T he C h em ist A nd T h e C om p ou n d — A F ab le
By W ILLIAM DEIZ
And so he did. His book sold
tliousands and thousands of cop
ies, newsmen Interviewed him
dally, and his name, once again,
became a household word. With
the royalties from his book he
even bought the housekeeper a
new apron, and gave her the gift
of an extra day o ff a week - paid
of course.
Meanwhile In big towns like
New York C ity and In little
burgs like Portland, Oregon
drug sections of re ta il stores
l»egan setting up displays quot
ing the doctor’ s took and push
ing the mysterious Vitamin C.
A local Portland wholesaler re
ported orders for the vitamin
were coming In S to 10 times
above norm al.
WILLIAM H. DEIZ
Once upon a tim e a Nobel
prizewinning chemist caught a
cold and had to miss hours and
hours away from his laboratory
In the plney woods. This made
the chemist very very angry so
when he got lietter he went right
back to his lab determined to
come up with the secret of com-
b a t t in g the nasty cold. He
worked long and hard and, lo
and l»ehold, he began sniffling
and coughing again. In despera
tion he grabbed a txottle of little
orange p ills his housekeeper
had left behind, swallowed a half
dozen and, to tils amazement,
his cold m isery began to abatel
S tu n n e d , he turned the bottle
around and read the label - V i
tamin C.
"E u re k a l" he cried, " i f It
w o r k s for me maybe It w ill
work for others as w e ll|" (Oth
e r s besides my house-keeper
who has been te llin g me for
months that tills vitamin - and
a little rest - were all that I
needed to keep colds away - but
I was too stubborn to listen).
" I must te ll the w o rld l" he
cried.
But researchers In the medi
cal profession were grumbling.
After a ll, why hadn’t they been
the ones to break the news of
tills great "d is c o v e ry ." Hadn’t
they been working with cold vic
tim s - and hadn’t they them
selves suffered the effects of a
cold from time to time - for
most of t h e i r professional
lives?
Some of them began checking
back Into their file s and found
that YES, they had conducted
tests with the vitamin but that
MO It didn't seem to have the
preventative and curative pow
ers
described
by the nobel
prlzewlnnlng chemist - at least
not from a scientific standpoint.
They did find that the tody got
rid of the vitamin when people
took too much of It, so people
couldn’t "overdo se" themselves
and get sick from tryin g to get
well.
Some of the doctors also dis
covered that laboratory co n fir
mation o r no, the vitamin DID
seem to work for them. (Maybe
not for all th e ir patients, but
certainly for them). And their
nurses kept right on taking the
vitamin for THEIR colds as they
had all along — even before the
nobel prizewinning chemist blew
th e ir "s e c re t" remedy right out
of the water.
And sales of the chem ist’ s
book began to trip le as orders
came in from all over the
world. And he got so generous
* lth his new-found wealth that
he gave his housekeeper AN
OTHER day o ff and took her to
dinner and they both got plas
tered.
When they returned to the
h o u s e she Immediately pulled
out her handy packet of vitamin
C and told the good chemical
doctor it was also dandy for
hangovers.
When he woke up the next
morning feeling good he decided
to te ll the world, and since It
was the day before New Y ear’ s
the press picked It up and he
was able to.
This p r o n o u n c e m e n t also
didn’t hurt the sale of his book,
and the royalties began flowing
in at an even faster rate.
He decided to fire his house
keeper because she was getting
"too expensive" what with all
that free time he had "g iv e n "
her, and the house just didn’t
quite look the same.
He couldn't understand why
she had been so unhappy lately
anyway, \yjiy, she even acted
BITTER at tim es.
Hadn't he given her every
thing?
And tie kept sipping the last
cup of coffee she had prepared
fo r him before she left and won
dered why he was getting so
dizzy.
(The m oral: If you've got a
se c re t" remedy that everyone
knows about already, it's best to
keep it to yourself.
If you do decide to te ll the
world, you'd better make sure
you m arry your housekeeper
firs t).
School
Change
Dates
King District meets for recreation at Highland Center.
Gulf Oil Employee
Helps Black
When the Gulf OH Company
granted Raymond Clayton a
leave of absence from his Job,
It helped open the way for a slg-
n l f l e a n t new contribution to
black economic development In
Pittsburgh.
M r. Clayton took on the chal
lenging task of establishing and
putting Into operation a plaster
figurine plant run entirely by
black people. I t ’s a big change
from his work as a computer
operator at G ulf’s Neville Island
Term inal.
The plaster figurine plant is
a project of the Business and
Job Development Corporation,
and Is designed to aid black
economic growth by employing
and developing the s k ills of dis
advantaged black workers.
Plaster statuary making Is a
ra re a rt, and a plant of this type
completely run by blacks Is
unique. Most of the Items being
p r o d u c e d there now are coin
banks, but diversification Into
other plastic and ceram ic statu
ary Items such as ash trays and
vases is being considered.
When the Business and Job
Development Corp, was making
final plans to establish the plant
last year, Paul Nelson of the B
JD planning staff thought M r.
Clayton would be the ideal per
son to head the project because
of his training and experience In
the field. He had been employed
in a s im ila r plant in Pittsburgh
after graduating from Fifth Ave.
High School In 1954.
M r . Clayton Joined Gulf In
1967 as an order cle rk at the
c o m p a n y ’ s plant In McKees
Rocks. He was later promoted
as c o m p u t e r operator and
transferred to the Neville Island
Installation.
Gulf o fficia ls granted him a
leave from his Job last July, and
In August he went to the Sllves-
t r l Brothers figurine plant In
Pittsburgh for three months of
further training In plant opera
tion techniques.
The Business and Job Devel-
(Contlnued on page 8)
PORTLAND/OBSEPVEK Jan. 14, 1971
AU three area advisory com
mittees in the Portland School
D istrict have cancelled th e ir
regular January meetings and
w ill meet instead on Monday,
February
1, school o fficia ls
have announced.
The committees, which o rd i
narily meet on the th ird Monday
of each month, were established
this year as part of the decen
tralization of the Portland Dis
tric t into three adm inistrative
areas.
The nine-member committees
advise the area superintendents
concerning the buildings and ed
ucational programs within th e ir
respective areas. The member
ship of each committee includes
two students and seven adults.
T h e committee fo r Area 1
(the west and north sections of
the d is tric t) w ill meet at Roose
velt High School. The Area 2
committee, serving the eastern
portion of the d is tric t, w ill
gather at Woodlawn Elementary
School. Grant High’ School w ill
be the site of the meeting for
the Area 3 committee, whose
schools are located In the cen
tra l portion of the d is tric t. A ll
three meetings w ill begin at
7:30 p.m.
Members of the public are
encouraged to attend the area
a d v is o r y committee sessions
and to a ir their views on any
school-related topic.
Carlos
give to the march of Dimes
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