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
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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
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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."
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Clear Relationship
To 'Body Images1
Revealed in Tests
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York -(UPD- Further
scientific progress in unrav
eling the screwy complexi
ties of human beings has
shown a clear relationship be
tween the "body image" of
themselves which they all
carry' around unconsciously in
their minds and the side of
their bodies on which their
response to mental stimula
tion is the stronger.
To some this "body image"
idea always sounds implaus
ible but science knows for
sure we each harbor an "im
age" of our own body which
usually does not agree with
our actual body as others see
it. 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.
Economists writing in" the
department's publication "The
1959 Agricultural Finance
Outlook" said this improved
credit and financial position
is the result of higher income
farmers received in 1958, the
further rise in farm real
estate values and the larger
inventories of crops, machin
ery and livestock which farm
ers will have at the beginning
of 1959.
The estimated value of farm
real assets for Jan. 1 com
pares with $186,700,000,000
on Jan. 1, 1958.
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