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PAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1958 Doctor Hails Hypnosis As Aid In Surgery BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (UPI) .A noted doctor said today that hypnotism, properly applied, can be a great aid to anesthetics be cause it allows patients to return to consciousness almost immedi ately in emergencies. The statement was made by Dr. Milton J. Manner, 45, who recent ly told the American Medical Asso ciation that he successfully used hypnosis as the main anesthetic for the first time in open-heart sur gery while operating on a 14-year-Id girl early in 1957. Dr. Marnier, a staff anesthesio logist at Cedars of Lebanon Hos pital in Los Angeles, told United Press International: "I'm not advocating hypnotism as the only or main means of anesthesia. But we can help take jt out of the realm of quackery if qualified physicians use it as a practical ally to their normal bags of tools." In his operation on the 14-year-old girl, Marmer and his asso ciates enlisted the aid of a newly developed pump oxygenator, which pumps blood and maintains circu lation while surgery is being per formed. "These operations present innu merable problems to anesthesio logists," he said. "We didn't know whether such a pump would dam age an individual's brain. "It was decided, therefore, to Ads For Holmes Film To Be Missing Clue HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Adver - tisements for the latest Sherlock Holmes film will not even mention his name because the producers have an idea that teen-agers around the world may think of Holmes as a dull old fuddy-duddy not worth watching. . But before the "Baker Street Ir regulars" rise in anger thinking this an insult to their hero, let it be said that "The Hound- of the Baskecvilles, a re-make, will be completely faithful in its portrayal Job - Rated DODGE Power House Farm x TRUCKS Cunningham & Rickey Motors So. 7th & Commercial Now Is the Time to Immunize Yout Stock Vcccimm, Modtcinals mnd Supplies for Cttlo,Hors, SHoop Hog and Poultry 0 LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT Ik enigiwd to Sv mm4 Serve. CO-RAL TROLENE Systemic Grub KILLERS Your One Stop Shopping Center W Chw Z'fC GrM Stamps MERRILL PHARMACY Merrill. Ore. Ph. 2451 attempt to do the operation with a means of anesthesia, hypnotism which would permit the almost im mediate return to consciousness to the patient practically on de mand. "We used about one-tenth the usual amount of anesthetic drugs in order to allow a return to con sciousness when the heart was open. For eight minutes during the five-hour operation, the girl was awakened and asked questions to prove the effectiveness of hypno sis in surgery. Marmer reported: "She was commanded to open her eyes and awaken. She was then asked to indicate by moving her head whether she could hear me. She did. I asked her such questions as 'Are you comfort able?' and she replied by nodding her head. When the heart was closed, she was given the command to sleep again and did. She was told she would awaken quietly and com fortably in the recovery room and did. She s home and almost normal now." The main advantages of hypno sis, the doctor said, is that "it lessens the need for chemical an esthetics by reducing the neces sary dose and prevents prolonged depression which sometimes fol lows the use of anesthetics alone." of the Arthur Conan Doyle char- acter. Speaking fo? . Hammer Films, which is making the picture ir London, producer Anthony Hinds said Holmes will be portrayed strictly according to the book which he feels has not been true of other Sherlock Holmes movies up to now. "In past films Holmes has in variably been given the romantic treatment," Hinds said.' "He is shown as the great man. amiable, considerate, patient, sitting in his linker street lodgings pondering murder problems like Rodin's thinker. But, said Hinds, "Holmes,- as any student of the stories will tell you, was anything but the pleasant character earlier films made him out to. be. He was eccentric, moody, cynical, egotistical and fre quently bad tempered." Hinds admits that Holmes was a wonderful character, but no saint ly hero. "His rudeness to Dr. Wat son was often outrageous. He was untidy, he took cocaine and snuff. His rooms were a shambles, he kept cigars in the coal scuttle and tobacco in the toe of an old slip per. But he was a great fighter. Tough as nails. Don't forget he'd been a boxer and a fencer. And he was a crack shot with a re volver." Dr. Watson will not be personified as the bumbling sidekick of the great detective. "Watson was any thing but a dullard." said Hinds, "he was an intelligent medical practitioner. In our film Watson will be a solid, courageous man with his two feet firmly planted on the ground. The Watson Conan Doyle created." The Hammer Films version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" will be filmed as it never has been before, according to Hinds. "It is one of the most terrifying stories ever written. It needs the kind of shock treatment we gave the j'DracuIa' and 'Frankenstein' pic tures to bring out the atmosphere of evil and terror and horror