Man mailed
with stamps
Until a few years back, it had
been possible for a person to walk
into a post office In England, buy
a lot of stamps, and have hlrnself
‘ Ispatched to some destination in
the United Kingdom. If equipped
with a special delivery stamp, the
mailman had to escort him right
to his door-step and ring twice.
I be last man known to have
mailed himself used the postal
service regulation to outwit the
B ritish army.
Ona v is it in 1920 to the Island of
Guernsey In thelingllsh Channel
the man found, when he set out for
home, that soldiers had taken all
the places In the only boat. The
soldier’ s orders and they had p r i
o rity over all other passengers.
But the resourceful gentleman
knew that mall had p rio rity over
soldiers. So he attached stamps
to himself and the post office had
to put him aboard.
I wonder if the B ritish had the
right to m ail away (to fa r off
com ers of the Kingdom) other
persons?
Cash and M axey’s
Barber Shop.
4 6 O ^ N . Williams Avenue
Phone 2 8 4 -5 1 8 8
Lungs watching
by James L . Mack, M j) .
Portland Prince H all 32*Host
Seattle 32*
A Delegation of 35 members
of Prince Hall Consistory ¿67,
Seattle, Washington, headed by
111. C om m ander-In- C h ie f,
Orlen B.Jeans,S r. were
In
Portland
on Sunday,Aprll 18,
1971 as guests of Willamette
Consistory ff 23 headed
by
111. Com m ander-In-Chief W il
liam B. Odom, J r . Other digni
taries from Seattle were 111.
Russell S. Gideon.Grand M in
ister of State of The United Su -
preme
Council, A .A .S .R .
(Prince Hall AfUiatlon) Nonh
em
Jurisdiction, In c , 111.
Joseph I. Staton, deputy of the
O rient of Washington, HI. I^evi
Townsend, 111. E .A , Douglas,
and III. James W .Davis, Grand
Inspector Generals.
Ideputy of the O rient of Oregon
Is III. Vernon C. Butle; and III.
Thomas R. Vickers is Grand In
spector General III. E lijah
Graham is the m ostworshipful
Grand M aster of Prince Hall
continued on page 7 co l. 5
Scientists can now watch living
lungs at work. Through windows
placed In the chest w alls.
Almost everything that
is
known about diseased lungs has
been discovered from dead lungs.
A fter a lung has been stained,
shrunk, and prepared fo r 'tudy,
though, it may no longer resemble
the living lung. Even the techni
que of rapidly freezing the lung
does not perm it continuous ob -
servatlons.
At the Northwestern University
School of Medicine in Chicago,
D r. Richard Harbord has de
veloped a technique to see lungs
in action. He inserts a cup-shap
ed
plexiglas window into a
rabbit’ s chest w all. The window
is inserted on the right side, re
placing the sixth and seventh ribs
which have been removed.
I he rabbit’ s lung is drawn up
against the plexiglas by suction,
and the lung surface can be ex-
.nined with a type of light m icro
scope. Photographs can betaken
with the aid of an electronic flash
held over the window.
7he trouble with the technique
is that itdoes not reveal what hap
pens in the part of the lung below
the surface. But it is an important
development in direct observa
tion of Irving lungs at work. The
observation can help in the fight
against respiratory diseases.
One of the specific problems
D r. Harbord is concerned with
is atelectasis, a condition which
involves a collapse of the a ir sacs
of the lungs. In humans, there
are 300 m illio n a ir sacs in each
lung, where oxygen and carbon
dioxide are exchanged.
Io find out m oie about human
lungs and how tiiey work, contact
your local tuberculosis and re
spiratory disease association.
It’ s a m atter of life and breath.
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