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VOL. XXVI. NO. 21 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE. LOUISVILLE 8. KENTUCKY
Heer Perfects Portable X -ray Unit
Prof Says Machine
Quick Disaster Aid
By OTTO REYNOLDS
A giant stride in the field of
-ray and x-ray technique has
been made recently by Ray R.
Heer, Jr. University of Louis­vil1e
graduate and membea- of
the DAE faculty, with his per­fection
of a portable x-ray unit '
which is completely independ­ent
of the surroundings in which
it may find itself.
Developed at the Fort Knox
Medical Research Laboratory, the
unit, powered by a small lJs "x lJs"
cylinder of Thulium 170, needs no
electricity and no water for opera­tion.
Its exposures are made on x­ray
paper (not regular x-ray film)
and can be completely processed in
less than five minutes.
Unlimited Aid
As Mr. He€r explained the in­vention,
it will never take the
place of conventional x-ray units,
but it will be of unlimited use and
of tremendous help in disaster
situations.
In the event of an atomic or
hydrogen bomb attack, during
which there would be no electric
power and only a limited amount
of uncontaminated water, teams
using portable x-ray units could
check casualities without moving
them. In five minutes, an x -ray
team could take a picture, process
it, and pin it on the wounded per­son;
then a medical team could
step in, look over the x-ray, and
determine what steps should be
taken to help the casualty. This
same method would work very
well on battlefields.
1\A Y R. HEER. JR. AND THE UNIT
Vehicles Equiped
Another profitable use of the
new units would result in quick,
on-the-spot x-rays of accident
victims. If police and emergency
vehicles were equipped with the
machine, which weighs consider­ably
less than fifty pounds, vic­tims
of automobile and miscellan­eous
accidents could be x-rayed
with greater efficiency.
The invention was developed
in cooperation with the United
States Army by a group of five
men, of whom only Mr. Heer and
the late Arthur W. Carpenter were
civilians. The machine was first
envitsaged as a boon to medical
corpsmen on the battlefield, but
now its uses have mushroomed
in to help for almost all types of
disasters.
1942 Graduate
Mr. Heer, who graduated from U
of L in 1942 with an AB in P hy­sics
and Mathemathics, was an
Army cryptographer and meteoro­logist
during World War II. Here­ceived
his MS in Physios in 1948
from the Unj.versity of lllinois
and taught P hysics and Math in
ONE WILL BE QUEEN. but the lucky girl will . not know until
tomorrow evening at the Engineer's Ball at the Continental Ball­room
of the Henry Clay. The six lovely lasses vying for the title
and the co-chairmen of the dance are (from left): Sandra Fritz.
Zeta Tau Alpha: Joan Sharfenberger. Kappa DeUa: Joann Boerner.
DeUa Zeta: Bob Ballou: Larry Zehnder: Marilyn Moore. Chi"
Omega: Sally Jo Romer. Sigma Kappa: and Mary Ellen Wickham.
Pi Beta Phi.
Speed School during the 1948-49
school year. Mr. Heer has been
teaching PhytSics in the Division
of Adult Education for the past
three years. -
He is married to U of L alumna,
Melva Hukill, ZTA, and has three
children.
Parking Notice
The spaces marked "Faculty"
are reserved to :the use of the
faculty from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
and are thereafter unrestricted.
This regulation of course does
not affect spaces reserved to
the use of Administrative or
staff officers. nor does it per­mit
parking at any time in pro­hibited
areas.
Traffic Committee
University of Louisville
Med Techs Study
Diseases In Dark
U of L Medical School has en­rolled
its first class of night grad­uate
students in medical tech­nology.
A class of twelve is study­ing
influenza, smallpox, and other
virus d iseases.
Dr. S. Stephen Chapman, associ­ate
professor of microbiology is
teaching the course. The class is
intended to enable laboratory
technicians to "understand the vi­rus
field better," to "spread the
gospel of virology in Kentucky,"
and to allow technologists to get
four credit h ours toward a gradu­ate
or undergraduate degree.
·The laboratory, sel up only a
few months ago, is engaged in sev­eral
research projects and will pro­vide
diagnostic t ests in virus di­seases
for Kentucky doctors.
English Economist
Enchants Audience
Asian Agriculture Is Topic Of Talk
By BETTY CRAIN
~fiss Barbara \iVard, noted lecturer on economic topic and on
the rol of Catholiic m jn the mod rn world, spoke at U of L la t
Thursday night and at a convocation Friday morning. Sh wa the
first woman speaker in the Courier-Journal, Louisville Times, and
vVHAS sponsored Distinguished Lecture Series.
Miss Ward summarized her
Thursday night speech at the con- produced, and agricultural pro­vocation
and then volunteered to jects are being planned all over
answ.er student questions. Topic of India.
the speech was "Agriculture and
Co-Existence." She stated: "One
front on which Communism has
to register extreme failure is the
front of agriculture." She believes
that "short o.E blowing ourselves
up, the challenge of co-existence
will be a long term one," and the
field of agriculture will play an
important part in the balance of
power.
According to Miss Ward, agri­cultural
resources must be built
up before any resourses can be
converted over to industrial ex­pansion.
In Asia any let down in
agriculture would result in fam­ine,
therefore, farming must be
built up before those countries
can be industrialized. Red China
is trying the Russian method of
conversion to industry. India is
attempting to do it by western
methods.
There are "encouraging signs
that it (the western method) is
having some effect." Encouraging
signs include the loss of an In­dian
state by the communists in
recent elections; a state which
they had felt confident of win­ning.
Extra foodstuffs are being
"The Chinese are intelligent
people and will see if Indian meth­ods
succeed and theirs fail," Miss
Ward asserted. She added, how­ever,
t·hat if we let our opportu­nities
pass "we are asking for
trouble which we will undoubtedly
get."
One of the questions asked of
the speaker was: "Should we in­crease
trade with Red China, and
would it cause a break with Rus­sia?"
Miss Ward's answer was:
The nel.'t issue of The Cardinal, on
March 24, will be dedicated to the
faculty. A special supplement, under
the editorship of Dr. Harvey C.
W ebster, will co ntain contributions
from several faculty members.
"Not while they're armed to the
teeth and threatening their neigh­bors."
She believes that trade of
certain mateflials, if timed properly
and if we strike a hard bargin,
could be used to the advantage of
the Western world. "One of the
troubles with trading with com­munist
countries is that they sel­dom
produce what you want."
PLEASING AS A BREATH OF FRESH. SPRING AIR is U of L's
nominee for Queen of :the Mountain Laurel. She is captiva!ing
Estelle Herzog, 20 year old junior in the College of Arts and
Sciences and president of Chi Omega. An elementary education
major. Estelle is five feet. five and one-hall inches tall. has big
brown eyes and light brown hair. She was chosen Friday after­noon
at a tea in the Home Ec Building by three off-campus judges
from a field of seven candidates selected by Mortar Board.
The other candidates were Sigma Kappa's Caroline Gaines
and Helen Mohlenkamp. Delta Zeta's Tinker Everhart and Frances
Stabile. and Chi Omega's Mickey Minsterl and Ginni Pickett.
Estelle's official escort for the Festival. to be held late in May at
Pine Mountain State Park. will be Jim Logsdon. DU.