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— Griffin Daily News Monday, May 14,1973
Immunologists seek
a cure for cancer
By IRWIN J.
POLK, MD, MPH
Copley News Service
How does your body know
when it’s sick? How does it
recognize infection? What de
fenses does the body have
against infection? Against
cancer? These are the ques-
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tions being answered by doc
tors in an old medical field
which has aroused new inter
est lately — immunology.
The earliest information
about immunity was pub
lished before the turn of the
century. From this early work
came lifesaving techniques
such as vaccination against
small-pox, typhoid, tetanus.
Vaccines were developed
when it was found that the
body could be protected
against certain diseases by
exposing it under controlled
conditions to the kinds of or
ganisms which caused those
diseases. The methods of rais
ing this immunity were im
proved, and the number of
diseases against which pro
tection was available in
creased throughout the first
half of our century, but it was
not until perhaps 20 years ago
that the workings of the im
mune system of the body be
gan to be known.
When something comes into
your body from the outside,
the body recognizes it as for
eign. In response to the inva
sion by the foreign material,
the body sends special cells
which contact the material
and attach to it some normal
body-protein called RNA.
This foreign material-RNA
complex goes on to cells
called lymphocytes which in
turn begin to manufacture
specific proteins to act
against the invaders.
The specific proteins
made by the lymphocytes are
called antibodies. It is these
antibodies, specific against
every foreign material enter
ing the body, that are the ba
sis of the body’s defenses. For
more than 60 years, allergy
doctors have used antibodies
to protect the nose and throat
against pollen for treatment
of hay fever.
Antibodies are produced
against pollens and germs,
and probably against cancer.
There is evidence that serious
cancer occurs in people who
lack immunity to cancer cells.
So cancer may be thought of
as a disease in which the im
mune processes of the body
fail. Recently work on cancer
cures has turned toward im
proving the body’s immunity
reaction against cancer cells.
Immune reactions may oc
cur between mother and child
during pregnancy. The “rh
disease” reaction is an exam
ple of this. If mother and baby
have different blood types and
some of the baby’s blood
passes through the placenta
into the mother’s circulation,
her body will recognize the
baby’s blood as foreign. Moth
er may then develop antibo
dies against the baby’s blood,
and if these antibodies pass
into the baby’s blood stream
in large enough amounts, the
baby can become seriously ill.
In fact, in light of present
knowledge about antibodies,
it is surprising that the “for
eign” baby can develop within
the mother’s body at all, with
out being recognized as for
eign by the mother’s immuni
ty system.
Heart transplants suffer be
cause of immune reactions,
too. In fact, the most impor
tant cause for failure of organ
transplants to survive is the
immune reaction. When a
heart or other organ is trans
planted from a donor to an
other person, the body receiv
ing the new organ recognizes
it as foreign. The immune
system goes to work making
antibodies and the process be
gins which ends in the trans
planted organ being “re
jected” by its new body. This,
of course, means that the
transplant fails and the pa
tient dies.
Immunologists are hard at
work trying to solve these
problems. They work with in
dividual cells and the antibo
dies the cells make. To see
into the cell they use the elec
tron microscope; to analyze
its products they use radioac
tive materials and chemical
techniques which measure to
millionths of a gram. From
their efforts may one day
come the prevention and cure
of diseases from hayfever to
cancer.
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Ted and Genevieve Meza ham it up on Atlas’ knee. Meza builds these statues for use by a chain of
health spas. Meza, formerly the designer for Holiday on Ice, is designing and building the sets for
Gordon’s production of “Hello Dolly.”
Griffinites help
Gordon gets touch of old Broadway
When Griffin’s Ted Meza says
“book ’em”, the Gordon Junior
College students, standing
around, hop to it.
For non-theatrical types,
“book ’em” is an expression
meaning to set the flats up so
they stand by themselves like
open books.
. Flats are various scenes
where action takes place. Meza,
a set designer, is currently
building the sets for Gordon’s
upcoming presentation of
“Hello Dolly.”
Talking to Ted Meza is like
stepping into show business it
self.
Standing inside his large
workshop-studio near Griffin, it
is easy to catch the fever of
show business.
Meza specializes in building
props, staging, backdrops, and
special effects for shows and
other forms of entertainment.
His workshop is filled with
varying projects at different
stages of completion.
At the doorway, the first thing
that inevitably catches the eye
is a gigantic elephant. The
dep ha nt is actually a mold
from which other elephants are
made.
Standing next to the elephant
Merchant fleet
joins the Navy
By L. EDGAR PRINA
Military Affairs
Correspondent
Copley News Service
WASHINGTON - Driven
by the money pinch or, as the
Pentagon puts it, ‘‘fiscal real
ities,” the U.S. Navy has en
tered a period of integration
with the merchant marine un
precedented in our peacetime
history.
