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6 Sat, Nov. 9, 196S Daily Northwestern LETS LOiA itttz fcfiDAA Steve Wittman Field Joseph G. Molner, M.D if Girl of 15 Has Question Answered after him, and no more appropriate time than now. Steve Wittman Field a lasting tribute to a man whose career spans much of aviation's history from the days of barnstorming tq the era of faster-than-sound flight. The community is too well acquainted with the Steve Wittman story to retell it here.

More than one generation has thrilled to his racing exploits. His inventions and airplane designs are used-around the world. His leadership in developing Winnebago County Airport from its grass-strip beginnings in the 1930's to the jet-age port of today has been no less prodigious. We expect that the citizens of this area will want to honor Steve Wittman and we urge the county authorities to rename the airport Steve Wittman Field. Seldom does a city or area have a citizen whose far-fanied talents cast such continuous honor on the community as Steve Witttman has upon this community.

Steve is retiring from management of Vinnebago County Airport next year; it's official now. And it's time that the community thought of repaying some of the honors which he has brought to it through his decades of aviation pioneering. There certainly is no more fitting memorial than to name the airport which he has managed since 1931 Straight Up The pioneering spirit among Americans in the field of aviation (as noted in Steve Wittman of Osh-kosh, see accompanying editorial) persists in younger men of this country also. The maiden flight in Frankfurt, Germany, of the world's first verfical-takeoff jet cargo plane West Germany's Dornier 31e had Drury Wood, an American, at the controls. He is said to be the only person qualified to take the wheel of the DO 31e.

The news service German Features reports that the 27-ton craft is the result of six years of development. The cost to West Germany's Defense Ministry has been $50 million. Eight engines housed in two gondolas supply the thrust for vertical takeoff and landings'. During flight, these eight are turned off and two flight engines supply the necessary power. These are also used to assist in takeoffs and landings by automatically aiming them downwards.

While experimental flights have been successful, the craft is not ready for service. By that time, your problem may have evaporated. If, by that time, no semblance of periods has occurred, discuss with your parents the idea of being seen by your doctor or by an endocrinologist (gland specialist) who can run such thyroid or other tests as may be indicated. For the time being, don't fret. Dear Dr.

Moiner: Could you please tell me if. there is a safe method of removing a tattoo? CM. None that you can attempt yourself. A dermatologist or plastic sugreon can make a tattoo less obvious, sometimes by covering the tattoo with a flesh color tattoo or by skin grafts. Dear Dr.

Molner: What causes sties? Is there any way to prevent them? I was told once that they are a sign that you need glasses. Is this so? W.T.K. Sties are the result of an infection, usually staphylococcus, and they do not mean you need glasses. There isn't any special way to avoid them except, during an attack, to have your doctor treat them with antibiotics, and at the same time take precautions not to rub your eyes or in any other fashion spread the infection from the sties to adjoining skin areas. Dear Dr.

Molner: I am 15 and have not yet begun to menstruate. A couple of months ago I noticed a brownish discharge. 1 1 "never continues more than a week but it does not follow any certain "start" schedule. There is no pain, but sometimes a tightness in my stomach, and sometimes nausea which comes suddenly and then passes. Please, Dr.

Molner, please tell me what is wrong because I am scared. E.M. I think you're too scared, too soon but a lot of girls about your age become a bit panicky when their menstrual periods don't start when they think they ought to. While the usual age is about 13 or 14, it can be earlier or later. This frequently can be gauged by the experience of other women in the family.

-If your mother or sisters were late starters, I don't see that you have any reason for concern. The idea is generally held that if the menses do not start by age 16 or 17 it is time for the doctor to investigate, but even then it does not necessarily mean that any great difficulty is involved. In your own case, those brownish, or bloody, discharges could be an indication of activity. As to the timing, irregularity in the beginning is common, perhaps more often the rule than the exception. Periods can start and then miss for a time, or follow an irregular pattern for months.

Then the schedule stabilizes gradually. Other considerations may be involved. A considerably overweight girl may be slower in starting. What about breast and hair devlopment? That can indicate early or late sexual development. I trust that you are not fat but trust also that you are getting good nutrition, three meals a day (no breakfast skipping), and get adequate protein, because nutrition can be an important matter.

