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apit al jfyj omriial Dr. Joseph Molner Diabetes No Longer 'Sentence of Death' AN INDEMNDINT NEWSFAMK ISTABUSHED IN lilt Mainwaring (1897-1957) Editor and Publisher 1953-1957 Bernard E. A. Brown, Publisher James G. Welch, Managing Editor Page' 4, Section 1, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, November 25, 1961 "When I was told I had dia (if they develop the disease early) may still live full lives and have children.

Since there's a strong hereditary factor involved, it means that many more diabetics are being born now; we have more diabetes. The day will come, I thoroughly believe, when we must and can detect cases' sooner and can extend the happy life span. To do so, we must test everybody oftener. The American Diabetes Association promotes a program for testing. Take this test! If you do learn that you have early diabetes, the sooner you start obeying the easy rules, the longer life will be.

betes," a woman reader writes, I thought it was the end that i was aoomea. 1 9 "I joined the diabetes soci ety and the first meeting I 3k I went to. I ') I thought Td imade a mis take and was in the wrong place. Every UlU body looked so Dr. Melner normal and jhealthy.

I thought they'd all look sickly, the way I felt I must looK. "I soon found out I was in the rifiht place, and what a differ ence it has made to mel" For years there have been chapters of the American Diabetes Association, made up of doctors and others in the health field. RECENTLY FORMED Rather recentiy, lay societies have been formed as companion groups, composed of people who have diabetes or of those who are interested in controlling this As some other causes of death have declined importance, diabetes has been rising, and it now ranks among the top 10. Yet, at the same time, the diabetes patient has more assurance than ever before in history of living somewhere near the nor-' mal alloted life span. Until 35 years ago, anyone who developed diabetes while young died quickly, sometimes in a few months.

Only those who developed diabetes later in life survived to have children. A starvation diet was the only known means of extending, even for a little while, the life of such a patient. ALMOST NORMAL LIFE Today, with insulin, and with "diabetes pills" of much more recent discovery, and quite a few other but less-important things, the diabetes patient lives a life that is for all practical purposes a normal one, simply abiding by a few moderate rules. True, at advance age a great many "die of diabetes," but only at a time when they would have died of something else anyway. Since, today, diabetes can be so well-controlled, most diabetics Ben Maxivell Robert S.

Allen and Paul Scott warships and airplanes to patrol just off the coast of the Dominican Republic, where a fierfce struggle is being waged for national control, Ever since the assassination of longtime dictator Rafael L. Trujillo, American officials have feared Communist attempts to take the island nation. Former Trujillo lieutenants are now in the saddle, but they have proved surprisingly willing to lead the nation toward democracy. President Balaguer faces difficult problems, however. On the left, Communists are attempting to organize Castro-style revolution.

On the right, Trujilloites desire to reimpose the old dictatorship. Hoping to prevent a Communist takeover and to encourage evolution toward the United States is backing the present government. In sending naval and air units into the area, we are to some degree violating treaty commitments to respect the principle of non-intervention in the affairs of other Western Hemisphere nations. Such non-intervention policy has become rather unrealistic, however, in a world in which Communists strive mightily to intervene everywhere, to subvert free governments and to impose their tyranny. We support the President's decision to flex American military muscles in this area.

Let's hope this reminder of United States support for the present government proves sufficient to prevent its overthrow. If it fails, the United States will face a more difficult decision what should we do or not do if Communists gain the upper hand in another Caribbean nation? Selling Labor Peace Communist officials find various means of financing their propaganda and subversion efforts throughout the world. Russia pours huge amounts of money into such activity. In many nations a few wealthy "angels" contribute heavily to the cause. Communists in Italy have succeeded in tapping many large corporations.

Officials of these companies have no love for the Communists, but they find contributions to the party are good business investments. Communists have worked themselves into positions of leadership in many unions there. Businesses that contribute to the party have few strikes and relatively modest wage demands from unions with which they deal. Those that refuse to "buy labor peace" have nothing but Most union members are unaware of this arrangement. They do their job each day and follow the lead of union officials.

Meanwhile their interests are being sold out for the sake of Communist prosperity. We know of nothing similar in the United States, despite the fact that several American unions are Communist-dominated. It would be interesting to know just what the party expects of its few members who hold positions of leadership in the union movement. We could expect them to' discourage peacetime production in key industries and to attempt to pull workmen off their jobs in time of war. Costly Education Secretary of Agriculture Freeman's problems seem to pyramid endlessly, like those of all his recent predecessors.

