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MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1944 ‘
Wam-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
Paris Scientists
Outwit Nazi Ban
For 4 Long Years
* By ROSETTE HARGROVE
NEA Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Dec. 25.—There is one
organisation in Paris, which des-
pite the almost insurmountable
difficulties inherent to four years
of enemy occupation, today can
declare with justifiable pride: “We
have need of nothing." Thla is the
world-famous Pasteur Institute.
The tale of its struggles against
restrictions and shortages, plus
the necessity of carrying on Ite
work secretly. In defiance of the
Nazis, reads like an epic.
For months before D-Day, ac-
cording to Director Monsieur Tre-
fouel, the Institute, on its own in-
itlative and without any official
help or guidance, decided to
place in hiding stores of vaccines
and serums in anticipation of epi-
demies which almost automati-
cally follow in the wake of war.
This work had to be canted on
surreptitiously. The precious
phials were placed in “caches” all
over the country, but especially
along the coasts.
Secret Laboratory
CHECKING with the tower at Fort Worth Army Air Field before
starting a crash run is one of the duties of Pre. Ivan L. Orndoff,
ambulance driver at the field. In civilian life, he drove a coal truck.
GI Ambulance Man Drove
Coal Truck As a Civilian
For four long years not only
did the Institute manage to keep
going in spite of the Germans’
systematic refusal at every appli-
cation and the impossibility of
obtaining from the French au-
thorities any increase in the sup-
ply of raw material, but it suc-
ceeded hi exceeding its pre-war
production.
The manufacture of 10 3cm
phials for mass anti-diptheria
. and anti-tetanus inoculation in-
creased from 12,600 in 1933 to
1,359,000 in 1942. Diphtheria toxin
production jumped from 4180
As the GI driver of an Army ambulance, Pfc. Ivan L. Orndoff
likes his civilian job of herding a 2 1-2-ton coal truck.
Private Orndoff, stationed at Fort Worth Army Air Field for
almoat two years, has run the gamut of human experiences from
answering major crash calls to retrieving mentally befuddled soldiers
from civilian hospitals.
Drawls the dark Virginian, “I’ll
gladly trade my % -ton GI job fob
my old coal truck any day.”
Distasteful to Prive Onrdoff are
Church Gets
the calls when patients object to
being “salvaged.” What does the
ambulance man de In a caae like
this?
“Oh, I just tie 'em down and
bring ’em in,” explains the
driver.
Foreign Soil
Laboring on a 12-hour basis.
Private Orndoff and his fellows,
including a dispatcher, use as
their headquarters an office in
the innermost recesses of the
wish to28,000 in 1044 RoeA.hospital receiving depart-
increase, incidentally, was
tained for nearly all other
no and vaccines. This alone,
red the director, bordered
miraculous
0 Pasteur Institute's deter-
tion to step up its peacetime
action was motivated by the
y rise in demand. As the
dragged on the number of sick
• steadily rose, mainly owing
edernourishment. Compulsory
nations and the occasional
panics which led peaple to hoard
medical suplies did the rest. From
time to time there was consider-
able difficulty in meeting require-
mints of the public.
Secret Lab Bulls
When the Germans decided they
wanted to take over the produc-
tion of anti-typhus vaccine in 1942
the Institute secretly installed a
labratory deep la the heart of
France at La Roche-Beaulieu, near
Perigneux, on aa estate belonging
to the French labor party. When
communications were disrupted,
due mainly to Allied bombings,
diphtheria anti-toxins were manu-
factored at Marseilles and Bor-
deaux as well as Paris.
Again, the problem of securing
provide an important supply of
serum. When horses became
scarce and hard to find, they were
bought on the Black Market for
• 40,000 francs ($800) a head. Be-
fore the war, the Army was the
main provider and a horse then
cost 600 francs ($12). In normal
times a horse could be reckoned
on for six to seven quarts of blood
every 10 days. During the occu-
pation, to order to keep them in
good condition, they had to be
given b double rattan of hay and
eats. These also had to be bought
on the Black Market.
Saves Many Lives
Chiselling, fooling the Germans,
dealing to the Black Market-all
this had to be done la order to
secure and care for the chickens,
rabbits, pigs, sheep, birds, oxen,
snakes, mice and guinea pigs
needed for the production of the
14 serums and their 35 varities
as well as the seven single, double
and triple vaccines made by the
Pasteur Institute. No subsidy was
asked for and the price of the
serums was never increased.
To keep up their supply the
Institute used every month 8000
mice and guinea pigs each, plus
1000 rabbits. The stables had to
hold no lam than 800 horses. In
case the water supply ran short
an old disused wen in the court-
yard was restored. Old machinery
for producing power and current
was repaired for use on days
when the electricity supply was
curtailed or completely cut down.
