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Each Child is Different When
He Has A Body Chemistry Defect
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GROWING AGAIN. Dr. Noll Mtt, hood of *• March of Dimas clinic far
matabollc disease In Portland, Ore., congratulates Tanya Fronatt, 10.
by Heil R. M. Built, M.B, Ch.B.
Associate Professor
of Pediatrics and Director
March of Dimes Metabolic
Clinic, University of
Oregon Medical School
The body’s chemical proc
esses fit together in an intri
cate pattern. If one crucial
step is off, the whole well
being of the human involved
is often tragically affected.
This is what happens with
a metabolic disorder. The
body’s chemistry has been
distorted. Such disorders are
called “inborn errors of me
tabolism” because they are
inherited.
Inborn errors can be all the
more dangerous than the
birth defect that puts a child
on crutches, since children
with metabolic defects often
look perfectly normal. The
damage only starts to occur
after birth, when they don’t
have access to their mother’s
blood through the placenta.
Some of these disorders
cause severe bodily or brain
damage within a few weeks of
birth. Others are more subtle
and may lie hidden (or
latent) for months and some
times for many years. In such
cases, disorders that are un
diagnosed get no treatment
or the wrong treatment.
Lack of hormone
That is the reason for the
March of Dimes Metabolic
Clinic at the University of
Oregon Medical School here
in Portland. We must find the
children who have these in
born birth defects of body
chemistry and see that they
get the hospital care and fol
low-up they need.
It is becoming increasingly
possible to correct this kind
of error. One of our patients,
Tonya Fronatt, produces a
low level of human growth
hormone (HGH) in her pitu-
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itary gland. She is 10, but she
is tiny and looks much
younger. The lack of this hor
mone has also been the cause
of the hypoglycemia that has
sporadically thrown her into
severe convulsions since she
was three days old.
HGH is rare because it
must be extracted from hu
man pituitaries. The HGH
from about 2,000 human pitu
itary glands would be needed
to help her grow to normal
size. But regular injections of
the chemical have brought an
end to her convulsions and
she is now growing very well
on it.
Buying time
The other side of this treat
ment coin is to deny the body
any substance that results in
damage. For three-year-old
Robert Cecil, this means a
special diet.
Robert was born with a
birth defect of his kidneys.
These were so underdevel
oped that they were only five
per cent as efficient as normal
kidneys. The metabolic de
rangements caused by the
kidney failure were so severe
that two years ago the boy
was near death because he
could not eliminate his waste
products. With a diet that
restricts his intake of pro
teins, we have been able to re
duce the amount of waste
products that his kidneys
must process.
This diet is keeping him
alive and postponing the time
when he must face a trans
plant. In the time we are buy
ing, he will grow stronger and
kidney transplant techniques
will be improved. Then we
may be able to give him a
healthy kidney by transplant.
King George 111
The treatment of a child
can be seriously threatened if
his total environment is not
considered.
Thke Rex McCollam, ad
mitted two years ago when he
was 11, apparently with acute
appendicitis. His appendix
was removed. When the anes
thesia wore off, this nice,
quiet little boy suddenly be
came violent. He was vomit
ing and uncontrollable and he
stayed that way for two
weeks. Then he went back to
being a nice little boy again
and was sent home.
A month later he was back
at the hospital with the same
symptoms of acute appendi
citis. Again he was violent
and uncontrollable and this
time he nearly died.
A nurse took some of the
boy’s urine and started for the
lab to have it analyzed. On
the way she stopped for cof
fee. When she came back for
the urine, it had turned pink.
That started us toward a
new diagnosis, porphyria, the
disease that is believed to
have made King George of
England insane. There is still
no cure. It is known that at
tacks of porphyria can be
triggered by alcohol, by cer
tain sedatives and by a num
ber of environmental agents.
When we diagnosed the
porphyria, we understood
that the anesthesia had
prompted this boy’s postop
erative attack. But what sent
him back to the hospital a
month later? Malnutrition
brought on the second subse
quent attack which left him
with partly paralyzed legs.
