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They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo I WE 60LFWLS HELP LOOK FOR VtXJR LOST BALL BUT 6RUDGINGLY- rr seems to HENuy 0 H0WEVER,7HEy NEVER SEEM TO FIND rr-BOT THEY SURE COME UP WTTW PLENTY OTHERS.' ytxiaay WIRE SHOOTING A ' RH5 DOT? X FOUND 4 6REEM 4)44 BL4CK 4M4 BLUE-BUT me no orrcnuM RED DOT WrE MM SURE fcURS l&s.&fef Ajd f WASN'T A YEUOV Atllc5 s I innr-a i3i m A a... 1 own rwr v ;-,.. .r. ir . r u i ESnr?ti ireaie, ciu iicit ksctvtd vj rl .... Japan Surgeons Ice Brain For Delicate Operations Tokyo (U.R) Two Japanese surgeons have successfully per formed delicate heart operations, believed to be the first of their kind, by putting the human brain on ice. Dr. Shigeru Sakakibara of the Tokyo Women's Medical College who performed the first of these operations, claims development of a technique that may save many lives. The second, slightly differing in method from Dr. Sakakibara's although based on the same the ory, was preformed by Dr. Seijl Kimoto of Tokyo University. In both cases the human brain was separately and intensively "cooled" to eliminate the dan gers accompanying surgery un der the "hibernation,", or temper ature reduction method. Heart surgery under hiberna tion consists in lowering the temperature of the patient's body. Then the blood vessels are tied up, the heart emptied of the life - sustaining blood and the necessary surgery performed on the affected part of the heart Simple Idea Even under this advanced technique, the heart tends to tremble and fail to return to norma lactivity if the blood flow is stopped too long. What is more dangerous, the brain may stop functioning even before the heart. " "The brain "posed the ques tion mark, however," Dr. Sak akibara said. It was last autumn that the Japanese surgeon heard of lab oratory experiments in the United States in which surgery was conducted on dogs after their blood was "cooled." After much theorizing he hit upon a simple idea.- Why not cool the brain? It was so simple, in fact, that the idea seemed to contravene medical common- sense. Through animal tests he found out that when the brain was "cooled" it needed less oxygen to function. But to bring down the brain, temperature to the ideal point the body temperature had to be lowered to an abnor mally and dangerously low level. Why not cool the brain from the outside. Dr. . Sakakibara asked himself, while keeping the body temperature comparatively high? Almost simultaneously Dr. Ki moto also got the idea. The two worked separately on a series of experiments. First Operation - Dr. Sakakibara's first clinical case was Haruko Hakijima, 42-year-old wife of a railway work er. He operated on her last Jan. 11. She had a congenital punc ture of the septum, the partition that divides the right and left I never let it spoil l my fiinf , gj Hand TUMS Neutralize Excess Acid Fasti A handy roll of Turns costs only a dime but it's worth its weight in gold whenever acid indigestion strikes. That's why millions always carry Turns wherever they go for top speed relief from gas, heart burn, acid stomach. Turns re quire no water, no mixing. Take them anywhere. Get a handy iou oi lums today. pa- S-napkg.7H TUMS rOl THI TUMMY auricles of the heart. . The surgeon dipped the tient's ' body, under anesthesia, for 30 minutes in a tank of ice water. He .calls- this method "total hibernation." After this, the head and face of the patient were packed with ice-bags, externally cooling the brain. The puncture in Mrs. Mak- rjima auricular septum was 2.4 centimeters and the blood flow was stopped for five minutes and 20 seconds. The patient's body tempera ture during the operation was kept at 29 degrees centigrade (84.2 F), that of her brain at an "assumed" 20 degrees (68 F). The temperature of a living brain cannot actually be taken Dr. Sakakibara said he has since conducted seven other heart operations under the "cooled brain" technique, Different Method Dr. Kimoto's operation last Jan. 17 followed a slightly dif ferent method. His patient was iz year-old Shigeo Shisikara. The boy also had a congenital puncture of the septum. Dr. Kimoto used the "differ ential hibernation" method, or selective brain-cooling. He made an incision in the carotid artery running up the neck and supply ing blood to the brain. Two plas tic tubes were inserted at both ends. - From the - lower tube the blood was taken out, cooled and this cooled blood was pumped back into the same artery through the other tube, and sent to the brain. In the young boy's . case the brain temperature was 17.8 de grees centigrade (64.04 F) and the body temperature 31 degrees (87.8 F). The blood flow was stopped for a full 10 minutes and 30 seconds, the longest recorded in Japan. The puncture sewed up in the boy's septum was three centimeters long. - Dr. Sakakibara has great hopes for the new method. "I hope to extend the time of blood flow stoppage to perhaps 15 minutes," he said. Deer Population Declared Threat Salem U.R) Heavy popula tions . of black-tailed deer are threatening Oregon's multi-million dollar reforestation program in the Tillamook burn, accord ing to the State Forestry de partment. Field surveys showed brows ing damage to young trees run ning as high as 80 per cent of the