HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-07-16, Page 2along his arms and ruptured his
eardrums. Since he entered- the
hospital, skin burns he suffered
when this clothing ,'aught Ore
have been repaired by grafts,
Prot f3asu K. Begat of the Uni,
versity Neuro-peyehlatric 'Insti-
tute used an .electro,,encephalo-
graph to. trace Mueller's brain
waves an found "diffused func-
tional and non-Specifie changes
in which both the upper and
lowep;parts'W the brain seem tn.
be-affected," .
•
when Mueller's eyes came open,,
rolled aimlessly and closed. Re
swallowed, But these movements
were part of, the, coma and he
was atilt-parried as "poor" on the"
hospital records. Continued elec.-
troencephalograph readings have
found none of the brain-waVe
changes that may give the first
sign that the young, farmer is
recovering from the coma,
Meantime,, all the medical ex-
perts can• clo•is care for him and
wait'Also waiting are his beethS
ers, his wife and three small chile
dren,
Deadly tightnins.
Nature's Killer
tp see sixteen, patients in a Rue-
elan mental ward all wired up,
And fast Asleep,"
The sleep machine comes in
large model which treats sixteen
patients at once, and a small,
one-patient niodel which :looks.
like .(and will cost about as
much as) a transistor pocket
radio, Resides _quieting mental
patients, Rand said, it may be
used to soothe surgical patients
under local .snetheties just • be ,
fore and after surgery,
The suturing machine, Rand
said, has been used in • Russia
drarnatie •effeete ItS speed
and .,accuracy have been among
its advantages .which, have en-,
abled Soviet 'surgeons to perform
such daring operations as the
grafting of a puppy's head on
the neck of a full-grown dog,
"The Russians showed us mo,
tion pictures of a woman whose
hand was caught in a punch
press,!'' Rand reported last week.
"They amputated the hand,
rinsed out all the blood clots' in
a Heart-lung machine, refriger-
ated it, and then stapled it back
on, The woman, they told me,
now plays the .plang,".
The stapler comes in „ 40. lit-
ferent sizes and models, for'such.
highly different organs .tes the
blood vessels, nerves, lungs, and
stomach, and was .developed by
the Russians during the war, ac-
cording to Rand, because of a
shortage of military surgeons;
"Now, once an engineer has pre-
pared the machine-and it takes
about half an hour to do this-
all the surgeon need do is push
a button. This gives even a medi-
ocre surgeon a gifted hand." In
major stomach operations, Rand
said, the stapler reduces the sew-
ing time from about two hours
to -twenty minutes, and an add-
ed advantage is that the metal
staples' do not irritate tissues as
thread sometimes does,
To Rand, who ;took along a
prominent U.S. doctor on each of
hiS three trips to Rtissia, these
surgical instruments are a result
of "the tremendous amount of
Men and money the Russians
put on a project. At the Insti-
tute for Surgical Instruments in
Moscow, they have 400 experts,
many of them both surgeons and
engineers. In manpower, this
would, be equivalent here to an
investment of about $15 million.
When you put that amount of
money into at problem, you are
likely to come up with a solu-
tion." -a-From NEWSWEEK,
"Notbinos" From
Outer Space
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far 111(90;00
A 0§,01,0he machine that the
pnionely uses tiny metal tapes
tend of thread to close snrgt-
stel Wounds. „.• *.
' he •Itthelatnre• sleep _tataeltine
• *aathat uses electricity: to nudge pee
OPItts_ Jute 'tencatetecinetaneee „
As Sktrgical. .Cantern: that 1.04.0
SaTote.C„ eatetterea of ea ., Patient's in-
digs.,. . ' . •
taThege, and other e advanced
scientific instruments, all peed
Rnta of the growing ingenuity Of
ussian medicine, may soon be
l'itantifactieeeci in. t h. e United
States. :The Rand Development
Corp. of Cleveland .announced
last month that it has paid 0Q,,
Olait for a• nine-month option to
'hely the .designs of these and
Thirteen other kinds of Russian
Instruments,
"If American aellegeone think
that these instruments are as
_good as they look," Rand's-ener-
getic president. H.-James Rand,
Said recently after a visit to
the Soviet Union; "we will pay
$50,000 for the blueprints." (Ate
tea that, ' Rend says he will
"rent;'. the rights from the e-
1,7iets for $$0,000 a year for ten
cage, ealedein sturn. will license /
hese rights to American menu-,
• acturers.)