So here is another element
of therapy: You can’t treat a
chemical disorder completely
unless you look for the socio
logical and psychological im
plications. That is why the
March of Dimes also supports
our social worker. She adds to
what is the real value of this
clinic: comprehensive care
tailored to the needs of each
child afflicted by these subtle,
but deadly, inborn errors of
metabolism.
WIT^RACTICE^AND,
technician Cathie Bessinger
operates centrifuge at the
March of Dimes Prenatal
Care Clinic in Lansing, Mich.
Mrs. Bessinger, a Junior
League member, is among
the volunteers from leading
women’s organizations who
co-sponsor prenatal care
projects with the voluntary
health organization. Their
aim: improving the quality of
life at birth and prevention of
birth defects. January is
March of Dimes month.
LEWIS LLEWELLYN
A New Start
In Korea there is a New Year’s custom that many Amer
icans might want to adopt — if they thought it would work.
Koreans, like us, have some bad habits and faults that
they would like to get rid of. Like us, they believe that the
start of a new year is a good time for a new beginning.
So the Korean who wants to live better in the new year
than he has in the one which is ending determines what bad
habits he will eliminate. Then he writes on a kite the names
of these bad habits — lying, drinking, fighting, arguing,
laziness, or whatever his bad habits happen to be — and
on New Year’s Day he flies the kite high in the air and
lets go of the string, letting the kite take his bad habits
away, never to return to him.
Simple, isn't it? And convenient.
Good Resolutions
But I have a suspicion that it doesn’t work any better
than the method that many of us use — the method of mak
ing New Year’s resolutions. We nobly resolve that, begin
ning with January 1, life will be different. The new year
is a new start in life and we are going to do better, in very
specific ways.
The trouble is that it is easier to make good resolutions
than to keep them. Without outside help, most resolutions
will not outlast the month of January.
But it is possible to have outside help. The new year
can be different from the old.
This is the real reason for the perennial popularity of
the Bible. It shows us away by which we can have outside
help in our battles with the habits which we do not want
to have dominion over us.
This outside help is available to anyone who will sincerely
ask for it.
The Bible says, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new
creation. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are
become new."
Form 64 p (Stale) Revised June, 1971 State Bank No. 64-293
PUBLISHER'S COPY
Consolidated Report of Condition of “ Fir st. State Bank of Blakely »»
of Blakelyin the State of Georgia and Domestic Subsidiaries at the close of
business on 12-31 , 19 71*
ASSETS Dollars Cts.
1. Cash and due from banks (including $ 19 1 069.87 unposted debits) T 243 J. 84 5T j
2. U.S. Treasury securities 791 530 61 2
3. Obligations of other U.S. Government agencies and corporations Mone 3
4. Obligations of States and political subdivisions 922 184 11 4
5. Other securities (including t1- 00 corporate stocks) 1 00 5
6. Trading account securities 6
7. Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell 1 400 000 00 7
8. Other loans v ... 1(w „, 4 579 781 38 3
9. Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other assets representing bank premises 127 453 07 9
10. Real estate owned other than bank premises Nond 10
11. Investments in subsidiaries not consolidated Nonf! 11
12. Customer’s liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding Nont 12
13. Other assets 1 QQ 13
14. TOTAL ASSETS 9 064 235 74 14
LIABILITIES
15. Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 3 594 249 68 15
16. Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 3 412 733 28 16
17. Deposits of United States Government 57 068 88 17
18. Deposits of States and political subdivisions 562 07 5 12 18
19. Deposits of foreign governments and official institutions None 19
20. Deposits of commercial banks 31115 25 20
21. Certified and officers’checks, etc. 55 616 61 21
22. TOTAL DEPOSITS $ 7,712,858.82 xxx xxx xxx xx 22
(a) Total demand deposits $3,895,31^^ xxx xxx xxx xx {a)
(b) Total time and savings deposits $_3 t 817,539.34 xxx xxx xxx xx (b)
23. Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase None 23
24. Other liabilities for borrowed money None 24
25. Mortgage indebtedness : €>4 645 77 25
26. Acceptances executed by or for account of this bank and outstanding None 26
27. Other liabilities 198 924 66 2 7
28. TOTAL LIABILITIES 7 976 429 25 28
29. MINORITY INTEREST IN CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARIES None 29
RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES
30. Reserve for bad debt losses on loans (set up pursuant to Internal Revenue Service rulings) 73 483 65 30
31. Other reserves on loans , None 31
32. Reserves on securities None 32
33. TOTAL RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES 73^ 483 65 33
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
34. Capital notes and debentures None 34
(specify interest rate and maturity of each issue outstanding) [ .
