The Brussels Post, 1958-03-05, Page 2klyportellopri A ,Major Factor.
IV A. C, CORCORAN, 111i,D,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
of patients who had come for
treatment of a very severe form
of high blood pressure known
as "malignant hypertension."
Until these drugs became
available, we knew that of 100
such patients about 00 would
die within six months, and about
80 within a year, At the end of'
five years there would be only
one or two lingering on,
Our survey showed that '70 per
cent of treated patients survived
more than one year, and that
some 30 per cent survived for
five years, with mart of them
leading active, productive and
comparatively normal lives.
We. believe that starting now,
with better drugs and more
"know-how" in their , use, we
can double this five-year survi-
val rate, particularly if patents-
receive treatment before their
blood vessels have been so dam-
aged by high blood pressure
that arteriosclerosis begins and
progresses.
This is a substantial accom-
plishment. It. is important to re-
member that' a majority of those•
who died were victims of some
complication of atherosclerosis
—such as a stroke, a heart at-
tack, rupture of a large vessel
or kidney damage. In other
words, we had relieved the im-
mediate situation for many, but
they were left with a residue
of vessels damaged during their
period of uncontrolled high
blood pressure.
So it follows that we are faced
with the urgent problem of find-
ing for these patients something,
which, in association with drugs
used in treating high blood, pres-
sure, will check the spread of
atherosclerosis.
But this is not enough. High
blood pressure is an insidious
disease. Few people know they
have it until they have suffered
some of its complications; by'
which time the damage is usu-
ally well established, , Clearly,
there is urgent need for accel-
erated research into all phases
of the 'problem of atheroscler-
osis, especially that associated
with high blood pressure.
Not many years ago this
would have been regarded as a
hopeless undertaking. But, just
as we have accomplished .so
much so recently in the field of
high blood pressure research,
we may be confident that sooner
or later the • missing answers.
will be turned up.
(Final ft( of a four-article series) ot,.
Written or NBA Service
Cleveland, Qh10—(NEA)— As
our medical 'scientists probe for
definitive knowledge regarding
the causative factors behind
athersoclerosis — among them
nutrition, hormones, exercise
and heredity—they have at hand
conclusive evidence that hyper-
tension (high blood pressure) is
to be listed among the causes.
No one dies of hypertension
itself, People who have high
blood pressure die as a result
of the blood vessel and heart
disease that follows in its wake.
This disease is atherosclerosis,
the most serious form of arteri-
osclerosis, or "hardening of the
arteries,"
Apparently, the impact of
months and years of high blood
pressure • damages the vessels.
They lose their elasticity be-
cause the little fibres of elastic
tissue in the walls of the ves-
sels become stretched, split,
frayed and broken.
As this process goes on, the
vessels become scarred and ac-
cumulate fatty deposits in their
linings. These may of them-
selves obstruct the flow of blood.
Probably more commonly some-
thing happens in this scarred,
fatty mass—perhaps bleeding
into its base or loss of its lin-
ing membrane. Either process
results in an area on which a
clot will form and this is the
_usual basis of heart attacks and
strokes.
Doctors have recognized for a
long time that high blood pres-
sure and atherosclerosis were
closely associated diseases. But,
until recently, we had —no —firm
views on the nature of this as-
sociation.
Formerly, most doctors
thought that the hardening of
the arteries occurred first, and
that, as a consequence, the blood
pressure rose. This rise of pres-
sure was even considered bene-
ficial because, they reasoned, it
helped maintain blood flow
through the thickened vessels.
This view, no longer held, re-
tarded and delayed research on
high blood ,pressure for many
years. We now know that high
blood pressure is one of the com-
mon causes of atherosclerosis,
and an increased risk of one of
its complications.
Happily, research has achieved
important advances in the treat-
ment of high blood pressure.
About five years ago, doctors
everywhere were provided with
drugs which were truly effective
in controlling this disorder. A
five-year study of these drugs
was recently completed. We re-
viewed the histories of a group
QUICK SPIRIT
In Detroit, Mayor Louis C.
Miatani opposed any plan to al-
low bars to stay open until 4
a.m., commented: "Any serious
drinker should be 'able to get
stiff by 2 a.m."
PLANT LIFE—Altho'ugh the begonia is ordinarq a slidfilli.vett
plant, this impressive speciment is threatening to become a
centenarian. Already 50 years old, the angel-wing plant is
flourishing and shows no sign of withering. It's owned by Mrs.
Eula Stricker, above, who was given the plant by her mother-
0
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THE MAIL MUST GO THROUGH (?)—Reaching mailboxes 'isn't easy for most rural central New
Yorkers as Nick Barita of Camillus, a suburb of Syracuse, can attest. This month's snowfall
of 60.6 inches broke two records for the area—for a February and for any month. Rural
mail carriers have been getting through, but it's been slow going as they battle the deep
snow.
r4.43 TA BLE TALKS .0/
, iij 600%...-,.lt a eJane Andtews.
