FILE COPY. ecor U. S. DEPA RTM ENT OF October 5, 1965 NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH HEALTH. EDUC ATION. ANO WELFARE Vol. XVII, No. 20 PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE Dr. Gross to Give Federal Campaign Opens President Appoints Dr. William Stewart, Here With Kickoff Rally; 30th NIH Lecture NIH Goal Is $154,700 NHI Director, as PHS Surgeon General On October 20 The Combined Federal Campaign Dr. William H. Stewart, 44, appointed Director of the National Heart opened here last week ,vith NIH Institute slightly over t wo months ago, was named by President Johnson Dr. Jerome Gross, Associate Pro keymen and campaign workers at,. Sept. 2-t to become Surgeon Gene1·al of the Public H ealth Service. fessor of Medicine at Harvard tending a Kickoff Rally in the CC Confirmed last Thursday by Medical School and Associate Biol auditorium, Sept. 28. White House Conference the Senate, he succeeds Dr. Luther ogist at Massachusetts General "Give Once, Give Today, Give the L. Teny as P B S Surgeon General. Hospital, will present the 30th NIH Payroll Deduction Way" was the On Health Rescheduled Dr. Terry retired Oct. 1 to become Lecture on Vice President of Wednesday, The White House Conference on the university of October 20, at 8:15 Health, previously scheduled for Pennsylvania. ( See p.m. in the Clinical :--'ovember 30 and December 1, has NIH R ecord, Sept. Center auditorium. been mo,'ed ahead to No,·ember 3 21) . Dr. Gross's lec and 4. Like Dr. TetTy, ture, titled "Tissue The change in conference dates who was n amed Remodelling Mech was announced by President John Surgeon General anisms in Am son when he named the members of by P resident Ken phibian :\1etamor the Executiw Committee for the nedy Jan. 15, 1961, phosis," will focus conference. Dr. Stewart has Dr. Gross on a principal Dr. Horting Dr. Whedon Members of the committee are Dr Stewort long been a Com- structural element, collagen. slogan of campaign workers whose Marion Folsom, former Secretary missioned Corps Officer in the Pub As the major protein of connec job will be to encourage employees of Health, Education, and Welfare, lic Health Service and comes to his tive tissue, collagen is indispen to meet this year's NIH goal of and Chairman, Eastman Kodak new post from the Heart Institute. sable to the proper functioning of $154,700. Company, Rochester, "N. Y.; Dr. In announcing Dr. Stewart's the body. Knowledge of the precise Dr. Donald Harting, Director of ~rge James, Commissioner oi nomination, President Johnson manner in which it is built up and the National I nstitute of Child Health, City of "New York; Dr. said: broken down will contribute to a (Sr, CFC CAMPAIGN. Pag~ I) fSe, CO.\1FERENCE. Pagr 5) "At this time in our history it is better understanding of the proc essential that the Public H ealth esses that regulate growth and Modern Problems in Genetics Is Subject Service be led by a man of higt form in living systems. intellectual capacity with a proven Internationally recognized for Of 2nd NIH Science Writers' Seminar gift of leadership. This is a com his contributions, Dr. Gross has bination found in few candidates. for t he past 20 years been in the At the second NIH-sponsored Science Writers' Seminar, held here I am con,·inced that Dr. Stewart is Sept. 23-24, 22 newspaper, magazine and radio writers heard and dis forefront of research on collagen such a man. He is young, imagina cussed with "NIH scientists modern problems in genetics. tive, energetic, devoted to his pro chemistry and the biology of con- Purpose of the 2-day seminar was to assist the writers in reporting (See NIii LECTURE. Page ~) fession and dedicated to the great and interpreting medic.al and health work which this Government is de research. The four sessions were sion Thursday morning. termimid to carry out for the bet• Ass'n of Management in conducted in the conference room Seventeen scientists representing tennent of all mankind." of the National Institute oi Dental Public Health to Meet six of the NIH Instit utes comprised Heolth Aims Reiteroted Research (Building 30). the seminar panelists. The broad Oct. 18-20 in Chicago Dr. Stuart M. Sessoms, Deputy topics of the four sessions were ( 1) The President also reiterated his Director of NIH, welcomed the The Chemistry of Nucleotides and aims in 1,he field of health. The Association of Management science writers at the opening ses- in Public Health will hold its an (Ser WRITERS' SEMINAR. Pag< H "This AdminisLration," he said, nual meeting October 18-20 at the "has committed itself to an historic Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago, effort to advance the health of the American people-and of peoples Tll. Featured at this year's meeting in other lands. The 89th Congress will be Representatives John E. is providing farsighted legislation F ogart y of Rhode Island, and Mel tl·.at will enable us to move forward vin R . Laird of Wisconsin. They in many areas: will speak on the topic, "From