The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 April 1968 — Page 4

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, April 9, 1968

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By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor NEW YORK (UPI)-Where there’s a wish, there’s a way for the quack to move in on the gullible customer. The old fashioned spieler offering magical cures for all ills is disappearing from the scene, but he’s replaced by more sophisticated pitchmen who bilk the ever-hopeful public for more than $2 billion a year. The trade is in odd-ball diets, off-beat treatments, or at best the useless pills, capsules and liquids. And their victims come from * every educational and economic level.

More Serious Even more serious is the danger to those who are sidetrackilfrom medical diagnosis and treatment needed, often delaying until it is too late. Pseudo-scientific quacks and the health cultists who promise everything from restored youth to cancer cures are discussed in a new publication of the Public Affairs Committee, a non-profit educational organization. Called “Fads, Myths, Quacks — and Your Health,’’ its author is Jacqueline Seaver, a specialist in writing of the health field. One of the favorite areas of

operations for the charlatans, she says, is in the diet field where they push peculiar diets or food fads. “Downing combinations like vinegar and honey or eating 'health’ foods won't hurt most people. What will hurt almost everyone though is following a lopsided, fad diet for long,” she says. Miss Seaver discusses the hazards of the reducing pills, about which several medical journals have warned and which are under Senate investigation. No Easy Way There is just no easy way to lose weight, she says. “The only solution is willingness to go on a medically • recommended regimen, and stay on it, possibly for a lifetime.”

How to tell a quack? Miss Seaver says that “while there is no sure rule for detecting a quack, if you ask yourself the following questions, the answers will probably give you the truth”: — Does the “doctor” use a special machine or a “secret” remedy that he claims will cure the disease? — Does he say the medical profession is against him and has been trying to suppress his wonderful discovery? — How did you hear about the remedy or the “doctor”?

N. Viets agree to talks

Manticus Rock, off the coast of Maine, is the only known nesting place for Atlantic puffins and razor-billed auks in the United States.

By STEWART HENSLEY WASHINGTON (UPI)— President Johnson said today Hanoi has formally agreed to work at a time and place for U.S.-North Vietnamese talks. Johnson said Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker is flying home from Saigon to join U.S. officials for policy talks which will begin Tuesday at Camp David, Md. Bunker is expected to arrive in Washington Thursday. Johnson said the United States was notifying its allies about receipt of an official note from Hanoi. Without going into details

about the message from North Vietnamese leaders, Johnson said: “We shall be trying to work out promptly a time and place for talks.” Johnson told reporters the other participantes would include Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford. Johnson said he planned to go to Camp David tonight with key White House staff members. Prince Norodom Sihanouk said today North Vietnam has “chosen Cambodia” as the site for preliminary talks with the United States. Shortly before his announce-

ment, Radio Hanoi said North Vietnam was willing to meet American representatives at Phom Penh or any other mutually agreeable city for preliminary talks. Since the United States has no diplomatic relations with neutralist Cambodia—and thus no embassy in Phnom Penh—it would prefer to hold the talks in Burma or India. As the United States and North Vietnam move toward “establishing contact,” there were indications that both sides may have begun some reciprocal reduction in the scope of their military operations.

Chicken Popular In Germany BONN (UPI) — Chicken meat, once served only at the tables of the wealthy in Germany, has become everyman’s feast. Consumption went up during 1967 by 9 per cent, a consumer’s organization reports, to reach a total of 224 million chickens, almost four for every man, woman and child in the country. American producers popularized chicken here several years ago, but when German farmers realized the market they’d been passing up. they got into the business themselves, and forced the government to put up trade barriers to hold off U.S. competitors.

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