The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 23, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, September 23, 1954 —— The Key West Citizer Published daily (except Sunday) from Thi i i Greene and Ann Streets. Ec enna cornesiet Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher . se . 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN .. .. Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Momber of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively ertitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also . lished here. Pi the local news pub e Associate Dailies of Floride ela len ao a a | J , 25e per week; year, £12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION a lamin The Citizen is an oper forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish Anonymous communications. Se IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land aid Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium. —————— DR. STARK RATES HIGH HONOR The will to do in peace and in war is what has made the United States of America the greatest nation in the world. Acts of heroism are many in the annals of our country. Included in them is what that Navy doctor did at Dry Tortugas a few days ago in swimming 50 yards, with a broken arm, in a heavy sea to attend a sailor whose left foot had been severed by a winch. Other peoples are just as devoted to their countries as we are to ours, but the marked differences between them and us lies in the will to do. They marvel over the w,stness of our industrial output or our inventive genius, and assign our success to our great material resources. But those resources would not be of any consequence if we lacked the will power to develop them. Many other countries have resources but their people have not the spirit to develop them as we develop ours. That spirit has all but died out in a few countries that are now almost wholly depending on us to keep alive their economic life. That dependence is the main reason why so many Americans oppose our continuing our economic assistance, or cutting it down to a small percentage of what it is at present. As Senator George of Georgia asked, “Why don’t they do something to help themselves?” The combination of industrial activity and heroism in our armed forces is what keeps an abiding faith in Americans about the invincibility of their country. Will in doing and faith in winning, with effective “tools of war,” as Churchill calls them, have made the United States the greatest country in the world. Let Russia brag. She bragged during the first World War, and then knuckled down to the Germans, under von Hindenburg, and had signed a treaty to cede much of her territory to the Germans, but the United States got it back for her. s, But back to the heroism in the rough sea at Dry Tortugas. Dr. James E. Stark, who did the swimming, with a broken arm, is worthy of our country’s highest commendation. The sea, when aroused, has been a terrible enemy of man throughout the ages, and he fought it while handicapped in performance of duty. The wise merchant is the one who put the “ad” in trade. Sc ('¢ TENDED \ SOCIAL SECU R/ “Aw Ty Scientists Battle Dread Illness Drug To Stop Cell Division May Stop Cancer By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter WOODS HOLE, Mass. — New drugs to stop cancer are one pros- pect from scientific searchings in- substances also can prevent the to that tiny but potent engine of {initial clotting of a cell, and so life—the living cell. The prospect is drugs which would prevent cancer cells from |from the ovaries of starfish. The dividing and forming two new can-| Starfish must release its eggs into cer cells. Cancer is bad because |the sea water in order for them cancer cells keep dividing and di-|to start dividing and. growing to| viding without control. Chemicals which prevent some kind of cell division are being produced here at the Marine Bi ological Laboratory by Dr. L. V. Heilbrunn, zoologist of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. They will be tested this winter to see what effect they have against cancer in mice. The chem- icals come, oddly enough, from the ovaries of starfish, chickens, tur- tles and dogs. Ovaries are the storehouses of the eggs for new animal life. ‘ The story concerns a main phase of Dr. Heilbrunn’s researches — | to learn what kind of engine is the | living cell. The interior of a cell is fluid, made of protoplasm. Studying cell division or splitting into new cells, | Heilbrunn finds that a first | Dr. step is for the cell to start clotting or gelling for a time. Most people listen to loud talkers, and that explains much of the confusion prevalent. The emphasis on passing other cars, and speed, by automobile manufacturers is misplaced, we think. an ee ee aa Peoples are not equal and anyone who confuses equal opportunities with absolute equality is off the deep end. EILIMMIUIRIGIES IM TIOly] LIEIAMEMIAIRIAIT i Alwic | FIEITIEMEM| | IRJAICILIE |S) PIRI PER TIL IK) FIAIRIE IDM VIE TR/ ABE AIRIE RE K P Crossword Puzzle ACROSS i. Is able 4. Fodder pit 8. Demolish 12. Self 13. Dillseed 14. Redact 6. Clear gain 35. Mediter- ranean