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Medical Milestones
How Does Food We Ecrt Affect The Heart?
A unique medical experiment that may reveal valuable informa
tion on the relation of food and heart disease is under way in New
York City, conducted by the Department of Health.
Officially known as the Diet and Coronary Heart Disease Project,
it is better known as the “Anti-Coronary Club”. Involving about
*>uu men rangng in age irom zu ■
to 59 at the start-, the study will
cover a five year period. During
this time the volunteers live at
home and lead normal lives, ex
cept that their diet is carefully
controlled.
Among other things, it is hoped
the study will reveal what role
blood cholesterol plays in heart
attacks. Cholesterol is an essen
tial, fat-like substance that ap
pears widely in animal fats, such
as ipeat, butter, eggs, milk and
cheese. The body also manufac
tures it in the liver.
However, we can have too
much of it. If the body fails to
utilize cholesterol properly,
through faulty metabolism, the
excess may be deposited in the
arterial walls, restricting the
flow of blood. These “plaques”
may lead to a blood clot and heart
attack.
There is considerable evidence -
of a definite relation of fats to
blood cholesterol and atheroscle
rosis, a form of heart disease.
The kind of fat as well as the
amount of fat eaten appears to
affect the cholesterol level of the
blood.
In general, there are two kinds
of fats:
1. Saturated or solid fats, such
as butter, beef fat, lard and or
dinary margarines.
2. Unsaturated or liquid fats,
such as corn oil, soybean, peanut
and marine oils.
The former group contributes
to higher blood cholesterol levels;
the latter group helps lower these
levels. Why? Apparently it ishe
cause these unsaturated fats are
high in linoleic acid. It is gen
erally agreed by medical people
that linoleic acid does lower cho
lesterol levels.
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As a medicine, linoleic acid is
expensive and unpalatable. Many
physicians place their heart pa
tients, and those whose choles
terol levels are abnormally high,
on a diet in which the only fat
used in cooking and as a table
spread is a unique nonhydrogen
ated corn oil margarine, called
Emdee. This margarine is high
in linoleic acid, and has a coun
try-sweet flavor. Significantly, it
is sold only in drug stores, but
does not require a prescription
to purchase.
Corn oil is naturally high in
linoleic acid. However, if it is
hydrogenated (a process by
which the oil is converted into
solid form) it becomes saturated
and much of the beneficial lin
oleic acid is destroyed.
Members of the “Anti-Coron
ary Club” use the nonhydrogen
ated, high linoleic acid margarine
in their special diet. Since there
are an estimated one million
heart attacks in this country an
nually, it is no wonder this
unique experiment has captured
the imagination of the medical
world.
Canadian - U. S. Officials
Confer on New Radar
OTTAWA, UR — The defense
ministers of the United States
and Canada have agreed that a
big new radar program is needed
to plug the gaps in North Amer
ica’s “Pinetree” warning system.
The expansion is expected to cost
at least 100 million dollars.
Agreement in principle was
reached in talks Tuesday between
Neil McElroy of the United States
and Major General G. R. Pearkes
of Canada. The Canadian cabinet
still must approve the plan.
The United States would foot at
least two-thirds of the bill for the
project.
Russians Report Oil, Gas
Discoveries in Siberia
MOSCOW, (ifl — Soviet geolo
gists say they have made their
first discoveries of oil and gas
deposits in Siberia.
Andrei Trofimuk of the U.S.S.R.
Academy of Sciences wrote in
Pravda today that .the deposits
show great potentialities. The
biggest finds were in the west
Siberian depression the Hatang
Basin and the Lena Bend.
Trofimuk wrote that the Si
berian regions where oil and gas
are believed to occur, exclusive
of the Far East, total more than
two million square miles.
AVA Successor To Meet
At Fairbanks September 2
JUNEAU, Wl — The Alaska
Travel Promotion Association
has filed incorporation papers
here as a successor organization
to the old Alaska Visitors Asso
ciation.
The new group’ first general
business meeting was scheduled
for Fairbanks September 2.
Plans for the ATPA were ap
proved at a meeting in Seattle
in July.
Incorporators were listed as
O. F. Benecke, Juneau, Alaska
Coastal Airlines; F. H. Whaley,
Fairbanks, Wien Alaska Airlines,
and R. E. Ellis, Ketchikan, Ellis
Airlines.