35. Equity capital, total 1 014 322 84 35
36. Preferred stock-total par value None 36
(No. shares outstanding None _)
37. Common stock-total par value 200 000 00 37
(No. shares authorized AQ^OOO ) (No. shares outstanding None )
38. Surplus 300*000 00 38
39. Undivided profits 4141 322 84 39
40. Reserve for contingencies and other capital reserves 100 000 00
40
41. TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 1 ~~014 322 41
42. TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES, AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 2_ 064 235 74 42
MEMORANDA
1. Average of total deposits for the 15 calendar days ending with call date 7 955 654 88 1
2. Average of total loans for the 15 calendar days ending with call date 4 789! 557 35 2
3. Unearned discount on instalment loans included in total capital accounts None 3
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I, Willard N. Dußose , Cashier ,of the above-named bank, do solemnly {aff?Rm| that this report of condition
is true and correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief. j
Correct—Attest: 1
Cashier.
u Directors.
state of Georgia. , County of Early M .
1 NOTAR Y’s’seaL)^ Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th• day of January ,1972,
and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank.
M y commission expires .?? ,19/^ • : b t Notary Public.
W.C. DeLoach
Elected To The
Aegis Asso.
W. C. DeLoach, Blakely,
Georgia has been elected to
membership in the American
Angus Association at St. Joseph,
Missouri, announces Lloyd D.
Miller, executive secretary.
There were 307 memberships
issued to breeders of registered
Aberdeen-Angus in the United
States during the past month.
FURNITURE DESIGN
If you are shopping for
furniture, remember, simplicity
is the most durable element of
furniture design. Simple and
graceful lines will be the most
lasting. Any ornamentation
should be a part of the overall
pattern. Beware of ornaments
that appear to be “stuck on”
after the piece is completed.
Do not buy “fad” pieces. For
more useful information about
furniture quality and price, ask
your county Extension home
economist for the free
publication, “Buying
Furniture.”
It Works
Briefly stated, this means that you can have a new
start in life. The new year can be the time of a real new
beginning for you.
No. it doesn’t erase the record ot your past life — but
it does free you from the power that bad habits have exer
cised over you. And it makes available to you the outside
help that each ot us needs, in order to be victorious.
It's better than the Korean kites. Because it works.
Try it.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1972
^WASHINGTON |
I ano SMALL JBLJ
I BUSINESS
What Is the Alternative?
There is an old saying around
Washington about seven econ
omists holding a discussion and
arriving at eight different an
swers.
Similarly today, there are
many viewpoints on the eurrent
economic control plan known
as Phase Two. While some are
appalled that the nation has
ever had to take this course in
view of the American tradition
of individual enterprise, this
viewpoint is not one for dis
cussion at this time.
* * *
But there are many conflict
ing opinions and viewpoints on
whether or not the present
plans will work. The man in the
street as well as the man in
the ivy tower, or in the execu
tive suite, all hold different
opinions.
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Great arguments can, and are
being advanced, that the cur-
rent control system will work.
Other equally as valid argu
ments are made that the system
cannot possibly work.
• * •
But in all the dialogue and
rhetoric that has been and is
being launched, there is a most
pertinent point omitted.
* • *
That is the question of what
are the alternatives if the pres
ent program does not work?
Obviously, for the U. S. to
resume the inflationary spiral
it was on would mean ruin for
many, perhaps for the entire
nation.
• • *
And it cannot be dismissed
with a shrug that perhaps the
present plan will not work.
But so far, no one has come up
with an alternative plan.
The nation’s independent
businessmen have for some
time protested to the National
Federation of Independent Bus
iness that spiraling costs had
gone beyond all limits.
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It is unfortunate that the
action on controls had to be
taken on the eve of a political
year, because everything then
becomes politically suspect.
* * «
bpain spends about SI,BOO to
equip and train each soldier.