2 tablespoons butter
Pastry
Mix sugar, salt and cornstarch
in a saucepan, Add juice and
coloring; stir until smooth. Cook
until thickened and clear, stir-
ring.. Remove from heat; add
cherries and butter. Pour into
unbaked pastry-lined 9-inch pie
pan. Cover with lattice top
crust. Bake at 425°F. about 40
minutes.
Why Don't
People Think ?
five hundred francs from the
captain ef the Papeete schooner,
Those pearls had been a
milky-white color, faintly irides.-
cent. Not, so it always seemed
to Maki, in any wa y beautiful,
He slipped the object from the
oyster shell into his breech
cloth, thinking that, so perfect-
ly round was it, it would make
a good marble, He made up his
mind to keep his find a secret,
else he would certainly be de-
prived of it.
But that evening, gathering
with some of the other lads at
the store of Ali Choy, he ling-
ered when the rest had gone,
Impelled by he knew not what,
he produced his find of the af-
ternoon,
"He come in a shell," he ex-
plained to Ah. Choy,
The Chinaman, a wise man
who had lived in many lands
and, knew many things, includ-
ing the value of pearls, took the
object between his thumb and
fore finger, peering alternately
at it and at Maki, At last he
beckoned the boy to follow him,
closing the store and carefully
locking the door.
Maki, growing apprehensive
because strange tales were told
of Ah Choy and of his mysteri-
ous powers, followed into the
room behind the store where the
owner lived. The Chinaman mo-
tioned him to a seat, and then
commenced a curious and rath-
er frightening ritual.
He produced a tiny scale on
which he carefully weighed
Maid's find. Then he examined
it through a magnifying glass,,
taking what seemed to the boy
an interminable time. Other
tests followed, all without sig-
nificance or sense to the Poly-
nesian boy, They even included
tasting and holding it in the
mouth. Throughout it. all. Maki
fidgeted, even more apprehen-
sive.
At last the testing was done.
The Chinaman carefully and de-
liberately put his things away.
Then he sat, holding the object
between thumb and forefinger
still, opposite Maki. For a long
time he regarded him silently,
lost, as it seemed, in. deep and
profound reflection.
Then, at long last, sighing
deeply, he spoke: "It Is the pearl
of great price. For it I will pay
your father one hundred and
fifty thousand francs!"
Bewilderment and apprehen-
sion threw Maki's thoughts into ;;
wild confusion. He dashed from r.
the house and toward his home. c
All thought of secrecy now van-
ished,• he sought his father.
"Big pearl! I find! Ah Choy! '
Much money!" swas all he could
manage.
His father, grasping the words
"pearl" and "money," made for
the Chinamans house with Maki
at his heels. The rest of the
family, gathering that something
of import was afoot, followed.
Still Ah Choy sat, deep in
reflection, the pearl between
thumb and forefinger, as his
room filled with the people of
the village.
Smiling a little sadly, he cor-
roborated Maki's story, Then,
rising, he produced from some
hiding place a thick package of
bank notes. He placed them in
the hands of Maki's father,
though the man's bewilderment
was such that he reluctantly ac-
cepted them.
"Ten thousand francs,' Ah.
Choy said. "It is all I have here.
When the schooner comes I will
go to Papeete and from the bank
of my friend, Chin Fu, I will
secure the Test." He sighed again.
"I am risking much," he told
them. "That it is a rare gem, I
know. But never have I seen its
like. It may be that I shall lose.
Perhaps I may, gain much I
wish to be fair." -
Honest old Ah Choy! Little
READY TO , RIDE "-L. Karen
"'Womack makes a fast-minute
"adjustment before taking off
for a gallop on her favorite
mount. The 18-year-old beauty
will be Queen of the 1958
Rodeo.
The Pearl of
Great Price
The s,urface of the lagoon,
smooth as a sheet of glasss glow-
ed flamelike as the sun sank bes
IOW the horizon. The vast ex- ,.
panse, more than 'ten miles
across, held but a single sign of
life, A mere dot, insignificant
between the shores of the la-
i'4011, which were Marked only
by Imes of coconut palms seem-
ing to grow out of the water
Itself, was a, small outriggered
canoe. In it a young Polynesian
boy sat, pantingly recovering
his breath after a long and deep
dive,
It was Maki's last dive of the
day, his seventh, in fact. He had
been down more than seventy
feet, about as deep as it is hu-
manly possible to go without
any sort of diving accoutrement.
