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cience Authorities Can Cause. Cancer Editor's note: Where science stands in its efforts to conquer ranrer is being laid out in deDtb in Excelsior Springs, Mo., by the top cancer scientists. It will be a seven-day briefing, covering the seven major divisions of cancer 'research. Following is the first dispatch of Delos Smith, I'PI sci ence editor, who is one of those being briefed. By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Edilor Excelsior Springs, Mo.-UP&-On the question of whether viruses cause cance-r in hu man beings, the scientific answer is, yes. On the ques tion of whether science will be able to do something about it, the answer is again, yes, but it's going to take a long time. These answers reflect the convictions and confidence of top virus authorities assem .bled here by the American Cancer Society to make prog ress reports on their side of the many-sided campaign of science to lick the disease which is the No. 2 killer of people. Experts on the other sides are here to report their prog ress, to a group of science writers. One phase will be re ported "in depth" daily for seven days, and when all the reports are in, the public will have an up-to-the-the-minute account of where the big cam paign now stands. Obviously viruses do not cause cancers in human be ings the way viruses inflict them with the common cold. If they did there would be no human race. Actions Are Complicated Cancer-causing viruses have to act in extremely complicat ed and well-hidden ways. Otherwise science would know at least as much about the viruses as it does about the viruses which cause polio, for instance. Dr. Joseph W. Beard of Duke University, Durham, N.C., and Dr. Seymour Cohen, of the University of Pennsyl vania, Philadelphia, made these complications and con cealments dramatically fasci nating in describing the tak-ing-apart of individual cells that were so delicate as to be almost incredible. Beard did it by slicing the cells so thin he got about 300 slices per cell. The slices were then subjected to the high magnifications of the electron microscope. Cohen did it by breaking down the chemical reactions of a cell to a virus and of a virus to a cell into exceedingly fine detail. Neither worked with hu man cancer cells since no one has ever made a positive iden tification of a causative virus for human cancer. Science's conviction that there are such viruses is based upon there being more than 50 viruses which definitely cause can cers in frogs, chickens, rab bits, squirrels or mice. Beard, however, observed particles in tissue cultures of human leukemia cells which he thought could be virus par ticles but the identification was anything but certain. Other scientists on the same panel minimized the possibil ity that the particles were of a viral nature. They empha sized that viruses had never yet been found in human body cells. Work In Harmony Why should human body chemistry be exempt from such viral invasion? It would not be natural if it were. Beard sliced up the body cells of chickens which con tained viruses that had caused those cells to become malig nant. Cohen got inside the ' TIRED OF BEING TIRED? Bexel Special Formula Vitamin Insurance Nourishes Blood for Better Health is undernourished blood due to iron deficiency causing your fatigue? Are you sure there are enough vitamins, and iron in your diet to insure rich, red blood? Bexel Special Formula is rich in blood building iron guaran tees the vitamin insurance you need for better health! Real Blood Buildini Supple ment! Bexel Special Formula con tains 5 times daily iron requirements plus reluable vitamin B12 and other B vitamins. A special boon for women with recurring fatigue from under nourished blood due to iron defi ciency. Costs only 6 a day. If yemr tmiilt is fwxtiKzli mttmt wit ttier eases, see JOB deeUr. 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It divided into new cells more rapidly and the more rapidly it divided (up to 'Pause for Springtime' Claimed Hollow Drooper, A Dally and Dawdle Hour By WILLIAM EWALD UPI Correspondent New York (UPD "America Pauses For Springtime," a special unspooled by CBS-TV Monday night, was a flat and hollow fe? rlrnnnpr a dal- ly and dawdle hour without substance or much point. Its format was an un- iiLJ blushing William EwaU swipe of NBC TV's old Wide Wide World series, but the curious thing about the CBS-TV hour was that it might just as well have been shot in a studio. Through the use of tape and film, the show kangarooed to such stops as San