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Common Shrub Said To Produce Lead In Cancer Research Chicago - (UPD - Three can cer research groups declare that a common, decorative garden shrub, the periwinkle, has produced a "new lead" in cancer research. The groups, headed by M. E. Hodes, Indiana university; Roy Hwrtz, National Cancer Institute and Gordon H. Svo boda, Lilly Laboratories, made the report at the annual meeting of the American As sociation for Cancer Research. In Class of Chemicals The scientists said materials from the plant exhibit "en couraging anti-cancer activity In man and animals." The activity was found in a class of chemicals never be fore tried in cancer clinics, the report said. One of these is a new alkaloid of peri winkle known as vincaleuko blastine, or commonly refer red to as VLB. 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The scientists said the new class of experimental anti cancer agents was of "unusual interest to scientists because anti-cancer chemicals of plant origin are rare in medicine." "The periwinkle discoveries are likely to stimulate much wider investigation of plants for anti-cancer activity," the scientists said. Man Arrested for False Bomb Report Indianapolis - WPfl - Water man F. Brown Jr., 24, a Ben dix Aviation Corp. represent ative, was arrested here on charges of making a false bomb report aboard a Lake Central Airlines DC3 en route to South Bend Monday night. - ' I forest Tillamook I Natural Cheddar Cheese AGES Available In Many Fatkagti THE TOY HOUSE BRINGS YOU wjJg N.gs NOW l a "j if oo "mxu; GYMDANDY the TOY Section B MedfordWribune MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL Airplane Bombings Said Threat To Air Travel Insurance Firms By LEROY POPE New York - (UPD - The freak pattern of airline accidents in recent months, including bombings and suspected bomb ings, is a dangerous threat to a business that can hi afford it, according to a leading in surance executive. For, actrrding to William Churchiil, manager cf the Travel Accdcnt Department of ASo;'ia:ed Aviation Under writers, the sale of 25-cent trip insurance policies still is a small business with a low profit margin. "Moreover, we can grow only as fast as the air travel business grows - at present about 11 per cent a year," Churchill said. "We don't pub lish definite figures of our volume but I suspect the three groups in the field, ourselves Continental Casualty of Chi cago and Mutual of Omaha, may not exceed combined a I I I I 1 I I i 1 t C. iralcd 1 illamook 2 C biscuit mix ll X C. milk t C. crushed, undraincd pineapple 1 C mashed banana Add Tillamook to biscuit mix. B S5r in oiner innreaienit only tin as mixed. Fill itreaied muthn tint i. a most full. Bake at 42" abl, 20 lin. Makes 12 mad. muffins. ! J m mtm wa mm m m s i rt mm m 1MB KM IN DISH-of-tht-MONTH 4 ... - -M aa-f at . rarer- Mm T SLIDE GLIDER THREE SWINGS RINGS AND BAR Free Delivery in Medford MANY OTHER STYLES AND ITEMS Reg. io.tj .. s now w HOUSE 7,W& i premiums of $10 -million' a year from the 25-eent unit policies and the 60-cents pef $1,000 annual policies. So one big loss caused by a bombing or a freak accident can be a serious blow." Interrupted by War I Started back in 1938 by Churchill's group, the sale of air trip policies was inter rupted by the war and didn't start growing until machine sales began in 1946. The introduction of counter sales at big airports has boomed the business a little more "but every airport ter minal in the country big enough to support an insur ance counter now has one," Churchill added. Air travel trip insurance was a development of the train trip insurance by which the Travelers Insurance Co. and the Hartford Insurance Co. have d o n e a small but profitable business for years. Some companies also write trip insurance for scheduled bus lines. However, it is not possible to get cheap trip in surance for traveling in your own car. That still must be bought on a term basis at a substantial premium. The wave of suspected air line bombings to collect in surance aid the few proven cases have a grim parallel in the b'story of life insurance. One of the big obstacles life insurance promoters had to overcome in the early 1 9th century was a rash of mur ders of children by their par ents and guardians ir collect insurar.tt cn them. In those days, most parents expected to lose one or more children by disease anyway, and, shock ing as it may seem to our gen SMI 00 now 29 Mm- Pages 1-6 13, 1960 eration, many people took the deaths matter-of-factly. Much Broader Lost Paying off the 25 cent unit policies - S6.250 In Insurance for each 25 cents premium -actually can be the smallest part of the loss an insurance company must pay In the case of a bombing. For basic aviation insur ance is a much bigger business than trip travel policies and Associated Aviation Under writers is in that field too, along with U.S. Aviation Un derwriters, North American, and Lloyds of London. This means Insuring the air craft and the liability for crew and passengers, collision and damage to property on the ground, and insuring cities and airport authorities for their damage and liability in crashes. Bombing of an air liner naturally can cause huge claims under this insurance as well as under the 25-cent travel policies. Associated Aviation Under writers was organized by the Chubb Pool of Marine insur ance Companies and compan ies affiliated with the Marine Office of America. Firehouse Cook Forgot About the Hot Oven Idabel, Okla. - A police ra dio dispatcher sent a car to the fire station with this mes sage: "Turn out the fire under the roast." Seems the firemen