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New Compound Said Effective For Purposes of De-Germing 'TV BY DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor Xcv York -CPU- Exacting tests have shown that the two chemical compounds generally 'f used by sur germ" their own hands and the skins of their patients. . 1 '. lit tf . tie more effec ts tivp for that w i ' hkMi a good scrub Dio, mhiid with plain soap and water. There is a new chemical compound, however, which is nine times more effective than plain soap and water. This was the good news announced by Drs. Arthur W. Frisch, Gor don H. Davies, and William Kippaehne, of the University of Oregon Medical School, Portland. "Degerming" is an increas ingly critical matter, partic ularly in hospitals, because some sickening bacteria have become "resistant" to the anti biotic drugs which once prom ised to make "degerming" no problem at all. Now it's a ma jor problem again. Iodine Is Ingredient The new compound holds iodine in a stable solution. The iodine content is controlled by a detergent component which releases it "on demand." An other component is chloride. Taken as a whole, it is a tricky compound but one which enhances the notable germkilling power of iodine. The Oregon doctors pointed out in their technical report to the American College of Sur geons that iodine is one of the best degermers known to man It kills more troublesome bac teria than any other, and kills them faster. But it can't be used like soap and water. It can burn the skin and it al ways stains it. In the new compound, It doesn't burn and it stained very little, they said; further more, it will kill such tough micro-organisms as the polio virus, the bacterium which causes tuberculosis, and in fluenza "A" virus. It has a complicated chemical name; the doctor called it "virac." Ten Men Scrubbing The surgically popular de germing chemical compounds which their tests put in the category of plain soap and water are hexachlorophene which is the active ingredient of medicated soaps and of sur gical solutions, and alkylben zonium chloride which is bet ter known as "zephiran." Their method of testing was Impressively scientific. Ten men scrubbed their hands with plain soap and water for one minute, rinsed their hands in a basin of water, then scrubbed them for another minute, and rinsed in a second basin. From these basins, they went to more basins and scrub bed with the degerming chem ical compound being tested, rinsing after each scrub. The basins of rinse water were an alyzed for their contents of cirkenin 0 mirrn-nrffanisms ! both as to numbers and vari eties. These counts were then manipulated mathematically into an "index" which, by sta tistical analysis, was shown to be decidedly "valid." The plain soap was a com mon grocery variety which shall be nameless here be cause the scientists just hap pened to use it and there is no Austria and New Zealand are looking to the United States to buy more meat. They explain that we have plenty of beef for steaks, but the United States needs more meat for hot dogs and similar small items. "leave that stuff aone ...here's a whole pot of SANTIAM BLUE LAKE STRINGLESS GREEN BEANS reason to think it is a better degermer than its competitors. The sense of the experiments in this regard is that scrub bing with plain soap and wa ter is an efficient way of kill ing germs on the skins of healthy people. 0 'mmi i 1 ' JtJ 1 1 r-v 11 CANDIDATE FOR NOBEL PRIZE Dr. Frederick Sanger, 40-year-old professor at Cambridge University, is ex pected to win the 1958 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Dr. Sanger, here shown with his wife at their home in Cam bridge, Mass., is famed for his work on the structure of proteins. Special Display Marks Birthday In honor of the centennial birthday of Theodore Roose velt this week a special dis play has been arranged in the Medf ord Public library of books by and about the great soldier, statesman, and adven turer. His own writings include "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," "A Booklover's Holidays in the Ope n," "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail," "Trailing the Giant Panda,; "The Wilderness Hunter-" "The Strenuous Life," "The Winning of the West," "Fear God and Take Your Own Part,' and "Letters to his Children." Besides his autobiography, published in 1913, there are many books about the strenu ous American by other writ ers. One of these is John Bur roughs' "Camping and Tramp ing with Roosevelt," and an other Jacob Riis "Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen." W. R. Thayer wrote "Theodore Roo sevelt; an Intimate Biogra phy" and Owen Wister "Roo sevelt; the Story of a Friend ship." In addition to these are of fered "The White House Gang," by Earle Looker, "My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt," by Mrs. Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson, "T h e Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill," by Hermann Hagedorn, and "Theodore Roosevelt "and his Time, Shown in his Own Let ters," edited by J. B. Bishop. Each of these shows its own facet of the life of a great man. In Brisbane, capital of the tropical state of Queensland, Australia, many houses in the suburbs are built on stilts to allow free circulation of cool ing air. SAD JOKE Pranksters took this aged mare down a stair way in a San Francisco apartment house, and it took the SPCA and the Fire Department three hours to get her out again. In this picture, a fire department crane is hoisting the by-now-dying horse onto an SPCA ambulance. Later, at the SPCA shelter, the horse was destroyed to put it out of its misery. FAVOR SPITTING CHAMP Raleigh, Miss. - (UPD - De fending champion George Craft was favored today to win the annual tobacco spit ting contest in a field day that will also feature contests in husband-calling and skillet throwing for the ladies. MARSHAL'S GUN STOLEN Hollywood-flJPD-Actor Gene Barry, fast-on-the-draw star of the "Bat Masterson" TV sho.w, had the embarrassing job of reporting to police Wednesday that somebody stole his six-shooter during rehearsals. Markers Talked By Historians Several Rogue valley his torians this week completed a list of historical sites and discussed plans to mark the locations on a Jackson county map. Sites will be indicated on a touring map to be made available to centennial visit ors next year. A priority list of sites may be set up to be marked by bronze plaques. The cost of such permanent markers is high, they noted, and the Ap- plegate Valley committee, un der the chairmanship of Rob ert Sorber, is attempting to solve the problem by design ing a wooden plaque which can be produced easily at less expense. ' The group also discussed placing more emphasis to his torical sites and valley history through the speakers bureau. Persons willing to speak on some phase of Jackson county, or Oregon history to inter ested civic group are asked to call the Centennial office at SPring 3-2059. Those present at the meet ing were the Misses Claire and Mary Hanley, Jackson ville; Lee Pinkham, county surveyor; Mrs. Dwight Hough ton and Dr. Frank Haines, of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation; and Ernie Hood, Centennial chairman for Jack son county. Bogota, Colombia - (UPD -Physicians here have suggest ed to local authorities that traffic violators be allowed to pay their fines in blood to build up the city's blood banks. The doctors suggested that fines should be charged off-within the limits of safety -at a rate of about a quarter of a pint of blood for each dollar. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medferd, Oregon, Thursday, October 30, 1958 7A i & V - I miii-iii " ' i t ? r -mi - i-i. HEARTBREAK An unidentified woman breaks down and flees from the funeral services being conducted at Springhill, Nova Scotia, for miners killed in the coal mine collapse there. Rescue operations are still going on, but there is practically no hope for 77 miners still miss ing. Sixteen bodies have been recovered, and 81 miner! escaped the cave-in alive. Fifteen of the survivors are seriously injured. MAY VISIT LOURDES Venice, Italy (UPD Pope John XXIII may attend the closing of the Lourdes cen tenary next February, his for mer auxiliary said today. 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