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SECT'ON C PACES 1 to 10 Medford Tribune MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY. JUNE 28. 1963 The Medical Roundup Emeritus Consultant In Medicine Mayo rllnlc Emintiu Professor of Medicine Mayo Chnie (Bensur and Tribune Syndicate. 133) How To Avoid Inoperable Cancer of Stomach The recent experience of Pope John-whose continued guidance this world so greatly needed -has added force to my life long conten t i o n that if a man past middle age would pre fer not to be told someday that he has a cancer of the stomach too big for removal, there is one thing that he must not do: he must not wait until he gets a stomachache or a hemorrhage -then it will probably be too late. He must go every year, no matter how well he feels, to get his stomach and bowel X-rayed. I admit that this is a nuis ance, and personally I hate it; but I am alive today be cause for the past 35 years I have practiced what I have preached. One day, three years ago, when 1 was feeling very fit and having to watch my weight, an X-ray examina tion showed that I had a can cer of the large bowel. For tunately, it was still so small that it could all be removed, and today I feel fine. For awhile in a couple of university medical schools, an effort was made to get many middle-aged people to come in every year for a free X-ray ex amination of their stomach. This type of clinic was given up, as I remember, largely be cause when a small beginning cancer was found in a man's stomach and he was urged to be operated on right away, he generally refused, saying he felt perfectly well. Wanted to Wait He wanted to wait until he felt ill, and had perhaps an anemia, some indigestion, some pain, or some loss of weight. He could not be con vinced that by the time he had those symptoms, the chances would be that no surgeon would operate on him; his can cer would have spread into his liver, and perhaps into his whole abdomen. I hate to seem too pessimis tic, but these are the facts. At the Mayo Clinic, we in the gastroenterologic section used to say that if we saw 100 per sons with cancer of the stom ach, SO were inoperable, and could only be sent home. X-ray treatment would not help them. In the cases of the other 50 persons, we would ask a surgeon to look into the abdomen, but we knew that in half of these cases, the sur geon would see in a minute that he could not do anything, and would just close the ab domen. In the cases of the remain ing 25 patients, the surgeon would remove the tumor, but even then, he would know that in many cases, he would be unable to remove all of the cancer. Since detecting cancer early is important, Dr. Alvarez has included a list of 19 danger signals in his 25-cent booklet, "What We Know About Can cer." You may get a copy of the booklet by sending 25 cents and a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Al varez, Dept. MMT, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Brandenburg Gate Curtains Ridiculed Washington -(UPD- The State Department has ridiculed the huge red curtains hung by Communist authorities to block President Kennedy's view into East Berlin. Department press officer Richard I. Phillips said Thurs day the hanging of the cur tains between pillars of the Brandenburg Gate during Kennedy's visit to West Berlin was a "shamed-face action." "For this East German pup pet regime it has not been suf ficient to put up a wall so peo ple cannot pass; they must put up a curtain so people cannot see," Phillips said. Kennedy-Goldwater Contest Seen as 'Good for Country' Washington -flJPD- Interior Secretary Stewart Udall feeis a 1964 contest between Presi dent Kennedy and Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.) "might be a healthy thing for the country." The resulting battle for the presidency would be "an old fashioned campaign between conflicting political concepts, something we haven't had for some time," according t o Udall. The interior secretary, a lib eral Democrat from Goldwa tcr's state, told a news con ference Thursday that the Re publican party might do well to nominate the conservative GOP senator. Udall said selection of Gold water "would pit a true con servativea nominee carrying a conservative banner-against our President and the record he has made." He said Goldwater "appar ently represents the view of the party," and nomination of such a candidate by the Re publicans would be something the GOP "hasn't done in 20 years." Address Young GOP Udall's comments came while the senator was in San Francisco to speak to the na tional Young Republican con vention, which has demon strated strong backing for Goldwater. Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) meanwhile told a news confer ence Thursday that whoever Manslaughter Guilt Declared at Dalles The Dalles - (UPD - A Wasco County Circuit Court jury found Jake George Gross guil ty of manslaughter Thursday in the April 14 death of Frank Edward Finnegan at a ranch east of Wasco. Gross was v charged with first degree murder, but Judge Edward H. Howell in structed the jury not to con sider that charge because the state failed to show sufficient evidence of premeditation. The jury returned the ver dict after six hours of delib eration. Howell set no date for sentencing but said it would occur within a week. Finnegan was beaten to death in an altercation in a bunkhouse at the Fred Dor maier ranch near Wasco. The trial was moved from Sher man to Wasco county after de fense attorney Kenneth Abra ham requested a change of venue. seeks the GOP nomination "will find it desirable and even necessary" to have the backing of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Republican National Chair man William E. Miller also said at a Senate hearing he hoped there would be another series of televised "great de bates" between the Democrat ic and Republican candidates next year. Miller testified in favor