had de parted in a hurry to put out a weed fire and the cook forgot to turn off the oven. Arizona claims 86 per cent of its days are sunny. '.vvr NAMED 4-H QUEEN-Marie Scovel, 15. of Gilroy, Calif., has been named the 1960 4-H Queen of California at the Junior Grand National Livestock Exposition at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Riding in competition with repre sentatives from 14 counties, the blue-eyed high school sopho more rode her horse, King Wimpy, to win the state title. Miss Scovel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Scovel, Gil roy ranchers, plans to major In animal husbandry when she enters college. (UPI Telephoto) Parlaying Into Huge Scheduled Washington - (UPD - A House subcommittee has announced an investigation to find out how organizers of a "non existent" corporation parlay ed $1,500 into a million-dollar government contract. Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) said the deal would be exam ined in public hearings at Kansas City, Mo., on alleged maladministration" of the General Service Administra tion's regional office at Kans as City. Adlai Stevenson Ads Like Candidate Charlottesville, Va. - (UPD Adlai Stevenson, despite his denials, looked a good deal like someone running for president Tuesday. Stevenson insisted in New York Monday he was not a candidate for the Democratic nomination, did not expect to get it and had no hopes he would be chosen for a third try at the White House. He then flew here for a "non-political" visit but it was evident that Stevenson was flashing his best smile, shak ing a lot of hands and prepar ing to take a slap at the Re publicans. He sidestepped an oppor tunity in New York to flatly reject the nomination with a joking remark that he might be considered a "draft evad er." Western Strategy Being Shaped Washlngton-IUPD-The U. S., British and French foreign ministers Tuesday began ham mering out Western strategy to meet Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's unknown plans for the summit conference next month. With East - West disarm ament talks bogged down in Geneva, speculation grew that Khrushchev was saving some new proposal on that subject for the heads-of-state meeting in Paris starting May 16. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter mentioned a pos sible new Khrushchev summit proposal at his press confer ence last week. British For eign Secretary Sclwyn Lloyd, arriving for the meetings here, told reporters that such a surprise proposal was "cer tainly possible." or is TV . siatr Jn -.--;: . Ill 1 - . ' i ! WMMstMaiaWtji $1,500 Contract for Study Brooks said the purpose of the hearings by his House government operations sub committee was to "get to the bottom of these reports" of Ir regularities in operation of the Kansas City GSA office, which is responsible for gov ernment land and building acquisition and leasing. To Study Contract He said one topic which will come up is "the award of a federal lease contract to a non - existent corporation which put its organizers in a position to make an estimated million dollars on their $1,500 investment. Other subcommittee sources said this transaction involved the award of a lease contract to furnish space for a federal agency to a supposed corpor ation which in fact was not incorporated until after the contract was awarded. Under terms of the con tract, these sources said, the winner of the contract stands to gain a title to a building now wortn $7su.uuu plus a profit of $250,000 over a ten- year period. Speculative Venture Brooks said the subcommit tee also wants to learn what's 'behind reports we've had that a top GSA official in Kansas City has been indulg- ng in a speculative real estate venture, contrary to GSA regulations and good ethics." He said a preliminary in vestigation also has turned up these "Indications of question able administration": -A "favored" private firm doing expensive work in a government office even De fore a public Invitation for bids to do the job was issued. A career employee who was "subjected to vinaicuve treatment because he would n't rubber stamp contracts which smacked of rank favori tism." Board of Control Rejects Building Bids Salem lUPIl The board of Control has r e J e ct e d all eight bids for a new foid serv- ce and kitchen building at MacLaron School for Boys as too high. It ordered plans for the structure referred to the architect again for further trimming. Brookings - (UPD - Vernon Herbert Arlt, 40, engineer for the State Highway Depart ment, took his own life Tues day with a pistol, police re ported. EASTER CARDS for children are as much a part of the young sters' Easter at colored eggi and new clothes. Pi!of, Crewmen Defect From Cuba Miami, Fla.- H'Fil -A Cuban pilot flying a four-engine pas senger plane from Havana to Miami Tuesday on a regular run announced with Latin flourish over the plane's radio that he, two other crewmen and a passenger were defect ing from the Cuban govern ment. The four men sought politi cal refuge in the United States as soon as the plane, a j Cubans Airlines turboprop Viscount, landed here. ' Immigration authorities identified the four as Gonzala llerrera, the pilot; Pedro E. THIS WEEK'S Andy's Best Buys Compare With Any $125 Diamond" K$ss&ea&?' st'G fiiZM '1,-1 m r Compare With Any $300 Diamond I CONTINENTAL 3 BAND, 7 TRANSISTOR Portable Radio TWO SHORT WAVE BANDS and standard broadcast band. Uses pen light batteries. Includes earphones, carrying case and antenna plug. Framt antanna may alio ba Mad at a convaniant carrying hartdla Of at a mill jfjill v.. .... 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