The Mail-Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Milford, Kosciusko County, 12 December 1973 — Page 8

THE MAIL-JOURNAL —"ed.. Dec. 12,1973

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tfflZlNjO around J?Sii-T Santa Claus and Kelly the Clown will be making P pearances at the picturet show Saturday, at both 10 and lo clock shows for the youth. Santa will also be at the library for pre-schoolers on Friday, plus a story hour, and then on Saturday. Dec. 22, Santa will be back at the library between 1 and 4 with treats for all the children and collecting a list of wants for Christmas. —0" o It appears shoppers at Syracuse will have several weeks of free parking with colorful red capping of parking meters last Friday. Defining of the word Gazebo, such as the structure in the new corner of the former Pickwick bloc*> sent this writer to WebstffS Seventh New Collegiate pjftionary for the following: A designed to command a view. That it is, sitting pertly in the corner of the new fashionable Pickwick Place shopping area. Joe Todd, of Todd Realty, wants equal time in this column to let local residents know his firm’s large sign south of Syracuse has “been dark” for several weeks, too. Joe said they turned out the lights in an effort to save energy consistent with the president’s wishes. First customer in the lobby of the new Wawasee Village DriveIn branch bank: John Glon, a close neighbor to the bank. The first customer at the drive-up window was Evelyn Vandegrift. AU this according to Ann Yentes, drive-up window teller. Lee Schacht home Friday from Miami where she and “friend” saw the Notre Dame-University of Miami football game. En route home they found a delightful place to play golf in central Florida. Lee says she is new at the game of golf, but hopes to take it up seriously. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Rogers of Lake Wawasee will leave Thursday for Sao Paulo, Brazil, S. A., to visit their daughter Carolyn, her husband, Tony Johnson, and of course, their new granddaughter Marni. They will be gone two weeks, spending Christmas there. Tony, their son-in-law, at 32 years of age is head of Cummins Engine Co.’s South America operation. A remark bandied about at the Saturday morning ribbon-cutting for State Bank of Syracuse’s new branch in Wawasee Village was to the effect that the bank would soon go to work on their second branch, presumably in the fish hatchery area. The second branch has been in the hopper for a long time, even in spite of denials by several connected with the bank. It should be said that the new branch opened Saturday is a beautiful addition to the area, and no .doubt it will relieve pressure on the lobby of the uptown bank.

Season’s best to you, this Christinas Day. We appreciate the patronage shown to us. R & R AUTO SALES “Miles Os Smiles’’ Used Cars SR 13S And CR 1200 — South Os Overhead Door And North Os The Bowling Alley Phone 457-4500

Another pleasant addition to the area is the smiling face of Katherine Greider at the Syracuse license branch. / The Norm Stevensons have returned from a five-day Stareraft distributors trip to Mullet Bay Beach hotel in the Virgin Islands, and the Gerald Bitners have returned from a 10-day Las Vegas trip which was awarded the Carl Wilkinsons who were unable to attend. Some say it appears so drab this year without the customary Christmas lighting. Some area homes are decorated, but have no lights. A good snow just might get everyone in the Christmas spirit yet. A prominent area auto dealer was arrested when he came out of the now-famous Hickory Lounge in Milford late Saturday night — or was it early Sunday morning? Charges of indecency were quickly dropped, however, when he appeared willing to fight what he considered a flimsy charge. Guess who. —°— The Cardinal Bell Ringers of the Cardinal Center at Warsaw are quite enthused about their television appearance on channel 22 Homemaker’s Time, however, this will not be until June 20 according to a spokesman this week. The sod did not get laid in the courtyard of Pickwick Place for the opening of numerous stores this past week, however, the entire area was cleaned and the local fire department assisted one day last week in washing (hosing) dirt from the sidewalk. Tom Tuttle was seen assisting with this. All businesses were well received and a great number of browsers and shoppers were recorded. Friends and followers of Gladden Schrock, in case you do not know, will find he now lives in South Bristol, Maine, with wife Janet (the former Janet West of Goshen) and two children, and has written his first novel.

Zx In the spirit of love and peace, Christmas comes to bring us joy. Mary Swager, Nancy Myers, John Caple And John Walker First Charter Insurance Syracuse

Area playhouse enthusiasts will well remember Gladden as one of the first participating in numbers at the Enchanted Hills Playhouse when it first started at Wawasee. Actor, playwright, novelist, he was raised in Middlebury and now is a fisherman by day and writer by night. A weather report is due for you Syracuseans basking in the Florida sun: Snow flurries over week end, nothing heavy, main roads clear at press time, but thermometer dipped to 10 Monday night, up to 20 Tuesday and to warm (hopefully) to 40 degrees by Thursday. ’ South Bend recorded five inches of snow there Monday and Monday night. Kingsley Pfingst of Rancho Cordovia, Calif., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Pfingst of Syracuse, this past week and has returned to his California home.

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Acupuncture being debated, studied

By IRWIN J. POLK, M.D. Copley News Service Acupuncture revisited. Subtitle : Chiropractors may have been right all along. It’s been about two years since the subject of acupuncture hit the fans of American medicine full face. Over those years, acupuncture clinics have opened and closed, patients have come and gone, but the controversy over acupuncture still rages. In America, acupuncture has been used to treat a variety of ills, especially chronic diseases like sinus trouble, asthma and arthritis. Reports from patients and doctors about the success of the treatment have varied from very enthusiastic to markedly dis-

couraged. That’s probably the way it was in China at first, too, some 2,000 years ago when this all began. Initially, acupuncture was used as folk medicine in China to treat all those diseases for which there was no other treatment centuries ago. It was not until the last 10 or so years that acupuncture began to be used as it is today in China to provide anesthesia for operations. By now, reports filtering back to this country of major surgery done using acupuncture as the only anesthesia are too numerous and too authoritative to doubt. And acupuncture has been successfully used to kill the pain of surgery in this country, too. So there is little doubt that

acupuncture works at least to produce anesthesia, if not to cure chronic diseases. How it works may be known soon. A cooperative study has been going on under the direction of the Naticnal Institutes of Health to disc over how the little needles pushed into the skin provides protection against pain during major surgery. The early findings are quite interesting. They suggest that acupuncture needles stimulate proprioceptors in the skin and underlying tissues. These are sensory receptors which report pressure and stretch sensations to the brain. Proprioceptors let us know where various parts of our bodies are, whether the arm is straight or bent, the head forward or turned. Messages from the proprioceptors are carried to the brain along the same pathways as are the sensations of pain. So it is suggested that acupuncture prevents the transmission of pain mes-

sages to the brain by competing for the passageways along the spinal cord. Acupuncture needles have been shown to stimulate proprioceptors when they are twirled in the skin. Or the needles can be connected to a low-voltage electric current to give the same result. Incidentally, it appears that there may be pathways of decreased electrical resistance in the skin which correspond roughly to acupuncture sites and channels. The Chinese

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folk doctors may have been onto something. What’s most interesting, acupuncture needles are not needed to stimulate the proprioceptive pathways. It can be done simply by massaging the acupuncture sites. Prolonged gentle massage seems to work almost as well to dull chronic pain as do the acupuncture needles. So who knows? In using massage to relive pain, masseurs and chiropractors may have been right all the time.