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calls It was a strange-looking; THE SHEIOYSAN PRESS, Thuriday, Auguit 9, 195 21 Retired Doctor Claims contraption. He Tried It The machine consisted of a Iron Lung Invention casing which fit over the upper THEIR LIVELIHOOD One of every eight of the four million persons employed in the New York harbor area draws his livelihood directly or indirectly from port commerce. STATE-NAMED TOWNS Five states have towns named California, three have an Ohio, and seven a Wyoming. New York has an Alabama, Pennsylvania has an Indiana, Louisiana has an Arizona. Kentucky a Texas, and Illinois a Tennessee.

vt that most authorities and en-clopedias gave credit to Philip Drinker and Louis A. Shaw of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, who develqped an iron lung in 1928. only two Good or United States paper currency is made only at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in Washington, D.C. Want ads bring kinds of iesults part of the body, and made comparatively air-tight by snug-fit-, ting rubber attachments foi neck, arms and legs. A flexible tube extended from the top of the casing to a hand-operated hich pumped air in and out of the inclosure.

Hammond tried the machine himself. "I got inside and had my mechanic tighten it up," he recalls. "When he raised up on the bellows I was talking away, giving instructions, and it cut me off. It frightened the mechanic, but I knew it as doing exactly ha By LEO SOROKA lulled Prefi Staff Correnpondcnt MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UP) The medical profession here has dug deep into past records and is ready to support a 78-year-old semi-retired physician's claim that he's really the man behind the first iron lung.

Dr. Charles Morgan Hammond is on the sidelines looking on. while the Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society is taking the initiative to get the iron lung credit for Hammond. Hammond isn't seeking recognition. "All I want to do is to help people," the elderly doctor said.

Hammond said he has "a Gotten said that records in the U.S. Patent Office verify that Hammond actually originated the machine years earlier. Records show that Hammond filed his patent on Jan. 12. 1911, and the patent No.

1087942 was granted Feb. 24, 1914, Got INTERNATIONAL STOCK CAR ROAD RACE OVER FOUR MILE COURSE DESIGNEO FOR ROAD RACING ten explained. In 1909 Hammond completed I he patent expired la years later when Hammond failed to renew it. The Drinker machine Tha Biggest Roc Program Of Tha Season hi first mntnr-ftrivpn resnirator If couple of ideas, for an upright respirator for heart patients." Doctors here support Ham mond's claim that he invented was patented in 1931. The white-haired Hammond, graduate of the old Memphis Medical College, had hung out his doctor's shingle on a huge 5a Aug.

11 -3 P. M. 100-MILE RACE AMERICAN and FOREIGN CARS TIMS THI 4 ADMISSION S2.S0 12-2 P. M. 250-MILE umimiom ia iace ADMISSION $400 incorporating the basic principles which he later patented; Thre years later the machine passed its first clinical test when a despondent man who had taken morphine and was near death, was placed in the resuscltator.

and patented the world's first A iron lung. Hammond was never able to rHItDRF: I FRKe" 7H BOTH BM get his invention into production because of limited finances. He i 1 r-JU. l.Vs-, fai 1 lanea io renew ms original Five hours later, Hammond said the man was out of danger. i Hammond has yellowed news- paper clippings telling how his patent hen it expired, ana otner 1.

1 i. respirator breathed life into per sons dying prostration, of pneumonia, heat tflS Cft'l ALL HIE MODEL AV.LRiCftN gas and ether nar- i TCf "TTTftTnnr7SDe and! cotton plantation below West Memphis. Ark. He suffered an attack of pleurisy while making calls on horseback. While bedridden, Hammond thought how he might breathe easier if he could reduce the atmospheric pressure over his inflamed chest.

Hammond figured that a machine that could alternately rarefy and condense the air over the chest would, in effect, breathe for the patient, and give his lungs a rest. Diminishing the pressure would force the lungs to' take in air, Wednesday in Chicago. McCormack picked five southerners and an Illinois Negro lawmaker to serve on a 33-mcmber subcommittee to draft the proposed platform for the convention, which opens Aug. 13 at International Ampitheatre in Chicago. (AP photo).

TAKLS OVER AEL Mrs. Thelma railunson Sharp. Philadelphia, co-chairman of the platform committee of the Democratic national convention, receives gavel from Rep. John McCormack of Massachusetts, the committee chairman, during morning session cusis, iiiiarune piaiM diiu.i itile paralysis" Aft 1 respirators began appearing on the market. Some of the modern machines use centrifugal pumps to regulate air pressure; others u.se the bellows principle of Hammond's first simple apparatus.

