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4 THE CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE: Suu Oct M. 190 Penicillin: Miracle Drug of World War II 1 to make an estimate of the ap-proximate age of each appliance. The officials of the local gas company wish to make clear that answering these questions puts you under no obligaUon whatsoever. It is, in fact, a patriotic duty that will make a worthwhile contribution to postwar planning. This information will be compiled and tabulated to determine what new equipment should be put into production first when it is possible to resume manufacturing operations.

It also will enable those in charge of servicing gas appliances to have adequate parts and facilities available for use in keeping present equipment giving satisfactory service. Help speed the delivery of new gas appliances after the war and make sure that present gas appliances can be serviced properly for the duration. Call the Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric company tomorrow. It takes only a minute to answer the questions in the survey, and your cooperation will be sincerely appreciated. The gas companys Cedar Rapids phone number is 5101; in Marion the number is 263.

William Baldridge Develops, Finishes Films of Amateurs Amateur photographers who want the best finishing and developing cant go wrong when they take their work to William Baldridge, commercial photographer, 218 Third street SE. Experienced workers do the developing and printing, so the photographer can be sure his films get square shake. Thermostatically-controlled developing tanks make sure that the temperature is always correct. Mr. Baldridge haa some miscellaneous camera accessories in stock, although fine cameras are off the market for the duration.

He also gets a limited amount of film each month for sale to the public. Not much, hut some. The allotment is based pn sale before rationing became necessary. William Baldridge also does complete line of commercial photography pictures for railroads, insurance companies, advertising shots, group pictures for use in trade publications and house or fans. Portraits also are part of the Baldridge studio repertoire, and you will want to make sure your soldier fiance or husband visits Baldridges on his next furlough or leave.

And when he returns, see that he takes the right picture with him his mother and father, his fiancee or his wife. workers lunchbox will taste better end keep longer if made with butter. Butter keeps the bread and filling from drying out, makes them taste as fresh at noon as when the sandwich was made. To the limits of your ration points, use butter in cooking. It makes vegetables taste better and adds to their nutrition value.

You'll notice the difference in vegetables prepared with butter by the manner in which children call for second helpings instead of making a face at the first. Every step in the process of preparing dairy products st the Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy company is handled by the. most modern equipment and under the most sanitary conditions possible. Just as sanitation and modem equipment, plus the known value of the Co-Op label, mean something to the housewife, so do they mean a great deal to the farmer. The Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy company today, as when it was organized in 1925, is owned and Aperated by farmers.

Thus the Co-Op label means the fanner has the market any producer must have to exist. That farmers are satisfied with their end of the bargain is shown by the fact that out of 700 who take advantage of the Co-Op services, 450 have been doing business wnth the concern since it was organized in 1925. Dairy products are perfect sources for vitamin prerequisite to tough flesh and bone. America's national health would be better if Americans consumed more dairy products. For example, the United States per capita consumption of butter is 17.5 pounds yea'rly.

This is about the same as that of the United Kingdom, but it is 10 pounds less than the Canadian consumption. President of the Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy company is R. L. Dick" Stallman of near Fairfax, himself an operating farmer Other officers are Dell Van Note, president; R. N.

Fitzgerald, vice-president; M. V. Schirm, secretary-treasurer. and G. M.

Booth and William Ceynard, directors. of the profeniona! pfiarmacit ere many, for he hai heavy obligations to hi Picture 125 Third avenue SE, with it hiny-elean equipment end it well filled helve of medical supplie Suifas Take a Back Seal to Its Properties Chemical Manufactured by Common Molds; Not Yet Available to Public. 1 Tire thesis that war provide the impetus that brings about medical advances is only partly valid. Even if it were wholly valid, the vast destruction of property 1 and life inevitable in modem war would more than outweigh any benefits realized through a speedup of scientific research. What war does do is throw the spotlight on medical and pharmaceutical development.