Re • "In the care of our young peo search to the Consumer," during ple and our older citizens; tho 2: 30 p.m. October 19 session • " In the acceleration of re in International Ballroom A of the search aimed at combatting heart Conrad H ilton. This picture shows o portion of the write rs ottending the Science W rite rs' disease, cancer, stroke and other Additional information on the Seminar here as they heord Dr. David R. Davies (left), of NIAMD's Loboratory diseases which take such a tragic meeting may be obtained from J ohn of Moleculor Biology, lecture on " The Three- Dime nsionol Structures of Noturo l toll in disability and death; C. McDougall, Assistant to the Di ond Synthet ic Nucleic Acids." Seoted next to him is Dr. Moxine Singe r of • " In meeting our national need rector for Operations, National I n NIAMD's Laborot ory of Biochemistry a nd Metobolism, who chaired the ope ning for more physicians, more nurses, stitute of Child Health and Human panel session. On the toblc in front of Dr. Dovics is a model illustroting the more professional and technical Development, on Ext. 65481. structure of ONA as devised by Watson and Crick,-Photo by Jerry Hecht, (Conti11~cd 0 ,1 l'«ge 8) Page 2 October 5, 1965 THE NIH RECORD NH/ Uses 'Record' Feature to Advantage In Promotion of Its Second Radio Series The National H eart Institute recently made use of the July 14 issue of ecord the NIH Record in publicizing the second series of "Know Your Heart" spot announcements sent to more than 500 radio stations in the U. s., Published bi-weekly at Bethesda, Md., by the Public Information Section, Canada, I ndia, British Columbia, Office of Research Information, for the information of employees of the Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Nation al Institutes of Health, principal research center of the Public Rico and the Virgin Islands. Health Ser vice, U.S. Depart ment of Health, Education, and Welfare, and circulated by request to all news media and interested members of the Results to date indicate that re medical- and science-related fields. The N IH Record content is reprint quests for the sedes of ten 2-min ute announcements recorded on 12- able without per mission and its pictures are available on request. inch platters will exceed the 1,200 NIH Record Office...... Bldg. 31, Rm. 4B13. Phone: 49-62125 :requests for the first series, pro duced the previous summer. Edito r ...... E. Kenneth Stabler The promotional material was Associote Editors ...... George J. Mannina and Ma1·tha S. Kovacic sent to only about 500 stations, Stoff Correspondents since 700 or more of the stations Georgiana Brimijoin, NCI; Tony Anastasi, NHI; Mildred Brosky, NIAID; using the first series had alreadv Mary Anne Gates, NIAMD; Bob Callahan, NIDR; Gail Dearing, NIMH; requested the second series. • F!ances Dearman, NINDB; Elsie Fahrenthold, CC; Faye Peterson, DBS; The July 14 issue of the Recorn' L)nda Jacobson, NIGMS; Beverly Warran, DRFR; Dick Turlington, DRG; Lou is Cook of the Heart I nformotion carried a story fully describing the Bill Kleven, DRS; Frances Mills, OAM; Dan Rogers, NICHD. Center checks hundreds of requests content and purpose of the second T he NIH Record reserves the right to make corrections, changes or from rodeo stations for NHl's "Know "Know Your Heart" series, written deletions in submitted copy in conformity with the policy of the paper Your Heart" spot announcements.- and produced by Louis Cook of the and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Photo by Rolph Fe rnande z. Heart Information Center and nat· rated by Dr. John D. Turner, for merly of NHI, now Assistant Pro NEWS from NIH Employee Groups Use 'Davis Plan' fessor of Medicine at the Baylor University Medical School. The 2- Of Donating to Patients' Welfare Fund column feature was illustrated with PERSONNEL two pictures. COSTEP APPLICATIONS DUE Each year at this time many hel ped, and the amount has been NIH employees, individually and in minimal. Facsimiles Sent Applications for the 1966 sum Mr. Cook rounded up 100 or more mer Commissioned Officer Student groups, participate in the "Davis Individuals who wish to make Plan" to provide an extra measure donations, so that more patients issues of the R ecord that carried Training a nd Extern Program this feature. H e supplied the other (COSTEP) are due by Nov. 1. of happiness for patients in the may be helped, are requested to Clinical Center. send checks payable to Patients' 400 radio stations with facsimiles The Jong lead time is necessary of the story and pictures carried on to allow for determining eligibility In lieu of mailing Christmas Welfare Fund in sealed envelopes cards to their colleagues, partici by inte,·-office mail to the Social Page 6 of that issue. for a commission as a Reserve Offi According to the Hea1t Informa cer in the PHS Commissionc
