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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, September 20, 1955 Skimmed Milk Found Cure for Disease Causing Wasted Bodies By DELOS SMITH United Presi Science Editor, New York (U.R) As you have expected, science couldn't rest easy with the knowledge that skimmed milk will take care of kwashiorkor, which is a strange disease as well as an odd word. Science has just found out that it is the casein skimmed milk that does the trick. Another piece of outlandish sounding knowledge is that enough sweet peas . for long enough in the diets of young rats will cause their bodies to take themselves apart, so to speak. That piece of knowledge worries science. If it could be fully understood, the under standing might produce won ders. Afflicts Thousands Kwashiorkor is a wasting, lingering, debilitating disease v.hich afflicts many thousands of human beings, particularly in Africa. Its cause was finally traced to a consistent lack of protein in the diet. Comparative ly recently, it was found that the mere taking of such a pro- torn iZ2 r .voters 1 I VT1 .riT-TvT. O 1. ill - et out . . and grapes are. just one of the inviting fresh fruits and vegetables featured this week in the RoduceBradf 0 tein-rich food as skimmed milk would start the wasted human being on the road to health. But to provide skimmed milk for all the sufferers was a task staggering to contemplate. So a group of Union of South Africa scientists, headed by Dr. J. F. Brock, professor of medicine at the University of Capetown, set out to find out just what in skimmed milk produced the wonderful effect. Formulas Prepared Skimmed milk is not simple. It contains two important pro teins, casein and lactalbumin. Also it contains vitamins and minerals in trace amounts and some carbohydrate. They prepared formulas. Each contained one ingredient only. In three centers of South Africa, they treated groups of kwash iorkor sufferers with one for mula or another. Only one for mula had the same effect as skimmed milk. It contained casein mixed with water, glu cose, and salt. . The discovery gives rich prom ise for the final conquest of the disease because casein can be man-made in part. But the scien tists, in reporting to the world of science in the medical journal, "The Lancet," revealed that they were still investigating. Having found out what in skimmed milk did the work, they now want to know what in casein does it. The fascinating mystery of the sweet peas (and other legumes) was presented to the scientific world by Drs. William B. Bean and Ignacio V. Ponseti of the State University of Iowa through a technical publication of the American Heart Association. They studied the autopsy rec ords of 27 human beings who had died of dissecting aneurysm and found striking similarities to laboratory rats whose living skeletons had been made to more or less fall apart with a diet dominated by a meal made of sweet pea seeds. Arterial Walls Weakened An aneurysm is a weakening of an arterial wall to such an extent, the wall balloons out. A "dissecting" one is one which does just that it takes the wall apart, by softening and then liquefying. As a . disease, it is rare and no one had suggested before that it could be connected with diet. But the rats on the sweet pea meal d i e t had developed hunched backs and other skele tonal defects, and hernias. , The diet acted upon the body's "ground substance," which, the doctors pointed out, is "the glue which holds the frame together." Dr. Ponseti had ' conducted some of the rat experiments. He was impressed by how many de veloped dissecting aneurysms while developing skeletonal de fects. Arterial walls are based upon "round . substance," as bones are. That led to the study of human cases and the discov ery that many had had skele tonal defects. You can see what a fertile field this could be. Knowing it full well, Bean and Ponseti called it to the attention of all scientists. Car in Living Room Is Not a Bad Dream Wichita, Kan. (U.R) A young carpenter didn't move a muscle when . his wife exclaimed: ' "Get up, Gordon there's a car in the living room!" Gordon Willett muttered: "Stop making up fairy tales and come to bed." . He wasn't even convinced when his wife's declaration was backed by their son, Denis, 10; a nephew, Bobby, 12; and a niece, Glenda, 13. They insisted there was an automobile in the living room of the house the Willetts had rented one month earlier. "Fine," answered the sleepy head of the house. "I'll stay here and you go out and see how big it is." One more try and they made their point. Willett shook sleep from his head, walked to the living room and shook his head again.; A car was parked half inside the room, its bumper against the console radio. The radio was just scratched but the entire northwest corner of the room was gorfe. The car. owner was charged with reckless driving, and the house owner called repairmen, "Guess we've got the best ven tilated living room in town, said Willett. All your money back on any item that doesn't please you RELEASED from Red Chi nese prison after more than 5 years, Lawrence Buol is greet ed by his wife at Hong