The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 13

(i. too high? Make comploinr Here comes the parade! Oldtimers are right Part of the crowd which swelled Wilson's population during the 14th Harvest Czech festival last weekend. (Journal Photo by Dennis Lundgren) The Dirty Thirties were worse TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Some Kansans will leave their air-conditioned places of work, get into air-conditioned cars, drive to air-conditioned homes and complain how hot and dry it is. But hot and dry as it may seem, 1974 is a far cry from the 1930s.

In that period Kansans were plagued by probably the worst combination of heat, drought and dust the state has ever known. In addition, it was a time of financial depression. Farm prices were so low that farmers benefitted little even when they were able to grow something. There was no air conditioning. There were even few decent fans.

Most farms were without electricity. There was little relief from the drought and high temperatures from 1933 through 1939. For much of the state, the peak came in 1936. By comparison, this year fares rather well. Newspaper to use 2 languages ULYSSES (HNS) El Periodica Bi- ligue, a bilingual newspaper, will be available to area Spanish speaking residents.

Dave Baldwin and Pam Vincent, both VISTA volunteers, will serve as editors of the paper. It will contain news, stories first written in Spanish and then in English translation. The Ulysses News will print the paper and it will be on file at Seward County Community college, Liberal. "Archie" returns LOS ANGELES (AP) Carroll O'Connor will return to his role as Archie Bunker in CBS' "All in the Family" today, CBS said. Take Topeka for example.

So far in 1974 Topeka has had 16.41 inches precipitation, nearly five inches below normal. But in 1936, Topeka had received only 12.24 inches of moisture by the end of July. This year the temperature has reached the 100-degree mark only twice at Topeka. By the comparable date in 1936 there had already been 34 days when the thermometer had reached the 100-degree level in the capital city, including five days with temperatures of 110 or higher. So far this year Pratt has had 17.66 inches of moisture.

Great Bend 16.31. In 1936, these two points didn't receive that much moisture during the entire year. The 1936 total for Pratt was 16.78 and Great Bend 14.72. Wichita has been'dry this year with only 14.99 inches precipitation to date. But the total for the first seven months of 1936 at Wichita was only 6.09 inches.

Goodland is one of the drier spots in Kansas now, with only 9.09 inches of precipitation in 1974. But in 1936, the Goodland figure through July was only 6.99. Precipitation totals this year and the figures for the first seven months of 1936 for a few other representative points include: Coffeyville, 28.79 and 19.81; Manhattan 18.89 and 11.23; Lyons 14.83 and 9.50. At least one point can claim less precipitation this year than in the comparable 1936 period. Tribune, in the far western end of the state, has had 6.30 inches of moisture so far in 1974.

In the first seven months of 1936 Tribune had 6.35. But there may have been more of a cumulative effect back in the 1930s. Tribune reported only 5.07 and 6.15 inches of moisture, respectively, in the comparable seven-month periods of 1934 and 1935. Dear Dr. ThosirocMi: A specialist sent me a bill v.J-.ich seems to me to grossly excessive.

Kindly advise me where I could have it checked as to its T. Human greed being what it is. I can't deny that some medical bills are excessive. But I am convinced that the majority of physicians want to give honest value for fees they receive, and want to build up a firm and honest relationship with patients. I think most physicians and include me, please believe that every case of overcharging hurts the whole profession.

For that reason, most county medical societies have a grievance committee (the exact name may vary). The committee exists to listen to patients' complaints, and not limited just to fees. Where it is a question of fee. the committee listens to both sides. It is sometimes true that special procedures, tests or study of the literature may mount up to more work than the patient realizes.

But the patient is entitled to know that. It is important to you the patient as well as to us the physicians to reach a fair understanding. Sometimes adjustments in the fee are made after such hearings; sometimes not. But that is the place to go for adjustment if it is warranted, and if not, an explanation. Dear Dr.

Thosteson: Enclosed are 20 New furnace at Waconda High CAWKER CITY Students at Waconda East high school at Cawker City will enjoy a new heating system next school year. UD272 board members awarded Johnson Builders, Salina, a $35,460 contract to erect a new furnace building and install a new furnace. An old boiler tucked away in an abandoned classroom adjacent to the school was considered inadequate. The boiler building was designed by Woods and Starr, Hays architects. By Dr.

Geo. C. Thosteson cents and a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope for your booklet. "How to Control Emphysema." My husband has emphysema and I need to learn everything I can about V. I can't say that a booklet can tell you "everything" about emphysema, but I think it will give you a basic understanding so you can do the best job possible for your husband, in conjunction with whatever his doctor can do for him.

In spite of the known prevalence of emphysema, and its dangerous nature, too few people really understand it and too few start doing something about it early enougn. Dear Dr. Thosteson: How does a thyroid gland affect a person's weight? I am very much underweight and cannot gain, no matter what I eat. I would like to know if an overactive or underactive thyroid could be causing my trouble. I am a man.

