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PICKERING Girl Guides and Scouts Open Season's Activities BARRY MUREKAR Correspondent PICKERING -- Pickering CGIT 'held their first meeting of season on Moncay, October 5. elected the following officers: ident, Audrey Hunt; vice presi- dent, Carol James; secretary, Joyce Kinsmen, Treasurer, Pat Frenette; correspondent, Louise Lishman, . All girls between twelve and eighteen years are wlecome. Come out and have an interesting time on Mondays, 4.30 to .6 p.m. The Boy Scout Group Committee composed of representatives of all churches and the pickering Rotary Club have decided to make a com- Jl canvass of the village in the terests of Boy Scout work in the district. In the few months the local troop has been in operation despitep roblems common to be- i s, real progress has been made. To enable- the committee to do a better job for S and .so one of them will be calling on citizens between October 10 an 17, to explain the program d peeds. Official receipts will be giv- en for all donations and do not give without it. The Scouts also need leaders, especially for the Cub Pack. Many boys are anxious to join this group age 8 to 12, but leadership is lacking. So anyone who has had experience in this important work please contact any- one of the committee, Fred White, Cliff Barkey, A. Greener (St. Georges Cy Jackson (St. Andrews), or Gordon Bray (United) and Mr. W. T. Gres- ham secretary, phone 161. DID WELL AT MARKHAM Harry and Bill Boyes made an excellent showing at Markham Fair last week with their prize Ayshires winning four seconds and Junior Champion, Ayshire female under two years. They will be showing again on Monday next at the Shampionship show Western On- |g and white, in which win- Percy and Ron Neale won sec- and in the Swoeat.old heifer class Markham s . The Womens Institute held their regular at home of . Frank Ri ivan yes or very {ntaresting was given , Leaside United Church. were turned in by sev- members for the fgg of in nurses a room residence of the Pickering Ajax Hospital. Mrs, C. s Bryant won in the High School students class match at e received ant, of Mr. and I 2 won first prise President of Ontario Durham and Northumberland Counties Police As sociation. Members of the Blue Cross please note -- Payments are due on or before October 10. Mrs. Wilf Hunt opens her Gift shop on Saturaay. Chas. Simms, Toronto, addressed Rotary Monday evening on "Suc- cession Duties act." RECTOR LEAVES Terminating his stewardship of many years as Rector of St. Georges can Church here Rev. E. © Rob on has entered the parish of St. Nicholas, Bircheliff, as assistant to Rev. Lewis Gains- worthy who is leaving shortly for a year in England when Mr. Rob- inson 'takes charge. The genial witty Christian gentle- man, v. Mr. Robinson will be missed in Pickering by a host of friends, we among them. We en- joyed his company. Mr. Robinson will be succeeded by Mr. John Crouch, a student in charge. Mr. Crouch will immediately commence a period of visiting when he hopes to meet as m as sible in this communtiy. We welcome him to the village. Orvill Wallenius, was added to the Township Police Force on Mon- day, the force to total of seven men. Constable Wal- lenius is a married man and was at one time a detective with tie T. Eaton Co. He is residing at resent in the Township of dcar- Mrs. Frank Baker has been spending several days with her mother Mrs. Valleau and sister, Mrs. Pense of Kingston. Mr. and Mrs. Len Wilson again layed hosts to the choir of the United Church on Saturday even- ing when they held their annual weiner roast and party. Mr. Jack He and Mr. Cliff Barkey attended the World Series ames. Mr. Ross Irvin, son of Mr. a. Ross Irwin 'having been on the staff of the Bank of Commerce, Ajax, for some months was last week transferred to a branch at Woodstock. Mrs. Harris Little, West Hill visit- ed Mrs. Cyril Morley on Tuesday. A large number from this com- munity have been attending the Plowing Match at Cobourg this week. Keith Balsdon son of Mr. and Mrs. Clare Balsdon was one of N. Ireland Storm Cools Off Before Vote and extend its continuous 32-year- control over Parliament for an- other four years. Nominations for the Oct. 22 elec- tions closed with 21 members of the party returned unopposed to the 52-seat House of Commons. The 38 seats in the last Parliament. It indicated that the party prob- ably would retain the power it has held since the separate northern Parliament was established in 1921. Among those returned unop were Prime Minister Lord Brooke- borough, Health Minister Dame Dehra Parker, and Sir Norman Stronge, Speaker of the House. Four Nationalists, who want a united independent Ireland, also were returned unopposed. For Northern Ireland, long a poli- posed | ist landslide four years Centre covered 48 seats. The other four are held by Queen's University, Belfast, where members are elec- ted separately. ! The strongest challenger to Unionist supremacy is the North- ern Ireland Labor party in Bel- fast, which hopes to win back three or four seats it lost in the Union- ago. The Laborites, counterpart of the British Labor party, back the British connection and advocate new action against unemployment. HISTORIC CASTLE of a castle built by the tical storm-centee, this election promises to be unusually quiet. In Bishop of Salisbury in 1132 are still seen at Devizes in Wiltshire, England. SALLY'S SALLIES Editor's Note: Everyone knows about the uses of atoms in war. And there has been much specu- lation about peacetime uses. Now comes a concrete progress --which one scientist calls "the most important medical discov- ery since the microscope." Here is the story of radioactive iso- topes and their growing use. By ALVIN 8. McCOY