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Medford Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Evidence Said To Show Polluted Air (Doufld Be (Blamed for Lung Cancer Washington -4UPD- The chief of the U.S. Public Health Service said Tuesday there is growing "circumstantial evi dence" that polluted air is a cause of lung cancer. Dr. Leroy E. Burney, the surgeon general, told a nation al conference on air pollution that dirty air also produces higher death rates for a num ber of diseases. . "We knoW that lung cancer death rates in the largest cities are twice as high as those in non-urban areas," he said. "The case has not yet been proved, but the weight of cir cumstantial evidence grows heavier as research progress es Burney called on the na tionwide conference of scien tific experts and civic leaders to explore ways of reducing air pollution. He warned that it would "invite disaster" or cause un necessary long suffering to wait for absolute proof of a re lationship between air pollu tion and lung cancer. "Controlling air pollution will cost big money, but it is an essential investment," he said. Burney said cancer - produc ing agents "are in the air we Greeting Cards by Hallmark Gibson Norcross for Thanksgiving e . Christmas Birthdays Anniversaries Get and Dozens of Others Well Choose Your NAME IMPRINTED CHRISTMAS CARDS NOW It's Later Than You Think! fVyrgllBOOKS'GTFTSREORDSl A CHARGE PLATE STORE breath" and cancers can be produced in animals by using concentrates of city smokes. He said studies show that cities with heaviest pollution loads also "tend to rank high in death rates for a number of diseases." Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, As sistant Dean of Ohio State University School of Medicine, said air pollution is as much to blame as cigarettes for in creasing lung cancer. Polar Caps May Melt Leake, representing the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said also that increasing air pollu tion will make the earth hot ter and might even slowly melt the polar ice caps. There is, Leake said,, a "tre mendous increase in the blan ket of carbon dioxide we are throwing above us, which will inevitably tend to increase heat captured from the sun." "What will we do if this occurs with gradual melting of the huge polar ice caps, and the gradual rise of our oceans, drowning out still further our shorelines?" he asked. The three - day meeting was called by Burney to get views of scientists and civic leaders on how to prevent contamina tion of the air we breathe. Absorb Gas With Trees Leake suggested the carbon dioxide "blanket" might be re duced by extensive planting of trees and other green things which absorb the gas along city .streets. "Maybe 10 trees planted for every automobile with 100 for every truck would help," he said. Leake said about half of air pollution is traceable to auto mobile exhausts. "The increasing incidence of lung cancer is quite as re ferable to increased city auto traffic exhaust as to ciga rettes," he declared. He suggested that auto and truck manufacturers "turn from the foolishness of fins, from silly style whims, from oversized models and from too much horse power to the es sential but tough job of con trolling exhausts." Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R Calif.), a self-styled "recently escaped smog refugee," said he plans to introduce legisla tion in Congress next year to extend and possibly broaden the Federal Air Pollution Con trol Program'. The program, calling for federal studies and research on causes and control of air pollution, now is due to expire July 1, 1960 . 'Chinese Wall Kuchel said unchecked con tinuation of air contamination "undeniably and eventually will halt the growth and prog ress of any community as surely as a Chinese wall" around it. He said cities may have to fight smog with "air zoning" laws for industries and autos. pr. Herman E. Hilleboe, New York State Health Com missioner, called for a "crash" recruitment and training pro gram in air pollution control by the U.S. Public Health Service. He said a "massive effort" is needed to get states and communities started on effective air pollution control programs. Retired Army Gen. John E, Hull, president 6f the Manu facturing Chemists Associa tion, said scientific ihvestiga- ton "offers probably the best hope for sensible and effective control of air pollution." He pledged that the chemi cal industry, which now spends about $250 million an nually to curb or avoid air pollution, "will continue to be one of the leading partners" in solving the problam. The conference, first nation wide meeting of its kind, has a two-fold purpose: 1. To awaken public interest in the problem Of air pollution STARING STEADILY at lion for 90 minutes until help arrived and it could be returned to cage, Liborio Ronsisvalle saved life of infant which lay on floor of kitchen in home at Vighizzolo, Italy, only foot or two from savage beast Ronsisvalle tracked lion, which had broken out of cage, to home where it was captured by" its trainer. Dormitory Plans At MacLaren Approved Salem (UPD The State Board of Control today ap proved final plans for four dormitories at MacLaren School for Boys near Wood burn and voted to put the $515,000 project out for bid. which costs the public an esti mated $1,500,000,000 to $4; billion a year not counting any damage to health. 