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.
According to the scientists'
reports, preliminary clinical
trials, involving about 30 pa
tients, showed that VLB sul
fate has produced:
-Improvement in various
acute leukemias, some of them
resistant to other cancer
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-Consistent r e d u c tion of
white cells, which multiply
wildly in the leukemias.
Growth Suppressed
-Suppression of the growth
and activity of certain solid
tumors of the placenta known
as choriocarcinomas. These
tumors had spread in the
body and were resistant to
another drug.
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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