Avalanches Kill
At Least 22 in
Northern Norway
OSLO, OP)—Avalanches brought
death and terror to three small
communities in northern Norway
last night, killing at least 22 per
sons.
Worst hit was the steep, tiny
valley of Skredbukt, where 14
persons were killed. At least eight
of these were small children and
four were women. The families’
men are at sea fishing.
The disaster struck just after
midnight, smashing half the
houses of the community or push
ing them into the seas of Siger
fjord.
A report from Kvaefjord, an
other little community in Vester
alen, told of the death of six per
sons in another avalanche but de
tails were lacking.
Two engineers were killed at
Svolvarer, chief town in the Lo
foten Islands. A slide of snow a'nd
ice 1,000 feet wide crushed their
massive stone power station to
the ground. The area was left
without electricity.
Southward, in Switzerland, four
German skiers were killed in ,a
snowslide and another was miss
ing and feared dead.
Eisenhower Will Accept Presidency
Duties Only If Health Is Good
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22 Automobiles
Entered in 1956
Economy Run
LOS ANGELES, UP*—'Twenty
two stock automobiles have been
entered in this year’s Mobilgas
economy run from here to Color
ado Spring, Colo., and for the first
time all will have automatic
transmissions .
In announcing the entry list for
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of the car and occupants, and di
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This is the sixth postwar run.
The territory to be covered is
approximately 1,500 miles.
> By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, WV-President
Elsenhower said today if he ever
feels he is not absolutely up to the
presidency physically he no long
er will be on the job or available
for it.
There was no questioning at
Eisenhower’s news conference to
nail down the implication that he
would resign from the presidency
itself in such a case.
But a reporter did suggest that
Eisenhower was indicating that in
such an event he would withdraw
his newly announced candidacy
for a second term nomination.
Without replying to this specif
ically, Eisenhower said he would
base his continuation of his pres
ent course on his general diagnos
tic fitness and his ability to carry
the burden of hard work right on
through the year.
If any ability develops, he said,
that goes before the American
people.
Eisenhower’s response to one of
several queries on the subject was
that unless he felt absolutely up
to his White House duties he
would no longer be in the job or
available.
The smiling President told re
porters, however, not to hold him
to any commitment if he should
suffer a week’s case of the flu or
other mild illness.
Eisenhower was told that Dem
ocrats appear to be aiming to
make his health a major campaign
issue. -k
He replied the people have a
right to know about his health
—that it is the people’s business.
He said the doctors and he have
kept the people informed about
his recovery from his heart at
tack and will continue to do so.
A reporter said Democrats are
suggesting he plans to be only a
part time President.
Flushing, Eisenhower said he
was not going to defend himself
from such criticisms.
But he said he has carefully
defined the proper, necessary and
constitutional duties of the presi
dency. He said he is going to be
less of a host than he has been in
the past but he is not going to
neglect the duties of the presi
dency of the United States.
Sen. Jackson Predicts His Committee
Will Pass Mental Health Bill Soon
By FRANK W. VAILLE 1
WASHINGTON, UPV—Sen. Jack
son (D-Wash) predicted Monday,
that legislation allowing Alaska
fo treat its own mentally ill for
the first time will be approved by
the Senate Interior Committee in
a few weeks.
The House already has passed
the bill setting up an Alaska men
tal health program.
The senator made his forecast
as he ended hearings by his sub
committee on a bill that one com
mittee aide said has kicked up
more protests than the off-shore
oil land bill of several years ago.
Many critics of the legislation
have insisted the bill would set
up a potential “American Siberia”
in Alaska, where U.S. governors
could send their political oppo
nents. The provision of the bill
authorizing gubernatorial agree
ments is the standard reciprocity
provision designed to premit re
turn of a patient to his home state
for treatment and prevent one
state from having to carry the fi
nancial burden of caring for non
resident patients.
Taking note of the "deluge" of
protests, Jackson said: “Some of
them made sense. But I must con
fess some of them made no sense
■T 1 i
at all.”
Among provisions which he or
other members of the committee
indicated interest in were the def
initions of mental illness and the
extent to which the bill might ap
ply to mentally retarded individ
uals.
Referring to contentions that
the $6V£ million Alaska would be
given for hospital facilities would
be insufficient for “a hospital,”
Gov. . Heintzleman told the com
mittee he doubted there would be
any single building in the future.
Rather, he said, Alaska probab
ly will build small installations
scattered in four or five cities in
order to catch cases in their early
stages. He said he belt many such
cases could be treated without
hospitalization.
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Angina—The "Coronary's" Cousin y
In recent months, particularly in the United States, much attention
has been focused on heart and arterial diseases. Uppermost in everyone’#
mind has been the disorder called coronary thrombosis in which a blood
clot stops passage of blood through one of the coronary arteries that
supply the heart muscle with blood.
Angina pectoris, a related dis
order, is not caused by a clot, but
by a narrowing of the coronary
arteries. This also cuts down the
flow of nourishing blood to the
heart muscle itself and causes
severe pain in the chest, much like
that experienced during a coro
nary attack.
Anginal attacks can be brought
on by strenuous exertion or emo
tional upsets. While rest or drugs
can usually relieve anginal pain,
rest alone does not appreciably
lessen pain caused by coronary
thrombosis.
In angina pectoris, the heart be
haves like an auto with a pinched
feed line. When the car is parked
at the curb, the motor idles smooth
ly; when the same auto tries to
climb a hill, the motor backfires
and protests. So it is with the
heart of the anginal patient; under
no pressure, it functions satisfac
torily, but if the patient runs up
stairs, walks briskly, or, perhaps,
even watches an exciting event,
the result may well be a painful
attack.
A serious consideration in an
gina pectoris is that it may be the
forerunner of thrombosis. Con
striction of an artery may enable
a clot to form in the narrowest
part. When the clot plugs the
artery and stops the flow of blood,
coronary thrombosis is established.
The section of the heart •muscle
fed by the artery “starves” to
death from lack of nourishment,
then disintegrates, and, eventually,
in the usual case, is replaced by
inactive scar tissue.
“Angina pectoris,” according to
Dr. Henry I. Russek, noted heart
specialist of New York, “is really
a first cousin to coronary throm
bosis. But the patient with angina
pectoris can do much to control it,
a'd to forestall the complication
of coronary thrombosis. He should
avoid hurry, worry, excitement,
overexertion, overweight, overeat
ing and smoking.”
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Nitroglycerine, the explosive, is
the most effective drug in relieving
acute attacks of angina pectoris
according to Dr. Russek. It causes
the coronary arteries to dilate,
permitting blood to flow freely. It
acts within seconds, but provides
relief for only 15 minutes to a
half hour.
For longer lasting relief. Dr.
Russek uses a “cousin” of nitro
glycerine called Peritrate. His in
vestigation of this drug has shown
that its protection against attacks
lasts from four to five hours.
In one series of clinical tests
conducted with colleagues at the
Public Health Service Hospital,
Staten Island, N. Y., Dr. Russek
tested 13 new drugs, plus the old
drugs, alcohol and morphine, in a
group of 60 patients, using electro
cardiograms to check drug effects.
Their conclusions: Whiskey,
.though long a popular “medicine”,
acts only as a sedative and hides
the disorder by masking the pain.
Morphine, too, is only-a masking
pain-killer. Of the 13 new drugs,
only Peritrate was as effective in
its long-lasting relief as nitro
glycerine is in its immediate action;
it was the only drug that provided
four hours or more of protection
against recurrent attacks. ■»
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