New Wooden ‘Iron’ Lung
BLOOMINGTON, ILL. — An
emergency wooden “iron lung,” so
simple and cheap to construct
that almost any community, how
ever small, can build it, has been
approved for general use by the
American Medical Association.
The “lung,” credited with sav
ing the life of a young polio
victim when no standard respir
ators were available, was devel
oped and built by staff engineers
under the direction of Ralph Os
born, engineering vice president
of the Eureka Williams Corpor
ation here.
Approval was granted recently
and a 12-page booklet was pre
pared by the company and is
available free from the AMA.
The lung is designed so that
it can be constructed by any
competent mechanic in any com
munity which can provide an in
nertube for the diaphragm, wash
ing machine agitator and stand
ard 1 to 3 horsepower motor,
plus the wood.
Developed during a polio epi
demic in central Illinois, the lung
was the result of the company’s
engineering staffs working day
and night to develop the life
saving device. When an eight
year-old boy from Morrison, 111.,
was stricken and brought to a
hospital here, it was impossible
to get the standard iron lung.
Hospital authorities credited the i
machine with saving the boy’s life
and the skill and hard work of
the engineers paid off.
“Eureka Williams wishes to
make it clear that the company
has no financial interest in the
lung, nor has it made any man
ufacturing arrangements. We
merely want to make the plans
available to any community or
civic group which wants them in
order to provide emergency treat
ment in combating the dreaded
polio disease.’’ said Osborn.
$120,000 Search for Nickel
Cobalt Ore In Alaska
WASHINGTON, i/P) — The De
fense Minerals Administration an
nounced its approval of 16 more
contracts for government assist
ance in projects to explore for
strategic and critical metals and
minerals.
The projects involve an esti
mated cost of $564,022 of which
$402.-*49 will be paid by the gov
ernment, the remainder by private
industry.
The largest contract is with the
Admiralty - Alaska Gold Mining
Company which plans a $120,000
search for a commercial deposit
of nickel-cobalt ore in Alaska.
The government’s share of the
cost is $108,000.
Navy Plane Crashes Not
Due to Structural Faults
WASHINGTON, c/P)—1The Navy
said Saturday that none of the
series of crashes of planes in its
Alaskan Patrol Squadron Nine
was caused by faults in plane
structure.
All the PB4Y-2 planes of the
squadron, which had been
grounded while a Navy board in
vestigated, therefore were re
turned to operation, the Navy said
in answer to questions.
Baby bottle nipples—42,000 of
them—are used each year by Gen
eral Motors to mask terminals of
auto starting motors while paint
ing is in progress.
Glamour — when the value of
the package exceeds that of the
contents.
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Fairbanks Voters Approve
One Per Cent Sales Tax
FAIRBANKS, (/P)— A proposal
: for a one per cent sales tax within
I the Fairbanks city limits was ap
proved by voters Friday, 260 to
163. The money will be used to
improve city facilities.
Next month in another special
election, registered voters in the
entire Fairbanks area will decide
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the fate of a measure which
would levy a two per cent sales
tax in the local school district.
The full two per cent would be
collected outside the city limits
and one per cent inside the city,
making the total sales tax both
within and without Fairbanks the
same.
The school district levy would
go for new school construction.
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Resolution Would
Fxpell McCarthy
From Senate
WASHINGTON, (TP)—A Demo
crat’s angry blast at Senator Mc
Cartny appeared to indicate an
increasingly bitter political battle
over whether the Wisconsin Re
publican should be ousted from
Congress.
Senator Hennings <D-Mo)
charged in the Senate late Friday
that McCarthy had resorted to
“techniques of distortion and mis
representation” in suggesting that
Hennings disqualify himself as a
member of the Senate Rules Com
mittee.
This is the group which has be
fore it a resolution by Senator
Benton (D-Conn) raising the ques
tion of whether McCarthy should
be expelled from the Senate.
Hennings’ remarks brought Sen
ator Welker (R-Idaho) to Mc
Carthy’s defense. But another Re
publican — Senator Margaret
Chase Smith of Maine — crossed
the chamber and shook Henning’s
hand when he concluded. So did
two Democratic senators—Doug
las (111) and McMahon (Conn).
Benton has accused McCarthy
of “character assassination” in
pressing his communists-in-gov
ernment charges. McCarthy in
turn has called Benton a “mental
midget” trying to shield what Mc
Carthy calls “the crimson clique
in the state department.”
THINKS IT UNLIKELY
MAN CAN FIND A WAY TO
TRIGGER OFF THE H-BOMB
DAYTON, O., (JP)—Dr. Robert !
A. Millikan, Nobel prize-winning
physicist, said he thinks is un
likely man can find a way to
“trigger off” the H-bomb.
“I should be foolish if I denied
the possibility, but I don't think
it will be done,” he said at Patter
son Air Force Base here.
TALE OF NO TAIL
RANGOON, (£>)—This is a tale
which ends literally with the end
of a tail.
A Burmese peasant, M a u n g
Kyat was jogging along the dusty
road between Mandalay and
Tada-U in his bullock-drawn cart
when he shot 25 feet into the air.
The cart, passing over a rebel
hidden land mine, had touched off
an explosion.
Maung Kyat was unhurt, but
the bull’s tail was severed.
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