stand. One of the coldest and wettest' springs in 84 years has delayed growth of browse which ordi narily "' furnishes food for the deer. ' ' State Forester George Spaur said that the deer browsing is serious and ranges from 15 fj 80 per cent. The report shows that 21,000 acres of hand plant ed trees in the Wilson river area were nipped by hungry deer. Most damage was reported in the vicinity of the game refuge archery hunting area where deer damage reached 80 per cent. In addition to the nipped trees, other thousands have been pull ed from the ground and are a total loss. Foresters report that the lightly damaged trees will suffer a setback and general re tarding of growth. Pictures Worth More Than Thousand Words Lisbon Falls, Me. (U.R) Pic tures were worth more than thousands of words for Daniel Reynolds, , 29-year-old woolen mill worker here, and Irene Douglas, 20, of Archanes on the Island of Crete. Some time ago, Reynolds was shown a picture of. Miss Doug las by her cousin, John Agathos, who had returned to Maine af ter a visit to Greece. Reynolds expressed interest in the girl, and the two began cor responding. An engagement fol lowed the exchange of pictures CP GIRL HONORED Corvallis (U.R) Marie Han sen of Grants Pass won a $100 Mortar Board scholarship at an Associated Woman Students honor assembly yesterday. The Oregon State student is a junior in the school of business" admin istration and technology. Salem ' (U.R) Oregon will observe armed forces day Sat urday, May 21. ? A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS Uititad Pnn Fartm Writer Washington U.R) Eddie Stepich, the chef, asked me if I would like to step inside his new oven. "But don't stay too long," Eddie warned. I didn't go in very far or remain t e r y long. It w a s the hottest Herman Nichols Sheraton-Park Hotel people, one of the largest in the world. Stepich was born in Austria, then became an Italian citizen and now is an American. He has dipped his lunch-hooks into cook pans around the world. With his starched white kitchen cap, which sticks, way up there, he has to duck a little when he walks into his oven after it cools off, even though the cooking machine is seven feet high. Ed die is a big fellow. - It's a bake oven, for sure. In addition to being seven feet high, it is eight feet wide and has a depth of 15 feet with seven rotating shelves for uni form cooking. Cooked To Order ; With equipment like this in the new wing of the sprawling hostelry, 7800 meals a day can be served and with the ball room attached it becomes, or could become, the largest food serving convention : hall in the country. Fifty-six rfbs of beef can be cooked to order at one time in the oven. I asked Eddie how about if somebody wants ribs well done and somebody else a little on the rare side? "Thaf s easy," he said. "We have a timer and can yank the raws off ahead of the well dones." The . all-steel and aluminum kitchen of the new ballroom and convention hall has a dozen food warming trucks and another 12 for cold foods. That way the hot will be hot and the cold will be cold. Before a big dinner starts, the cold food trucks are loaded and pushed into walk in refrigera tors. Built in Hurry . R. H. Turcotte, the project en gineer for the builders, had a time limit set on the big devel opment. Eight months. "It was a tight squeeze," Tur cotte said. "The Chamber of Commerce meeting came in a week ahead of the official open ing. As the chamber delegates came in the front door, the last of the workers went out the back. The workers caught the spirit of urgency and sometimes we had to shoo them home when the clock came around to quit ting time." Being, an old dishwasher my self, I was more than a little fascinated by the giant swisher that can swab and wash and air dry 9000 dishes an hour. That must be somehting of an indoor Friday. May 13, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THRE Polio Case Said Behind 1954 Figure Washington U.R) The num ber of new polio cases reported in both this calendar year and "disease year" is lagging behind the game period of 1954, the Public Health Service has re ported. The service said that 1601 cases have been reported since the start of the year compared to 2120 in the same period of last year. There were 537 cases in the disease year, which be gins about April 1, compared to 567 cases reported in the com parable period of last year. record. It also washes glasses and silver, with a minimum of breakage in the glass depart ment, i Old timer Eddie likes to agree with his boss, Elmer E. Boswell, a vice-president of the Sheraton groups of hotels, who always said that a good hotel is built from the kitchen out. RENT TO OWN A New or Used SPINET PIANO $00 Per Month lv and up All Rental Applies Toward Purchase. Come in Today Erskine's Piano Store 1304 KINGS HIGHWAY Phone 2-4296 FASTER MAIL SERVICE North Bend (U.R) Mail serv ice between North Bend and Gold Beach has been cut from 36 hours to 6 hours, according to North Bend Postmaster Robert Pittam. He said the Portland dis trict superintendent of mails made the change at his request. Daad Una Sunday Classified to at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other daya 3:30 envious day. Awning Unit. 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