which Doyle so successfully conveyed in the book." Speaking of today's teen-agers Hinds has this to say: "They lorobably think of Holmes as the fuddy-duddy hero of some dry-as-dust adventures which appealed to ; their grandparents. For this rea json we shall not mention Sherlock ! Holmes in any of our advertising. :It might keep them away from i the film. The advertising will sim ply read Peter Cushing and Chris I topher Lee in The Hound of the i Baskervilles." "The youngsters know Cushing and Lee as the stars of films like U.S. Industry Pays Big Tab To Sell Self NEW YORK (UPI) American industry is shelling out more than 25 billion dollars at the retail level in an effort to curry the favor of consumers. This expenditure 'is the total of what thousands of firms are spend ing to get consumers to buy their product rather than a competitor s Industry, sources said, the total consists of more than 10 billion dollars for advertising in newspa pers and otner media -and more than IS billion dollars for packag ing of products. The idea behind all this is to make Joe Smith and his family brand-conscious. The competition for your dollar carries right down to the retail counter itself, where companies back up colorfully packaged goods with flash signs designed to serve as that last reminder. Because of the trend toward self- service in merchandising, industry has been placing greater emphasis on "point-of-purchase" signs. These signs become silent salesmen, re minding customers of brand names and often inducing "impulse buy ing. The growing emphasis on point- of - purchase advertising has spawned a billion-dollar business. Oil companies, breweries, soft drink manufacturers, soap com panies, auto manufacturers and dairy products iroducers are among the biggest users of this type of advertising. The last decade has seen some thing of a revolution in the point- of-purchase industry. Fluorescent- illuminated plastic signs giving the impression of three dimensions have cut into the market once held almost exclusively by neon glass signs. A. A. Steiger. president of Chi cago's Tel-A-Sign Inc., said sales of plastic signs have soared 80 per cent in the past five years and the potential "still hasn't been scratched. "Neon signs are still widely used by industry," he explained, "but they have been displaced in the mass - produced sign market by plastic, which is cheaper, lighter and less expensive to maintain," Steiger said. Steiger said the big oil com panies, which once used neon signs at their service station locations, are now switching to illuminated plastic signs. "There's a potential market of more than 100 million dollars in this field alone." The Chicago industrialist said gas stations will require some three million outdoor signs of various sizes and shapes. He said tobacco, drug, food, and other retail units will need many millions of new signs, both indoors and outdoors. "The development of animated plastics signs has opened new mar kets for the industry, including the 'baby spectaculars' which appear on tops of buildings and even bill boards," he added. Steiger described his industry as a "sleeping giant" that faces "a startling sales potential in the com ing decade. AMHERST SCHOLARSHIPS AMHERST. Mass. (UPI) Am herst College has set up the Gil bert Scholarships following a $400,- 000 bequest from the estate of a Pasadena, California, woman. The scholarships are in memory of the late Miss Helen E. Gilbert and her father. Miss Gilbert, daughter of Vernon P. Gilbert of the Am herst class of 1889, willed the money to the school. There is a town, an active mar ket in western Tibet called Gar- tok. This is believed to be the highest inhabited town on earth. It stands 15,100 feet above sea lev el, an altitude which the National Geographic Society says is higher than the tallest mountain in the United States. 'Frankenstein' and 'D r a c u 1 a' which they flocked to see. And the very title, 'The Hound of the Bas kervilles,' even if they've never heard of it, suggests something hellish." Japanese Hangman Says Executions "Unbearable" TOKYO (UPI) Watching an execution is "unbearable," ac cording to Fumio Hiranuma, and he ought to know. He has executed 78 prisoners in his lifetime. But, while Hiranuma insists he could never get used to hangings, he has no regrets about his ca reer, and he says emphatically mat capital punishment is neces sary as a deterrent to crime. - Today, the graying, husky 55- year-old Hiranuma is chief of a juvenile reformatory at Odawara. oo miles southwest of Tokvo. But from 1947 until the end of World War II, he served as hangman at a number of prisons around the nation. . Hiranuma still remembers his first execution. It took place at lcnigaya prison in Tokyo. The con demned man was 27-year-old Takeyoshi Unozu who was con victed of killing a school princi pal tor sbBO. The trapdoor was sprung as ne was aoout to say something, Hiranuma recalled. He also remembers what it was like before a hanging. When the ume ior an execution was set, the hangman would call the prison er to his room. "There. I would serve him tea and break the news to him," Hi ranuma said. "However, most prisoners Knew wny mey Bad been