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HEALTH Through
Chiropractic
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Dr. Richard B. Vance
SCOLIOSIS. IS IT CATCHING?
Tlu- dictionary tells us that scoliosis is a lateral curvature of the back. Normally, the backbone,
the spine, curves in and out. In scoliosis, the spine also bends from side to side. Scoliosis is a dis
order that usualy starts in childhood, although too often it isn’t discovered until before, or during,
the beginning of the teenage years.
As a precautionary measure, we reeommens that you bring your youngster in for an examination.
We believe that all youngsters should be checked for scoliosis regurlarly.
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World and Nation
Chief reluctantly retains security
Swedish leader keeps guard
Associated Press'
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The act
ing prime minister said Monday he
will tolerate bodyguards until Olof
Palme’s murder is solved, but called
the ability of leaders to go ung
uarded an essential element of Swe
den’s “open, democratic society.”
Prime Minister Palme, 59, and his
wife Lisbet were strolling without
guards in downtown Stockholm
when a man shot him Friday night.
Palme had dismissed his security
men earlier in the day.
Police were reported to be making
little progress in solving the murder.
The Foreign Ministry confirmed
that a claim was made that the Red
Army Faction, a West German ter
rorist group, was responsible, but
West German officials discounted it.
Ingvar Carlsson, who had been
deputy premier and now is acting
prime minister, was chosen unani
mously as new leader of Palme’s
party, the Social Democrats. Palme
had held the post since 1969.
C ear with Olof Palme. We cannot go
ack to the isolated way of life we
once led.”
about where we were at the hep
ning.”
Carlsson said he would accept be
ing surrounded by bodyguards, but
eluctantlv. “until
Foreign Ministry spokesman k
Loennback said a person whotd
■ Swedish Embassy
reluctantly, “until this murder is
cleared up.” He said he preferred
privacy, as Palme had.
He pledged to continue his prede
cessor’s policies and keep neutral
Sweden active in international af
fairs.
“It has been the Swedish attitude
that it is not only up to the super
powers to influence (international
events),” Carlsson told reporters.
“Olof Palme’s work will not disap-
Palme and his wife had gone to a
movie premiere and were walking
home when he was shot. Mrs. Palme,
55, was grazed by a bullet but not se
riously hurt.
The national news agency TT said
Police Inspector Jan Winner re
ported little progress in the case, and
quoted him as saying: "We stand
phoned the
Bonn, West Germany, a few hou
after the shooting claimed respon
bility on behalf of the Red Ai
Faction.
Loennback said the ministry
Stockholm police were informed!
the call later Saturday.
West Germany’s chief govetJ
ment spokesman, Friedhelm Oil
said security officials in Bonn had!
indication of involvement by w!
German terrorists, but were vviJ
to help with the investigation I
asked.
Analysis reports drugs help
treat mild blood pressure
Associated Press
BOSTON — The controversial
practice of using drugs to treat mild
and moderate high blood pressure
saves lives and is especially effective
for preventing strokes, a new analy
sis concludes.
An estimated 58 million Ameri
cans have high blood pressure. The
condition is a major underlying
cause of heart disease, strokes and
kidney failure. However, doctors
disagree over how high blood pres
sure must be before it should be low
ered with drugs.
The new report suggests that
treating even relatively mild high
blood pressure of between 90 and
114 diastolic, which is the second of
a pair of numbers given for blood
pressure readings, significantly re
duces the risk of death. The diastolic
jressure is measured between the
leart’s contractions.
The results were compiled by Dr.
Charles H. Hennekens and col
leagues at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in Boston and Oxford Uni
versity and were submitted for pre
sentation Monday at a meeting in
San Francisco sponsored by the
American Heart Association.
suggested drug treatment is helpful
in mild high blood pressure, while
the rest found no effect.
But when the study results were
combined, the researchers found
drug treatment reduced total mor
tality by 13 percent and mortality
from cardiovascular disease by 22
percent.
The controversy over treating
mildly or moderately elevated blood
pressure results, in part, from am
biguous and conflicting results ob
tained from a variety of studies.
In their analysis, Hennekens and
his colleagues compiled the results
of a dozen comparison studies that
enrolled more than 34,000 people
and were conducted over the last
two decades. Half the studies had
biggest
Those with mild high blood pressure
who took drugs had 40 percent
fewer fatal strokes and 38 percent
fewer non-fatal strokes.
Improvements have been made in
drug therapy for hypertension since
some of the studies were conducted,
and Hennekens said his analysis
could not sort out the benefits of dif
ferent kinds of medicines.
Navy heart surgeon sentenced to 4 years
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Heart sur
geon Donal M. Billig, convicted of
involuntary manslaughter and hom
icide in the deaths of three patients
at Bethesda Naval Hospital, was sen
tenced Monday to four years in
prison and ordered dismissed from
the service.
