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Perhaps a member of your family, one of your friends—or even you—
are among the more than 3,000,000 Americans who are alive today be
cause they were born at the right time. A time which saw the greatest
and most rapid advance of medical science in our history.
In little more than 20 years, the death rate in the United States has
dropped by nearly one-fifth. And
much of the credit for this im
pressive life-saving record goes to
our all -American health team. This
team is made up of devoted men
and women from coast to coast
who are banded together in a con
tinuing battle against disease.
Captain of the team, of course,
is your doctor. He’s on the front
line of the fight for health. And he
has better ammunition than ever
before—better diagnostic measures,
better surgical techniques, better
methods of treatment and better
drugs.
Then there are these important
members of the team you’ll prob
ably never meet:
The research scientist. He may
work in a hospital, a university,
a foundation or in one of the scores
of laboratories established by the
private pharmaceutical companies.
The pharmaceutical industry has
played a major role in modern,
research, for out of the laboratories
financed by private enterprise have
come many of today’s wonder drugs.
The clinical investigator. He’s
the team member who checks and
double checks the new drug dis
coveries. .Many of these investi
gators are physicians who set up
careful, step-by-step test proce
dures for patients who could benefit
from a promising new treatment.
The production engineer. Most
often, he works in a pharmaceutical
firm. His task is to combine chemi
cal, biological and engineering
know-how so that a new weapon
against disease can be turned out
in sufficient quantities to care for
all who may need its help.
The wholesale druggist. He runs
the big supply depots for the war
against disease. Your neighborhood
pharmacist has neither the space
nor the means to carry a half
million-dollar inventory of some
20,000 drug and related items. But
when a pharmacist—or a hospital
—needs some special item in a
hurry, drug wholesalers throughout
the nation are ready to answer
the call.
Besides your doctor, there’s an
other member of the health team
that you do meet. He’s your phar
macist. Modern pharmacy colleges
turn out specialists in the science
of drugs, men and women who
knoiy the chemical properties and
uses of drugs—how to preserve,
prepare and dispense the precise
compounds called for in your doc
tor's prescription.
That’s a quick line-up of your
health team. They’re all helping
you to live longer. They’re helping
to make a longer life happier, too.
For there are special problems in
the aged—depressions sometime
plague the late years.
Pharmaceutical research also is
meeting that problem. New mental
drugs, for example, have shown
good results in brightening the lives
of many elderly people who show
depressive effects from some physi
cal or mental stress.
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Grilening Appears
In Defense of Home
State Views
WASHINGTON, — Senator
Ernest Gruening, appearing at the
hearing on the annual 39 billion
dollar defense bill Friday, said
that President Eisenhower had de
manded that not a' dollar be cut
from his foreign military aid
programs.
“Perhaps, just before asking
statehood, we should have tem
porarily run up a foreign flag,”
he wisecracked.
His reference was to the Penta
gon decision to pull one of the two
Air Force fighter squadrons out
of Alaska. Both he and Sen. Bart
lett strongly denounced the action
before a Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee.
Both senators also urged that
the Senate retain a House-ap
proCed provision in the big de
fense bill which would require
military commissary and post ex
changes to include transportation
costs in prices of food and other
goods sold in Alaska and Hawaii.
They said these transportation
costs now were subsidized so that
military personnel can buy far
below costs of items for other
Alaskans.
Defense officials have asked
elimination of the House rider
saying military personnel must
have extra pay unless they can
buy food and exchange stocks at
the same prices as in other areas.
Edwin M. Suddock of Anchor
age, speaking for Alaskan mer
chants and wholesalers, said the
military subsidy of transportation
holds “an umbrella over high
freight costs” other Alaskans and
businessmen must pay.
As an example, he said the mil
itary will buy goods in the States
if the Alaskan cost is only 10 cents
a case higher, and then pay $1.50
to transport this to Alaska.
Alaska’s Court Plan
Lauded by American Bar
Association President
KETCHIKAN, W)—Alaska’s ju
dicial plan ranks among the best
in the nation, the president of the
American Bar Association said in
an address prepared for the meet
ing here of the Alaska Bar Assn.
John D. Randall of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, commended lawyers for
their part in shaping constitution
al provisions under which a judi
cial council nominates candidates
for judiciary vacancies and may
suggest retirement if a jurist ap
pears incapacitated.
The ABA president said Alas
ka’s legislation on hospitalization
procedures for the mentally ill
also “could well serve as a stan
dard for other legislatures inter
ested in improving their mental
health laws.”
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Permafrost Experts Tour
Alaska Defense Sites
ANCHORAGE — An outstand
ing group of authorities on the
subject of permafrost, as it is
related to construction, are tour
ing Alaska defense construction
sites this month.
The party of four are in Alaska
under the auspices of the U. S.
Army Corps of Engineers and the
Alaska District.
Members of the group are Pro
fessor K. B. Woods, Dean of the
Department of Civil Engineering
at Purdue University in Indiana
and a member of the Corps of En
gineers Permafrost Consultants
Board; T. B. Pringle, Chief of the
Engineers; K. A. Linell, Chief of
Branch of the Office .Chief of
Engineerh; K. A. Linell, Chief of
the Arctic Construction and Frost
Effects Laboratory of the New
England Division of the Corps,
and F. E. Clark of the Soils and
Materials Branch of the North
Pacific Division of-the Corps.
Permafrost is a permanently
frozen subsoil found in vast areas
of the Arctic and subarctic. Its
characteristics vary widely from
one locality to another, both as to
its thickness and depth below the
surface and to its load-bearing
capabilities.
The science of building large
installations in permafrost re
gions has advanced rapidly under
the impetus of defense construc
tion needs in the Arctic zones; but
even with a 20-year backlog of ex
perience and study, permafrost
remains one of Mother Nature’s
most tricky problems as far as
construction engineers are con
cerned.
New High Hemline Style
Catches Fast in London
' By EDDY GILMORE
LONDON, UR — A London dress
shop hiked the skirts of its dum
my models four inches above the
knees — and hcntlreds of real
live girls followed suit.
“It started out as a gimmick,”
said a spokesman for the busy Ox
ford Street store. “Now it’s be
come a craze.”
He explained that one day in
early spring the shop manager be
gan thinking of a new way to
catch the eyes of window shop
pers. He hit on the supershort
skirt.
“We raised the skirts to about
an inch above the dummy models’
knees,”' he said. “And then put
three stiff petticoats beneath
them. That got them pretty high.”
He said no one in the shop ever
dreamed they were starting a
style. But the effect was imme
diate.
“The girls are dictating this
fashion,” said the shop’s chief de
signer. “No designer would dare
give a lead like this. Some of the
skirts are awfully, awfully short.”
The spokesman said the store
manager told his clerks to warn
every purchaser of the perils in
volved in wearing skirts four to
six inches above the knee.
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