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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. SYNTHETIC BLOOD EXTENDER PVP-Macrose May Solve Nation's Need for Synthetic Blood Plasma One of the biggest headaches of ! Civil defense—how to stockpile blood ! tor disaster use—is on the way tc ; being eased by science. Facilities have been set up to mass-produce a synthetic ’’blocd : extender,” a chemical fluid that . can be used in place of whole blood ; or plasma in certain types of treat- ! meut. The product is PVP-Macrose, or • polyvinyl pyrrolidone. It could oe : • major aid in caring for shock re- ! suiting from burns or wounds, and ! ^ j TXAVID WAYNE, who reaches new heights in Columbia’s “M”, always wanted to be a dramatic actor, but made his mark as the comic leprechaun in ‘‘Finian’s Hainbow” and was stuck with comedy. He went straight from college into a Shakespearean Reper tory company, got small parts on Broadway, spent some time in the British and U. S. armies. Dr. Charles E. Dutchess dem onstrates how a container of PVP-Macrose is suspended dur ing its administration to a pa tient. t might save your life in the event j of an atomic attack. j Orders have been placed by j Schenley Laboratories, Inc., for ! sufficient material to make 7,000,- j 000 pints of the product. The firm ] is geared to bottle PVP at a rate j of 300,000 pints per month. Ten thousand bottles of PVP j have been turned over to the Na tional Research Council, which is evaluating it for use by the armed forces and other government agen cies. Under NRC direction, tests on the product have been under way since shortly after January 1 at more than 20 hospitals and research laboratories throughout the coun try. First supplies of “radio-active” PVP, useful in studying the chem ical’s behavior in the body, are be ing distributed to research scien tists. • • • DAVID WAYNE then returned to the stage. “Por trait of Jennie” was his first film, then came “Adam’s Rib”. That role as the murderer in “M” was just what he had been looking for, and some folks say that his per formance is one of the best drama tic jobs ever to come out of Holly wood. John Wayne, not content with be ing No. 1 box office star, has con ferred with Mexican officials on plans for filming “Hie Alamo”, with himself as star, producer and director. He is now in Ireland, working in “The Quiet Man”, which John Ford is directing. Maureen O’Hara, Mildred Natwick, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, and Arthur Shields appear with him. Republic Pictures lists “The Quiet Man” as one of 12 of its new films; they all sound good. Richard Tregaskis, the war correspondent, went to Indo nesia to do research for “Fair Wind to Java;”: “Hoodlum Em pire” will be based on Bob Considine’s racketeering expose and the Kefauver committee hearings. “Iron Master” tells of the discovery of iron ore in Minnesota. Ralph Locke, who plays the kind ly, philosophic “Papa David” on “Life Can Be Beautiful”, is an expert sailor; living on Upper Man hattan near the East River, he has two sail boats, has sailed alone clear to Maine. THIS “BLOOD EXTENDER,” however, cannot duplicate all the physiological functions of human plasma. As a result, availability of a PVP stockpile in this country will not affect the need for whole blood or plasma. These advantages were listed for PVP: 1. It is completely synthetic, can be made in unlimited quantities, is not dependent on healthy human donors, can be stockpiled indefinite ly. 2. It does not require refrigera tion or blood typing and its admin istration is free from allergic reac tion in the body. 3. It can be produced at a frac tion of the cost of blood or deriva tives of blood. 4. It is ideally suited for disaster use. PVP-Macrose is known as Peris ton in Germany, where it first was discovered in 1939 and subsequently was used on 500,000 German battle casualties in World War II. Schen ley Laboratories is importing the intermediate-stage material from the western zone of Germany, un der contract agreement. It is ex pected that a U.S. source of supply of the intermediate-stage material will be available this year. Medical authorities estimate that the needs for plasma or “blood ex tenders” would run as high as 4,- 000,000 pints if a single atom bomb struck a major metropolitan center. The nation’s ordinary peacetime needs alone for blood are about 4,500,000 pints a year. During the entire World War II period less than 14,000,000 pints of whole blood were collected. GRASSROOTS mo mm LAST WEEK’S ANSWER ■ ACROSSf 1 High rank- mg official (Turk.) 6 Bulk 10 Suffered dull pain 11 Verba! 12 Pluck guitar / strings 13 Egg-shaped 14 Willing 15. Dried grape 16. You (Dial.) 17 Fish-drying platform 19. 