UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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OCTOBER 3,1947
Neon Sign Factory Forced To Move By On-Job Trainees
Louisville, Ky. (UP)—An antique gray-fronted building in Louisville's West End houses a cluttered workshop where a steady stream of former servicemen are learning the intricacies of neon sign construction.
After a training period varying from two months to 18 weeks the veterans are ready to enter the industry which is sorely in need of skilled workmen.
The school which is being developed here for this type of training is the project of T. C. Cairns, a veteran neon manufacturer.
It resulted when Mr. Cairns' on-the-job veterans' training program, sponsored by the Veterans Administration, grew to the point where it shoved his Neon Fluorescent Engineering Co. out of its established location.
He did all the instructing in the bending of the glass tubing which forms the letters on neon signs and also taught pumping, or filling the tubes with neon gas. His pupils usually remained as full-time employees after their training period, but as the project grew Mr. Cairns began to fill requests from other concerns for trained workmen.
He still has a backlog of unfilled requests, he said, including one from an electric company official who wrote his best tube bender was lost in action in Italy and he needed a replacement.
Bikini Tests May Aid Radioactivity Ills
Washington. (UP)-Medical officers believe the Bikini atom bomb tests provided science with valuable data on the diagnosis and early treatment of so-called radiation sickness.
Scientific information obtained from rats, pigs and goats during the Able and Baker tests, they predicted, will be used to protect and treat civilian populations and troops who might be exposed to radioactivity in any future atomic war.
Preliminary data on treatment of radiation sickness are classified as top secret. It will be several years before all of the data can be correlated with that still being obtained from the effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom blasts.
Medical officers who witnessed the Bilken experiments said the 2,500 animals which survived will be the object of scientific study until it has been determined whether radiational effects can be traced through several generations of their offspring.
All of the dead animals which could be found after the tests were automated and tissue from their bodies has been preserved for future study in medical laboratories.
Early treatment of animals exposed to radiation at Bikini included the use of blood plasma, whole blood, and penicillin. The scientists also indicated that some other secret treatment had been administered in an effort to curb radiational effects.
The experts explained that transfusions were made in an effort to replace blood cells destroyed by radiation. With destruction of the white blood cells, the animals became susceptible to infection. When the red cells began to deteriorate, symptoms of anemia developed.
Although army and navy doctors would reveal no information regarding the success obtained through use of transfusions and penicillin, they indicate that some other treatment still must be developed.
Watchmakers Needed
Pittsburgh (UP) — The Western Pennsylvania Horological Institute is sending out an urgent plea for young men interested in watch-making. The world's largest trainer of watch repairmen said there has been a lack of apprentices for more than 50 years.
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