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Radiation Seen by Science Experts. as Cause of Leukemia Br DELOS SMITH I UPI Science Editor Excelsior Springs, Mo.-flJPD-Inhabitants of this present atomic age should be very -happy that science is working hard and making progress with leukemia, the utterly in curable cancer of the blood. Radiation, the inevitable ac companiment of the atomic age, causes leukemia. Of that there hardly is any doubt. The good news is that science now has a most plausible clue as to how radiation does it. . Suppose leukemia is caused by a virus.. If so, it may be a virus which sleeps harmless ly in untold, multitudes-until something happens which awakens it into death-dealing malignancy. Radiation may be a something. Proves Virus Leukemia This supposing stems from the pioneering work of Dr Ludwik Gross which has con vinced most cancer scientists, Including the most skeptical, that at least one leukemia-a leukemia of mice-is caused by a virus. Gross' proof published several years ago was as posi tive as proof can be in this difficult field. Gross told a seminar for sci ence writers, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, on the newest findings in cancer research, that a leukemia in duced in mice (of a kind which rarely produces spontaneous leukemia) by radiation with X-rays can be transmitted to other mice by injecting them with a tissue extract of the irradiated mice from which everything filterable had been filtered out. Presumably what is left are viruses since these leukemic viruses of mice go through the finest filter. One shouldn't jump to con clusions on this because Gross doesn't. Scientist that he is, he awaits the evidence coming from the experiments which will be based on this one. But on the matter of radiation be ing a cause of leukemia, the panel of leukemia experts who briefed the science writ ers, thought everyone should know the facts. Leukemia Almost Tripled Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, research director of the Sloan- Kettering Institute, New York, who served as their chairman, showed statistically that the rate for new cases of human leukemia had almost tripled in the last 50 years which saw first the bludgeon ing of x-ray and radium ir radiation and more recently the radiations arising from atomic bombs and atomic reactors. Nevertheless, leukemia still is a comparatively rare dis ease and the scientists didn't want to scare anybody. Rath er, they were concerned lest some person who needed an X-ray so a doctor could diag nose an ailment, might refuse to let it be made. That would be silly. What the scientists had in mind was to encourage everlasting vigilance in people concerned with atomic reac tors and bombs and in profes sional handlers of X-rays, and to let everyone know that this is a possible hazard of 'the atomic age. Servicemen of F EXPECTED HERE Leroy A. Knight, son Mr. ' and Mrs. Horace Knight, 452 Fairmont st., will arrive here Thursday on five-day leave from the U.S Navy. An electronics techni cian on the USS Hamuli, he has been in the Orient for the past nine months. WITH SQUADRON Edward I. Hatch, electron ics technician first class, son of Mrs. Marion L. Hawkins. route 2, box 655, Central Point, is serving with the U.S, Navy Fighter Squadron 124 at the Naval Air station, Moffett Field, Calif. Ike's 1961 Budget Said To Be Higher Washington (BPD Budget Director Maurice' H. Stans says President Eisenhower's budget for fiscal 1961 is like ly to call for $2 or $3 billion more in spending than his 1960 proposal. Stans said government costs would be forced up by "built-in uncontrollable in creases" in existing programs even if Congress voted no ad ditional spending to the Eisen hower budget for 1960. The President will send the 1961 budget to Congress next January. His narrowly-balanced 1960 budget calls for $77 billion in federal spend ing for the year starting next July 1. Despite the expected spend ing increase, Stans held out hope that Eisenhower again would be able to submit a bal anced budget next January. He predicted that an ex panding economy would push up tax revenues enough to match the predicted "built in" spending hikes. RETURNS TO U.S. Dale C. Matthews, seaman, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E Matthews, 914 Ross lane, and Bayard O. Stone, seaman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl W, Stone, 403 DeBarr ave., all Medford, recently returned to Long Beach, Calif., aboard the destroyer leader USS Wilkin son. The sailors spent a five month tour of duty in the western Pacific aboard the Navy ship. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, April 1, 1959 Installation of Off icers Slated By Elks Lodge William Ruck, a member of the teaching staff of Medford High school, will be installed Exalted ruler of the Medford lodge of Elks at ceremonies in the temple Thursday night. Other recently elected and appointed officers who will take the oath of office are Wayne Chase, esteemed lead ing knight; Murrey Dumas, esteemed loyal knight; Monte Morris, esteemed lecturing knight; R. G. Phair, secretary; E. W. Winkle, treasurer; Paul Selby, esquire; Robert Rix, as sistant esquire; George How ard, tiler; Marvin Trautman, chaplain; Lyle Perkins, inner guard; Jerry Dyrup, organist, and Don Davis, alternate dele gate. Trustees are R. O. Ste phenson, .Morris B. Leonard, L. G. Miles, Frank Hussong and Dick Woodcock. Ruck was born in Pitts burgh, Penn. After his dis charge from the armed serv ices in 1945 ' he moved to Boise, Idaho, and then to Medford three years later. He finished his education at Southern Oregon college, and the University of Oregon. He taught in Central Point and Phoenix. He has been at Med ford High three years. Interim Appointment The new exalted ruler is s past president of the Jackson County Oregon Education as sociation. ie served an in terim appointment on the ivieaiora city planning com mission and he is at present schools cordinator for the Jackson County Centennial association. Ruck has headed the Stu dent Government Day and the scholarship and leadership contest committees for Med ford lodge for the past two years. He has served on many other committees during four I 9GWBBK&mB&mrmmama'mmmmimm GSSSSSSX fs ' .at23 f""', It . '-Jf 1 m a WILLIAM RUCK New Exalted Ruler' years as an officer of the lodge. The installation will follow the annual crab feed in the lodge dining room Thursday night. Churchill Relaxes In Riviera Sun London - (DPD - Sir Winston Churchill relaxed in the Riviera sunshine today. But his wife mournfully celebrat ed her 74th birthday in the family townhouse ransacked by week end thieves. "What a pity it had to hap pen at birthday time," was the regretful comment of Lady Clementine Churchill as she surveyed the family memen tos strewn about the disorder ed rooms. Police today estimated the missing valuables-jewels and furs - at nearly $30,000. A firm of insurance assessors of fered a 82,500 reward for re covery of the Churchill treas ures. A police guard normally stationed at the Churchill home when the family is in residence had been withdrawn over the Easter holidays. The theft was discovered early Tuesday. Everything for your home furniture end decorator accessories newest gadgets and housewares GRADUATES William L. Evans, seaman apprentice, in the U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Evans,-1425 Lawnridge st., was recently graduated from indoctrination training at the Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif. 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