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Newspaper Page TextEUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Wert., August 29, 1962 'h'f DONT LOOK AT M6 . ITS NOT my turm: J Ask Andy I -.illl,ll!lll''' J NO, 1 OH. MY GOODNESS,- V I '"i OH, DSAR-ME TOO-H 1 (fxws&M lxssr isz?SAr. To Your Good Health Spreading Is Danger In Cancer By DR. JOSEPH 0. MOLNER "Dear Dr. Molncr: How can rancer of Ihe bone be treated? Is it usually fatal in itself, or by complications arising from it? If so, what are they? L.G." There is nothing specifically deadly in cancer. If this has a strange ring to your ears, stop and consider moment. The thought we must fix in our minds is thai cancer ultimately proves deadly simply because it makes some vital or gan of the body inoperative. That is why "having cancer" Is not necessarily fatal. There arc thousands upon thousands of people, alive and well today who once had cancer, hut it was removed or treated before it bad lime to reach and ruin any vital organ. Cancer of the hone is usually a form called osteosarcoma- not that the differentiation is of immediate concern to us here. Treatment consists of removal of the cancerous portion before it has spread. However, we must also keep (his in mind. Cancer of the bone as of almost any other area, may be "primary," meaning that it ctarlcd there, or it may be "met astatic," meaning that it has spread from some other pail of the body the breast or the thy roid, for example. This spreading is whal makes the disease so dangerous. If it spread only in orderly progrcs aion, from one area to the next adjoining tissue, we would have more success in fighting it. It docs, in fact, progress that way at first. But in time it changes to an other method. Cancer cells he- gin circulating through the body, probably through the blood stream or lymph system but conceivably by other means as well, and establishing new cancer growths far from the original site. That is the point before which we must act if we are to be cucccssful in eradicating a can cer. After this mctasta.stic pro cess has begun, there is no way of telling where or how rapidly or how often new cancers will appear. We know only that they will. This, then, is I he dangerous element in cancer but it also is the characteristic which permits us to save one of every three people who have the disease. A thorough understanding of this by the public, plus the every day strugglo of physicians to identify cancer without delay as soon as a person recognizes aoinc suspicious sign, is the basis upon which wo now fore eo the prospect of saving at least half of all cancer patients. And some medical statisticians feel that, without any new dis coveries at all, we have in our power to save two out of three. Stars Swing in Giant Orbits Andy sends a complete, 20-volume set of the World Book Encyclopedia to Jim Schajer, 14, of Lansing Mich., jor his question: Da the stars have orbits in space? The stars in their fixed pat terns arch over the sky every night or o it seems. Through the year, an orderly parade of constellations passes overhead with the changing seasons or so it seems. These apparent mo tions, however, arc caused by the earth turning on its axis and orbiting the sun. But the stars really do move in the heavens, though you would have to live a thousand lifetimes to notice any changes in their positions. The Big Dipper is a constella tion of so-called fixed stars. Some of its distant stars are nearer to us than others and if we saw them from, say Sirius the Dog Star, they would form a different pattern. The group of stars in a constellation are not necessarily neighbors of each other and, what's more, they may be moving in differ ent directions. The two pointer slars of the Big Dipper, for example, are moving in opposite directions. Three stars in the handle are moving in the opposite direction from the star at the end of the handle. In the year 100,000 A.D. our Big Dipper will be turned upside down. The handle will be the two stars which now point to Polaris and there will be three stars instead of two on the bottom of the bowl. By that remote date, all our pres ent constellations will have changed beyond recognition. This is because the stars in our sky are part of vast pin wheel system called the Galaxy. The pinwheel rotates and the individual stars rotate with it. The stars near the center of the Galaxy rotate faster than those near the rim. Every star, we think, is orbiting around the. center of the Galaxy along its own path and at its own speed. Stars near the center of the Galaxy crawl around their small orbits. At 3,200 light years from the center, the orbital speed of the stars is about 10 miles per second and with every addition al 3,200 light years from the center, about 10 miles per sec ond is added to the orbital speed. The orbital speed of our sun through the Galaxy is 170 miles per second, which means that in two billion years it makes one complete trip around the Milky Way. This period of time is called the Cosmic Year. Stars nearer the rim of the Galaxy orbit faster than the sun but, it is thought, none of them or bit faster than the sun but, it is thought, none of them orbit faster than 200 miles per sec ond. This is the escape velocity, the speed needed for a star to escape