first Alaskan
'Bone Bank' at
Mi. Edgecumbe
' The first "bone bank" in the Ter
ritory has been established at the
Mt Edgecumbe Medical Center, the
Alaska Health Iiepartment announ
ced today This bank is one of the
jew in the nation. Its use in nine
recent bone surgery cases have all
proved success ful, Dr. Philip Moore,
health department orthopedic sur
geon there said.
Th bbne hank is a special deep
freeze unit where temperature can
be maintained at 20 or more degrees
below zero. Health bones, such as
ribs necessarily extracted in chest
surgery, may be preserved in this
Unit for use as replacement mater
ial for bone removed in later bone
surgery cases.
"The preservation of healthy
bones for later use has revolution
ized bone surgery,” according to
l»r. Moore. He explained that these
times, preserved in a sterile cond
llion, are then milled or ground to
be parked as replacement material
where portions of bone have been
removed by bone surgery.
He said that between February
jlG, of this year when the first bone
)was placed in the new bank at the
Orthopedic hospital, and May 15,
‘the milled bone had been used as
'replacement material in nine bone
/surgery cases, "all of which have
; been very successful."
Dr. Robert E. Staff, orthopedic
surgeon for the Tuberculosis San
itorium at the center, is in charge
of the bone bank.
68 Fly on PH A
Oyer Weekend
Sixty-eight weekend passengers
traveled via Pacific Northern Air
lines with 31 arrivals and 37 de
partures.
To Anchorage: Esther Loescher,
H. W. Scheliter, Norman Glover, A.
Bandettini, Marie Jensen, Mary
Hutchinson, Dr. and Mrs. Dexter,
A. A. Hedges, Helen Saale, Dave
Green, Leonard Brown, A. Galli, W.
A. Rittef, Mrs. Jack Healy, Dick
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From Cordova: John Clark, B.
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cock, Robert Brown.
CHRISTIAN SERVICE
CIRCLE MEETING
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
The afternoon circle of the Wo
men’s Society of Christian Service
will meet tomorrow July 18, with
Mrs. Lloyd Coe for dessert lunch
ton with a study, in charge of Mrs.
Ruth Popejoy, lollowing.
Cars will leave the church at
1:15 p.m. Transportation will be
provided for all who wish to at
tend.
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'Bone Bankr Operates
A healthy rib bone necessarily removed In chest surgery at Mt. Edgecutnbe Medical Center is shown being
placed In a sterile container for future use by the center’s new “bone bank.” Bones are kept at ail
degrees below zero before being "withdrawn” to replace a diseased bone.
Pictured above is a bone removed from the “bank” and being milled
for use as replacement of a removed bone. Method has been used
in nine cases, all successful, according to health department officials.
19 Army Officers
In Alaska on
Orientation Trip
: ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE,
[Alaska, July 17,—Nineteen Army
Colonels, repreesnting various Ar
my headquarters throughout the
United States, arrived here yester
day for an army summer Arctic
orientation tour of Alaska. This
morning they were welcomed by Lt.
Gen. W. E. Kepner, Commander
in-chief of the Alaskan command.
The group will visit posts and
MRS. DAN TWEIT VISITS
OLD FRIENDS IN JL’NKAU
Mrs. Dan Tweit, the former Fern
Williams, who has been in Juneau
for the last two weeks, will leave
Sunday for her home in Seattle.
While she has been in Juneau,
Mrs. Tweit has been busy visiting
with old friends who have enjoyed
her return to town.
bases of the army, navy and air
force in the Territory, completing
their visit on July 27.
A winter and summer tour of
this kind is made each year, to fam
iliarize' senior army officers with
problems of planning and supply
in Arctic operations.
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Alaska Mapping
Progress Speeded
Says Fitzgerald
"More progress has been made this
year in the Geological Survey map
ping program in the Territory than
in any previous year,” said Gerald
Fitzgerald, chief topographic engi
neer who arrived here from Wash
ington, D. C., over the weekend.
He said this was due to good
weather coupled with improved
mapping methods. The Geological
Survey is using six helicopters in
its work this year. \
Also here is R. O. Davis, regional
engineer from the Denver office of
the bureau.
Although he has not been in Alas
ka for the past 10 years, Fitzgerald
is a pioneer in Alaska Geological
Survey work. He first started on it
20 years ago, “ in the days when the
only way to get any place was to
walk,” he said, although later he flew
with many old time bush pilots in
the Interior.
Davis was in the Territory last
two years ago.
Survey and mapping parties are
in the Kake, Prince of Wales, Cor
dova, Chitna. Denali and Lake
Louise area and a great deal of work
is being done in the Interior rail
belt section in connection with the |
military.
The two men are leaving here for
the westward and Interior and will
be in Alaska until July 28, when
they will fly directly from Fair
banks to the States.
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Woman Gold
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SANTA BARBARA. Calif., July 17
_ y._ Mrs. Georgia Anna Milner,
| 82. who tarried her two-year-old
son over Chilkoot Pass 'into the
Yukon during the 1899 Alaska gold
rush, died yesterday.
Her father, William Fulton, logged
off timber on part of the present
Site Of Seattle. She is survived by
her son, William, of Santa Barbara,
and a brother, James E. Fulton,
Seattle.
i L. Ricker Going
To Conference
In Chicago
A. L. Ricker, veterans' employ
ment representative, will leave to
morrow for Chicago to attend a
conference of veteran’s employment
representatives, he said today. The
offices are part of the U. S. De
partment of Labor. The conference
is scheduled lor July 21 to 24 and
will involve 61 delegates.
He also said that Sept. 1 is the
deadline for the American Legion
sponsored "Operation Comeback,”
a contest of letters for veterans who
have overcome a physical handicap.
Prizes involve $7,000 in cash awards
jand four paid trips to the Ameri
can Legion convention in Miami
Oct, 15 to 18.
Details of the contest can be ob
tained from any American Legion
post, Ricker said, or at his office
in the Juneau-Young Building.
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The widow of a grandson of the
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Mrs. Ryan, at liberty on $10,000
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