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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
The Medical Roundup
I the triumph over polio will
I yet have much to do with I
j helping men to solve the,
: problem of cancer. j
WEDNESDAY. JULY 11. 1962
Mrdirtnt
New Factt About Cancer
Releases Irom the ureal
Sloan-Kettering Institute in
New York tell of interesting
r
"wins
I.
V
fcmrritilh Consultant tn
Mavo I'llllK
EmerltuB Prtle.siir of Mediant
Mayo clluic
IReislrr and Trthiina Sjndirale.
1 96? I
it is not likely to he of any
use as a cure for cancer in
man. and if it does kill can
cer in the tube, this ri;es not
necessarily mean that the
drug will cure cancer in an
animal or in a man.
But it has possibilities-- it
resistance to
t r a nsplantcd
cancer cells
drops off.
Also, in agin?
mice, the inci
dence of tumors that have
arisen spontaneously is mar
kedly increased
We see the same thing in
i 5 iHe?w
tested on can-V
II II MU lllftS j fj
then it may U
studies on
cancer. As
was to he cx
P e c t e d. as
mice become gives hope, and it must nn
older, their mediately be tested on can
cerous mice,
their cancers
hace to be worked on by
chemists and modified until
it i.s safe enough to be used
on men and women.
Every so often I gel a bit
ter letter from someone ac- j nmtSdiBSB
cusing the medical profession
of deliberately blocking the
r.ugene - tighty-five per
cent of the chidren examined
Dr. Alvarez goes into great- j " sl'l'c,al education evalua
., . . i tion clinic at the University
er detail about cancer m his ,,, Oregon school of education
booklet. "What We Know j have shown improvement.
About Cancer." To obtain j either in behavior or academ
yotir copy, send 25 cents and I c achievement or both,
a .stamped, self addressed en- j This is the report of ac
velope with your request to j complishments as the clinic
Dr. Walter C. Alvarez. Dept. I for the evaluation of children
MMT.. The Register and i with learning problems pre
Tribune Syndicate, Box 957, pares to begin its third year
Des Moines 4, Iowa. 'of operation in the DeBusk
Child Evaluation Clinic To Begin Third Year Operation
A .3
the
versity campus with a $12,000 I year, about
grant from the Oregon state ' been evaluated
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Your Money's
Worth
By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc.
man, where cancers of a eer- . development and use of some !
tain type rarely show up be-I "secret cancer cure." The peo-j
Inrp ihe al'p nf 411 A 1 nften 1 nip pmilrl mil hp miirn U'rnnf
fay, older persons should be
checked every year to make , want to block the use of a
sure that a cancer is not j cancer cure? With the con
growing silently somewhere slant frantic calls for help,
in their body. i we would love, of all things,
Today, research workers , to llavp a cl,re for cancer. As
have at their disposal many 1 'e "cse people who scold
TIME TABLE FOR SIZZLING SIXTIES
If we'll just have the courage and common sense to do
what must be done to spur our economic growth in the next
48 months so we can provide essential jobs for our labor
pie could not be more wrong force anr essential profits for our businessmen, the United!
Why should doctors ever I states will have it made. I
For, beginning in 19U6-67, we'll almost certainly be off j
on a boom of booms and the long-delayed Sizzling Sixties are
department of education. The
clinic is operated under a
I contractual agreement with
the state department, which
has provided a similar sum
for each of the two preceding
years.
Problems in reading, be
havioral and emotional prob
lems, and underachievement
have been the most frequent
situations that have prompted
teachers to reter children to
! the clinic, according to Dr.
Robert II. Malison, assistant
professor of education and
clinic director. Each of these
problems accounted for 16
per cent of the total referrals.
Other situations accounting
for sizable number of refer
rals, according to Dr. Matt
son, were learning problems
associated with the possible
I neea lor an acceieriaea pro-
gram for the bright child, 12
per cent, and mental rclifd'!-
They have '
past acaoennc , renabiiuation tor novice on
:15 cases have : job placement.
Each child seen at the clin
ic is given a thorough phy-,i.
cal and neurological examin
ation by the clinic's medical
consultants. The child and
his parents visit the clinic at
least once for testing and in
terviews. Much of the work
is done In the field with a
clinic assistant visiting the
child's home and school, aod
referred to other clinics and1
agencies. j ABOARD CARRIER
Under the contract with D. D. Simmons, seaman;
the state department, chil- j Uicnard o. brown, airman ap-
come from Lane, Linn, Doug- ,
las, Marion. Polk, Lincoln, ;
and Baker counties.
The decrease in the number
of cases last year, according
to Dr. Mattson, arises from
a pre-screening process at the
DeBusk center in which some
cases previously handled by 1
the evaluation clinic were
interviewing the family doc-, Other clinics are the rem
lor and others who miiiht ; rdial .Huraiinn niinio .
corned mainly with the basic
shed light on the child's prob
lems.