Francisco, Hollywood, Augusta, Ga., West Point, N.Y., Colorado's Garden of the Gods and Loui siana's bayou country, but it never really scooped up the flavor of any of these areas. Used as Backdrops. All of these point were merely used as backdrops for a snatch of song, a snippet of dance, a smidgin of chatter, none of it with much core or import. Genevieve, poised against a Louisiana tree, might just as well have been singing from a stage. Ditto Robert Merrill, badly lip synching on a Manhattan ferry, and Bobby Jones .talk ing about nothing in particu lar from a swatch of sterile greenery at-the Augusta Na tional Golf Club. dalle YHlllcni ipuuitu aimc . i . : l awiUl gusn in reveiemiai tones while a film was being run off and she somehow man aged to make some Emily Dickinson lines sound flabby. Another sequence from Broad way's "Flower Drum Song" convinced me I'm never want to see it. Fairly Successful From all this I except a couple of moments. Marge and Gower Champion appeared in a section from San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and while they seemed to be more con cerned with moving than dancing, the piece had some elan. Fairly successful, too, was a filmed bit from Coesse, Ind., that centered around a general store and Herb Shri ner. The talk sounded suspi ciously rehearsed, but it did Tug Under Tow Sunk by Wave Newport, Ore.-(l?D-A giant wave hit and sank the crip pled tug "Kumalong" Monday night as it was being towed into Yaquina bay by a 52 foot Coast Guard vessel. The three crewmen had been tak en off earlier. The Coast Guard had put a tow line on the 70-foot vessel after it developed leaks in rough sea earlier in the day. Attempts to pass pumping equipment to the tug from the Coats Guard vessel failed. The crewmen were Skipper Tom Evans, 43, Seattle; Clif ford W. Hinkley, 50, Port An geles, and R. W. Careis, 41, Seattle. The tug was en route from Seattle to San Francisco. It was valued at S20,000 and owned by Charles Palmer of North Ridge, Calif. The tow lines broke several times as the tug was being towed to the bay, the last time just as it was crossing the bar in rough sea: Shortly after that a wave estimated at 30-35 feet smashed into the side of the tug, caving it in. It sank with in a minute. A spokesman for the Coast Guard said the vessel could not be salvaged. TO RECEIVE NEGROES Vatican City - (CPB - Pope John XXIII will receive more than 200 Negroes from 33 na tions in a special audience Wednesday morning, Vatican sources said today. The Ne groes are. attending a con gress in Rome on Negro cul ture, which ends today. Believe In Human a certain point) the more new cancer-causing viruses were produced. In this connection, the com mon and well-known viruses, such as polio and influenza viruses, kill the cells which they invade. Beard showed that'this chicken virus by en slaving the cell rather than killing it, caused a "complex af diseases," rather than one relatively simple cancer. Not all were malignant, but those which were included two types of leukemia, or blood cancer. It demonstrated there are varieties of ways viruses can cause cancer (in chickens). have a kind of hickory charm and it was pleasant to catch some real people in the squash of greasepainted performers. The sponsor of the hour a soft drink company fore swore the usual set commer cials and substituted in their stead bottles of the product in several of the sequences. Among the people who sud denly developed a craving for the stuff during the evening were. Shriner, a ferry boat captain and a golfer. Franlrly, it struck me as a sneaky at tempt to infiltrate me and I would have preferred ordi nary commercials at least I can tune those out in my head. Playhouse Good CBS-TV Desilu Playhouse offered a surprisingly good Western Monday night m "The Hard Road," a drama about a bounty hunter and his quarry. Barry Sullivan, Joseph Larch and Patricia Barry turned in able performances. But it was Cliff Robertson as the prey who really snapped the whole hour alive he is a superb young actor and it's a pleasure to watch him work. Governor Sees Windup May 1 Portland - (UPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield says adjournment of the current legislative session may come around May 1. Hatfield was questioned by a friendly panel at the Port land Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday and touched on a variety of topics. He said he couldn't predict when the legislature would adjourn or what the budget would be but that he believed adjournment would be closer to May 1 than April 15. Some