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Monday, March 2, 1964 The Daily Nebraskan Page. 3 ENTIRE LIFE IS STERILE !'''' t Ml -If Fulfil trek By Bob Moraczewskl A quiet, calm, sterility sur rounds the four silent doc tors as they give birth to a new life. The new baby animal be ing rubbed dry by rubber gloved hands inside a gleam ing, sterile machine may be destined to save money, ani mal lives and possibly hu man lives. This newborn calf may nev er see the outdoors, green grass, or another animal. It will never contact a germ unless by the will of man. However, this calf might save farmers millions of dol lars and perhaps, just per haps, help find a cure to cancer. The calf is the result of a cattle hysterectomy research project, now in its second year. Dr. Robert Sweat, 32, a University of Nebraska in structor of veterinary science, heads the research. Similar work at the Agricultural Col lege resulted in germ -free hogs. The purpoe of the calf re search is to study three major virus diseases of cattle pink eye, shipping fever, and cancer eye. Shipping fever costs U.S. cattlemen an estimated $25 million annually. It is a res piratory disease "complex" in cattle caused by a com bination or "complex", of Politics- Cont. From Page 2 premises about the under developed countries, includ ing the premise that they all need and wish indus trialization. We ought to hear much more about our own "military - industrial complex," and whether or in what degree we could safely disarm. We need a .realistic picture in our heads about the coming American age of leisure, and clarification of the maddening problems of how we shall manage to live comfortably with one anoth er in our cities, and how we shall prevent the total destruction of the beauty of our landscape. The shaking of hands is not going to win the presi dency, for anyone. What will win what should win It will be the offer ing of a new vision of Amer icans within their new so ciety and of America with in a new world. In the very recent time of Pope John and John F. Ken nedy, a new vision was be ginning to take form and substance. It must not be allowed to fade away into the musty mists of good intentions. stress, bacteria and viruses. Stress includes s u c h in fluences as dust, fatigue and fear, prevalent when cattle are shipped. Pinkeye is a contagious di sease which causes inflama tion of the eye. It was first described in 1889 by Fr. Frank Billings of the University of Nebraska. Pinkeye may lead to blindness, loss of weight and perhaps to other diseases. There have been indications that pinkeye may cause can cer eye. Cancer eye is common among older animals. It is a cancerous growth which be gins in the eye, progresses in severity until the eye is de stroyed. It can cause death. Cancer eye in cattle is sim ilar to human forms of cancer. Sweat is doing a pre liminary study on the animal Icancer to examine the rela tionship. "The hysterectomy calf may someday prove to be an effective tool for cancer re search," Sweat said. The Uni versity of Nebraska College of Medicine provided $2,500 from an institutional Public Health grant to provide the calves. The hysterectomy calf is an excellent tool in animal di sease research. "It serves as a testing agent," according to Sweat. Producing a calf in this manner costs about $250. A conventionally born calf costs $30. The production of the hys terectomy calf is, however, an exacting process. A cow is killed when she is nearly ready to give birth to her calf. The cow's uterus, which contains the unborn calf, is removed. The 140 pounds calf and uterus are placed on the slanting table of the hand made delivering machine. The uterus and calf are dipped into a pool of disinfectant, past through an airlock, and into the sterile interior of the machine. Now the doctors work swift ly. The calf has not had ac cess to air since it was sep arated from its mother. The doctors place their hands in to the sterile gloves which are part of the machine. In less than one minute, they have removed the calf from the uterus, tied the umbilical cord and painted the navel with iodine. The calf gulps his first breath of filtered air. It will never breath anything except filtered air. After being alive about 40 minutes, the calf is usually feeling too important to be kept in a tin machine. So, he drops from the sterile-hooded machine into a sterile box The box is wrapped in a ster ile sheet and the package is delivered to a sterile labora tory. The boxed calf is met at the lab's airlock by a techni BOAC shows you the Europe the feuropean students know-from $1079 for 42 days. Inquiring minds and the fun-minded will both enjoy the 11 BOAC itineraries specially designed for students. You visit little-known Alpine and Yugoslav villages as wen as the Grand Tour classics. 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This prevents a tough tissue from forming on the undeveloped air sacs in the lungs of the premature calf. The develop ment of this tissue results in the same type of ailment that caused the death of President and Mrs. Kennedy's baby boy. Now, the calf is ready to earn his keep. Dr. Sweat follows Koch's Postulates in the disease research: 1. Find and isolate the or ganism which causes the spec ific disease in an infected animal. 2. Grow the organism in an artificial culture. 