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Heart of Woman
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First Time in History
Medicine That Feat
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- NEW YORK. Removal of a two-
and-a-half-inch sewing needle from
the ventricle of a woman's heart,
Sthe first case in medical history,
1 and use of ah electronic finger which
made the feat possibfe, was report
v cd to the New York Surgical society.
The needle was completely em
bedded in the wall of the left ven
V tricle, one of the two chambers
" which pump blood into the arteries.
The operation lasted more than two
J hours, during which the heart con
' tinued its work uninterrupted.
; Like Human Finger.
f The woman, who used the needle
In an attempt at suicide while men-
tally deranged, is now well. Her
,1' jBame was not made public. The op
$ eration was reported by Dr. Alex
ander E. W. Ada, New York city.
The electronic finger is surfaced
' with stainless steel. The dimensions
are those of a human finger, except
that it is longer. A cord connects it
to a meter whose dials show the
1: presence of any metal near the fin
t. ger tip.
, Before the operation, the finger
A was pointed at the woman's chest,
'i It came to rest at a location slightly
different from the one indicated by
- X-rays as the surgeon's best entry.
All through the operation the elec
, tronic finger from time to time
;k guided the surgeon. After the sac
inclosing the heart had been opened
V and the heart was bared, the finger
showed that the needle was in the
back of the pulsating organ.
, Might Mean Death.
Now the electronic device reached
f its most critical job. The lie of the
i':. needle had to be located exactly.
A A hair to left or right might result
in failure, for the heart wall would
have to be cut and sewed up again
.; and two cuts could not be contem
plated. iThe finger moved back and forth
ever so slightly, guided by the sur
geon, the dials indicating a line di
rectly under which the steel should
lie. Dr. Ada inserted a probe into
the heart wall. He pressed .gently,
then exclaimed:
"I can feel the needle."
The incision was half an inch deep
In the heart itself.
.ith . production of commercial early
! Irish potatoes and snap beans, and
j-kas ; damaged other truck crops. To
bacco farmers, it said, have had con
siderable difficulty getting plants to
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Reminders : animals, the Department of Agri- . . i.
Meats, F.tsTed sUmps A8 culture vs-K & SEP fa
through Z8 good 1 indefinitely, I fu'Sfi' XtS'aE S&rETS 2w Sflfpt
Processed Foods Blue stamps A8 average of 8.2 pairs of rationed and . . weather
through Z8, and A5. good indefinitely, unrationed shoes annually, more than dM e hSSS favorabll
SuSar Suaar stamps 30, 31 and 1 consumers in any other country, the 7- , y IvoraD't
aSnSTf nve pounds in-' Department of Commerce repots. iS"2Td tSff, 3Tc
definitely. Sugar stamp 40, good for . jk-L j j Monran He added
five pounds of canning sugar through KECOM) PRODUCTION SEEN that cotton ' is ud to a .rood stand, is
vjusoiine in xi v-v v, , ln lne June crop reDort jURl re-
A-10 coupons, good through August leased the Crop Reporting Service
8. In States outsioe tne fcasi oasi of the N c Department of Agri
culture declared that all crops, es
pecially truck crops, were in need of
rain on June 1. Wheat and oat crops
are excellent.
According to the rcleu:e, the dry,
hot weather has sharply curtailed
"making very satisfactory progress."
BURGESS CLUB MEETS
Service" was sung, followed by the
Collect.
The roll was called and the min
utes of the 'last meeting read and
approved.
Announcements were made by
Miss Maness.
Mrs. Sidney Layden. Mrs. Josiah
Proctor and Mrs. J. B. Perry were
appointed to investigate transporta
tion to the club picnic and give re
port at the July meeting.
Mrs. R. G. McCracken gave "Does
and Don'ts" in canning with pres
sure canner. New canning bulletins
were distributed.
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Miss Maness gave a very interest
ing demonstration on Laundering
short cuts, and exhibited labor sav
ing gadgets.
Mrs. Mathews conducted an inter
esting contest with Mrs. J. B. Perry
winning the prize.
Those present were Mrs. Sidney
Layden, Mrs. Charles Ward, Sr., Mrs.
J. B. Basnight, Mrs. H. S. Daven
port, Mrs. J. B. Perry, Mrs. Josiah
Proctor, Mrs. Tommie Mathews, Mrs.
R. G. McCracken, Mrs. Arthur Cope
land, Mrs. Irwin Whedbee, Miss
Francis Maness and two visitors,
Mrs. Watt Winslow, Jr., and Mrs. i.
R. Lyons.
good through
28,000 Die of Hanger;
Cold in Nazi Prison
j iu,riAAnunio, Eiuiri, rseai
"Twftb torture, and death from cold
and mister are the lot of Russian
V prisoners flr yerman bands, five Red
v - army soldier, who escaped said.
