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Show Page 30—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Sunday, October 17, 1971 ‘New South’ Story ShowsBlacks rp Progress, Worker Says register and to vote, heralding politics is where they can see what many insist is a new day concrete results.” in the South, with social and Today Negroes are electing politica: change and a long, black candidates to important slow but inexorble climb jobs,not just in the dusty, rural toward moderation between the communities, but in urban centers as well. They are races. This, it is said, is the storyof There are about 10.3 million electing whites, too, and solid the ‘new South. Negroes in the ll-state South, black support was instrumental in the emergence of a new “That pretty ‘well symbolizes making up cne-fourth of the the progress of black people in total population. The most wave of moderate southern the South,” said John Lewis, recent count shows roughly governors. There are black mayors in one of the original freedom three million Negroes have riders and now head of voter registered to vote—twice what such predominar tly white cities education project. “In the past, it was less than a decade ago. as Chapel Hill, N.C., and that's about all we could do— “The voter act was a shot in Gainesville, Fla. Charles Evers, pick cotton. Now we can vote,” the arm for black people,” the mayorof Fayette, Miss., is Since the passage of the voter Lewis said. “There's a fantastic the first black man ever to run rights act in 1965, Negroes have interest in voting among blacks, for governor of Mississippi. In turned out as never before to who have found that ballot Atlanta, middle class and poor By JACK WILKINSON Arthritis: No. 4 Cortisone Covers ‘Art’ ButIt’s a Time Bomb By LaRUE STONE and LAWRENCE LAMB, M.D. Cortisone was considered the answerto arthritis in the early '50s but the hormone only “covered up” “Art” while laying havoc with the rest of the body. Never since my with- drawal from cortisone have I had any type surgery or anesthetic without a precautionary “Cortef drip” all during the operation. As I arrived for corrective surgery once, I did note that the usual drip was not in sight. I asked the young doctor about it and he seemed unaware that it was necessary. He asked how long I had been off evvtisone and I Pg seven or eight years, had been having Cortet Tarps regularly and also an occasional ACTH shot. He looked a bit uncertain and then said, “Oh, I think it will be all right” As the nurse anesthetist started to give the pentathol, I have my usual “Nite all” and off [ went. T have no idea when it was that out of the deep I vaguely| heard the anesthetist say, ‘‘She’s gone!” Frantically, I tried to tell them I wasn't—yet—just don’t let mego! But I was helpless— it was useless—I wasa goner! Three and one-half hours later from afar | could hear a loud, peculiar noise. I thought, “This horrible sound is coming from me— what in the world is happen- ing?” Then I heard, “I think she’s breathing again . . . lets do a tracheotomy . . can you find a vein . . . give her a suppository . . . more en... adrenalin.” These were parts of conversations I began to hear above laborious gasps. Fi- nally I got one eye open and looked up into a swarm of anxious faces. They told me I had been “dead” 84 seconds. I'm not sure h can damage. Once in a while my husband remarksthat he isn’t sure they timed my “death” accurately DR. LAMB COMMENTS: One of the explanations for dramatic cures obtained by a number of arthritis quacks is the indiscriminate use of cortisone andrelated hormoneproducts. It is true that these quacks can give individuals medicines which tend to cause marked im- “black mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C., which is 88 per cent white, “We are chipping away at the traditional white attitude to blacks in politics and more blacks are thinking about running for office.” “Our mere presence has given the government itselr more credibility with the black community,"’ state Rep, I.S. Leevy Johnson of South Carolina said. “Formerly, when they looked at the state government, it was like looking out at a great big neon sign saying, ‘whites only.’ There are hazards, however. The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, blacks forgot differences long president of the Southern enough to elect a liberal white Christian Leadership Confermayor and a black vice mayor. ence and successor to the late An unofficial tally shows Dr. Martin Luther King, sees a more than 700 blacks elected to real danger of forced comfices of varying degrees in pliance. the 11 Southern states. Many of “Mostblack officials must be these hold minor jobs, but there elected with a significant are 28 black mayors and 40 number of white votes,” black legislators, Only Arkan- Abernathy said. “This has the sas has no blacks in the tendencyto cause black elected legislature, but an upcoming officials to be very moderate in reapportionment likely will their legislative proposals and provement in the patient's changethat, programs and risk falling into symptoms. Of course, the Are they effective? Negro the very same rut which white desperate patient is grateful. leaders say most of them are, elected officials fall in—trying Little does he know that the if for no other reason than to to get elected rather than medicine that he is taking blaze a path for future blacks trying to change an unjust is a living time bomb, capa- to follow. Said Howard Lee, the system,” ble of producing dreaded complications. Stopping adrenal hormone therapy, such as cortisone, can cause far more serious problems and LaRue has given us a story on one of these episodes. Whatreally NO LONG HAIR HEREas Scott Eugene Barnhart got his Scott got his first hair cut from his cousin, Fred McCaskey, a first haircut at the age of 19 days. His hair was an inch and a barber, as the baby’s mother, Mrs. Ron ‘Barnhart looks on. half long and his mother didn’t think it looked i a boy. Do-It-Yourself Do-It- Word Processing Centers Could Eliminate Waste NEW YORK (UPI)—‘In any happens is that while the large company, 19 out of every typists are adrenal hormone is bein, 100 secretaries typing for the wastebasket,” given, the person's actual adrenal cortex quits func- says Robert Walters, executive tioning at its usual level. director of the Administrative Sinceitis no longer required ManagementSociety. “That’s a criminal waste,” to perform, it geets lazy and starts to atrophy. The ad- Walters said, “and it is made by the fact that renal cortex is no longer worse able to put out the usual thousands of administrative normal amount of adrenal secretaries are forced to spend hormonestuat it should put around50 per centof their time out on a daily basis, on typing that could be much better done in a word In essence, during an processing center.” acute crisis the patient can’t Walters is going to conduct produce enough adrenal hor- gn all.lay seminar on the mone for the emergency. relatively new field of word For this reason for years aft- processing at the Business er long-term treatment with Equipment Exposition in New cortisone a patient mzy not be able to tolerate major York Oct. 28. This new field, surgeryor tolerate anesthet- linking 8 modern management ics as well as before treat- techniques with electronic ment with cortisone. This equipment, is said to have a may well indeed have been em $6 billion market by a factor in LaRue’s problem }! in tolerating surgery. She Mord Processing is a lot simply may not have had more than a means of and izit e enough adrenalcortical function to respond adequately to typing pool, Walters said. John this unusual stressful situa- J. McGlynn, a vice-president of tion. International Business Ma(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) chines Corp. at IBM’s office products division at Franklin es, N.J., agrees. (NEXT: Surgery.) Walters said only a score of firms and trade organizations “There’s Help for Ar- have created word processing thritis,” an unusual new 128- centers so far but he predicts page book by Mrs. LaRue the movement will spread as Stone and Dr. Lawrence E. fast as data processing centers Lamb,answers many of your did because word processing questions about the crippling can save up to 57 per cent in disease. To get your copy, costs and improve efficiency send your name, address and just as dramatically. “Moreover, it can relieve tip code,along with $1 (plus 25 cents postage and handling) talented secretaries of the to: The Provo Daily Herald, drudgery of typing and give Arthritis Book, P.O. Box 489, them a fair chance to compete with young men for promoDept. 846, Radio City Station, tion,” he said New York, N.Y., 10019. Allow three weeks for delivery. DO Now You Know NOT mail or bring it to the By United Press Daily Herald in Provo, but to Mrs. James K. Polk, wife of the foregoing address as indicated. Make checks or the llth president, prohibited money orders to “Arthritis liquor and dancing in the White House. Book.” Repair Sidewalks Before Winter By MR. FIX The prime purpose of the word processing center is take advanta:je of new hardware and systems| that would be too expensive to use on the “one to one”traditional basis. 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