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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1960)
Millions of 1960 Pennies Valuable Because of Flaw Washlntllon IUPII - Take u close look at your pennies, They m y he worth their welirtit In void. ISuulecycd coin experts have put value of $11 or nwri on millions of IIIOH pen nlot because ot flow In til date. Ben Douglas, IciidlnK mi liilsmullsl hole, told UPI the ii iTKuliir ono-conl pieces lie "llin holiest Hem In Ihn coin business." The pennies mo valuable because In the "111(10" miliar Abraham Lincoln's whiskers, the "00" li smaller thun Hid "10." Douglas old "wiuill HO" rcilnt inliilrd In riilliidi'lphlo if more vnlinthln than nliiil- Hillsboro Speeder Gets Fine, Sentence Spokane ll'PIl - Vernon A. Van Grusvrn. 22, lllllsboro, Ore., who led olliccr on I JOO-mllc-an-hour chase here Sunday, wii.n sentenced to two months In the county Jit 1 1 and fined $2.10 here Monday. Juallce of the Peace Kiln worth Gump Jr. alao revoked Van CJriinsvon's driver's li cense for a year. The youth la Junlor-lo-be at Pacific university. Inrly flawed pennies minted In Denver, lie mi Id thli wa because more of tho faulty colna were turned out In Den ver. These are marked with a liny "D" under the "lflBO." The coin expert mid the Philadelphia mint turned out 2 million pennies with the lr roiiulur data and Uie Denver mint 3 million bofore the dlci were chained, "I don't recall In the 20th century the mint making a whole new die," Douglas uld. Ilolh mlnla now arc turning out pennies with all charac ter In the dale the aiime size. Similar mistakes on colna or stamps In the past have produced valuable collectors Iteuia. LONG STRIKE ENDS Tokyo-UOT-The longest and bloodiest Inbur dispute in Ja pan') history has been halted, at least temporarily. The Mit sui Coal Mining Co. Monday night accepted a week-long government truce proposal to suspend a lockout at the Mllke colliery at Omnia in southern Kyushu Hint hod lusted 11)3 days. Workers will return to work for a week while negotiations proceed In the strike during which hun dreds of police and miners were Inlured. Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFOftD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1980 PACES 1 to 12 Thermal Neutron Bringing Man Closer to Cancer Fight Victory Washington - (Science Serv. Ice) - An atomic tool, the thermal (slow) neutron, is bringing man closer to victory In bis fight against cancer. Neutrons are electrically neutral, high or fast-energy particles that trigger atomic reactors and bombs. Thermal neutrons are developed by pluming fa.it neutrons of 6 million electron volts each through a moderator or nu clear reactor which slows Uiem by cutting down their voltage to .023 electron volts. Thermal or slow neutrons produced in the special medi cal reactor nt Brookhaven Na tional laboratory at Upton, LI.. N.Y., are providing a wholly successful therapy In treating experimental tumors In mice, Tharapy Effective The therapy also has been significantly effective in treating glioblastoma multi form!, a fatal human brain cancer, which has proved un responsive to x-ray, surgery or other cancor therapy, Its effectiveness In mice and men gives hope of future success in treating localized, deep-seated cancers that can not be surgically removed or otherwise treated, Dr. Lee Parr, medical director at tho Brookhaven laboratory and a specialist in nuclear medicine, said in an Interview. Brookhaven's use of slow neutrons In treating cancer Is the result of more than ten years of experimental and clinical research under Dr. Karr'a direction. Neutrons Captured Previous research by others had revealed the thermal neutrons can be captured by atoms such as uranium, lith ium and boron. Normally, the total distance traveled by the free thermal neutron is ap proximately the diameter of a living cell. Its capture both shortens its path and disin tegrates the neutron Into two heavy particles, alpha and lithlum-7, neither of which are radioactive or harmful, This known behavior makes it pos sible to control the reaction and limit it. A patient first receives an Injection of boron Into his blood stream. After half an hour, a cloud of the slowed down neutrons is passed on to the area treated for a matter of minutes, less than ten. Trapped by the boron, the neutrons pass only half-way through the diseased cells and destroys them. "They do not appear in any way adversely to affect healthy tissue or blood," Dr. Farr said. "It is a one-shot treatment and for complete effectiveness, the thermal neutrons must penetrate every cell of the diseased area in sufficient numbers and with in the specified time." The small size of mice per mits an easy solution to this problem of "penetration in fresh f from new fedGaiiaila fl MfrSRr 111011 irttmnn 00K If f - I fir K)&:tAr7Q " ' On htlr nS 1 ST . 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Most of these were stretcher patients who after the one-shot treat ment were able to walk out of the Laboratory and resume normal activities. However, in time, aU the human pa tients succumbed to the tumor, which examination showed had not been completely pene trated by the neutrons In num bers sufficient to destroy all diseased tissue. The difficult-to-treat hu man brain cancer was selected for treatment by Dr. Farr and his staff because "it is com mon enough to afford selec tive material; the short life expectancy of its victims al low us to know within a year the results of our efforts; and no other treatment is known to be effective. Far From Success 'While we are far from achieving the success in treat ing men that we have dem onstrated in treating mice, we have been able to provide patients with a substantial period in which he may be both comfortable, active and productive." Dr. Farr believes the solu-' lion is attainable and may re quire a better designed re actor as well as more re search on the physiology of the reaction in the therapy. Currently a medical reactor that meets Dr. Farr's specifi cations is under design and is expected to be constructed In the next five years. Meanwhile, the dramatic al though limited success In treating and temporarily ar resting the deteriorating hu man brain cancers has en couraged Dr. Farr and his staff to use the thermal neu tron therapy in other varie ties of cancer suffered by man; Because there is no ob servable radiation damage from this therapy, it may be used on patients who have not responded with complete suc cess to x-ray therapy. Cancer patients treated at Brookhaven are referral pa tients only. It is too early to estimate accurately the effec tiveness of the therapy on re cently treated patients. It takes a team effort of 150 persons, engineers, tech nicians and scientists, to give a thermal neutron treatment to a single patient. Klamath Falls Man Arrested in City Medford police arrested a 50 -year -old Klamath Falls man Monday on a charge of probation violation. The man, James Ralph Hall, was arrested by police on orders of District Attorney Tom Reedcr. Terms of the probation on a previous check conviction were that Hall re frain from violating liquor laws and make restitution on a bad check, according to police. Hal has reportedly not yet made restitution on the check and has also recently been arrested on a drunk in public charge. He was confined in the county jail. Washington WPD - A special committee of the Organization of American States has select ed San Jose, Costa Rica as the site and Aug. 15 as the date of hemisphere foreign ministers meeting on the U.S. Cuban crisis and Venezuelan charges against the Domini can Republic. heed ca:i riiT? 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