Democratic leaders have talk ed of an April 18 adjourn ment target. Hatfield said he hoped the legislature would find a solu tion to the tax problem and that if it doesn't a special ses sion may become necessary. He said a net receipt tax has an advantage over a sales tax because it is a tax based on ability to pay that "starts on the first dollar earned" and thus broadens the tax base. Hatfield also said he had confidence in the Centennial commission, that he believed the Carpenters dispute would be settled by "democratic vote of the membership" and that he favors appointment instead of election of the at torney general. Concessionaires Say Taxes High Klamath Falls Harry Smith and his son, Harry Jr., concessionaires at Crater Lake National park, complained to the Klamath county court last week that taxes are too high on the lodge they oper ate at the Lake's rim. The Smiths maintain that a 5370,000 cash value on the lodge and adjacent buildings is too large and that some con sideration should be given because the lodge operates only during , t h e summer months. They said the assessment for many years was S25.310 on which they paid $534 an nual county taxes. Last year, they said, the county board of equalisation raised the as sessed valuation to 870,000 on which taxes were SI, 659. The figures, they said, do not include school taxes from which the corporation is ex empt. County Assessor Hap Cald well said the high figure last year was set partly to com pensate for the too low figure the previous year. He noted that te property has been re cently appraised by his staff and an approximate value of 5320,000 reached. ECONOMIST DIES Paris-ffiPD-Andre Siegfried, 83, a noted French political critic and economist, and a well known author on the Americas, died Sunday. Varus Beings Beard said he studied these chicken cells because they happened to be the easiest. Parasites of Bacteria "Don't think there is no re lations to mammals," he said. Cohen's viruses are not cancer-causing. Their value for an ultimate understand ing of virus-caused cancer is that they are parasites of a bacteria which can be studied in close detail for the chemi cal secrets of "a viral system." The most astonishing secret he uncovered was that the virus and the bacterial cell get together chemically so as to manufacture seven kinds of proteins which hadn't been present before and a type of nucleic acid which so far as science now knows, is utterly unique in nature. This latter is a discovery comparable to the discovery of a new planet, but since it is chemical rather than physi cal it won't cause as much ex citment. Nucleic acids and proteins are "building blocks" in the chemistry of life and the combinations possible from seven new proteins and one unique nucleic acid runs into the hundreds of thou sands. Servicemen COMPLETES COURSE Army Pvt. Eugene L. Ed wards, son of Gerald H. Ed wards, 1541 Oregon ave., re cently completed the eight week general supply course at Fort Ord, Calif. , A graduate of Eagle Point high school, Edwards joined the Army last October. INFORMATION SCHOOL Ashland Army Pvt. John E. Converse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin E. Converse, 110 Van Ness ave., recently was graduated from the Informa tion School at Fort Slocum, N. Y. A graduate of Southern Oregon college where he is a member of Lambda Iota Tau and Alpha Psi Omega fraternities, Converse enter ed the service in July, 1958. The service school, attend ed by members of all the armed services, includes train ing in public and troop infor mation, news writing, press photograph and radio-television scriptwriting and broad casting techniques. ABOARD CARRIER Three area men are serv ing with the U.S. Navy aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Oriskany which was re commissioned earlier this month at Hunters Point Nav al shipyard, San Francisco. The men are David L. Wright, boilerman third class, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Wright, route 2, box 186x; Thomas J. Wray, airman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wray, route 2, box 668K, all Cen tral Point, and Wayne S. Cly mer, radioman third class, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Clyman, 411 South C st., Eagle Point. . Police Investigate Dumping Report Medford police yesterday investigated a complaint that that a construction company was dumping trash and old machinery on Pepper st., a dedicated but unimproved city street northeast of the Big Y. Police reported that the property on both sides of Pepper st. is owned by Mar shall