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10 The Newt-Rovir. Roseburg, Pro Thur., Aug. 4, 19491 Rqdloactlvt lodint Curt Thyroid Canctr, Claim American Legionnaires Of Oregon Open Annual 3-Day Reunion In Salem Tomorrow SALEM, Aug. 3.-(Spedal) With over 1100 advance lustra tions made to date, the 31s annual Oregon convention of the Ameri can Legion, promises to be the largest gathering of any type ever held in Salem. An estimated 3,000 delegates representing all components ot the Legion are ex pected to be on hand when the opening gavel sounds at 9 a. m. Thursday. High slate and civic officials, top-ranking officers of the mili tary services and many distin guished high Legion officers will take part in the various activi ties. All business sessions will be held in the Stat Capitol with veterans bonuses and a reappor tionment of per capita dues to national headquarters will head the slate. For the social and entertain ment side, parades, drum corps contests, dances, carnivals, in numerable reunion dinners, huge air-show and a "Convention Caval cade," will occupy every minute of the three-day conclave. The grand promenade of the 40 et 8, fun and honor society of the Legion will be held today, highlighted by the annual noise parade in downtown Salem, and ending with the grand wreck or initiation for "goafs" and banquet this evening. An impressive reveille at 8:45 a.m., Thursday by the 2nd In fantry band of ft. Lewis will signify the official opening of the Legion and Auxiliary meetings, following which tbe delegates will assemble at the Elsinore theater for Joint-opening exercises and memorial service. B. E. "Kelly" Owens, Salem, state commander and Wllda Thorn, The Dalles, Auxiliary state president will wield the Ravel at all business sessions, after greetings from state and city officials, top-ranking Legion and convention offi cials will respond and Frank N. Belgrano, past national com mander of Portland, will make the keynote address. A free buffet luncheon for all delegates will be served at the .Legion Club, Thursday noon, after which the Auxiliary and Legion will adjourn to business sessions. Thursday night wDI see the grand convention banqurt at the ar mory, honoring Laura Poling Goode, of Portland, national presi dent of the Auxiliary, and other distinguished guedts. The annual drum corps contest will be held at 8:u30 at Sweetland field that ! night and the day will close with ! the f?and ball at-the armory. Friday's Jam-packed schedule! will start out at 10 a.m. with spe-' cial kiddies contests at Marlon Square and the Legiokana (Jun ior) parade at 1:30. Convention officials have then arranged for a spectacular show featuring the U. S. Navy "Blue Angels" based at Corpus Chrlstl, Texas. These flying Grumman F8F "Bearcats," reputedly the fastest propeller driven planes made, will perform Immediately following at 3 p.m. the commissioning ceremony of the newly-activated naval air re serve squadron to be stationed at McNary field in Salem. Rear- I Admiral Goode, of Seattle, com mandant of the 13th Naval Dis trict, along with other high navy officers, will conduct the commis sioning. The grand convention parade, featuring over 2,000 participants, will begin' at 7 p.m. and wind through downtown Salem before an estimated audience of 50,000 people. The final activity on Fri days schedule will be a two-hour "Convention Cavalcade" at the state fairgrounds grandstand fea turing Hollywood stars arid acts. Saturday will see the final busi ness sessions, election and Instal lation of officers and adjourn ment. There will be official dances, carnivals and the tradi tional "dugouts" every day and night. Grants Pass Is a leading con tender for the 1950 convention. The 1948 meet was held In Astoria. NEW YORK, Aug. 3. tB I. S. Randall, New York advertis ing and sales executive, told Tues day In the American magazine how drinking radioactive iodine, apparently has cured him of hope less thyroid cancer. The Iodine drink Is a glass of ordinary water containing a very small amount of radioactive iodine. Before the war this Iodine was made by cyclotrons and was scarce and expensive. Now It is made by atomic energy plants, at Good Samaritan Hospital Plant $2 Million Addition PORTLAND, Aug. 3. UP A $2,000,000 addition to the Good Samaritan hospital here is being planned, officials disclosed. It will be a six-story wing, to be financed in part by public donations. Edgar W. Smith, chair man of the State Board of Higher Education, is to head the fund raising campaign. Oak Ridge, Tenn., and at Chi cago, and is much easier to get. Randall's case adds one mora to a small list of spectacular and almost miraculous recoveries, due , to radioactive Iodine drinks, he 1 wrote. Hif thyroid cancer had spread to bis spine and to thoul- der bones. i He had gone to a hospital to ' die when the Iodine drink was tried. It quickly cured his back pain and in a few months the thyroid cancers disappeared, he said. fab W Phone 730-J-5 Health Personnel Training Fund Given Approval WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (.P) The Senate labor committee Tuesday unanimously approved l bill authorizing about $95,000,000 In federal grants the next two years for training health person nel. Senator Pepper, who announced the action, called the measure "substantially an administration bill" in line with a section of the General health program President ruman recently submitted to congress. The bill does not deal with an other more controversial section of the Truman program which calls for national health Insurance. 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