He had remained several min-
utes, actually up to the very
verge of the danger limit, be-
cause he was anxious to retrieve
the poor results of his previous
descents. His find, not very sat-
isfactory, lay in the bottom of
the canoe—half a dozen oyster
shells that he had wrenched
from the coral reef,
Regaining his spent breath, he
sighed. He was tired, yet he
must paddle five miles to the
land. His father and his brothers,
diving in a distant part of the
lagoon, were probably home by
now, and there would be no
approbation for the scanty re-
sults of his own day's labor,
The manner of that labor was
the quest for the substance
commercially known as mother-
of-pearl, that is, the bright-hued
Inner lining of the shell. By the
time the schooner arrived from
Papeete on her semiannual visit
several tons of this would have
accumulated and the schooner's
captain would pay for it partly
in goods, partly in South Seas
francs, which had a value much
different from the Continental
currency. Out of it all Maid's
share, as the youngest of the
divers, would probably be no
more than a hundred francs. He
sighed again, recalling the vivid
tales of the schooner's sailors
about the delights of life in
Papeete, "Little Paris of the
South Seas." •
However, there was a conso-
latioil to •all this poorly recom-
penkd labor, if a vague one.
Now and then a shell might
contain a pearl. If it did the gem'
wa..% the property of the finder.
That- Was the custom in all the
pearling islands, and encour-
agement and lure to the native
fishernian was this dream that
some day he might find the
pearl of great price.
Maki, before taking up his
paddle to begin the long home-
ward journey, opened with his
heavy pearling knife the tough
shells in order to dispose of the
substance of the oyster, tossing
these casually Overside. As he
opened the last shell a gleaming
round object (fell to the bottom
of the canoe. Maki picked it up
and examined it curiously but
without much interest.
It was larger than a good-
sized marble, such• as Maki and
the other boys sometimes bought
from the island storekeeper, an
elderly Chinaman, Ah Choy. Its
color was strange, a peacock-
feather green. Some kind of sea
stone, Maki thought, that had in
mysterious fashion got inside
the shell ,ef the oyster, an ex-
ceptionallyw large shell in this
case, more than six inches in
diameter.
Now the pearls that had been
found had; in Maid's recollec-
tion, been no larger than peas,
rarely, even.as large. These in-
deed had 'been rare. The best
had, he remembered, brought
Why don't people think ?
We are now speaking of those
persons who attempt to drive a
car after drinking . . .
We ask Why dOn't people
think'?
Certainly. .tt is the 'charitable'
thing to eceelude that no per-
son, ,even t1-4 dumbest, would.at-
tempt to drive a car after drink-
ing . . if they were thihking.
This is - prompted by having
witnessed the police remove
several men, all intoxicated, one
not able to walk • . . when they
were preparing to drive a car.
Why don't people think ? .
If a man doesn't think ahead
in such cases, 'if he doesn't ac-
cept his responsibility to himself
as well as the public, then an .
arrest, for drunken driving
should be treated without maud-
lin sentiment... .
As long 'as such public men-
aces are not given penalties just
that long will they continue' to
kill and menace.
When a drunk driver kills
there should 'be a prison sen-
tence as well as permanent re-
moval of the• driver's license.... .
Anyone killed . by a -drunken
driven has been murdered in
our book, and we don't think
you can call it otherwise.
Why don't people think
— Mexico (Mo.)' Ledger
wonder he had signed, knowing
as he did that a thousand francs
would have , been great wealth
to the men of the pearling island.
But his honesty was rewarded.
Upon instructions to their re-
presentatives in Tahiti the
Chinaman received from the
leading jewelry firm of -London
and Paris the sum of three hun-
dred thousand francs for the
pearl of great price.—By Marc
T. Greene in The Christian Sci-
ence Monitor,
I
C. Body-Snatchers
OUT 01? STOCK
"What flavours of ice-cream
have yob?"
The pretty waitress answered
in a hoarse whisper, "Vanilla,
strawberry, chocolate and Nea-
politan."'
Trying to be sympathetic, the•
diner said,. "You got laryngitis?"
"No," replied the girl, with
an effort, "just vanilla, straw-
berry, chocolate and Neapoli-
Serve this sour cream raisin
pie warm with a wedge of
cheese if you want after-dinner
compliments!
Sour Cream Raisin Pie
1 egg or 2 egg 'yolks, slightly
beaten
1 cup sour cream or buttermilk
1 tablespoon vinegar
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
5/4 teaspoon cinnamon.
V2 teaspoon nutmeg
VI. teaspoon salt
2 cups seedless raisins
Pastry for single crust 9-inch
pie, unbaked
Combine eggs, sour cream and
vinegar. Combine sugar, flour,
spices, and salt and stir into
first mixture. Add raisins, Pour
into pastry-lined pie pan. Bake
at 450°F. for 10 minutes, then
reduce heat-to 350°F. and bake
30-3,5 minutes longer or until
crust is brownz,
Use any leftover juicy, spicy
filling from this recipe for Ca-
nada's favorite pie — apple —
with any leftover dough and
make turnovers for your chil-
dren.
