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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1959-07-30, Page 3•.1 Best Method Is Mouth-To-Mouth The American National Red Cross made, It official; the pre- ferred method of artificial res- piration is for the rescuer to put his mouth to the victim's and breathe air into the victim's lungs about twelve tmies a min- ute. For children, the Red Cross recommends shallower breaths, a rate of about 20 to the minute. Already approved by the Na- tional Academy of Sciences — National Research Council, and used by the U.S. armed forces, the inouth-to-mouth revival me- thod is both the simplest and the oldest known to man. It re- turns to fairor after years of re- liance on such awkward physi- cal maneuvers as the Shafer prone-pressure system and the Nielsen back-pressure, arm-lift method. Neither of , these gets as much 'air into4,„victines-14Pgs as sixrlply breathing into --:thent, af- ter., clearing, the month, throat and windpipe of ohatructions. For rescuers who canna:stomach direct contact with a fifialin who may be dead, a pleat* tube is already on the market..0r, says the Red Cross, they can:breathe through porous cloth. "When someone says," . . of course I'm no expert, but . . ." what he really means is that you're a 'fool if you don't take his advice on the subject. MAY SCI1001 LESSON - • -THERM FRONT John UP ,IN FLAMES — A deer runs along the edge of a raging brush fire at Hidden Valley, where about 200 men fought a blaze which was out of control. The fire blackened more than 200 acres of .valuable property. Many Likely Went Home Pir,appointeci It was a still, hot, muggy Sat- urday night in Now York, the ;kind of night that drives fami- lies out of their apartment houses `and homes into the streets and parks, onto their tenement fire escapes, and into their autos for long, aimless cruises along the webwork of the city's highways — the kind of sense-dulling night that makes people hope for something to happen to take their minds off the weather's oppression, T ix e n, something happened. From the radio came tense bul- letins:: Flight 10.2—Pan Amen.. can's London-bound Boeing 707 jet—taking off at 8.37 from Long Island's Idlewild Airport, had lost 'two wheels from its four- wheeled left landing gear, There were 113 people aboard. The big 707 was circling, preparing for a crash landing. The whole city seemed to sit bolt upright.. From Manhattan, from Queens and Brooklyn on the western bulge of Long Island, whole families poured into cars and headed for Idlewild. Within minutes, thou- sands of autos were turtle- crawling the highway mazes leading to the field, choking the roads for five miles in all direc- tions. In the centre of it all, airport officials briskly and calmly set routine emergency procedures into motion. A score of fire trucks, dozens of ambulances and police cars, all with their, red lights flashing, took up their stations along Runway 13 (point- ling 130° southeast), toward the end of its 11,200-ft. stretch. Orb- iting above the field, Flight 102's Pilot Edward Sommers, 44, kept checking with the tower for wind direction and the state of preparations for his landing. Meanwhile, stewardesses served dinner to the remarkably hun- gry passengers.) ,At Pilot Som- mers' request, Idlewild opera- tions sent out fire trucks to lay down a 4-in, pillow of foam on the last 3,000 ft. of the runway. The plane swung above in vide circles, jettisoning some of its heavy takeoff (104,000 lbs.) fuel load, and burning up most of the rest at low altitude, wait- ing for foaming operations to be completed. At 12.25, nearly four hours after Pilot Sommers took off, he tame in, expertly putting down most of the plane's weight on kt klATIIIRALLY — Of course, this' fellow' is a happy man. He's finally gotten where most of us want to be. its good right gear. As the 707 eased over on the left,, soaping the damaged strut on the cot. erete runway, huge sheets or sparks flashed Into the air, tut, tit at last the plane rolled safely to a stop, a good 200 feet short of the foam carpet, At.