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Bank labbr.) □HBIitl IJ HUKUM a □shb Hsuama HHtffinEG!] DHO mil ORDdl nuun dsauMW Hiinmiin many EDPIR KM EUR □HaHHU FJIJUfi HEUI3 raUHMR mua Bancuri THE FICTION CORNER MUMPS - KEEP OUT By Paul Tulien H IGH UP in the apple tree ten- year-old Tommy Thorne pon dered on the ways of women. Why did his sister Winifred prefer George Butler when she could haveia swell guy like Frank Stanton? Why was she goint to the ball game in town tonight with George after she had turned down Frank? It didn’t make sense. Next year probably she and George would be married. Now, had it been Frank it would be something to look forward to. It would be fun if he could think of some way to scare George when he came tonight. Not that it would change Winifred’s opinion of George, but it would be fun anyway. Then he remembered a “MUMPS—KEEP OUT!” sign he had picked up in a trash dump a few months before. At the time he hadn’t expected ever to put it to such a good use. The more he thought about the idea the better he liked it. What would George do when he saw the sign on the front of the house? He bet the old fraidy-cat would leave in a hurry. But he must be careful. He wished he knew exactly what time George would come. If he put up the sign too early, one of his own folks might see it before George came. And that, of course, would be the end of it. On the other hand if he waited too long George might come before the sign was up. I N THE early dusk Tommy crouched behind a clump of “So, Smartypants, I’D have to sit home tonight just because you must have your little joke! ” bushes. Slowly the minutes dragged by. At last a car turned into the driveway. George Butler got out of the car, started for the house, stopped—and then hurriedly got into the car again and drove off. Tommy sprang up; his plan had worked perfectly, but he must not let Wini fred see what he had done. But he was too late. Winifred was staring at the sign tacked oto the front of the house. He started to turn and run, but decided he might as well face the music now. for she would get hold of him soon er or later. . , “So, Smartypants, I'll have to sit home tonight and twiddle my thumbs just because you must have your little -joke!” Tommy was silent for a minute, twisting one leg around the other. “Maybe you could phone and ex plain—he’ll pro’bly go home.” The words came reluctantly for he didn’t want Winifred to telephone, and if she did he hoped George wouldn’t be home. 3 - Minute Fiction Enemies Call Average Thrifty Citizens 'Capitalists' By Wright A. Patterson W HO are the capitalists of Amer ica the communists and social ists howl about, and if it were pos sible, would destroy? Among them are the farmers, with large or small holdings. They are engaged in pro ductive enterprises as individuals with investments in plants—their farms—and in tools—their farm implements. Another element of the capitalist class are those owning rental prop erties, whether it be one small cot tage or a considerable number of rental urdts that are providing homes for people. Then there is that vastly larger number who are stockholders in business, large or small, a-?d in transportation facilities. This class consists of many more than four million, all of them American cap italists. Among that four million are many thousands of workers, classed as both workers and capitalists. This class of capitalists by its investments provides the tools of industry, and creates the 00 million jobs of America, as well as pro viding for their declining years;' they do not have to depend on something for nothing for those years. All together the capitalistic classes In America, including the several millions of life in surance policyholders, repre sent by far the larger portion of the 150 millions of American people. They are the people Wfeo make of America what America is. They are the peo ple the socialists and commu nists seek to destroy by taking from them that which they have thriftily accumulated, and leaving for these thrifty Amer icans only a place on a park bench, where they, toe, could hope for that something for nothing to be passed ont by the government. The question to day is: Do we want the social ists and the communists to suc ceed in their nefarious plans? Those who would replace our American free enterprise system, that has made possible such a num ber of thrifty capitalists, whose combined investments have*provid- ed 60 million jobs, and give us in stead the ideas or methods of so cialism or communism, are not seeking the best interests of our America. The free enterprise system does not provide something for nothing, but it does provide the wa*s and means of providing for ourselves as individuals if we are willing to make the needed ^effort and most of us are willing. Neither will so cialism or communism, and they are much of the same kind, provide something for nothing. * The business institutions of the nation, both large and small, are making a real effort to impress upon the people that our free en terprise system is dangerously threatened. I was reading today the 39th annual report of the Lumberman’s Mutual Casualty company in which the president, James S. Kemper, devotes a chapter to that subject. In it he says: “The cunning of the Kremlin must be met by candor and courage in Washington,' taat men in the mass must’be countered by an abiding faith