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Friday. October 5. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Arsenic Spray on Tobacco Plants May Be important Factor in Lung Cancer San Francisco 'U.R; Arsenic used in insecticides sprayed on tobacco plants may be as im portant a factor in lung cancer among smokers as the tars in the tobacco itself, according to a University of Texas researcher. Furthermore. Dr. Robert R. Shaw said, smoking in particu lar, cigarette smoking is almost entirely responsible for an in crease in cancer of the lung among smokers. Shaw, professor at the Univer lity of Texas Southwestern Medi cal School, is here to address a conference of the American Cancer Society. He told a press conference Thursday that people who smoke excessively not only develop lung cancer at an earlier age than non-smokers, but at a rate SO times greater. The only bright spot, he said, Is in educating the younger gen eration not to smoke and he felt the youngsters might not take the advice too seriously. "Try telling a teen-ager not to do something because it may hurl them in 25 years," he said. "They'll think to themselves '25 years, why, I'll be dead then anyway:' " High Death Rate show that the average age for those developing lung cancer is 55 10 years younger than those developing other types of cancer. The victims of the disease are predominantly men, he said, but New statistics cited by Shaw added that present statistics Sen. Morse Attacks Hard Money Policy; McKay Eyes Decision By UNITED PRESS Sen. Wayne Morse attacked the administration's "hard mon ey" policies while his November opponet, Douglas McKay, ham mered away at the Democrats today. Morse, speaking at Sweet Home yesterday, blamed the ad ministration for "the serious slump in the lumber industry in Oregon and elsewhere.' "I forewarned in January, 1953, Machine Being 'Taught' to Translate USSR Language Washington U.P. A machine soon may tear down the lan guage barrier which deters world-wide exchange of scienti fic Information. language experts at 'George- Stevenson Attends Ball Game; Cites Equality of Rights New York (U.R) Adlai E Stevenson attended the second game of the World Series today a! Ebbets Field in traditionally Democratic Brooklyn. Stevenson's visit to the hall park was billed as "non-political" as was President Eisen hower's appearance at the first game between the Yankees and the Dodgers Wednesday. But the Democratic presi dential nominee, like Mr. Eisen hower, was seen by thousands at the baseball park and in the festive streets of the heavily pcpulated New York Borough. Non-Partisan Fan Stevenson, a Chicago White Sox fan, indicated no preference in New York's Subway Series. Mr. Eisenhower openly rooted for the Dodgers and sat in the private box of Brooklyn's Presi dent Walter O'Malley. Stevenson carried his cam paign into Harlem where he de clared that the achievement of equality of rights and opportun- ties for all America was "the great unfinished business of the United States." Enthusiastic crowds ranging from 5,000 to 10.000 persons stood on the streets under rain threatened skies to cheer and rp'aud him at two outdoor rallies. He made a third hand shaking appearance at the Sa voy Ballroom. 'Death Knell' Said Sounded Stevenson said at one rally that former President Truman sounded the "death knell" of segregation in the armed forces in 1948 despite the opposition of President Eisenhower. He said J r. Eisenhower, then chief of staff, testified before a Congressional committee on April 2. 1948, that complete de segregation in the armed forces would get us "into trouble." Stevenson said that Mr. Tru man issued his executive order providing for integration in all the services despite Mr. Eisen hower s testimony. An oil pipeline of a given size will carry 30 per cent more gas oline than crude oil within the same period of actual flowing time. airing fori fords! town University are " teaching" the machine to translate from Russian to English. Money for the project comes from a S100. 000 grant from the National Science Foundation. In January, 1954. the Interna tional Business Machine Corp. announced it had developed a computer that could translate simple Russian sentences into English. Now the problem is to increase the machine's vocabulary. Ultimately, the Georgetown experts hope to get a machine which will scan a printed page and translate the words into any language. The project is important be cause so much of the world's scientific knowledge is printed in only three languages English, French and German. This means that scientists now must learn at least one of these three to use most of the important scientific reference material. All Automatic But with a machine such as the one being developed at Georgetown all they would have to do is feed the pages into one end of the machine and a trans lation into their own language would come out the other. The Science Foundation grant has enabled Georgetown to put 20 linguists and lexicographers to work on the project. At the end of the year they hope to 'teach the machine a 