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a G s z ~ ~ ~ ; THrI NEW YORK TIMES ;N Yk N Yk ewor,ewor .:September 1, 1960 M .;T F i ' .. .~,'. - , . . 'ti. . ... . . ; ~1, Tobacco Research Aided The Tobacco Industry Re- ~ ' aearch. Committee has granted, more than E523-000 for research to fortyacienfiats so far this' ~" year,, Timothy . V. Hartnet't, ehairman of the committee anltounced yesterday. 3 , 40 Scientists Get $523,000 to " ~ : Further Research~~~ ~' Tobacco Industry ,~te4 rearch CoTnnritTeL has grafltfd , i. lnore_ than =b23,000 for researc8 r."~ to forty scientists so far."this , ZY • Y• JOLTRNAL OF COAmRCE i'ear, Timothy V. Hartnett, . cliairman of the committee, Au~,12St 31, 1960 11 'announced' yesterday. The projecte Include: possible " The Tobacco Industry Research ~ q~jinteraction of viruses and Committee announced it has ~ tobacco smoke, envnronmentai ~ ~-1'faade --researcli•=grants. totaling ••Gr',u factors and pulmonary disease, - ~ over $523,000 to 40 scientists so ~ coronary artery diseaae, psy- ~ tar in 1960. chological ' differences between ^ smokers and non-smokers char• , ' + aeteristics of aromatic hqdro- ; carbons, effect of tobacco deriv- atives on arterial and myocat- l dial tissue cultures, role of the , nucleolus in normal and rnalig, nant cells, and the effect • o! negatively charged Ions of hii- man t'arheo-bronchial ciliary r -action. Mr. Hartnett said twenty of ;T. ObaccO Research the 1960 grants were new an~ Grants at .Qpsc,3 000 twenty were for continuation o ~iv z Work under way, ~ ai y ~t , NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUIVE New York, New York September 1, 1960 ; CHRONICLE Houstony Texas August 31, 1960 ~.., _ .. .. ._.. 0 .~. y[Kr i : COA'1N(ERCIA:L APPEAL r '=Memphis, •-Tennessee ""'March 22, 1960' ~.STUDENTS WIN GRANTS Research Fellowships Go To _~Pair At UT Two students at the Universs- ty of Tennessee College ;of Medicine have been awarded '3° -research fellowships. Larry T: Arnold of Nashuillp has r'e- ceived a $500 Tobacco Indus- ~ . try Research Committee student ~ . fellowship. Warren Herron Jr. of Long Beach, . Miss.,, won _ a_. „i.6~~ ;20D Unifed States Public Health ServiGe medical. student pare time research fellowship. f.< DISPATCH Henderson, North Carolina 't6 us_ 31, 190 $523,000 More Allotted For Tobacco Study Research grants totaling over ;523,000, have been made. to forty 'tcientists so far in 1960 by the To- bacco Industrq Research Commit- fke, it was announced today by Chairman Timothy V. Hartnett. " The projects include work in such subjects as possible interaction of The Tobacco Industry Re- search Committee has made ~ grants totaling more than a523; ~. U00 thus far this year through it,s scientific advisory board. ~,,.The grants were made for 8tudy on such subject as the psychological differences be- .tween persons who smoke and persons who don't, as well as In number of n3edical areas. viruses and tobacco smoke, envir -°' onmental factors and pulmonary di- ' kease, coronary artery disease, psy- chological differences between smo- :•!![ers and non-smokers, characteris . tlcs of aromatic hydrocarbons, ef- ;tect of tobacco derivatives on arter- fal and myocardial tissue cultures, ~, aole of the nucleolus in normal and Malignanat cells, and the effect of negatively charged ions on human tracheo-bronchial ciliary action, All grants are made by the Scien- #ific Advisory Board, composed of $iae doctors, scientists and educa- tors who retain their institutional tiffiliations. Chairman of the board :U Dr. Kenneth Merrill Lynch, chan• cellor of the Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston. Hartnett said twenty of the'1960 -grants were new and twenty were for continuation of work under way. Grants-in-aid by the Scientific Ad- visory Board to the TIRC have been inade to over 100 independent scien- tists since mid-1954, and recipients have already published more than 120 research papers on their inves- tigations, he said. TIRC has so far appropriated $3,700,000 for its eon- ttnuing.research program. scientists who are sharing In $523,000 worth of research grants by the committee. The committee was formed in 1954 to tnvestigat.e the pos- sible correlation of tobacco smoke and humait ' disease. S i'n c e its organization the colilmittee has made a total of $3 7 7 0 0,0 0 0 available to more then _ 100 sdentists for Dr. Becker Is among 40~research projects. A University of Houston themist has received a $16; 000 grant from the Tobacco .tndustry Research CQmniittee for a_ study designed to d•e- velop a technique. for sep- arating minute quantities of materials. . 'He Is Dr. Ralph S. :Betker, an associate professor of, chemistry. THE NEW YORK TIMES New York, New York ~ r ... September 1, 1960 `' -.TOBACCO STUDY AIDED