U.S. surgeons will get a chance
itso examine the instruments next
September when Russian sure
peon arilta. 'tech/limn will begin
a three - month demonstration
tour of American medical
schools, performing , operations
on animals. Many of the instru,
enents-like the surgical camera.
-are simply'i, refinements on
sfimie .ericcleviceee " Both the
suturing and the sleep machines,
however, are radical departures.
How does the Russian sleep
machine work?
Rand, who himself has been
put to sleep by it, explained:
This isn't shock therapy. There
Ire no 'muscular contractions.
nstead, a small amount of •eiec-
iric current is pulsed into the.
brain to suppress certain wave
patterns. In from a few seconds
to twenty minutes, the patient
alts • asleep, and only intense
-pain will wake him while the
Iwo -electrodes are fastened to
his head, It's the weirdest sight,
, -
Since dawn, Leslie Mueller
and his two brothers had been
driving their tractors hard. They
had 1,000 open acres to plow and
harrow .and plant in corn near
Deerfield; Mich;,. and they ig-
nored the mild thunderstorm and
Les-
lie's tractor. 'was pulling four'
the passing
plow. Ills
of s.y r:.titni.lg
brother Robert was "spreading ,
fertilizer about 1300 feet behind
him. Oliver, the eldest, had just
gone on an errand.
Suddenly Robert felt a strange
tingling in his body, Startled,. he
looked up and saw a puff of blue
smoke coming from Leslie who •
was slumped on the seat of the
tractor, his clothes on fire, Rob-
ert rushed to get Leslie off the
tractor and put out the flames,
Leslie Mueller was limp, He had
'been struck by an unseen bolt
of lightning. From that moment
eight weeks ego, 32-year-old
Leslie Mueller has been in a
deep coma at the University of
Michigan Medical Center,
Capricious, powerfeil, and often
deadly (it kills fan estithateci. 180.
Americans a year), lightning can
strike almost anywhere outdoors,
in the middle of Cities as in the
most remote rural areas. Its
ominous peculiarity is that it
seeks the shortest route between,
earth and clouds;. Trees are
among its favorite' targets, and
when it hits a tree it spills over
persons nearby as it did this
'spring when '•ei`abolt' killed two
children in New York City's
Central ,Parke , e.
Almost. invariably: „a perm
who is hit by lightning either
dies immediately from hemorr-
hage or rupture of internal or-
gans, -burns, .or electric shock; or
he recovers in fairly short time.
Leslie Mueller is a unique case
because he has lingered, so long
in that shadoveland between life;
and death. Now doctors have a•
chance to study, in a live patient,
the human damage which light-
ning can cause - paeticularly to
the brain and nervous system of
the victim.
The bolt that hit Mueller flared
Striking new theories 31nout
comets, those mysterious lumi • -
nous bodies with blunt °heads"
And Misty "tails" which move
among the stars like planets 'but
are usually so small that they
can be Seen. only through a tele-
scope, are being advanced by
scientists,
The latest theory is that
cornets, which in the past were
thought to foretell catastrophe.
On earth, are formed when the
sun, in its 200-million-year jour-
ney round the galaxy, puma
through the numerous vast tracts.
Of sparsely distributed interstel-
lar dust,
"When. the sun passes through
a dust cloud, which may take it
a million years to do, its attrac-
tion on the dust produces denser
swarms of particles in a stream
behind the sun from which the
comets originate," says., one as-
tronomer.
Comets vary greatly in size. 4
big one may have a head 100,000
miles in diameter-larger than
the sun-end a. tail millions of
miles long, Yet, think astron-
omers, the amount of matter in
even a very large comet.is prob-
ably. Inconceivably small.
Another new theory is that the,
head of a comet probably con-
sists of a loose collection of
stones and dust together with
gaseS. One scientist has called,
comets visible' holleings 'because'
they are a Im o s t completely
transparent, '
It is sometimes 'askild: what
would happen if our earth en-
countered a .comet? We know
GAME CALL:RD,
Mw f, IKF't 9-1NUNDS.
