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.
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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. D. iOJ.R) Police
reporter Dan Halligan of The
Williston Plains Reporter made
a routine cHeck of the fire de
partment recently and decided
at once to cover the blaze in
person. Firemen told him his
own house was- on fire.
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 previous day.
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