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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1954)
r i ! 1 i i Camtceir - Cannsninig Agemt IFonnniidl If , ir a FACING dl.smLs.sal from U. S. post as security risk, Wolf Lade ' jinsky, Russian-born agricul ;. tural expert, is center of contro versy in capital. (International) 7Tr DAVENO and 229,95 MffiW All! By KC5EIHI LEK IPKDetEID) Your GBoiniMS - FE5EE :CFFEE Regular $154.95 MAMflSAMY TEA CA Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Two cancer experts have issued re ports on laboratory tests con ducted to determine if there is any relationship between cancer and the tars and smoke produc ed by burning cigarette paper. Their views were expressed yesterday during a chemistry meeting of the American Assoc iation for the Advancement of Science. Dr. D. V. Lefemine of the Mi ami Cancer Research institute reported he .had burned the pa per from 1(J00 king-sized: cigar ettes and isolated large amounts of a cancer causing agent known as benzpyrene. This substance caused cancer in laboratory ani mals. - v . . .;' Lefemine said the amounts f the compound in the tobacco itself was "negligible." Lefemine said he and his col leagues are now trying to dis cover the possible cancerous ef n ini fOV - FREE MAHOGANY DINING ROOM SUITE DROP LEAF TABLE 4 CHAIRS Vomit Boiraiios FES fect of benzpyrene on human lung tissue grown in the labora tory. ; . . Dr. Paul Kotin, of the Univer sity of Southern California Med ical School immediately chal lenged Lefemine's report.' - "The relation between the Mi ami laboratory tests and the ac tual burning of cigarette paper in normal human smoking is so remote as to make it incapable of comparison with human ex perience," Kotin said. Kotin, noted for his studies of the effect of smog and other air pollutants on lung cancer, de scribed a long study of the can cer producing effect on tars and paper and the atmosphere. "We have compared the po tency" of ; tars from cigarette to bacco and paper with that of tars collected from the atmos phere," Kotin said. Milligram for milligram, the CHAIR FLOOR LAMP dob laolriniflinig atmosphere tars are 700 to 800 times more potent carcinogens (cancer producers)." '. . At the end of the discussion, Lefemine admitted that his Mi ami studies represent "a purely chemical -experiment, and do not establish "any relationship be tween smoking and cancer." In another paper, Dr. Otto E. Lobstein and r. S. I. Dulkin of the Chem-Tech Laboratories, Beverly Hills," Calif., told how they, "cured" or retarded , the growth of certain tumors in mice through the use of "a chemical called lysozyme." " ! They said : in half the cases, the cancerous growths, known as lymphosarcomas, apparently disappeared and the mice were, thereafter immune to cancer, provided they were - treated early enough. In the other half, the growth of the cancerous tissue was con siderably retarded. , NOW AS LW JAISILi ! - BB - Cigarette Texas Hunters, Ranchers in Jasper,, Tex. ' (U.R) "Bad blood" between Texas ranchers and hunters who defy legal sea sons and "posted" signs was blamed today for a furious eight man gun battle reminiscent of the Old West. One hunter was killed in the gunfight that erupted Christmas day between six hunters and two ranchers. Both of the ranchers and a s ec o n d hunter were wounded." i ... The battle apparently .began when a hunter accused a rancher of shooting a dog. But the body of the dog has not been' found and a hound was seen wandering out of the woods yesterday. .... A verdict of murder was re turned by Justice of the Peace Thomas Burch in the death of Rflalke YBJ1S JSKHU: S - T - i - E - o AN Eastern Hardwood Reg. $289.95 Bonus 2 Boudoir lamps In AS MMM puish-ml ODlie ADODDDDSteir Itarft Weave - - Monday, December 17, 1954 Paper, Scoemiffistl the hunter, Roy Muench, 51, Port Arthur, Tex. No murder charge was filed immediately, however, because sheriff's still must determined who fired the fatal shot. Four of the hunters were ar rested and charged with assault with intent to kill the ranchers. After the fiery free for all in a wooded area of "big thicket" country in. East Texas, sheriff's officers confiscated, nine guns, including six high-powered 30-30 rifles and three shotguns. More than 30 empty shells littered the area. v The battle was staged along a country lane between Jasper and Browndell, about 100 yards from a boundary line of a 15,000-acre cattle ranch operated by two f - C - Kl u 0 0) Mils Wild brothers, Dalphene and Sterling Garlingten. The site looked "like a battle ground," Deputy. Sheriff Wayne Pullen reported. "Bushes were shot away, trees were hit and there was blood all over the road." The six hunters involved in the gunbattle were Muench, Clarence . Willingham, his son-in-law; Travis Ellis from Brown dell; her brother, Charles Ellis, an Army corporal on leave from Fort Hood, Tex.; Richard Mor ris and Gerald Sanford, both from Jasper. They had been hunting in the area of the. Gar lington ranch, Christmas eve. . Pullen said they returned on Christmas day to look for a lost dog and encountered the Garl- MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE fTVS Cohorts Gun Fight ington brothers, who were arm ed. . . . ; ... , The deputy , said Muench ac cused - the . ranchers of shooting his dog. Tempers flared, the men raced to cover and shot it out for several minutes. Muench apparently had left his gun near the' hunters' parked car and re ceived a fatal bullet in the body when he lunged for his weapon, Pullen said. .Charles Ellis and Willingham, both of whom . admitted they took part in the gun battle, were charged along with Morris and Sanford with assault with intent to murder the Garlington bro thers, both of whom were wounded. Travis Ellis, a hunter, was the third man wounded in the fight. 5 SIXTH and BARTLETT PHONE 24848 or 2-4740 ; LS ' I iS it t: II i it - IB fl
