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Monday, May 30, 1955
Young Boy's Death Spurs
Search for Leukemia Cure
Rochester, S.Y. (U.P.) An all
out fight against fatal leukemia
and other mysteries cf the blood
triggered by the death of a
teen-age boy is gaining force
here under the leadership of
three public-spirited men.
While the research and train
ing program is aimed directly
at finding the cause and cure
of blood cancer, it is expected
also to throw some light on the
government's probe of the ef
fects of atomic radiation.
The three spearheading the
attack Hyman J. Mandell, Har
old S. Rand and J. Mallory Loos
currently incorporating the
country's first National Leuke
mia Foundation. Funds raised by
the foundation will be granted
to medical centers for unre
stricted research of blood abnormalities.
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The impetus for this fight
traces back fours years to the
leukemia death of Mandell's
r.ephew, David S. Smalline.
Mandell went to Dr. Lawrence
E. Young, associate professor cf
medicine and director of the
University of Kochester's blood
research. M3ndell asked why
David died.
Leukemia, the doctor ex
plained, is a malignant diseape
of the white blood cells which
causes widespread disturbance
in the blood and blood-forming
tissues of the body. At present,
the disease causes more than
12,000 deaths in the United
States each year and its inci
dence is increasing about 10
per cent annually. It is the lead
ing cause of death in children
between two and five years of
age.
Mandell, an energetic and
bustling pharmacist, recruited
Rand and Loos to help him or
ganize a local drive for research
funds. Then he urged his inter
national pharmaceutical frater
nity, Rho Pi Phi, to adopt the
leukemia fight as its public
service project.
The drive raided $27,000 in a
one-night canvass and was suf
ficiently encouraging for the trio
to aim at an annual nation-wide
campaign. With the help of Rho
Pi Phi's 8,000 members in 40
U.S. and Canadian cities the
men plan similar canvasses
across the continent.
The first $15,000 grant went
to the University of Rochester,
and the rest of the money into
a general fund to be adminis
tered by a board of directors
with headquarters in the Com
merce Building here. A medical
advisory board, composed of Dr.
Young and medical leaders from
various universities, will pass on
all research grants.
Scientists receiving such
grants will have complete free
dom and flexibility in their re
search. They will not be con
fined to one path, as is the case
in most research grants.
Dr. Young believes the pro
gram, with its wide scope, will
shed light on investigations of
other diseases as well as leuke
mia. He pointed, also, that an
swers discovered through the
program will be shared with
government scientists working
on radiation.
In this respect, Dr. Young
pointed out that the victims of
the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A
bombs were found to have an
abnorally high incidence of leu
kemia. " ,
Television by wire and radio
was demonstrated by the Bell
Telephone laboratories, April 7,
1927.
News of Release
Of Fliers Greeted
As 'Wonderful'
Swea City, la CU.R) Mrs.
Harold Fischer said today the
news of her son's release from
captivity in Communist China
is "the most wonderful news
we've ever received."
The niother of Capt. Harold
Fischer added "We've waited a
long time for this."
When informed by the United
Press of her son's release, her
first reaction was to ask pre
cisely when it happened.
Her next impulse was to plan
when she will see her son again.
"As soon as we find out when
he'll be on the West Coast we're
going to the coast," she said.
Mrs. Fischer said her last word
from her son was that he had
been transferred from a prison
in Manchuria to Peiping.
Omaha, Neb. (U.R) The moth
er of Lt. Roland Parks could
only repeat "it's wonderful . . .
it's wonderful" when informed
today that her son had been re
leased from Red Chinese cap
tivity. "It really is wonderful ... it
sure is wonderful," she said.
Mrs. Parks said she and her
husband had as yet received no
official word on the release.
They won't make plans on jour
neying to the Pacific Coast to
greet their son until they do,
she said.
Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Rolland
Cameron, father of Lt. Lyle
Cameron, said today "we have
a deep feeling of gratefulness"
when told his son had been re
leased by the Chinese Commu
nists. "It's a wonderful thing
when you have waited so long,"
he added.
Cameron, who had sat up an
swering telephone calls all night,
said "We felt all along our son
would be released."
Court of Appeals Chief
Justice Dies of Cancer
Washington (U.R) Judge
Harold M. Stephens, Chief Jus
tice of the U. S. Circuit Court of
Appeals here since 1948, died
Friday of cancer. He was 69.
Stephens, who began his legal
career in Salt Lake City in 1912,
had been ailing since February.
Cause of his death was given as
cancer of the liver.
Stephens died in his apartment
at the Sheraton Park hotel here.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Virginia A. Bush, of Salt
Lake City, whom he married in
1912.
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The Tugboat Sermon . .
(Note: This week a vacation
column Is supplied by Dr. Cyrus
E. (Cy) Albertson, First Metho
dist Church, Seattle. His topic is
tugboats craft which, more
often than not, are built from
timbers of Douglas fir. J.S.)