If the mortality rate of American wounded in this war i but a fraction of what It wa In 1817 and 1918, that is not entirely the result of frantic medical scurrying since Pearl Harbor. Tears of Research. Rather, all the medical miracles of World war II entailed years of research in the peacetime da when such research went relatively unnoticed. The professional pharmacist will tell you that these medical miracles of World war II are three in number: 1. Blood plasma.

1 X. The sulfonamides. 2. Penicillin. Of these the newest and doubtless the most revolutionary is penicillin, a powerful antibacterial agent which, in lay language, conquers germs by Interfering with their eating and digestion.

Germs Crippled." The new era" in medicine, involving the crippling of germs, rather than killing them outright, came Into being with the sulfa drugs, but greater advances were made witii newer and moie successful penicillin. The'new Remedies dont kill the germs as a rule, but weaken them bv interfering with the germs metabolism, leaving the bodys natural defenses to kill the bacilli and make the cure Vastly more potent that the sulfas anrl hundred times more active, penicillin has shown not a single repoited bad human reaction. Made by Common Molds. Fenicillin is a chemical nianu-factuied by. the common green molds of bread and cheese.

To make it, pharmaceutical houses ic-e huge stacks of fat-bellied glass bottles, with a capacity of about a gallon each. Each bottle 1 about half filled with a clean, watery liquid. A bit of the mold is inoculated into this liquid, and the top of the bottle is scaled. The! bottles, lying on their' then; are stacked in tieis. theiejto remain about two wreks In that period, a velvety-blue-green-whita film, the mold penl-rilliurti noUtum.

forms over the surface of tneliquid. There isnt any penicillin in this mold The precious drug is in the liquid. And there isnt much of it per bottle. After two weeks, the mold is skimmed off, the liquid poured out. and from It is extracted the penicillin.

1 The development of penicillin is an example of cooperation, between government agencies engaged In scientific- work for the war effort. -certain pharmaceutical firms which offered their services to meet, the emergency problem of adequate production, and a group of medical scientists. These scientists participated In the collection and correlation of clinical studies which had to be undertaken rapidly, effectively and with i 'minimum amount of material. Discovered In 1921. Penicillin wa diicovered in 1929 when an observer In a London hospital noted by chance that on a Petri dish showing dense numbers of taphlocoeci, the micro-organisms i failed to multiply in one small area.

Examination revealed that this part of the dish was contaminated by a mold colony, i As often happens. however. Record of Real Estate Transfers Walter R. Magner and wife, 2127 avenue NE, to George E. and Elizabeth R.

Glasheen, warranty Luva K. Rundquist and bus band, 809 Sinclair avenue SE, to Alex C. and Steve C. Varvaris, warranty deed. Lenore E.

Hunting, 1857 Second avenue SE, to William L. and Helen Fahey, warranty deed. Earl C. Hite and wife, 3007 street SW, to Tait and Wagner company, warranty deed. James Forrest and wife, 230 Eleventh street NW, to Alton B.

and Ruth LtFuller, warranty deed. Merchants National Bank, trus tee under will, A. S. Kaufman, 321 First avenue to Earl E. and Rynilla C.

Nievas, trustees deed. Rose Zabokrtsky, 407 Seventh avenue SW, to Joseph J. and Mary L. Klimes, warranty deed, Clarence A. Hamilton et al, 800 Twenty-first avenue SW, to Earl C.

and Olga V. Hite, warranty deed. Nathan V. Rick and wife, 702 Thirty-fifth street NE, to Linn and Margaret Rick, warranty deed. Harley McDowell and wife, 1423 Hillside drive NW, to William and Nellie Stark, warranty deed.

George Bamoske and wife, 648 Thirty-fourth street NE, to Agnes Fiedler, warranty deed. Blanche B. Burnside and hus band, 1444 Second avenue SE. to Thomas N. Abodeely, warranty deed.