After a few words, mostly
spoken by the young wife, her
husband sprang to his feet.
"You've gone too far," he ex-
claimed angrily, "This is out
last quarrel, I'm going right out
of your life." •
"Oh, Henry, darling, where
are you going?" she cried.
"Where never trbuble pees rs ^t *it
again," he replied as he started
to open the door. "I'll find a
place where wild edyanture will
wipe out the menione's of this a.
Moment-perhaps in the jungle
-or on the stormy- seas.
As he spoke he opened the
door, then closed it "'again and
turned sternly to his .frightened..
wife.
"It's lucky for you it's rain-
ing," he said.
Time s'out "for refreshment in wheat cutting, time. Cutter Bus
Edwards'.helps•Randie'Gorhdm- to a swig from vacuum jug.
With all the present concern
over the dangers of so-called
vertical -integration and 'the
threat it imposes on, the individ-
ual farmer and grower, it is most
encouraging to find a group of
growers forging ahead through
whole-hearted co-operative ace-
tion. An outstanding case in
point is the Klondyke Garden
Co-operative Limited at Grand
Bend. •,
This co-operative was started
In 1954 with 25 original, mem-
bers who purchased shares at
$100.00 'each. Additional financ-
.ing was - provided' by a Federal
Government grant of one-third
of the approved,cost.of the build.
Joan of 50% , repayable over: a
twenty-year period.
. *
Membership has climbed from
'the original 25 to 49 at present
Sales volume has increased from
$222,000 in .1954 to $424,000 in
1958. Creel's 'handled are onions,
potatoes, lettuce, carrots, celery,'
turnips, radishes; cabbage, cauli-
flower and, a,few other products
to a small extent, states a writer
'in The Grower,
The fact that these men so free-
ly ask for certification of their
Shipments is one big reason for
the excellent acceptance of their
produce wherever they send it.
The inspection staff report excel-
lent co-operation with a very low
incidence of detentions and viola-
tions in this area:
At the annual meeting of the
Klondyke Gardens Co=operative
Limited the excellent turn out.
of members indicated the inter-
est taken by the members in
their co-op. By contrast some
other growers ..co=ops haVe
cently had difficulty getting
enough members out to con-
duct the" ,affairs of the annual
meeting.
The discussipns, and comments
at the annual meeting ,clearly
indicated r tlig the 'Klondyke '
growers 'are' confident they can
more than hold their , own
through co-operative action and
steadfast adherence to putting
out a quality pack.
.Perhaps 'if -more' faith' People
would divert-more Of their atten-
tion to doing a job at their own
level , instead ,of dissipating their
energy' Worrying abeut the .begy.,
of vertical iiitergrkion, the vette
ous elerrients in the trade chan-
.nels would find less need to try"d
, and integrate producer market-
. ing.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
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some guides as to whether this
method of planting 'Small 'seeds'' is
practical, from the standpoints'of
both plant growth and cost. No
recommendation of this method
is yet being made. *
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Sizes And Numbers
Exactly 119 years ago on July
4th a trim 207-foot wooden pad-
dle steamer put out from Liver-
pool for Halifax and Boston, The
little vessel carried 63 passen-
gers, mail and a soft-eyed mulch
cow whose job it was to have on
tap nourishment for the ship's
passengers and crew,
Prominent among the doughty-
vessel's passengers was a mer-
chant ship-owner of Halifax,
N.S. When after 14 days and
eight hours steaming the little
ship reached Boston the Can-
adian shipowner received pre-
cisely 1,800 invitations to dinner.
The little paddle-steamer was
the. Britannia and her promin-
ent, passenger was Samuel Cun-
ard, the man who with this pio-
neer voyage, had introduced
regular passenger and mail ser-
vice on the North Atlantic.
In contrast to the Britannia's
63 trav,ellers of July 4, 1840, the
Cunard liners Saxonia and Syl-
vania sailed from Montreal 're-
cently with 1,834 • pasterigers.
From New York on July 1st, an-
other Cunard vessel, the 81,000-
ton Queen Mary, sailed for Eur-
ope with 1,942 vacation-bound
Canadians and U.S. citizens,
Research plots are being set up
at the university's muck soils
`farin near Bath, at the horticale,
tune farm at East Lansing and in
the, lettuce producing areas
around. Imlay City.
