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Show Page Four FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1962 THE SALT LAKE TIMES Start New Year by Launching Valuable Family Medical Record This is the week for New Year's resolutions, and Harold Bowman, executive secretary of the TLTtah State Medical Associ-ation, suggests you resolve to begin in 1962 keeping a Family Health Record. How many times have you needed basic health facts about members of your family for school records, for insurance forms, for a doctor's medical history? A family health record is your compilation of these facts. Like vital statistics in the family Bible, notations on family health kept accurately and up to date can be of permanent value. The record should contain per-tinent facts on immunizations, illnesses, injuries and physical examinations. The record will prove its worth only if kept carefully. Start immediately to jot down basic information you know already. Enter accurately all injuries and illnesses. When you next see your physician, take the family health record along so notations can be made while they are fresh in your mind. A small schoolboy's notebook will do for a record book. Or you can obtain a small account book or ledger from a stationery shop. Copies may be obtained of "Your Family Health Record" by writing this newspaper. Begin with a brief listing of the family history. Date and place of birth of each member. If any are deceased, date and cause of death. Pertinent medical facts about each family member, such as chronic diseases or ill-nesses (cancer, diabetes, epilep-sy). Next should come a section for dates of immunizations, with spaces for each member of the family. The columns should al low room for listing immuniza-tions against whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus, typhoid, polio and smallpox. There should be space for noting dates of booster shots. A section an general informa-tion should include such data as the blood type of each family member, whether the RH blood factor is known to be present in any of the family and special allergies or drug sensitivity of each. A check list of the more com-mon diseases chicken pox, mea-sles, German measles, mumps, whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria should be included. Most of these are childhood dis-eases, but sometimes an adult is exposed. German measles can be very serious in an expectant mother. Mumps is a serious dis-ease in adults. Another section should pro-vide a place for noting dates of physical examinations, with a line or two to make note of spe-cial advice or instructions that followed the checkup. Illnesses requiring hospitalization should be recorded, listing nature of the illness or injury, name of physi-cian, name of hospital, dates of entry and discharge, length of ill-ness, if surgery was performed describe it briefly. Illnesses at home should be recorded also. Finally, a section listing the family's health and accident in-surance information will be help-ful. "Relatively few families keep health records, but everyone sooner or later finds need for the information. Keep your family health record up to date at all times as an added safeguard to your family's health," says Mr. Bowman. I THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining 6 Legal News Fed rl CSS Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah . Entered at the postoffice at Salt Lake City as second Independent class matter August 23, 1923, under the act of March 8, 1879. Newspaper 711 South West Temple Telephone EM 64 I GLENN BJORNN, Publisher "This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation." Volume 41 Number 32 Too Big for Government Alone (Continued from Page One) having some ulterior motive whereas when common people get together and exchange mutual interests, the resulting friend-ships are usually , genuine." That pretty well describes the movement's importance and potential. Another plus factot is now at play in the world. It is found in our vastly increased mobility. A symbol of that mobility is the newly-dawne- d jet age, in which we can go from our homes to almost any point on the globe in a single day. The result is a huge surge in travel abroad by Americans and in travel by others to our country. There are many reasons for this travel business, pleasure, education, cultural pursuits. Whatever the reasons in any particular care, the cause of better understanding between peoples is advanced step by step. LEA SED GRAPEVINE A charge against the Utah National Guard for "indoctri-nating" school children through its "Freedom Academy" was de-nied this week by Gov. George D. Clyde, who termed the charge "unfounded." Wendell P. Abbes, a Salt Lake attorney, had leveled the charge. The governor said the academy "strengthened" the American heritage. Price activities of the Utah Pharmaceutical Assn. were ad-judged in violation of the Sher-man (anti-trus- t) Act this week by U S. District Court of Utah. Judge Sherman A. Christensen, in a 16-pa- ge decision, enjoined the association "from continua-tion of such activities." A blanket increase in salary in salary of $15 per month for all employees of Salt Lake County Clerk's office was approved this week by the Salt Lake County Commission. The raises for the approximately 26 employees is retroactive to January 1. County Clerk Alvin Kedding-ton-, who recommended these raises, said the schedule he sub-mitted will result in an average take-hom- e pay hike of $12.50 a month each. Nine employees of the County Planning Commission office were granted increases of from $15 to $50 a month. Rep. David S. King this week said his main interests in the new session of Congress will be legislation to encourage