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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THRH Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Monday, June 8, 19SS )TUE KIDS PLAY WILD WD WOOLLY M 1UE V4G1MT LOT.4MD NOTHING nro LI DOPklS TO TUEM wwn n-r" SUTW 1 7WESCM00L GYM WTTW THE BBCTEQUIPMENTNDSUPERVISIOM THEY'RE 4LW4ys GETTJNS HURT AMA Opens 140th Convention With 25,000 Atteding . Atlantic City, N. J. (U.R) The American Medical Associa tion opened its 14th .. annual meeting today with hundreds of scientific papers and colorful ex hibits to help physicians "catch up" with the latest developments in medicine. Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, tcld the meeting "there is no evidence at this time" to war rant fears that A-bomb and H- : bomb tests are poisoning the at mosphere with dangerous radia tion. He said all. atomic tests to date by all countries have "added only fractionally to the natural back ground radiation which we all have been subjected since the be ginning of time." He described the increase as "about equal to that of one medical chest X-ray." The latest developments range from the use of drugs in curing juvenile delinquents and helping heart patients to hospitals that can be folded up and transported by airplane. x 25.000 Attend Some 25,000 doctors and guests attended the opening ses sion of the five-day meeting in spacious Convention Hall, which has the largest indoor auditorium in the world. Highlights of the meeting will be discussions of the control of polio by Or. Jonas Salk, developer of the anti-polio serum, and other top-flight authorities. Dr. Walter B. Martin, Norfolk, Va., outgoing president of the AMA, opened the business ses sion with an address before the association's house of delegates in which he outlined the prob lems confronting the nation's doctors. He urged continued op position to any more which may cpen the door to federal "inter ference or control" of medicine. Mental Haalth Stressed Dr. Elmer Hess, Erie, Pa., who will take over as president Tues day night, stressed importance of mental health and suggest- Cigaret Smoking Gets Rough Going Over at AMA Annual Meeting By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor Atlantic City, N. J. U.R) Two American Cancer society statisticians gave cigaret smok ing a new and even rougher going-over at the annual meeting of the American Medical asso ciation today. At the same time and place, another group of statisticians in dicted cigaret smoking as a pos sible cause of larynx cancer, es pecially when the smoking is combined with heavy whiskey drinking. According to the new lung cancer statistics, the death rate among heavy cigaret smokers (two packs or more a day) is more than 90 times that of non smokers but the death rate among men who once smoked cigarets but stopped is 14 times greater and is only half the rate of moderate (one pack a day) smokers. Records Smoking Habits These percentages were based upon 285 proven or suspected lung cancer deaths among 188, 000 men who were between 50 and 70 years old when their smoking habits were recorded by Cancer Society volunteers beginning in November 1951. Since then, 8,105 of these men have died. The society believes the 188,000 and what has and is happening to them are repre sentative of all American males of the same age group. Critics of the study, especially the to bacco industry research commit tee, disagree. In their new statistics, the so ciety's statisticians found that pipe - smoking is "associated" with lung cancer, too, but to a far less degree than cigaret smoking. They added that cigar ed doctors take increasingly ac tive parts in developing more psychiatric units in hospitals. He also urged doctors to give one day a week to work in state or county mental hospitals near their homes. IT'S A PSYCHOLOGICAL FACT: PLEASURE HELPS YOUR DISPOSITION! Feel scratchy as a cat? When somebody rubs you the wrong way, a little pleasure helps your disposition. That's a psychological fact! for mom pure plsasure havea Com Another fact if you're a smoker, you'll get more pure pleasure from Camels. Really mild . . . richer-tasting ... no won der more people smoke Camels than any other brand! 1 No other cigarette is so rich-tasting, yet so mild! smoking "sowed no significant association." They gave no amount of cigaret smoking, no matter how light, a clean bill in short, they said their figures indicated the heavier the smok ing of cigarets, the higher was the chance of lung cancer.. Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, di rector, and R. Daniel Horn, as sistant director of statistical re search for the Cancer Society, made the report. Hammond also is a professor of biometrics at Yale university. The larynx can cer statisticians, who were on the same program, were; from the Slan-Kettering Institute of New York. To complete the report at the scientific session on "cancer and medicine," Dr. Charles S. Came ron, medical and scientific di rector of the society, said he had polled scientists who see the most cancers or are quali fied cancer experts and. found that a majority of them believe that "heavy smoking of cigarets may lead to lung cancer." He said that 63 per cent of the chest surgeons,. 50 per cent of the pathologists, and 54 per cent of the cancer research scientists whom he polled, answered "yes" to that statement. ... ,,' ' ... New York U.R) Timothy B. Hartnett, chairman" of the To bacco Industry Research com mittee, urged smokers today not to be "misled by sweeping gen eralities" in a doctors' report on the relationship between smok ing and lung cancer. Hartnett, whose organization is conducting its own survey into lung cancer, charged that the report released today in 'At lantic City, N.J., "ignores im portant environmental, geo graphical, occupational, physical and emotional factors affecting disease and longevity." "The use of big percentage figures . . . obscures the fact that they are dealing with only 168 proven, primary lung cancer cases among 285 reported cases, out of 8,105 deaths Which oc curred in a 32 -month period among 187,000 men who were 50 to 70 years old at the start of the survey over three years ago," he said. Hartnett aslo charged that the questionnaire used by Drs. E. Cuyler Hammond and R. Daniel Horn contained bias "so great as to make questionable the valid ity of any conclusions . . ." Laboratory research during the past year has failed to pro vide any proof that smoking causes lung cancer, Hartnett said. Youngster Drowns Near Springfield Springfield, Ore. (U.R) ' A 2-1iryear-old child wandered off from her parents and drowned in a slough yesterday afternoon during a family picnic at Hend ricks Bridge state park nine miles east of here. . Little Sandra Arlene Floyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grady W. Floyd of Springfield, was missed by her parents about 10 minutes after she toddled off while playing with an older child. The body was located in a slough of the McKenzie river, the county coroner said, but ef fort at resuscitation failed. Portland Bakers Okay Wage Increase Offer ': Portland (U.R) AFL bakers here voted unanimously to ac cept an industry wage increase offer of 8 cents an hour Saturday afternoon, ending a month of negotiations. The Bakers and Confectionary workers said the agreement also included a 6 cent hourly wage in crease in November and some retroactive pay. . . John Leffelman, business agent of the union, said some ''hand" shops would take a re duction in hours in place of the wage increase. 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