LAWRENCE, Kas. (AP)---Little Marilyn just wasn't making fit. From the day of her birth she had been listless, torpid, failing to respond to light or to objects tangled before her. She didn't cry normally, wouldn't eat and had to be force-fed. Fluids had to be in- jected under her skin to keep her flabby little body from drying out. Her abdomen was swollen, her face expressionless. How Marilyn was changed into a normal baby, rescued from life in a mental institution, is part ol the exciting story of a new set of tools that atomic science has given to medicine. The tools are the radioactive isotopes. An isotope is a form of a chem- ical element differing slightly in its molecular weight from the MOVE IT WITH A-Science Gives Babies New Hope usual make-up. Radioactive simply means that the isotope has been bombarded with atomic particles until it can emit radioactive rays. Several elements are being ham- mered into radioactive isotopes in atomic reactors and under atom- smashing machines like the cyclo- tron and betatron. Principal ones to date: Iodine, phosphorus, gold. Children with baby Marilyn's symptoms usually are diagnosed as having one of two conditions, cretinism or mongolism. Cretinism is caused by lack of development of the throid gland, which hugs the adam's apple, while the baby is growing in its mother's body. Untreated, it leads to permanent brain injury and lifelong mental incompetence--but it can be cured. Mongolism is due to poor func- tioning of many glands. There is no known treatment. Victims ~agually die in childhood. Marilyn's family doctor sus- pected cretinism and referred her parents to Dr. Homer L. Hiebert at Stormont - vail hospital in Topeka, Kan. Dr. Hiebert gave Marilyn some of radioactive iodine. Mysteriously THE BUI [ MERCURY [il [1INCOLN | Meleor RE' LT water containing a tiny quantity | when iodine is introduced inte the body it makes a rush for the thyroid gland. The amount of io- dine the gland will absorb indi- cates how big it is. GEIGER COUNTER But how to tell how much iodine is absorbed? That's where atomic science comes in. Dr. Hiebert held a geiger counter over Marilyn's throat. In a few seconds it clicked out the story: She had less than 10 per cent of a thyroid. The diagnosis--cretinism. The rest was easy. Marilyn was dosed with hormone extracted from animal thyroids to make up for what her own gland failed to produce. Marilyn was '2% months old when she was taken to Dr. Hiebert. Now, at 15 months, she's a lively, happy and chubby little girl witle every prospect of living out a normal and useful life. Most astonishing, and most heartening . to parents of babies like Marilyn, is the way she made up for lost fime after starting al- most from scratch at 2% months. Dr. Hiebert's case report said: "The child sat up at 8% months, developed her first teeth at 11 months. She stood at 10% months, holding, and began to say words at 13 months, and stood alone at 12 months." Just about what a baby normal from birth would be doing! TRAINING NEEDED Radioactive therapy, however, requires considerable training. must learn & and management of patients. Hos- pitals must be equipped with iso- tope laboratories. There is a ecrit- ical shortage of the physicist tech- nicians who measure doses and install laboratories. Despite these handicaps, the use of isotopes is just about doubling each year. Eventually many gen- eral practitioners may be able to use "tracer" doses in diagnosis in their own offices. Besides spotting throid disturb- ances, isotopes are being used to track down brain tumors and cer- tain types of heart disease, to al- leviate some kinds of cancer and to treat a variety of other human ailments. Dr. John B. Stansbury of the Harvard University school of medicine calls them 'the most important medical discovery since the microscope." Radioactive phosphorus is used to treat a condition known as pol- yeynthemia vera, an excess of red blood corpuscles, and leukemia or blood cancer. Cancer of the male prostate gland and swellings in the abdo- men and chest cavity are being treated with radioactive gold. Radioactive iodine is being used in large doses to slow down overly active thyroids--sometimes mak- ing surgery unnecessary. Treatment with these 'isotopes must be carried on cautiously, however. The rays destroy cells, which limits their use in cancer treatment. THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, October 14, 1008 48 OTHER ONE UNSOUND RCMP Now Get Proper Badge OTTAWA (CP)--The RCMP has ironed out some heraldic difficul- ties and now has a new and proper badge. ° The badge gradually will be placed in use throughout the force, oh buttons as collar badges, on stationery, on automobiles and other property. The October issue of the RCMP quarterly says the badge has been granted by the Garter Principal King of Arms, College of Arms, London. It has been registered in the records of the college, founded March 2, 1483. Previous badges of the force, all variations of one design, were "not of sound heraldic design." For in- stance, the buckled garter sur-' rounding the buffalo, formerly part of the badge, belongs solely to the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The badge is on a blue back- ound, with a bison's head facing = ront surrounded by a blue band * with gold border inscribed with the RCMP motto '"'Maintiens le Droit" --"Uphold the Right" The band is ® surrounded by 12 maple leaves. Be- . neath it is a gold-edged blue scroll bearing the legend 'Royal Cana- dian Mounted Police" and above it a St. Edward's crown. Under the crown on a blue scroll is inscribed "Canada." BIG GRAIN CROP OSLO (CP) -- An exceptionally good grain crop this year may turn out to be a record for Nor- way. 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