3. Innoculate a healthy an imal. The experiment is suc cessful if the animal will get the disease. 4. Recover the same organ ism from the diseased animal. The completion of Koch's Postulates is considered as definite proof that a particular organism causes a specific di sease. Then a vaccine can often be developed to counter the disease. Using this principle, Sweat injects a tiny , virus culture YG's Hear Founder National political figure, Mrs. Truman Wood, past president and founder of Gold for Goldwater, assistant-chairman of Nebraskans for Gold- water and Freedom, Founda tion Award winner, will speak on Communism, Tuesday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in the north and south conference rooms, Student Union. The event will be sponsored by the University Chapter of the Nebraska Youth for Gold water Club. The public is wel come to attend. TODAY UNICORNS, will meet, at 7 p.m. in 235 Union. - -TOMORROW YOUTH FOR GOLDWA TER will meet at 7 p.m. in the Union. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL E N G I NEERS, student branch,.will meet at 7 p.m. in 206 Ag Eni gineenng building. into a hysterectomy calf. Any i changes in the calf's health are directly related to the in jection because the calf has never contacted any other germs. Last year Sweat com pleted all four steps with two agents in his pinkeye re search. The next step is to find any other agents that may be involved and develop a vac cine for pinkeye. Sweat records his data in a blue notebook and takes colored slides of any visible changes in the calf's appear ance. His dates will inclufle a tis sue analysis of infected body cells. Sweat, who has an of fice wall filled with degrees, licenses, and certificates, drives 100 miles to and from Omaha twice a week to learn how to use the electron micro scope at the Appley Institute. He plans to examine his ex perimental results by doing his own complicated tissue an alysis. Sweat, who is rarely seen without a white technician's coat, says that his research is "really getting started now." In 1964, 11 hysterectomy calves will be used in the study. In 1963, eight hyster ectomies were performed. Six of the calves survived and three were successfully raised. "This year will be much better," Sweat predicts. The disposal of manure was the biggest problem encount ered in last year's experi ment. It had to be removed, but traffic through the pens had to be kept at a mini mum. How does a scientist solve a m-oblem like this? The re searchers found and fed a high-energy, low-fiber ration. Then, water pressure from a garden hose pulverized the resulting manure and sent it down the dram. "The experimental animals are auite happy in their con trolled environment. They don't seem to suffer any psy chological problems, although they are isolated," Sweat said. Sweat has received $26,081 in mihlir- health erants and $18,400 from Corvel Inc. and the Eli Lilly Co., Inc. for his studies to date. Whs will this cattle hvs terectomy research end? No one is sure. A similar experi ment with pigs resulted in Specific Pathogen ree t&f r ; hnffs. Rpsparrh on SPF hoes was started by Dr. George Young and.Norman unaeraani. com Yffoir now with the Univer sity of Nebraska department of veterinary science. Young is chairman of the depart ment. The SPF pig is free of cer tain disease-causing organ isms. SPF hogs are a multi- million dollar industry in the U.S. and a million dollar in dustry in Nebraska "T h e Beef State." Dr. Sweat doubts that the cattle industry will repopu late their stock with SPF cat tle, which are yet to be de veloped. But, he quickly adds, "there is no end to where you can go with research." Pfeiffer Gets Ag Grant Wayne Pfeiffer, an honors program sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Home Economics, has been awarded the second half of the, Nebraska Seedsmen Scholarship, worth $50 for the semester. He was honored for schol arship recently at the honors banquet of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture. Faculty's : Art On Display The 1964 public exhibition of works by the University's art faculty opened over the weekend in the auditorium of Miller and Paine. The works of eight faculty members,' primarily oils, wa ter colors, casein, intaglio, and bronze sculpture, will re main on exhabit until Satur day. Two new members of the department are exhibiting their works for the first time in Nebraska. They are: William Saltzman, on temporary assignment replac ing Richard Trickey, assist ant professor, on lerve. Saltz man is a Well-known Amer ican muralist and former di rector of the Rochester, Minn. Art Center. Thomas P. Coleman, in structor. Coleman's works have been exhibited in a num ber of national shows, and are included in the collections of the Library of Congress, the St. Louis Art Museum and the University of Kansas, where he studied for his mas ter's degree. Other art department staff on display include: Duard Lagging, chairman of the de partment, Gail Butt, Thomas Coleman, James Eisentrager, David Seyler, Thomas 'Shef field and Richard Trickey. Viing-Bing Slated The purpose of this col umn, which will appear every Monday, is to give the read er an insight to the goings-on in the Union for the follow ing week. 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