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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE WEDNESDAY. APRIL 5. 1861 They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Proper conduct FOR FRIENDS, ONE OF WHOM IS SICK ABED The well friend always offers financial I AID QM7HA CHOKE IN HIS VOICE"') Because if . ITS NOT PLAVED EXACTLY ACCORDING - TO THE ' ; SCRIPT NO, NO.' NOT A THING BUT TfOU SURfc AKa A REAL PAL' LOOK, PALDO , I VOU NEED ANY . 1 KIU..IM ' I X. And alwavs the sick man must turn down the gracious offer ! "'" I -SO 'Z BREAK My Y fll- - T NECKTOeOMSITA : gLAD Wfn T H HIM AND HE TRIES TO 1 . (WARNED ME, I f I H, III PUT THE ARM ON ME V" MILO- J I J 1 I II rr-r f-i r r- C7i . - y. I I astfs ' f Drugs Give Susbtantial Aid To Some Cancer Patients i ' Editor's note: Thli Is the last of three dispatches written for UPI by Dr. John W. Cllne, president of the American Cancer Society, In conjunction with the annual Na tional Cancer Cusade during April. ' In it he discusses the role of drugs 'In treating cancer. . O f - '- By JOHN W. CLINE, VL.D. President. American Cancer Society (Written for UPI) . For many centuries, witches, medicine men, faith' healers, physicians and scientists have sought a "magic bullet" which would cure cancer. '. To" this day, they have not succeeded in producing a drug which will cure the- disease. The cancer patient's only hope for cure still resides in sur-i gery or radiation while the cancer is still contained and operable.- r ; - Nevertheless, over the years, and more particularly in the last' decade or so,' drugs have provided substantial help to an increasing number of pa tients. In some cases, healing has been so dramatic- as to persuade both the patient and the physician that a cure may have been achieved; Unhap pily, so far, drug-induced im provement has lasted for only a few months or, at best, a few years.-- -. .' ----- Gland Removal .A" ' In some kinds of cancer notably of the breast and nros- tate the removal of glands and administrationof sex hor mones Often restore a substan tial measure of comfort and health. .These have become routine procedures in certain cases. ' . . Cortisone-like hormones, and a large number of other drugs -some of the latter resembling a war gas, nitrogen mustard, with effects on tumors sim ilar to those of x-rays, and drugs which block the can cer cell's use of folic acid have proved of great benefit to leukemia patients. There are few patients with leuke mia today who cannot get some help from one or anoth er of these drugs.' The most remarkable re sults of chemotherapy are be ing obtained in an extremely rare type of female cancer, choricarcinoma. Methotrexate, which blocks folic -acid used by cancer cells, gives great help,' lasting more than five years in a few cases, to pa tients with this disease. " . . Another . promising aspect of cancer chemotherapy re search is the finding that some breast cancer patients seem to stand a better chance of surviving their disease if they are treated with certain drugs at the time of and just' after their operations. Whether the results will prove as favorable in patients with cancers of other' sites is yet to be seen. The results of combination treatment sur gery plus drugs-in cancer of the colon have been disap pointing in the past, but some treatments, still in the exper imental stage, seem to be more successful. - Thousands of drugs are now being tested each year against transplantable cancers in lab oratory animals and against cancers grown in laboratory dishes. More than 100 of these show such promise that they are used against a variety of experimental cancers; and, of these, a dozen or more are being given cautiously to pa tients. . . In this manner, our arma mentarium of , anti - cancer drugs is being built up. Al most all qancer patients can be given some help, however temporary, in even ;the late stages of their disease. Trial and-Error j . Some of the drugs are de rived almqst by trial; and er ror methods of searching. These include antibiotics-such as actinomycins - which are produced by molds and bac teria. Several of them have helped a few patients, k ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE New YorK (UPD Red-haired model and actress Suzy Par ker has obtained a divorce from her French husband to whom she was married in se crecy two years ago, it was disclosed Tuesda y. Paul O'Dwyer, attorney fo'r Miss Parker, said - she divorced Pierre de Aa Salle, 34, on March 21, on grounds of in compatibility and received custody of their daughter, Georgia Bejle, 16 months. ' Most of the new prepara tions, however, are ingenious ly designed molecules delib erately contrived to block the chemistry of the cancer cell. This approach to "molecular medicine has been made pos sible by the remarkable strides being made in bio chemistry. These efforts are still in their infancy.- As more is learned about the chemistry of normal ' cells and cancer cells, we can expect a more effective attack on the latter. . Considering that intensive and extensive studies in the chemotherapy of cancer have been conducted for only a doz en years or so, progress has been satisfactory. Two problems continue to plajue the field of cancer chemotherapy. One is drug le slstance; the other drug toxici ty. While a large number of excellent anti-cancer drugs are available for clinical use, eventually the patient fails to respond in the positive way he did at the beginning of treat ment. This resistance is poor ly understood and cannot be circumvented at present. This problem is subject to very ac tive research. Experimental chemotherapy of cancer has played a signif icant part in the new fron tiers of medical science. ill Small Worlds Around Us ' By Lynn M. Watkins (Register and Tribune Syndicate. . Mil) Knee High To A Grasshopper . Homely As A Hedge Fence ... What a terrible handicap for such a little fellow, for he was frequently described by many of those who saw him to be "about knee-high to a grasshopper and as homely as a hedge fence." Peculiarly enough, this fig ure of speech acquainted any one that heard it with a pret ty adequate picture of a very small boy with freckles, un ruly hair and perhaps an up turned nose. - . . It's difficult to understand why a hedgefence should al ways be homely; it must have, been a line of