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Twice Told Tales New Enzyme Test For Heart Attack FIFTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of December 19, 1929) The Christmas season is here again and the routine of everyday life is broken by the plans and preparations which are being made for this biggest and best loved holiday of the year. At the time the spirit of good fellowship and the com­ munity spirit of good cheer reign supreme and assist in making the observation of Christmas day a most ap­ propriate one. Through the progressiveness of our merchants the streets of our city present the usual gala and festive appearance this year. The Christmas spirit displayed by festoons of beautifully colored lights along Main street in West McHenry and Green street in McHenry and the many bulbs in the Christmas colors cast a resplendent glow over the business secfiohsr There will be dancing every Saturday night at the Polly Prim pavilion, McHenry, with music by Frankie Gans' Skylarks, eight-piece orchestra. A special New Year's eve celebration is being planned with hats, caps, balloons, noise makers, souvenirs and plenty of fun. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of December 28, 1939) The Social Security board field office at Waukegan has notified six McHenry residents that they may be eligible to receive monthly payments under the Old Age and Survivors Insurance program of the Social Security act beginning Jan. 1, 1940, according to a statement made by Albert S. Lewis, manager of the Waukegan Field office. Mr. Lewis also stated that it is advisable for all wage earners 65 years of age or over who have secured six calendar quarters of em­ ployment after December, 1936, in jobs covered by the provisions of the Social Security act, and who have become unemployed or contemplate retiring, to contact an office of the board to familiarize themselves with the requirements necessary to become entitled to old-age and survivors insurance. The McHenry Welding and Blacksmith shop has moved from John and Front streets to the new location' on Waukegan road on Route 20, in back of the Farmers' Mill. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of December 22, 1954) The Memorial Hospital for McHenry county expansion program campaign office reports $415,137 to date. Of this total McHenry reported $45,000; Ringwood-Wonder Lake area, $29,000; John- sburg $2,300; and Richmond $5,000. Gerald Carey, Ray McGee and Dan Justen, co- chairmen, feel the McHenry total will go over $50,000. S e v e r a l h u n d r e d youngsters visited the business districts to visit Santa and to receive the sacks of candy which he distributed. Santa arrived by bus and was greeted in each section by large groups of young people. Mary Nye and Pat Goranson, both of McHenry, took part in the modern dance presentation of the "Nutcracker Suite" at Northern Illinois State Teachers college. Adele Sch- mitt and Carol Engh sang with the Alverno college chorus in Wisconsin for the annual Christmas program in the college auditorium. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of December 26, 1969) McHenry county's first scavenger sale since 1965 was held in mid-December and it turned out to be the biggest one since 1946. That was the year the first such sale was held in the county. This year's sale wiped off the back taxes of property ten or more years delinquent for all but thirteen parcels of the 989 offered for sale. In­ dividuals bid $18,261.25 vs. about $2,100 in 1965, $2,600 in 1961 and $2,450 in 1956. The only year higher was 1946 when the sale produced almost $30,000. Seven contracts for building construction of the new Junior high school on Ringwood road were ap­ proved by the board of Consolidated Grade School District 15 to the amount of $1,4%,955. Largest of the contracts was one for $903,949 awarded Driessen Construction Co., for general work, and $493,150 to Carey Electric co., for electrical work. ^ WHAT'S NEW Magnifier attached to headband allows free use of the hands. It weighs less than three ounces, can be adjusted to several viewing angles. Your good neighbor has a Office new Here's my new State Farm office, where I can better serve you with a better value In car, home, life and health Insurance. I Invite you to call or drop In any time. CRANVILIF SOINSON 5116 W. Elm St., McHenry 385-1627 S T A f l t A R M I N S U t A N C I Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. State Farm Insurance Companies , Home Offices: Bloomington. Illinois S c i e n t i s t s f r o m Washington university in St. Louis recently described results of a new enzyme test to tell whether a patient suffering from chest pains really has a heart attack. The test is sensitive, rapid, specific and simple enough to be performed in any community hospital, ac­ cording to Robert Roberts, M.D., director of the coronary care unit at Barnes hospital, the main teaching unit for the university. The new test has been tried in 203 normal patients and 111 patients with an acute myocardial infaction (heart attack), Dr. Roberts said, and confirmed the diagnosis in all 111 heart attack patients. The new technique can confirm a diagnosis in two to four hours-about two to three times faster than any other a v a i l a b l e l a b o r a t o r y method, according to his report at the American Heart association's 52nd scientific sessions. Coauthor of the report js Ceil A. Herman, Ph.D., of New Mexico State university, Las Cruces. Until recent years, doctors could only confirm a heart attack by means of an electrocardiogram (ECG). But a heart attack may not show up on an ECG for 12 to 24 hours, Dr. Roberts ex­ plained, and even then is only conclusive in about 60 percent of cases. That's why several years ago scientists began developing ways to test blood samples for metabolic products given off during a heart attack, such as creatine kinase (CK), an enzyme. MB CK isoenzymes are given off by heart muscle tissue when it is dying as a result of a heart attack and the form is almost completely specific for the heart. Dr. Roberts explained that new chromatographic laboratory tests require six to eight hours before high blood levels of the enzyme can be detected and technicians can confirm that a heart attack has occurred. Now, by using the new absorption glass bead method, abnormal levels of MB CK can be determined in blood plasma much earlier- in just two to four hours. MB CK sticks to the glass beads and the concentrations is determined by a spec- tophotometer, a device normally available in a hospital laboratory. The sooner a heart at­ tack is confirmed, the sooner physicians can prescribe drugs and other treatment that might limit the size of the damaged area of tissue. Dr. Roberts said additional research is needed to determine whether use of the new, faster diagnostic test actually saves lives. The glass bead test method is now commerically available through Sherwood Medical Industries in St. Louis, Dr. Roberts said. Strange Bedfellows A proposed windfall profits tax and the proposed repeal of the carryover basis rule of the 1976 federal-state tax law may not have much in common, but the fact that Congress put them in the same package is not un­ common to Washington maneuvering. 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