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    Monday, March 2, 1964
The Daily Nebraskan
Page. 3
ENTIRE LIFE IS STERILE
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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
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cian. He takes the calf to a
12x16 foot room. This aseptic
room is where the calf will
spend its entire life..
The temperature of. the
room is kept at 90 degrees
during the first few days of
life. The filtered air pressure
is kept constant.
The humidity of the room is
kept at a high level. 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
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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.
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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.
For example, those readers
that have recently joined the
OACC (Organization tor tne
Abolishment of Campus
Cops) will be very much in
trigued by the Foreign Film
presentation of the "Wrong
Arm of the Law" starring re
fer Sellers this Wednesday
evening at the Nebraska the
ater.
Shows are at 7 and 9 p.m.,
and for those who live any
where west of 27th street, tne
weekend film of "Cowboy" at
the Union small Auditorium,
Friday and Sunday, will hold
a special meaning, b n o w s
are at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
For those who frequent such
pvonts. there is a real wing-
ding going on Friday nigni
. . . in the Union. No, it's not
a drastic change in policy, it's
the Folk and Jazz wing uing
of the Ford Company Road
Show, starring Nina Simone
and the Herbie Mann Sextet.
Besides the main attrac
tions, one may listen to t h e
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there are 50 Capitol record
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prizes. But the best deal for
anyone without wheels, (or
just about) is this: on this
road tour the Ford Motor
Company is giving away five
1964 Ford Falcons. One may
find out more by attending
the show at the Ballroom Fri
day night at 7 p.m. Tickets
are $1. Reserved seats are
$r?25.
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From the man who fired
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Triumph autos and French
perfumes. As yet, .however,
the government has had
nothing to do with such a
plan.
Let us not forget also that
it is an election year, a
highly unlikely time for
candidates to press ssues
which would incur the wrath
of our allies.
What it all amounts to is
this; that the U.S. has got
ten itself into a rather potty
mess, and it is unlikely that
we will extricate ourselves
from it, at least until elec
tions are over. Even more
probably, it will be another
decade before our general
foreign policy is cleared of
the ambiguities which allow
such a problem to come into
being.
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the problem is how do we
discourage our allies," trade
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