Kong. Buol had been flight opera tions chief for Gen. Claire Chennault's Civil Air Trans port airline when arrested by the Reds. (International) On The Side By E. V. DURLING (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) ' Are sailors at sea safer than people on shore? In discussing the recent hurricanes, Capt. A. G. Graham of the S. S. African Enterprise expressed a belief that such is the case. Says the captain, "We at sea are safer than you on shore. The modern steamship can take anything in the way of weather," and radar and other electronic devices have reduced collisions at" sea to negligible proportions. The most dangerous part of a sea trip is entering or leaving a harbor, though the passengers think it the safest time." Get It Right A Japanese subscriber, de manding a carefully wrapped stogie by return mail, says I said Peace Avenue in Hiroshima is 100 yards wide. He says it is wider. I didn't say the avenue in question was 100 yards wide. I said it was "100 meters wide." A meter, as you know, is equal to 39 and 37100 inches. Asking ... ' - , Queries from clients. Q. What is the size of a boxing ring, ac cording to the Marquis , of Queensberry rules? A. Twenty- four feet square- However, the Marciano-Moore bout arrange ments call for a 20-foot square ring. Marciano would have liked to have a 16-foot square ring . . . Q. What is the name of the Rus sian who is chess champion of the world? A. Mikhail Botvinnik of Russia was chess champion but is no more. The present champion is Samuel Reshevsky of New York City. Speed Boy California is in again. This time to claim the world's record for a speedy shave. Recently a barber named Antonio Buono, of Italy, was reported to have shaved a man in 20 seconds. Signor ' Buono claimed the world' speedy shave record. Now Joe Ryba of El Centro, ; Calif., says that on April 19, 1938, in the presence of witnesses, he shaved his fellow townsman, Louis Kneitz, in 8-210 seconds! Horses and Women Was it Tennyson or Byron who referred to a woman as being "divinely tall"? So asks a feminine subscriber, who says her height is 5 feet 10. It was Tenneyson. However, Byron de scribed a character as follows: "Her stature tall. I hate a dumpy woman." ' k . t , Pronunciation What is America's most dis puted pronunciation? How about the name of the City of Los An geles? Las Angeles resident says he has lived there 55 years and still doesn't know for certain what is the correct pronuncia tion of the city's name. I still claim it should be pronounced: "Loce-ahn-hell-ess." This reminds me, I received a letter from a man who has lived in Los An geles for 88 years. He arrived there by covered wagon in 1867 when the town's population was 2,000. I'll ask him how he pro nounces Los Angeles. Sidelights As for durable autoists, can you top Walter Shriner of Sa lem, la., who passed the required test and received a license to drive when he was 101? Rosoff 's world famous restau rant, located at Times Square, Manhattan, is, at the suggestion of this department, featuring a "'Number 999 sandwich." This is a plain ham sandwich absolutely devoid of any unwelcome trimmings. Sex Crime Study Under Way in State SalemOJ.R) What is expect ed to be an exhaustive study of sex crimes and sex offenders in Oregon got under way here yesterday by the legislative in terim committee to study sex crime prevention. L. R. Barnes, deputy warden at the state penitentiary, report ed to his fellow committee mem bers that studies he has made so far indicate the interim group could well give considerable at tention to the Wisconsin system. There, as in other states, the emphasis is on prevention, al though cure, too, is given consid erable study. The Japanese Peace Treaty was siened at San Francisco on Sept. 8, 1951, by 49 nations. Eisenhower Urges Public Pressure For Better Roads Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower urged motor ists today to put pressure on Congress for better highways. He did so in a message to the 53rd annual convention of the American Automobile associ ation. Mr. Eisenhower asked the 1, 200 delegates "to speak up again and again for prompt action" by Qongress "on a highway system adequate for modern living . . . a modern road system is one of our great national needs." Mr. Eisenhower's original proposal for a multi-billion high way construction program fi nanced by special bonds, was sidetracked in the last session of Congress. -The issue is cer tain to have high priority in the next session. Warns of Political Danger AAA President Andrew J. Sordoni of Wilkes Barre, Pa., warned the motor club delegates that new highway plans could be endangered by political groups and private interests "which want the roads but do not want to pay for them." Sordoni also said "the spirit of crackdown is abroad in the land" in enforcement of traffic rules'.' ' - " "Helicopters hover over the road,' unmarked police cars and cops not in uniform lie in wait," he said. "Over a thousand radar and other devices patrol ". our major roads. Fee-splitting con stables and justices of the peace make .small communities poten tial traffic traps." 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