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o 0 o THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1960 o MEDFOtD MAIL TI8UE. MJfctoRD, ORE. 6 s A iuMiiiijMiiii "in' 'M-iwji nmmim&t0 gf. ATTENTIVE AUDIENCE Five nurses, wearing caps from as many schools, are an attentive audience aboard the hos pital ship S.S. Hope I at San Francisco as Lt. Cmdr. R. Pitk, USN, chief of nurses aboard the floating medical center, explains equipment in the operating room. The 230-bcd ship, a converted wartime vessel, is the first of a Crosby Cancels TV Film Plans Hollywood - lUPB - Spokes men for Bing Crosby said to day the crooner has cancelled plans to film a TV show In Ireland next month in favor of attending the world series. Crosby, who owns part In terest in the Pittsburgh Pi rates, said he will be in the Pennsylvania city Oct. 8, along with three of his five sons, for the series. Currently In Rome for the Olympic Games, the Old Groaner had planned to stop in Dublin, Ireland, to film a special St, Patrick's Day tele vision program. "Now that the Pirates ap pear to be a cinch to win the National League pennant, Bing is determined to see his team play in the series," said one of Crosby j publicity men, "He's been waiting a long time for this, and ho'a not about to go to Ireland." fleet of medical ships planned to bring medical relief and goodwill from the United States to all parts of the world. She will have a permanent medical staff of five physicians, two dentists, two pharmacists, 25 graduate nurses and 30 auxiliary personnel. Hope 1, operated by American Presi dent Lines, sails for Indonesia Sept. 23. (UPI Telephoto) Former Hospital Ship To Join Peace Fight in Southeast Asia San Francisco-(UPD-In a few weeks an all-white ship with the name "Hope" emblazoned on each side will sail through the Golden Gate bound for Indonesia. Its mission: to wage peace in southeast Asia. S.S. Hope is a 15,000-ton former hospital ship from the Navy's mothball fleet and it is a floating medical training center that will be the cor nerstone of project Hope. Hope stands for health oppor tunity for people everywhere. It's a privately-sponsored pro gram to share U.S. medical knowledge with newly-developing countries. Short Slap to Despair The project Is headed by Dr. William B. Walsh, black haired, energetic Washington, D.C. heart specialist, "In many nations that have been free a short time there Is hunger, illness and poor health," Walsh said. "From there you go to poverty. From poverty lt Is a short step to despair and from despair to communism." S.S. Hope has been in Se attle undergoing modification. More outfitting and loading of stores is being done here. Then on Sept. 23, with Presi dent Eisenhower scheduled to be on hand, the ship departs for Indonesia. Formerly the USS Consola tion built during World War II, lt will have 230 hospital beds. 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CENTRAL POINT A GOOD PLACE TO TRADE six months In Indonesia, fol lowed by four months in Viet Nam before returning to the United States. Invitations also have been received from the Republic of Korea, Okinawa and Pakistan. Teaching Program Wash said Project Hope is essentially a teaching pro gram, although some treat ment will be Involved. Amer ican medicos will work in small teams with counter parts in the host country. They'll pass on their know how to physicians, surgeons, dentists, health officers, sani tation officials, nurses, mid wives and technicians. waisn, 40, who served as a medical officer on a destroy er In the Pacific during World War II, described the problems Hope staffers will face. "In Indonesia there Is one doctor for every 71,000 per sons compared to a l-for-750 ratio In the United States,'! he said. "The standard treatment of a compound fracture of the leg in Indonesia is amputa tion. And many aliments are diagnosed as malaria, even polio." t Cost of the project Is esti mated at $3.5 million a year. This money is being raised from private contributions by business, Industry, labor un ions and other private groups and Individuals. Eisenhower's Decision The government's only role was to lend the hospital ship -a decision made personally by President Eisenhower. American President Lines is operating SS Hope at cost. American Drug and Pharm aceutical companies are sup plying drugs and medicines. The American Petroleum in dustry is giving the fuel need ed for the ship. Top medical man aboard S.S. Hope will be Dr. Paul E. Spanglcr, Monerey, Calif., retired Navy captain. Spang lcr performed the first opera tion on a wounded man dur ing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7. 