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Partly cloudy weather is expected in Eugene Springfield todav while showers,
thundershowers or rain are expected in parts of the north Atlantic states through
the Ohio and Tennessee valleys in the Gulf coast. Shower activity in the middle At
lantic states and light rain in the Pacific northwest is likely. It should be warmer
from the south Pacific states northeastward through the central and southwestern
Plains into parts of the middle and upper Mississippi Valley.
'Silent' Film Actor Tells
Of Winning Cancer Battle
By MARVIN TIMS
of thi Regliter.Guard
.A campaign worker, attending the annual meeting of the
Oregon Division of the American Cancer Society in Cottage
nrove Friday, leaned toward a fellow volunteer and remarked:
"That Bill Gargan sure has guts."
The worker was talking about 57-year-old William D. Gargan,
starW more than 100 television, film and stage plays who had
come from his home town of Beverly Hills, Calif., to address
the 200 ACS workers assembled for the annual session.
What the volunteer really meant was that few persons could
have made a better adjustment to a tragic personal experience
than Gargan, a career actor who probably will never make
another movie or appear in another play.
Gargan, who has used his voice to bring entertainment to
millions of Americans for 35 years, has lost his larynx to can
cer. Now known as a laryngectomee, he has learned to speak
with a so-called esophageal voice, but the low-pitched sounds,
while understandable, are not suitable for an acting career.
Many successful people might be embittered at having their
careers suddenly terminated, but not Gargan. He made a new
career for himself telling Americans about cancer "so I can
do my part in the battle to save lives."
Gargan, a man of medium height with red hair and a warm
smile, recalled in an interview Friday afternoon that he first
noticed a persistent hoarseness and dryness of the throat in
1960.
By a strange coincidence, he was at the time appearing in
the alage play, "The Best Man," in the role of a former U.S.
president who contracts cancer.
"When I went to a doctor, he didn't find
anything at first, but then he found it a ma
lignant tumor beneath the epiglottis. He said
frankly he was worried and that an operation
should be performed within a few days. I said
I was ready right now. Within two days the
operation was performed. He had been forced
to remove my larynx. Now I couldn't make a
sound," Gargan said.
He explained that the surgeon, as doctors
do for all surgical removals of the larynx,
created a hole in the lower front part of the
neck and joined the trachea, or windpipe, to it.
Since there is no connection between the
mouth or nose and the lungs, Gargan like all
other laryngectomees, breathes, coughs,
sneezes and "blows his nose" through the open
ing in the neck. However, he takes food and
liquid by mouth as usual.
Because he does not breathe through his
nose, he loses a great degree of the senses of
smell and taste. He also can not laugh aloud,
sing or whistle and he finds the "H" sound
the most difficult to master.
In order to speak, Gargan had to learn an
entirely new method which involves taking air
into the mouth and forcing this air into the
esophagus by locking the tongue to the roof of
the mouth.
When the air is forced back up, it causes
the walls of the esophagus and pharynx to vi
brate. This action vibrates the column of air in
the passages, causing the low-pitched sounds
that are typical of the laryngectomee.
Gargan and others without voice boxes form
these sounds into words with the tongue, lips,
teeth and palate, as do normal people.
Many persons take up to a year to master
esophageal speech and some never learn it, but
n
WILLIAM GAKGAN
He Was Ready Right Away
Gargan, determined to succeed, spoke his first
word within 12 weeks and was speaking fluent
ly within three months. What was the first
word he learned to speak?
"I don't know just why, but the first word I
said was scotch," Gargan recalled Friday, smil
ing broadly.
In the past two years, the former actor has
traveled in 49 of the 50 states, speaking to
campaign workers and the public about cancer.
On one trip, he recalls speaking to about
25 laryngectomees. "I told them a joke, but
they didn't laugh. Then I remembered they
couldn't. You can imagine the response I got
to my jokes during the rest of the meeting."
WOULD SLIP OUT SIDE DOOR
Asked whether he ever watches any of his
old movies on television, Gargan replied: "No,
I never could stand to see myself because I
would notice too many flaws in my acting. It is
like writing a book. You can always write a line
a little better."
Often, at opening night showings of his
movies, Gargan would have to go to the theater
with studio executives. But usually when the
theater lights were turned down, he would
slip out the side door "so I wouldn't have to
watch myself."
Those who know Gargan say he is an ex
ceedingly sincere and humble man. This is the
impression he created among the volunteer
workers at Cottage Grove Friday when he said:
"As you talk about cancer, you arc saving
people's lives. I lost my career as an actor, but
God in his wondrous way, after taking my
voice, gave me another career bringing hope
to people and trying to help save their lives. I
hope I can spend the rest of my life working
to fight this dread disease, cancer."
EUGENE-SPRINGFIELD
Forecast: Night and morn
ing fog or low clouds; partly
cloudy Sunday afternoon; low
Sunday, 48; high Sunday, 63.
Statistics, (readings at the
U. S. Weather Bureau, Mah
Ion Sweet Airport, Eugene):
Highest temperature Satur
day, 64; lowest Saturday morn
ing, 52; rain in 24 hours end
ing 4 p.m. Saturday, none;
total for October, 6.33 inches;
average for October, 3.83 inch
es; readings at 4 p.m. Satur
day: humidity. 75 per cent;
wind, calm. Prevailing wind
Friday, N 5.5.
Stage of rivers at 7 a.m.
Saturday, Willamette at Ferry
Street Bridge, 12.3 feet; Mc
Kenzie at Armitage Bridge,
. 1.6 feet.
Sunrise and sunset: Sunday,
6:35 a.m. and 5:18 p.m.; Mon
day, 6:37 a.m. and 5:16 p.m.
OREGON BEACHES
Mostly cloudy with some
light rain or drizzle early Sun
day. Low 45-50; high Sunday
56-62. Beach winds variable,
515 m.p.h.
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Anchorage 42 32 T
AJbuquerqut S2 43
Atlanta 78 50
Blimarck 67 28
Boise 65 40
Bofton 62 47
Chicago 57 51 .67
Cleveland 9 54 .14
Denver 63 53
Detroit 62 53 .23
Fairbanka 30 25 .1)7
Kort Worth S5 71 .11
Galveston R5 76
Helena 62 40
Honolulu 82 7.1 .14
Kansaa City 63 ' 53 .02
Las Vegas 7S 49
Los Ancelcs 76 56
Miami Beach R6 69
Mnpls.-St. Paul 54 35
New Orleans R7 61
New York 71 50
Omaha 59 44
Phoenix 80 47
Reno 72 25
Sacramento 73 49
Salt Lake City S3 33
San Diego . 73 55
San Francisco 66 54
Seattle 59 4
Spokane 57 43
Washington 71 45
Blood Bank
The Eugene Blood Bank of
fice will be open Monday but
no drawings will be taken.
Blood will be received only
from the Southern Pacific
employes at the yards in Eu
gene. Rare types needed on call:.
AB Positive, AB Negative.
Lane Memorial Blood Bank,
790 E. 11th Ave., Eugene,
Phone DI 5-0336. Open 12:30
3 p.m., Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday. Friday by appoint
ment. Closed Saturday.
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ATHENS UV-The Greek Orth
odox Holy Synod is deliberating
on whether King Paul and
Queen Frcdcrika should be
godparents to a son of Francis
Noel-Baker, British Laborite
MP. Some clerics object to the
royal family taking part in any
alien rite.
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