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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 4,1950
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Bacteriologists Do Research On Rare Disease Fungus
Bv STEVE FERRO
Research on histoplasmosis, a rare disease which is the most common in this area, is being conducted by the bacteriology department. An occurrence of positive histoplasmin skin reactions of 45.2 per cent of the students is reported by Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the health service at Watkins hospital.
The disease is mildly serious in its active state, however, few cases discovered here are active. There have been approximately 100 cases of active histoplasmosis and 80 recorded deaths in the United States from the disease. The importance of the disease lies in its similarity to tuberculosis. Both diseases are lung aliments and when active they are associated with chronic coughing weight loss, and fever.
The first objective of the research is to recover the organism, histoplasma capulatum fungus, from nature. This organism has not been isolated from nature because other fungi and organisms overgrow it. It can be isolated from pure cultures in clinical cases.
The department has in its possession 10 strains which have been isolated from clinical cases by Dr. Michael F. Furcolow, senior surgeon of the U.S.Public Health service at Hixon laboratories at the University Medical center in Kansas City, Kan. A second objective is to produce a better antigen for testing the sensitivity to histoplasma.
Felix A. Pileggi and William F. Myers, assistant instructors in bacteriology, are carrying on this research in their laboratory in Snow hall. They are using chick embryos as culture media. It is hoped that successful methods of isolation can be made to show the source and distribution in nature of the fungus causing histioplasmosis.
The research being done in the bacteriology department is headed by Dr. Noble P. Sherwood, past chairman of the department. Dr Furcolow, who suggested the problem, is working on tuberculosis and its association with histoplasmosis. Dr.W. H Horr, associate professor of botany, is consulting botanist on the project and is helping to find where the fungus exists in nature.
The research being conducted is part of a study by Dr. Furcolow and others in the U.S.P.H.S. Application for a grant from the U.S.P.H.S. has recently been approved for work at K. U. on histoplasmosis.
The relation of tuberculosis and histoplasmosis is not known, however, histoplasmosis produces calissified "spots" in the lungs in a similar manner. In this area 25 per cent of the positive chest plates of tuberculosis show signs of histoplasmosis.
Want $600 In Cancer Drive
It is hoped that at least $600 can be raised in Douglas county in the annual cancer fund campaign which began April 1, John T. Andrews, state campaign chairman, said today.
Anyone may contribute to the fund. Mr. Andrews said, "I urge everyone to give and give quickly. There are a lot of people fighting this cancer battle, and when 200,000 people are killed in a year by the disease, as there were in the United States in 1949, it is quite a battle."
Reginald R. Strait, chairman of the University drive, pointed out that 38 people died of cancer in Douglas county in 1949. To guard against the disease, a cancer-tumo diagnostic clinic has been held twice monthly during the past 20 months. In these clinics, 163 cancer case have been studied by the staff of the Lawrence Memorial hospital. Dr N. P. Sherwood, professor of bacteriology, is the director of the clinic
Contributions to the drive should be sent to Reginald R. Strait, 107 Robinson gymnasium, University of Kansas, or to the Kansas division of the American Cancer society, 506 New England building, Topeka.
"We know that over 50 percent of the cases can be saved if the person will go to his doctor soon enough, Mr. Andrews said. "Until research develops a cure for the disease, early diarrhois is vital."
In many cases where chest X-rays show calcification and yet there is negative skin test for tuberculosis, histoplasmosis is thought to be the cause of the clalcification.
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Australia Won't Accept Bridges
Sydney, Australia, April 4. (U.P.) A high ranking government official said today that Australia would refuse to accept Australia-born Harry Bridges, San Francisco labor leader, if the United States tried to deport him.
Bridges, now on trial for perjury in San Francisco, faces possible deportation on charges of having lied when he denied in an application for citizenship that he was a Communist.
"I know of no international agreement whereby we would be legally obligated to receive a denaturalized American deportee who was born in Australia," the official said. "I don't think we want him. He is America's baby, not ours."
The official said the United States had not contacted Australia on the subject.
"The United States government appears to be proceeding on the assumption that Bridges could be deported without knowing the position of the Australian government," the official said. "The only way Bridges could be admitted would be as an immigrant."
He added that if a San Francisco jury finds Bridges guilty," Australian laws prohibit the entry of convicted felons."
He said Bridges' entry .would cause widespread protests from the public.
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The Australian government, at present involved in a fight with the Communist - dominated Waterside Workers federation because of a series of recent strikes, has threatened to deport "Communist trouble makers."
Beauty Queen Pictures Due Thursday
Pictures for the Jayhawker beauty queen contest must be submitted to the Jayhawker office in the Union by 5 p.m. Thursday. In a preliminary judging, 50 girls will be chosen. Of this number, 15 will be sent to the judges for selection of the 1950 queen.
Judges for the 1950 Jayhawker queen will include such Hollywood beauty experts as Perc Westmore, noted make-up man, John Roberts Powers, model executive, and Burt Lancaster, screen and radio star.
The Jayhawker staff urges all organized houses, women's halls, and campus organizations to submit pictures of candidates as soon as possible. Finalists will be judged entirely on their photogenic beauty.
Clock Silenced By Voters
Colebrook, N. H.—(U.P.)After 50 years of listening to the town clock strike the hours in the Congregational Church tower, townfolk voted to silence the bonging between 10 p. m. and 7 a. m.
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