Lattice Apple Pie
5 cups (2 cans) sliced apples
2 cups seedless raisins
11/2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons flour
2 teaspoons each, nutmeg and
cinnamon
2 teaspoons lemon juice
Dash salt
Flaky pastry
Drain juice from apples; com-
bine apples and raisins. Com-
bine sugar, flour, cinnamon, nut-
meg, and salt; add to apple mix-
ture. Add lemon juice; mix well.
Line 8-inch pie plate with flaky
pastry. Fill with apple mixture.
Moisten edge of pastry with
water; place pastry strips on
filling in open woven pattern;
press 'edges together. Trim pas-
try to 1 inch from edge of pan,
fold under, and flute it all
around pan. Bake at 425°F. 40-
45 minutes,
Apple Raisin Turnovers
Roll out remaining pastry
about Vs inch thick. Cut in 5-
inch circles. Place some of the
remaining apple mixture on
half the circle. Moisten edges of
,pastry with water; fold over
apple mixture to make half-
circle, Press edges together with
tines of fork. Make slits to al-
low steam to escape. Bake at
425°F. 10-15 minutes, Makes
A man was recently arrested in
Wisconsin, after t e n human
heads were found in his farm-
house. He is said to have con-
fessed that he dug them out of
local graves.
From time to time there are
reports from different parts of
the world that graves' have been
rifled. In some countries these
incidents are linked with dark
practices such as voodoo, In the
'West, however, grave - robbing
usually has a severely practical
purpose.
In 1828, Burke and Hare were
arrested in Edinburgh for rob-
bing graves and selling corpses
to surgeons. When they couldn't
get enough corpses, they made
themselves a :few — by murder! -
Burke was hanged and Hare,
who turned King's evidence,
went free — Until he was thrown
into a lime-pit and his eyes were
burned out.
In 1831 Williams and Bishop
were publicly hanged at New-
gate for the same type 'of crime,
Almost a hundred years later
to the very month there was an
odd case in Yowl. A car was
found burned out, and in it was
a body. Police found it was not
that of the car owner and he was
suspected of murder,
But expert examination of the
body showed traces of under
taker's ligatures and embalming
fluid. The body had been em-
balmed and, therefore, before
arranging the fire, Somebody
must have obtained it . from a
mortuary Or a grave.
about 8' turnovers, tan,'
a a *
Two-Crust Apricot Pie
31/2 cups drained, apricots (coOk-
ed or canned)
3/2 cup apricot juice
cup sugar
1% teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons lerilOn juice
1 tablespoon butter
Pastry for 2-crust pie.
Combine sugar, salt, and corn-
starch, Add apricots, apricot
juice and lemon juice. Place in
pastry lined—pan and dot with
butter. Prick steam vents in
pastry for top crust:. Place top
pastry on filling; trim edges lk
inch beyond edge of plate arid
fold tinder, seal with fingers or
fork, Bake at 425°F. Mr 10'
minutes; reduce temperature to
350°F. Bake 25 Minutes longer.
*
Here is a pie with glistening
red cherries peeping through an
Ornamental lattice of Crisp pas
try. Tart, pitted red cherrieS are
'used for the filling.
Lattice' Cherry Pie
1 CUP, sugar
3 tableSPCOns tbrinitattli
teaSPOOn. salt
,1 Cup Cherry juice
teaspoon red food eoloring
(optional)
3 cups drained; Water-Pitelt red„
tart pitted theiCieS'
Il1EIRI INN
In Milwaukee, Jack C4asdorf,
84„ accused of keeping a wife:,
and three children in 000 spot;.
6 girl friend and two children
another, explained, "Pin an
expert liar," said he felt no
etieS about, prison• because "I
always' wanted a short haircut,"
GAPED DISH—Bathing beauty Vera Day unlinibers in a Landoll
!bathtub during a rehearsal Of a television coned. to he Shawn
over the British Broadcasting Corporation. It seems there'd
seen' d polity change at the staid BBC, which has been crib,
itzed tor being lob littghbrOW in 'the past.
itititt LUCKY ME—Service Station operator Raul tploW dialled. and Wiped' his brow apitct the,
wreckage . Of is ,station -after it was hit by a section of att.,Air Niece Skymaster trans ,
port In Lard .Aligeled, Not 'so lucky -were ',Re —itt.Peritifilidl.re'el.When the': faue,efidlned military'
transport collided with.Navy Neptune. bomber, All 'aboard the 4kyniattee and six of the
on 'the Neptune died,One civilian, wds killed
weeCkage from he collisions her ham&
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