ALASKA'S FIRST "BONE BANK"
REVOLUTIONIZES BONE SURGERY
JEANEAU. The first “bone
bank'* in Alaska is in operation
at the Mt. Edgecumbe Medical
Center Orthopedic unit. The bank
received it* first deposit, a rib
bone, on February 26. 1951 and by
May 15 had furnished replace
ment material in nine cases ■>!
bone surgery, according to Dr.
Phillip Moore, Alaska Health de
partment orthopedic surgeon. Dr.
Robert E. Staff, orthopedic sur
geon at the Mt. Edgecumbe Tub
erculosis sanatorium, is in charge
of the bone bank.
The bone bank is a special deep
freeze unit where temperature
can be maintained at 20 or more
degrees below zero. Healthy
bones, such as ribs necessarily ex
tracted in chest surgery, may be
preserved in this unit for use is
replacement material for bone
cases.
“The preservation of healthy
bones for later use has revolu
tionized bone surgery.” Dr. Moore
said He explained that these
bones, preserved in a sterile con
dition, are then milled or ground
to be packed as replacement ma
terial where portions of bone are
removed in bone surgery.
The nine cases at the Ortho
pedic unit in which the bone re
placement procedure has been
followed have “all been very suc
cessful”, Dr. Moore said.
He commented that the use
of the “bone bank” is new not
only in Alaska but also in the
States.
GREAT BOOKS VACATION
Meetings of the Great Books
Discussion Group have been dis
continued for the remainder of
the summer, Mrs. Charles Wilson
announced this week. I
The first meeting of fall will be
held at her home Sunday, Sept
ember 23.
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Palmer Drag
PALMER. ALASKA
Challengers Win In
Grudge Game Fought
Out in Palmer Park
As a result of a challenge issued
by the Palmer Kimanis club to
the Anchorage club to decide the
Kiwanis championship of South
Central Alaska, the Palmer team
last Wednesday evening became
the Kiwanis champions of S. C. A.
The score was 18 to 9.
Batteries for Palmer included
pitcher Johnny Wiesenberger and
catcher Jack Tost. (Ex-pro hard
ball player Tost had difficulty lo
cating the soft ball; he struck out
three times.) Anchorage pitcher
was Dr. Forrest Smith.
The teams were managed by
Jack Maze of Palmer and Lucky
Boward of Anchorage. Umpires
were Jack Leek and Chet Sand
vik. Dr. Bailey kept score.
Anchorage had to draft four
local men, including Ray McCart
hy and Bob Bettine, before they
could line up a team approaching
customary standards.
Thursday’s sore muscles may
have induced Palmer Kiwanians
to think better of it, but after the
Wednesday night game, tentative
plans were made to organize a
soft ball league in Palmer next
year.
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Yes, gone are the days
of “hand powered
farming,,' Modern
farmers rely on elec
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with every chore. See
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FIRST AHA HOUSING
RESIDENT MOVES IN
Drive right over and meet Mr.
! O. 2C. Kincaid, the first man suc
cesfully to get through the maze
of red tape needed to ‘arrive" in
an AHA house here.
Mr. Kincaid is a newcomer u>
Palmer, and brings a new busi
ness. As a representative of the
Beaver and Van Seventer Ac
counting Service of Anchorage,
he will be able to offer Palmer
businesses any accounting or
auditing services needed.
With Mr. Kincaid here are his
wife and two year old son. He at
tributes his success with AHA to
the fact that he lived only two
blocks from the office.
“They got to know me quite
well”, he said.
He doubted that last Saturday's
deadline to get out of his Anch
orage house had anything to do
with his success in moving last
week end.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kincaid was
certain AHA housing aspirants
would be his neighbors soon. It
was reported that Mr. and Mrs.
Neil Michaelson might be moving
in the “open house” house this
week end. Then Kincaid’s neigh
bors on both sides, the Everett
Pedersons and Dr. and Mrs. John
Perry, will soon move in.
S.C.S. MEN LEAVE FOR KENA1
S. C. S. men Pat Murphy, Clif
ford Marcus, and Tom Day go co
the Kenai Peninsula Monday to
work on the Homer sub-district
land capability classification.
They will be gone about a month.
During a month’s work last
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Battle of the 25 Percent
Goes to Senate-Houie
Conference Committee
Word was received from Wash
ington by Don L. Irwin Wednes
day that the Senate had passed
the controversial Department of
Agriculture appropriations bill
with the objectionable House
Clause deleted.
In the bill as passed by the
House, federal employees of the
Department of Agriculture hired
in Alaska would no longer be en
titled to the 25 percent differen
tial pay now added to the base
pay of ail federal employees in
Alaska. U. S. Department of Ag
riculture employees hired out
side would receive the differential
pay. The House bill was assailed
bitterly by Delegate Bob Bartlett
and Governor Ernest Gruening as
the rankest kind of colonialism
conceivable. An economy-minded
House passed the bill on the
grounds that the 25 percent v.as
an “incentive payment” rather
than a cost of living adjustment.
Now the bill will be fought out
i n Senate—House conference
committee.
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year, five workers surveyed 75 -
000 acres in the Homer areas. Jf
this, they classified 16.000 acres
as Class 2—as good as any land
in the Matanuska Valley. Another
16,000 acres was put in Class 3—
suitable for farming, but not quite
so desirable. ,
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4-H CLUB NEWS
The Vegetable Growers
Dunne our last meeting July
2, we took our lunches and
limbed to the top of Lazy Moun
sin. making the round trip in
ive and a half hours.
Refreshments of pop and ice
ream at our leader's home, Mrs
'earl Trowbridge.
As some of our members are at
ending 4-H camp, our next meet
ig will be held August 10 at out
eader’s home.
Reporter Roy Felix
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