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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, July 13, 1967 Our Health By J. I. Amberson, M.D. PROMISING OINTMENT FOR SKIN CANCER A promising development in fighting skin cancer has been reported by Dr. Edmund Klein and associates at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo New York. Heretofore, to treat multiple basal-cell carcinomas and solar keratosis (a premalignant con dition), X-ray, surgery or radi- | um usually have been used. These methods, however, some times leave ex tensive scars. The new treat ment is an oint- m e n t contain ing from .5 to 20 percent 5- Dr. Amberson fluro-urocil. Over a four-year period, in more than 100 patients receiv ing this medication, nearly 95 percent of basal-cell cancers and an even higher percentage of solar keratoses have disap peared with little or no scarring. Furthermore, when applied to a large area other than the obvious trouble site, the oint ment leaves normal skin vir tually unaffected, while early hidden tumors swell up so they can be seen and treated. About 18 percent of all can cers involve the skin. These skin cancers are not conta gious, and cannot be "caught” from another person. Because skin cancer can be seen and diagnosed readily it is simpler to cure than other types of cancer. Cancer of the inner organs, on the other hand, may remain undetected until it has progressed to a considerable extent. How can you recognize skin cancer? Any skin blemish, sore, or lump which fails to heal, may bleed or looks irritated, increases in size, or changes color would be suspect. If you have a skin lesion with any of these characteristics, consult a physician without delay. WHAT IS LEUKOPLAKIA? When white patches develop on the tongue cheek and gums, separated by little fissures or paths, the condition is called leukoplakia. It is generally thought to be related to smok ing. Your physician will prob ably advise you to give up smoking. If there is minor dis comfort or pain of the cheek or gums associated with leukopla kia, he may recommend an anesthetic oral solution called. Chloraseptic that has been found to provide temporary re lief of pain involving the gums, cheeks or tongue within seconds. Leukoplakia should be fol lowed by your physician, since constant irritation may result in cancer. WHY IS GOUT CALLED THE RICH MAN’S DISEASE’? Probably because an attack of gouty arthritis may be brought on by eating beef, pheasant or other foods high in purines — and in years past, these could be bought only by the rich. Gout, however, knows no economic barriers . . . nor is it the ‘playboy’s disease.’ Gout tends to be inherited (rarely by women) and an attack, characterized by swelling and intense pain in a joint like the big toe, may be brought on by emotional stress, excessive chilling or alcohol intake — as well as by eating the wrong things. Recent studies indicate that, rather than being the rich man’s disease, gout may be more accurately termed the ‘wise man’s disease.’ Statistical studies of gout sufferers show they usually have high IQs and more creative flair than the average. W HY is 4-H unique? Because Mary and Sue, Bill and Jim and all the other 2^ million 4-H’ers do things. In fact, the 4-H way is “learn-by-doing.” And what do they do? They work on projects. They have well over 50 projects and activities to choose from. Among them are garden, electric, horse, live stock, crops, dog, poultry, pho tography, entomology, automo tive and home economics. With few exceptions, boys and girls participate in all projects with equal skill and success. For more than a half century, publicly supported 4-H has served the needs of youtl through programs set up by tlu Cooperative Extension Servic< of the state land-grant univer sities. Since the first 4 H Cluus were organized to teach boys how to farm better and girls how to preserve foods better, private in dustry and community-minded citizens have backed 4-H. Indus try provides incentive awards, recognition, educational aids and technical assistance. Collaboration between private interests in support of this youth program open to all is probably without parallel. Success of the “partnership” is evident in the long tenure of business donors. Today nearly 400,000 men and women serve as volunteer lead ers. using their special skills to guide the youngsters. Many of them are parents of 4-H’ers. Through the National 4-H Service Committee of Chicago, nearly 60 business firms and foundations annually contribute large sums as sponsors of national and regional 4-H award programs approved by the Ex tension Service. In addition they host some 1,600 of the nation’s finest teenagers at the National 4-H Club Congress. The 1967 congress, tabbed “the showcase