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THURSDAY,
JUNE 15, 1972
THE RIO GRANDE HERALD
PAGE 18
PHARMACY
TOPICS
If a temporary loss of hearing
is accompanied by dizziness,
nausea, or popping or roaring
sounds, see a doctor — these
could be symptoms of perma-
nent deafness.
* * *
Paul Revere, the famous
equestrian, was also a prac-
ticing dentist who occasionally
carved false teeth out of ivory.
* * *
In general, chemical tanning
pareparations are safe to use,
providing the user isn't sensi-
tive to ingredients in these
products.
* * *
The so-called "grapefruit"
diet, in which heavy consump-
tion of grapefruit is supposed to
dissolve body fat, is considered
pure nonsense by medical auth-
orities.
* *
Even though successful ex-
periments have been conducted
in immunizing animals against
syphilis, health experts say that
much work remains before a
vaccine for humans is devel-
oped.
* * *
A Detroit scientist found in a
test series that bone fractures
healed better and faster when
certain preparations containing
zinc were added to the diet.
Supreme Court Refuses
Case Of 2 Optometrists
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Su-
preme Court has refused to hear
the case of two Houston opto-
metrists seeking to bar the
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) from ex-
amining their patient records
for evidence of alleged discrim-
inatory employee regulations
and firing.
Dr. N. Jay Rogers and Dr. S.
J. Rogers, licensed operators of
Texas State Optical, were ac-
cused by Mrs. Josephine Chav-
ez of firing her without reason
April 8, 1969.
Mrs. Chavez said the doctors
"terminated me from my job
without a reason. I was the only
Spanish-surnamed American
Employed with seven Caucasian
females who abused me. The
manager told me my work was
all right but he had to let me go
because of friction."
The EEOC is also trying to
uncover evidence to Drove the
doctors unlawfully restricted
Mrs. Chavez to working only
with certain minority-group pa-
tients. The commission said
that it must examine the patient
records to determine if there
is sufficient reason to believe
that employment lawshavebeen
broken.
The federal district court in
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Beaumont ruled July, 1970, that
the commission's suspicions
did not warrant the examination
of the records. The Fifth Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals over-
turned that decision a year and
a half later.
There was an absence of any
trial testimony from Mrs. Cha-
vez complaining of her alleged-
ly illegal isolation from white
patients.
The court of appeals never-
theless ruled that Mrs. Cha-
vez' failure to allege facts that
would, if true, constitute a vio-
lation of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 should not preclude effec-
tive prosecution of the charge at
a later date.
The appeals court said that
the possibility the doctors had
illegally restricted and fired
Mrs. Chavez would be a justifi-
able reason to conduct an EEOC
investigation. The doctors' re-
cords, the court concluded,
were thus necessary in the com-
mission's preliminary investi-
gation.
The EEOC is seeking to find
out if Texas State Opitcal in-
structed its employes to fill
in Negro patients' applications
for service with different color
ink or lead than other patients'
applications.
Lawyers for Mrs. Chavez have
argued that although she did not
complain at her trial that she
could only work with certain
patients, alleged separation of
patients was seriously demean-
ing to her. The court of appeals
agreed, ordering the doctors to
open their records to commis-
sion inspection.
The doctors asked the Su-
preme Court to rule that the
patient records were irrelvant
and immaterial since their ac-
tions, they said, were directed
toward their patients and not
their employes.
The EEOC said its investiga-
tion of charges of discrimina-
tion In employment and firing
would be a preliminary, non-
adversary, administrative pro-
cedure to determine if there is
sufficient reason to believe
Mrs. Chavez' charges are true.
The commission said the doc-
tors' records were not immune
from examination in this case
and that they were necessary
to determine if the EEOC could
obtain enough information to
initiate an investigation.
Editor Appeals
To High Court
'Sonrino '
i Vellay Sine* I MO"
WASHINGTON — The execu-
tive editor of the Texarkana
(Ark.) Gazette and Daily News
has asked the U.S. Supreme
Court to overturn a contempt
of court citation against him
for publishing the verdict of a
rape trial against the judge's
orders.