Low thyroid activity also can be involved. I think you can very reasonably wait another six or 12 months before doing anything. Which Fork? "How should I decorate my cell?" inmates of the city prison in Hanover Germany, are asking, according to a German Features news story. The query is the result of a course being offered them in interior decoration. Another course in the reform-minded prison is intended to teach good table manners.

There is a practical lesson once a week when the prisoners sit down to fine table cloths and good chinaware. Such rehabilitation should help them for their life outside when they are discharged. In our country where "law and order" is an issue we have been turning out prisoners who are unreformed and are guilty of subsequent offenses against society. Perhaps more is needed to be done to prevent "hardened" criminals. Dr.

Norman Vincent Peale There Is Power In Hope peror of China, holding absolute power as rulers did in ancient times. He replied that he would Defeat, But Not Death Two dynamic words can change your life. The words are "hope" and "expectation." Imbed these deeply in consciousness and you will be surprised how things improve. But how can a word work such wonders? A word is more than a combination of letters in cold print. A word is a symbol of thought, and as such has power to create or destroy to stimulate failure or motivate success.

Emerson said: "Cut a vital word and it will bleed." That was his way of saying that a word has vitality, that it lives, and can affect a person for good or ill depending on how he uses it. Years ago in Vienna, Paul Dubois, a famous psychotherapist, employed what he called "word therapy." For a patient whose problem was fear, the word "invulnerability" might be prescribed. The fearful person was to articulate the word a number of times daily on the supposition that such usage would in time affect the thought pattern creatively. If a patient was tense, the suggested word might be "imperturbability," or if some harsh inevitabilities had to be faced, the word "acquiescence" -might be used. Dr.

Dubois is reputed to have had considerable success with word therapy. Confucius was asked what he would do if suddenly made em- What are ulcers? How should they be treated? What can you do to help rid yourself of ulcers and stay rid of them? For answers, read Dr. Mtlner's helpful booklet, "How To Heal Peptic Ulcers and Keep them Healed." For your copy write to Dr. Molner in care of the Daily Northwestern, enclosing a long, self-addressed, stamped n-velope and 35 cents in coin to cover cost of printing and handling. Dr.

Molner welcomes all reader mail, but regrets that, due to the tremendous volume received daily, he is unable to answer individual letters. Readers'1 questions are incorporated in his column whenever possible. Copyright, 1968, Publishers-Hall Syndicate our Social Security Stake parties. This means that a movement of this kind can cause the political defeat of that party's candidates, but is unlikely to garner sufficient voter strength to elect its own candidates. Dissident movements have their uses for their followers.

Witness the influence that Sen. Strom Thurmond twas able to invoke in GOP convention deliberations, or that Sen. Eugene McCarthy has been able to wield in Democratic campaign BothMn their way contributed to the process of give-and-take that characterizes the function of the American political system. But dissidents usually rally together because of a single issue or policy. They are not broadly based.

The over-riding issue that drew them together may vanish completely between presidential election years. For these reasons there should be no serious fears concerning any long-range fragmentation of the two-party system in the United States. Defeat does not necessarily imply death. Both the Republican Party, founded at Ripon, more than 100 years ago, and the Democratic Party, which is even older, have shown remarkable durability over the years and that is how it should be. Four years ago there was much political talk about the decline and imminent demise of the Republican Party, but you know what happened last Tuesday as the GOP named Richard M.

Nixon as the executive head of the United States of America. Now there is some similar comment about the possible demise of the Democratic Party. Don't you believe it. Serious students of the American political system have little doubt that the two major parties will continue to perform their function of providing national leadership from among their ranks for the foreseeable future, despite the fragmentation threat contained in incipient "third party" movements. By its very nature a third party draws its strength from the dissident elements within one of the two major The Law and You State Laws Vary Guard Your Purse Garry Cleveland Myers, Pi.D The Star of His Family If your purse is snatched or your billfold stolen, what steps should you take to try to protect yourself from legal liabilities which may grow out of the purse snatching? Surprisingly enough, some victims of a purse snatching do not realke that the money they have lost may be only a small part of their ultimate loss.