of 4-H,” will mark its 46th straight year. Among the 4-H sponsors are: Eli Lilly and Company; General Motors; General Foods Corpora tion; Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corporation; Coats & Clark Inc.; Chicago Board of Trade; Allis- Chalmers; Westinghouse Elec tric Corporation; Merck & Co., Inc.; Wilson & Co., Inc.; Moor man Mfg. Co.; Oliver Corpora tion; E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company; Amchem Products, Inc.; Ralston Purina Company; Heisdorf & Nelson Farms, Inc. and Eastman Kodak Company. Others include: Hercules In corporated; The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company; Montgom ery Ward; Armour and Com pany; Carnation Company; American Oil Foundation; Hum ble Oil & Refining Company; Standard Oil Company (Ken tucky) and The Standard Oil Company (Ohio). lesenair promoted on Navy post Hospitalman Robert D. Tes- eniar, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Teseniar of Route 1, Newberry, won promotion to his present rate while serving at the U. S. Naval Hospital in Charleston, S. C. He earned his promotion through his time in rate and service, the diligent perform ance of duty, military appear ance, and his score on the service-wide exam. Two methods for Medicare pay Miss Martha Pressly, social security district manager, said today that there are two ways payment on your doctor bills can be made under medicare. The two ways are by assigment and direct payment to the pat ient. The method of payment is decided by the patient and his doctor. The amount of medical insurance payment will be the same under either method. If the medicare patient and his doctor wish, payment can be made to the doctor. This is called assigment of the pay ment. In other words, a medi care patient ma> assign his medical insurance claim to the doctor. If a doctor does not wish to take an assignment, the patient can pay the bill and the medical insurance payment will then be made directly to him. Medicare patients are respon sible for the first $50 of ex penses in the year. Medicare will then pay 80 per cent ($4 out of $5) of the remaining re asonable charges. When a doctor accepts assignment, he agrees that the amount that the patient' is responsible for is the $50 dtductible plus 20 percent of the remaining ex penses. There can also be assign ment of a part of a bill. If a patient has already paid part of his bill, his doctor can still a- gree to assignment for the rest of the bill. Miss Pressly urged all people who need help in completing a medical insurance claim to con tact the social security office at 219 Magnolia Avenue in Greenwood, or telephone OR 3—1711. An Eastern Kentucky attor ney was convicted and fined $2000 for charging excessive fees in representing four dis abled social security claim ants. Miss Martha Pressley, District Manager of the Green wood (Social Security Office said the judgment was ren dered at the U. S. District Court in Jackson, Kentucky this week. The attorney was fined on four counts of $500 each for overcharging disabled claimants in appeal actions be fore the Administration. Miss Pressly said federal regulations govern the charging of fees for attorneys who rep- H. Grady Crooks died at Oteen H. Grady Crooks, 77, Green ville, died Sunday in an Oteen, N. C. hospital after a serious illness of three weeks. Born in this county, he was a son of the late John J. Crooks and Minnie Hatton Crooks. He was associated with the Southern Railway Company un til he entered the service in 1917 with the 30th division of the U. S. Army. After the war he returned to Greenville and became as sociated with Greenville Ice and Fuel Co. He retired in 1961 after 40 years of Service. Mr. Crooks was a member of Bible Presbyterian church and was an Elder there. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hazel Stallings Crooks of the home; a sister, Mrs. Ann Senn of Pomaria; and three brothers, T. L. Crooks and Hugh Crooks of Pomaria and J. M. Crooks of Greenville. Change noted in Southland In that great hymn, ABIDE WITH ME, there are two lines which sum up man’s basic fear and hope: “ Change and decay in all around I see. O Thou who changest not, abide with me.” The world is forever changing, life is forever fading, man is forever turning to God, who, he believes, never changes. We live in a world which is changing rapidly. We live in a region, the South, which is passing through revolutionary changes. Not as violent as those engulfing some corners of the world in flames, but deep-seat ed and disquieting. In such a time it is well for the Christian to think on shange and decay and God. Most of us are fairly quiet creatures, be ings of habit. Rapid change dis turbs us. We’re apt to think it’s all for the worst; that all change