1 Arthur L. Albert and wife, 941 Fifteenth avenue SW, to Ellis N. and Mae Louise Saad, real estate contract. Charles A. Weisbauer, 1820 avenue NE, to Dale M.

and Ruth M. Newell, warranty deed. Morgan H. Merrifield and wife, vacant lot, Westfield addition, to Louis A. and Millie Prastka, warranty deed.

i MILK IN THE FAMOUS CREAM TOP BOTTLES "IT WHIPS DIAL 6181 mzr" Cedar Rapids Pioneer Dairy ANOTHER VIEW of the Paramount Pharmacy Interior Is shown above. Trained employes fill prescription with accuracy and dependability. Despite wartime demands of the armed forces and the loss of several mod to service, the Security Laboratory, 730 Merchants National bank building, and the Paramount Pharmacy are maintaining adequate service for physicians and the general public. THE RESPONSIBILITIES above it the Paramount Pharmacy, and drug. todies en the subject' were somewhat desultory, and the practical significance of Flemings observations was not fully realised until 1938.

At that' time Dubor, of the Rockefeller Institute, announced the discovery of gramicidin, a similar antibiotic substance obtained from cultures of a soil bacillus. Stimulated by this American work, researchers at the University of Oxford undertook the study of penicillin, and in late 1940 they published the preliminary results of clinicaj and laboratory m-v estigations. Important In War Effort. It was quickly recognized that If the claims made for penicillin could be substantiated, it would be of prime importance not only to civilian medicine but to the war effort. In the summer of 1942 the committee on medical research undertook to organise a concerted attack on the problem.

As a le-sult of a sene of conferences, two manufacturers agreed, to go into the penicillin business on a large scale, agreeing to share scientific information. At I that time the practical value of penicillin had not been proved, the possibility of pro- ductlon on a practical scale was' problematical, and the financial risk Involved was considerable. Meanwhile the committee on medical research set up a clinical testing agency to obtain a reliable appraisal of penicillin's therapeu-tic value. It is probable that no new drug ever has been studied moie promptly, and with more accurate and intelligent technique. Here Are the Conclusions.

Today penicillin has been administered to enough patients, including soldiers home from the front with unhealed compound fractures, osteomyelitis and wounds with long-established infections. for Dr. A. N. Richards, chairman of the' committee on medical research, to write: There is good reason for the belief that It Is far superior to any ef the aolfonamides In the treatment of staphylococcus aureus Infections with and without baeteremla.

Including acute and ehronie osteomyelitis, cellulitis, carbuncles of the lip and face, pneumonia and empyema, infected wounds and burns." Striking results in the use of penicillin to treat syphilis have ben reported during the last two weeks, i Production Problems. While the clinical testing of penicillin has been In progress, intensive efforts have been made to learn, how to produce it In larg- WE REPAIR CAMERAS IT Pay Cash for Coed Camera FREE: Camera BALDRIDGE STUDIO CAMERA SHOP er to it by Spend Your Ration Points for Better Butter: Get Co-Op The high point value of butter today makes it imperative, more than ever before, that you get good butter. For 18 years, the label of the Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy company, 560 Tenth street SW, has been a symbol of quality, the housewifes guarantee that she getting the best butter money can buy. The sandwiches which constitute the staples of the average war BODY and FENDERS MOTORS FRAMES Rebuilt to look and run lika new. TIME PAYMENTS on REPAIR WORK.

BAXTER MOTORS, INC. What a difference a little ready money can make I See us Now for a Low Cost Loan. Fits i 9 I GET MORE HEAT: WITH Super Shell Fuel Oils DISTRIBUTED BY HUBBARD ICE AND FUEL COMPANY PHONE 9144 Expert Oil Burner Service PROTECT your flock against costly diseases. Consult our experienced service men about tracheites, cholera, typhoid. Let us help you with any of your poultry problems.

CEDAR RAPIDS POULTRY -EGG and HATCHERY Year 'Round Hatching 1507 Street SW. 4AAA AAAAAA4 AVENUE SE. hndOwl AKRON TRUSS FITTER! FARMERS SUPPLY CO. Home of QUALITY FEEDS at LOW PRICESI 719 3rd St. Cedar Rapids Telephone 9127 to the public and to physicians in war as peace.