NIAID Research Study October 3-9 Marks 20th Anniversary of Study Sections in DRG Of 'Common Cold' in Nat' I Employ the Handicapped Week Increased to Meet Rise Need of Volunteers In Grant Applications A long-term study of the "com Study sections in the Division of mon cold," underway here for Research Grants have been in nearly three years, needs volun creased by 3 to a total of 55 to teers in order to attain its ultimate handle an expanding workload in goal. research grant applications. The continuing project by During their current round of NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious meetings, the study sections will Diseases is seeking to isolate and consider the firs-t of Fiscal Year identify unknown upper respira 1966 research grant applications tory viruses that cause the com and review 4,406 competing pro mon cold. posals, compared to 3,510 sub More Data Needed mitted for the same review period in FY 1965. Presently, little more than 30 Simultaneously two DRG fellow percent of these causative agents ship review sections have been di are known. By isolating and identi vided into A and B groups to handle fying the unknown agents, the an increase of nearly 1,000 fellow project will help provide the scien ship applications in FY 1965 over tific data essential to the unravel FY 1964. ing of the medical enigma that is The action brings to 55 the num the "common cold." ber of resea,·ch grant study sec In the first phase of the study, John D. Ewan, Placement Officer, Personnel Manageme nt Branch, conducts jab tions, and to 16 the fellowship re covering the period from October analysis in sign language with Jacque line Drake, Assistant Unit Head, Graphics view sections in the DRG. 1962 to June 1964, 193 NIH em Unit, Medical Arts and Photography Branch, DRS, to dete rmine positions to Divided Sections Named ployees participated as volunteers. which deaf persons may be assigned. Mrs . Drake is one of about 1 S de af The present phase, underway since persons employed at NIH.-Photo by Jerry He cht. Study sections divided into A last mont h, has been supported by and B groups involve Cell Biology, nine volunteers. Twenty years ago Pi-esident Truman signed Public Law 176 which es Environmental Sciences and Engi neering, and General Medicine. Lab Ready far Volunteers tablished the first week in October of each year as a week dedicated to job equality for the handicapped. This year October 3-9 marks National Dr. Katherine B. Warren, Exec Many more participants are Employ the Physically Handicapped utive Secretary of the Cell Biology needed if the study is to s ucceed, Week. Study Section since 1961, will con a ccording to Dr. Albert Z. Kapikian the volunteer provides only a Since the early '40s, over 200,000 tinue to serve both units of that of the laboratory. He pointed out simple nasal washing and two hanrlicapped workers have been group until another Executive that the laboratory is now pre blood specimens. Volunteers receive hired by the Federal Government Secretary is named. pared to handle all the volunteers $2 per blood sample. under the job equality policy that Dr. Heber J. R. Stevenson, for who desire to take part in the proj App0intments may be made by requires a job applicant to possess merly with the Robert A. Taft ect. calling Mrs. Sa,·a Kelly or Harvey only those physical and mental ca Sanitary Engineering Center in With winter imminent, numerous James on Ext. 65811. It would be pacities that are actually needed t, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been named NIH employees may develop viral best to do, so within the first three perform a given job. Executive Secretary of the En upper resph-atory illnesses. If so, days of infection. Following this policy, the Na vironmental Sciences and Engineer tional Institutes of Health has each ing B Study Section. Irving Ger year employed a number of handi ring, Executive Secretary of the Construction Begins on 3 New Buildings capped persons. From Jan. 1, 1964, section since 1957, will continue in to date, NIH has employed 47 phys that capacity for Section A. Construction work has begun on ture space requirements. All areas ically handicapped workers. Dr. Pacita Pronove, former Ex two new labora>tory buildings and are arranged so they can be pro Of the total 468,765 persons ap ecutive Secretary for the Child a cafeteria building (See N IH grammed to any room size on a pointed in 1964 to Federal jobs, Health and Human Development Record, April 20) located on the module of five feet at a room depth 9,283 were handicapped. Program Project Committee, has of twenty feet. The areas are also 1vest side of the NIH reservation. Retarded Pe rsons Hired been named Executive Secretary The construcbion contract was backed up to utility cores that con of the General Medicine B Study awarded to the Blake Construction tain all required mechanical and Last year a Government-wide ex Section. Dr. Wilton Fisher, who Co. of Washington, D.C., for nearly electrical services for laboratory perimental program for hiring was named Executive Secretary of $16.8 million by the General Serv usage. mentally retarded workers was also the section in 1963, will continue to ices Administration. The comple The new NCI building will pro i.nitiated, and 361 retarded persons serve Section A of the group. tion date is set for the end of 1967. vide an additional 127,067 square were appointed to jobs which they had been trained to perform. Or. Heste r Appointed Occupancy Explained feet of usable floor space, while the NIMH-NIJ\'UB building will Their work histories were so suc Fellowship review sections di One of the laboratory buildings provide 113,262 square feet. Each cessful that the program has be~n vided into A and B groups involve (No. 36) will be occupied jointly by building will house approximately extended for an additional th!