68. and have a slight case of diabetes and am on a diet of 2000 ca- i .1 1 'Sl IS 1 past. The thyroid normally a major fdo- i.or in weight gain or loss, and we to look t-lFewhere for the causv Ir vtmr case it may be that your diet is sufficient alone to handle your diabetic condition. If an overactive thyroid was responsible, you would have other symptoms such as nervousness, tremor, ease of perspiration and a fast heart rate. An under- active thyroid causes sluggishness, fatigue, dry skin and a slow pulse.

When is the last time you had a check- up to see how well the diet is keeping your diabetes under control? It could be that you need something else to help you. You could be ready for insulin or some'of the oral agents used. You should report your weight loss immediately and get a new reading on your condition. Note to J.D.M.: No, the artery op'er 1 ation on your aorta has absolutely nothing to do with vasectomy. Troubled with gout? To learn of new: treatment for this painful disease, write to Dr.

Thosteson at P.O. Box 1400, 111., 60120, for a copy of his booklet, "Gout--The Modern Way to Stop It." Enclose a long, self-addressed, stamped eo-' velope and 25 cents. Government employment fair set at Fort Hays State Recent votes by Kansans in Congress WASHINGTON Here's how area members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes July 18 through 24. HOUSE Impeachment inquiry passed, 346 for and 40 against, a resolution clearing the way for live radio and television coverage of final impeachment deliberations by the House Judiciary committee. One supporter.

Rep. Robert McClory (R-I11) said: "This is an opportunity for us to open the doors and to let the public in." Opponents argued that the inquiry should have been open to the public from the outset or not at all, and said that members who already have decided on their impeachment votes will grandstand before the cameras and microphones. Reps. Keith Sebelius (R-l) Larry Winn (R-3). Garner Shriver (R-4), and Joe Skubitz (R-5) voted "Yea." Rep William Roy (D-2) did not vote.

Strip mining Rejected, 156 for and 255 against, a substitute stripmining bill. With its rejection, the House voted to keep the original stronger bill (H.R. 11500) as the order of business. The substitute, supported by the coal industry, in part would have weakened the original bill in 3 main areas: restoring land: dumping of excavation, and Fast, firm action controlled dread outbreak of anthrax By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN (C) New York Times MARLIN, Tex.

An extraordinary series of veterinary and military measures have contained within one Texas county an anthrax epidemic that health officials said threatened to devastate the livestock industry in the nation's largest cattle-producing state. Though false alarms about the spread of anthrax have been sounded in Oklahoma City when 7 cattle died from a disease that proved not to be anthrax, no cases have spreal from Texas to any other area, veterinary officials said. But Texas and federal health officials said in interviews that, had the epidemic of the highly fatal bacterial disease spread beyond the focus in Eastern Falls county here, and infected herds elsewhere, then the resulting embargoes could have disrupted shipmerts of meat throughout the country. An estimated 200 animals, mostly cattle, but a few horses, mules and goats, have bled to death 21 farms in the anthrax epidemic, the latest in a long series that dates to Biblical times. It's fatal Anthrax is known to farmers also as charbon and splenic fever.

Whatever anthrax is called, it produces fever, excitement, then depression, staggering, convulsions and generalized bleeding through the mouth, nostrils and rectum of the animals. Death results swiftly from toxins produced by anthrax bacteria. In humans, anthrax produces a pimple where contact was made with an infected animal. The skin around the pimple swells and becomes black. Then the lymph glands swell.

Unless the infection is treated quickly with penicillin or tetracycline antibiotic drugs, death can result from blood poisoning. No human cases have been reported as a result of the Texas animal epidemic. measures, which are still being taken to stem the anthrax epidemic, include: --The use of the Texas National Guard for the first time in a health emergency. Gov. Dolph Birscoe, who owns a ranch in a non-anthrax-infected area, ordered the Guard to enforce the quarantine that covered a 358-square-mile area from which some stockmen allegedly had tried to run the blockade with their cattle.

The quarantine was aimed at preventing infected animals from spreading the infection elsewhere in Texas and to other states where Texas livestock are fattened before slaughter. Into the fire --Immediate cremation of all animals whether they died from anthrax, snake bites or other diseases to kill the spore- forming bacteria. The measure prevents the spores, which are resistant to drouth, floods, heat, cold and chemical insecticides, from remaining in the soil as a threat to future herds. Columns of black smoke rise in the Central Texas sky as the ranchers heap old tires on the animal carcasses, add oil, sometimes napalm, and ignite a pyre that must reach temperatures more than 2000 degrees for full effect. Cremation prevents coyotes, bobcats, dogs and other scavengers from catching the disease.

Cremation also minimizes the chances of and biting flies from spreading the bacteria to animals miles away. --Helicopter searches for sick and dying cattle and checks to make certain that the carcasses have been bumed to ashes. Helicopters also provide emergency transportation of blood specimens from sick animals in the field to a laboratory at College Station where anthrax is distipguished from other infectious diseases. "Blackleg" and -'red which are caused by bacteria from a different class than anthrax, are also killing cattle in the area. Texas officials also commandeered the limited available supply of anthrax vaccine to controuts sale only in Falls coun- ty and adjacent areas.