• least 1,000 spectators and. airport em- ployees surged forward, despite the obvious hazard of leaking fuel and fire, A baby in the crowd whimpered; her mother snapped; 1"Shut up and watchV As 'the first passengers and crew slid clown emergency chutes, a burst of applause rip- pled the tension-charged air, It was all over, Slowly, al- most reluctantly, the 59,000 or More New Yorkers drifted back to their cars and edged their ways homeward, drenched still by the humid pall, their senses ()nee again dulled by New York's night heat, Self-Contained Moonshine Plant Kozo Ohishi, 46, went home to Pippu (pop. 8,600) in northern Japan the other day, celebrating with proud sobriety the end of a 25-year binge during which he "never touched a drop." Ohishi, only 19 when he suf- fered internal injuries in a traf- , fie accident, seemed to have made a full recoyery after sur- geons patched up his torn stom- ach and intestines, But by 1934, when he was working as the vil- lage well digger, Ohishi found that he felt flushed and giddy, and his head got heavy ("like a sake hangover") soon after he ate bread or potatoes. Friends twitted him for secret drinking. In China, during World War II. Army medics rated him "per- fectly fit." So officers continued to abuse him for drunkenness, while enlisted buddies searched in vain for his source of booze. •Back home after war's end; Ohishi - tried to avoid starches, but with a wife and four grow- ing children he could not always afford the more expensive meat and vegetables. Even ,his family sadly wrote him off as a •sly, sol- itary drinker. Six doctors in a row refused to• believe him or to treat him. The site •of Ohishi's secret still might have remained• a• secret still if 'he had not gone. to," Hokkaido- University, Hospk. Sapporo. • . There, •doctors humored the: patient by trying the test diets -he suggested. They had to admit that Ohishi was right: starches were bad for him, and bread was the worst. Dr. Tsuneo Takada, 30, took samples of Ohishi's di- gestive juices. In them micro- biologists found a flourishing growth of a yeastlike fungus, Candida (or Monilia) albicans, occasional cause of human infec- tions, but usually in the mouth or the vagina. In a normal gut, Candida may occur without caus- ing fermentation. But in Ohishi's repaired bower there was a little pocket where the Candida hid, multipleid, and busily fermented carbohydrates to form alcohol. Dr. Takada kept Ohishi in the hospital for a month on tricho- mycin, a home-grown Japanese antibiotic. Satisfied that Candi- da had been knocked out, he fed Ohishi test meals of starch'` Ohishi stayed stone so- ber, hopes that• his built-in moonshine plant. will • remain shut down. Higgins had bought a guitar and played it for hours on end, always holding his finger in the same place on the same string. His wife became desperate and when she could endure it no longer said to her husband: "You know, other guitars have more than one note and the players move their fingers from string to string all the time," "Of course they do," replied Higgins. "They're looking for the place. I've found it." WI. Mari; alined at 40, Courage 42. Adolescence 43. Article of belief Sect Opera melody 48, Arliffial'Srieck col ening. 61 Uncle,"roin's friend 52. Attention 63, Crilrif Nice Work. When You Can Get It! Around the 4thInfantry DM, sion non-coxnmissloned officers' club at Fort Lewis, Wash. last winter, the word was out; "see Coogan if you want to go over- seas," maybe to a cushy assign- ment in Paris, Sergeant First Class William Coogan, at 38 a sharp-looking, 14-year regular with a 'good record, had the ex- Pert and ready assistance of Specialist Fifth Class George B, Huller, at 23 a six-year man with an equally fine record, on duty as a personnel clerk at division headquarters. Theirs was the job of filling in the names when Pentagon orders called for over- seas billets by elassificatien, and Huller's initials were all that was needed to make the orders effective. Coogan collected $10 to $200 from each would-be overseas soldier, and Huller did the paperwork, juggling classi- fications and assignments to send the customer where he wanted° to go. The Coogan-Huller travel ser- vice flourished, added a "travel now — pay later" system for men who looked like good credit risk s, experimented with, a "group-payment plan" when se,• ven G.I.s promised $185 to get a buddy to Korea. In six months, the red-faced Army ad- mitted last month, Coogan-Huller SMALL FIVE — C. .F. Riswick, chief steward of the Holland- American liner Ma a s d a m, watches the open-mouthed an- tics of canary quintruplets born aboard ship. The birds ,were hatched on the Maasdam on the crossing , from Rotterdam to New York. Proud parents are Riswick's pets. cleared $1,750 from ten soldiers, in all shipped at least 18 to chosen places abroad, had four customers ready to travel when the word-of-mouth ad campaign reached one ear too many. In a general court - martial Huller pleaded guilty of graft, had his three-year hard-labor sentence reduced to a year and a half and a bad-conduct dis- charge. But Coogan, ever the operator even in the stockade awaiting, trial, was caught try- ing to tamper with one of, the witnesses, slapped with 15 