, They are at a "British camp in the
desert, near here.
t Pvt Walentin SizSkim, formerly
vf an electrician in Moscbw and then
'.Tan anti-tank gunner, was captured
, ' in February, 1942, near dhernikov.
He - said Russian prisoners were
' .selected like cattle for heavy labor
z squads. In one camp 28,000 Russians
died of cold and hunger, he said. At
another camp the daily death rate
') vas 150. Women and children were
imprisoned and treated the same as
soldiers, he said.
v. Sizakim and thousands of others
were shipped to the Ruhr and em
. ; ployed at heavy manual labor. They
.v received only a small portion of
.J bread and two bowls of soup daily.
- Many died, and all lost much
.'weight. They were worked 11 hours
in, a day and were beaten and tortured
for the slightest reasons.
Prisoner Goes for Help
'i When His Captors Crash
;' BATH, N. Y. Two Chemung
-icounty deputy sheriffs were return-
ing with a prisoner from Buffalo
when their car crashed into a tree
on the Buffalo-Bath highway.
The prisoner, Thomas Dowdtof El--,,
mira, N. Y., held on a Children's
; court charge rushed to a nearby
, farmhouse to summon help for the
i i Injured officers and waited until
O4uthorities arrived.
lj The deputies, Gordon Brinthaupt
, ' of Elmira and Roy Hazen of Bath,
were dead when an ambulance ar
rived. Dowd escaped injury.
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; Germans Use Music to
area, A-12 coupons,
September 21.
Fuel Oil Period 4 and 5 coupons,
good through September 30. New
Period 1 coupons for the 1944-45
heating year may be used now.
Shoes Airplane stamps 1 and 2,
good indefinitely.
Procedure for Selling Used Cars
Newiy established ceiling prices
for used passenger cars and certifi
cates of transfer required on all com
pleted sales may be obtained from
local War Price and Rationing
Boards or car dealers, the Office of
Price Administration announces.
Prices vary by three geographical
zones. After July 10 any seller and
the buyer of a used car must jointly
fill out a transfer certificate giving
the applicable maximum price, ' the
actual selling piie and other details
of the sale. The purchaser then files
the completed certificate with his lo
cal War Price and Rationing Board.
How To Be Warm Next Winfr
You can make scarce fuel go fur
ther next winter by preparing your
home for winter now, be you owner
or merely a lease-holder, the Federal
Housing Administration says. An
FHA Title 1 loan will enable you to
borrow enough to pay for both ma
terials and workmanship needed to
insulate your home, to repair your
heating plant, to install storm win
dows up to as much as $2,600. You
can borrow enough for any or all of
these things without down payment,
without security and with three years
in which to pay, FHA says. Get
best prices on jobs you want done,
then get your local dealer or con
tractor to tell you where you can
get an FHA Title 1 loan to cover the
entire bill. ' I
Some Foods Again Rationed 1
The OPA has restored rationing to I
best cuts of lamb in order to get bet
ter distribution among consumers,
and it has restored point values to
certain types of cheese and canned
asparagus, peas and tomatoes, which
were unrationed for two weeks be
cause of large stocks on hand.
OPA Names New Ceiling Prices
Ceiling prices have been estab
lished by the OPA on watermelons,
alfalfa hay, sweet peppers and hot
house cucumbers, none of which had
been under nationwide retail price
control. Retail watermelon prices
should decline substantially from
last summer's figures. Alfalfa pro
ducers' per ton ceilirig prices range
from $19 to $26.60. Ceilings on
sweet peppers and hothouse cucum
bers represent reductions at retail.
OPA also has set maximum prices
for the 1944 crop of red and black
raspberries, dewberries and black
berries. Jeeps for Farm UBe
The Army jeep promises greater
usefulness as an auxiliary work im
plement on a large farm than for
general work on the average farm,
according to indications reported by
Domestic Commerce, official publi
cation of the Department of Com
merce. Tests have been made on
jeeps at the Tillage Machinery Lau
oratory, Auburn, Ala., and in con
nection with Pennsylvania State
College. Perhaps half a million jeeps
have been manufactured and more
will continue to be made until the
war ends. '
Round-up
OPA announces that: Retail cei
ling prices recently established on
certain ' farm tractor tires include;
$52.85 for 9-24 10 ply rear; $35 tor
7.50-10 8 ply front; and $9.55 for
4.00-12 4 ply front The stock of 30,
000 new cars yet remaining in tne
TT A .lulu 1 urno iha anu ilia lant nf a '
three day's normal supply, and 7,000
have been allocated for July ration
ing "T" gasoline coupons marked
"2nd qtr.", issued as special rations
and which do not expire until after
June 80, may be exchanged for third
quarter "T" coupons.
