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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."
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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."
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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.
"That made me decide to give
up dancing," she said. "I waited
until I was pretty sure I had a
future in acting before deciding
to quit dancing. After I finished
this play in Paris I knew I could
do it.
Ballet Requires Devotion
"I love ballet very much. But
ballet is a way of life. It takes
tremendous devotion. It is too ex
hausting. Besides, I want time
for a social life. I would like to
know some of the other perform
ers in Hollywood."
. Leslie is so determined to act
that she leaves soon for Paris to
study "classical" acting.
"It's fun in life, after you have
gotten somewhere, to look for
ward to something else," she
said, with a smile.
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