years' hard labor and a dishonorable dischrage. The ,system out of which' the sergeant and the spe-. cialist made a flourishing busi- ness, said the Army hopefully, had been forever• thwarted by a new assignment system, con- trolled directly from. Washing- ton. —From TIME. Front-Page Binge —And Hangover! Ireland's behemothian Bren- dan Behan, 36, playwright, auto- biographer and mighty tosspot, treated Londoners 'to the tragi. comic. spectacle of a prodigious four-day binge. Checking out of a Dublin hospital where he had languished wr.h i I e voluntarily drydocked for repairs, Behan flew to England "to, get a little wet," and him a diabetic. The highlight Of Ails lurching odyssey came when he roared into Loh- don't Wynclhani'S Theatre to Catch a performance of his hit play, The Hostage. He heckled the cast Until its outraged deters' stepped out of their Behan char- acters to bid their creator "Shut upi", Per a grand finale, Behan bounded Onto the stags, began a song and jig that the' lulling curtain cut short, At week' end, after a three-hour respite in• the local jug., he 'paid a 70¢ fine for public drunkenness,. $2.16 !ter Medical patchwork on his face, battered iii several ar- guments. Them downing a. slug' Of Irish whisky and four beers,• he flitted back to liubliti. Wav- ing to a troWd, he itirried, dew- brewed, to A. neWainan, whis- Pored weakly : "Oct the home. Ttri itty Technical Technical changes have cer- tainly made farming a more comfortable ocCupation but it ap- pears that the financial benefits go Mainly to the non-farm popu- lation, S. H, Lok, 'Canada De- partment of .Agriculture econo- mist, told the. Agricultural Insti- tute Of Canada at Winnipeg. . It understandable- therefore that farmers, and even universi- ty' professors lOok • upon tech- nical researcW With mixed' feel- leg§. But 'to :abandon research *child conflict with -humanitar- ianism at a time' when there are many chronic hunger problems in the world, said- Mr. Lok. * Solutions to the ' low income- clues:tion are more likely to come, from caution in 'purchasing ex- pensive 'equipment a'n d, on larger farms in, using such inno-/ vations:to the 'fullest extent, he thought. • * • Vertical integration is an ap- proach to.stabilizing farm income and is a move towards greater efficiency" of • operation. This method limits the• farmer's inde- pendence in his role as.rnanager and tends to hasten the evolu- tion of the fa.rm family way into' a business corporation which though it may still be a family affair, has a changed set of val- ues. * e • Techriical advances usually-in- . crease production and, when widely adopted, bring about a marked decline in prices through the whole of the agricultural in- dustry. In private industry those who cannot keep pace are elim- inated as an essential aspect of our economic system -- witness the fate of the .corner grocery— and this is the price paid for broader benefits. Society supports those individuals whose state of welfare falls below a social,• minimum. • • • In agriculture adjustments take place slowly, partly because of the intervention of legislation to assist the farmer whO, thereby, has his sense of independence un- dermined and does little to ex- plore solutions to the 'low in- come problem. Mr. Lok said economists were partly to blame for this attitude v in, that their well-meaning ef- forts on the farmer's behalf left him feeling that his lOW,Incorne problem was inevitable — a case of histbric determinism. * * In some countries which have not succumbed to the dissection of t h e. agricultural industry through vertical integration, in- tegration has taken place from within the industry, through farm co -operatives, enabling the farmer to extend control Over the economic resources to his own advantage, "Interestingly enough," corn. Merited Mr, T_Jok, "in the country there farm, co-operatives have been Most successful, the farrri- erS have managed to stay free of state support to a remarkable ctegree. There Are many factors that account 'for the Slicers of farm co-operatives ill Seine Conn., tries and, by comparison, their IT TAitE8 IVIi SECONDS' to Satin out lighted itibitedO and triaYlie te ifiltititeS 'hiecit Ont a. ca w MPO& Try to invest that tintelli One to 'save toted§ Heinflaming tragedy. PreVerit forest failure on this continent; but it, is safe to say that without consist- ent determination on the part of the farmers the co-op movement could not have become of any consequence anywhere." • C « « Mr. Lok said when an attempt is made' through -state supporta to bring the , farmer's inCome into equity,, of the prosperity at. the country "One stifles not only effi- ciency but