Finally Hammond's name dropped out of the picture, his oiiginal work forgotten. Until now, hen younger doctors hope to get him recognition by the other conditions paiatvzmg fT3Ki" breathing. ifk ApprovedJA JTihllT natiots leading drivers machine which covered the Ktct imT 7kCxcil tire torso and extremities simi Oostburg News lar to respirators in use today His wife, a former nurse was American Medical Association'sincreasing it would force air out ibrary, the surgeon general's li brary end Encyclopedia Britan- (load "Circuit of Iht Chompont BLKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN his technical student. Y'ears later, Hammond devised a special attachment which rarefies the air over the head to counterbalance sudden alteration of air lover the torso, this produced imore repiration. thus accomplishing the breathing process with a minimum of effort.

Hammond made preliminary-sketches and got a carpenter-mechanic to work on building the first crude respirator. He re nica. ReMilt Of Illness Dr. Henry Gotten heads a committee to support Hammonds caKe. It was pointed out OOSTRURG-Mrs.

Dick Kerr left on Friday for her home in Buffalo, N. after spending a week with her parents, Mr. nd Mrs. Garret Ilessiink. Miss La Mae I-emkuil left on morning for Seattle.

from where she will sail 1he latter part of the v.eek for Okinawa. Mis Lemkuil will he spending a year there as a primary teacher in the Dependency School. This is a school for children of American parents who are stationed on Okinawa. Prior to her departure, Miws Lemkuil the guest, of honor at a few parties gien by members of her Sunday-School class and other clubs. Dr, and Mis.

Carlton Failor nd Carlton Jr. went to Rochester, on Saturday, where Liz3 1 Wesley Ten Haken of Portage and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ten Haken, Cedar Grove. Mr.

and Mrs. Gauge Harme-ling and Matthew Van Stelle Sr. returned home Friday from a trip to the Deiis and Stevens Point, where at the latter place thev were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Otte.

Mr. and Mrs. Iewis Faa and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Mulder spent Saturday at Cherry Land in Stureeon Bay.

Otheis who spent Friday there were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Young. Mr. and Mrs.

Derwin Harmeling. Mrs. Hattie Vos-kuil and Bemice, and Mrs. Ben Walvoort. Home from Enron The following infants wer baptized at the First Reformed Church on Sunday morning by the Rev.

Lambert Olgers: Pejrgy Beth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Zuurmond; Carol Lynn, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd Jstnisse; Steven Jay, son of Mr. and Mis.

Mark Fggebeen; Carl Lee. son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Roethej; and Timothy John, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Clifford Otte. Mr. and Mrs. Arvin Mentink and family spent Tuesday in Milwaukee at Washington Paik Mr. and Mts.

Edward spent the week with Mr. and Mrs. Jake Verhelst at the latter' cottage near Florence. Tuesday overnight guests at the home of Mrs. Florence Westerbeke were Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Van Hoosear. who were en route to their home in California following a trip to Europe. The latter couple are the of (1M) Mir niSS they spent the week end with Dr. and Mrs.

Harlan Failor and also saw their new grandson, Bruce Harlan, born July 31, Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Garret Hesseling on Wednesday weie Mrs. Oscar Nelson af Stoughton, Miss Klsie Lemkuil of Spokane, Wssh. and Miss Dena Imkuil of Oconomo-woc.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Huibreg-tse returned home on Sunday from a week end trip to Tulon, where they visited with friends. Their daughter Janet returned home with them after spending a week there. The Misses Ruby Lsarman anl Antoinette Dirkr.e, together with the Misses- Grace and Arline Vnmink left this Thursday for a tend-day trip to the Black Hills.

The Rev. and Mrs. Loven Hueneman and family, former residents here, are spending' a few weeks in a cottage on Lake Michigan. Miss Linda Mentink Is upending several days with Mr, and Mrs. Dale Brasser in Green Bay, From irsnd Kapidn Mr.

and Mrs. John Riel and family of Waupun spent Sunday here with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford cm. The ReV.

and Mrs. Kenneth Hesslirik and family came on Monday from Muskegon. for a week's visit with the formers parents. Mr. and Mrs.

John V. Hesslink, Stoeffel Almekinders came on Saturday from Grand Rapids. for a visit with his daughter, Mis. Fdwin Yeldboom and family. Capt.

and Mrs. Cornell De Grothy nd daughters left Monday for Bermuda, where they will be stationed. They had spent the past few weeks with Mrs DeGrothy'i parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.

W. Hesslink, Monday evening supper guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Lewis Faas were Mr. and Mrs. Kldon Ten Haken and Rosemary of Hialeah.

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