that, with God’s help, men are destined to be free. Private enterprise can and will provide right direction in America, and in so doing hold high the torch of liberty for the world to see.” * \ Before the senate committee in vestigating the firing of MacArthur, Secretary, of State Dean Acheson was a reluctant witness. He did not wish to talk about the mistakes, or worse, he had made in the far east, but the committee was insistentvind outvoted him. Out of it all the people have learned the contents of the secretary’s note to our diplo mats in foreign nations, in which we wrote off Formosa as a part of our foreign policy. Acheson said that note was a phony. * As the politicians see it it is bet ter to levy more taxes to provide for more unnecessary spendings, and it will be more profitable, in votes, than to reduce government payrolls and spend less. * The increasing profits of corpora tions the papers report are more than offset by the decreasing value of the dollars earned. The infirmities of age is some thing we cannot avoid. “I will NOT!” she cried hotly. “Not when he didn’t care enough to see which of ns was sick— why, I might be dying of mumps for all he knows—or cares!” “Peopie don’t die of mumps, do they?” “What difference does that make?” she retorted. “It doesn’t excuse him from ask ing. If he didn’t dare to come to the door, he could have stood in the yard and yelled. Surely, X couldn’t have thrown the mumps on him! Anyway, if I had the mumps he ought to be willing to have them too!” It was almost too good to be true. Tommy thought Only one thing was needed to make everything perfect and that would be for Frank to come. t And then Frank did come. He jumped out of his car and asked anxiously, “Who’s sick?” “No one. That sign’s jupt Tom my’s little joke,” Winifred ex plained. Frank laughed. “That’s good! 1 just saw Jack Martin in town and he said he had seen a mumps sign on your house when he drove by. So I thought I’d come out and see if you needed any help. Say, why aren’t you at the ball game?” “How do you expect me to go? Walk? Our car’s in the garage for repairs.” “Why, I thought— Well, you know I’d be awfully glad to take you in, if you care to go. And Tommy too— unless three’s a crowd.” “Not when the third one’s Tom my,” Winifred said, putting her arm around the boy. “He did me an extra good turn tonight.” Homemade Freezer Serves Farm Needs Fanners Turn to 'Build Your Own' Once More With labor costs up and appli ances growing scarce, many farm ers are beginning to “build their own” once more. One example of what can be done with cinder blocks and insulation—plus a few spare hours of labor—is the homemade food freezer shown below. The freezer is tucked away in a convenient comer of a farm home basement. It holds a side of beef and all the surplus cherries, straw berries and lima beans grown on the farm. Besides farm produce, this homemade appliance makes an ideal storage place for left-overs, ice cream and large quantities of special cuts of meat processed at a neighboring locker plant. Like other freezers, however, it must be remembered that freezing does not improve the quality of the food stored in them. You get out of a freezer only what you put in. Also, farm wives are cautioned about cor rectly packaging freezer food. In cluded among acceptable packaging materials are moisture-proof vege table parchment paper, moisture- proof cellophane (which can be heat-sealed), aluminum foil, cello phane-lined containers, freezers bags and approved cartons. The use of such materials are necessary regardless of whether freezers are purchased or are homemade. _ Unless properly packed frozen foods may deteriorate. The freezer, illustrated, is oper ated with a Y* horsepower compres sor. Rafters above the appliance are used for the storage of cammed fruits. Intestinal Disease Hits Numerous Swine Herds Thousands of pigs in major swine- producing states have been stricken with an intestinal disease regarded as the most serious of its kind ever seen in the U.S. The American veterinary medical association reported that transmis sible gastroenteritis has wiped out the entire pig crop on some farms. No swine-raising farm can consider itself completely safe from the dis ease, the AVMA warned. Symptoms are severe scouring, vomiting, and dehydration. There is rapid loss of flesh in spite of the fact that affected pigs continue to nurse until they die. At present, no drug can be recom mended as a standard treatment for this infection. Only possible means of control is to keep healthy breed ing stock and healthy litters com pletely out of contact with sick ani mals and away from houses and grounds where outbreaks have oc curred. This knee rest will take the strain out of gardening when weeding or performing some similar operation where it’s necessary to work on yoar knees. The base is large enough so that it won’t sink into soft ground. The edges of tbe three vertical pieces should be round ed. Sufficient slack Is left in the canvas cover to provide com fortable rests for the knees. Teen-Agers Will Enjoy