expan-sion of the economy, a balanced budget and enactment of a bill creating the proposal Canyon Land National Park in southeast Utah. Reopening of Saltair on a limited basis early this summer was predicted this week by Dr. Thomas C. Adams, Salt Lake consulting engineer, in a speech before the Sons of Utah Pioneers luncheon club. The Salt Lake City Commis-sion this week approved the use of a police car and travel ex-penses for two police officers to go to Sacramento, Calif., to at a study Criminal Information Center the week of Jan. 8. The officers making the trips will be Sgts. M. R. Hausel and R. J. Johnson. Utah Republicans Saturday will set in motion the organiza-tional machinery for '62 county and Congressional elections. The State Chairman, Vernon Rom-ne- y, announced that the State Central Committee would meet Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in Hotel Newhouse to fix the date for the voting district mass meetings and attend to. other party busi-ness. Army Staff Sgt. Robert M. Bratton, 4361 Locust Lane, re-cently arrived in Korea , and is now serving with the 1st Divi-sion's 9th Cavalry. The 1st is the only U. S. Divi-sion presently manning a front line in Korea. Sgt. Bratton, a squad leader m Troop B. entered the Army in 1951 and was last stationed at Fort Lewis. A 1950 graduate of Granite High School, the sergeant at-tended the University of Utah. Lawbreakers Share Common Weaknesses Hoolums, gangsters, and racketeers, who operate with seem-ing disdain for constituted authority, all share a common weak-ness the morbid fear of detection, apprehension and successful prosecution. These leaders of the underworld, representing the brains and motivating force of "organized crime," cloak themselves . with respectability and circulate in all spheres of our society. However, none is immune to the subconscious dread of one day having to face the bar of justice. Law enforcement is exploitingt his weakness. By the ex-change of valuable criminal intelligence information, the FBI and other federal, state and local agencies are successfully pene-trating the innermost sanctums of the criminal deity. This action, plus the new laws passed by the last session of Congress aimed at bigtime racketeers and gamblers, is creating an uneasy stir among professional vice lords. Experience has shown there is no substitute for on-the-sp- ot dissemination of vital information on the working level. This exchange of criminal intelligence is made among regular, duly authorized law enforcement agencies whose experienced officers understand its nature and are aware of its potential. They make prompt and proper application of it. This is a far more logical and practical system than the theoretical national clearinghouse for criminal information. Yet our profession is constantly beset by those who maintain there is a "void" in the exchange of information. They contend it can only be overcome by this catalytic cure-al- l. Such a contention is without merit and does not deal in reality. Crime prevention requires timely, cohesive and spontaneous action. There is no margin for procrastination or administrative red tape. In a like manner, dissemination of criminal intelligence must be expeditious. Presently, it is exchanged promptly by agencies involved, and there is no delay in its reaching the proper authorities. . Daily throughout the country numerous investigations are closed and violators convicted as a direct result of this nationwide program. (Reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin) gross much more: one make priced at $250 to $300 sold over a million units last year, and its four largest competitors sold almost as many. The Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Admin-istration and Post Office try to police this booming market, but because their jurisdiction is limited, "a distributor can give all three the run-aroun- d, one at a time, pocket a fortune and start another operation with a different product." One worthless tablet, supposed to kill appetite, sells for $3 a bottle, but costs about eight cents to produce. The maker of another drug quotes in his advertising two doctors who quit using it nearly 20 years ago and when they did use it, pre-scribed a strict diet along with it. So-call- ed "expanding pills," which are supposed to fill the stomach with bulk to kill hunger pains, actually expand in the intestine which does not send out hunger signals. The campaign against reducing racketeers is hampered by the fact that the legal efforts to stop them usually end up in a jury trial; there is always someone ready to swear convincingly that the most worthless preparation was the secret of his reduc-ing success. "If the problem could be decided by qualified, unbiased scientists," an FDA doctor said, "we would win these cases hands down." Finally, the consumer's best defense is his own common sense. We should not expect miracles of weight reduction from effortless exercise. Anyone sufficiently overweight to feel the need of drugs should consult a physician. All medical scientists agree that if we eat more than we need, we add ounces. If we consume less, they come off. No one should rely on body shakers or patent medicines to lose weight. nTln Stop Throwing Money Away Americans spend a billion dollars a year on "reducing" gimmicks and drugs, most of them worthless and some down-right harmful. Distributors of the useless drugs net at least $100 million a year, according to a Congressional subcommittee. Sellers of vibrating machines "many as expensive as they are ineffective" I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denia- l. Oscar Wilde. oOo Yes, your money goes further these days. A lot of it winds up in outer space. |