Still Sneezing

June Clark, 17, was recovering from a kidney ailment in Miami's James M. Jackson Memorial Hospital when she started to sneeze. That was Jan. 4, and she hasn't stopped sneezing since. She gets surcease only when she is sound asleep, and for sound sleep she often has to take drugs. Awake, she has sneezed as often as every two seconds, and has never gone more than 15 minutes without the spasms that now cause pain in her nose, ears, chest and abdomen. A high school sophomore, she has had to give up classes. Jackson Memorial specialists tried antihistamines, tranquilizers, central-nervous-system depressants, narcotics, X rays, antibiotics, local astringents, hypnotism, shock treatment and muscle relaxants--all to no avail.

Last week, in her 15th week of sneezing (a world record, so far as medical archives show), June Clark tried a different, long-distance-style therapy. Sent off by Bade County's Mayor Chuk Hall, she took her sinuses to Arizona--as the guest of Mesa's Chamber of Commerce and Jaycees, which have an understandable interest in promoting the curative powers of Arizona's supposedly pollen-free and allergen-free air. There, June still sneezed, but not so often.

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