FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE NINE
Soap Substitutes Help Cure Hardening Of The Arteries
An amazing story of how research scientists have begun experiments with detergents, the popular soap substitutes, to find a way to flush fat out of blood vessels was told here by Dr. A. C. Ivy.
Pittsburgh—(U.P)Medical science, dipping into the greasy dishpans of a million housewives, has come up with what might someay wipe out hardening of the arteries.
Speaking at the University of Pittsburg, Dr. Ivy explained that hardening of the arteries begins with the collection of excess fat along the inner walls of blood vessels.
When the fat is in the soft stage, he said, pieces of it may become dislodged from where it has been piling up. Entering the blood stream, the pieces often reach the heart or brain and cause heart attacks or strokes by clogging the flow of blood.
Dr. Ivy, medical research worker, at the University of Illinois, told a group that experiments with certain animals have been deemed successful but no work has been done with humans yet.
As the fat hardens, the arteries become brittle, aging the victim and perhaps causing an early death.
Dr. Ivy said the dishpan really was responsible for the medical experiments. Researchers, he said, noted what detergents did to grease on dishes and decided it would be ideal for "washing" fat off the inside of arteries if they could get it into the blood stream.
"In fact, there isn't a single field of medicine regarding which we don't have a real basis for hope.
They developed a drug with a detergent in it and, according to Dr. Ivv, the outlook is promising.
Medicine has made great progress in the fight against infantile paralysis, cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and other major killers or cripplers, he said.
"We are at a turning point in the history of medical research," the scientist asserted. "We have conceived, all by our acute and infectious diseases."
Dr. Ivy said, however, that the common cold and polio were the outstanding enemies which so far have against being eliminated by science.
There is "real hope" that cancer will soon be brought under control, he said. He declared there is reason to believe that the cancer mystery lies in the blood.
He pointed out that a cancer planted in the tail of a rat will knock a certain enzyme out of the kid's rattle within a few davs.
"We know the only connection between the tail and the liver is in the blood stream. The answer must be there somewhere. We must find
"Cut off the tail," he said, "and the enzyme returns to the kidney in a few more days.
Dr. Ivy concluded, "We (medical science) have succeeded in practically double the human life span in the last century. Now we must make these added years worthwhile living."
Films of the Oklahoma A. and M.- Kansas University football game were shown to members and guests of the K.U. Young Republicans club Tuesday.
Young GOP's See Football
Carolyn M. Isern, fine arts sophomore, was elected treasurer of the club; and Walter F. Stueckemann, 3rd year law student, was chosen executive board member at large at a special business meeting following the movie.
Chairman of the following committees were also appointed: Tom L. Schwinn, 1st year law, first voters; Jack Keith Wilson, College sophomore program; Charles D. Kenney, 1st year law, membership; Vinghita Lowkowitz in publicity; Robert M. King, 1st year law, veterans; and William Richard Tatum, journalism junior, corresponding reporter.
The club's next meeting will be Tuesday Jan. 10. Plans are being made for a discussion on socialized medicine to be led by two medical authorities.
Male Crocheter Wins Top Prize
Chicago—U.P.)—A 205-pound railroad signal tower operator has said that fewer men would have ulcers if they learned how to crochet—and they wouldn't be considered sissies, either.
"I used to be jumpy and cranky," said Joseph Dolinaj, Dunellen, N.J., "But crocheting settled my nerves. Now I don't even need to read magazines or go to the movies. I'm perfectly content to sit at home and crochet."
He is in Chicago as the guest of the National Needlecraft bureau. His 6 by 8 foot lacy tablecloth—which he crocheted in a one-solid-piece fillet design—took first place in the men only classification at the 1949 international contest. Mr. Dolinari said he started crocheting five years ago.
"I got so sick of seeing my wife sitting around crocheting that I bet her $$ I could beat her at it," he said. "She showed me how to start and I bought a 10-cent book and I've been doing it ever since."
And his wife, Helen, added "Now when I want to know something, he shows me Dolhnaj said he spent two months meeting the prizewinning tablecloth.
"I did it all at work. I had it in a drawer and I'd work on it when I wasn't busy. When a train would come, I'd run over and pull another lever, then go back to the table-cloth." The 37-year-old husky railroad employee said that crocheting isn't sissy.
"The fellows used to give me the business when I first started. But they soon quit and began taking an interest," he said.
"Sure, it wasn't so easy at first.
R. Edwin Browne, '38, was elected chairman of the American College Public Relations association, District eight. The meeting was held at a joint conference of that group with district six of the American Alumni council Sunday, through Tuesday, in Omaha, Neb.
Browne Heads College Group
Mr. Browne, former public relations director of the University, is now Alumni secretary and public Graceland college, Lamont, Iowa.
William S. Gibson, editor of the Vermillion, S. D., Plain Talk, spoke at the meeting. His topic was "The College and the Local Press."
A panel discussion on "Public Relations as it Affects Higher Education Today" was part of the conference program. A University film, "Your University," was shown at the movie section of the meeting.
Representatives from seven states attended the 3-day meeting. Fred Ellsworth, secretary of the Alumni association; Miss Mildred Cloffetter, assistant secretary of the Alumni association; Irvin Youngberg, executive secretary of the Endowment association; Thomas Yoe, director of public relations; and Marvin Small, assistant general secretary of the Alumni association, represented the University at the conference.
States represented at the conference were North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.
First Dollar Is Always Best
Memphis, Tenn., —(U.P.)-Thirty-two years ago, Mrs. W. A. Alderson, a girl of six, won first prize for her exhibit of crocheted neckties. Every year since, Mrs. Alderson has had similar exhibits and she still has her first prize money, a check for one dollar.
I was nervous and when they kidded me it bothered me. But now they can kid me all they want—I've calmed down."
In addition to his Chicago trip, Mr. Dalinaj gets a $100 prize and he hopes to sell the tablecloth for another $350.
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Several new books were recently ordered by the art and design department. Miss Marjorie Whitney, professor of design, reports that the books will be kept on file for reference use.
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Moreau To Speak Saturday
F. J. Moreau, dean of the School of Law, will speak at the 25th annual meeting of the Southwest Kansas Bar association in Dodge City, Saturday.
Dean Moreau will discuss "What Law Teachers Are Thinking About."
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