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Zurich Herald, 1957-12-05, Page 3• Rebuilding A Human Body The 7 -year-old Canadian boy *as a pitiable sight. Born with a severe facial defect, he had a deep depression in his left cheek where the temple and jawbone norxnally meet, His left ear was )missing, his tooth alignment dis- tweed, and many teeth had fail- ed to erupt. To hide his dis- figurement, the child's parents let his hair grow in a shoulder - length bob, giving him an un- natural feminine appearance. "He was a frightened, with- drawn youngster, unable to chew properly, masquerading as a girl, and not attending school," Dr. Martin A. Entin, a Montreal sur- geon, told members of the Amer- ican Society for Plastic and Re- constructive Surgery at a meet- ing in San Francisco recently, X-rays taken at the Shriners' Hospital, for Crippled Children in Montreal showed that part of the boy's jawbone had failed to develop past the fetal stage. As a temporary substitute, Dr, Entin made a graft from a bone bank and supplied the child with upper and lower dentures. Al the age of 14, when the right side of the young patieas lower jaw was fully grown and his permanent teeth were in. Dt. Entin made a permanent boue graft for the lower left jaw. For his material, he used a bone of the boy's foot and the joint con- necting it to the little toe. The toe bone was firmly anchored by stainless-steel wires to the boy's skull, while the foot bone was Joined to the lower left jaw. Three months later, Dr. Entin reported, the transplanted foot bones, fashioned into a jaw, ap- peared to be working normally. The bone graft had filled out the facial depression: the boy could open his mouth wide, and his dental "bite" was satisfactory. Future plastic -surgery will make • his foot as good as new. But even now, the boy has overcome most 91 his psychological diffi- culties. In the field of adult plastic sur- gery, there was important pro- gress in reconstruction of injur- ed hands. Dr, Julian M. Bruner, a Des Moines, Iowa, surgeon, re- ported specifically on accidents to hands of farmers who try to remove corn stalks or other ob- structions from the moving roll - ors of the mechanical corn -pick- ing machines. He cited the case of one farmer who lost four fingers of his right hand in such en accident, and underwent seven operations in the Veterans Hospital, Des Moines, to save his hand. The patient, who has full motion sean the reconstructed fingers, now works for a chemi- cal concern, can run a tractor, and handle heavy bags of chemi- cals. .—From Newsweek. Wives of hunters have hit up - en the happy idea of sending a few empty polythene bags along with the shooting expedition. Small game can be popped into the waterproof bags to keep Imapsacks clean Q. How can I protect playing estrds from soil and wear, and make them slide easier? A. This can be easily accom- plished if a thin coating of liquid wax is applied to each card, both face and back. It will also pre- serve their original stiffness. MERRY MENAGERIE eAggISUOI? 11•21 'Well, I see our landlord's been practicing putting again!" British Have World's Only Telescope That Can' Trace Space Satellites By TOM A. CULLEN NEA Staff Correspondent Jodrell Bank, England — (NEA)—The Russian. Sputniks are murdering the sleep of this peaceful Cheshire countryside, 30 miles from the grimy city of Manchester and noted f or its cheese. Or rather, to be more accu- rate, the $2,500,000 Jodrell Bank telescope, the largest steerable radio -telescope in the world, is what's destroying the peace and quiet of this pastureland. Dairy farmers can't sleep at night, their dreams being brok- en by eerie, other -worldly noises that seem to come froze the bowels of this red clay soil. "It's like subway trains tear- ing along under the earth," one. 'farmer told me. Another de- cribed the sounds as the "high- pitched screams of a thousand demons being put to torture." Even the cows are behaving queerly, I was told. The butter content of their milk has gone off, or so the farmers believe. What the Cheshire farmers hear these frosty winter nights are neither banshees nor sub- ways, but the motors of the. Jodrell Bank telescope as it turns and tilts in the night fol- lowing the Russian satellites in their orbits. Tracking satellites is child's play, relatively speaking, for the are on Jodrell Bank at this Inc- snent, Already,, the giant telescope has given one spectacular dem- onstration of its capabilities. In response to a frantic Russian 'e - quest to locate the wayward rocket that is chasing Sputnik the telescope reached out and plucked the rocket 1,000 miles away as it hurtled over the Arc- tic Circle. It took the telescope just six hours to locate the lost rocket. Impressed with this perform- ance, Russian scientists now telegraph daily forecasts of Sputnik II's position to the ex- perimental station at Jodrell Bank. As the U.S. launches its,satel- lites into outer space, ,the tele- scope will become increasingly important. Already, it is fur-, nishing data on the Russian satellites to the Smithsonian Institution and to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. First impressien of the Jodrell Bank telescope, as viewed from a taxi two miles away,. is that of a gigantic Cyclop eye turned toward the heavens. Only, this is an eye that hears, rather than sees, one that is capable of send- ing radio impulses to the stars, the sun and to distant nebulae. To get an idea of its size, the telescope's reflector is 15 times bigger than the 200 -inch mirror of the Mount Palomar telescope CYCLOPS EYE IN COW FIELD: For this giant Bank, England, tracking satellites is child's giant telescope with its 250 -foot reflector. It is in the coming weeks, with Sputnik II's radio batteries dead and the fantastic circus circles even closer to the earth, that the Jodrell Bank telescope will come into its own. For now it is the only known instrument capable of tracking the Russian playthings with radar. The telescope will sit in on the death of the satellites, which is expected to take place early in December. It will listen to the death rattle, record the last convulsions of