Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1957 — Page 9

THURSDAY, MAY 9. 1957

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Studying Ways To Cut Living Costs Probe Spread From Farm To Consumer WASHINGTON (UP)—Food .processors told Congress today that housewives save time and sometimes money by buying speedy pastry mixes and ready-made dinners. , But Dr. Persia Campbell, a consumer consultant, said that a number «of housewives complain new food processing methods result in making it difficult to find, for example, the chicken in the frozen chicken pies. t The views were outlined in testimony prepared for a house Agriculture subcommittee which has set out to find ways of reducing the cost of living. It is studying the spread between farm and retail food prices which now accounts for 60 cents out of every consumer food dollar. The processors were represented by Robert H. Bingham, administrative vice president of Grocery Manufacturers of America Inc, . ■ which represents 300 of the nation’s leading food processors. He pinned major blame for the rise Indhe price spreads on “rising cost rates, particularly the higher cost of wages and taxes.” He said combined net profits for food manufacturers and distributors have declined to about 3 cents per food dollar, or about half of the 1939 rate. He said tiie new services added to food in recent years have made life easier for the housewife who frequently’ now can buy prepared foods eteaper than she can the unpreparw raw ingredients. Once, he said, it took 5% hours a day for a housewife to prepare meals for a family of four. “Today comparable menus can t>e prepared in IVfe hours,” he said. He said a housewife today can bake a-devils’ food cake from pre- . pared mix plus two eggs for 42 dents. The cake would cost 53 cents if made from home-com-bined ingredients. Surgeons Disclose Remarkable Surgery Spring Is Inserted In Woman's Heart - DETROIT (UP)—A team of sur- , geons today disclosed a remarkable new operation in • which a “watch spring” was inserted in a ' 'Street er, 34, was operated on April 5, 1956, and has carried the metal spring in her heart for more than a year. ■Die operation, another development in the rapidly expanding field of heart surgery, is designed to correct a condition known as "mitral insufficiency,” in which the mitral valve of the heart foils to open and close properly. The. new technique was developed by Drs. James H. Wible, Lyle F. Jacobson, Prescott Jordon Jr., and Charles G. Johnston of Wayne State University's college of medicine. Prior to her operation, doctors gave Mrs. Streeter, a mother of five, about six months to live. They now hope she may have a normal life expectancy. Once bedridden much of the time, Mrs. Streeter, a slender woman, said she now feels "fine,’ does most of her housework and cares for her children, ranging in age from 2 to 14. She is the first person in history with a metal spring in her heart. Three years ago when the team of surgeons conceived the idea of a mechanical aid for the mitral valve, they looked around for the right type of metal, something that wouldn’t corrode, break, or lose its tension, and would last a lifetime. . „,, , "We wrote to the Elgin National Watch Co. and asked them about the metallurgical properties of watch springs,” Wible said. Thomas R. Green, Elgin s technical director, informed the doctors that the patented alloy used in the "unbreakable” spring would last an estimated 300 years, retaining its tensile strength and its resistance to corrosion.' The surgicM team visited the El- , gin plant and, working with Elgin technicians, finally came up with an odd-looking spring with a dia-mond-shaped “head” and a twoinch “handle.” When introduced into the heart, the spring is encased in a nylon “stocking” stitched to the spring with silk suture. The entire device-, is imbedded in the mitral leaflet which opens and closes to allow blood to flow through as the heart be&ts The surgeons performed the operation on 110 dogs before trying it on a human being. Wible said the operation is relatively simple. "It takes only about 10 minutes or so to insert the spring,” hd said. Big Conscience HARTFORD, Conn. — (IB — One of the biggest conscience payments in Connecticut history was $1,990, received by State Welfare Commissioner Christy Hanas from an anonymous relief recipient for benefits “to which I was not entitled.”

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