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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.
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lobby
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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.