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o SIX MEDTORD (OKEGOKl MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, November 1, 1953 Penicillin, Other Antibiotics Lose Some MaqTc Against Bacteria By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.fe- Sad news from the health front is that penicillin and other antibiotics have lost some more of their magic against bacteria which sicken and sometimes kill us. Evidence of this has cropped up in the treatment of compli cating bacterial diseases which commonly accompany measles. It appears to justify the belief of some scientists that' the day will come when antibiotics have no magic left. Measles is a disease caused by a virus, and antibiotics have no effect on viruses. But the measles viruses make human beings sus ceptible to disease-causing bac teria, and in their heyday the antibiotics were highly effective in slaughtering bacteria. So it became rather usual for doctors to reason this way: Here's a simple case of measles, so I'll keep it simple and prevent any bacteria from causing complica tions like bronchial pneumonia or an ear infection by giving the patient an antibiotic here and now. The day of reckoning is at hand, it would seem on the basis of evidence gathered by Louis Weinstein, a doctor of bacteriolo gy as well as of medicine. Wein stein is a professor at Boston University Medical School, lec turer at Harvard University Med ical School, and an outstanding authority on infectous diseases. He studied the records of 428 patients admitted to a Boston hospital for measles. Of "these 130 had been given antibiotics to prevent secondary; bacterial in- fections, but 36 developed the infections anyway. Out of the re maining 298 patients those who had not been given antibiotics to prevent bacterial infections only 42 developed the infections. What has been happening over the years is that bacteria, which ean and do ."resist" the anti biotics, have been replacing the bacteria which couldn't have so died. The New England Journal of Medicine, which published Dr. Weinstein's evidence, commented gravely that his findings "re emphasize the need for critical review of theToutine prophylac tic (preventive) use of anti biotics in simple non-bacterial infections notably, the common cold and influenza, and Indeed in many other situations in which such prophylaxis is fre quetly advocated." za (Si Tuna Fishermen Ask Tariff, Quota San Francisco tfJ.R) West Coast tuna fishermen urged the federal government today to establish a "reasonable" tariff or quota on Japanese tuna im ports to bolster prices in this country. James Cope, a Seattle, Wash., tuna boat captain, told a hear ing of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subcommit have been falling steadily be cause of direct competition from Japanese fishermen "who pay no taxes and have no limit to the cuts they can take" in prices. "Tuna fishermen had a good season catchwise this year," Cope said, "but even so, we're not able -to maintain an Ameri can standard of living. What would happen in a poor season I don't like to think about." tee yesterday that tuna prices t i. . 8 0fS" jr ok ff MARKET l 1202 North Riverside 1 I OPEN EVERY J l NIGHT Til k MIDNIGHT JF JT FATE UP TO JURY While a jury of six men and six women ponder her fate, Mrs. Katherine Haynes, 28, sits alone in an anteroqm of Washington, D. C, District Court She was tried for shooting to death her husband's red haired mistress last July. Attorneys for Mrs. Haynes, mother of four children, called it an act of a woman driven "temporarily insane" by a philandering husband. A Nichal's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United P'm FJur Wri Washington vU.R) Abe Lin coln is said to have won an im portant murder case by quoting the old Farm er's Almanac on the where abouts of the moon on a cer tain night. T h e i record isn't clear just where the moon was at the time. But there is no ch a 1 lenge to Human NichoU the fact that the old Farmer's Almanac is still in business and today is out with its 164th consecutive issue out of Dublin, N.H. Some of the old flavor abounds; A flavor that Robert B'. Thomas, the founder, instilled when he came out with his first effort in 1793. Such as relying on phases of the moon to tell folks when to plant potatoes. Predictions of the weather which comes from wishing and often from the wetting of 'the finger in the advance of a high wind. This sort of thing prompted a man from Nashua, N.H., to write in about-'SO years ago to say: "I have read the old Farmer's Almanac for the past 75 years, and I wish the darn fool that changed the reading of the moon's column had died before he done it." . i Hanks With Calendar That hasn't kept a lot of old and new-timers from racking up the Almanac alongside the calen dar and the mail order- catalogs as things to look at once in a time. . Weatherwise, in the salty lan uage of yesteryear, the picture looks thuswise for 1956. January will be snewy, cold, and rainy according to where you live. In February many harbors will freeze and the 'vice crackles like grandma cackles." March is likely to be cold one day and warm the nextra,"and lower all sails for tornadoes." April will give a lot of us "fog which freezes the dog, spring 19 days old and still snow." Showers in May, and rain and more rain and "how sweet scented the air." June is expected to be con glomeration of cool and rain, with thunder asunder" and there will be no morning sun in July "it just lasts all day." The 3th to 19th days of July "will be hottest week of the ye. August will be sticky and sul try with some storm relief. September "if these first days make the best storms will take care of. the rest, with cooler weather toward the end of the month." October will be normal, and November will be windy and cold with some snow and '"please wear your wool vest." In De cember, the snow "comes to stay" in lots of places. Old Wive's Tales The editors drag out some old wive's tales, too. Like on page 6 1 wnich says tnat when you see spider webs on lawns, it will not rain that day enough to break the webs. "The red spider is too wise to work all night and have the rain spoil his job." The hunting seasons are listed by states by elates and it is in teresting to nete that a man may go out and stalk bullfrogs with out any guff from the game wardtmfrom Jan. 4 to Oct. 31. The liritlt is 12, which is a pret ty big sack full of froglegs. And if you girls ever come up with a food committee problem for the stitching circle or the church, right there on page 45 it tells you that a 14-inch layer cake will give you 40 servings. I particularly was interested in a little item which tells how to wash a black lace veil. You start by mixing "bullock's gall with enough hot water as you can bear your hands in. Then you pass your veil through it and then . . . " Oh, well, ladies you can look it up for yourself. Around Hollywood Aline Mosby By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) Leslie Car on, the unpredictable sprite, sur prised Hollywood again today y by announcing she's turning in her ballet slippers for ever and will be a "dramatic actress." Big-eyed Les lie whirled to fame in "An American i n Paris" after Gene Kelly saw her dancing in a ballet. But the tiny French star served notice that fans have seen the last of her on her toes. "I will never dance again unless a very good musical comes up some day," she said. "I would like to concentrate on acting. I am very ambitious. Three or four years from now I hope to do Shaw's 'Saint Joan' on the stage." New Career Plotted While Hollywood friends fig ured Leslie was becoming a lone ly hermit in Cinema City since her divorce last year, she instead was plotting a new Leslie Car- on. loday, wearing a sKirt and sweater and nibbling on a nearly ram hamburger in the MGM com missary, Leslie spoke method ically of giving up a talent that made her a world favorite. A year and a half ago she slip ped out of Hollywood and danced again with her former ballet company in Paris. That, she re vealed, was her swan song. She then tried a straight dramatic role in a play in Paris. 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