The Knoxville News-Sentinel from Knoxville, Tennessee • 21

Gamma Globulin The Knoxville New Sentinp! Wednesday ffov 16 I960 Pap Bf SURE WITH PURE SHOP THURSDAY 9:30 AM 9 PM Blood Extract Combats Infections Causing Death Scnpps-Howard Newspapers BETHESDA Md Nov A new treatment that may prolong the lives of many lukemia victims is being tested by doctors at the National Cancer Institute here It consists of giving the patient a shot of gamma globulin every three weeks Gamma globulin is an extract from human blood which contains man-made chemicals that fight disease germs It has been used mainly to provide temporary immunity to measles infectious hepatitis and polio In the lukemia cases doctors think the gamma globulin shots may build up the patient's warning resistance to infections It is these infections rather than the blood cancer itself which often cause death I Uncommon in Children One leukemia patient who suffered eight life-threatening infections in IS months has been free of them for the first six months since he started getting gamma globulin shots Dr Emil Frei III who heads the seven-member research team which hit on this idea says such injections may be useful in prolonging lives of persons with cronic lymphyocytin leukemia This type of blood cancer is "fairly frequent in the older age though it is uncommon in children Of all leukemias this is the slowest killer About one-fourth of its victims survive at least five years But many of them are plagued by one infection after especially and often they succumb to one of these illnesses even though the cancer seems under control Prisoners Volunteered In the Archives of Internal Medicine Dr Frei tells how his research team determined that persons with this particular type of blood cancer usually have little of their own disease-fighting gamma globulin in their systems This was done by comparing blood tests of leukemia victims with those of prisoners at the District of Columbia jail who volunteered for the study Because of their gamma globulin scarcity the leukemia victims were pushovers for all sorts of particularly those involving the breathing system and the skin In general the study disclosed that leukemia patients with low gamma globulin levels developed frequent and more infections than those with normal amounts of gamma globulin when the doctors decided to start giving injections of commercial gamma globulin which is made from blood obtained from donors 169951 purchased the entire surplus stock of famous manufacturer budget chairs to bring you this spectacular CHAIR if 14677 worth selling for 9260 Sorry No Mail Phone or tm South Central Broadcasting Co operator of ultra high frequency Channel 26 Television Station WTVK here has told the Federal Communications Commission it would be feasible to add very high frequency Channel 8 to the Knoxville area WTVK wants to be the Channel 8 operator here if the FCC agrees South Central submitted a detailed engineering study designed to show that it could operate on Channel 8 at Knoxville with a directional antenna or with reduced power and antenna height without significant interference wiih any other station The present rules require 190 miles separation hetween stations using the same channel Channel 8 is now being used by WSIX-TV at Nashville 162 miles away and by station WGTV at Athens Ga 152 miles distant However South Central expressed the belief that because of terrain conditions between Knoxville and the other two cities probably no interference at all would result The statement contended the proposed additional assignment would carry out the announced policy of seeking to have at least three operating in each major city Knoxville now has two VHF stations South Central acquired WTVK In mid-1954 and said it has spent well over a half million dollars on improving the station but has not been able to compete effectively with the two VHF stations" BUY NOW USE ONE OF LIBERAL CREDIT PLANS! 2 innersprmg mattresses 2 matching boxsprings oyt Olin King IP I Thofngrov Pk.