brought to my room before I told them. They would begin to tremble and, as the minutes ticked by, the tremors would increase m in tensity. Finally, you would hear1 their teeth chattering. Some would shake their whole bodies in a fit of agony. It was unbearable to face them and, even after doing it 78 times, I could never become used to it. There are no possible words of consolation or encouragement. If Figures Show Grow In Proportion To increased Income Today WASHINGTON (UPI) "Big families the kind they had in grandmother's day have come back in style." - 'It's the poor families who have the most children." The next time these venerable chestnuts are passed to you in a conversation, you can smile at the speaker and say, "baloney." Research by the Population Ref erence Bureau shows there is no basis for either widely-held belief. Using census bureau reports as raw material, the Bureau made a comparative study of the size of U.S. families in 1910 (grandmoth er's day), 1940 (before the war), and 1957 (the last year for which figures are available). Here's what the study showed: The percentage of American families with five or more children declined from 32.1 per cent in 1910 to 15.3 per cent in 1940 to 13.7 per cent last year. If you define a big family as one with seven or more children, the decline is even sharper. In 1910. 15.4 per cent of the families were of that size. By 1940, the percentage was down to 6.3, and last year it was only 4.1. On the other hand, if you're will ing to settle for four children as a "big" family, you can say that 1957 is on a par with 1910. The figures are 11.5 per cent and 11.4 per cent respectively. The really big jump since World War II has been in families with two and three children. In 1940, 35.8 per cent of America's families were in that category. Now neariv half of them 16.6 per cent are mat size. There has been a corresponding decrease in the number of families with one child or none In 1940, one child households constituted 20.5 per cent of the total. Last year, 15.8 per cent. The percentage of childless marriages dropped from 20 per cent to 12 per cent over the same period. As for the notion that poor fam-, you say something intended to have that effect, you could never convey your meaning.- "All you could do was hope they would calm down. Most of them did after a while." . In one corner of the execution yard, was a Buddhist altar with three ceremonial rice cakes on it. When the prisoner was led into the yard, a priest said prayers. Then the prisoner was offered the cakes, and led to his death. Of the 78 convicts executed by Hiranuma, not one refused the rice cakes, he said. Pausing a moment, Hiranuma changed the subject to the con troversy over capital punishment. After all the executions 1 have witnessed," he said. "I still op pose the abolition of the death penalty. In this confused world, capital punishment should be maintained as a means of preventing the num ber of crimes from growing still larger. The best way to deal with crime is to maintain the right to impose severe punishments but to deal with offenders as leniently as their case deserves." Hiranuma . protests, however, against the common picture of the hangman as a cold, unfeeling man devoid of human sympathies. He tells of an autumn night at the Hamamatsu Penitentiary when he opened the cells and ordered 300 prisoners taken out into the prison yard to enjoy the beautiful moon light. I wasn t quite certain that a riot might not break out." he confessed. "But I was betting on the soothing effect of the moon." As insurance, he added some flute music. For one hour, the prisoners sat or stood quietly in the compound apparently enraptured and then went quietly back to their cells. Families flies tend to beget more off-srping than the well-to-do, this no longer is true. . The birth rate in . lower income groups has declined for several decades a omenon in an industrial society. Ihe birth rate in middle and higher inromp hmMmtc sharply, after World War II, has remained nign in spite of predic tions by population experts that the upswing would be temporary. The effect of these contrary trends has reversed the historic relationshiD IWvMn ;nMr. i..i and family size. Todav the mnrp inmmo fnm;i has. the mnrA oMIHn ; 1:1 1.. to have. The most iwonf - r . ... livjji ui uif; income-family size correlation was COmDleted hv th mmenc K,.Mn last August. It showed that fam ines witn incomes of iess than $2,000 a vear avpraowl q 1 -u:i dren. Families with' inmnwe lufw. $2,000 and $4,500 a year averaged 3.5 children. Families with $4,500 and $7,000 a year averaged 3.7 children. Families with hwimoc mm. ? 000 a year averaged 3.8 children. SPUTNIK SANDWICH NEW YORK (UPI) A oneJish meal to delight the small fry is this Sputnik sandwich, a prize win ner in the National Restaurant As sociation's annual sandwich con test. Split and toast 4 large English muffins. SDreari npH hoK ,;tti butter or margarine. Spread 4 waives wim noney. Top each with 2 slices crisp bacon, two -ioch slices peeled orange, and crisp let tuce.. Close with muffin .halves and insert wooden picks to make a "V." Place pimiento-stuffed olives at top of each pick.
