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
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depth and time," as Dr. Farr
describes It. By means of
thermal neutron therapy, can
cers in mice are destroyed at
will at Brookhaven without
any recurrence of the disease
in the normal two- to three
year life span.
The size of man presents a
different engineering prob
lem, which has proved more
difficult to solve. Thirty-five
cancer sufferers with ad
vanced stages of severe malig
nant brain tumors unrespon
sive to other treatment were
referred to Brookhaven by
their physicians for thermal
neutron treatment. 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.
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