First you should report the theft to the police as soon as you can, giving them the best description you can of the thief, if you saw him. If your purse contained your personal printed checkbook, notify your bank immediately. Perhaps the bank can help catch the thief by giving notice that a person trying to cash your checks may be using stolen check forms. If you have credit cards in the stolen purse, notify the companies which issued the credit cards immediately after the theft, by telephone or by telegram. Many credit cards are equivalent to contracts which require you to pay for anything charged on the credit card, even by a thief, until you notify the company of the loss of the card.

For your own protection, read the contract provisions on your credit cards now so you can gve the company such notice as the contract requires, if the credit card is stolen. Such cards, in the hands of a thief, can cost you much more than the money in the stolen purse. Professional thieves in some cities act rapidly to obtain maximum cash and credit on stolen credit and identification cards. You should act fast to see that you are not further victimized by the use of your stolen identification and credit cards. As soon as checks forged on your account come through and are rejected by the bank, notify the people who cashed the checks that they were on stolen check forms, so they will not cash any more checks.

Give the police the name of anyone who cashed a forged check, so the police can try to get information about the forger, who may be the person who snatched your purse, or one of his accomplices. Cooperation with the police may help catch the thief before someone else is victimized in the same way that you were. State Bar of Wisconsin teach his people the power of specific words. The sage well realized the amazing power of certain words to make or break a person. The Psalmist also was aware of the power of words, especially the words "hope" and "expectation." One quotation is: "Hope thou in God for I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance and my God." And another: "Wait thou only upon God for my expectation is from Him." If you want to change your life and bring out your latent possibilities, tell you what to do.

Try the power of hope and expectation. How long since you reminded yourself that you possess Jatent possibilities? Or do you proceed dully on the basis that you must just take yourself as you are? Never take yourself as you are. Never settle for yourself on that level. Take yourself as you should be. And to escalate yourself to that level it may help to employ the lifting force of hope and expectation.

A university, so I am told, has a course on "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy." The idea is that you can fulfill your own prohetic understanding of yourself. An experiment was made on common, ordinary rats. The professor gave six students five rats each, telling them that these were extraordinarily brilliant rats and could do amazing things. To the other six students he also gave five rats each, but in this case he told the'm that they had genetically dumb rats. One group believed they had marvelous rats the other believed they had dumb ones.

A period of time was allowed for training the rats. The result? The students who believed that they had bright rats trained them to do amazing things, all sorts of maneuvers and gyrations to get to food in the maze. Bright, alert rats they proved to be. The other rats proved so lackadaisical, so dull, they could hardly be prodded to move towards food. They did not perform at all.

They were complete failures. The professor pointed out that the reason the rats acted either brilliantly or stupidly was because the students training them expected them to do so. The same professor went to a large city ghetto to a school where students were extraordinarily difficult problem children. He took 24 children selected indiscriminately. Twelve of them he put into the hands of a teacher who was told they were particularly bright, that they had great potential.

After several months he returned to find the first group performing spectacularly, whereas the other group could hardly make it. The teachers in both cases were of equal qualifications. All of which seems to underscore that you can become pretty much what you expect. Not only that, you will become what you expect. What do you hope for your life? That is what it can be.

What do you expect? That is what may happen. Don't minimize the power of hope and expectation. (Distributed 1968 by Publishers-Hall Syndicate) (All Right Reserved) Question: I am 67 years old and I was just laid off. If I receive unemployment compensation, will it affect my monthly social security payments? Answer: No. The only income that affects your monthly social security payments is your earnings from work.

However the Social Security payment may affect unemployment compensation. This depends on the state in which you reside. Check with your state employment office. Question: In answering a recent question about Social Security financing, you said that virtually all Social Security benefits have been paid out of payroll taxes of workers and employers. Does this imply that some Social Security payments come out of general revenues? Answer: Yes, but the total amount from general revenues is very small in comparison with total trust fund monies.

The trust fund is reimbursed from general revenues for expenditures resulting from free wage credits granted to veterans who served in the armed services during the period 1939-1956. Additional credits are now given to servicemen in recognition of their wages in kind (quarters and meals, for example). The additional costs that arise from these credits are to be financed from general revenues. Certain uninsured individuals aged 72 or over are eligible to re- ceive special monthly payments which are reimbursed from general revenues. Finally, the largest expenditure from the general fund of the Treasury for Social Security benefits is the government's matching contribution towards the supplementary medical insurance program under Medicare.

