Galveston Isle, Volume 1, Numbers 7-8, January-February 1948 Page: 23
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CIVIC glUBS. .
Kiwanis, Every Tuesday 12:15 noon,
Hotel Jean Lafitte; Lions, Thursday,
12:15 noon, Hotel Jean Lafitte; Opti-
mists, Wednesday, 12:15 noon, Hotel
Jean Lafitte; Jr. Chamber of Commerce,
first and third Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Hill’s
Cafe; Rotary, Wednesday, 12:15 noon,
Hotel Galvez; Serra Club, second and
fourth Monday, 12:15 noon, Hotel Jean
Lafitte; 20-30 Club, Wednesday, 6:30
p.m., Hill’s Cafe.
Pilot Club of Galveston, every second
and fourth Monday, 6:15 p.m., Hotel
Jean Lafitte.
GALVESTON ISLE
Mabel; she contracted pneumonia,
and went to Monkey heaven.
Behind all this monkey busi-
ness, medical science is playing a
great drama. With those clowning
monkeys as subjects, Dr. Selle is
attempting to solve some baffling
questions that one of Mankind’s
No. 1 enemies, cancer, eludes.
Daily, those monkeys are fed
specially prepared rations made
up of rice flour and dymethyla-
minoazobenzene, a butter yellow
powder which induces cancer of
the liver in about six months in
many animals.
What influence does diet have
on cancer of the liver? This is the
question to which Dr. Selle seeks
an answer. He has conducted ex-
periments with white mice and
rats, which indicate that liver can-
are her bones.” The mortal re-
mains of the great lady were piled
neatly in a little box. Maybe it
was an optical illusion, but upon
leaving, it seemed that an impish
grin was on the face of Fabulous
Mabel. Could it be that she con-
templates begging enough ecto-
plasm, from the Powers that Be,
like Topper, and come back to
pay a nocturnal visit to Dr. Selle’s
office, just for old times sake?
Galveston’s Gift
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previous to the disaster the city’s
credit had sunk to a low ebb. The
annual budgets during the last few
years under the aidermen regu-
larly exceeded the income and
produced an annual deficit of
cer is augmented by high fats $100,000. This deficit was made
diets and, under certain condi- up by the sale of bonds, until
tions, retarded by protein. At the $2,850,000 of these bonds had
present time, he is attempting to been issued over 10 per cent of
determine whether a high carbo- assessed values. More than $200,-
hydrate diet reduces cirrhosis and 000 floating debt for salaries ex-
liver cancer. isted; scrip instead of cash selling
Since monkeys are more close- at a discount was issued in pay-
ly related to man than the smaller ment of wages and salaries.
animals, they are now being used In other words, the new form
to confirm dietary studies on can- of government faced a two-fold
cer previously made on smaller task to rebuild up the city s con-
animals. fidence in itself and its adminis-
ing to get in my window,” Mrs. X “Studies on experimental liver
explained. The doctor shook his tumors, particularly those con-
head, and had to admit that his cerning diet, seem to raise more
patient was not as well as he be- questions than they answer,” Dr.
lieved. The thought of immediate Selle declared. “However,” he
discharge was dismissed. Several added, “continued work of this
nights later, the doctor himself type may lead to the discovery of
saw “the cutest little monkey try- inhibiting factors feasible of hu-
ing to get into his office window,” man application.”
and then he knew Mrs. X was Upon leaving the office of Dr.
really well. Lady Mabel was on Selle, one notices a small grin-
the prowl again. ning skull behind glass doors.
But alas and alack, night life “That,” he explained, “is the head
took its toll on the Fabulous of the Fabulous Mabel, and here
tration as well as to rebuild the
city.
The origin of the Commission
form of government can be cred-
ited to the old Deep Water Com-
mittee of Galveston, a business
organization then headed by the
late George Sealy, Galveston
banker and philanthropist.
The Committee decided that
there was an imperative necessity
that the character of the city be
completely overhauled. This group
appointed a committee of three to
thoroughly revise and rewrite the
city charter, consisting of R. Wa-
verly Smith, attorney and presi-
dent of the First National Bank of
Galveston; Col. Walter Gresham,
lawyer and former member of
Congress; and F. D. Minor, also
a lawyer.
No ideas are created out of a
vacuum, and the Galveston Plan
had its parentage also. The com-
mittee procured and studied copies
of the charters of a number of
cities, including Washington, D.
C., and Memphis, Tenn. Memphis
in 1875, wrecked to the point of
financial insolvency by an epi-
demic of yellow fever, surrendered
its municipal charter in order to
prevent municipal bankruptcy,
turned over the affairs of the city
to a board of governors.
The new charter was finally
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Maceo, Sam & Llewellyn, Edwin E. Galveston Isle, Volume 1, Numbers 7-8, January-February 1948, periodical, January 1948; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1427482/m1/25/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.