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Science Brought Step Nearer To Conquest Of Bright's Disease By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York U.R) As incred- ible as it sounds, and despite the many millions and the tremen dous efforts which go into can cer research, science has never made a thorough-going effort to understand precisely how nature now and then does what man hasn't done yet really cure cancer. ' Dr. Robert C. Mellors,-. point ing this out at the annual' meet ing of the American Cancer So ciety, revealed that first , steps toward a complete, precise un derstanding "probably" has brought science "a giant ;step" closer to the conquest of Bright's disease, which is remote . from cancer but quite serious. Science , has always , called nature's mysterious cancer cure, "spontaneous regression. They're exceedingly rare . but, jDr.vMellors said, they're "'fully documented." He cited a recent case at the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases here in New York. Cancer in Advanced Slag - The-woman's cancer was in an , advanced, stage: "Suddenly there was an explosive . development of allergic reactions, . Dr. Mel lors' said. Not enough time has passed to 'shbw how .lasting this "explosive development" -will be, but for the time her, cancer.; is under a "biological control" which was supplied by- her own body chemistry. ' It seemed evident, he said, that some "alteration", had ' occurred in. the protein of her tumor:" It became "foreign," from the viewpoint of her body chemistry which set itself to manufacturing the chemical antibodies with which to expel the foreign in vader. This "immune mechan ism" operates in infectious dis eases but it has never been clear ly demonstrated 5 to operate in cancer. Neglected Research Problem Dr. Mellors, who is a section head in the Sloan Kettering In stitute for Cancer Research, granted that his explanation of what happened to the woman, was "conjecture" but "it is clear that a better understanding of the host mechanisms in the biological control of cancer , Meat Inspection Study Assured Salem (U.R) An exhaus tive study of facts and figures gathered in Oregon's pilot pro gram of compulsory meat inspec tion is assured with approval of matching funds by the agricult ural marketing service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Oregon Agriculture Director J. F. Short said yesterday. Compilation and analysis of pilot work on compulsory meat inspection will start Jan. 1 and will continue along with the in spections until June 30, 1957. This is the first matching funds program developed by the Oregon Department of Agricult ure under the federal agicultural marketing act of 1946. The actual study will be di rected by Paul T. Rowell, chief of the new division of market development. is one of the most pressing and in many respects most neglected problems in cancer research to day." Ways and means of studying such intricate and well-hidden natural mechanisms are ex tremely difficult, he also grant ed and then outlined technical niceties with which he demon strated the presence of localized immune bodies proteins capa ble of stimulating body chemis try into producing specific anti bodies in human body cells and tissues. Allergic Disease Suspected That led him to a passing men tion of Bright's disease glo merulonephritis. Medicine has long suspected it was an allergic disease, but immune bodies have never. been demonstrated in the glomeruli of the kidneys. By his technical method, he demon strated their presence. As the 'result, we are now probably a '.'giant step" closer to working . out a means for the eventual .preventipn. and- control of glomerulonephritis, ,he said. 1 jycieli Prepared . To Seek Solution Jerusalem" U.R) Premier designate David Een-Guripn said yesterday he is prepared to meet Egyptian Premier Gamal Adbel Nasser and , every . other Arab leader as i soon as . possible to work out a mutual settlement of their years long dispute. New trouble in Arab-Jewish relations was reported "today, however. An Egyptian military spokesman reported that Egyptian-anti-aircraft guns were be lieved to have .damaged an Israeli plane which flew over the city of Gaza this afternoon. Ben-Gurion made the state ment in presenting his new coali tion cabinet to the Knesset par liament. He declared that his government's aim "is peace but not suicide." In Cairo, Assistant Secretary General Raif Bellama of the Arab League said no responsi ble Arab leader will negotiate with Israel until one million Palestine Arab refugees are compensated or allowed to re turn to the homes from which they were driven by Israel's Portland Traction Hearing Scheduled Salem (U.R) Last of three public hearings to try to deter mine if Portland Traction com pany was justified in cutting schedules on its two interurban passenger lines was held here yesterday. Previous hearings were held in Portland and Oak Grove. Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel said it prob ably would be sometime before a decision was made. Most of the testimony yesterday came from traction company officials who told of costs of interurban passenger service; The company has contended it lost about $400, 000 during the last year of the interurban operations. YEARS OLD STRAIGHT B0URB0 WHISKEY 1 PINT OW-132 Backed by 122 yeart of Distilling Experience jo JipLf 3Zm ;-ml)iU.iwni)i,UuiMiiWj;.l ,,,.11, , ., !,,!,,., r 0$'' Thursday, KoYember 3, IS5S MEDFORD (ORESOK) MAIL TRIBUNE JIVE RECOGNIZING FINE WORK nurses are doing for President Eisenhower, 4-H Clubbers at Mid-Atlantic Farm Show send 30-lb. turkey to ladies in white at Fitzsimons Hospital in Den ver. Pat Wood and Billy Brockett write card. (International) Infants Said Rarely Suffocate in Crib Portland (U.R) A Port land pediatrician , says' infants rarely "if ever" suffocate in their cribs. " ' ; ". Dr. Morris L. Bridgeman.told a panel discussion at the Multno mah' County .. Medical- society meeting last night that ' "no healthy infant is going to let bed covers suffocate him with out a- struggle." , He said that if a complete post-mortem is done, including microscopic examination, blood 'chemistry, bacteriology . and a test of the blood for gamma glob lin, there . will : be few, if any, unexplained .causes of death." . Purpose of the panel was to emphasize to doctors and par ents, that prompt" autopsies will help -determine why . apparently healthy babies die in their cribs, but not from suffocation. . . ' Salem (U.R) Application for an increase in power , from 1000 watts to 5000 is being, filed for Salem radio station KSLM. Comfortable Chickens Are Happy Chicks, Maker of Chicken Furniture Declares By H. D. QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) You prob ably hadn't realized it, but the truth is that chickens are getting happier all the time. This, in spite of the fact that they're working longer hours and at something of a speed-up. Chicken creature comforts are the answer. Chicken farmers are happier, too. They don't have to get up with the chickens any more. Automatic gadgets . turn on the lights an hour or so before day light, automatic feeders switch on, and the hens go to work while the farmer snoozes. This, and other chicken intelli gence is from a chubby, high spirited man named . Everett Keen, who broke off the conver sation in his hotel room from time to time to peek at two dozen baby chicks cheeping in his bathtub. Half a dozen more, just hatched, lay drying out on a towel atop the bathroom radia tor. "I just performed three or four Caessarians," Keen said. "I didn't like the way the chicks were breaking out of the. egg shell.'.'. ' The Philosophy Keen is in the business of mak ing chickens comfortable. He makes chicken furniture. A com fortable . chicken is a happy chicken,' and a happy chicken lays more eggs and grows faster into a hefty fryer or broiler .- "They've even found, at Penn State' University farm, that if chickens are kept in air condi tioning the year around, they'll lay more and grow faster," he said. "Now, I don't know whether any farmers are going to air condition their hen houses very soon, but you can bet there'll be some strides in thit direction eventually." Keen, who makes his furniture at Vineland, N. J., was en route, when interviewed, to show his wares at the Mid-Atlantic Farm and Home Show in Atlantic City. His gadgets include an antomatic, clock-started feeder that will feed up to 10,000 chick ens, automatic sanitary drinking fountains, ventilated metal nests and roosts, egg washers that em ploy jets streams of air, hospitals for the sick, and play rooms for the growing birds. He also makes "chicken specs," which in reality are not specs at all, but blinders. Stain less, steel, they fit on like spec tacles but the chicken that's wearing them can't see anything straight ahead of it. Keen explained their use thus: Hens began - laying eggs - at an age of about five months, . and for this production' . they don't need roosters. So, most-egg-producing flocks' don't have roosters among them. .. . With nobody to rule the roost, the hens, who are rather high ' Clearwater, Fla. (U.R) Mrs. Mamie White Golvin, 72-year-old retired president. of the Woman's Christian - Temperance Union collapsed ' and died - Sun day night in the pulpit of Clear water's First Methodist church. strung anyway, get to bickering, start slapping each other down and hen-pecking each other. The blinders are put on at about six months. How long are they left on? "For the duration," Keen said. DO-IT-YOURSELF Williston, N. 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