The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 30

TRIBUNE TUES JAN 4 1S72 30 Have Forest Hideout Briton to Go It Alone In Flying Saucer Race 6 in Antarctic Cod Blood Makes Exciting Research an Immense toll of fruits and in McMurdo Sound froze al-other crops most immediately A man For scientists it might ex- would die in five minutes in plain some remaining puzzles these waters about the structure of water Dr DeVries has identified the antifreeze substance as a glycoprotein consisting of two amino acids of components of protein and two forms of sugar A high salt content in fish blood will depress the blood freezing point but the antifreeze stuff takes it lower And the glycoprotein also exists in other fluids and tissues of the Antarctic cod Cold seems to be a challenge for the fish to start producing the antifreeze 1 he and ice and the structure of vital life molecules composed of complex combinations of sugars and proteins Art DeVries is Dr Arthur DeVries an amiable man of 34 with a degree in biology and long blond hair and bushy mustache and beard He's spent two winters and three summers in Antarctica and one summer up north in the Arctic Now with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Just what Simpkins makes you think the carnivorous plants aren't getting enough Notebook The Time's at Hand To Be Nostalgic Again By ALTON BLAKESLEE Amditvl Pin kkM RNHir McMURDO STATION Antarctica (AP) Ait DeVries would like to catch a codfish in the cold cold waters of the North Atlantic Ocean and then give it a blood transfusion He'd give it the blood of a codfish taken from the cold cold colder waters of Antarctica to see if a peculiar agent in its blood could keep the northern cod from freezing to death when placed into the water here The experiment no fish may ever before have received blood from another fish would be one more step in pinning down facts about the fishy antifreeze material which one day could have very practical human applications One possibility is that the antifreeze made synthetically in large amounts could make it possible to preserve human blood for transfusions far longer than now is possible by keeping it almost frozen It might clue plant biologists to find antifreeze materials in plants then to select and breed three strains having the most antifreeze and thus the ability to withstand unexpected frosts and freezes that take a site which is referred to as Earth The SNSRC has no lift-off date planned and the 21-foot will definitely not be sneaking off on a secret trip to Mars just yet because the project is very short of finance Searl explains are the only people who are working on this technology without cooperation from government or He finds it difficult to locate official bodies prepared to take flying saucers seriously Nevertheless the team is currently laying out the electronic wiring for the magnetic fuel cells of Test models are also being made of the legs which form its undercarriage Meanwhile the inventor is hard at work on solving the problems of i ultimate dreamshlp named This could measure as much as 300 feet from rim to rim and take travelers on real trips into space Provided that is that he gets his theory off the ground Clean Rodent Despite being a member of the rodent family muskrats are clean animals- 3 i n-rJ ricaUiiiiUiiji uc La Jolla Calif Dr DeVnes North Atlantic cod have less began research in 1965 with of the antifrera than fish the question why Antarctic here Putting a northern cod fish freeze when sea jnto water here water freezes 28degrees be a great shock to its metab-h at olism or chemistry of life 1 as it would be for a Warm- Separating fish blood into water fish And presumably Presumably says Vfes longer yet miner oS-ste longer length- ntHoer taste 19 tng L3 mg iv pet cigmu FTC Report AUG 71 THESE ADS WORK! try one yourself Phone Display Advertising BR 2-2121 By ALAN BAND MPteilsNAB AaImm 1amUu LONDON England John Searl has decided to go it space ace In a secret hideout in a forest eight miles deout In a forest eight miles from his home in Berkshire England he and 24 helpers spend their weekends building a 21-foot flying saucer which they are confident will eventually rise above the treetops and blase their names across the news headlines of the world Since 1949 Searl has been working toward the production of a disk generator which will produce magnetic thrust from centrifugal force To reinforce his claims of a real scientific breakthrough he has typewritten a two-foot-high pile of books outlining his theories He has tried to peddle these theories to space agencies and gov- ernments but so far without raising any official inter- est Nevertheless Searl's followers have such confidence in his ideas that they are prepared to press on every weekend in all weather to get his theories launched If raining' they just cany on working underneath the saucer The 'Searl National Space Research Consortium as he calls it claims 150 supporters around the world They keep all the locations of their saucer work secret to protect it from vandals and inquisitors The consortium a collection of workers in engineering and electomics buys test equipment and components at bankruptcy sales Searl stores some of this in a shed in his backyard and some on PEERUSsl 12 lit IMSin 7-1177-jit 29I2 SO and usually had a pencil stuck In their hair buns SECRET