sail- ing vessel 37. Rowing implement 38. Copy 39. Hindu gar- ment 40. Discover 41, Short fora LINE MESIFIOINE] ISIAIDENAIT (1) | C RGB ASERTHIAT 16. Put between 18. Chord of three tones 20. Large plant 21. About 22. Constella- tion 23. Part ofa church 27. Human race 29. By 30. Coral island 81. English letter 32. Period 33. Dance step 34. Has being E IRIN} Solution of ¥esterday's Puzzle DOWN 1. Copper eoin 2. Dyeing apparatus 3. Idea 4. Spoke 5. Tavern 6. Epistle 7. County in Colorado 8. Iterates 9. Stir 20. Pet name man’s name 42. Tighten: naut. 44. Glossy fabric 47. Give wrong information 51. One: Scotch 52. American lake 63. Brother of Jacob 54. Turmeric 55. Small tumors 56. Dispatched 57. Harden 11. Summer: French 17. Note of the scale 2. One indefi- nitely 22. Allow 24. Italian siver 25. Lose one's footing 26. Other 27. Army meal 28. Appellation of Athena 39. American author 30. Swiss river 32. Renders divine 33. Remunerate 36. Former President's nickname 37. Resist 38. Places of worship 40. Strongboxes 41. Cooled lava 43. Registered nurse: abbr. 44. Blacken with soot 45. Arrow poison 46. Orderly 41. Cry of a Gat 48. Al The cotting is apparently caused by the release of calcium into the cell. This calcium is ring structure of the cell. And he finds that anything which can prevent the initial clotting ac- tion inside the cell will also halt or prevent cell division. Therein lies | the cancer clue. Cells, he reasons, are something like human blood in this clotting action initiated by calcium. One potent drug which thins the blood | and acts as an anti-clotting agent is heparin. Heparin can also halt cell division, but the molecule of heparin is too large to enter inside normally | bound up in the cortex or outer | | | land carry on special duties, such understood in order to understand the workings of the cell. The many-faceted research in his laboratory by his assistants and graduate students also in- cludes study of the effects of X-rays to stimulate the’ release {of a heparin-like or anti-clotting | material in the cell, some teses | show. His own and other experiments show that muscle cells, if made to contract and work repeatedly, give off a heparin-like substance. This would be released into the bloodstream. There it could help keep the blood fluid, working per- haps to prevent blood clots or formation of depsits which hard- en arteries. This might be an ex- planation why regular exercising is now being urged by some medi- cal and other experts as a key to many kinds of cells. Then Dr. Heilbrunn discovered heparin-like chemicals in the ova- ries of some kinds of fish, These halt cell division. One such extract was obtained form a new Starfish. While the eggs are still in the ovary, some chemical acts to keep them from dividing. This chemical was extracted from starfish ovaries. It will pre- vent cell division in the eggs of a sea worm, chaetopterus. ‘But it does not h much effect in pre- venting division of cells of higher organisms, such as the mouse. Old West Seen In “Pony Express” The rugged tale of how a small band of gallant men who, against insurmountable odds, forged a vi- tal communication link from the Missouri plains to the Pacific Coast, across untamed country seething with nostiie indians, is the thrilling drama recounted in Paramount's brand new Technico- lor adventure film, ‘Pony Ex- press,” opening Sunday at the Mon- roe Theatre. The action is focused upon two of the most colorful and beloved of historical Western cha- racters, Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok. i These famous frontiersman are portrayed by Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill, Forrest Tucker as Wild Bill. Providing the romantic interest for these two stalwart in- dividuals are a pair of Hollywood's loveliest leading ladies, titian tressed Rhonda Fleming and blonde @an Sterling. Although the film is tinged with! amorous flavor, the accent is on rousing action. The storv’s conflict is generated by a small group of rebellious Californians who oppose the Pony Express in the belief that | their state will fare better as an independent republic, isolated from | with | the Union entirely. Others even more selfish reasons spur them on, even going so far as to sell firearms to rampaging Indi- ans, in their spurious efforts sabotage the proposed cross-coun- try mail service. Heston and Tucker, whose duty lies in seeing that the Pony Ex- press gets through, meet each bar- rier that confronts them with fear- less action that ultimately enables them to succeed. Audiences have been hailing this film as one of the most exciting to have emanat- ed from Hollywood in many a year. REDS TO TAKE PART IN W. BERLIN VOTE BERLIN (@#—The Communists notified the West Berlin govern-| ment officially that they will pax- ticipate in the city elections Dec. It will be the first time since the 1948 East-West split of the city that the Socialist Unity (Commu- nist) party has named candidates in the Allied sectors. Political observers saw virtually no chance of a Red candidate winning a seat. Studies show the largest number of Texans are most comfortable in summer when temperature is Yet