6,000- word vocabulary 3,000 com mon words and 3,000 scientific. The big problem is that words do not always mean the same thing, even in the same lan guage. In English, for example. the world "execute" can mean either "to put to death" or "to put into effect." So the machine must be taught to translate the exact meaning of the original text. It is up to the Georgetown lin guists to decide what grammati cal and linguistic rules the ma- that the newly invoked hard money policies would work a hardship on the country's small businessmen," he said. "It was simply a handout of many mil lions of dollars to money lend ers." He said the administra tion's hard money, tight credit and opposition to the public housing bill were against the wel fare of the small lumber opera tors. McKay, in a speech prepared for delivery at noon today in Eugene, warned that Nov. 6 is a day of decision when voters will determine "whether the clock should be turned back to graft and corruption, hish taxes, beg debt to a paternalistic and bureaucratic government." Take Your Choice McKay said "The outcome of the election is going to determine whether you wili have a repre sentative in Washington who is responsive to your needs and de sires, or whether you will have a man . . . who blandly tells you what he thinks is good for you, regardless of what you want to need. ihould not be encouraging to j women smokers. Most women, he said, have not been smoking as long as men have and it will take another 10 years to gauge their susceptibility to lung can cer. Shaw said some 40 per cent of the patients suffering from lung cancer are "hopelessly ill" when their symptoms are first diagnosed and 94 per cent of lung cancer victims die within five years of the time the disease is discovered. He advised persons with a family history of cancer not to smoke and added that heavy smokers over the age of 40 should have chest X-rays every six months. "But the only way to lick the problem," he said, "is to tell teen-agers not to smoke." Research Promising Although cancer researchers still do not know just what factor in tobacco causes cancer. Shaw said one of the newest ideas is that arsenic sprayed on tobacco plants and impregnated in the ground is as great a factor as tar inhaled in smoking cigarettes. Research on the correlation be tween arsenic and lung cancer is "promising." he said. If the relationship is establish ed, he said, "it would mean ideally that all the tobacco fields in North Carolina, for in stance, would have to be aban doned because the arsenic stays in the soil." Another cancer specialist. Dr. R. Lee Clark Jr., of the Univer sity of Texas, said cancer of the skin "can be caused by the ultra violet light from sunshine." He said persons with light Police Officer, Eight Others Arrested in Plywood Stock Fraud Portland !U.R) Eight men and a prominent Portland wo man were either in jail or free on bail today following a rapid fire series of arrests yesterday and Wednesday on charges of fraud or conspiracy to defraud investors in two Oregon plywood firms. The arrests on secret federal indictments reached into the up per echelons of the Oregon state police when Lt. Richard C. Wil liams, a member of the force for 25 years, was arrested at Milwaukie where he is stationed. Woman of Year 'Accused' The woman accused of conspir ing to violate mail and securities commission fraud laws was Mrs. Lee Davenport, 76, Portland's Woman of the Year in 1954 and widow of the late head of the Davenport Corporation, a realty firm.- The other seven accused after a two-year investigation by fed eral authorities were: Salem. Glenn Munkers, 65, of Salem. Edgar Robert Errion, 60, of Se attle. Frederick Alan Wright, 42, of Portland. The government charges that the nine used the mails to de fraud or conspire to defraud in vestors in Mt. Hood Hardboard and Plywood Company of Esta cada and the Beaver Plywood Cooperative of Salem. The Sec urities and Exchange Commis sion, which initiated the inves tigation, charged that they mis represented the financial status of the two firms in attempts to sell member ship certificates. . Some 650 certificates were sold at S1000 each, according to the government charges. Firms Reorganized Authorities refused to say whether the nine arrests, spread over two days completed the roundup of suspects in the case. The two playwood- firms have been reorganized with a new skin should take nature's hint as possible. ling on an ancient drug used by .tanning and protected experi- and stay out of sunshine as muchj Researchers, he said, are work-1 the Egyptians which has caused mental animals from skin cancer. James B. Carr, 67, Portland retired pensioner. ; board of directors and now oper- Dwight Holdorf, 33, Salem log- late a small mill at Estacada built ger. Archie Bones, 69, Salem, a chine must know in order to cemetery lot salesman. make an exact translation. Charles W. Williamson, 70. at a cost of about $250,000. They said that was all that was left of more than S600.000 collected by the original promoters. 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