The hodge-podge of price support and production controls which passes for farm economics these days piles surplus higher and higher. "Now Freeman is figuratively drowning in an ocean of surplus dairy products. This headache is directly of his own making. One of his first major acts as secretary last spring was to boost dairy supports. Dairy state congressmen pressured him into it.

Freeman himself is from a dairy state, Minnesota. Presumably the chief motivation was political reward for some of the doubtful farm states which had delivered majorities to President Kennedy in November. Freeman propped prices at a time when there was no production decline. And he did so knowing that the long-term downtrend of lower consumption of dairy products despite rising population was continuing. Marginal dairymen who were about to -go broke apparently were in mind as the principal beneficiaries.

Short months later Freeman has one of his anonymous aides issue a warning to dairymen that their entire support program seems doomed within a year or two. Higher supports have so stimulated milk production that price-prop funds are melting away fast. The USDA statement grasps at the straw of federal milk controls by act of Congress as the only salvation for the industry. It despairs of dairymen voluntarily cutting back output, naturally. This is typical USDA fuzzy thinking.

What did Freeman expect would happen when supports went up? It's easy for dairymen to expand herds, and to s''Dup feeding for more milk when price siiiies it. USDA will lose more friends r-nonc: dairymen thai it ever gained in the spring by changing signals, so fast. Freeman should have looked at his department's potato price support experience among others, for policy guidance. In 1950, potato props collapsed with a thud after production expanded and re-expanded until costs of the program produced widespread public cries of protest. Congress hastened to kick out the whole program, and has not been tempted to resume it since.

Dairy supports face the same fate before many more months, by USDA admission. The cost to the taxpayer in both higher retail prices and bonuses to farmers will by then have reached many, many millions. This is a stiff price to pay for the education of the new secretary of agriculture, a process that appears a considerable way from completion. In the distant, dim past there was an economic law of supply and demand which balanced production and consumption. It's too much to hope that it will be restored but we keep hoping.

Gunboat Diplomacy The United States is practicing gunboat diplomacy in the restive Caribbean area. President Kennedy has ordered U.S. Pentagon Aide Favors NATO, U.N. Control of Our Bombers WASHINGTON A high official of the Kennedy administration is seriously proposing putting the Strategic Air Command n-der NATO, with final authority over it in the hands of the United That's the startling plan advocated by Defense Undersecretary Paul Nitze at a re Robert Allen cent national strategy seminar in California. The former New York banker and director of the State Department's policy planning staff in News Files of Past Record Local Color the Truman a ministration is now in 1 charge of international affairs for the Pentagon.

In this key it ion, he wields much in- 1 fluence in military, State Department and White House MRS. B.E.A.: I can't see why the amount of ascorbic acid you mention- could harm you. Large doses may help some individuals if the sinus trouble is on an allergic basis. MRS. M.J.B.: You are quite right.

A person's blood type does NOT change any more than a brunette might become a redhead. "Dear Dr. Molner: Can use of a dictaphone impair a stenographer's hearing? I love my job, the people, but I hate the dictaphone. Althea." I can't see any way in which it could possibly Impair hearing and if there had been any such case discovered, I'm sure I'd have read of it in the medical journals. So, I'm glad you like your Job and I'm sorry I can't give you an excuse for getting away from the dictaphone.

"Dear Dr. Molner: Am I wrong in thinking that a two-year-old child is too young to eat popcorn or nuts? Aren't their systems too delicate to digest them? Mrs. R. You're right, but not as a matter of digestibflity-it's the danger of getting particles caught in the windpipe. I positively would not give either of these foods to such a young child.

NOTE TO MRS. H.S.: Yes, pronation (rotation) of the feet in children can be, corrected, basically by proper shoes and attention to arch defects. Your local hospital or county medical society can refer you to a capable orthopedist. the corner of Court and Commer-cial streets, so long occupied by J. J.

Dalrymple it had become home for the Chicago Store conducted by McEvoy Bros. Mayor Morehouse, working on a history of pioneer defenses in Oregon and Washington, had just photographed "Sheridan" blockhouse on the Grand Ronde reservation. (The log citadel of Fort Yamhill is now located at Dayton). Other photographs portrayed blockhouses at Ft. Simcoe, Yakima and Chehalis.