Dr. Heilbrunn finds evidence | longer youthfulness and longevity. |78 and humidity 50 per cent. of powerful anti-division chemicals | to\t The Ground By JIM COBB | AB 22444444444444444440404400444044444. Movie Producer Pointed out to us, ove of seltzer water the ot just how significant circles Anna Ma can movie appe | _“She’s the greatest actress | Europe today. She has {money she needs and |finest parts,” said Wallis. | “But when she decided to come to America to make a fi laid h professional on the line. It'll be a cha her and the. wrong part really hurt her standing,” added I asked Wallis why she is doing it. “Because | plied Wallis. And Wallis ought to kno: covered some em, including 0 will play the Rose Tattoo. films as “C: s nt York, remember exactly movies he’s had a hand in. | bottle er night, in movie s first Amer- nce will be. in the e gets ion nge for could he she is an artist,” re *s ke & After Monday night’s city com- mission meeting, the city fathers went into. a huddle with police chief Bienwenido Perez Reporters’'were urged to make themselves searce. But the information on the grape- |vine is that the commission dis. i cussed a request by Navy officials that the police de; ent turn Navy personne! piace rest over to the promptly. Chief Perez is s sured the comm been following t | along—except in the c f |driving arrests. He. keeps offenders for the fotir coo! |period, the same as civi | But Chief Perez has su shore patrol id to have as- ed ly balked over the request that' charter boat docks. in the ovaries of many, and per- haps all, animals. So extracts are being made from | the ovaries of chickens, dogs and turtles. ‘ These will be tested against one | form of cancer in mice, Ehrlich’s ascites tumor, in which cancer, cells grow in a mass of fluid. | Heparin shows some little ability | to stop these cancer cells from | dividing. The extracts will be! compared with heparin to see if one or more of them is better at throwing a monkey wrench into cancer cells, | The interior of a cell is a fan- tastically complex machinery to| produce energy, get rid of wastes, | as being part of a nerve or muscle or brain or stomach. Dr. Heilbrunn’s approach to un-} derstanding this machinery is. to consider it as essentially a col- loidal solution—colloids being fine particles suspended in a fluid. Life and health of a cell depend, then, upon the chemical reactions tak- ing place among the colloid par- ticles, and these reactions must be This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb | Statistics as advertised in “Public Safety,” by the Weaver | Safety Lane car inspection equipment manufacturers—(the same | kind of equipment we use in Key West): SAD STATISTICS Toll Of Motor Vehicle Accidents In 1953 38,300 330,000 $1,172,400,000 $630,000,000 $565,200,000 in claims settlements on personal liabilities in claims settlements on collisions in claims settlements on property damage persons lost their lives persons were seriously injured How to”enjoy summer in the kitchen... | COOK COOL, ELECTRICALLY! Ten to twelve degrees cooler on hot summer days! Yon to twelve degrees makes a big difference ... and it’s the difference in comfort you'll enjoy this summer when you switch to cool electric cooking. ‘The oven, for example, is insulated on all six sides. Heat stays inside the oven where it belongs. That keeps you cooler. Surface units, too, help keep you cooler. Pots and pans fit directly onto the cooking surface ...no heat’s wasted. Automatic controls put an end to pot-watching. You ean leave the kitchen &.. find a cooler spot ... while your electric range does the eooking. See your favorite electric dealer right away for your eool-cooking electric "gange—and really enjoy summer cooking in cool comfort. CITY ELECTRIC SYSTEM BIGGEST 1. | FOr she!! se, good for them. . Police Patrol or the shore their rounds to see that Navy men are out of the bars by the a.m ine. Theory is th the SP’s can take care of in uniform but t city cops ed to check persons suspected of accomp said Perez. The those who pat- clubs would certainly such a move with dis- 5 that the city’s sanitary project is nearing comple- the city commission can start Worrying about two other things Streets and storm sewers. They still muddling along th lleged street machine and been dickering for a survey. so bad in my neighborhood that fish are actually swimming around in the water that has been lying in the streets for several weeks. S'fact. Kee Kak POTPOURRI: Some members of the city commission have been rath- er onsistent in their approach to the fluoridation question. They say they won't vote on the question because they don’t know anything about it.” Then they say they'd like to see it put to referendum— so the general public, which also knows very little about it can make certain decisions for us — why don’t they heed the profes- sional men when they say that it isn’t going to hurt anyone. ...- BULLETIN: New York will be the next to add odium silica fluoride to their vater supply. They know what's . .The appeal is still out for fish for the big fish fry, a week from Friday. Give them to Johnny West at the are storm Drai sewer is BARGAIN