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ISSUE 29 - 1959
The market area for the Co-
operative is primarily in the
London, - Windsor,- Chatham,
Stratford; Hamilton, Toronto
areas but shipments have gone
to the Maritimes and as far west
as Edmonton and -° in' 'the U.S,
from Maryland to Chicago;
The management of the co-
operative is in the capable bends
of W. V. Blewett who formerly
managed the ,Thedford Cold
Storage.
Most of the members are .post-'
war itrunigrants from Holland.
Starting about; 1948 these men ,.
and .others like them .started in
from scratch to develop Ahe
Grand Bend Marsh. With t'.!ery
little eatfit61, "a: role cif had week
and ingenuity these people have
developed the marsh to where
they have about 1200 acres in
cultivation.
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Mr, Blewett reports, that the
membership of Klondyke Gar-
dens ' gives the co-Op excellent
support., Almoeteall of athe pros
duceygoes out, under .a voluntary
Provincial or Federal Inspection.
REAL, LOW - DOWN MOVIE, ---
Some 800 f e e t underground
Peter Ronson, Pat Boone and.
Arlene Dahl are shown, on .lo-
cation in Carlsbad Caverns,
Carlsbad, N.M. They're filming,
Jules Verne's "Journey to the
Center of the Earth."
Horticulture scientists at the
Michigan State, University, are
trying out e new way of plant-
ing small vegetable seeds that
may help farmers cut crape pro-
duction costs,
Small seeds, like. these of let-,
tuce and cauliflower.;„b are ,being
imbedded in plastic strips. Thee
strips are' wate'd ' sdluble'' and
" wil dissolve4n feW hours of
',ter planting,
the answer. This actually occur-
red on June 30th, 1861. A comet
of remarkable splendour, known.
as Donati's Comet; visited us and
the earth passed through its tail
without any effects being no-
ticed, Few people even knew the
event had taken place, a proof
of the harmlessness of a comet
to our, world.
Yet comets have often caused
panics. One astonomea, predict-
eclahee e ecoreet would appear
Wednesday, October' 14th, 1712,
and that the world would be.
destroyed by fire on, the follow-
ing Friday.
The. comet appeared and peo-
ple rushed into boats and barges
• on. the Thames and elsewhere
thinking water was the safest
place, The captain of a Dutch
ship threw all his gunpowder
into the Thames "for fear the
cornetts fire might endanger his
No fire occurred.
It was said that blazing comets
in the sky foretold London's
Plague of 1665 and the Great
Fire of 1660.
Comets of long age Were held
responsible for"s u c h varied
events as the birth of ;Vedette
plets to a Whitechapel woman,
good arid bad vintage years arid
a strange scarcity of wasps.
An English astonomer, Ede
Mined Halley, did much, 'to quell
people's superstitious feats about
comets, Re said their Mysterious
appearances end disappearances
were due Merely to the long
journeys they lied.,
A. comet seen in 1682, he said,
Would reappear in 1757 or 1158'
because it took seventy-five air
etVehty-elk yearn to complete its
revolution, A:axially, it showed
Up in 1150 and again in 1835 and
1910; the yearaf the death of
king Edward Vit. it was named
HelleedS ,ebiliet and it is dite
again in ax 106, ski/
trenottiet1
Seeds are imbedded or folded
. In the ,steiPeat the desired, inter-
vals. Time and labor needed to
' thin or blade 'rent 'such ' ch' crops
"fsVotild"then. be reduced. Usually
with these small seeded crops, t
the planting rate „cannot tee-pre-
cisely „controlled and the,, stand ,
must .be thinned after the Plants'
emerge.
SECOND THOUGHT DEPT.
The "stop" is much better in-
forrnatieeeeethart, thee "right ture
only" on this street sign in the
'Penn Peaks area of Sa n"., Fran
aisca. Anyone turning right
would wind up ititOp hipttges di,
lectly below and beside rood. tot So eet
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Southfield: Mich., High
School Teacher Richard Welken-
bach keeps discipline by writ-
ing on the black board. "I'm he
iJad' Mood 'today,'" and adding
a drawing of a bullwhip,
John Carew, hartipultutesspe,
eialistein charge of the project, .
aeys the studydfshould provide
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