The Express from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania • Page 10

Lock Haven, January 5, 1961 A Guide to Space-Age on the Highway Big Medical Advances Seen Coming in Nexf 40 Years By JOHN HARBOUR Associated Press Science Writer NEW YORK the year that's only 40 years may be the medical 'acts of life: On Monday night you'll take a and go to bed. You'll sleep until Wednesday morning. Then you'll wake up refreshed and be able to go on non-stop until bed ime next Monday night. You'll have almost forgotten what the common cold is like. Rocketing Rumheud Usually seen driving in an alcoholic atmosphere.

He is characterized by impaired vision, faulty judgement and slowed reaction time. Most dangerous of this species is the one who says, "I've just had a couple, and I can handle the stuff." These are frequently his last spoken words. Don't be the pilot of a MISGUIDED MISSILE! Drive with care, everywhere PUBLISHED BY YOUR NEWSPAPER IN THE INTEREST OF HIGHWAY SAFETY PrrponJ out ikroufk ronptnuivn nf tltt Pmnijlnutlo tfruipaptr Auorietion anilikt Frnntylvania Drparment of Rmnur COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA L. Lawrence, Catrrnar M. Douibnrtf, Swy tf Ri Nuclear Experts Seek Cause of Fatal Blast It was the first fatal accident in probed jvolving a reactor in the history of If you are, ill, your doctor will give you a tiny radio and measuring device to tape to your chest.

Then he'll watch you as you go through a busy week, alert to changes in your condition. You'll know from the second month of pregnancy the sex of -your expected child. Furthermore, if you're planning a baby, you may be able to do something about getting the sort of child you want. These are some of the prcdic- Special Staff May Seek Defense Work for Pa. HARRISBURG special staff may be set up within the State Commerce Department to solicit defense work in Pennsylvania chronic unemployment areas.

The plan is being weighed by a special committee of state cabinet Recess Inquiry in Tanker Case officers, Walter W. G-iesey, executive secretary to Gov. Lawrence, disclosed Wednesday. Giesey was named chairman of he committee appointed by Lawrence to seek ways of implement ng recommendntions for combat- ting unemployment made by a special task force appointed by President-elect Kennedy. NORFOLK, Coast Guard Va.

The has recessed its section can inspected. The only IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Nuclear experts gingerly within a silo-shaped building to-jthis country's atomic energy pro- iay, seeking the na-'gram. aire-of an atomic reactor explo-! However, three employes were that killed three young serv-ifatally overexposed radiation kemen. i in laboratory tests in past years at They were hampered by radio- Los Alamos, N. M.

activity so dangerously high that) The blast occurred on the Atomic the stern. each could safely remain inside Energy Commission's sprawling, little more than million acre National Reactor hearing into the break-up of the tanker Pine Ridge until the stern be drydocked and witness Wednesday was Lt. Cmdr. William M. Barney, USCG, who inspected the stern section of the tanker after it wa's towed to Newport News.

He told the board his inspection was limited by water in the cargo tanks of the section but that the ship apparently had no major structural defects. The Pine Ridge broke in two Dec. 21 in heavy seas 125 miles off Cape Hatteras, N. C. Seven crewmen, including the captain, died, while another 29 were res cued.

Cmdr. Barney said he found some required equipment missing from the one lifeboat still aboard Testing Station in eastern about 40 mi'ts west of this city of heads of her cargo tanks. the structure minute The damaged reactor was deep Inside the metal-sheathed AEC officials assured the ing. So, too, were the bodies of)public the radiation was confined two of its victims: It was too the binlding area and was not gerous to try to recover dangerous elsewhere on the The third body was removed station. within minutes of the explosion Before the experts could find out Tuesday night.

precisely what happened, they had In the hearing members of the crew testified the ship was rusted arid had large holes in the bulk- to find a way of plugging the leaks in the reactor's heavy sheathing. The AEC said all three victims' bodies showed the effects of severe explosion. Giesey said the administration is getting ready to make a big pitch for Pentagon contracts as a means of battling the state's serious unemployment problem. Giesey said he and Commerce Secretary William R. Davlin discussed the possibility of setting up a special staff in the latter's department to work in this field.

In other areas of activity related to the Kennedy Committee report, the administration is: Undertaking an intensive survey in 22 unemployment is particularly determine the number of school districts taking advantage of the fed eral-state-local school milk and lunch programs. Attempting to determine the ad equacy and number of 1 facilities for retaining workers to see if more state aid is needed. Pennsylvania's unemployment at mid-November stood at the highest figure since the recession. lions of Dr. Austin Smith, prcsi dent of the Pharmaceutical 'Manufacturers Assn.

based on the direction of today's medical and pharmaceutical research. Where Wonder Drugs? Undreamed of drugs are going lo come from the sea, says Dr. Smith. Still others will come from the screening of herbs, barks and waters used by African witch doctors. Man will investigate every possible healing bslm the earth has to offer.

