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Friday, July 27, 1962
Dentist Says Cavities May Be Psychosomatic
NEW YORK — (UPI) — It has now been shown that even holes in the teeth may be under the control of the mind and so may belong to the ever-growing list of diseases proved or suspected of being psychosomatic.
Something sets off the disintegration of molecules. Acids and enzymes appear which hasten it along. The cavity is the result. What brought it about has fascinated and puzzled many scientific minds.
Holes in the teeth are called "cavities" by dental patients and "caries" by dental scientists. Whatever they're called, they arise from a disease process like the one which produces ulcers in soft body parts.
Dr. Phillip R. N. Sutton may be the first to suspect the existence of a physchosomatic factor of the kind definitely involved in other ulcer diseases such as peptic ulcer and ulcerative colitis.
For three years and six months he questioned dental patients as they appeared for routine search for cavities. He wanted to know what unusual stress they had been under during the past few months.
THERE WERE 661 of these patients, all of them 25 years old or older which eliminated children's teeth. They may be especially subject to cavities because they are formative.
The 661 were divided into 169 who had cavities and 492 who had none. Of the 169 who had them 96 per cent admitted that they had been recently under "severe mental stress." Of the 492 who did not have them, only two per cent could remember any recent stress in their lives.
This was a walloping "statistical
significance," as Sutton pointed out in the technical journal, "Nature." He is a member of the dental faculty of the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Because of technical flaws in the set-up of his investigation, he refrained from claiming that mental stress was a cause of cavities. But his statistics, he continued, demonstrated an "association" between stress and cavities which couldn't be doubted.
"In 10 subjects acute caries was observed during examinations conducted several months apart," he said. "In each case the patient reported a prolonged period, or a resurgence, of stress. The onset of the period of worry or overwork preceded the detection of acute caries by periods varying from 11 to only 2 months.
"In most cases the stress was said to have been of several months duration. Acute caries was not seen to follow periods of stress which lasted only a week or two."
SUTTON DIVIDED his stress-cavities patients into 10-year age groups. According to accepted authorities on caries, most caries subjects are children and young adults. But Sutton's highest incidence was in the 45-to-54 years old group—the age group which is said to be most subject to stresses of all sorts.
He found no significant difference between the sexes. The most common stresses were: worry over the illness of a husband (or wife) or a child; worry over health; business or financial worries; dissatisfaction with jobs or worries developing from a new job.
'Lucky' Belly Dancer Finds $4,500 Navel Adornment
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Little Egypt lost her belly adornment two years ago. It was a diamond, worth $4,500, and she figured it was gone forever.
Little Egypt is the professional name of Lorraine Egypt, belly dancer who claims descent from the original Little Egypt of 1893 Chicago World's Fair fame. She wore a four-carat diamond in her navel until she lost it more than two years ago in Henry Stampler's restaurant.
She got the stone back yesterday
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Checks totaling nearly $2 million were mailed Wednesday by State Treasurer Walter Peery to counties and cities as their share of the balance in the special county road and city street fund.
State Sends Funds To Counties, Cities
Kansas counties were sent checks totaled at $967,584 as were Kansas cities. The distribution is on a quarterly basis.
Amounts for counties included Butler $18,944; Cherokee, $11,074; Ford $10,390; Johnson $14,339; Reno $21,902; Russell $9,822; Saline $11,-190; Shawnee $12,992; Sedgwick, $24,480; and Wyandotte $8,012.
Checks for cities included Chanute $6,732; Colby, $2,788; Dodge City $8,188; Garden City $7,646; Goodland $2,870; Great Bend $11,273; Hill City $1,385; Junction City $12,497; Kansas City $80,687; Larned $5,271; Liberal $8,686; Pratt, $5,080; Russelii $3,932; Salina $25,553, and Wichita $152,456.
She said the diamond was given to her by a Saudi Arabian potentate in 1958 who saw her perform with a fake gem in her navel.
"I just don't believe it yet," Little Egypt said. "I'm sure enough thrilled to death . . . still in shock."
"This prince was having a farewell party, and I was invited to perform. The next day, a courier was sent around with a real diamond for me," she said.
It was found at Stampler's by workmen who were replacing a worn carpet.
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"I couldn't get insurance for it, because I wore it at times as part of my costume and act.
"I lost it in May, 1960, when I met my agent, Joe Williams, in the restaurant after a performance. I was sitting at the bar, and the diamond pinched me. I realized that I still had it on, and started for the ladies' room only to find it missing."
Straw Vote Shows Arn and Saffels Hold Thin Margins
HUTCHINSON — (UPI) Edward F. Arn and Dale Saffels, candidates in two of the closest primary races in Kansas, held paper-thin leads according to the first of a series of straw votes conducted by the Hutchinson News.
GRANADA
NOW SHOWING!
The straw vote was taken this week in a 16-county area of the new 58-county First Congressional District, which embraces the western half of Kansas. The Garden City Telegram and the Salina Journal assisted in the vote-taking.
Ends Saturday
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Arn opposes James Pearson for the Republican nomination to fill the unexpired term of the late Sen. Andrew Schoeppel, Arn, a former Kansas governor, received 346 votes, and Pearson, appointed by Gov. John Anderson as interim Senator, drew 317. A total of 190 persons reported they were undecided.
Saffels held an eight-vote margin over former State Treasurer George Hart in a battle for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Saffels, of Garden City, received 147 votes and Hart, of Wichita, received 139. A total of 118 were undecided.
SUNSET
NOW SHOWING!
The newspapers also conducted an extended straw vote on the First Congressional District election Nov. 6, in which incumbent Congressman Floyd Breeding, a Democrat, and Bob Dole, a Republican, oppose each other. Both are unopposed in the August primary.
Ten of the counties covered in the opening straw vote were in Breeding's old Fifth District. They were Scott, Wichita, Greeley, Hamilton, Stanton, Grant, Kearney, Rice, Barton and Rush.
Fri. & Sat.
"Hey Let's Twist"
and
"Too Late Blues"
Dole received 539 votes, and Breeding 444, with 263 undecided.
Finney County, which is Saffels' home county, was not included in the first of the week-long polls. Saffels currently is minority leader of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Six of the counties were in Dole's old Sixth District. They were Wallace, Ottawa, Cloud, Republic, Jewell and Mitchell.
Sun. & Mon.
Laughs Galore in
"The Honeymoon
Machine"
(Greased Pig Race
Sunday)
SMITH, THE unsuccessful 1960 Democratic nominee for Secretary of State, led Joseph Poizen of Kansas City by a 128-91 margin, with 175 persons undecided. The winner of that primary will try to unseat Carlson in the race for the regular-term Congressional post.
Democrat K. L. (Ken) Smith of Wichita and U. S. Sen. Frank Carlson, a Republican, were seen more clearly as leaders in campaign duststorms being kicked up before the Aug. 7 primary.
Carlson tallied 637 votes, the largest single total in the 16-county poll. His Aug. 7 primary opponent, Joe Corpstein, drew 50 votes. There were 153 persons undecided.
Gov. Anderson appeared miles ahead of his Republican rival, Harvey Crouch. Anderson drew 592 votes and Crouch received 52.
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