Question: My friends tell me I am supposed to get more Social Security than I do. What can I do about it? Answer: Your Social Security Office can advise you why you are receiving the amount you get; ask them. Question: We have to take my father to a hospital but he has lost his Medicare card. What can we do? Answer: All hospitals participating in the Medicare program have been furnished with the proper forms to find out what a person's Medicare claim number is. However, anyone who has lost his Medicare card should contact the nearest Social Security office.

Question: If we can't get our grandmother into an approved extended care facility after her stay in the hospital, will Medicare pay for her care in a rest home? Answer: Medicare does not pay for care in a rest or nursing home unless it is an approved extended care facility participating i Medicare. Question: My unmarried young nephew was killed in service but his body was not recovered. Will his Social Security account pay a lump-sum death benefit for memorial services? Answer: Since he had no surviving widow, the lump sum death benefit can only be paid for expenses incurred over and above the military allowance for actual interment of the body. Since there has been no burial expenses, no lump-sum death benefit is payable. If you have any questions about Social Security, call or write the Social Security Administration, 424 Washington Avenue, Oshkosh.

Phone: 231-0840. The office is open Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:45 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. GRIN AND BEAq IJ I ill thing of himself, and when his achievements tower over the achievements of all other of his immediate family, their interest, encouragement and applause can be very powerful, indeed. While all the boosting of this star of the family may-have its good effect in stimulating him in his upward "strivings to succeed." it can hamper him in becoming as likable and grateful person as he could be.

He might grow conceited. An occasional person of his ilk may grow ungrateful to those of his line of relatives and neighbors, even ashamed of his humble background and associates. If he does, he quits growing in rich qualities of character; he may call down upon himself wide disapproval. When, for example, the successful individual returns on vacation, he may make his old pals, even members of his own family, suppose he feels superior to them and looks down on them. When, later, he gets some popular acclaim for his achievements, those who did most for him may not fully share the satisfaction from the applause he gets.

Related to the foregoing is the boy or girl who is the only one among his close relatives who finished high school or college. His parents and grandparents may not have done so. You and I know the youth who succeeds with distinction at school and college, whose parents have very little education. They may not have gone beyond the third or fourth grade at school. While his parents may be very proud of this youth's achievement, he may.

in all sorts of ways, make them feel ashamed of their lack of education. Some youths do just that. How these parents must suffer. The same suffering may be sustained by grandparents who came to America as immigrants and whose language and social acquirements may not have advanced to the satisfaction of the educationally and socially successful grandchild. What may be done to prevent this outrageous attitude and conduct of a few gifted youths toward their parents and grandparents? The parents and grandparents may not be able to do much themselves, except to keep themselves from feeling hurt.

During the early years with the child, the parents may guide him better by not doing too much for him, not giving him too much, and by limiting his selfish ways. But others who deal with this child or youth lacking appreciation of them and gratitude to those who have done most for him, may do something about this matter. Teachers may do much. So may Sunday school teachers and leaders of character-building groups. Many children, especially teen-agers, are idealists and may be led to imagine themselves in the place of their parents.

Copyright, 1968, King Features Syndicate, Inc. You and I may know a person who has reached to great heights in education and notable achievement, who is the only person in his family line, in his or our memory, who, in the language of his community, "amounted much." Only a few, if any, of his immediate relatives may have graduated from high school; none from college. He may be the star among all his relatives for generations. Members of his family and other relatives and neighbors may be very proud of this person while he is climbing in education during his childhood and youth and winning achievements in doing things worthwhile later. His admiring relatives and pals may gain feelings of rising in status themselves because of the person who so achieves.

From the time he entered school, his show nf ability may have caused his parents and other relatives to applaud his outstanding success at school. This applause by parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and other relatives, may have done a great deal to cause him to strive hard. They aroused ambition in him. Let me take note of the frequency with which many grandparents inspire ambition in grandchildren, a matter often overlooked. Consider, moreover, how much the conspiring of a whole family may operate to induce a promising child ind youth to make some-r I Osbkosb Daily Northwestern (Established January 6, 1868) Samuel W.

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