Despite the demands of the armed forces, there has been no shortage of sulfa drugs on the home front. The Security Laboratory, under the management of Milo J. Chehak, stocks these and other drugs, including blood plasma, and is equipped to make laboratory tests and urinalysis. We want to maintain the same service now as in pre-war days, said Mr. Chehak Saturday, despite manpower shortages and other operating problems.

We consider it our professional responsibility." WINTERIZE NOW! Dont let a sudden freeze cause irreparable damage to your car. Come in. let our experienced mechanics prepare your car for winter. FOX GARAGE 199 FIFTEENTH STREET NE. DIAL 141 is IT Prepare COOK IIVHUIHIJ Your Cooperation Is Sought in Gas Company's Survey In cooperation with the Cedar Rapids postwar planning commission, the Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric company at present is engaged in a survey of the gas appliance field in Cedar Rapids and Marion, The objects of the survey are twofold: First, to determine what new gas appliances will be most in demand after victory is won, and second, to acquire the information that will make it possible to prolong the life of gas appliances now in use.

Everyone in Cedar Rapids and Marion is urged to call the gas company and supply the following information: 1. Tell them what gas appliance you hope to obtain first after the war. t. Tell them whether your present gas range is a table-top or a high-oven type; whether it has an oven regulator or not. 3.

State whether your gas water heater is of the sidearm or tank type, an instantaneous type, or the automatic storage type. 4. If you heat with gas, list whether your equipment is of the gas 'conversion type, a gas designed furnace or a gas room heater. 5. Also tell them whether you use a gas refrigerator, a gas laundry stove, or a gas clothes dryer.

In addition, you will be asked whether your equipment is work ing well or giving trouble and also Ask Your Grocer For COOP BUTTER Manufactured by Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy Co. 564 TENTH STREET SW. KEEP FIT- JO IN THE BE ALERT BUY WAR BONDS! Y.M.C.A. 1LYNC1 TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. LOCAL XC1 LOSO PTSTSXC womo Mtnti A1XU.D VAX ULS, IM.

razrao or wrnaocu ntl STTVMTTS GLAPH GIVIW Dial 414L 419 2nd SL SE. RUSSELLS Delicious Velvet ICE CREAM tii popular choice ef smart hoitetm! ORDER FROM TOUR DEALER "If Pvr thats Sursf" INTER-OCEAN REINSURANCE CO. FIRE AND ALLIED LINES REINSURANCE ONLY 526 SECOND SNOW YOU. DRUCCHT Hu yottr doctor nfkt-knd mm uv quantities and in purer, more potent and more stable foim. Small amounts of the purest obtainable penicillin have been used to make basic studies of its chemical with a view learning just hat it is and how acts, with the hope of bemg able eventually to produce it by chemical means.

These production and research problems are holding up release of penicillin for public use. A War Production order now limits its use to the armed forces. The sulfas and penicillin foreshadow the third great step in germ warfare. The first was Pasteurs demonstration that bacilli cause diseases. The second Was Paul Ehrlichs magic bullet, the arsenic that cured syphilis and started chemotherapy.

The Security Laboratory, 730 Merchants National bank building, and the Paramount Pharmacy. 125 Third avenue SE, are staffed professional pharmacists, maintaining a high standard of service Need Rupture Private fitting room. Reasonably priced Adjusto trusses are guaranteed satisfactory. Test fitting without obligation. MEDICAL ARTS 397 Second Street SE.

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SW G. D. FXNNIGAN. Owner 'I Understand How Seriou It Is" When your need is urgent, when time Is short and reliability most important, Bring Your Prescription Here No guess work here Your doctor works from up-to-the-minute facts about you, translates these facts through his prescription which enables us to compound for you the most scientific medicine in the world individual -ized medicine SINCE 1876 MANUFACTURERS OF FINE WOODWORK FOR HOMES SCHOOLS OFFICE BUILDINGS SASII, DOORS and CABINET WORK Williams Hunting Co. 445 FIRST ST.

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