European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 06, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes monday july 6, 1959 radiation chamber Tormedis attests unveiled at Hospital los Angeles a a Concrete lined radiation pit in which animals and humans can be Given massive jolts of radiation such As they might get in an atomic explosion has been research chamber fir St of its kind in the u.s., is. At the City of Hope medical Center it will be used to 1seek ways to counteract the effect of heavy radiation doses.2study the possibility of transplanting parts of bodies by knocking out temporarily the natural immunity mechanism which now prevents this. Or. Melville l. Jacobs chairman of radiology at the Center said the first human patient would be treated in the chamber within six or eight months. Mice rabbits and rats will be used in the initial 11-foot-Square chamber 12 feet underground has Concrete Walls three fee thick to absorb the radiation from eight cerium capsules. The $90,000 facility will provide Energy equivalent to about one million Electron volts. This is approximately1 the amount of radiation you would if you were a couple Hundred Yards away at the Tim of an atomic Industrial Accident Jacobs up into the chamber Are four posts one at each Corner of the table on which the animal or human lies. Near the. Top and Bottom of each Post is a Small porthole through which rays from cerium capsules Are beamed bathing the subject in massive radiation of the same intensity at All Points of the body. How will this help doctors substitute new body tissue for old the Lymphatic system which produce the immunity substances in the body is extremely sensitive to radiation Jacobs Hope to find the proper dosage which will reduce the output of immunity bodies without destroying the Lymphatic system to a Point where transplants of organs can be body s to foreign matter such As organs from another body largely prevents this Lymphatic tissue from unborn infants can sometimes be transplanted successfully he said and so can Bone marrow from compatible blood types. " massive radiation is important Alser in fighting various forms of cancer including leukaemia a cancer of the blood. The danger is that heavy doses of radiation also knocks out the Bone marrow a part of the Lymphatic Banks of marrow either that taken from the patient previously or marrow for local s first chief Fields 65, was the local s first president and accepted the first ump charter in Lola her county in 1947.he has been a Leader in ump efforts to sign about 700 truck mines to a 1959 Union contract calling for a $2-a-Day pay raise to $24.25 and a clause prohibiting operators from handling nonunion con. Before a Federal court order May 4 banned the ump from picketing Fields walked the picket line daily. He gave this reason i have spent 47 years in the mines. 1 Don t plan to throw it All away now. The Only Way we have to go without a con met is la stand in the Piskei line As Long As i m insisted the contract would bankrupt them. Bulldozer destroyed other sources said a Bulldozer belonging to nonunion Coal con tractor Tommy Mounds was destroyed by dynamite about two hours before the Union Hall blast. Police did not know of the Dyna mining and Mounds could not be reached. Police said other explosions the same Day blew out the windows in a nearby residence and shattered the Windshield of a pickup did not know the owners of bag used in woman s suicide new York up a 63-year old woman was found dead in be with a plastic bag Over her head. Police identified the woman As mrs. Dorothy Krauser. They listed the death As an apparent suicide swimmers beached As Sharks arrive Brigantine . A bathers beat a Hasty Retreat from the Atlantic o
