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■i 4 \ t Pape Six , THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, June 25, 1953 Toft Mystified Over Ailment ‘ Washington.—Intimate friends say Sen. Taft is as mystified today as his eminent physicians over the cause of | his left hip ailment but he is stead-; i]y responding to treatments which i they believe will cure him. Taft’s illness was first diagnosed as, anamia. X-ray photographs revealed] a lesion in his left hip bone, which, may be infected. He is being treated, for anemia and given cortisone plus; X-ray therapy to cure his hip im- j pajrmfnt. Taft was examined first by his, Washington physician, then by ex-1 perts at Walter Heed Hospital, nextl by his family physician and then by' other specialists in Cincinnati and finally by a third group # of special ists in New York city. All agree on a lesion of the left hip bone and the treatment for it but none has diagnosed its cause. Taft told friends that all tests fail to show the cause as being malignant but it still might be. The bone lesion may be the result of arthritis, bur., Sitis, or tuberculosis of the * bone, t again it may be malignant. But as yet ; there has been no clear identifica-! tion of any one of these diseases ini the hip bone. Here is the history of Taft's ail-, men! as told by intimate friends of; his family. ^ . J The Ohioan first felt an ache'in hisj h>p when he resumed playing golf in | April after a winter lay-off. At first,] the senator thought the pain was merely a sign that he was growing old. On one occasion, when his hip pained him, he was playing golf with President Eisenhower. Taft finally went to his Washing ton physician, who found he was suffering from anemia. This means p shortage of red blood corpuscles, which could be due to a lot of dif ferent causes. The world is full of; anemic people but Sen. Taft had i never been one of them. His phrysi-j .dan sent Taft to Walter Peed hos pital for a thorough examination. Walter Reed specialists took X-ray I photographs of the senator’s hip and: drscovered a serious lesion which is j an abnormal condition, possibly due j to an infection. Doctors even took ] marrow out of the hip bone but tests 1 showed nothing wrong inside the! bene. Numerous other tests failed to 1 show the cause of the ailment. Then friends talked Taft into vis-' itmg his family physicians in Cin- - crn-n-at h-On ee- again- the Ohioan - went- through numerous tests by specialists I and all proved negative. This means j the doctors could not identify any disease as the cause of his ailment. The Cincinnati specialists however, prescribed cortisone and X-ray treat ments. Cortisone is made of hor mones taken from adrenal glands and is used to cure diseases like arthritis. Taft was given X-ray treatments in Cincinnati and later repeated them at Walter Reed from a giant million- volt machine. This treatment is used generally to eliminate calcium depos. its around a bone joint. The Cincinnati doctors also order ed him to keep all weight off his left leg. So he took ito crutches. The family says Taft’s Cincinnati doctor recommended he visit a group of New York specialists. “Mr. Repub lican” went through the same rou tine of tests for a third time. The New York group also failed to iden tify the cause of his ailment but ap proved the treatments he was under going — cortisone, X-rays and I crutches. Eisenhower and Chiefs Are Moving Toward Greater Economy Goal —.—— Washington.—President Eisenhow er and his civilian defense chiefs are moving toward a new relationship between economy and spending for the military security of the nation. And the goal is greater economy. This move has stirred up a brawl ing dispute, particularly, over a five, billion-dollar cutback in Air Force funds which critics say will weaken the nation against atomic attack by Russia. ■ ~ /•" But despite the critics, the admin istration is pushing ahead with a new approach to the defense problem which appears to be guided by these convictions: 1. That Russia is not ready for war and therefore there is time for a critical review of military goals fixed by the Truman administration. 2. That security means not only military strength but also a sound economy that includes a balanced budget. The administration has tossed into discard a great deal of the thinking that guided the military build-up during the Truman administraton. Secretary of Defense Wilson—who has Eisenhowre’s support—has even refused to accept as final’estimates made by the present Joint Chiefs of Staff on what the size and composi tion of the U. S. armed forces should be to give this country future se curity. He has told senators the new Joint Chiefs soon to take office, and the National Security Council, will re view U. S. military needs and strat egy and this study will provide the basis for future decisions on military strength. r . • ' There seems no doubt Wilson and others around him view the danger of attack by Russia with less alarm than the nation has become accus tomed to—or else they are willing to take a longer risk in the interest of a sounder economy. Wilson has declar....ed that from the information given to him the Russian air force is mainly a defen sive force with a bomber arm that does not match American -bomber power. Last menth, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roger M. 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