DATA A young teacher sometimes secretly dated a member of the high school football team but if her principal or the school board found out it would cost her her job Superstitious kids walked carefully along the sidewalk for fear that if they stepped on a crack break their back There were more walrus mustaches than there were walruses You knew you were in a cultured family if all the girls In it could play the piano or foot-pumped organ When a son or daughter of an immigrant family graduated from his school his diploma was framed and hung on the living room wall THE ELEGANT LOOK If you were middle-aged and wanted to lode elegant you wore rimless like President Wood-row You could make a child happy for days by buying it a ten-cent red rubber ball to play with Thoie were the remember? By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) At the advent of a new year we lode before and after It is a time to make modest or vast new plans for the days ahead but it is also a season of remembrance a time when the heart lives again in its past Your own mind and heart have much to recall if you can look back and remember On Monday while doing the laundry housewives spent most of the day talking to themselves with their mouths foil of clothespins A juvenile delinquent was a kid who started smoking cornsilk cigarettes behind the barn at 15 Few communities ever voted down a bond issue to build a new school building Education was held to be the best answer to the challenge of the future Someone in the house always buttered the inside of a metal pail before taking it to the corner saloon to be filled with beer The butter was supposed to cut down the amount of foam Business secretaries wore long skirts and white blouses blood from an Antarctic cod would be accepted by a northern cod without a transfusion reaction DeVries and associates in studies supported by the National Science Foundation fish through holes in the ice and take blood from the hearts with a hypodermic syringe They catch fish ranging from five to eight inches -to five -to six feet long getting about 114 Pints of blood from the big fellows The glycoprotein appears not truly to lower the freezing point of water but just the temperature at which ice will form in the presence of a seed ice crystal Once such a crystal forms the freezing process goes fast DeVries explains The antifreeze may work through binding hydrogen water is two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen so that water molecules cannot change into ice crystals very easily he adds The molecules are more like random coils than spheres and so offer large surfaces to interact with surrounding water or the surface of ice crystals REALTORS LICENSE EXAM SCHOOL PREPARE FOR STATS EXAM FES is 8 SESSIONS CUSSES ON MONDAY AND THURSDAY PM BEGINNING JANUARY TO 1078 VA-APPROVED MOCKUP EXAM LIMITED CLASSES TACOMA BOARD OF REALTORS 2346 Twmii Av South SR 2-1I1R yj MAYTAG BIG FAMILY CAPACITY Antomatics Low cost Kay tags wash big loads JVi''-VVv 1 V-J8 I A A'j'V I iV C-vJ Sri'' NflUIMIIC CONTROL mt pi-lain wtni lti yen tovuto mtf btlbfeMter Myra rmts-m MHATORTwMlhl Mttonmt At Canto tatto aMtSalicate mmnoireMrf kits! hrrpHhr1 Sits Mgr Ml eta Maty LMChoks of Wrier Imre Mrle Wiener penaar MjuetaMs Lewflng Lap Self dssniflSRMh tat Maty often plus lfaytag DepsKtobillty its components he found the antifreeze material The temperature has to drop a fraction of a degree below 28 degrees before the blood will freeze Fish living in 1 the coldest water right under the eight-foot thick ice of McMurdo Sound have more of the agent than fish at 1-500-foot depths where the water is warmer he found A black perch taken off the California coast and placed IIP TO 00 20' UP TO MODEL A-806 MAYTAG HAL0-07-HBAT Dryers Fast dry dothes at low temperatures Mnyreglian sf Ilea? 1 Surround dottas with Rant) i Iwt No tat ipota as PummntnMCyeb'M Openlns Safety Door Hne MaahLMFMar Large Opro-' city Snag Free Porcaisin i Ena mated Draw UP TO 2000 MODEL D-806 MAYTAG DISHWASHERS have more cleaning po wer bere'swhy: spray arms gtos high velocity Jet wsshing setion-pfop middle bottom Scrubs eway food partidM' easily Self-cleaning Micro-Mesh filter prevents recirculation of particles No dish- fltatan washer hoidi more Put yourself In this picture A retreat from the pace of daily living all possible when you open a Fun Account at Great Northwest Federal Savings The Fun Account is one of 9 beautiful reasons to save all Included in Great Northwest's new Rainbow of different colorful photographic passbooks to help you reach your savings goals A different passbook for each different savings purpose There is no limit to the number of Rainbow of Savings accounts you can have Whichever ones you choose Rainy Day Home Junior Citizen Retirement College Christmas Regular or Certificate Account your money will earn 5 to 6 annual interest with insured safety Put a little color in your life Visit a Great Northwest office near you and open your own Rainbow of Savings 9 beautiful reasons to sate ONGE-A-YEAR SAVINGS LIMITED TIME ONLYII OPEN: 8 to 6 Mon through Fii 8 to 4:30 Sot Great Northwest Federal Savings Loan Association IfonMriy LiFetims Ftdtral Sovinp) 1007 Pacific downtown Tocoma North 26th A Food 1019 Eaganta in Fiiaort S4rMfcSunmor Ottar officM throughou higat Sound KVAMME'S TRUE VALUE HARDWARE 3634 McKinley Ave CR 2-6433 4.