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GREAT FALLS. MONTANA oo | E. G. Lusturaar, M.S., Researcn Aseooiare
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Dr. Michael E. DeBakey AN 7 «

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: 1200 M. D. Anderson Boulevard
a Houston 25, Texas

Dear Mike:

| understand that you are one of the prime moving forces in
the planning of the Regional Centers under the auspices of
the Johnson Administration. Several of us in this community
are anxious to find out in which form and to what extent.a
relatively small town such as ours can participate iin this
development. Great Falls has a population of 70,000, but
draws on a huge rural area for which it represents the medical

center. It also has a variety of academic and investigational
Be projects, several of them NIH supported. Please let me know
© whether there is anything we can do,

Our Transplantation Committee of the National Academy of
Sciences is still going strong. In the last year or so there
was much, and possibly too much, emphasis on kidney trans»
plantation. Of the old timers, only Charlie Congdon from

Oak Ridge and | have stayed on,

Our Research Lab here in Great Falls is in the process of
doubling its scope of activity since Jack Stimpfling of
Bar Harbor has transferred his lab out here on January Ist.
lt seems that we shall have lots of fun.

Hoping that all is well with you and with warm regards,

i Sincerely yours,

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cc: Senator Mike Mansfield
Senator Lee Metcalf

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