WPB .says: Two-tone shoes with
:$OOth5f4(t' Shdppert ther-.n,IB leather soles may be made
fisBON;uic-1s? being ; mobi-8ni"sr Sftftember l-f
kets and department stores to soothe $hine8. holdmgr up production of
the buying public irritated by, the farm rfio batteries, but production
acute shortage of consumer goods. , Pt4 ,be improved by fall-
The Ostdeutschef Beobachter -of i waiwnwwuvy xor inuuniiig iu
mstriDuting new irucus, trucK irac-
The Burgess Home Demonstration
Club met with Mrs. Tommie Math
ews Wednesday afternoon at 3
o'clock. The meeting was called to
order by the vice president and
"Hail Club Women Crowned Through
Fosen, discussing the use of music
, in war factories to counteract after
noon fatigue, said a similar prac
tice had been extended to soften the
harsh atmosphere of empty shelves
confronting customers and clerks in
retail shops. , v
, Child Did 'Dirty Work v
, v In Stolen Check Case
PHBLAbELPHlA, PA.i-"It's bad
enough to steal another man's bread
and butter," Federal Judge Harry
1. Kalodner told Biago Di Minto,
v 1, "but to have , a child do your
v rty work calls for, a prison -sen
tence." Theft he imposed a year and
a clay , sentence on Di Minto, who
pleaded guilty to stealing a $28 pay
check- forgingvan endorsement and
laving his 14-year-old -sister-in-law
( ih it at a grocery store. J
tors, trailers and other commercial
vehicles to essential users has been
transferred to the Office of Defense
Transportation The linen toweling
and sheeting situations . continue to
grow " tighter Dry cleaners report j
urgent need of wire garment hangers
because paperboard hangers have
proved costly and impracticable.
WFA says: Farmers and dairies
may .now purchase new milk cans for
handling milk and milk products
without i purchase certificates Gov
ernment reserves of canned fish from
the 1944 n pack, have been increased
because; ".ci y increased war ,: require-
mehts,; ; :
Before DDT, the hew insecticide,
may be recommended tot general use
for agricultural purposes many more
tests must be completed "as to its ef-
' feet s on j insects, plants and higher
fLJl Rom where I sit ... ly Joe Marsh
trr Matt Doorly Versus
the Tomato
Matt Doorly 's skin broke out in Funny how some people rush
off to extremes like that They
take a wholesome thing and
overdo It till it disagrees with
them-or maybe find they don't
happen to like it-and then they
want it banned for everybody.
From where I sit, folks ought
to realize there's a middle
ground in everything-a middle
ground of moderation on the one
hand . . . and tolerance for our
neighbors on the other.
a rash last week. He finally ad
mitted to Doc Hollister he'd
eaten twelve tomatoes in a row
Just the day before.
"Shucks," said Doc. "That's all
that's the matter with you. That
kind of eating would turn any
body red."
So now Matt bas not only cut
out all tomatoes for himself.
He's forbidden his family to eat
tomatoes. And won't even have
them in the house. Says toma
toes are anti-social and ought to
be prohibited by law.
O 1944, BREWING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, North Carolina Comnlttra
Idaor H. Sain, Stat Dlrtor, 604-407 Insurant Bldg., RaUIgh, N. C
WHAT FARRIERS WANT WHEN TOY BORROW
ITS Nice TO BORROW AT
THE BANK WHERE CHECK
ING ACCOUNTS ANO OTHER
SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE?
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WE notice around the country that various
organizations offer to farmers individual
financial services such as loans, or savings accounts.
But only a bank can offer ALL of the essential financial
services. So why not centralize all of your financial
business here in this bank? You'll be helping us, of
course, but more important you'll be helping the
community and yourself. You'll beneht by saving
time and getting better service. How about it?
&fcvv CREDI T IS I HE Hii.VJ l-ARM C v -,-'
HERTFORD BANKING COMPANY
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These odd-shaped storage tat.:.i uic part of the new plant operuttd by Siiuluir Rubber Inc. for the Government.
TrODAY the oil industry is busy making
components for synthetic rubber to
meet America's wartime needs. The mod
ern plant pictured above, operated by
Sinclair Rubber Inc. for the Government
Without charge, makes butadiene. From
storage tanks pictured above butadiene
flows to a compounding plant where,
mixed with styrene, it becomes synthetic
rubber with a bounce.
In addition to Sinclair's wartime job of
making components for synthetic rubber,
OUr At O ft f WAR BONDS
modern Sinclair refineries turn out the
explosive Toluene, 100-octane gasoline,
and a long list of fuels and specialized
lubricants vitally needed for war-front
and home-front use. All told, 10 great
Sinclair refineries are now
geared for war.
SINCLAIR DEALERS by keep
ing on the job, keep war workers'
cars, delivery trucks and other
vitally needed vehicles on the
road. Let a Sinclair Dealer care
for your car, too.
AND STAMPS
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