also the value of in- dependence. Redistributing in- come 'through price,supPorAs 'stead of direct payments to farm- ers may be further at the expense of efficiency. Again there Is con- flict between efficiency of large' scale operations 'and 'the' values associated with the smallerlam- ily farm." The changes in "the value structure of .the farm popula- tion have been recognized as one of 'the most important problems of the next quarter century and material should be gathered to enable the ranking of these values In order of importance. That would be- a project to be under- taken by several branches of learning. It would transcend ec- onomic 'theory as we presently know it and would achieve an- other step towards "unity of science." Until >such a project is accept- ed, Mr. Lok concluded, econo- mists must be sensitive to the fact that material goods alone do not make for the fulfilment of the farmer's destiny. There's nothing wrong with "coffee" served by some restaur- ants that a little coffee wouldn't cure. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking MOM MOW OBOE MOM MOM MUM OUMMOMOU MOW MUMU DIUMOOM MUD MOMEIMO OUMOO UMO.MME OD OUMOOMO UM OM HMO MOUE LIMBED MUUU memo 0008 MEMO ®®MODEM© MMOM 0000 MOB MOM COMO Di® AY fey Oarcfay .10mo . . Life Vanity ,or Ecclesiastes 5: 1-2, 18-19.. . ............„ emory .5a1,00tlan:I' Let not 414,4e. heart envy sinners; but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long, Proverbs 23;12, What is life, anyway? King. Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, and one et the richest gives his views in the book of Ecclesiastes. He diligently sought for wisdom and knowledge but concluded that these alone were vanity, Then he turned to mirth and pleasure, "Whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not Irons them. I withheld not my, heart from any joy," But despite these and all his pessessions he con. eludes, "Behold, all was vanity and, vexation of spirit." Some have thought that Solo- mon did not believe in the im- mortality of the soul. They quote, "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the others yea, they have all one breath; so that a man bath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again." tut the very next words show that Solomon has been dist. cussing man from a physical viewpoint only, or he says, "Who knoweth the snirit of man that goeth upward,, and the spirit or the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" Again in chapter 12 he says. "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the, spirit shall return unto God who gave it," Solomon is very certain that this life is not an end in itself. We are travelling to the judge. ment and a life beyond the grave. The book ends with these words, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whOle matter:,:: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Fos God shall bring' every work rote judgment; with -'every secret thing, whether Ay be good, or whether it be evil." If we live for this life alone, truly it Is vaniSy, But if we ilt7• cept the salVatien provided for us by Jesus Christ in His death for us on CarVary and His rising again from the dead as Victor, we shall have abundant life. We shall find that life is ViCtbrY• Through faith In Christ We cat overcome sin. To Him be all the praise. ISSUE .31 — 1959 -•. ACROSS 6 0:4 1-;1'•olirthge 8 Allross .12 1 ,14Mitive, 0 Indian of So. 10 Ailerica IA. Young gallilorr 11. 1711114 n1Itilre 17 gitrii tiumvklice troornuniented 1 finderatoott 23. l'aft ,i plays 25 Sand nieS 27. Sobial,',,iri ,•eckt 93 rryi Ai. While 22. An imnetlis A.2.1110vii 33. 'ithtftin 2' R.-111100mi 20..7ullet's loVet 41, Bror witness Tlflanee 40. T f'omr, forth Presn 50. riceunled 54. nokftl ,ttit an 53. Pat down 67, Ilialcrs , Tropir,a1 fruit ittofn,n nrnv N: 1. 'Hilliard 411a1tr Z. Vast' 0. Ilread Sprelisi 1. 'Tast 5 TlinitirSiiii* 11. Adreciity UOSSSWORD 16. factor Declaims violently PUZZLE 20. Take part in 2i. Alale party 22, Facility ,purvo ' '. *24: ProViclei fcir 26. 13orl7Vnolitic In troduce 20—Condention Jostle 30. Needy , Most crippled 33. Warded off 34,13Ird Affirm Answer elsewhere on this page -MN:74R I SPACE TRAVELLERS -- These are the latest Soviet passengers into space, and both were described by the press in Moscow as cheerful and in good condition when they returned to earth. The dog, a veteran of three similar trips, had the rabbit as companion on the latest one. CHASED BY FIRE — Betsy ortgboW, who described'h erself Os a "beatnik," et sbn, JorldS, end a friend, [David Garcia, cluster neat their belongings, They fled o house' as a bresh fire swept upon them near Hollywood,.