Even electronics will play a big part in everyday medicine of the future. The heart disease victim, for instance, will work, sleep, play with a silent radio small black box, to his chest. It will read his heart activity his pulse, perhaps his blood pros sure, reporting by radio to the doctor's office. There a computing center will keep constant watch. When warning signs show, the doctor is notified.

Then he can send a return signal through his radio impulse that will trigger the release of a measured prescription dose of a drug into the bloodstream of the heart a possible 1 stroke or heart attack. Already a device that can monitor the heartbeat of a patient and broadcast reports has been announced. Conquer Cancer By the year 2,000, today's fearsome medical polio, heart be as unexciting as diphtheria, typhoid fever, and smallpox are now, Dr. Smith predicts. Surgery and mechanics will team up for still greater wonders.

If your lungs or your heart are badly damaged, perhaps in an ac- Witnesses Differ over Sighting Crashed, Planes 30-DAY PRECIPITATION OUTLOOK NEW YORK differ concerning actual sight big of the crash of two airliners over Staten Island the morning of Doc. 16. The Civil Aeronautics Board Wednesday opened its hearing into Hie worst disaster in aviation a United Airlines DC8 jet collided with a Trans World Airjines Constellation. The crash claimed 134 lives, 128 aboard the planes and 6 on the ground. The TWA plane went down in to the northeast before into a Brooklyn neigh- 1958 Child Proof Cabinets CAN DIEGO, Calif.

(AP) Child-proof medicine cabinets in bathrooms are needed, Dr. Elmer Bingham of the city-county health department told a convention of the American Society of Sanitary Engineering. Bingham told the delegates, representing dustry, that get into cabinets and drink harmful medicines or poisons. Stephanie McMinn Celebrates Birthday MILL HALL Stephanie McMinn blew out the 10 candles on her birthday cake. She was 10 years old Saturday.

Nineteen guests were present, also her sisters, Sally 4, and Susan 8. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. P.

McMinn of Mill Hall R. D. 1. Guests included Virginia, Kalherine and Janice Hammer. Nadine Vuocolo, Gcorgiana Weber, Jean Stover, Patty Brungard, Collen Jeirles, Connie Keen, Janice Newman, Pamela Shope, Linda Dress, Barbara Knarr, Carol Knepley, Dianne Moore and Pamela Paige of Lock Haven.

Stephanie is a fourth grade student at the Mill Hall-Bald Eagle Elementary School. flames-on lhe Army's Miller'Field, Staten Island, while the jet winged 10 miles crashing borhood. Onq eyewitness, Paul Klcinau, a Staten Island florist, testified he saw the jet streak through an overcast sky and strike the TWA craft with a "tremendous noise." The rear of the TWA piano, Kleinau said, fell off and crashed at once, but the front engine-wing portion circled twice before spiralinj down on Miller Field. Another witness, Sgt. Glenn togsdon, on duly at Miller Field's control tower, testified there was "definitely a solid overcast" at the 'time of Hie crash.

When he heard the sound of a crash, don said, he looked tip and "saw a fireball inside the overcast" could not see the planes because of the murky skies. Subsequently, Logsdon said, pieces of the pianos began to may be able to wih artificial or the plumbing in- children too often Keller and Munro I The "PRESCRIPTION" Drug Store Assistance Prescriptions Are Filled at Keller Munro cident, doctors save your life gans fitted into your body. Severe pain will be a thing of the past, as new drugs are developed to combat hence reduce much of the anxiety that comes with disease. Buck's a Dud To keep medical and drug weapons up to date, 39 years from now pharmaceutical firms will have electronic computers continually digesting new data on the changing characteristics of viruses that' prey on man. This system can then signal changes that can be made in stores of medicines all over the nation.

Isn't all this putting Dr. Smith out on a limb? "So much of yesterday's science fiction has become today's science fact. In many ways Buck Rogers seems an average young astronaut and not an exceptionally gifted one at that." To Work on Clothing 30-DAY TEMPERATURE Source: U.S. ATHER BUREAU FAIRP01NT Township homo The Bald Eagle extension group will work on clothing construction at the home of Mrs. William Welch here tomorrow from 10 lo 3.

If the weather interferes, the meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Victor Holt. 30-Day Weather Forecast Maps, based on those provided by K. Weather Bureau in Washington Dec. 30, indicate precipitation and temperatures expected throughout the nation over the following 30 days.

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'He tried to get back into the house to rescue others but a snap lock had closed. Amirault, unable to help the rest of his family, aroused the occupants of Lhe first floor, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nordstrom and their five children. All escaped injury.

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