1941. He was chief surgeon at the U.S. Naval hospital there at the time. Widow Nurse Director Maryloulse Stretcher of Chicago will be director of nurses. She is the widow of Dr. Michael H. Strcicher, as sociate professor of medicine at the University of Illinois who died in 1056. Dr. Walsh said his group may try to obtain four other Navy hospital ships now In mothballs if the current proj ect is successful-as he Is con fident it will be. This he said, would permit Project Hope to keep a ship in Southeast Asia all the time, and even expand operations to Include South America and Africa. Lawrence Welk's Daughter To Wed Santa Monica, Callf.-aw-The 23-ycar-old daughter of bandleader Lawrence Welk took out a marriage license with James F. Mack Tuesday. The couple said they plan ned to marry soon In Santa Monica Catholic Church. Mack, also 23, a medical student at St. Louis Univers ity, is the son of Santa Monica physician, Dr. Marvin Mack. The couple said they met in high school In 1854. Nursing Mothers Will Steal Own Calcium for Baby Washington - (Science Serv ice) - The old belief that a pregnant or nursing mother will steal from her own body to supply her baby with need ed calcium has turned out to be scientifically correct, at least for rats. This fact, differing sharply from recent findings on other essential nutrients, was con firmed here in a research re port presented at the Fifth International Congress on Nu trition. The report tells of experi ments conducted on pregnant and lactating mother rats and their young by two University of California scientists, Dr. C. Wlllet Asling, professor of anatomy at Berkeley, and Dr. Marjorie M. Nelson, lecturer in anatomy at Berkeley and the San Francisco Medical Center. Rule Not Trusted White results of the calcium study agree with widespread popular opinion, other find ings in this area of science have shown that the old rule of thumb about mothers sup plying all the nutrients need ed by their young cannot al ways be trusted. One recent study by Drs. Asling and Nelson showed that severe prenatal defic iences of folic acid, a B vita min, can cause serious de formities in the newborn. Two groups of rats were used in the calcium experi ment, all given identical food, except that the diet of one group was deficient in cal cium. As offspring were born and weaned, mother and baby rats were studied by means of x-ray techniques and their bones were measured and ex amined microscopically. Drs. Asling and Nelson found that neither the mother rats nor the young showed any differences in skeletal growth or maturation that could be attributed to calcium deficient diets. Nor did the young in the deficient group show any shortage of calcium or loss of density in their bones. The calcium-deficient moth ers, however, showed marked effects of skeletal deminerali zation, indicating that calcium had been taken from their bones to provide, adequate supplies for their unborn or nursling young. The California scientists re ported that "it was possible to Hfefh Couret Disbars Gold Beach Justice Salem - UPD - The Oregon Supreme Court Wednesday delivered an opinion disbar ring William E. Fuller, form er justice of the peace at Gold Beach. The high court opinion said Fuller' had admitted taking about $5,750 in receipts while he was serving as justice of the peace. demonstrate a reduction in maternal bone density to 83 per cent of the normal value when the calcium deficiency occurred only during lacta tion, and a further reduction to 73 per cent when the de ficiency started at the begin ning of pregnancy." The calcium-stealing action within the mother animal is known as bone resorption, and the condition resulting from a loss in bone density is called osteoporosis. While the popular notion about mothers compensating for a lack of calcium lias been verified, another widespread idea about mothers losing "one tooth per baby" appears to lack confirmation in mod ern research, Dr. Asling has said. The California scientists, in further studies, are examining the effects of maternal cal cium deficiencies before preg nancy and are looking for more sensitive indicators of the way in which the calcium B t 'I i ! & '"V ' BEAUTY SAMPLES PRETZEL - Miss America of 1960, Lynda Lee Mead, tries pretzels given her - and all competi tors for the 1961 Miss America title - at Atlantic City, N.J, The pretzels came from Miss Pennsylvania, Priscilla Mae Hendricks. (UPI Telephoto) content of milk, blood and bone is distributed in order to favor the young at the ex pense of the mother. 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