2. To develop a 10-year plan to' cope with air pollution, which Burney calls "an un wanted by - product of prog ress." About 1,000 persons were expected to participate in the discussions. Malcolm C. Hope, PHS en gineer and conference secre tary, said industry "has been doing a fairly adequate job in facing up to the air pollution problem." Kuchel's speech was de livered to the conference by an aide. Kuchel is in Paris as a U.S. delegate to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Interparliamentary Confer ence. He said the job of policing air polluters must be handled by state and local govern ments. He said "air zoning" would "make certain that in dustrial expansion, vital and welcome as it may be, is so directed as to take advantage of prevailing winds or fea tures of terrain in reducing potential air pollution." Steel drums ... symphony orchestras ... rock 'n roll . . . you hear them with magical realism on your new Colum bia phonograph! Am- 'J ZOStti v $199.95 Model 672 The most moderately priced of fine stereo phonic consoles! A model of modern simplicity, it features Colombia's Bal anced Listening t control. Three speak ers, eight watt maxi mum dual amplifier output. 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Everyone knows fat peo ple who think of themselves as athletically proportioned and plain women who act as though they were reigning beauty queens. And some sections of any one's body will be more "re active" than others. Physi cians know that from hypo chrondriacs who "t hU n k" themselves into feeling ill and into feeling definite pain al- Elderly People 4 Credited for Vote Eugene i-(DPD- An unusually large number of elderly per son apparently turned out at the polls in Oregon Nov. 4, the League of Oregon Cities was told Tuesday. Dr. Wesley G. Nicholson, chairman of the Oregon Coun cil on Aging, said any unus lally large conservative vote may well reflect the attitude of the elderly. He said that the vast majority of this group had very little to live on and that there was a direct rela tionship between their con tentment and the extent that a community can progress. "They have defeated many measures in the past" and can continue to do so, he said. He said that' since 1900 the population of the United States has doubled but in the same period the 45 to 65 year group had trebled and the number of persons over 65 had quadrupled. Dr. Nicholson said the city officials must start preparing to serve these people better with the help of social cen ters and planned recreational activities. Former Miss USA Marries Dancer Las Vegas, Nev.-flJPD-Show- girl Leona Gage, 22, the Maryland beauty who was disqualified as Miss U.S.A. in the 1957 Miss Universe pag eant when it was learned she was married, Monday wed her third husband, dancer Nick Covacevich, 22., The shapely brunette and Covacevich expected to re-' turn to work tonight at the Moulin Rouge night club in Hollywood where they met about six weeks ago. They were married in a double ring ceremony at the Little Church of the West. though they're sound as a dol lar. These hypochrondriacs show preference as to body sections they like one sec tion for pain better than oth ers. Theory Has Reality For experimental simplifi cation Dr. Seymour Fisher of Baylor University, Waco, Tex as, split the body down the middle into left and right halves, theoretically, of course. But this theory has reality. Most people prefer their right halves to their left, since they are right handed. Very few show im partiality by being ambidex trous. Fisher fixed it so that the individual unconscious body images of 46 men and women couldn't possibly agree with reality. He did that by put ting spectacles on them which caused what they saw through the left eye to be different in size and shape than what they saw through the right eye. He then had them put then left and right hands together and to say, after a good look, whether the . fingers of one hand were larger than those of the other and if so which hand had the largest fingers. .All fingers of both hands were hooked up by electrodes to instruments which record ed the intensity of the elec tric current of the skin. This current is in the, skin of all of us and its intensity can be increased or lessened by emotion (the workings of the mind, if you please) alone. Measurement Necessary Because of the spectacles, no accurate judgements were possible, and anyway the left and right fingers of the sub jects were all practically of the same sizes. What actual differences existed were de tectable only through a meas uring instrument. But the emotional power of a deliberate insult to uncon scious body image increased the intensity of the electric current in lie left fingers of the subjects who were strong ly right-handed, whereas in the subjects with no marked handiness," the ambidex trous, current intensity re mained the same in both hands. In a report on his experi ments to the American Psy chological Association, Fisher suggested that his techniques could be refined into a pre cision tool with which to find out more about how the mind influences the body, which is what is meant by "psycho somatics" and about which relatively little is known. Portland (UPD Dick Kohn- stamm, vice-chairman of the Olympic village advisory com mittee for the 1960 winter games at Squaw Valley, Calif., has resigned. Farm Assets To Reach $200 Billion Washington-fUPD-The Agri culture Department predicted today the total value of U.S. farm assets will reach $200 billion by Jan. 1, up 7.1 per cent from a year earlier. 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