Bessonette, but that the exact location of the street right of way was uncertain. A city crew is to survey the right of way as soon as possible, according to the re port. The complaint was re ceived from Hazel Inge, 1978 Table Rock rd. ITALIAN POET DIES Viareggio, Italy-UPfl-Italian poet Elpido .Jenco, 60, died here Monday. For a guy that's really on trie square, my Boss sure cuts some awfully crooked shapes! (When diecutting labels, etc.) Y'see he is an expert on diecutting; pa per, cardboard, plastic, leather or felt. He's got scads of stock dies on hand, too, that will save you money on such jobs. Labels, tags, booklets, dance programs, menus, small signs; all have that 'Tailor-made' look, when cut to special shapes. Embos sing names or designs on covers, etc., give them that regal look, as does deckel-edging. We use all these processes. THE, JfelH TIMER: Bids Opened for Work in Medford Tru-Mix Concrete company, Medford, is apparent low bid der for paving East Jackson st. between Bear creek and Genessee st., according to Medford public works depart ment records. Rogue River Paving com pany, Medford, is apparent low bidder for paving Colum bus ave. between West Jack son st. and McAndrews rd., the records show. Petrehn and Purdy company, Central Point, is apparent low bidder for installing curbs and gut ters along this stretch. The city council is sched uled to consider awarding con tracts for these projects at its meeting Thursday evening. Bids were opened last Friday. The Tru-Mix bid is S25, 254.85, compared to an engi neer's estimate of S24,876.60. Other bidders, all from Med ford, include M. C. Lininger and Sons, $26,871.75, F. L. Somers, S29.966, and T. R. Florey, 530,018.25. Rogue River Paving's bid is $3,465 against an engineer's estimate of $3,960. Florey and Somers also bid on this proj ect, at $3,960 and $5,775 re spectively. Petrehn and Purdy's bid of $2,603 was $100 below the en gineer's estimate of $2,703. Somers, the only bidder, sub mitted a figure of 52,940. Danish Gym Team To Be at Hedrick The troupe of 28 young Danes scheduled to appear at Hedrick Junior High school tomorrow night will present both gymnastic feats and folk dances. Their object, it is reported, is "to present the ultimate in Danish physical education to the people of America." They are said to present the "abso lutely finest in Danish gym nastics." Gymnastics, a sport not so familiar to Medford, is taught in all Danish schools where it has developed from a tradi tion in Scandinavian coun tries. Danes often join gymnastics ciubs after being graduated from school, and the sport is among the country's most pop ular during the winter months. The program tomorrow night, expected to last two to two and a half hours, will in clude fundamental gymnas tics, advanced gymnastics, tumbling, apparatus work, courtesy dances and folk dances. ' The troupe, while endorsed by the Danish government, gains its financial support from private initiative. The tour, the third of its kind in this country, is a non-profit venture. Tickets are on sale today and tomorrow at a booth at Main st. and Central ave. and at Hudson's pharmacy and Purucker's music store. The program, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. tomorrow, is spon sored here by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce. JIMMY FIDLER DIVORCED Burbank, Calif .-(UPI)- Holly wood radio commentator Jim my Fidler and his 35-year-old wife, who were divorced Mon day, still are living together in their home here. The cou ple agreed to continue living in the same home until other arrangements could be made. TOURIST FIGURE Rome (UPD An estimated 100,000 tourists and pilgrims came to Rome and Vatican City during the Easter Holy Week, officials said today. A spokesman for the Rome Tou rist Bureau said the number was about 10 per cent higher than in 1958. How to Get more from your Airline ticket to EUROPE For full details, call or visit George Lewis ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickers PHONE SPJ-677 111 E. 8th Catholic School Enrollment Reaches High of 4,892,261 Washington - (UPD - Enroll ment in U.S. Catholic schools has climbed to a record high of 4,892,261 students, it has been announced. A nationwide survey by the education department of the National Catholic Welfare conference showed an in crease of 616,409 in Catholic grade and high schools since the last such count two years ago. y The total includes 4,101,792 students in 10,195 Catholic grade schools. This is nearly double the 1945 enrollment. 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