indict Abbott the basis of Insuiticient evi dence. The other Is that Alameda County has 110 Jurisdiction to try the case since no proof has been offered to show that the girl was kidnaped or murdered there. Abbott, 27, was inaictea in juiy for abducting and slaying 14-year- old Stephanie, who disappeareo Anril 28. Her body was found near a Trinity County mountain cabin owned by a relative of AbDott s on July 20. Tf t in Sunreme uouri grams a hearing on the writ, the trial could be delayed for several months, if it is not halted altogether. Finger Counting Needed If Bad Mistakes To End LONDON Wi It's time the med lral profession derides whether man has 10 finders or 8 fingers and 2 thumbs. In the British Medi cal Jouin.-.l and Lancet, Dr. Robert Fofbes writes: There is confusion everywhere. Textbooks disagree. Anatomists generally refer to the thumb, Index finccer. middle finger, ring linger and little finger, but sur ceons oilen number them 1 to S from the thumb. To number the fingers 1. 2 or 3 etc.. and to record that finger 3 needs amputation is to set the stage for a serious surgical mis haD." Dr. Forces ts secretary 01 me Medical Defense Union, an organ ization that represents doctors In legal actions. He says suits have arisen because surgeons mistak- ingly- amputated the wrong finger due to the different systems of counting. Honest Driver Gets "Reward" LOS ANGELES ' The truck driver who found and returned that $42,800 Is Retting a reward after all five dollars. Veaii Valentine stopped his truck and picked up a purse last Thursday near Ann Arbor. Mien He turned it over to a woman who drove back In a big car and correctly told the amount of mon ey In the bag. "Well, thanks." she said, driv ing awov with the money. The Los Angeles Times received a $5 bill Saturday along with note signed "anonymous" asking that the bill be sent to Valentine as a reward. 3tm f02 M Phone 3563 i -' t hi i ,'-; T,t Italians Come Up With New System For Coloring Concrete: Confusion Seen By H. D. Ql'IGG United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (UP) Here's a wee tiding that could sllake the world. From Ovlndoli, Italy, comes one of the most glowing pieces of news since a little Kansas girl named Dorothy followed a yellow brick road on the way to see a wizard in the land of Oz. Italian experts have found a way ol coloring the asphalt that .is used to pave roads. They can make it glow bright red. pink, blue, yellow, candy-stripe, or tutti-frutti. With this future prospect of hlgh woys running riot not only up hill and down dale but also straight through the color spectrum, air plane travelers looking down on a state highway system will know for sure that they're somewhere over the rainbow. The experts say that in addition (0 daubing the landscape with gaudy ribbons, the new process will kill signposts dodo-dead. No more need for a sign If each road has its own color. Hey. Mac! What hue d'ya take ta get to Hobokcn? Seriously, gents and we're speaking right at you experts in Italy your discovery is going to pose untold problems for women drivers. Listen to a couple of them planning a motor trip. "Look. Mabel, I think we'll take the deep purple to Boston and then the heliotrope straight through to Manchester. "Edith! Don't be silly! You know my new yellow-and-plstachio con vertible will look hideous with that deep purple thruwayl" Two Prisoners Found In Hiding SAN QUENTIN (UP) Two San Ouentin prison convicts were or dered to appear before prison disciplinary board today to explain vhv they were hiding out in a type writer repair shop. The convicts are Richard E. Powell. 25. serving a term for il legal possession of firearms, and Julius Junior Holden. 33. serving 1 a term for armed robbery. Both were sentenced from Los Angeles County. They were reported missing at the 4 p.m. lineup yesterday. Two hours later, guards found them In the repair shop in the educational building. They said they welshed on a football bet and hid out because "the heat was on." Guards said they were inclined to doubt the story. O Newspaper SPOT ADS ore inexpensive repeated dally, 7te ARE YOU A $ BUCKS HUNTER? For The Best Buck Deals In Town LOANS '25V250000 SEE BILL CANTON COMMERCIAL Industrial FINANCE CORK 107 North 9th Ph. 7711 SALARY AUTO FURNITURE "But Mabell It's the shortest, and the best roads. . . .' "No. Edith, the deep purple Is definitely out. I wouldn't be caught dead in it. Here, give me that map. Now, here's what we'll do. We'll take the fuchsia tunnel and then the elevated chartreuse to Newark. . .then we'll cut over and buzz up to Albany on the sky blue way. The convertible will look just divine on the blucway. And, let me see, what'll I wear that'll match the Albany-New England pinkpike. ..." State highway departments and state legislatures may have to solve their new highway problems by hiring exterior decorators to work out non - clashing color schemes and to keep the big inter city arteries dressed in tasteful but quickly-recognized shades. The auto companies probably will be forced to come out with body colors that will go with any thingeven the remotest country byways in polka-dot pastels. Nature. Is going to come off second best In the technicolor days ahead unless It spruces up a bit. The winged and hooved creatures will be coming out of the 'woods to view the roads, and probably in time taking on protective coloration against them. Oh . . . you take the hcatherroad and I'll take the tartanroad and I'll be in Scotland afore ye. . . . TO THE MUSIC OF BUDDY MORROW Famous Mercury Recording Artist Hit Trombone and Orchestra ARMORY Wednesday, Oct. 5 DANCING 9 to 1 Get Your Tickets Now at Derby Music Co. $1.50 per Person i