these Haehburgen (See Recipes Below) Teen-Age Favorites IF YOU WANT to get in solid with the teen-age set, let them have a party or picnic of their own. This type of party is so easy to manage, especially when you plan the sim ple, hearty fare they like and can put together by themselves. “Burger s”, naturally, are at favorite. Tossed salads or cole slaw, French fried potatoes or potato chips, relishes, and calorie-full des serts will satisfy easily: *Hashburgers Deluxe (Serves 3-4) Open one can of corned beef hash from both ends and push the contents out In one piece. Cut Into three or four slices and “rough” the top of each patty with the tines of a fork. Ar range on broiler rack. Broil three Inches from heat source for about 8 minutes. Or, bake in a moderate (350°F.) oven for about 20. minutes. Serve atop a toasted bun and garnish with a pickle fan. (Make fans by cut ting sweet pickles into several strips from the small end to within one-half inch of the larger end; spread apart like a fan.) • • • A GOOD CABBAGE salsd with zippy mustard added to the dress ing and contrasted with pineapple chunks makes an excellent combina- fion with hashburgers: •Pineapple Chunk Coleslaw (Serves 6) 1 No. 2 can Hawaiian pine apple chunks % cup mayonnaise % cup sirup drained from pine apple 2 teaspoons prepared mustard H teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon grated onion Dash cayenne pepper 4 cups shredded cabbage Chill and drain pineapple chunks. Combine mayonnaise, pineapple sirup, mustard, salt, grated on ion, and cayenne pepper. Blend thoroughly. Add dressing and pineapple chunks to cabbage; toss lightly, serve in outer leaves of cabbage or on salad greens. e • • • Gooey Buns (Makes 12 buns) 1 pound big bologna % pound sharp American cheese K cup prepared mustard H cup salad dressing, or may onnaise 1 tablespoon minced onion 2 tablespoons chopped sweet pickle Grind bologna and cheese. Add re maining ingredients and mix well. Cut frankfurter buns in half; spread with butter, then filling. Wrap each bun in aluminum foil or waxed pa per. Heat in slow oven (325*F.) 25 minutes. * • • Stuffed Frankfurters (Serves 8) 8 frankfurters Prepared mustard 2 cups well-seasoned, mashed potatoes Teen-Agers' Party Menu •Hashburgers Deluxe •Pineapple Coleslaw, Potato Chips Chocolate Milk Shakes •Mint-Chip Ice Cream Brownies •Recipes Given *4 cup minced onion 1 to 2 tablespoons chopped canned pimiento M cup chopped parsley Pour boiling water over frank* fullers; cover; let stand 8 minutes. Split lengthwise. Spread with mustard. .Com bine remaining ing r e d i ents; blend; stuff frankfurters with mixture. Brown lightly in broiler or oven. • • • Beef Bar-b-q’s (Serves 6-8) ? 1H pounds ground beef 1 teaspoon salt Ya teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon celery salt 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion 1 beaten egg 1 cup milk 1 cup soft bread crumbs Combine ingredients and mix well. Shape in 1-inch-thick patties and place in 8-inch square shallow ^baking dish. Place a slice of onion on each patty. Pour over Barbecue Sauce: Cook Yu cup chopped onion in hot fai until golden; add 1 6- ounce can (% cup) tomato paste, 1 clove garlic, chopped, 1 table spoon chopped green pepper, 1 ta blespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, teaspoon pepper, 2 teaspoons tabas co sauce, 1 tablespoon of Worcester shire sauce, 1% tablespoons chili powder. Ye cup lemon juice, and 1 cup water. Heat to boiling. Simmer 15 minutes. Pour over meat. Bake in moderate oven (350*F.) 1 hour. Baste frequently. • • • Tossed Salad (Serves 8) K teaspoon salt K teaspoon sugar tt teaspoon dry mustard K enp chopped onion H cup salad oil 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 head lettuce 1 bunch watercress Rub salad bowl with cut garlic clove. Add salt, sugar, mustard, and onion. Add salad oil and vine gar; beat; let stand 5 minutes. Add broken lettuce and cress; toss light ly. • • • •Mint-Chip lee Cream (Makes 2 quarts) 1 cup cold water K teaspoon peppermint extract Few drops green food color ing 1 15-ounce can (1H cups) sweetened condensed milk Itt 1-ounce squares unsweetened chocolate, coarsely grated 2 caps heavy cream, whipped Combine water, extract, and green coloring; add to sweetened condensed milk and mix well. Add chocolate. Fold in whipped cream. Pour into refrigerator trays and freeze. Turn frozen mixture into chilled bowl and beat smooth. Re turn to cold trays. Freeze firm. Side-Dressing Com Crop With Nitrogen Pays Off Prof. C. J. Chapman, University of Wisconsin extension agronomist, reports that side-dressing corn with nitrogen fertilizer in late June, paid off in an extra iYt tons of com sil age per acre cm one Dane county farm last year. He says the amount of nitrogen to apply depends on the soil’s fertility level. He recommends at least 40 pounds per acre. Under some con ditions this could be increased. LYNN SAYS: - These Flavorsome Tips Enhance Summer Meals Put your scallops on skewers, alternating with bacon and broil them for a quick supper. The scal lops