24 Aug 1954
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1954
Page
1
Dr Jordan outlines diabetes: pancreas produces insulin needed to use sugar, lack causes sugar in urine and malnutrition. Main aim is to improve sugar use and reduce waste through urine, noting many patients fail to follow directions and current cures remain incomplete. One proposed method mentions toad consumption with undefined efficacy.
A medical column discusses diabetes management noting that severity can change and treatments may need adjustment. It covers questions about insulin use, whether diabetes means lifelong condition, and the possibility of non injection insulin in the future. The piece also profiles designer Helen, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, who adapts pediatric ward robes to fit both child and mother preferences.
Dorothy Roe profiles Helen Lee a leading children's fashion designer whose work blends psychology with dress. She notes dress and playful details like an underdog petticoat or embroidered rhymes boost confidence and happiness in small girls who respond to looking like older kids.
Cairo reports Egypt agreed to pay 440000 for 1760 square yards of the British Embassy garden along the Nile to complete a river road. The land assignment includes loss of amenity such as the embassy swimming pool as the parcel borders the riverbank.
Washington report on Mrs Joseph Farrington widow of Hawaii delegate returning from Honolulu to serve the unexpired term. She led Republican women's groups and School for Politics for Republican women, active in Hawaii statehood efforts. Also notes women in Congress often succeed their husbands and the Chowder and Marching Society's activities with Eisenhower involvement.
Mrs Constance Wilmer 22 was jailed for five days on larceny charges after using another woman's department store charge account in Boston. Judge Jennie L Barron criticized beauty contests influencing young women. In Tulsa the US energy report notes 1953 motor fuel production exceeding 54 billion gallons.
Kyodo news reports seven foreigners, including American Joseph Debella, 26, were arrested in Tokyo over a multimillion dollar scheme. They allegedly bought American dollar checks in Japanese cities at inflated rates, deposited them in U S and Indian banks, and cashed checks through a Hong Kong company to funnel dollars to Red China via traders.
In Philippi West Virginia 63 year old Joseph Garland Wheeler man with strip mine near Berryburg died when his jeep hauling dynamite ran off a road and struck a rock the impact igniting the dynamite Wheeler was operator of the Berryburg area mine and died yesterday at the scene police said
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