The vaccine is the Sterne type, which veterinarians consider safer and more effective than the one developed by Louis Pasteur in the late 19th century. Many fears Dr. H. Q. Sibley, executive director of the Texas Animal Health commission, which is battling to control the epidemic, said in his office in Austin that he and other veterinarians had to overcome fear of the older Pasteur vaccine before ranchers would allow cattle to be vaccinated with the newer type that Dr.

M. Sterne developed in South Africa. Also, fears that anthrax was being imported into other states had to be counteracted. Sibley said that it was only after the governors of Oklahoma and Arkansas learned about the extent of the control measures imposed here that these officials listed their temporary embargo on importation of all cattle from Texas. As a result of the drastic action, officials in other states did not impose contemplated embargoes.

Despite the vigor of these actions, Texas veterinarians still are diagnosing new anthrax cases in previously uninvolved herds in the infected area. The reason is that some cattle have escaped immunization and others already were infected before they got their anthrax shots. Though Sibley halved the size of the quarantine area last week, cattle cannot be shipped from an area about one-quarter the size of Falls county. Residents here said that the anthrax epidemic has caused a mini-economic disaster because cattle and other livestock account for about two-thirds of Falls county's $17 million average annual income. Nevertheless, from a broader perspective, the deaths of 200 animals are considered relatively small compared to the more than 16 million head of cattle in Texas.

prohibiting strip mining on certain public lands. Members who voted against the substitute in effort voted for stricter federal regulation of strip mining. Sebelius, Winn, Shriver and Skubitz voted "yea." Roy voted "nay." Reclaiming strip mines Passed, 213 for and 193 against, an amendment to weaken proposed regulations on strip- mining. The amendment was attached to the overall strip-mining bill (above). The bill, in part, requires mine operators to restore land to its approximate natural 'contour.

The amendment opened a loophole in that requirement by granting variances to operators who develop mined land for "agricultural, recreational or public facility" purposes. There was little debate on the amendment. But. in general, members voting for felt that strip mine operators should have access to "legitimate" alternatives to expensive re-contouring obligations. Members voting against generally favored the toughest possible strip-mining legislation.

Sebelius, Roy, Winn, Shriver and Skubitz voted "yea." SENATE Home settlement costs Passed, 55 for and 37 against, an amendment to continue federal regulation of settlement costs on homes purchased with Veterans administration and Federal Housing administration loans. Settlement costs include such items as taxes and lawyers' and broker's fees. Supporters argued that settlement costs often run to 10 percent of the cost of a house. Sen. William Proxmire (D- called such costs "a completely unnecessary 'rip'off of the home buyer." In opposing the amendment.

Sen. William Brock (R-Tenn) said. "The cost of the vast bureaucracy" needed to administer the VA and FHA oversight "could not be justified by the amount of potential savings to the consumer." Sen. James Pearson (R) voted Sen. Robert Dole (R) voted "nay." Busing Rejected.

42 for and 55 against, a move to send the education bill (H.R. 69) back to conference with instructions to accept the House's strong anti-busing language. A "yea" vote signaled strong opposition to busing. The House language would prohibit cross-district busing or busing beyond the next-closest neighborhood school to achieve racial balance. Language was softened in conference to give the courts power to force long-distance busing.

By rejecting the recommittal motion, the Senate in effect voted to preserve court authority to order busing. The Senate action, however, preceeded last week's Supreme Court ruling that outlawed most cross-district busing. Dole voted "yea." and Pearson voted "nay." HAYS (HNS) Fort Hays State college will be the site of a Government Career Fair Oct. 18. Between 30 and 40 governmental agencies will have representatives on hand to discuss with college students and high school seniors the employment possibilities in their respective organizations.

Agencies scheduled to be at Gross Memorial Coliseum for the one-day event include federal, state and municipalities. They include the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Internal Revenue Service; U.S. Post Office; Department of Health, Education and Welfare; the Armed Forces; Veterans Administration; dental and medical schools; State Highway Commission; State Highway Patrol; State Legislative Post Audit, and the municipal governments of Kansas City, Kansas City, and Wichita. Richard Osborne, director of career planning and placement at Fort Hays, is coordinator for the fair.

"We are asking seniors from every Kansas college and university, qr" private, to come and see what's going on. and hear what these organizations have to offer," said Osborne. "We're also asking students from all the community colleges, all high school seniors and students from vocational and technical schools in Western Kansas, Northern Oklahoma, Eastern Colorado and Southern Nebraska to come and spend the day with us and learn what is available now or what it takes to be qualified employe of one of the organizations which will be on our campus." Osborne said he expects between 1500 and 2000 students and others to attend the event, which is conducted on a Kansas college or university campus every three- years. Astronaut injured Zf SPACE CENTER, Houston -rr- Scientist-astronaut Don Lind has undergone surgery to repair bones broken in a collision between his bicycle and car. Can we get in it now.

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