the two Sputniks as they re-enter the earth's atmosphere. Will the satellies explode, due to the heat and friction of earth's atmosphere? Will they disintegrate, scattering showers of meteorites as brilliant as a cernet's tail? Or will they return to earth more -or -less intact? In supplying answers to these questions, the Jodrell Bank tele- scope will determine whether the Russians have an inter -con- tinental ballistic missile that is capable of returning to earth to discharge its deadly atomic load. That is why all eyes—includ- ing those of Russian scientists— telescope at Jodrell play, in California. The reflecting dish is, in fact, big enough to seat 10,000 people (whether comfortably or with knees up to their chins, ane is not told), This dish, which weighs 800 tons, is suspended between two towers that are taller than Nel- son's Column in London's Tra- falgar Square. (185 feet). But the marvel, which weighs 2,000 tons all told,, moves with the delicacy and precision of the sweep -hand of a watch when it is tilted to scan the sky or follow a star in its course. The reflecting dish is com- pletely steerable. It can be pointed in any direction, includ- ing upside down (when this happens for the first time the ground beneath is likely to be showered with paint brushes, loose rivets, and debris left by the workmen). At full speed the telescope can swing around the compass' in 18 minutes and the dish can loop -the -loop in 15 minutes flat. Once the telescope has sighted its object, electronic computers do all the calculations required to keep it on its target, as it performs its weird rock'n' roll, (To Be Concluded Next Week) TAKING THEM FOR A RIDE—Pleasure 'rips in this 1939 hearse offered by Delta Kappa Epsilon 'Fraternity at Williams College. Visiting dates from Bennington College are helped out of the somber vehicle while appropriately dressed "f ootmen" stand by. It's named "Charon" after Che mythological figure who ferried dead souls across the river Styx. Raccoon -coaled under - orad supplies suitable (?) music. Fur Coat Saves Drowning Person The world was thrilled re- cently by the miraculous escape of Second Officer Douglas War- drop of the 10,000 -ton Glasgow motor ship, British Monarch. Falling overboard into the Pa- cific Ocean; and not missed nearly four hours later, he went on swimming entirely un- supported for nine hours with a turtle keeping him company and an electric eel, which kept giving Jairrx shocks, before , his ship, having turned about and raced back over 100 miles, res- cued him. Much more amazing, though, after being hurled into the wa- ter, was the escape of Mrs. Mar- garet Gwyer, a survivor of the ill-fated Lusitania which a Ger- man TJ -boat sent to the bottom in May, 1915, with the loss of 1,200 lives. Margaret Gwyer, ethree weeks married, was on her honeymoon cruise off Ireland with her clergyman husband. Her first shock, after the torpedo's thun- derous explosion, came when a wave threw her out of the life- boat into which she had clam- bered Then, as the vessel heeled over, with its wreckage engulf- ing her, she found herself to her horror sucked into one of the Lusitania's four giant funnels. The ship then went down. Suddenly there was a shatter- ing explosion and hundreds were killed. But Mrs. Gwyer was blown clean out of the fun- nel, as if shot from a fairground cannon. Though much bruised, she hit the sea without suffer- ing any broken bones and was hauled into a rescue boat. Similarly, when in April, 1912, ifter striking an iceberg three hours earlier, the Titanic went down, many survivors cheated death very narrowly. One, a Yorkshire Justice of the Peace, A. H. Barkworth, probably owed his life to his fur coat. He wore it over his life - belt, and by this novel arrange- ment, gained extra buoyancy when tossed about in the icy sea. Later, he was able to climb into a lifeboat. On the afternoon of June 22, 1893, Vice -Admiral Sir George Tryon, K.C.B., exercising his fleet in the Mediterranean, gave a faulty signal. It led to his two lines of battleships turning in- wards to reverse direction, when there was not sufficient room for such a manoeuvre. His gship, the Victoria, crashed into the Camperdown, which was leading the parallel &Aux= of battleships. The Victoria plunged to her doom, taking with her the Ad- miral, twenty-two officers and 336 men. But one young officer, marked for fame, escaped. Commander John Jellicoe had been lying in his bunk suffering from malaria, As the ship crum- pled under the terrific impact, he staggered up on deck, and dropped over the side. A few seconds later the ship disappear- ed. Struggling hard, Jellicoe managed to keep afloat just long enough to be rescued. His rescue meant much for Britain's future naval prestige and safety. For twenty years la- ter, as Admiral Sir John Jelli- coe, he defeated the Kaiser's warships at Jutland. • Last autumn, an Aberdeen trawler deckhand, forty-three- year-old John Craig, had unbe- lievable luck after being washed overbeard. The huge wave which carried him away knocked him unconscious. But while he was insensible another wave swept him back on board. The force of this, by a freak of fortune, wedged him securely beneath a lifeboat. And there he lay, hid- den and unconscious. His skipper, meanwhile' be- lieving him lost, radioedthe nearest coastal station. The Pet- erhead lifeboat, answering this S 0 S, circled until dusk in the angry waters round the spot where lie had disappeared, but no body was sighted. Craig's wife was informed. But imagine her delirious joy when the missing man walked into her cottage, having revived in the boat. His reappearance surprised everyone. "Why, it's yon Jamie's ghost that be welk- in' here!" cried one of his ship- mates, astounded to see him in the flesh again. When, in 1868, the French steamer, Ville du Havre, went down in mid-Atlantic with 200 victims, one of the eighty-seven survivors, Mary Bulkley, felt all she wanted to do was to follow her little daughter, Helen, who had drowned. In vain, Mrs. Bulkley clutch- ed the child's clothes, but the sea's force tore them from her. 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