Editor Harry Wood was told
by Judge John W. Goodson, of
the circuit court of Miller Co.,
Ark., not to print the guilty
ruling in February in the rape
case. Goodson said his ban was
issued to Insure the defendant
in the companion case a fair
and impartial trial by prevent-
ing an already impaneled jury
from hearing of the verdict in
the other trial.
To prevent outside influence
juries at times are "locked up'/
members being kept together
and guarded during the time of
trial.
To prevent outside influence
juries at times are "locked up"
members being kept together
and guarded during the time of
trial.
But Goodson questioned
whether as a judge he should be
forced to use this procedure as
a result of publicity.
"It is easy to say lock up a
jury," Goodson said, "but who
will bare the expense? The tax-
payer? Whether a jury should
be locked up or not requires the
consideration by the court of
many things."
Wood also appealed the cita-
tion to the Arkansas Supreme
Court to overturn the contempt
citation, filing the appeal with
the U.S. Supreme Court "for
protective purposes.".
Under Arkansas law, a con-
'tempt judgement is not review-
able by a high court If the sen-
tence was suspended. Goodson
sentenced Wood to 60 days in jail
and $250 March 8. He then sus-
pended the sentence.
Wood said he filed a brief
with the U.S. Supreme Court-
arguing that his First Amend-
ment, right to freedom of press
was violated-because he feared
that the Arkansas high court
might not accept his case.
Wood said In his brief to the
U.S. Supreme Court that pub-
lishing of the Sumier verdict
story did not present a clear
and present danger to the judi-
ii-nvn
"Pedestrian'
on Skates
Roller skating on the sidewalk,
six-year-old Teddy was hit by a
delivery truck backing out of a
driveway. In short order, Teddy's
parents aimed a damage suit at
the trucking company.
cial system, a test that has
been .used in other freedom of
the press cases.
"In instances where the al-
leged contemptuous act falls
close to the line of permissi-
bility, the freedom of public
comment should weigh heavily
against the possible tendancy
to Influence pending cases,"
Wood said.
SEX BEING DEFLATED
Americans continue to insist on
treating sex as the most impor-
tant force in a person's life,
they will eventually take all the
fun out of it, says a prominent
Roman Catholic theologian
The Rev Eugene C Kenne-
dy, writing in Redbook maga-
zine, says the "sex-is-every-
thing myth that prevails in our
society is responsible for the
high divorce rate and most
"sexual hangups " He added;
"If we continue as we have to
misrepresent sex. ultimately
we will destroy its potential
richness and dilute its signifi-
cance. It will not even be, if
the grim-faced generation so
ardent in its pursuit gives us
any evidence, much fun any
more."
At the trial, they noted that
pedestrians on sidewalks had the
right of way over motor vehicles.
"Maybe so," conceded the
company. "But this boy was not
really a 'pedestrian' at all. He
was a roller skater."
However, the court upheld
Teddy's claim. The judge said:
"While a pedestrian is ordin-
arily one who travels on foot,
the mere circumstance that he
has attached to his feet roller
skates, or walks on stilts, or uses
crutches, does not clothe him
with any other character than
that of a pedestrian."
Local traffic laws often grant
special rights to pedestrians over
motorists. In most cases, as in
this one, courts have given the
word "pedestrian" a broad mean-
ing.
But this works both ways. The
status of pedestrian may involve
duties as well as rights. Thus:
A woman climbed down from
a trolley car and started jaywalk-
ing toward an opposite corner.
Struck and injured by a passing
taxicab, she later sued the cab
company for damages. When the
company pointed to an ordi-
nance against jaywalking by pe-
destrians, the woman replied:
"Until I reached the sidewalk
I was still a passenger, not a
pedestrian. Therefore, the ordi-
nance against jaywalking did not
apply to me.'
However, the court turned
down her excuse. The judge said
her status changed from passen-
ger to pedestrian at the moment
she got off the trolley.
What is your status if you have
car trouble on the road and have
to use your feet? In one case, a
man was run down while walking
behind his stalled car to set out
warning flares on the highway.
When he sued, he was blamed by
the other driver for not walking
on the left side of the road—
like any other pedestrian.
But the court ruled that, at
least in these circumstances, he
could not fairly be classified as
a pedestrian. The court said he
was simply a motorist having an
emergency.
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