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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.
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