Remains of Rev. Jason Lee, pioneer Oregon missionary (who came to the Willamette Valley in 1834 and established a mission near the site of today's Wheatland) had been disinterred from a 62-year-old grave at Stanstead, Canada, and brought to Portland. They were reported to be in an excellent state of preservation. Presently Lee's remains would be brought to Salem where -a memorial service would be associated with re-interment By Ketcham EAT PRETTY CFTfefJ. Paul Scott UN inspectors would be invited to inspect and satisfy themselves that these are the only nuclear systems we are maintaining.

(3) That a UN order to use them will be honored only in the event some nation has initiated the use of nuclear weapons other than over Its own territory in self-defense against military aggression. "As part of the plan, the Soviet Union would be invited to take reciprocal action. In particular, it would be hoped that the USSR would give convincing demonstration that it, too, was prepared to restrict its preparations to a deterrent nucear counter-force. WE COULD CHANGE PLAN I "It would be made clear that we and our NATO allies reserve the unilateral right to modify or terminate the plan. New technological developments or evidence that The Open Forum Gordon Allen For Reporting To Hit Editor: I would like to extend a job offer to the rather naive UPI reporter who apparently sat in.

on some attorneys' chatter in the FCC in Washington, D.C., and came up with your last front page story on Salem Television. He understands that a station in Salem can be built in Salem and operated for one year for $80,000. If he can do it for mat he is a miracle man, indeed. If he had checked the public record available to him he would have seen that we estimate that it would take Willamette-land TV Inc. about $165,000 to build the station.

Then if we mind our pennies we might be able to operate for a year for $120,000. That adds to $285,000 on my grade school slate. Then of course there was some bandying about of some cash fig- ures of what money I might make available to the applicant corpor- ation. He blythely told of what "Allen has." The garbled account of this indicates that his confusion must have been great for him. The only reason I mention this is because in this whole TV matter the press efforts to smear the projected operatiott are somewhat i enlightening and amusing.

I wonder what would be the result should the federal government ever decide to investigate the editorial and character responsibilities of newspapers. Let's say that the "free ride" at stake would be the mailing privileges which have given newspapers a free ride on the, taxpayers' backs since the 1870s. Believe me, if the accuracy of the reporting of the newspapers' TV experts in the Salem TV matter were introduced into the record it would be rough going for the Capital Journal to preserve its rights at the postoffice, you can be certain. i.iVXiy.i,!;.!! Dick West the USSR was continuing to strive for an overwhelming nuclear capability might well cause us to judge some new approach more conducive to the World's and our security." In Nitze's talk, he also advocated developing what he called "purely retaliatory systems," as follows: "We should building a variety concentrate on of secure, pure- ly retaliatory systems, preferably those exploiting mobility and concealment (example: the intercontinental ballistic Minuteman mis-sle), and located away from population centers. These retaliatory systems should be in the air, under the sea and in the desserts.

"When we have such a mix of relatively secure systems, we will be able to scrap the fixed base (Atlas and Titan) vulnerable systems." Critical of CJ of TV Matter But you do suggest a remedy for me. Perhaps Willamette-land TV should buy a small daily and employ clever journalists who can construct TV stations for some 30 per cent of what! the public record says it will take. Ah well, kindest thoughts, just thought that you ought to have "the facts, man." W. GORDON ALLEN Willamette-land TV Inc. EDITOR'S NOTE While we regret that the UPI story was in error, wo recall that Mr.

Allen's financial affairs have confuted batteries of experts In the past. Reader Rates i. Joe Much High To the Editor: As with any other group, the sports writers in Oregon run from the sad and uninformed to the outstanding. In my judgment you doubled the number of the outstanding ones in Oregon when you hired Joe Much. Joe exhibits a cleverness and depth of understanding in writing that, as far as I am places him in the company of the Arthur Da-leys of the New York Times and the Red Smiths of the New York Herald Tribune.

Most important of all, he indicates a real appreciation and understanding of the proper place and function of intercollegiate and interscholastic sports. The battle for sensibility in athletics at all levels will continue to be a lonely one until we have more such enlightened sports writers to lead the way to informed public opinion ROBERT C. LIVINGSTON 325 So. Whitman St. AAofiniouHi Beware, Reds: Army Might Unslieath Clarinets and Attack This Week, 1904 Fred T.

