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o o Government To Spend 338,000,000 for Research in Battle on Disease e 9M(Wf If. ifl PROMISES FEDERAL AID An intent President Dwight Eisenhower addresses a press Cionference at Hartford, Conn., after promising federal aid to flood stricken areas. 1 he .President conferred with the governors of the stricken states. Left to right, seated: Governor Dennis Roberts of Rhode Island, Governor Averill Harriman of New York, Governor Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, Val Petersen of Civil Defense, Ike and E. Ro- .5iand Harriman of the Red Cross. German Industry in Comeback Thanks To Machinery From States Dusseldorf (U.R) The sup ervisor at the giant Krupp works waved toward 'the rows of glit- O tering machines, most of them made i the United States and Switzerland 'Vou see how foolish politics are,y3he ' said. "You' take away all ur old machines and re placihem with new ones. We are (se,ry satisfied." ItCyas a sage commentary on the ironic chain of events that has brought Germany surging bactlc to industrial power. Jheru were nights in 1943 and and 1944 when the Ruhr's grimy citirt, were engulfed in fire from Allied bomber strikes. One third of the Krupp industries was to tally destroyed. Another 40 per cent wjS dismantled and shipped all overQhe world. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach went to prison as a war criminal. (Jburears ago he was released and today his factories, making everything from false teeth to steiJj) are in the thick of the conetiJive global war for mAr kets. Tljey have "the advantage of (trand new machinery and Piantso Ttiere are those who term the German comeback an economic "miracle." It is no miracle when you consider some plain facts. The United States alone has furnished more than $4,287,714, 000 to West Germany in ECA and Marshall Aid funds. The working man in West Ger many is on a 48, not a 40, hour week. The unions protest but that is all they do. The giant Volkswagen works New Air Conditioning System for Santa Fe Chicago (U.R) A new dry operating air conditioning sys tem will cut operating costs two ways on the Santa Fe Railroad's new fleet of two-story passeng er trains, .the company announc ed. The new system eliminates wa ter supply and service for the condensers and takes less pay load space. The air conditioning equip ment, which will go into opera tion' next year, -fits in a compart-! ment at each end of the car, over the wheels, instead of be ing suspended below the floor, exposed to dust and dirt. at Wolfsburg early this month turned out the one-millionth model of the bug-like little car since post-war production was resumed. Sixty per cent of them have been exported and the cap ital reinvested in expansion. British car exporters are gravely concerned. Perhaps the figures that best tell the story of the "new" Ger many are those for steel. West German mills turned out 10,284,000 tons for the first six months of this year. The 1955 total probably will be around 25,000,000 tons. That compares with 88,311, 652 tons for American steel pro ducers last year and an estimat ed 45,000,000 for Russia. It helps explain the bitter struggle in international diplo macy today for Germany as an ally. Germany is reaching into the skies again, too. The Lufthansa airline has been reborn with routes crisscrossing Europe and extending t6 the Middle East, the United States and Latin Am erica. The Messerschmitt and Heinkel airplane factories are tooling up. 3,800 Projecis Will Get Funds For Private Jobs Washington (U.R) The government reported today it is spending S38,000,000 to help fi nance private research in the battle against disease. Between now and next July, the National Institutes of Health will supply funds for 3,800 pro jects in universities, hospitals and nonprofit institutes across the country. Cancer Research The grants average $10,000 a project and involve the services of some 18,000 scientists. They will be used mostly for research in infectious diseases, viruses, and cancer. The Hoover commission last May rapped the administration for not asking Congress for money for the backlog of re search projects supported by the National Institute. At that time, the commission estimated that 723 projects costing $7,400,000 could not be started for lack of funds. Ernest M. Allen, chief of re search grants for the National Institute, said the estimate provr ed somewhat low. But he said the increase Congress voted in the appropriation for medical research grants would cut the backlog to about 450 projects. Reviewed Twice 1 All applications for grants are reviewed twice before they are approved. First, one of 20 study sections composed of technical experts looks over the proposed project. Then it is reviewed by the advisory council for the ap propriate institute within the National Institutes. The Insti tutes, research branch of the Public Health service, has seven divisions for cancer, heart, men tal, microbiological neurologi cal, dental, and arthritis, and metabolic research. Allen said the grants program has unquestionably increased the the nation's supply of scientists. The projects provide "on the job" training in research to many young technicians, he said. About 15 per cent of the funds provided for grants going into training of research workers. 