Case Procedure
After staff evaluation nf
the findings, recommenda
tions are sent to the child's
parents and school, and in
some cases, the child is re
ferred to another community
agency. A follow-up question
naire is sent to the principal
of the school a few months
later, allowing the clinic to
discover the progress that the
child has made.
dren may be referred by spe
cial education personnel in
schools in Coos, Lane. Doug
las, and Linn counties, when
the school district is unable
to provide the proper diag
nostic services. Cases from eific.
other counties and parochial Simmons is a son of Mr.
schools, plus non-school chil- i and Mrs. Clayton W. Si:u
dren and others are usually i mons, ;U! South C St., Eagle
referred to the clinic by the ; Point. Brown is a son of Mis.
prentice, and Cnidr. Donald 1,1 addition to its service
R. Oillespie are serving and research functions, the ,
aboard the attack aucr.ilt clinic provides a teaching lab-
carrier USS Oriskany, which ' oratory for graduate students
skills including reading,
spelling, handwriting, and
arithmetic, to which many
children arc referred after
passing through the evalua
tion clinic; the community
parent-teacher education cen
ter, which deals in a group
setting with family problems
w h i c h affect elementary
school childen; and the youth
counseling center, which of
fers individual counseling in
vocational and adjustment
problems to junior and sen
ior high school students.
The DeBusk center, wh'rh
is now on duty with the S
jenth Fleet in the western Pa
at the university who intend!.
to enter the field of ehocl 1 ,
psychological services and for
undergraduates who are,
studying to be classroom i
chemicals which can produce f their pet cancer trcaler has
cancer if rcpeatedlv rubbed been sold for large fees to
onto the skin or injected into ; hundreds of people in the
the body of an animal. Re-; lt five or 10 or 15 years,
cently. it has been found that !nd still, the supposed cure
b carcinogen can change the j hasn't "gotten going." If the
chromosomes of cells (micro- I man really wanted to know
scopic bits of tissue which : i' his secret remedy was any
have most to do with delerm- j Sori. he could send it to
ining what the descendants of Belhesda. Maryland and get
a cell are going lo be). Ab- ' a definite answer in a short
normal chromosomes can j time. The experts would tell
produce abnormal cells, and him if it had any effect on
cancer ceils ana on cancerous
tion, 10 per cent. Oilier or
ganic problems accounted for
only 4 per cent of referrals.
Cases Evaluated
During 1960-61,' 47 eases
state department.
During the two years that
the program has been in op
eration, ages of those referred
have ranged from a 4-year old
nursery school child to a ll'i
year old illiterate, referred by
then likely to sizzle to the point where our primary worry ; were sent to the clinic, andllhe stale office of vocational
again will be restraining inflation, not fighting deflation.
mice.
Few Test Samples Sent
But though the man will
keep begging for recognition
of his medicine and his
claims, rarely will he send a
sample to the government
laboratory for testing.
An interesting comment
was made by Dr. Michael
Shimkin of the National Can
cer Institute. He said that
now the problem of finding a
The reason is simply this: in 1966-67, the tens of millions
of babies horn in th? explosive baby boom of post-World
War II will start to reach their late 'teens and 20s, will be
marrying, setting up homes of their own, spending and bor
rowing to the hilt for every thing and non-thing young brides
and grooms need, having babies of their own and in turn,
initiating a new bubbling boom.
This is not guesswork. It's implicit in the statistics.
We know that this country look off on an unparalleled
baby boom in the mid-1940s, that in 1946 the number of
births soared lo a record 3.4 million; that, with minor
setbacks, the total kept climbing until it crossed the 4
million mark in 1954. and that last year another new peak
of almost 4.3 million births was chalked up.
We know that the infant mortality rate has been shrink
ing and that most of the babies born in 1046 will be the
20-ycar-olds of 1966, and that in the mid-1960s' therefore,
the marriage rate will be heading toward a generation's peak.
We know that when young folks marry they are avid
buyers of ail types of hard goods, soft goods, services.
Specific projections for the future are implicit in the
statistics of the past too.
Our total population will be breaking the 200 million
mark as we pass the middle of this decade. The number
of Americans in the 18-21 age group will be up almost 50
per cent in the late 1960s, as against a rise of only 6 per
cent in this age group in the 1950s. The number in the 20-29
age bracket will be up 40 per cent, as against a decline of
I 8 per cent in this age category in the 1950s.
The demand for houses will skyrocket and it is not wild
abnormal cells can make a
cancer.
