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"Well, Here's to Your (Ha Ha) Health' J Lit. DREW PEARSON SAYS: Backstage Doings On Cancer Threat In Livestock Foods ilNEA Service, Inc. EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Thursday, November 19, 1959 i I "Without or with friend or foe, we print your daily world as it goes" Byron. RILEY ALLFN, publisher Grady Panncll, managing editor George Challis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager Nassar Gone Sour On Commies A piece of good ni'ws from the Near East is that President Nasser of the United Arab Uepulilic has recall :d GOO Arab students from their studies in Communist countries. This herulds a new start for Arab Western relations. From the ruins of the Suez debacle, relations Ix'twcn the West and Nasser have swung: around to the point that the Arab students recalled from Communist universities arc bein." shuttled to schools in the West. ;If the honeymoon between the U.A.K. and the Communist b:nc is truly over, this withdrawal, of future leaders of Arab nations from Red influence is a positive step toward our recouping lost ground in the Near Fast. If the experiment with Communist flirtations has soured Nasser against communism the formula may well be supplied in Africa where the West's re lations with the black i;irts of the con tinent can best be described as pre carious. I'ntil we can offer a constructive a' ternative to communism in this area, we must content ourselves to sit by and wait for Africans to discover the shortcomings inherent in the Communist way of pro viding progress. So Much For So Little information A little of the lock of cloak of secrecy that usually surrounds the Cent.nl In telligence Agency was lifted last week when the. President laid the cornerstone of; the new CIA building. We were as tonished to see that it is about half the size of the Pentagon. Two large parking lots on the 110 acre suburban site will accommodate 3,000 cars. Central intelligence, the spy division headed by Allen iMilles. we had always thought of as a relatively small group of men working mainly in foreign coun tries". Now it turns out to be another huge bureau which spends close to ten hundred million dollars a year. This' now huge branch of government operates . completely in the dark. Not even members of congress are permitted to see behiud its door very often. When the last Hoover commission made jls study of gdVernment it expressed general approval of CIA, but expressed disap pointment that it wasn't getting more information from behind the Iron Cur tain. It would seem that the main function of CIA would be to ke p our govern ment informed on what the Hods are up to. Surely we don't have to spy on our friends, but maybe we do. The extent of the1 Communist network, w hich engages in espionage as well as in formation gathering, has been known for years because so many members of it have defected and told w hat they know. The CIA has grown in size, apparently, in an attempt to match the Reds efforts and to work at the task of thwarting the efforts of the Communist spy apparatus. It is a defensive device as much as any thing. It is another measure of the sad state of international affairs that our nation must devote so much manpower ami public money to undercover work. We Can only hope that those working behind the scenes are making more progress than those out in the open. cist. If Harry Truman Joins The Crowd ! Writing in a group oi r.asiern i . .-. i papers r-and presumably some from the j West, too, although they are scarce in I New York former President Harry : S. Truman recently suggested we aban j doj the ban on nuclear weapons testing now In effect. Mr. .Truman stated flatly that he did not think" "it makes any sense to continue our self-imposed ban on all nuclear tests, and we ought to lift it immediately." Ha noted that it makes little sense to keep "deluding ourselves with the hone that this sacrifice will persuade the Kremlin to agree to foolproof interna S tionai nuclear control and disarmament." I The reason, of course, that the nuclear ! w8s imposed was pressure from a "group-of scientists - and others - led .,V Urn Pauling ol al l.cb, lbe-e people telt that we weie contaminating the atmosphere to the extent that wo were endangering' future generations. Their fears may be real, and undoubt edly are real in a number of cases. ut Pauling is a chemist, not a physi- and is speaking outside (if his field, atmospheric contamination is the worry, we ought to do as Mr. Truman suggests, which is to resume the tests immediately, underground, where there is no possible danger from contamination. Holding up the tests, waiting for the ians, is a waste of time. We might follow the suggestion of Selwyn nil. .iitish loivimi minister, that the ians be invited to tak' part in the . along with this country. P.ritain and France. Pus even 1.1c Kus test WASHINGTON There has been a hot backstage wire-pulling crntest to keep another cantor causing ingredient from being banned for farm use. One of the biggest industries in the nation, represented by the American Feed Manufacturers Association has lined up on one side. Against it are t lie doctors oi trie Nation al Cancer Institute. In the mid die is Secretary of Health, Edu cation, i.nd Welfare Arthur