is also decay. So we turn in prayer to our change less God, and ask him please to stop it and bring us peace again. We need to remember that God, who is changeless, is somehow in our changing world. This is the Great Mystery: that the Eternal should limit him self to time, the Infinite should limit himself to place. Yet this is what we believe if we believe in the Incarnation: that at a given time, two thousand years ago, God appeared in a certain place and in the person of Christ walked the hills of Galilee. And we can’t avoid the mystery by pushing it back in to the past, and saying, “Oh, that happened then.” For if we are Christians we must be lieve the words of Jesus that the Father would send the Holy Spirit to comfort and sustain men after he himself had gone. In the Christian view, therefore, the spirit of God moves today throughout the world, whether we recogni. e him or not. Most of the men who saw Jesus didn’t recognize him. It is also resent social security claimants. These regulations were estab lished to adequately compen sate the attorney and yet pro tect the claimant from excess ive charges which take away from thebenefit the measure of security designed to help the older people, that disabled and widows and children. “Fortunately,” said Miss Pressley, “most attorneys fol low established procedures and where higher fees are in order because of the work involved they secure prior approval of their fees from the Social Se curity Administration. Miss Pressley urged that all claimants and their representa tives who are not familiar with the details of fee limitations to contact the social security of fice at 219 Magnolia Street in Greenwood and ask for Leaflet OASI 856, “Right to Repre sent. ” the Christian view that this spirit is working in the world. Jesus himself said, My Father works till now, and I work. If it was so then, why should God, the Changeless Worker, have stopped working ? The only real question for the Christian is, what’s he do ing? The great English sailor Frobisher, his ship storm- tossed in the bitter North At lantic, comforted his men with the words, “We are as near heaven by sea as by land.” We likewise are as near heaven in revolution as in peace. And as God controls through natural laws the winds and waves, so eH controls through human hearts whatever storms arise. For if we believe that His prov idence controls the world, then we must also believe that He rides the whirlwinds of today, from the demonstrations and riots in this country to the violent revolutions elsewhere in the world. Most of all we must learn that change isn’t decay. The leaves fall, the tree survives. Childhood passes, manhood comes. God is as surely working in the racial demonstrations that agitate the nation today as in the sabbath peace that touches the hearts at moments with a foretaste of eternity. Working to warn us and to comfort us, working in judg ment and mercy. Those who cannot accept his mercy will fall under His' judgment; those who can accept his judgment will be healed by his mercy. The demonstrations are both judgment and mercy; they warn us that things are wrong; if we can accept them by God’s grace things may come right. Local TB group part of area 6 Officials of the Newberry County Tuberculosis Association completed the merger with the Tuberculosis and Health Assoc iation of Area 6 on Saturday when the office furniture and equipment were transferred to the area office in Laurens. The film projector and screen were placed in the Newberry County Health Department where they will be available for use by civic groups in the county. Seven counties are served by the Area 6 association. The other counties are Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick and Saluda. These same seven counties are also grouped together in the organ ization plan which the State Board of Health is now advoc ating. James D. Brown has been appointed to set up an area council with members from Newberry County to make board plans for implementing the area association program of work. Program functions in clude community services, public health education, pro fessional education and train ing, patient services and re search. Supporting functions are public information, fund raising, and administration. Newberry County directors of the Area 6 association are Mrs. W. C. Koon of Pomaria, Rev. J. Hilton Roof of Pros perity, John W. Rutherford, Miss Grace Summer, Rev. Neil E. Truesdell and Mr. Brown of Newberry. Others who are members of the association are James C. Coggins, R. A. Harley, William D. Kibler, Jr. and Mrs. R. D. Wright of Newberry and Mrs. A. B. Schriver of Whit mire. eOLtti. eftoum* fmMw TRUSS mmW luxurious lata vJI Dout |, RUPTURE COMFORT NEWBERRY DRUG CO. 944 Main St, Newberrj, S. C.