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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1957
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Cancer, Claiming 250,000 Yearly,
Slowly Giving Way To Scientists
Editor'! note: The "five rreat kill
er." the diseases that account for the
greatest mortalitv rate among adult
Americans, are heart disease, cancer,
cerebral hemorrhage, pneumonia
Influenze and diabetes.
The United Press asked five out
standing authorities in those fields to
write a simplified account of the
causes, svmptoms. treatment, preven
tion and possibility of conquering the
"tller."
BL W. KENNETH CLARK. M.D.
Acting Medical & Scientific
Director American Cancer
Society Written for United Press
Q.
A.
CANCER
Q. How Great a Killer is Cancer?
A. Cancer is our second greatest
killer but it's still the crue
lest. Last year it destroyed
250,000 lives. By 1958 it will
strike in two of every three
American homes. Death rates
have been levelling, even fal
ling off with the exception of
lung cancer, which killed 24,
500 men, 4,500 women, last
year.
What Causes Cancer?
Cancer is a disease character
ized by uncontrolled growth
and spread of cells. If we
knew why these cells rebell
ed against the rules of nor
mal growth it could be cured.
We do know a few of the
causations: certain coal tar
products that are blamed for
cancer of the skin, of the
lung. But the great underly
ing WHY has so far been de
nied us. But our thousands of
research scientists are daily
creeping closer and closer to
that "WHY."
Q. What Are the Outstanding
Symptoms?
A. The ACS has evolved seven
danger signals for the detec
tion of cancer:
1. Unusual bleeding or dis
charge; 2. A lump or
or thickening in the
breast or elsewhere; 3.
A sore that does not
heal; 4. Presistent change
in bowel or bladder
habits; 5. Persist ent
hoarseness or cough; 6.
Persistent indigestion or
difficulty in swallowing;
7. Change in a wart or
mole.
Q. How Can Cancer Be
Prevented?
A. It can be prevented to a cer
tain extent by removal of
potentially cancerous lesions
and by removing workers
from exposure to known
carcinogenic agents present
in certain industries. Regular
physical checkup will do
much to prev e,n t cancer
taking your life. The Pap
Smear is a fine example of
this: At the beginning of the
American Gynecological Soc
iety gloomily announced that
uterine cancer was almost al
ways fatal. Today as result
of such cases are being saved,
a great many of them through
the use of the Pap Smear,
simple examination which
takes just a few minutes, re
veals cancerous cells in the
pre-invasive stage before
they've even begun to grow
or spread.
Q. How Can It Be Most
Effectively Treated?
A. Only by radiation or by sur
gery can cancer be cured. The
ACS chemotherapy program
fills us with hope because,
with the use of chemicals,
as in the case of leukemia,
lives are being prolonged for
months, even years. But
radiation and surgery remain
the bulwarks against cancer.
Q. What Progress Has Been
Mads in Curing Cancer?
A. In the last few years cancer
has changed from a disease
of despair to a disease of
hope. Today o n e of every
three victims is being saved.
Just a couple of years ago
the figure was one in four.
There are 800,000 Americans
now living who have been
saved from cancer. Even a
decade ago this figure would
have seemed completely im
probable of attainment; the
first successful lung cancer
operation didn't occur until
1938.
Can Cancer Ever Be Conquered?
A. The eventual conquest of can
cer comes closer by the min
ute. Techniques in surgery
are steadily improving, per
mitting more successful oper
ations. Radiation, with the
development of isotopes and
high voltage machines such as
the betatron and cyclotron,
is becoming more and more
effective as the cancer-destroying
rays are shot deeper
into the body to destroy can
cers that were formerly be
yond our reach. In the fields
of chemotherapy and virol
ogy great advances are be
. ing made. So far no chemical
will cure cancer. But the effi
ciency of several compounds
GOP Names Public
Relations Consultant
Washington (U.R) Mrs. Ruth
Cowan Nash, former newspaper
woman and wife of Deputy Un
dersecretary of Commerce Brad
ley Nash, today was named pub
lic relations consultant to the Re
publican National Committee.
Mrs. Nash, a reporter for 27
years with the Associated Press,
will replace Mrs. Anne Wheaton
who has been named White
House associate press secretary.
A native of Salt Lake City,
Mrs. Nash was a war correspond
ent during World War II and is
a former president of the Wom
en's National Press Club. She
left the AP when she married
Nash last year.
