European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday september 7, 1978 r trickery produces insulin i Duarte Calif. Up in a major genetic engineering feat scientists at the City of Hope medical Center wednesday announced the first production of human insulin in bacteria tricked by the insertion of artificial genes. Laboratory manufacture of the Hor Mone Means that human insulin can soon be made available for the first time to diabetics whose lives depend on daily injections. The insulin now being used is extracted from the pancreas of slaughtered cattle and pigs and the Supply is diminishing each year the researchers said. They said they produced Only a few Grams of insulin from bacteria in the Laboratory More than enough to prove the Validity of the Experiment. About 300 units or 3 cubic ,.of insulin Are produced from a slaughtered cow or pig a spokesman said. The average diabetic insulin user requires about 40 units or four tenths of a cubic Cen time Ter each Day. The development combining some of the most advanced techniques in the rapidly expanding Field of genetic manipulation was announced by the 10 collaborating scientists from the City of Hope and Gen tech inc., a research and development Labora tory in South san Francisco which funded the work. We be managed to trick e. Coli bacteria into making human insulin or. A thur Riggs of the City of Hope said in an interview. It took a year beginning last septem Ber until the final product. That was on aug. 9." the work on insulin began shortly after the same team of researchers chemically synthesized the hormone Soma Tostain in the first demonstrated practical Benefit from recombinant Dan technology in which scientists Are Able to Combine Seg ments of hereditary material from organisms of different species to create life forms with new Chat Ristics. We made the Dan the molecular the Ben Hur no the Ken Hur of lawyers attorney Ken Hur sits in the Driver s seat of his old Ford with its door sign indicating clearly where he stands on lawyers advertising. Hur drives the Vintage car through Madison wis., to advertise his services. Also he says he sometimes shows up at work wearing a to shirt that list his number and some Legal service he offers. Up catholics Call for company Boycott Washington up the leadership f roman Catholic religious orders have alled for the Boycott of the . Stevens co. Until the textile firm ends the Atmo sphere of fear and intimidation associated with efforts to form unions. The 1,000 leaders from Catholic men s and women s orders and communities who endorsed the Boycott said they based their support on the Church s traditional social teaching on the right of workers to Organ be for collective bargaining. Roman Catholic Bishops from the South East have sought to to play a mediating role in the bitter struggle Between Stevens and the amalgamated clothing and textile workers Union Over the Effort by the Union to unionize workers at Stevens plants. The fight has been one of the most protracted and bitter in labor history and the Boycott called by the textile workers onion has been endorsed by a variety of re Gigious groups. The endorsement by the leadership of he the major superiors of men s and women s religious however is among the first institutional support of the Boycott from the roman Catholic Church. Earlier this year six Catholic Bishops who sought to mediate in the labor dispute expressed disappointment at Lack of Prog Ress and said evidence is overwhelming that Stevens has followed a path of discouragement and even repression of Union  in addition to endorsing the statement the religious communities leaders said they would also work with their social jus Tice coordinators to educate Catholic parishioners and urge officials of retail stores and textile outlets to refrain from Selling or leasing . Stevens products until the . Stevens co. Dissipates the atmosphere of fear and intimidation in its  Chain that carries the genetic code of life forms through chemical synthesis took the Gene and inserted it into the bacteria Riggs said. Then we looked at it and found we were making the desired prod  a Gene stores hereditary information like a computer serving As a blueprint to Tell a cell How to make a specific chemical product. The first artificial Gene capable of working in a living cell was made two years ago by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of technology. Or. Keiichi Itakura one of the City of Hope researchers said about 10 to 20 per cent of All diabetics Are allergic to animal insulin and while the human population is increasing rapidly with an associated in crease in diabetics of about 6 percent per year the animal population is decreasing. The insulin shortage becomes More severe every year he said. There Are about 6 million known diabetics in the United states alone and about 1 million Are insulin  3 editors quit daily metro strike paper new York up three top editors of one of new York City s interim strike papers resigned wednesday after learning that new York Post publisher Rupert Mur Doch had loaned Money to the paper and had an option to buy it at the end of the newspaper strike. New York daily metro City editor Jef Frey Schmalz said publisher Frederick ise Man disclosed late tuesday he had secretly borrowed several Hundred thousand dollars from Murdoch to keep the metro afloat after its second Day of operation. Iseman also acknowledged that Mur Doch has an option to buy the paper or its name at the end of the newspaper strike and refused to say he would not sell the metro Schmalz said. As a result Schmalz editor Alvin Davis and managing editor Richard Roberts announced their resignations wednesday As did an unknown number of staffers. Schmalz said it was unclear if Iseman intended to continue publication. Trust destroyed we were deceived from the beginning and our Trust and Confidence destroyed the three metro editors said in a state ment. Murdoch s alleged financial interest in the paper has been the subject of news re ports Ever since the metro began Publica Tion on aug. 21, 12 Days after a strike by 1, 600 Pressman shut Down the Post the new York daily news and the new Yor times. Murdoch is president of the new York publishers association with whom the Pressman s Union is negotiating for a new contract. With a staff of close to 60 reporters and editors most of them idled times report ers Iseman a former assistant editor for the times oped Page has distributed 400,000 copies of the metro daily. On the first Day of publication he acknowledged that Murdoch had helped set up part of the newspaper s distribution net work but he denied the australian publisher had editorial control of the metro. Thumped takes a Hare raising ride Palmdale Calif. Up the new est species of Jet Bunny has never seen the inside of Hugh Hefner s private plane. This particular Bunny May have set Sev eral other records including the Northrop corp s claim for it the Only 9g Rabbit in the  it could also go into the re Cord books As the Only passenger Ever flown in the f-18, a single seat fighter Northrop is developing for the Navy. Before taking the plane on a nationwide demonstration tour Northrop s chief test Pilot Hank Chouteau put it through its paces on a test flight at almost supersonic speeds diving and twisting through a series of acrobatic exercises that raised stresses to 9 is nine times the Force of Gravity. After Landing a crewman discovered a stowaway in the plane s avionics Compart ment a Small Jackrabbit. The Crew named him thumped the 9grabbit." they theorized that thumped had hopped into the air conditioning unit hooked to the plane to keep equipment Cool when it is parked in the desert Sun and then was blown into the aircraft with the blast of cold air when the unit went into operation. The Crew kept thumped for a Day to see if he suffered any ill effects from his experience. They noted that he twitched his nose a lot and ate everything we gave him interpreted that As a sign of Rabbit health and set him free