My church is but six blocks
from the tide waters of the Pa
cific as they ebb and flow in
Puget Sound. The whistles of the
tugboats can be heard and you
can look out of the windows of
our parish house and see them
as they plow the waters.
Theynove barges and rafts
that have no power of their own.
I looked down our hillside street
the other day and saw a tugboat
moving a freight train that had
been loaded on two barges. As
the tides run, so these tugboats
bring great barges loaded with
sand, gravel and other useful
things from one place to another.
Rafts of logs often enough
unsawed lumber behind one tug
boat to build all the houses in a
small town. Without tugboats,
these various craft and tows
would be without power, drift
ing and subject to the whims of
tides, winds and waves. None
would ever reach port without
the tugboats.
These tugboats show signs of
hard use and are built for
strength and not for beauty. No
body ever buys a tugboat for a
pleasure craft. Tugboats are
squatty and often need paint.
But God uses them to teach us
some of the greatest truths he
seeks to reveal to us.
Good Works ...
When great seagoing ships
come into our harbors, the tug
boats come and bring them to
the docks. The ships have plenty
of power to drive them across
the seas, to bring them through
storms and to carry heavy cargo
but the ships cannot come into
the dock where they will be tied
and unloaded without the help of
the tugs.
The other day I saw several
tugboats bringing to dock a
transport, loaded with men com
ing home from overseas. My
mind went back to the morning
when I returned from the wars
and how we were met by tug
boats that brought us into New
York harbor on the - longed-for
day when we were home again.
Tugboats go to the rescue of
ships in trouble. During winter
days, when storms are frequent
on the high seas, hardly a week
passes without calls for help
from ships in distress. "Ship
aground," or "Engine trouble,"
or some other call of trouble
starts the tugboats hurrying to
the area where the ship needs
help.
Many a ship and many a crew
have been saved from death and
loss in the sea because a tugboat
came at the right time.
Every week I talk with folk
who have found someone who
has come into their lives at the
right time. They tell of some
man or woman who "just hap
pened to come along when I
needed someone the most." Noth
ing like this "just happens."
God uses people for his tug
boats . . . Most folk have to live
rather quiet, inconspicuous lives.
Some feel that they are not neces
sary because they haven't the
apparent importance of others.
They feel that they cannot be
like sleek, handsome ocean liners
and maybe not even like the
big cargo ships that carry treas
ures across the seas.
But they we and all be like
the tugboats. It' is true that they
do not make such an impression
as do the larger ships but they
are so necessary that without the
tugboats, many of the larger
ships would be helpless.
You can be one of God's tug'
boats, if you want to be one
There are some lives that only
you can help, some who are with
out power themselves, some who
cannot quite make port to start
over again, unless you help them
And there are some whose lives
are in real danger of breaking
apart without the help that you
or another can give.
Then God sends you or the
other "tugboat" along.
Mate Faces Quiz
In Death of Wife
Vale, Ore. (U.R) California
authorities planned to question
Rodney G. Sheran, 35-year-old
contractor, today about the slay
ing of his attractive wife, Esme,
last Wednesday.
Marin County Dist. Atty. Wil
liam O. Weissich and two depu
ties arrived here last yesterday
to return Sheran to San Rafael,
Calf., where a murder charge has
been lodged against him.
Sheran was taken in custody
Saturday night, driving a red
pick up truck He signed a waiver
of extradition. i
Sheriff John Elfring of Mal
heur county said Sheran would
not admit that he beat his 41-year-old
wife to death near the
base of Mount Tamalpais with
a heavy rock.
"All he says is, 'I don't re
member,' " Elfring said. "He
shows no remorse over his wife's
death."
He said Sheran would not tell
where he had been since his wife
was slain. The sheriff assumed
he had been to Idaho, the state
of his birth. Malheur county Is
on the Oregon - Idaho border.
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Snow Slide Covers Cars in Chinook Pass
Seattle (U.R) The Chinook
Pass Highway was open for holi
day traffic today after road
crews cleared away slides which
poured snow down on four auto
mobiles Saturday.
The occupants of one of the
cars hit by Saturday's slide, Mrs.
Erine Berghoff, 36, Yakima,
and her daughter, Gloria, 12,
were treated for cuts and bruises
at Yakima after the snow smash
ed their windshield.
Crews managed to dig the
partly-buried cars free after four
hours of work according to dis
trict highway engineer . D. D.
Forgey. The pass has been open
ed for Memorial Day week end
traffic just a few hours after the
big slide occurred The cars were
struck as they waited in line for
an earlier slide to be cleared
away.
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday.
Reef Cross Sends Food
Gifts to Yanks in China
Hong Kong (U.R) The Red
Cross today handed to Red Chi
nese officials food packages for
44 Americans held captive by
the Chinese Communists.
The Reds agreed to accept one
food package for each of the 29
American civilians and 15 U.S.
airmen being held. The pack
ages were delivered by Ameri
can Red Cross officials Harry
Lambly, of Westroves, Mo., and
Richard Tomlin, of Santa Fe,
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