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is fast improving. Men who
work in those fields say that
in a few years they will have
Ohio Traffic Deaths
Reduced During 1956
Columbus, O. (U.R) Ohio
reported 2,013 persons killed in
traffic injuries in 1956, a 3 per
cent reduction in the number of
fatalities for the previous year.
But fatalities in. six Ohio coun
ties exceeded those in any one of
Typical American Said
Paying Out One-Third
Of Income for Taxes
new easier cures f or caneer. ! 24 states in 1955.
Western Bankers Woo New
Customers by Dressing Up
Standard Checking Service
San Francisco (U.R) Western profitable to the bank.
bankers are wooing new custom
ers by dressing up the old stand
ard checking services in a new
glamour garb.
Some are trying to attract the
ladies by offering them their
choice of check books in six
pastel colors. Others will im
print your name and address on
the checks for free. And, wonder
of wonders, there's one San Fran
cisco bank that makes no serv
ice charge on checking accounts
whatsoever. But that's due to
an old English banking custom.
Bankers 'admit there isn't
much profit in the check servic
ing end of the business. But they
figure that if they once get a new
customer of a streamlined check
ing service chances are excellent
that he will eventually make use
of other services that are more
First Western Bank & Trust
Co. has begun an aggressive cam
paign for new checking account
customers. In addition to being
the first bank in the San Fran
cisco Bay Area to offer free per
sonalized checks, it is promoting
a "forget-proof" method of sav
ing.
This involves authorizing the
bank to transfer automatically a
certain amount from the check
ing account to savings account
each month.
Honors for rock bottom check
charges, however, go to the Hong
Kong & Shanghai Banking Cor
poration in San Francisco, a Cal
ifornia state bank and agency
of the parent bank incorporated
in 'Hong Kong.
A spokesman said its policy of
making no charge, nor requir-
New York (U.R) The average
American is paying out one
third of his income in taxes.
He probably has not calculated
or realized this because so many
of the taxes are hidden. They
are including in the cost of
things he buys.
The Tax Foundation has figur
ed that this will be the true load
in federal, state and local taxes
direct and hidden for these
averag-bracket wage-earners in
1957:
Income Percent Increase
Total Taxes Of Income Over 1956
S3.5C0 $1,059 30 $28
$4,500 S1.393 31 S35
$8,000 $2,726 34 $46
Individuals Pay All
The foundation said that
while most Americans squawk
about taxes, "they would probab
ly yell even louder if they real
ized that the only source of taxes
is people and the individual tax-
HORSE MEAT RISE
Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) M. N.
Gammon has been selling meat
for the city's zoo animals for
45 years. In 1905, Gammon said
horse meat sold for five cents
per 100 pounds. Now the price
is $13 to $15 per 100.
Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Re
search at the University of Cali
fornia indicates that bone mar
row in rats increases production
of red blood cells upon exposure
to whole body radiation.
ing a minumum balance, is in
line with an old British banking
policy resulting from a govern
ment tax of several cents per
check.
payer is really paying much
more for government than he
thinks he is."
The foundation pointed out
that "every red cent that gov
ernment spends must come from
the taxpayer."
The fact of the matter is that
corporations do not pay taxes
they collect them.
The big federal tax bite,
amounting to 52 per cent of cor
porate earnings, is passed along
in the form of higher prices, be
cause no company could afford
to absorb those taxes and stay
in business.
The result, according to the
foundation, is that you and you
alone pay taxes.
There are 100 taxes in the
price of an egg, 116 in a man's
suit, 151 in a loft of bread, 600
in the cost of a house.
Taxes Passed On
In addition to federal income
and Social Security taxes, some
31 states have income tax laws
and some 33 have retail sales
taxes of from one to 3Vfc cents
on each dollar of goods and serv
ices purchased. Most of these
sales tax laws require that the
taxes be passed on to consum
ers.
The U.S. Chamber of Com
merce says the average taxpayer
didn't start earning any mony
for himself until Feb. 1. He
worked through January for
Uncle Sam.
the chamber said the average
taxpayer the $5,000-a-year man
with a wife and two children
spends 22 working days earning
enough money to pay off his in
come taxes alone.
Thieves Invade Hives;
Bees Starve To Death
Goshen, Ind. ftl.R) Thieves
invaded the bee hives of Paul
Christophel during the winter
and stole 50 pounds of honey
that the bees needed for food to
tide them over until spring. The
bees starved to death.
The time of William P. Odom's
flight of 19.645 miles around the
world in 1947 was 75 hours, 5 i
minutes, 11 seconds.
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