The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 13, 1953, Page 3

- ¢ + a AMMUNIT ION SUPPLY Sex Hormones SERIOUSLY DEPLETED, nce ancet THE KEY WEST CITIZEN - learned. blood tests might make seven years later. Five were not}had existed for years. It ts ‘<3! Monday, Apri 18, 1953 Jit possible to learn which women helped at all. The results in anoth-}early, he said. to tell whether }needed extra amounts of various er were doubtful. this. combination is a good treat- | hormones while young in order to| The good effects.may come from | ment for cancer, The deses of hor- {| prevent. cancer later. changing the pattern of sex hor-} mones must be tailored to the in- | Dr. Huseby is using combinations | mones, correcting some fault that | dividual woman. of male and female sex hormone | : on women. whose breast cancers can’t be cured by surgery. Three “Page 3 Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. by ALTON L. BLAKESLEE | greatly, he said. The cancer of one! Ammo Program AP. Science. Reporter | woman is. apparently still. gone} Did Not Receive Drive It Should Have, He States By EDWIN B HAAKINSON WASHINGTON — Sen. Byrd (D-Va) said today the ammunition supply “in this country is danger- ously depleted’ although current supplies in the Far East, including Korea, may be adequate. “It took two years to get de- liveries on what they ordered after the Korean outbreak and there still is not enough ammunition,” Byrd said in an interview. His comments came as three Pentagon generals, responsible for production, distribution and: stock- piling of Army ammunition, were called before a Senate subcommit- Season On Rattlers Is Open In Okla: WAYNOKA, Okla. (P—An esti- mated 18,000 gunless hunters stalked rattlesnakes in the hills around Waynoka yesterday and brought back. over a thousand alive, The hunt, which kicks off the “rattlesnake season” in Oklahoma, will be followed next.week by the famous annual Okeene, Okla., DENVER. (® — Sex hormones | working’ in secret ways on wom-! en’s breasts between ages 20 and} 40 may start breast cancers ap-| pearing at 55 or 60, a physician! said today. i This is a-clue to a treatment! of breast cancers with both female | and male sex hormones, which has benefited a few women. ft also is a long-range clue to prevention of | human cancers. ! The experiments were described ; to science reporters starting a two- } week tour, organized by the Amer- | ican Cancer Society, of cancer re- search centers in Denver, sat| Lake City, San Francisco, Los on rattler. roundup, considered the daddy of them all. As certain’ as ‘the coming of spring, each year thrill seekers and experienced snake handlers from} geles, Houston, Tex., and New Or- leans. j The hormone guilt is indicated | in mouse experiments by Dr. Rob- | ert Huseby, University of Colorado | School of Medicine. 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I borrowed from CITY LOA to help convert. the upstairs of my house into two apartments!” co. @ It’s surprising what a lot of good opportunities LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A.M. and Northwestern Oklahoma communi- | ter-Play of female and male sex! ties to track down rattlers. Dan-| hormones in the body. Female hor-' gerous? Yes, but not’ as bad as it| mone stimulates the breast. Male friendly help of City Loan Co. you can land for yourself with the courteous, arrives at Key West at 5:00 o'clock RR of ordnance; Lt. Gen. W. B. Pal-| may sound. j hormone may protect the breast mer, G-4, which handles movement| Rattler-wise hunters who; {rom too much female hormone. of supplies; and Lt Gen. G. H.| wouldn't come within a country |The balance of hormones may be | Decker, Army comptroller. mile of their fangs in summer and | °Ut of kilter in women who later! “Broad and searching questions | fall know they can battle it out on| et breast cancer. Still other hor- | will be asked,” Chaitman Margar- | even terms in April and come out} ™ones may be involved. } et Chase Smith (R-Me) said in ad-! ahead, alive, and usually unbitten. | Just what the mixup in hormone vance of the hearing. pattern may be is still a mystery. Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service FULL CARGO INSURANCE MAIN YEFICE and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaton and Frarcis Sts. DIAL 2-7061 Take a look in the YELLOW PAGES of your Telephone Directory CITY LOAN CO. 524 SOUTHARD ST. DIAL 2-5681 “It is apparent that there has|{ been much red tape which was not | effectively dealt with by Army of-| ficials.... The ammunition ere gram did not receive the driving force it deserved.” Byrd, in coniments during and outside the previous hearings, has gone on record in favor of a com- plete overhauling cf Army ord- nance, And he said the entire Pen- tagon defense progrim may need revising with businessmen replac- ing generals and admirals in key posts on contracts and production. Secretary of the Army ‘Stevens won praise from sume of the in- vestigating senators this week end with his report that new ammuni- tion production 1¢ now under way} and supplies in Korea are now “in good shape.” But Stevens, in testimony Fri- day, agreed with Byrd that the over-all ammunition supply still is} far from adequate. He said the! huge stocks remaining from World | War Il