Laurels

For their efforts to relieve the ills of mankind, awards were passed out last week to two medical researchers and a pest exterminator:

P: At the annual convention of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations in Philadelphia, Boston's Dr. Samuel P. Hicks was given the $1,000 Max Weinstein Award, plus $8,000 to continue his research. In pregnant animals, Dr. Hicks has found, small doses of X rays and certain drugs cripple the central nervous system of the offspring. It may be that cerebral palsy has a similar origin.

P: At French Lick, Ind., Dr. Edwin Bennett Astwood of Tufts Medical School received the $1,000 Borden Award for thyroid research, and for finding ways to extract more ACTH from the pituitary glands of hogs.

P: Charles Pomerantz, 54, an immigrant from Poland who did well in Manhattan's garment industry, switched to the exterminating business because he thought it offered more chance for public service. In 1946, a new disease, Rickettsialpox, broke out in Queens, and Pomerantz tracked down the carrier--a tiny mite carried by mice. In his honor, a new species of flea, found in the Philippines, has now been named Stivalius pomerantzi.

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