An interesting confirma
tion of an old discovery is
that viruses which, by them
selves, will not produce can
cer, can speed up the appear
ance of cancer in animals
that have been given a carci
nogen. This working together
of viruses, and carcinogens
will explain a number of puz
zles in regard to the develop
ment of cancers. Hopeful al
W'ays is the discovery of sub
stances which will either re-
4-i.-l UI....I. V. ........ ill. nf
cancer cells in tissue cultures. I lha! ,was d"ne,.in slvinK the j finallv should break into the 8 million-a-year production and
1 nrnn im ni nn n vs hp s ivs.
cure for cancpr has b?on , jma,,jnf, to forCsce a minimum demand for new houses of
much simplified by all tae 15 miUion to 2-million a year.
tremendous amount of wo-k t T, Homnri fnr antns will soar and the auto industry
moved in January into reno
vated offices in a building ad
jacent to the school of educa
tion, is named for Dr. Burch
ard Woodson DeBusk, who
l Iniioht nl thp nnivi'rsit v from
teachers. The clinic also offers 19, 5 nli nis dc.ltn m 1936
consultation services to the , H ninnecr in ureine
Helen F. O'Uourke. 1 lit schools and special summer child-welfare legislation and
Laurel st.. and Gillespie's par- workshops for teachers. i in combining the disciplines
cuts are Mr. and Mrs. E. till-, The clime is one of four of education and nsvchologv
now brought together in the to aid and facilitate the learn
DeUusk Memorial center un-1 ing process. He was the foun-
sible for the United Stales rier the direclinn of Dr. Ray- der and long-time director of
military support of the South I mnnd N. Lowe, professor of the first remedial reading
East Asia Treaty organization. I education. clinic on the campus.
lespie, 308 Ardmore st.
The Seventh Fleet is respon
Grown in Test Tube
Today, everyone should
know that cancer cells can
now be grown in a test tube,
much as the normal cells, of
the skin can grow over a sore
and heal it. The cells growing
in a test tube are called tis
sue cultures. They enable ex
The concentrated attack
upon polio has placed the
United States in the fore
front with technics of tissue
culture, electron - microscopy
(which makes . tiny objects
seem, larger . by 100.000
times), and immunochemistry
(the complicated chemistry
perts to tell almost overnight : that C1U,S1,S the tissues of an
j animal to resist the entrance
1 of a germ, a virus, or a cen
: ccr cell).
j Dr. Shimkin suspects that
whether a new drug has any
tendency to cure cancer. If it
has, it causes destructive
changes in the growing cells.
In the old days, when 1 was
young, a drug that was sup- SUBLET ESTATE
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(..dp,! o men and women. ! and Mrs. Kennedy have sub-'already are built in
and the experimenter had to ! Id their Middleburg. Va., es
wait perhaps five years for tate to Mrs. Paul Entenman
an answer. I of New York City, sources
Recently, when experts j said today. Mrs. Entenman.
learned to keep a laboratory though not listed in the Social
lull of mice suffering from Register.
sales level.
The demand for all the hard and soft goods thai go into
houses will zoomincluding the old reliables, plus any new
ones off the drawing boards and into the stores by then. At
the same time, lots of the stuff we own will be wearing out
and there will be an accompanying appliance replacement
boom. ' ;
The need for additional new factories and additional
new machinery will be enormous, and business spending
on plants and equipment should be smashing all records
in this period. The problem for businessmen who don't
awaken to the magnitude of the markets of the late 1960s
until after markets have opened is likely lo be financing
their expansions.
Whiln all thi nrivate sDendins will be pouring into our
i econoinv. government spending at the federal, stale and local
President1 levels will be reaching new peaks as well. The forces for this
big cancers, each perhaps as
big as a walnut, they were
able to tell, in a week or two.
if the new drug they were
testing was causing t h e
growth to melt away. When a
drug has no effect o-i cancer
! It adds up to boom, and possibly dangerous intuition.
! Simultaneously, there could be serious unemployment unless
industry can create the jobs lor toe seven iiinnun -..u
entering the labor market belwceen 1965 and 1970 and un
less the workers are trained to fill the jobs that will be
known to be a ! available. :, .:..,
It also pounds home tne wisoom oi iiuciuiicni, ............
immediately to accelerate business spending on new plants
p,,inmont now not onlv to help fight slow growth in
rn- o.... . ... ic inflntinn in
day that Glen Ora estate , tne eariy laous uui ii. ucv ,
would be used by friends of 1 the late 1960s. .
the Kcnnedv's diu-ing the sum-1 A kev way we can accelerate this spending is by tax
lC"yh,M In our tax structure lies our major weapon
friend of the Paul Mellon s.
members of the Kennedy cir
cle. The While House said Fri
cells growing in a test tube. I ify the tenants. agauisi uum ...
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