of suspending the "equal time" provision of broadcast laws to make this possible. Kennedy already has said he will de bate the GOP candidate on television as he did with Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1960. Declines Senate Race Udall's comments on Gold water's candidacy came when he was asked whether he planned to run for the Senate against the Republican sena tor next year. The interior secretary said he had no such plans. "I am very happy where I am. I am not expecting a change in my status here," he said. Goldwater's Senate term ex pires next year, and he has said he will announce his in tentions sometime early in 1964. Scott called Eisenhower the head of the GOP and said an endorsement from the former president would prove valu able to anyone hoping to win the nomination. He intimated Eisenhower would be active in the 1964 GOP campaign, but refused to say what part the former president would play. Lists Candidates Scott listed eight GOP can didates he said might run for president: Goldwater, Gov. George M. Romney of Michi gan, Gov. Nelson A. Rocke feller of New York, Sen. Thurston B. Morton, Ky., Gov. William M. Scranton of Penn sylvania, Gov. Mark O. Hat field of Oregon, Gen. Lucius Clay and former NATO commander-in-chief Gen. Lauris Norstad. Regarding Scranton, t h e Pennsylvania senator said he believed the governor "pre fers to limit his activities to a favorite son status" to keep the state delegation inde pendent until it decides on a national candidate. - In Harrisburg, Pa., Thurs day, Scranton denied that a favorite son role for himself would be designed to prevent Goldwater from winning the Pennsylvania delegation. Minuteman Hits Atlantic Target Cape Canaveral - m - A sleek, swift Minuteman, the "instant ICBM" that forms the backbone of the nation's continent-based missile strik ing force, streaked more than 4.000 miles to a target in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday night. Minutes after the rocket blasted from its underground launching site, the Air Force said the firing was a "com plete success." More than 100 nuclear-tipped Minuteman rockets al ready are in tying position at underground launching silos throughout the United States. Evenually, the nation will have 900 of them on station. : TV V-- If I "1 'vi- i m. i f : rW . rr.fr. " INSPECTS SPHINX-Former Vice President Richard Nixon looks one of Egypt's sphinxes in the eye during a visit to the Antiquities Museum in Cairo. Nixon and his wife and daughters left for Athens as the next stop on their private tour of Europe and the Middle East. (UPI) BUYS SOVIET SCRAP Tokyo - (UPD - The Yomiuri newspaper said today the So viet Union has contracted its first postwar sale of scrap iron to Japan, undercutting American prices by $2-$3 per ton. p ,rO . MISS DRAGON BOAT" - Ruth Lcc, 20, chosen "Miss Dragon Boat ' by the Chinese Women's Benevolent Society in New York, displays a 2,000-year-old hand-carved porce lain and ivory boat which will be presented to Jacqueline Kennedy in Washington. (UP!) Campgrounds Open In National Forest All campgrounds are npn on the Applegate, Butte Falls and Union Creek Ranger dis tricts with the exception of South Union Creek, which will not open this summer due to construction work, the Rogue River National Forest service reported today. All trails In the Applrgutc and Union Creek districts are open, but high elevation trails in the Butte Falls Ranger dis trict are still covered with snow drifts. The trail Into Blue Canyon is open and stream fishing is improving as the water is go ing down and clearing. Fish ing is described as "slow" in Willow lake, and "fair" in all waters of the Applegate re gion. Travel Is not recommended on the Parker Meadows rd. from the Blue Rock Junction to the Black Bear rd. The for est service advises motorists to check at the ranger sta tion before entering any of the back roads. In the Applegate district all roads except Glade Creek, Yale Creek and Elliott Creek are open. Logging traffic is heavy on Sturgis Fork, Thompson Creek and Squaw Creek rds. and light on Mid die Fork and Beaver Creek rds. All roads in the district are dusty, the rangers report, advising extreme caution. There is still snow at an ele vation of 6,500 feet on the Union Creek Ranger district and the fishing in streams in the Union Creek resort area is listed as "fair to good." Some fish have been plant ed in Union Crook and In Rogue river near Union crook. The resort and Bockie's Cafe are open from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. Freeway Planned In Douglas County Salem 0IPI The Slate High- way Commission Thursday announced plans lo recon struct the Pacific Highway Interstate 5 - from Roberts Mountain to Myrtle Creek in Douglas county. The proposed construction is 9.18 miles long. Plans call for revising of in terchanges at Clarks Branch rd., Dillard Highway, Boomer Hill rd. and Myrtle Creek. The highway will be built to full interstate standards with four lanes of divided roadway and will connect at both ends with interstate projects already completed, the commission said. 3 . Jm O C ".J t 'v . ; EN HO-U Don't miss this interesting and educational Open House event at the Standard Oil Distribution Center, South Stage Road. ALL DAY-SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 8 to 5 pm Tour this complete facility and see why Standard Oil Company has made this one of the show places in the organization. You will not find a more complete or finer distribution center for petroleum products! Discover the multiple products for the home that this company handles and see demonstrations of the various equipment. So, join the fun and learn too, about this distribution center of which, the Rogue River Valley is justly proud. EASY TO FIND! Drive out South Pacific Hwy. to South Stage Road, Turn Right, just over R.R. tracks. FREE! 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