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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