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Outlook Very Good for President’s
Complete Recovery in a Few Weeks
NEW YORK. UPt—A foremost*
authority on the ailment affecting
President Eisenhower said Satur
day he outlook is very good for
the President’s complete recovery
in a few weeks.
Dr. Burill Crohn, the discoverer
of the ailment, ileitis (ill-ee-eye'
tis), said the President’s case was
the most common and safest type
and the most easily amenable to
successful surgery. Continued the
doctor:
“If the operation was successful
—and I feel sure it was in this
case—the President should be re
stored to full health, with no dim
unition of his working efficiency.”
Dr. Crohn said the President
probably would be confined to
bed for about two weeks, and then
gradually could resume his regu
lar schedule.
Dr. Crohn, of New Milford,
Conn., who discovered the disease
in 1932, said that the diagnosis of
a regional, terminal ileitis—ob
struction of Eisenhower’s lower
■small intestine—was the best type
to cure. He added:
“The man should get entirely
well.”
He said the terminal, localized
ileitis involved only about eight
inches of the lowermost small in
testine, which altogether is 13 feet
long.
He said about 80 percent of the
cases of ileitis were of this type.
Surgery removihg the short in
testinal segment of only a few
inches, he said, causes no impair
ment of the patient’s processes,
s
nourishment or health in general.
He said operations of this kind
were successful in 65 to 5 percent
of the cases.
As for the possibilities of the
disease recurring, Dr. Crohn said
that this happens to about 30 to
35 percent of those stricken at ir
regular intervals of time.
But in Eisenhower’s case, he
said: “Even if there should be re
currences, they are rather mild”
Pan Am Traffic Shows
Slight Decrease From
Same Period in 1955
SEATTLE (jP—Passenger traffic
on Pan American World Airways’
Alaska routes shows a 2 percent
decrease for the first five months
of 1956 compared with the same
period last year, D. E. McMorran,
regional PAA traffic and sales
superintendent, said here Satur
day.
The line carried 22,852 passen
gers on Aiaska flights up to May
31 last year and 22,483 through
the end of May this year.
Completion of pulp mill con
struction in the Ketchikan area
coupled with prospects for a medi
ocre salmon fishing season are
adversely influencing traffic, Mc
Morran said.
He added Pan American is
working closely with the Alaska
Visitors Assn, in a campaign to
build up tourist travel to Alaska
to offset the diminishing volume
of commercial travel, especially
to southeasten Alaska.
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To the BAKER
Christ is the BREAD OF LIFE
“Jesus said, I am That bread of life.” ~
, John 6:48 £
New Master File Keeps Police Eye
On 85,000 Alaska Auto Operators
JUNEAU —Alaska’s automobile^
accident fatality record is going
down, but it still has a long way
to go before the Department of
Territorial Police will be satisfied,
according to Superintendent AP.
“Bob” Brandt and Officer Jerry j
Williams, who is in charge of the
department’s new operator’s li
cense division.
In 1955 fatal accidents on Al
aska’s roads were 30 per cent
fewer than they were in 1954. So
far in 1956 they are down an
other 20 per cent from the 1955
rate.
The “hot spot” for fatal acci
dents in the territory, surprising
ly enough, is Ketchikan, which
has only 35 miles of roads but
managed to kill seven persons on
them last year.
Four-fifths of all traffic acci
dents, though not of all fatalities,
occur in the Anchorage area,
which as the Territorial Police
classifies it includes Seward, Pal
mer and the Glenn Highway as
far as Glennallen.
The annual toll of traffic acci
dents in Alaska, not counting lives
lost, is $2.5 million in' areas out
side city limits, where the Terri
torial Police are primarily con
cerned.
Contributing to this toll is the
fact, according to Officer Wil
liams, that drunken driving is
four times as prevalent in the
territory, based on the number of
operator’s licenses issued, as it is
in the United States as a whole.
If arrests for drunken driving
within Alaska’s cities were in
cluded, the rate would be six or
seven times the national average,
Williams said.
The initials “DD” signifying a
license suspension for drunken
driving is the notation which is
most prevalent on the thousands
of cards in the master file of op
erator’s license record in Juneau.
The number of suspensions var
ies from month to month, this
being one of the seasons when
they are numerous. At this time
of year also many newcomers are
arriving in Alaska by automobile.
For some reason a good many of
them roar into the territory with
the idea that this is the Wild
North and that “anything goes”
on the highways.
The 1955 Legislature took the
issuing of operator’s licenses away
from the Department of Taxation
and assigned it to the Department
of Territorial Police. Under the
new system, the department has
built up a file of 25,000 cards
bearing information about Alas
ka’s drivers. By the end of next
year all 85,000 of the territory’s
drivers will be included in this
master file.
The new law provides that all
licenses previously issued by the j
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Department of Taxation will ex
pire not on Dec. 31, 1956, as the
licenses say on their faces, but
on the operator’s birthday in 1957.
This will spread the task of issu
ing renewals over an entire year
instead of lumping them on a
single date.
Any operator who wishes to do
so may reapply voluntarily to the
Territorial Police now and receive
one of the new-style licenses at no
cost. The Department has been re
issuing about 150 licenses a day.
Applicants with physical disa
bilities are issued licenses with
limitations noted on their face. A
person who is hard of hearing
must have outside mirrors on both
sides of the car, as must a one
eyed driver. A one-legged driver
must have a car with an automatic j
transmission. Power brakes are j
required on the vehicle driven by :
a person who is paralyzed in the
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STANDARD OIL COMPANY
OF CALIFORNIA
FIVE KILLED IN
CRASH OF NAVY JET
MINNEAPOLIS, Uft—A Navy
jet plane crashed near the airport *
here Saturday killing the pilot and '
five other persons.
The exploding plane spread fire
which leveled one house and dam
aged five others.
Oil and water ordinarily do not
mix, but will do so if soap is
added.
leg. Automatic signal devices are
required on the car driven by a
person who is paralyzed in the
left arm.
The territory expects its “get
tough” policy on motor vehicle
operator’s licenses to pay off. The
rationale of the program, as ex
plained by Williams, is that states
with such systems vigorously ad
ministered have been able to re
duce traffic accidents by 25 per
cent. This would mean a saving to
Alaska’s motorists of $625,000 a
year in property damage alone at
the present stage of wear and tear
on our highways.