have been badly depleted, ! leaving little stockpile against a} Possible global war. ; Roberts Is Guest At Kiwanis Meet Tuesday Evening Lt. Governor ‘Ed Roberts was the honoved guest of Key West Kiwanis Club at the regular dinner meeting held on Tuesday, April 7, 1953. Roberts is head} ef the South Florida District | comprising 11 Kiwanis Clubs in Monroe, Dade and Broward! counties. He complimented the} Key West Club upon its attain. } ment of over 95 ‘percent in Ki-; wanis activities. Gleason Snow and’ Norton’ Maris reported on the Jackie | Price baseball show. Jackie Price not only donated his services, for which there is generally a 3 or 4' hundred dollars fee, but also per-' sonally sold over 80 tickets to: the show, proceeds from which are to go for Little League Base-; ball and thé Kiwanis Under-} Privileged Children’s Fund. | Father..John Armfield, pro- gram chairman, announced im- portant coming events, to include | the following: April 21, Inter-Club meeting at which approximately 70 visit- ors are expected from other South Florida clubs April 28, Anniversary and La. @ies’ Night May 12, Kiwanis sponsorship of Armed Forces Day ‘Treasurer Will geport of funds on hand and suc- cessfully resisted faceitious mo- ; considered rare delicacies in the Albury gave a) The snakes are emerging from a, winter-long sleep and are groggy. As Merlin Camp, secretary of the Haynoka Saddle Club, which spon- sors the annual event, put it: “How would you feel after a good, long sleep? Like pretty much of a deadhead! So the hunters stalk the dens with their little forked sticks— snake-bite serum and suction cups are standard-equipment. with every group—and catch the reptiles near the head, pinning them. The snakes | are not injured, because hunt offi- cials. will pay only for the live variety—50 cents a pound. The Waynoka group then sells the snakes for the same prices to Arthur Jones, professional handler from Slidell, La., who resells them to zoos and antivenom plants. A few end up butchered and canned, “caviar set.” Camp admitted frankly his diges- tion and rattlesnake steak don’t| get along. “It wouldnt be bad know what you were if you didnt | eating, he j confided. “Tastes like shrimp. But I guess I’m mentally allergic to ‘them. The total: snake take yesterday was expected to weigh close to 1,500 pounds, . No one was bitten on the hunt— no one has been bitten for the seven years of hunts at Waynoka. Hunters usually bring back the! rattlers. in little boxes, but one } t hard-skinned wrangler. brought in| a few wrapped in the sleeves of his shirt. “Take the snakes, he told amazed officials, “but give: me back my shirt. It’s my last one and I can't afford to buy a new one. Much Money Goes To Gov't Cleaning WASHINGTON In the inter- est of cleanliness and economy, a House appropriations. subcommit- tee has decided it's time the gov- ernment got out of the houseclean- ing business. Eight million dollars a year, committee- members said, is just too much to spend keeping Wash- ington area federal buildings well- tions for throwing parties. with the funds, Propaganda \ Web Used On POWs WASHINGTON @ - If some American. soldiers return from Red prisoner of war camps talk- tng like converts te communism, gays the Defense Department, they probably are the victims of @ “propaganda web.” Apparently looking toward that, the Pentagon got out a “fadt sheet” fast aight. It described Red treat- ment of prisoners sometimes Dars imes soft—as one of the Co payanda tech ft § have been @apped by disto formation co ape s death said, | j | whic! | swept and in minor repairs—and | Bene RL CT MER SA RUSE RUMI PF UNE RR A ROE if oe ree a can be Ledr. Bickart Is On Duty At Naval Station Lieutenant Commander Richard | W, Bickart, USN, has reported to} the Naval Station <s assistant to the Supply and Fiscal Officer as Accouning Branch Officer. | Ledr.' Bickart replaces Lieuten- | ant Commander J. E. Thomas, | USNR, who returned to civilian | status on 10 March. | The 36-year-old accountant offi- | cer was born at Canton, Ohio, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph | T. Bickart of that city. He attend- ed the Canton McKinley High | Sehool and was graduated from | the Ohio State University at Col- | umbus, Ohio, where, he received: his B.S. degree in Business Ad-! ministration. | Ledr. Bickart has an extensive 'y background in accounting, h dates back to 1942, at which time he attended the Indoctrina- tion School at Dartmouth College. | ’ Ledr, Bickart is married to the | former Miss Mary Catherine Sle- | gona of Washingtoa, D. C. Ni Opera Company On Tour NEW YORK (#—The Metropol- itan Opera-Company is off on its seven-weeh 16-city spring tour. Some 33: members of the com- pany left here yesterday aboard a special train. Their first stop is Cleveland, where “Rigoletto is scheduled to open tonight. they said the buildings could be : cleaner, | | As if that wasn't bad enough, | |Chairman Phillips <R-Calif) told newsmen, the Public Buildings Ad- | ministration, which handles the | job, wants 11 million dollars next ) year, They won't get the. extra three million and they won't get any- thing like eight million, Phillips j asserted, and they had better do | @ better job next year, too. 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