the gravitational pull of the Galaxy which keeps the whirling pinwheel in motion. The stars in our sky are wide ly separated and situated at dif ferent points in the rotating Galaxy. Though they travel at fantastic speeds, they change their positions very slowly, even when two which seem to be neighbors are traveling in dif ferent directions. Andy sends a Hammond's lnternatioruil World Globe to Rebecca Strickler, 11, of Columbia, Pa., jor her ques tion: Where does a lost balloon go? A cork floats on the waves because it is lighter than the water. A balloon filled with gas which is lighter than ordi nary air floats above the ground. So long as the gas inside the balloon is lighter than the air around it, the balloon will float higher and higher just like a cork bobbing to the surface of the water. When you let go the string and lose a balloon it rises where the breezes carry it along. It may get caught in a treetop or sail over the sea. But finally it bursts and the skin and the string come tumbling down to the ground often far from where it started its flight. Andv award each day a full set of the World Book Encyclopedia for the first question be selects to answer When a second question Is answered a large world globe or atlas Is awarded Questions are accepted from teen age or less-than-teen-age readers I'hev should he addressed to lha Register-Guard, 975 High St.. Eugene Andy prefers that questions be written on postcards, rather than In let ter form. Artichokes Start 'War' WASHINGTON A gourmet's dream turned into a farmer's nightmare recently when arti chokes glutted the market in France. Overproduction made the aristocratic arti choke as inexpensive as the plcbian potato. Breton growers were so violently unhappy about the low prices they started France's third "artichoke war" in two years. The fanners dumped Ions of artichokes on a main road, took up positions behind the green barricade, and fired the spiky missiles at the gendarmerie, the National Geographic Society reports. Another band of insurgents briefly occupied the town hall at Morlaix, cen ter of discontent. The artichoke surplus had provoked sim ilar demonstrations in the summers of I960 and 1981. The French government now is con sidering an artichoke subsidy, and farmers are studying ways of making the succulent vege table more popular. The artichoke is not a staple of the French diet. A statistician calculated that if each French man, woman, and child would eat just one artichoke a year, the surplus would be come a shortage. In the lofty regions of the haute cuisine, however, artichokes are indispensable. Augusta ' Escoffier offers more than a dozen artichoke recipes in his classic "Guide Culinaire." Among them are cream of artichokes with hazel-nut butter and a delectable dish in which artichokes are embellished with chopped onion and spinach, garlic, anchovy puree, sauce Mor nay and Gruycrc cheese. Though gastronomes really don't care, the vegetable is rich in iron, mineral salts and iodine. The French artichoke (Cynara scolymus) is the flower bud of a large, thistlclike herb. It resembles a cross between a giant pine cone and a cabbage. If the heads are allowed to de velop, they produce a showy violet bloom. The hud petals are tasy, but the real deli cacy is the tender heart of the artichoke. The prickly portion or "choke" covering the heart must be removed, because, as one cookbook warns, "If swallowed, it creates an unpleasant sensation in the throat." Believed to be native to western and cen tral Mediterranean lands, the artichoke appar ently was carried to Egypt and lands beyond some 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. Ancient Greeks and Romans ate the young leaves and flower stalks of a form of arti choke now called cardoon. The edible parts were grown in darkness so they would be white and tender. The modern artichoke came from Naples about 1400. It was introduced to Italy, France, England, and eventually the New World colo nics. It never became popular in England or its territories. In the United States, artichokes are grown commercially only in central California, where 51 million pounds were picked in 1961. Cas troville, Calif., proclaims itself the artichoke . center of the world. The artichoke mystifies most American housewives, but it gradually is growing more popular, especially since frozen artichoke hearts were introduced a few years ago. Surprisingly, a French race horse helped make artichokes, if not a household word, a trackside term. The horse went off his feed in the United States after authorities impound ed a shipment of his favorite food artichokes. vrFSJrJ . 'i , 1 Y A WOMN "M4 HER CAR INTO A DITCH AND CAME SHE WAS SKIPPINfl AROUND ITS NO UUSHING VMEAN 1 SHOULDNT USE FORMOOST tuJJ ) YESTERDAY IN YOUR DEFENSE f ( TO THE PIANT TO CALL A WRECKER. SEEMS THAT HER IN A RESTRICTED AREA MATTER, SIR. WE ANY OF TH' 20TH CENTURY J SAKE IF I UOOLA M V PLANT, WHAT WAS IT? Jjt LITTLE GIRL WANDERED AWAY HUNTING A DRINK t WITH HER DOLL WHEN SUSPECT THE CHILDS lrfS!DIDP, V, 'JSf Nt J JIB una... TN I TT1TC rl OF WATER AND SOT LOST. 1 ONE OF OUR SECURITY MOTHER IS A SPY. .J H ? "W!y'tY tv -Hr ,,r .1 ji V--i nr-ri . POLICE GRABBED HER. ONE OF THE -yOLO HOMELAND r I . 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