Flem- ming. M issue is a feeding additive ealkd diethylstilbestrol which is ioed jn the feeding of about 85 pervtcnt of the beef cattle of the nation. Developed by Iowa State l'mver':ity and marketed exclusi vely by Eli Lilly & Co., it has been found by the Nationoal Can cer Institute to produce cancer in mice, rats, rabbits and guinea pigs. The Institute came up with some evidence that stilbestrol, as it's known in the trade, generates a residue in turkeys, chickens and livestock which might induce cancer in people, especially wo men. Iowa State University has been warned of this fact. The I'ood and Drug Administration has also sent out warnings to Iced producers regarding the of led on animals. But, unlike cran berries, no action has been tak en. The medical profession gencr ally is at sixes and sevens as to whether stilbestrol can induce cancer in humans and some doc tors do not agree with the find tngs of the National Cancer Insti tute. However, the institute lab oratory tests are categorical that stilbestrol does cause cancer in animals, and seme of its doctors tcel that it is potentially more dangerous than contaminated cranbt ii ics. Celaney Law Is Clear Stilbestrol contains female hor mones similar to those produced by female glands. When fed to steers, turkeys or chickens, it has a ncuteriziing effect on the male sex producing more fat in a shorter time. But an overdose of these hormones, already pres ent in women's bodies, could cause cancer of the breast or the uterus, doctors of the institute have found. Institute doctors point out that the danger from eating normal amounts of meat is not great, but is accumulative. Thus traces if the drug eaten in meal are likely to stimulate dor mant cancer in a woman whose In-cast has already been removed because oi cancer. Or a woman using cosmetics in which carci nogens are present might suffer fr.in stilbestiol in meat. In anv event, whether dangcr- eus or not, an amendment to the iast law sponsored by Kep. Pe- env. New York Democrat, is quite clear that any additive, ev il if producing cancer only in animals, must be banned. "No additive shall be deemed to be safe," reads the Dc!ane amendment, "if it is found to in 'luce cancer when ingested by man or animal, or if it is ioumH uf'vr tests which are apph. pu ttie ... to induce cancer in man or animal." However, stilbestrol is still li censed for use by the Kuotl and Drug Administration on the ground that it was used prit.r to the revision of the Food and Inn;! Act of Sept. U, 1953, and that tests since then have n; t been conclusive. Lobbying Battle It's at this point that a lobby ing tug-of-war has taken place behind the scenes of the Health Education, and Welfare depart ment. Hired by the cattle feeders to keep stilbestrol on the market is Bradshaw Minternor. who h i the Eisenhower write-in campaign in Minnesota thereby turning tin' political tide from Tail to Ike in 1952. Mintencr is not cnly close to the White House bill served as assistant secretary ol MEW, the department before which he now lobbies. He wa once in charge of food and drug and is a member of the editor ia board of the Eocd, Drug and Cosmetic Journal, lie is also a great friend of Flemming. The two work closely together in church affairs. Mintencr first presented the views of the caUlo-feccl maim facturers in a letter to Food and Drug Commissioners Ceorce l.ar rick on June 18. He followed this up with informal visits and phone calls to key figures on Capilul Hill and inside the Health, Edii catirn. and Welfare department, which has jurisdiction over Food and Drug.N Finally on Oct. If! a 'le'eeation of seed manufacturers called up on Flemining. These included I. S. Riggs of Quaker Oats, chair man of the Feci Manufacturers, Association; W. E. Glcnnon, asso ci.ition president; and J. I). Sykes of Kali-tun Purina. Quaker Oats and Kalston Pur ina arc til two biggest distribu tors of stilbestrol in cattle feed. Quaker Oi.ts executives have been heavy financial backers of Eisen- ! ov.cr, and to Cai.jd president, secretary Tile O. ea'ly n the al man Delaney to soften M aim-ml-. Doie.'las Stuart, its j incut at the next session el i-ll-l as made ambassador! ;rc.-s. So far he has not M't . hile Dun Lourie, I ;.grecd. was made of .state. t. If assistant meeting was in conchi' i'-'C, and a follow-up con-1,-i-cnc- look place Oct. 27 with Kuotl and "rug Deputy Commis-iiuit-r John Harvey and chief co.iiis. l V. V. Goodrich. Another off-thc record meeting between ! lemming, Itigs and , ylces loos place in a Washington hotel. In addition, the feed man ufacturers pressured Congress- 8mptomi of Distress Arising from STOMACH ULCERS due to EXCESS ACID QUICK RELIEF CR NO COST However, there has been 110 ac tion to ban the feedmu of -til-bcstrol to livestock and poul'iy. rUISUn Sl-riC ,,v f.r, mllion OTCkailM ol lh. UH1STOI., England- 'eri1 - willABDintirtJirii.win,ia Southwest England, unail.ct.il l.y , 'jSZU&'uXtZ cranberry poisoning report be- '.c And Poor oixntion. sour or Uptt cause the berries are .a.clv oi l! s.om.ch c. n.. si..p. there, was waived today about poisoning from imported aopl". Hristol medical oil cer Dr. H C. Wofintlen ordered 2W cavs o! apples from Lebanon cc.n'i-e ii'.erl Iwtieit. etc.. i if e Eichi Acid. 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