The court-martial jury of nine na
val officers also ordered Billig, a
Navy commander who served as
chief of heart surgery at Bethesda,
to forfeit all future pay and allow
ances.
Billig showed no emotion as the
sentence was read. The jury had de
liberated 90 minutes and could have
returned a sentence of up to 11 ‘/a
years.
Defense attorneys said they would
ask for a delay in imposing the
prison sentence, a request that will
go to the naval command that con
vened the court-martial.
heart surgeon is “punishment of a
severity I don’t ever think I can de
scribe.”
Billig, 55, was taken into custody
by Naval Investigative Service per
sonnel. Under military law, he
would be eligible for parole after
serving one-third of his sentence.
His conviction is subject to auto
matic review by the Navy-Marine
Corps Court of Military Review, and
may be appealed to the Court of Mil
itary Appeals and ultimately the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Billig, nearly sightless in one eye,
was found guilty last Thursday of
causing the deaths through gross
surgical errors during operations in
1983 and 1984.
Earlier Monday, Billig pleaded
for his freedom Monday before the
jury, saying the end of his career as a
He was found guilty of two counts
of involuntary manslaughter, one
count of negligent homicide, and 18
counts of dereliction of duty stem
ming from operations in 1983 and
1984.
The prosecutor, Marine Col. Ger
ald Miller, urged the jury to sen
tence Billig to at least half the maxi
mum sentence, saying that without a
prison term Billig might try to prac
tice again.
Defense attorney Lt. Cmdr. Ste
phen Baker urged no prison sen
tence, saying Billig is “already a bro
ken man” with his career ruined and
no hope of practicing medicine
again.
History today
Associated Press
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Today is Tuesday, March 4.
On this date:
In 1681, England’s Kinf
Charles II granted a charters
William Penn for an areaofteo
that later became Pennsylvania.
In 1789. the Constitution
the United States went intoeffec.
as the first Federal Congress w
in New York. However, the la»
makers had to adjourp for At
lack of a quorum.
In 1861, the Confederacy :
adopted the Stars and Bars ffcj
design.
In 1917, Republican jeanneitt;
Rankin of Montana took herse*
as the first woman elected to tk
U.S. House of Representatives. |
In 1933, in his inaugural ad
dress. President Franklin D|
Roosevelt pledged effective lead
ershtp to pull the country out of
the Great Depression, saw
“The only thing we have to fearii
fear itself.”
In 1933, the start of the Row
velt administration brought wiif
it the first woman to serve in the
Cabinet: l uibor Secretary France
Perkins.
In 1952, actor Ronald Reagar
married actress Nancy Davis ir.
San Fernando Valley, Calif.
In 1971, Canadian Prime Min
ister Pierre Elliott Trudeau mar
ried Margaret Sinclair in North
Vancouver, British Columbia.
T hey divorced in 1984.
In 1981, Secretary of Defense
Caspar Weinberger asked Con
gress for a $32.6-bi!!ion increase
m the Pentagon’s budget, saving
the U.S. had already fallen “das
gerously far behind” the Sowt
Union.
In 1985, President Reagac
pressed Congress to move ahead
with the MX missile
calling it vital to U.S. security.
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Spencer Tracy honored in Broadway tribute
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Katharine Hep
burn, Frank Sinatra and other stars
and friends of the late actor Spencer
Tracy reminisced at a Broadway
tribute Monday about the man they
knew as “Spence.”
Miss Hepburn and Sinatra stood
on stage at the packed, 1,655-seat
Majestic Theater along with actors
Sidney Poirier and Robert Wagner
and director Stanley Kramer during
the tribute, a benefit for the Ameri
can Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Tracy’s daughter, Susie, stood
next to Miss Hepburn as she ac-
Tracy was a tough guy who “had a facade — he didn’t
want to get into the sticky side of any relationship or
talk.”
Stanley Kramer, director.
completing the Kramer film “Cues
Who’s Coming to Dinner?” wi 1
Hepburn and Pokier.
Tracy won two Academy Awai
for acting: “Captains Courageon 1
in 1937 and “Boys Town” in
Wagner, who served as masteri ' at age 9
cepted a lifetime achievement award
on her father’s behalf from Wagner.
Hepburn introduced a docu
mentary about Tracy she narrates. It
will be shown on public television.
She said it had been researched by
Susie Tracy.
“She even came across her father’s
diary, which is quite extraordinary,”
said Hepburn, who was the actor’s
longtime companion. She starred in
nine films with Tracy, from
“Woman of the Year” in 1942 to
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”
in 1967.
Tracy died in 1967, shortly after
ceremonies, referred to Tran 2
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