·c.c Behavioral Sciences B and Bio the National Institute of Neuro 700 personnel. years. By July of this year, 636 naci chemistry and Nutrition B. logical Diseases and Blindness and been placed, 268 in the Washington, Dr. James J . Hester, a former the National Institute of Mental Cafeteria Scats 500 D. C. area and 368 in field officic:i. faculty member of the Southern Health. The other building (No. The Cafeteria Building (No. 35), Since this program was initiated, Methodist University at Dallas, 37) will be used by the National centered on a red brick terrace, will NIH has employed and trained 1:2 Tex., has been appointed Executive Cancer Institute. be the focal point of the site com mentally retarded persons. Secretary of the Behavioral Sci Both buildings will consist of position. A large overhang will be The President's Committee on ences B F ellowship Review Sec architectural cast stone and glass utilized on this one-story building Employment of the Handicapped tion. Dr. Otto M. Reid will con facades set on red brick bases. The to shade the aluminum framed recently issued a statement pledg tinue to administer Section A. red brick maintains the traditional glass walls which overlook the ing extra efforts in executive de Dr. Robert L. Ingram of the Na theme of the present reservation wooded terrain. Seating capacity partments and agencies to employ t.ional Institute of General Medical buildings, while the architectural in the cafeteria will be 500. qualified handicapped pei-sons. The Sciences has been appointed Execu cast stone expresses modern build Since the contractor has his own committee saluted the handicapped tive Secretary of Biochemistry and ing techniques. access road off Old Georgetown of America for their "unmatched Nutrition B Fellowship Review Sec The laboratories are designed for Road, no disrup-tion of normal reco1·d of ability" in nearly every tion. Dr. Marie L. Hesselbach will horizontal expansion to meet fu- traffic is anticipated. type of occupation. continue to adminh,ter Section A, Page 8 October 5, 1965 THE NIH RECORD Conference Seeks More President Appoints Dr. William Stewart Efficient and Economical (C:ontt,,ued from /-'age 1) Hemodialysis Equipment personnel in all of the health fieldr, cal CoTps until 1948. F or a short and for more hospitals and othe,· time thereafter he was on the staff Experimental approaches to a health facilities so that the benefits of the Veterans Administration more economical and efficient arti• of our research and the skills and Outpatient Clinic in St. Paul, Minn. ficial kidney are contained in a dedication of our professio11al peo From l!J48-50 he was Resident in transcript of a conference called to ple can be made more readily avail P ediatrics at Charity Hospital, New stimulate interest in problems in· able to all who need the.m." Orleans, La. He maintained private volved in research and development Dr. Stewart is t he author of practice in Alexandria, La., from of hemodialysis equipment. more than 30 papers which have l!J50 until joining the PHS in 1951. The Conference on Hemodialysis earned him a sound reputation in He is a member of the American (blood purification with the aid of epidemiology and geographic path Heart Association, the Ame1·ica11 an artificial kidney) was recently ology, in public health statistics Medical Association, the American sponsored by the National Institute and in the planning and organiza Public Health Association, and the This photogroph from one of the hos of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases tif'n of health care. He was Staff American Academy of Pediatrics. pitols porticipoting in NINDB's Col and the National H eart Institute. Di1·ector of the report, "Physicians Dr. and Mrs. Stewart and t heir loborotive Perinatol Reseorch Study More than 40 scientists, includ for a Growing America," the so· two children reside at !J108 Ewing shows on infont ot the University of ing nonmedical members of the sci called Bane Report, in 1960. Drive, Bethesda, Md. Oregon Medical Cente r hoving his entific and engineering world as Studies carried out in 1961 in heort beot checked by o long stethe well as medical exper ts on the nse Great Britain and the Scandinavian Human Growth Hormone scope just one minute ofte r birth . of artificial kidneys, participated in Countries, in the U.S.S.R. in 1!)62 Is Subject of Booklet, Heort rote is one foctor in the so• the sessions. and in Geneva in 1965 have made called "Apgor score" thot he lps iden him an authority on the delivery of tify high-risk infonts needing speciol The principal problem in hemo Exhibit by NIAMD, NPA health care and on the classifica otte ntion.