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
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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.
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Diego, Calif.
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class of his recruit camp com
pany during his training. The
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qualities.
ABOARD DESTROYER
Buddy G. Mires, seaman,
son of Mrs. Lawrence Vielbig,
Phoenix, is serving aboard the
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ating with the U.S. Seventh
Fleet in the western Pacific.'
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