Merrill of Portland had purchased Salem's Edison Thea ter (believed to be the town's first cinema). Merrill owned and operated a number of theaters on the vaudeville circuit. First showing in this 10c theater under his ownership would be "Who's Brown." Dr. B. E.

Wright, the painless-dentist, was advertising an automobile to be given away to some lucky holder of a coupon offered for every dollar's worth of dental service. Crowns, plates, fillings, 50c. (The automobile portrayed closely resembled a last steam model made by Locomobile a year or two earlier.) The choice business location at DENNIS THE MENACE 'l SET CAR SICK IF I MNt Ben Maxwell 't I -Ok l'--5 If so, the U.S. Information Agency should make it clear that most Americans would rather have the band rattle castanets. It's just that we have to be prepared for anything, from missiles to Mozart.

With the Communists building walls in Berlin, we need to have a trumpet player who can produce a Jericho-like effect. There is no intention to use the combat potential of the band except as a last resort. And, judging from the combat potential of the musicians I know, it definitely would be the last resort. councils. Nitze's backstage Strategic Air Command proposal is vigorously opposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

They contend SAC is the principal nuclear striking force of the U. S. and must be kept wholly under U. S. control.

To diminish this power in any way, the Joint Chiefs hold, would jeopardize the security of the country. NATO PROBLEM Behind Nitze's controversial plan is an increasingly urgent NATO problem to provide the alliance with a nuclear striking force of its own. Chancellor Adenauer urged this in his talks with President Kennedy. And the subject is high on the agenda of the NATO foreign ministers conference in Paris next month. Various proposals have been offered to deal with this dilemma.

Nitze's is the most far-reaching, also the most explosive. The Senate Preparedness Com-, mittee, probing the muzzling of military officers, is evincing great interest in this extraordinary proposition, and has obtained a transcript of his remarks at the un-publicized strategy seminar. There is every indication the Senate probers, headed by Sen. John Stennis, will question Nitze about his unusual views. Their exceptional nature is graphically shown by the following highlights from the transcript of his talk: A NATO COMMAND "I propose that we multi-later-alize the command of our retaliatory systems by making-SAC a NATO command.

We inform the United Nations that NATO will turn over ultimate power of decision on the use of these systems to the General Assembly of the United Nations subject to the following conditions: "(I) That we and our allies will assume continuing responsibility for manning, maintaining and im-- proving these systems. (2) That and maneuvers and other soldierly pursuits. However, a spokesman for the Military District of Washington told me there are no plans at present to intensify the band's military training, which consists of an annual trip to the rifle range. JUST IN CASE He explained that field equip- ment for the band has long been authorized, but was kept in standby stock. Recently it was decided to issue the gear so the bandsmen would know how to use it, just in case.

The equipment consists of such things as cartridge belts, field packs, mess kits, steel helmets and gas masks. Frankly, I don't; envy them the task of relearning how to roll a field pack. A field pack is a lot harder to master than a Sousa march. During World War II, I spent weeks learning how to roll a pack that wouldn't fall apart as soon as I got it 'on my back. Then when I was sent to a combat zone, I turned the pack in and never saw it again.

SABRES OR; CASTANETS? There may be an attempt on the part of Soviet propagandists to brand the new outfitting of the Army band as4a sabre-rattling gesture on the part of th United States. WASHINGTON (UPI) If the Soviets have any doubts that we mean business In our defense preparations, here is a bit of news that should set them straight I have just learned that members of the U.S. Army band are being outfitted with full field equipment. Obv i 1 this means that we are prepared to de Dick Wtst fend our I rights right down to the last piccolo player. The bandsmen soon will be geared to lay down horns and pick-up arms, Bhould the need arise.

UNSHEATHED CLARINETS Or, if worse comes to worst, they stand ready to charge into battle with unsheathed clarinets. I haver cf course, no way of knowing whether the issuance of combat equipment to the band will cause consternation in the Communist camp. But I understand it has caused some consternation among the bandsmen. According to sources close to other' sources, some of the musicians are concerned that rehearsals znight be Interrupted by hikes Capital AJournal Published daily (except Sunday) at 280 Church St. N.E..

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