-Univ. of Oregon Medicol dialysis research and development tion of disease in Western Europe The National Institute of Ar Ce nter photo. is finding ways to simplify and r e• and in Russia, as well as in the thritis and Metabolic Diseases United States. has prepared a booklet to accom Employee Health Service He was a member of the study pany its new exhi•bit on the Hu g roup on mission and organization man Growth Hormone (HGH ). To Show Epilepsy Film of t he Public Health Se1-vice in Reviewing the considerable prog• l 960, and a member of the Presi ress in research on HGB that has The Employee Health Service dent's Task Force on Health in been made by investigators during will present "Not Without Hope" 1964. the past 10 yi;ars, both booklet a11d as its October health education exhibit are products of a collabora film. In DHEW Secretary's Office tive effort by the NIAMD and the The 23-minute, color film creates Pl'ior to his appointment Aug. l National Pituitary Agency. The an awa1·eness of the problems and as Director of the National Heart agency operates under a contract obstacles of epileptics through the Institute, Dr. Stewart was Assist• from the NIAMD for the collection dramatic story of a pretty, little ant le, the Special Assistant to the and distribution of HGH for clini girl. Secr"tary (Health and Medical Af cal research and basic Tesearch It reveals public and medical con fail-s/ of the Department of Health, purposes. tributions in case findings, diag E ducation, and Welfare. The booklet discusses the collec nosis, and treatment, and stimu Or. Keotho K. Krueger, NIAMO Scien Dr. Stewart held the rank of tion, processing and chemistry of lates public understanding and ac tific Communicotions Officer, exom Assistant Surgeon General and has HGH, and the differential diagnosis ceptance of epileptics-an attitude bePn a Commissioned Officer in the which will enable them assume ines o copy of the "Proceedings of o of hypopituitarism, hypothyroid to PHS since 19!il. His other assig11- ism, familial short stature, p1'imor their rightful place in society. Confe rence on Hemodiolysis."-Photo ments have included: Head, Epi by Rolph Fernondez. dial dwarfism, nutritional dwarf Showings of the film are sched demiology Unit, Thomasville (Ga.) ism, chondrodystrophy, and other uled in the Clinical Center audi duce the cost of artificial kidney Field Station, Communicable Dis disorders associated with short torium on Wednesday, Oct. 13, at treatment for patients with chronic ease Center; Chief, Heart Diseasi, stature in which the mechanism of 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.; North kidney failur e. Control Program; Chief, Division growth defect is not established. Bethesda Office Center No. 2, Con One new approach, still in a of Public Health Methods; and ference Rm. 113, Oct. 14, at 1 :30 highly preliminary and experimen Chief, Division of Community Outline Presented p.m.; North Bethesda Office Center tal stage, is a direct outgrowth of Heaith Services. An outline of experimental meth No. 1, Conference Rm. 202, Oct. 14, the Federal Government's program Born in Minneapolis, Minn., in ods and results of HGH therapy in at 2:30 ,p.m.; and in the Westwood for desalting sea water. 1921, Dr. Stewart attended the Uni a number of hypopituitary dwarfs Building, Conference Rm. A, Oct. Scientists now are perfecting ex versity of Minnesota 1939-41. He by several investigators is also pre 15, at 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. tremely fine hollow fibers, originally received his M.D. degree from sented. designed to enhance the desaliniza• Louisiana State University in 1945. The hormone is extracted from tion process, for possible use in the Dr. Stewart interned at Phila human pituitary glands obtained at Noted Brazilian Scientist artificial kidney. delphia General Hospital (1945-46) autopsy, purified, and administered Visits NIMH Laboratory These permeable fibers, used as and served in the U.S. Army Medi- to hypopituitary dwarfs and to pa• "capillary membranes," may be em tients with other types of short Professor Aristides A. P. Leao, ployed in the future to improve stature participating in clinical a nem·ophysiologist at the Institute dialysis by greatly increasing the limits to speed of dialysis, and dia research studies, in an effort to of Biophysi~, University of Brazil membrane per meability surface lyzing center design, aTe described stimulate growth and to observe in Rio de Janefro, visited the area while Teducing the amount of in the "'Proceedings of a Confer related metabolic effects. NIMH Laboratory