May Research Points to Diabetes Prevention
In a Hitchcock Foundation Lecture at the University of California Berkeley on January 23, Dr. Bernardo Houssay, 1947 Nobel laureate, described experiments in rats showing that removing the pancreas initially prevents diabetes symptoms, followed by a silent period and eventual diabetes, suggesting possible early diagnosis and prevention by sustaining pancreatic function.
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Bernardo A. Houssay
Buenos Aires
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Univerity
California
Deficient Diet Linked to Cancer in Rats Study Finds
UBURN AL JAN 23 A P Discovery that diet alone can cause cancer in rats, made two years ago at the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, has spurred broader experiments. Deficiency of choline, an organic base vital for fat metabolism, produced cancers in rats and is now being tested on chickens and dogs. The Alabama team headed by Prof W D Salmon notes choline is essential for humans and found lacking in a diet caused rapid cancer development in a rat strain.
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Copeland
Oregon Butcher Gives Away Hamburgers in Price War
In Helens Oregon Roy Harrington spread a price battle by giving away one hamburger per customer as meat prices drop. He says about 400 housewives took free ham burgers in two days while other meats sold low. shoppers wait until Saturday as the 21 day price war continues in a town of 5000.
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Harrington
Snpin Steal
aSennis
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California Leads Nation With Bean Crop 1947 Output
California produced an estimated 4,363,000 field run bags of beans in 1947, the State Agriculture Department reported. The crop, largest since 1943, was valued at about $57,565,000, making California the leading bean state in the nation.
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Sacramento
California
Fish Industry Bureau Seeks High Level US Fish Representation
Washington reports Rep. Thor Tollefson says the fish industry will push its case for policy level representation at the State Department. Secretary George C. Marshall is expected to meet early next week with a committee formed at the Pacific Fisheries Conference in San Francisco. The group aims to persuade Marshall that top level State Department oversight is needed to protect U.S. interests in international negotiations and equality with other nations with fisheries ministers.
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Thor Tollefson
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Marshall
San Francisco
U. S
Swanson Reelected President of Sun-Maid Raisin Growers
A. B. Swanson of Kingsburg was reelected to his fifth term as president of the Sun-Maid Raisin Growers of California at the cooperative's annual directors meeting in Fresno.
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Fresno
A.B. Swanson
Kingsburg
Sun-Maid Raisin Growers of California
Co-Operative
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