It is no wonder that today the
Pasteur Institute stands high in
the estimation of all French peo-
ple. It held out through the most
difficult times and saved thou-
sands of lives, thanks to the high
sense of devotion and patriotism
of each of its members down to
its most humble helpers.
Four ambulance drivers and one
dispatcher are on duty night and
day at the field. When a crash
occurs, an electric bell sounds in
the hospital hallway. Master Sgt.
George Pearson, sergeant major,
answers and relays the call to the
ambulance dispatcher room. Dri-
vers then go into action.
Private Orndoff’s co-workers
are Cpls. Robert N. Beals, Oscar
Bergland, Paul Dinger and Ismal
Cowell; Pres. Elser Larson, Adam
Mezakowski, Louis Baldwin and
Frank O'Dell, and Pvts. Milton
Tinney and Otis Jones.
DANDELION COFFEE
In many countries, the dried
roots of dandelions are used as a
substitute for coffee. The leaves
of this plant make a fine salad,
and its young sprouts are valuable
in soups
For Memorial
Members of St Mark Methodist
Church who are in the armed
forces are giving “good response”
to requests of the congregation
and the pastor, Rev. Hayden Ed-
wards, for an envelope of soil
from the place they are stationed,
Rev. Mr. Edward said today.
“None of them have turned the
tables on us and asked us to send
them some good old Texas soil,
yet," the pastor laughed today,
“but from their letters, it’s easy
to tell they’d trade all the soil of
the countries they’re in now to
stand on Texas dirt.”
One of the men, stationed on
Attu, wrote that he would be glad
to send some Attu soil “as soon
as this 20 feet of ice and snow
have melted and I can get to it”
Rev. Mr. Edwards has received
replies from men stationed in
Hollanl, France, England, Hawaii,
Ireland, Attu, and numerous U. 8.
training camps.
The accupulated dirt will be
placed in a pot in which an ever-
green will be planted as a memori-
al to the service men.
- B OTMAR
LUUUIU U IL
We hope that this Christmas brings you
fulfillment of every wish, and that it finds
you happily surrounded by the things and
the people you love. These are the things
that make for contentment—than which
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nothing is more precious! And if our
greetings add one iota to your enjoyment
of the holiday, then our Christmas shall be
happier too!
bordon Boswell
FLORIST
220 Pennsylvente
7 - Phone 2-2265
409 HOUSTON
License Plates
For ’45 to Go
On Sale Feb. 1
Approximately 67,000 passenger
and 7500 truck license plates for
1945 will be received here within
the next few weeks and will go
on sale Feb. 1, according to Liston
Price, deputy tax assessor-collec-
tor in charge of motor vehicle
licenses.
This year will set a record for
number plates issued and next
year should equal, if not beat, the
record, according to Deputy Price.
For the new year, car owners
will receive the number plates—
one to a motor vehicle — which
must be attached to the rear of
the vehicle.
The old yellow plates, in use
since 1942 because of the metal
shortage brought on by the war,
and the metal-saving tags that
have been attached to it, must
be discarded.
Deadline for purchasing the new
license is April 1. After March
1 the old plates can be removed
legally and the 1945 ones at-
tached.
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SMALL FAMILY SAVES MOST
Recent survey for the American
Fat Salvage Committee revealed
that the small family, with the
limited number of red ration
points each month, saves the most
fat—the two-member family leads
all the rest. The young housewife,
under 25, is found to be just about
half as good a saver as her senior
of 50 years of age.
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SIGNALING SEABOHLIGHT
Ready for duty on U. 8. war-
ships is a new signaling search-
light tough ‘enough to withstand
the pounding of heavy ocean
waves and the shock of big guns
fired close by. A special glass, ten
times stronger than plate glass, is
used for the lens, and withstands
sudden changes of temperature.
maammanmamnamnawy
WISHING
YOU THE
BEST!
With a Sincere-
"Thank Youl" for your friendly patronage
during the past year
Then a cordial wish for a
I Joyful Holiday and a Prosperous New Year
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AUTO SUPPLY
119 Commerce St. • Call 2-4666
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CHRISTMAS ,
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Santa comes to you
this year with bundles
of good cheer. The
very best wishes to
each and everyone.
All good things to
you and yours.
ORKIN EXTERMINATING CO. .
403 Main St
Phone 3-0800
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HAVE CHANTED
HYMNS OF
JOY ABOVE
Younc VOICES E’ER ON CHRISTMAS DAY
CAROL THEIR CHSEP.
AND FAITH
AND LOVE
HE FAIR IS CLOSED TODAY... CHRISTMAS.::
AND WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW...TUESDAY
IN ORDER THAT OUR EMPLOYEES MAY ENJOY A THREE-DAY HOLIDAY!
The Fair Will Be Open Wednesday * December 27th at 9:30 A. M.
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