The AVA was placed in moth
balls earlier this year after the
State Legislature withdrew sup
porting funds from the tourist
promotion organization.
AVA members engaged directly
in the tourist business announced
at that time plans for a new or
ganization to promote Alaska
travel.
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Employment Hits Record
High for Month of July
WASHINGTON, UP— Employ
ment hit another record high in
July. The number of jobs rose
about one quarter Trillion while
unemployment declined by near
ly the same amount.
The Labor Department reported
July employment reached a rec
ord 67,594,000, up 252,000 from
June and an increase of 2,415,000
over July last year.
Unemployment declined by 238,
000 to 744,000 in July 1958.
Employment had also reached a
record in June. The number of
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steadily increasing all year.
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Pete Walsh, Station Mgr.
Egan Indicates ‘Favorite
Son’ Will Get Votes at
Next Year’s Convention
JUNEAU, iff) — Governor Wil
liam Egan indicated Monday Alas
ka’s six-vote delegation to the
1960 Democratic National Conven
tion may be pledged to Senator
Bob Bartlett as a favorite son can
didate from the 49th State.
“Certainly it’s too early, I be
lieve,” Egan told a news confer
ence, “to think of anyone else”
other than Alaska’s senior senator.
“Alaska’s junior senator, Demo
crat Ernest Gruening, last week
proposed Bartlett as a favorite
son candidate of the party. “I
certainly subscribe to Senator
Gruening’s suggestion,” Egan said.
The Alaska Delegation at the
1956 Democratic Convention sup
ported Adlai Stevenson for Presi
dent and Senator Estes Kefauver
for Vice President. Egan said the
Alaska Delegation supported the
Stevenson-Kefauver ticket “all the
way” during the convention four
years ago.
The 1959 Alaska Legislature
abolished the Presidential prefer
ential primary in state elections.
Delegates to the national conven
tion will be picked at the Demo
cratic State Convention next year
at Ketchikan.
A PROCLAMATION
By authority vested in me, in
accordance with Title 40, "Health
and Safety," Chapter 1, Section
40-1-6, ACLA 1949, as amended
by Section 16 of Chapter 118,
Session Laws of Alaska enacted
by the Legislature of 1949, and as
further amended by Chapter 56,
Session Laws of Alaska, 1951, and
Chapter 64, Session Laws of Alas
ka, 1959 (Stale Organization Act),
I proclaim the adoption by refer
ence of the unabridged form of
"Grade A Dry Milk Products —
A Recommended Sanitation ordi
nance and Code for Dry Milk Pro
ducts Used in Grade A Pasteurized
Milk Products — Supplement 1 to
the Milk Ordinance and Code —
1953 Recommendations of the
Public Health Service" to be reg
ulations and supplement to the
Alaska Department of Health
Rules' and Regulations, Sanitation,
Milk Handling, Document OSE-3.
These regulations shall be in
full force and effect 60 days after
adoption July 15, 1959.
PAUL L. WINSOR, Commissioner,
Alaska Department of Health and
Welfare.
Publish July 29, Aug. 5, 12, 1959.
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22-Million Alaska Defense
Spending Passed by House
WASHINGTON, tP — A bill
proposing the spending of five
million dollars on Pacific North
west military construction pro
jects and 22 million dollars in
Alaska was. passed by the House
Monday. The pending bill would
be for the fiscal year which began
July 1.
The bill, passed by voice vote
and sent to the Senate, would fi
nance a total of $1,284,012,700 for
military projects ovei* the nation.
It was the last scheduled major
appropriation measure for the
House to act on this session of
Congress. It includes contruction
for the active services as well as
for the National Guard and Re
serve forces.
Four U. S. Sailors Killed
In South Seas Typhoon
YOKOSUKA, Japan, (A*>—Heavy
seas generated by Typhoon Ellen
caused the death of four sailors
on the U. S. Navy’s attack trans
port Bexar, the Navy announced
today.
The Navy said the 455-foot-long
Bexar was en route to Okinawa
Sunday when a huge wave broke
over her bow, washing two men
overboard and knocking seven
others against the anchor windlass
and a bulwark. Two of the latter
died of their injuries.
The Navy said Ensign Robert
D. Stannus, San Antonio, Tex.,
voluntarily dove into heavy seas
and saved Marine Corporal Hileo
J. Henning, Yakima, Wash. En
sign Stannus lost his own life.
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