Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1949 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. Incorporated Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller President A. R. Holthouse Editor C. E. Holtheuse Treasurer I. H. Heller. Vice-President Subscription Rates By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $6; Six months, $3.25; 3 months, $1.75. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining counties: One year, $7.00; 6 months, $3.75; 3 months, $2.00. By carrier, 20 cents per week. Single copies, 4 cents. The safety campaign is proving popular and Worthwhile. The children are taking an interest in safety rules and suggestions and that means for better driving and attention to traffic regulations. —o —o — The strikes at the Ford and Bendix plants continue, while around here and in other parts of the country men are concerned with the drop in employment. America is made up of a lot of ideas and different opinions, it seems. , —o—o — Due to slackening employment, the Department reports the availability of maids in New York City. That is something newunder the sun, tor during the past decade the term “hired girl'’ has been eliminated from the household vocabulary. —o —o — The anji-gambling crusade in Bluffton has reached its climax with the closing of the “bookie joint,” and the resultant removal of slot machines, punch-boards and “cookie” jars from clubs and all lines of business. Now the worry seems to be, what shall be done with the bingo stands during street fair week? Trouble of this nature starts when professionals and out siders try to flaunt the law and invade a town. —o —o — President Truman has given up his fight for Mon' C. Wallgren, and the former governor and U. S. Senator from the state of Washington, will probably accept a position with private industry. After he gets over the hurt in being refused senate approval for the chairmanship of the National Resources Board, he will be happier in the long run, Wallgren was a political victim and time may square his account with his enemies. —o —o — Fred R. Blosser served as a clerk for the Pennsylvania railroad for nearly forty years and was known to crewmen and fellow workers along the line as a capable employe. He earned his retirement a few years ago. Mr. Blosser was an unassuming person, devoted to his railroad duties, his home and Christian principles. He was a good neighbor in the area in which he lived, and was considered in that light by the many who knew him.

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General Lucius Clay was given a hero’s welcome in Washington on his return from Germany, where he served as military governor since the war. President Truman honored him by conferring another oak leaf cluster on his military stripes and expressed tae nation's tribute for Clay’s historic accomplishments in Berlin, including inauguration and maintenance of the airlift. The mild-mannered general retires from public service with the good wishes of all Americans. He has written more than one page of momentous world history. , o Q Following Franklin D. Roosevelt’s smashing victory in the New York congressional contest, talk already has started boosting the former President’s namesake for governor of the Empire state. Although young Roosevelt was elected on a Liberal-Four Freedoms ticket, to the congressional seat formerly occupied by Rep. Sol Bloom, he claims to be a Democrat and will support President Truman. In his race he defeated Tammany Hall, which starts him on a political career, paralleling that of his father’s who first gained political fame by defeating Tammany Boss Murphy. The Roosevelt name is like magic to New York voters and if Franklin, Jr., decides to run for governor, the odds will probahly favor his election to the state house in Albany. —o —o — Crop Insurance Representative Harold D. Cooley of North Carolina, chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, has brought forth a farm price support idea which attracts attention. His idea is similar to the current administration proposal in that it would not support market prices but instead would indemnify the farmer for crops sold at prices below the support level. Cooler’s idea is that a farmer would buy price insurance on his crop. If the crop had to be sold at a price less than the fixed minimum, the policy would pay oft the difference. Private insurance companies for a long time have insured crops against hail and storm damage. The government for several years has been insuring certain crops against loss by drought or other weather risks, on an experimental basis. The crop loss insurance seems to be feasible. Price insurance, on a voluntary basis, might also be feasible. One hitch is that if the insurance scheme were operated on a sound basis, financed entirely from premium payments, the premiums might be so high that no farmer could afford the insurance. But whether or not this particular idea is good, it is worth looking into; if it is not workable It might lead toward a better idea.

Cancel'Research Progress Is Brought Up To Date

(Editor’s note: The following is the fourth in a series of five dispatches reviewing the latest developments in the fight against cancer.) BY PAUL F. ELLIS (Copyright 1949 By United Press) New York, May 19—(UP)— The human body is composed of some billions of individual cf Ils. They constantly wear out and are constantly replaced if the body gets its proper nourishment. In about one out of eight persons in the United States, something goes wrong with the normal reproduction of the cells. The offspring, or daughter cells, change their characteristics and go on a mad rush of multiplication, like rapidly-growing weeds. That's cancer. For many years, medical science has been trying to find what substance taken in the diet eventually creates the substances which compose the nucleus of a life cell—because it has been established that such substances, nucleic acids, probably control the proper growth, or multiplication, of the cell. Furthermore, it has been established that cancerous cells demand abnormal amounts of certain necessary nucleic acids to continue on with their criminal multiplication. Medical science now has evidence that abnormal substances can be made in the test tube which are poisonous for the cancer type cell, and yet serve the needs of the normal. One way is to “tool” the cancer cell. That is, give it something that looks to it like the nucleic acid it needs—but isn’t. To find such a “phony food” that will starve the cancer cell and at the same time give the normal cell what it needs has been a problem in many cancer labora-

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tpries. Scientists at the SloanKettering institute for cancer research, part of Memorial hospital center here, may have the answer. In three years of study they have determined that a chemical substance known technically as 2.6diaminopurine, when given in the diet converts into a constituent of nucleic acid, known as guanine. The guanine is a substance which is an important constituent of the living cell. However, it has been shown that diaminopurine apparently alters, or changes, the makeup of the nucleic acid—making it poisonous for- the abnormal cell. The diaminopurine has been found to be poisonous to normal cells, too, if given in too heavy doses. The substance diaminopurine is not found in nature, yet it has been made in synthetic form—and may be one of science's most powerful weapons against cancer. First it was tested in the test tube, and then in mice and rats. It was found to poison temporarily transplanted leukemia in mice and one type of cancer in the rat. It also was found to be effective against a mouse type of cancer in tissue culture. It is now being given human trials. The results, while inconclusive, are encouraging. (Next: Leukemia Control in Cancer Battle). Knights Os Pythias Will Meet Tonight Member of the Knights of Pythias lodge will meet at the K. of P. home at 8 o’clock tonight and will go in a body to the home of Fred Blosser. Mr. Blosser was a member of the local lodge. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

Build New Elevator At Chattanooga, O. Berne, May 19 — Sixty men, working in tnree-hour shifts or 20 in a shift, are engaged in construction work on the new elevator being built at Chattanooga, Ohio, by the Berne Equity Exchange Co. The elevator will replace the one destroyed by fire a few months ago. The new building will be all-con-crete, with the silos towering 81

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