The new bulk carriers and
tankers, together with their
older sister ships, are giving
credibility to a phrase which
had become virtually mean
ingless since the end of the
Korean War — that the mer
chant marine is America’s
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is a camel.
According to Meza, both these
items are in demand by
Shriners who hold conventions
across the nation and use the
creatures as attention-getters.
He simply builds an animal
from the mold and adds work
ing parts his buyers request —
like blinking eyes or a wagging
tail.
Back in another room, a huge
figure looks an awfully lot like
Atlas holding up the world.
On closer investigation, it
turns out to be a mold for
another item in demand — the
man holding the world in front
of your “friendly neighborhood
health spa.”
Even his wife Genevieve, a
former skating star with Holi
day on Ice, gets into the act.
After posing the Gordon cast in
some “classic” positions for the
camera, she moved on to a short
lesson on the fine art of dancing.
Meza built sets for Holiday on
Ice for about twenty years.
However, he reached the point
where he grew tired of the
hassle associated with living in
New York, so he headed South.
After a brief stop-over in
College Park, he finally located
in Griffin. Here he builds his
fantasies, elephants, giant
“fourth arm of defense.”
Two years ago, Adm. Elmo
R. Zumwalt Jr., chief of naval
operations, became con
vinced Congress and the peo
ple were determined to in
crease greatly federal spend
ing for domestic needs.
From this, he concluded
that the massive funds needed
for the long overdue modern
ization of the fleet, from war
ships to auxiliaries, simply
would not be appropriated
and that the Navy, according
ly, must concentrate its bud
get on combatants and look to
commercial shipping for help
in meeting its logistics needs
at sea.
Fortunately, Zumwalt
found enthusiastic support in
the Maritime Administration,
then under the leadership of
Andrew E. Gibson. A joint
Navy-MARAD policv nbm
rung group was created to ex
plore the Navy’s sealift re
quirements and the capabili
ties of merchant ships to meet
them.
The CNO sent the Navy’s
top strategic thinker, Rear
Adm. George H. MiUer, to be
the Navy’s fuU-time represen
tative to the Maritime Admin
istration. MiUer now works
closely with Robert J. Black
well, successor to Gibson as
assistant secretary of com
merce for maritime affairs.
In a recent address to the
Navy League here, BlackweU
reviewed the rationale for co
operation and the substantial
progress being made.
snowmen, and other assorted
creations.
He still builds a few ‘traveling
sets’ for the world famous ice
show.
About two years ago Meza
built his first set for Gordon.
Describing his first encounter
with Meza, Lanny McAlister,
Gordon’s Director of Music,
laughingly recalls trying to
erect the facade of a giant
Southern plantation under
Meza’s supervision.
“He would tell us to move
something ‘upstage’ and then
move it back ‘down stage.’ At
the time, we weren’t even sure
what a stage was.”
Over the years, however, a
lasting friendship has develop
ed between the two men and the
result has been that Gordon
productions have been backed
up with some of the finest sets in
the country.
For Gordon the “Dolly” set is
the difference between a
mediocre production and a
really first-rate one.
For Meza, the set is another
artistic enterprise to be ap
proached with great care and
enthusiasm —a little touch of
‘old Broadway’ in Barnesville.
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HONG KONG (UPI) - David
K. E. Bruce, the first American
diplomat in Peking in 24 years,
walked into China today across
the covered Low Wu bridge
forming the border with Hong
Kmg.
The 75-year-old envoy, his
wife and three other members
of the American party were
traveling to Canton by train
and then by Chinese airliner to
Peking to open a UJS. liaison
mission there.
“I have no idea when we will
have a full embassy in
Pricing,” he said.
He said no official ceremony
would open the Liaison office —
it would simply begin function
ing “on my arrival.”
One member of the party was
John H. Holdrige, 48, one of
Bruce’s two deputies and a
China expert who went with
Henry A. Kissinger on his five
trips to China to prepare the
way for the visit last year by
President Nixon and the open
ing of liaison offices in Peking
and Washington.
A former ambassador in
Britain, France and West
Germany, Bruce will not hold
that rank in Peking, but only
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liaison office.
Bruce and Hs party left with
little hand luggage. Most of it
already had been sent into
Pricing, along with furniture
and fixtures, by U.S. Air Force
plane.
Bruce arrived May 7 from
Washington. He spent the week
attending triefings with mem
bers of the Consulate General,
until now the chief U.S. “China
listening post.” He shopped,
met informally with newsmen
and was “just relaxing.”
Bruce is the first envoy to
Peking since the late Ambassa
dor John Leighton Stuart was
all but ignored by the new
Commurist regime and left in
August of 1949.
Bruce heads a staff that
includes 10 State Department
specialists on China. The rest of
the mission consists of se
cretaries, support personnel
and Marine guards.
As a reciprocal move to the
opening of the U.S. liaison
mission, China will establish a
similar office in Washington
headed by Huang Chen, Pe-
former ambassador to
France.