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Baum, University of Michigan surgeon. ."A person who has a normal glandular system but who is pos sessed by the desire to change his sex should not expect hap piness merely because a surgeon has emasculated him," he declar ed. The U-M surgeon said that everything possible should be done to determine the patient's true sex physiologically, and chemically before surgery or other forms of treatment are rec ommended. He emphasized that most patients in need of such treatment have as the basis of their abnormality disease of the adrenal gland or the ovary." "Relatively few," said Dr. Baum, "have a psychiatric dis order as the source of their dif ficulty." According to the surgeon, rap id progress has been made in the past few years both in meth ods of , diagnosis and medical treatment given these unfortun ate individuals. The cortisone compounds are examples of what chemistry alone has done. Surgeon's Job Such chemical agents suppress the abnormal sex hormones re sponsible for the reversal of sex, said the U-M physician. "The responsibility of the sur geon," he commented, "is to re move the glandular structures when they are involved by tu mor or other disturbances of function responsible for sex re versal." . Surgeons can also perform sat isfactory plastic reconstructive operations to help, the patient make an adjustment to society, Dr. Baum said. But, he said, such surgery should not be confused with op erations performed on the trans vestite, the individual who has a morbid desire to dress in the clothing of the opposite sex. "In such cases, the basic need is psychiatric guidance, not surgery." FIRST OVERHAUL Ephrata, Wash. (U.R) The huge generators in the Grand Coulee Dam power plant, are being overhauled for the first time since the giant dam was completed in 1941. -Power Sup ervisor A. L. Darlan said.it will take about six vears to overhaul all of the 18,108,000-kilowatt generators in the dam's two powerhouses. 50th Year MEDF0RD United Press Full Leased Wire Pric 5c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire SECTION TWO MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1955 Pages 1 to 10, New York Planetarium Display Rivals Outclasses as Attraction for Children - By H. D. QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York JU.R) Dear Parents: The circus, at long last, has a serious rival. Here in our town there's a place that pulls the kids in swarms. There isn't an animal on the premises. The lure is high adventure, mixed with (shhh) higher education. Around 250,000 kids basked in its wild charms last year, transported beyond the blue yon der into the mystery of space in a universe cobwebbed with glow ing Stardust. How can captive circus lions, tigers, elephants . and honking seals compete with the adventure of a new frontier the rough est and most .challenging yet just opening in front of man kind's nose? Wonder Dome The place is the Hayden Plan etarium, a wonder, dome of as tronomy, " make-believe, and truth. The big top here is a dome simulating the heavens. Onto it can be projected the stars in their courses, the sun, the moon, and even the tiny satellite which the United States plans to shove up into the sky. But this main event has been going on for years in planetar iums of several cities. A new fascination here lies in the side shows, geared to rocket travel in space. You get into the mood just outside the dome room when you encounter a display titled "your weight on other worlds." You step onto five scales, each calibrated to show how much you'll weigh if you ever get to another heavenly body. Thus, this reporter, who weighs about 150 pounds on earth, found his poundage would be: On the Moon, 25; Mars, 59; the Sun, 4,300 (a good, crisp figure); Ven us 132; Jupiter, 410. Hard by is the "Viking Hall," dominated by a huge, full scale Viking rocket. Red and green luminus cutaway sections show the workings inside. Parts of the rocket were taken from an ac tual Viking that soared more than 140 miles upward. Weird Lights Across from it, in weird blue lights, flashes a sign, "reports from out of this world." Under it are listed the reports the Vi ing has sent back from upper atmosphere to the Naval Re search laboratory. Nearby speeding, looping lights show "way stations in space" the paths that man made satellites may follow around the earth. One exhibition -shows robot rockets landing on the moon on long spider-legs iike futuristic insects. The whole floor is gar landed with electronic instru ments, pictures of star clouds, gaseous nebulae, the milky way, comets. 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