shrubs or trees Misunderstanding About Incidence Of Rabies Told Salem-WTD-There is a great d e a 1 of misunderstanding about the incidence of rabies in Oregon, according to Dr. G. M. Johnson, assistant state veterinarian.: In an article in Agriculture Bulletin, an official publica tion of the State Agriculture Department, Dr. Johnson clar ified what he termed ''general statewide confusion." He said in October, 1960, one dog in Curry county was found to be rabid. As a result of the findings more than 2, 000 dogs and cats were vac cinated. ' No cases of rabies have been reported from that area to the present, he said. He stated, however, that there seems to be an- "alarm ing increase in the number of rabid bats reported." r He said the public usually confuses rabies with other dis ease or symptoms of diseases. "An ill-tempered dog is quite frequently regarded rabid. A dog with convul sions, fits or epilepsy is quite often erroneously referred to as a 'mad dog'," he said. He said more public infor mation is needed about the disease. Rabies clinics have been set up in Lane and Benton coun ties following findings of rab ies in foxes in those areas. of any species planted in such a manner as to become a bar rier or to mark a boundary line or fence off an area. It may have beer' unsightly and unkept, but hardly could it be considered ugly. But strangely enough, these figures of speech were pretty revealing, even if the implica tion of exaggeration was glar ingly evident; they really had more significance than some of the other typical Ameri canisms such as "nervous as a cat," or "mad as a wet hen. These came about probably Decause the cat's natural quickness was attributed to nervousness; but rapidity of movement, and a smooth flu idity of body movement characteristic of all members of the feline family. The domestic hen, on the otner nana, really does despise water in anything larger than a drinkable amount, so she would undoubtedly become angry if she were wet, so there in some sense to this expres sion. . . There are some sections of our country where the knee- high to a grasshopper business can become a little derogative by saying, "he was knee-high to a polecat and lower than a periwinkle. " And there are at least two very dissimilar forms of living things com monly, known as "periwin kles." There is a mollusk called a "periwinkle" that has-about forsaken the sea and crawled up in trees and weeds that edge the oceans, and there they live, - within sight and sound of the tide and the surf but safely above it. In some parts of the world the shell named "periwinkle" is gath ered and eaten as human food. Another periwinkle, is simple wild flower, with five white, pink, or red petals, but to be "lower than a periwin kle" must mean the mollusk that lives by the sea, which certainly isn't as low as some of the other shell creatures perhaps being about "knee high to an oyster." Dallas, Tex.-WPD-Mrs. O. C Wilkinson told police there was something fishy happen ing around her house Tues day. And there was. Some body tossed 10 ripe fish on her front lawn. SELF-CONFIDENCE UN DERMINED Elmo Roper Beats Dr. Gallup With Opinion Ballot for Dick West By DICK WEST Washington (UPI) I am one of the apparently few Amer icans who have never been polled by Dr. Gallup, and I was beginning to get a com-, plex about it. You know how it is when you feel left out of things. It sort of un dermines your self c o n f i- dence. It -was, therefore, re assuring to get through the mail this week a questionnaire prepared by Elmo Roper, one SMALL SALE GLIDDEN Look peciaU BIG SAVINGS FAINTS! $4 Glidden Everon Gloss White House Paint 98 Gal. Rockspar Varnish $7 I 66 All Purpose Interior Finish Drop Cloth -H09 Gal. v 26 Qt. Extra Heavy, Clear Plastic 108" x 104" Reg. 98c SAVE 1.13 Paint Roller &Tray KM $1.50 fsJ Value fill C XJ3P for only y 7 FREE! OUR NEW 1961 DECORATING COLOR BOOK! COLO RAMA PAINT CENTER "Your Silver Dollar Stamp Paint Store". ; 315 East Main Phone SP 2-4564 SEE Our Complete Line of ' . MARINE PAINTS of Gallup's arch rivals in the opinion sampling field. "At least," I said to myself, "someone sems to care what I think." Moreover, Roper's poll is more than just a cross-section of public opinion. It was de scribed as "a survey of 3,000 American leaders." When I read that, it made my heart sing. ... - Not Included p Later, however, I found out that I wasn't included in the select 3,000. An accom panying letter explained that extra copies were being mail ed to a bunch of newspaper men. Nevertheless, my spirits were uplifted by a chance to participate in a poll on any basis, and I have done . my best to justify Roper's con fidence in me. In this poll, the pollees are supposed to predict, or guess, what domestic and world con ditions will be like four years from now. The results will be buried in a "time capsule," which will not be opened un til 1965. Then we will see how wrong we were. DID YOU KNOW? Cleveland, Ohlo-flJPD-Among the questions T. Keith Glen nan, former National Aero nautics and Space Adminis tration director, received dur ing an appearance here was one asking: "Did you know you were the grandfather of a new baby boy?" That was now the news was broken to Glennan that his daughter, Mrs. Frank R. Borchert Jr., was a mother. ' Among other things, Roper wants to know who will win the 1964 U.S. presidential election and whether man will have reached the moon by 1965. The answers to ,both of these questions are more or less obvious. A harder ques tion would be: Who, in 1965, will be president of the moon? Sampla Answers I wouldn't want to take the element of suspense out of the poll by revealing all of my answers in advance. I will, however, paraphrase a few of the questions and list my re sponse to them. ' By doing so, I may enable some other un-polled citizen to share vicariously in the thrill of being quized by Elmo Roper. Q. It now takes about one hour to drive from midtown New York ' to Idlewild Air port? What will be the driv ing time in 1965? , A. Zero. At the rate New York is growing, by 1965 the airport will be in midtown. Q. The flying time by com mercial : jet liner between New York and Washington is now about one hour. What will be the flying time in 1965? " - A. This also will be cut to zero. 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