should be dipped in salad oil and bread crumbs before skewer ing. Cream the remainder of the roast chicken, and add an egg yolk or two to the sauce. Serve over thin slices of ham with sauteed mush- looms. A nice but simple supper! Tiny carrots from the garden make up into an excellent baked vegetable. Slice very thin, cover with thin white sauce, grated cheese and bread crumbs. Bake un til tender; it won’t take long. Deviled chicken? Yes, indeed. Dip the pieces in egg, bread crumbs, then again and again. Sprinkle lightly with dry mustard and broil until golden and tender. Fill those big Spanish onions with creamed mushrooms and bake: they’ll be good with ham, pork or turkey. State Police Aid Many Small Towns FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky state police now have arrestihg powers in 134 of Kentucky’s 155 cities of the first five classes. The department, which wbs activated July 1. 1948, cannot exercise police powers in cities with 1,000 or more population un less the towns permit it by ordi nances or resolution. The 21 cities in which the state troopers have no authority are large and have well organized police forces. The law creating the depart ment gives it authority in all areas outside cities. But the home towns of Kentucky, unable to maintain adequate police de partments, welcomed the serv ices of. state troops in maintain ing order. Small Town Has Test Vote on Impeachment; President Is Upheld WAKEFIELD, N.H. — A number of small towns in recent months have taken surveys and voted on national issues in an effort to de termine what the home towner thinks about certain questions. The latest test was a vote on impeach ing President Truman by the citi zens of Wakefield. When the votes were counted in the small rural community,!fire residents didn’t want to take his job away from him—although most of them are diehard Republicans.! They voted in a special town meet ing on the question: -’Should Harry Truman be impeached?” The vote: 48 said no; vf said yes. Thirty-five of those present did not vote. The whole matter was brought to a head for the first time any where by William N. Sparhawk, Jr., a chicken farmer who served as an army captain in World War n. He circulated a petition for a special town meeting to vote on the question. He needed 10 signa tures, but he said 50 residents signed the petition. Exactly '00 of the town’s 795 voters showed up for the unusual; meeting. Selectfhan Albert W. Wig- gin said about 400 persons attended the regular town meeting in March. He could not account for the small attendance at the special meeting. The vote was taken after speech es by Sparhawk and Edwin P. Geauque, a merchandising con sultant, who opposed impeachment. Sparhawk argued that the Pres ident is pursuing “a policy of ap peasement” that “the ship of state is being scuttled,” and that file administration is “rampant with corruption.” “The jyorld has its eyes on our town,” Geauque said. “The answer to this question depends on whether we will be called ’screwball* or thoughtful people.” The secret ballot contained only the words “yes” and “no”. Them choice was circled by the voter. California Farmers Have 'Wetback' Labor Trouble EL CENTRO, Calif.—Farmers in the Imperial valley and a number of other California communities are harvesting a new crop this year. California, however, has no mon opoly on the crop. Farmers in Texas are also having the same problem. , The new crop consists of Mexican border jumpers. Their presence on this side of the line has become a national political issue. Hungry and jobless in Mexico,- they swim across canals and streams at unguarded border points. - They arrive here with nothing but the wet clothes on their back. Union leaders say some work for $3 a week and frijoles (beans). The native worker, organized by the AFL National Farm Labor union, wants more than that Strik ers are asking $1 an hour. Two weeks ago the union called the strike. Its members began ar resting wetbacks and turning them over to immigration authorities— about 300 a day. The carload shipments of vege tables from the valley this season are only about a third of what they were last year. “Why pick on 6s?” the growers cried. “Texas has about 150,000 wetbacks and nobody does any thing about it. We have 4,000 or 5,000 wetbacks—just peanuts. The Texas politicians are trying to make California the scapegoat” Now pending in congress is a bin to make it a felony to employ ille gal aliens such as wetbacks. Ice Cream Prices Melt In Tennessee Price War MCMINNVILLE, Tenn—Much to the joy of young and old, three drugstores in McMinnville got into a price war on ice cream. One store’s newspaper ad re ducing ice cream prices up to 50 per cent was matched within hours by circulars distributed throughout the town by two other stores. Sample prices were 28 cents for a regular 55 cent quart of ice cream, 15 cent sodas for 9 cents and “extra rich” 25 cent milir shakes for 14 cents. The stores hedged a bit in their battle for business. They said the special prices would not contktu* indefinitely.