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Boston Boy Declared Living Proof Scientists Will Conquer Cancer By DELOS SMITH United Prt Scienc Editor New York (U.R) A nine-year-old Boston boy is about to enter his seventh year of scientifically borrowed time, which is proof that science is going to conquer cancer. Six and a half years ago doc tors said this child had at most six months to live because he had acute leukemia. He still has acute leukemia, yet he is healthy and flourishing. It is a record. And also a dumbfounding, seeming miracle. But there is clear-cut cause and effect. Science is interfering suc cessfully with the "food" of his cancerous cells. So he "lives with" cancer. Dr. Charles S. Cameron, med ical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society, said science Is working out the ways by which people some day will liv with cancer for as long as they would have lived without cancer. Prolongs Lif He pointed to the discovery of insulin. With insulin people live with diabetes; without insulin they would die of diabetes. The Boston boy is living because of aminopterin, a man-made chem ical that interferes with the use of folic acid by leukemic cells. It is one of a whole class of man-made chemicals, the anti metabolities, which now number several dozens. Science has reached the point where it can throw chemical monkey wrenches into the essential workings of some kinds of cancer cells in some cases. But not for keeps only for a time usually measured in months but now and then in a year or two or three. What remains to be found out is why the anti-metabolities don't interfere with the essential nutri tion of some leukemic cells while interfering effectively with the nutrition of cells which seem to be identical. That, and also why all leukemic cells so far except those in the Boston boy have eventually "learned" how to mul tiply and kill the patients despite the drugs. Leukemia Smoldering Having advanced this far, scientists are confident they will solve the remaining mysteries of cancerous cells, and most espe cially the chemical unknowns which are now preventing the antimetabolites from being the weapons with which to conquer acute leukemia. Dr. Sidney Farber, a leading Quotes From the News Br UNITED PRESS New York Former President Truman on his 1948 campaign remark that any farmer who voted for a Republican should have his head examined: "I said that in 1948 and in 1952. And now some of them are having their heads examined." Orlando, Fla. Sen. Estes Kefauver on the Supreme court de cision to desegregate public schools: "It's ridiculous to say that a Supreme court decision is uncon stitutional ... some may disagree with the court's interpretation but we know that the court is the final word. Speaking as a South erner to Southerners, I say that there is no other answer to this problem. We simply must remain a united nation." New York Alfred P. Sloan Jr., who resigned as General Motors board chairman, on the principles of the firm's growth: "Get the facts. Recognize the equities of all concerned. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. Keep an open mind and work hard. The last is the most important of all. There is no shortcut." Seattle, Wash. Passenger Nelson Whalsirom on the ditching of a Northwest Airlines Stratocruiser in Puget Sound with 37 aboard: "The tail was whipping back and forth like a salmon swimming upstream." Mount Kisco, N.Y. Showman Billy Rose on the fire which de stroyed hjs world famous paintings and 28-room mansion: "If I had a sense of humor right now, I might be able to chuckle over what they saved from the kitchen. They brought out a bread toaster and some dishes." v Copco's Link River Dam Pad Approved Klamath Falls (U.R) John C. Bolye, vice-president and gen eral manager of the California Oregon Power Company, an nounced here yesterday that the public utilities commissions of California and Oregon approved the company's contract for oper ation of the Link r.iver dam for another 50 years. Boyle said the contract was approved March 27 and will be come effective on April 16 of this year. ALBERS GOOD REASONS for TRIP-L-DUTY SAVES LIVES SAVES TIME SAVES DOLLARS A single feed all the way I LAWN MOWER SALE- 2 Electric MOWerS Demonstrators 63i $35iQ0 1- Hofo Mower lleeZa disp,ay 599.00 2- Molo Mowers new. E;. 5112.00 2-Sensation Electric Sws! "L....Ea.: 556.00 l-Ccoper Cycle 20" j 51 13.00 I -Side Trimmer Mower 515.00 All but Excello and Side Trimmer May Be Bought on Contract Watch for Our GRAND OPENING of Southern Oregon's Most Modern Feed Store ME leukemia specialist and the physician of the Boston boy, said his p a t i e n t's leukemia was smoldering." Aminopterin hadn't put out the fire it was only preventing it from bursting again into flames. Meanwhile, the boy has had a normal growth and development and to the eye is indistinguish able from other children of his age. But no one can know how much longer aminopterin will hold his disease in check. ' April is "cancer month" when the American Cancer Society makes its annual appeal to the public for financial support. As We Live By ELIZABETH HURIOCK. PH.D. Youthful Romances Often Have Limited Duration People's feelings change as they grow older and they should expect this: (Q) "I am 22 years old and faced with a problem that both ers me very much. I hope you can help me solve it. Ever since I was in high school, I thought I was in love with Bob and he said he was in B. Huzlock love with me. After we graduated, I took a job and he went to college. We started to drift apart though I only went to parties, never dated another boy alone. Now Bob is in the service and, while he has never said so, I can iell from his actions that he is no longer in love with me but doesn't want to say so for fear of hurting my feelings. I have met a wonder ful man, slightly older than I, a widower with two small chil dren. He works where I do and I see him daily, though I have never accepted his invitation for dates-1 am convinced that he is the man I want to marry, not Bob. My' parents tell me I am letting Bob down, and my friends feel that I am being untrue to Bob by showing interest in an other man. They all make me feel like a perfect heel. Am I being unfair to Bob?" S.B. (A) As you have presented the facts, it would seem to me that Tuesday, April 3, 1956 MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN you would be far more unfair to Bob by trying to hold on to him than you would be to tell him you realize that you have out grown each other. You seem to feel that he might welcome such news from you, so why not tell him when you next see him? A youthful romance often ends as yours is ending. You have no reason to feel guilty about it or to reproach yourself. After all, it would seem that Bob is more to blame for the ending than you, so if anyone is to feel guilty it should be he, not you. May Shock Them As for your family and friends, why not merely ' tell them that you will tell Bob, namely, that you and he have outgrown each other. It may shock them at first, if they have taken it for granted all these years that you would eventually marry Bob. But when they see that you have found someone else you pre fer, and Bob will doubtless do the same when you set him free from any understanding you may have, then they will forget about their reproaches and realize that you are acting wisely and re joice with you. (Copyright 1956. General Features Corp.) Oregon Deans of Women Set Saturday Meeting Portland (U.R) The Ore gon Associated Deans of Women will hold their spring meeting on the Lewis and Clark college campus here Saturday. 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