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PET Lamb "TOPSY" gets all attention from Joan Meyerhofer, 4-H Club member, and three
wild-eyed admirers Frankie Garcia, Jr.. Olivia Maese and Elizabeth Gabrera at opening
. oof thirtieth annual Great Western Livestock Show at Los Angeles. (International)
Scientists Make No Assertions
On Virus of Hodgkins1 Disease
BY DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) Discovers
of new viruses rarely can pro
duce pictures or any other evid
ence you can hold in your hands.
So. Drs. Warren L. Bostick and
Lavell Hanna are at pains to
make no flat assertions in re
vealing their capture of a virus
which seems new and also seems
to have a hand in mysterious,
incurable, and always fatal
Hodgkins disease.
The evidence was impressive
enough to cause a well-known
medical specialist consulted by
the writer to study it and then
pronounce it the most hopeful
"avenue" for the eventual con
quest of an incurable disease he
had ever seen. But if there is
a "cure" at the end of the
"avenue," it will take a long
time to reach it.
Hodgkins disease causes an
unstoppable and progressive en
largement of the nodes of the
body s lymphatic system. It is
cancer-like and some authorities
consider it a form of cancer.
But it has always suggested, too,
the sickening processes of an
"infactive agent," that is, a bac
terium or a virus.
Unusual Chemical Properties
Science knows definitely that
the "infectious agent" if there
is one cannot be bacteria. That
leaves the possibility of a virus,
but if a virus, it would have to
be one which is invisible under
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BELLIGERANT Richard Carpenter (osnter), convicted
cop-killer, puts up a desperate struggle sis he is escorted
into a Chicago courtroom to hear the date of his execution.
Judge Gibson Gorman in Criminal Court set March 16 as
date the 26-year-old Carpenter will die in the electric chair.
As We Live
Young Man's Conceit Makes
Him Poor Risk For Mate
A person who is conceited,
self - centered and demanding
does not make a good friend and
certainly is not a good potential
husband.
(Q) "For the last two years of
high school. I went steady with
a boy who was one of the out-
s-w--sr- standing a t h-
fee
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letes of the
school, held
many class of
fices and was
very popular
with both boys
and girls. Now
he is at the
stale univer
sity and is
making quite
a name for himself.
"I did not go to college but
have a job as my family needs
my financial help. I still go
steady with this boy when he is
at home and I go to the univer
sity for many of the social activi
ties. "I find that his success is going
to his head and he is getting very
conceited. He has started to be
rather critical of me, perhaps be
cause I did not go on to college,
and is very demanding. If he
wants something, he expects me
to drop what I am doing and
come when he whistles.
love him very much but I
often get upset by the way he has
been acting lately. Should I con
tinue to go steady with him or
break off? We have often talked
about marriage when he finishes
college but I am beginning io
wonder if we would be happy.
What is your opinion?" R.G.
(A) As things now stand, I
question very much whether
this boy will make you happy in
even the most powerful micro
scope and also one possessed of
unusual chemical properities.
There is not the slightest evid
ence of Hodgkins' disease ever
having been transmitted from
one human being to another.
At the University of California
School of Medicine in San Fran
cisco, Drs. Bostick and Hanna
took lymph nodes from patients
vith the disease, ground them
up, injected the material into
fertile chicken eggs. After a
few days, they took material
from those eggs and injected
it into more eggs. This they did
as many as ten times, because
chick embryos nurture viruses
and presumably viruses are
multiplied by this "serial pas
sage." New-Born Mice
From the last eggs in the
series, they took material and
injected it into the brains of
new born mice. After allowing
for more virus-incubation, they
ground up the brains and in
jected the material in the brains
of more new-born mice. After
repeating this through five to
seven sets of mice, the material
developed the power to sicken
and kill mice.
Keep in mind that the egg
embryos and the mouse brains
showed no detectable sign of
harboring virus until the last
mouse - brains developed the
power to kill. Also keep in mind
that the scientists repeated the
whole procedure with lymph
node material taken from heal
thy human beings, and failed
to produce disease.
Also they took every precau
tion to eliminate the possibility
of "picking up" some latent
virus of mice. So it seemed clear
they had a new virus which
causes in mice a fatal disease
with some resemblance to Hodg
kins' disease. But whether it is
the "causative agent" of Hodg
kins' disease in human being
remains to be proven and it is
going to be difficult to do, they
said in the technical journal,
"Cancer Research."
By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D.
the future. If that is true, then
you will do well to see other
boys and not limit yourself to
him. I'm sure he has dates with
other girls while he is away at
college and you should have
dates with other young men.
This boy's school success has
gone to his head and has affected
his whole concept of himself. If
he has four years of success in
college, on top of his high school
successes, he may be so utterly
spoiled by it that he would be
impossible to live with. He, ob-1
viously, is one of the people
who cannot take success without
having it go to his head.
Then, too, you must take into
consideration the possibility that
he will feel superior to you be
cause he has gone to college and
you have not. This may be par
tially back of his critical attitude
and demanding way. Certainly
you do not want to spend the
rest of your life with a man who
regards you as his inferior.
(COPYRIGHT 1955,
GENERAL FEATURES CORP.)
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London Relaxes Drink
Ruling for Russians
London (U.R) London re
laxed its strict liquor regula
tions Sunday night to permit a
group of Soviet diplomats and
ballet dancers to drink and make
merry in a restaurant until mid
night. The rarity of the drinking con
cession on a Sunday night cost
cafe owner Norman Isow $14
because he bet his father the
authorities wouldn't allow it.
"We tried to get such a license
once for a party of Americans
but failed," he said.
The party was a "sensational
success," Isow said. "To see what
the Russians can eat and drink is
unbelievable. They could drink
a brewery dry."
Russia To Send Cancer
Equipment To Finland
Helsinki, Finland (U.R) The
Soviet Union has announced it
will send 530,000 worth of can
cer research equipment, includ
ing radio isotopes, as a present
to honor the 85th birthday of
Finnish President Juho K. Paa
sikivi. Paasikivi made his birthday
Sunday the occasion for strength
ening his country's cancer re
search program. The Soviet gift
was the largest donated to the
president's fund.
EASY BURGLARY
Colma, Calif. (U.R) Burglars
had little trouble looting the
safe of the L. Bocci and Sons
Monument Co. during the week
end and making off with $287.
The combination was written
on a piece of paper tied to the
safe:
Monday, November 28, 1955
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Star Yvonne De Carlo, 33, married Robert Morgan, 34, Holly
wood stunt man, at ceremony in Reno, Nev. (International)
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Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly
Will Star in Picture
Hollywood (U.R) MGM Stu
dio says Bing Crosby will
emerge from a "short-lived re
tirement" to co-star with Grace
Kelley and Frank Sinatra in
a musical comedy film about
Newport, R. I., society.
Studio officials announced yes
terday that production will start
on "High Society" in early Janu
ary for Crosby, whose retire
ment was reported several
weeks ago. Crosby and Miss Kel
ley last appeared together in
the award winning film "Coun
try Girl" in 1954.
HOW TO DETECT
COW'S SMILE
Washington (U.R) A diary
expert says you can see the
smile on the face of a contented
cow if you know what to look
for. W. E. Petersen says when
a cow cocks her ears forward
and her eyes brighten, she's
smiling.
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