SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1954
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE ELEVEN
Scientists Search Answer
To Cigarette Controversy
Bjr Al.TOV L. BLAKESI.EE
AP Science Reporter
NEW YORK iiiHl.l'nlllim.
dollar search Is getting under ttav
10 iuiu uie aiuwer io 'ni oul!0,i
Are cigarettes guilty or innocent
as a cause of cancer heart
ease or shortened lite?
Numerous laboratoris and anen
cies, here and abroad, are conduct
lng it. The search will lead into
strange byways.
It should in time produce etiuu:li
evidence to give yes or no answer,
to the satisfaction of almost .ill
physicians and scientists.
One phase is a reseat ch program
by the Tobacco Industry Researcn
fTnmmittpe Kini-Hi-itr with o iii,,i
half million dollars. This week its
sciemmc anvisory un.ira, neadeu
by Dr. C. C. Little. Bar Harbor.
Mr.ine. announced the first of ix
grants totaling 182.000 for research
projects.
This advisory board says no on?
has yet proved a definiie caiiic-and-effect
relationships between
cigarettes, cancer arm heart dis
ease. It has mapped a broad pro
gram to cover studies of huraa;i
and human lungs, snvke tests on
mice, human hahlts, Jobs and s'eo
graphical differences, the effects
ot Inhaled smoke on ainimals' ner
vous systems, blood vessels and
lungs, and to make analyses of to
btcco.
The British tobacco industry has
pledged SIOU.000 a year for seven
years for research under auspices
of Britain' Meriieol Dr
Council and the first installment
has been paid. One Danish tobacco
company granted $14,000 to a sci
entist for .research with snprini rf.
erance to lung cancer....
The American Cancer Society,
saying that "presently available
evidence indicates an association"
between smoking and cancer and
heart disease, has lust earmarked
a special half-million-dollar fund
for more studies on lu,g cancer.
This society Is continuing Us
slidy to learn what happens to
180,000 men whose smoking habits
are known.
The Veterans Administration and
TJutinnnl O.anor TnetH.i.a n. ..id
ling a similar study of smoking hab
. its of 200,000 World War I veterans
lo determine any relationship be
tween lung cancer and smoking.
6 In some laboratories, scientists
are breaking down olsnrette tars,
trying to find any specific cancer
causing agent or agents.
If one were found, and proved
-or strongly suspected as a cause
C cancer, It might be remove)
Fish Screening
Project Ended v
' The most ambitious fish screen
ing project ever attempted In this
state will terminate temporarily
this week according to the state
Kame- commission. Crews that
have been busy for several months
pouring screen boxes and Installing
rotary' screens on the John Day
j river will close up shop until fa
Svorable weather' prevails again in
& the spring.
Thus far, 125 concrete screen
boxes have been poured. Well over
300 will be poured on completion
of the project. Rotary fish screens
have been placed in 40 of th:
boxes.
The project will be completed n,
another two years. 'The improve
ment work is a part of the federal
ly financed Lower Columbia River
development program.
Mrs. Eisenhower
Plans Birthday
from cigarettes to mate them safe.
Development or Use -t new lypc
of tobucco. shown to be free ot sus
pected agents, has been proposed
Cigarette paper is beins studied.
If danger is found to esist fieri',
that could be remover, or avoided.
In one human exDerunent, a Ke
York scientist Is having his skin
painted with tobaccu ..mokn ex
tracts, to see If they produce skin
cruicers as tobacco tars lipve pr-j"
duced skin cancers in mice. His
skin also is beina pain'fd with oth
er chemicals which are known to
ti-duce cancer in anidHb.
He is relatively safe in this ex
periment, for any skin cancers
which may apporr coJd easily be
removed in ample time.
The buildup of evidence so far
has numerous well-known physi
cians and scientists either con
vinced or hWhh suspicious there
is a link of definite danger in cig
arettes, even thoucb the extent hat'
not been accurately measured.
To others, there seem ti be se
rious loopholes in the statistics, or
other explanations; in short, lack
of sufficient proof.
Dr. Little, for example, sayshr
TIRC's scientific advisory board of
nine prominent scientists and piiv
sicians all "believe more research
is needed. Not one say that ciga
rettes cause cancer nor that it
does not. We've got to be able to
take any kind of evidence, and
weigh it."
No strings are attached to sci
entists working under TIRC grant.';,
he adds. Tile committee "will
make no attempt to direct the ad
ministration of the project once
started, to Influence its course, or
to control the results." The scien
tists are free to publish their find
ings and conclusions to inform the
public.
Dr. Little says he would like to
see answers sought to such ques
tions as eifects of smoking on tne
nervous system, whether there are
differences in the nervous or other
makeup of smokers and nonsmok
ers, or smokers of pipes or cigars
compared with cigarettes. What
makes teen-agers start to smoke
What kind of person may tend to
smoke moderately or to excess?
More tissue studies, more analyses
of tobacco and its components also
are under way.
One theory of cancer is that
some cancers, at least, come only
after years of irritation. This Is
one reason for suspecting smoking
in lung cancer. But, Dr. Little asks,
is this because of the irritation, or
because the person himself or his
body tissues have changed during
the process of aging?
Time enters into the cigarette
controversy. Some experts say the
evidence is clear enough now; that
in time they will convince others
that this is so. The others say not
enough facts are known; that in
time the facts will Influence or con
trovert the present evidences.
Research may bring such addi
tional evidence even lacking
some Incontrovertible proof of
cause-and-effect action to con
vince most of the authorities.
Certainly an energetic quest,
going deep into various questions
or aspects raised, could produce
unexpected dividends of great Im
portance in probably unpredicted
ways. It could produce more knowl
edge about cancer or heart dis
ease, not connected with any smok
ing aspect. .
That could become one of the
great, positive values from the cur
rent controversy.
Meanwhile, smokers can decide
for themselves whether they agree
with the experts who say ciga
rettes are bad, those who say they
are not, or those who advise wait
ing for more evidence.
III -Lw; i V" T
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THE FIRST ANNUAL leader's conference of the Klamath Council of Camp Fire Girls was
held November 10. Leaders met at the Winema Hotel for luncheon. Mrs. Percy Murray, na
tional council member and regional representative, was guest of honor and speaker. Seated
at the speaker's table were II to rl Mrs. George Proctor, leader's training chairman, Mrs,
Murray and Mrs. Donald West, chairman of the Merrill leader's association. Standing, same
order, Mrs. Naomi French, executive director; Mrs. Wayne Esperson, secretary of the Klam
ath Falls association and Dolores Sundkvist, Dorris association secretary.
Parents To
Hold Meeting
MALIN Malin Pa lent-Pa Irons
will have a guest speaker at their
meeting, November 16, Dr. Don
ald McDougal, professor of social
science at Southern College of Ed
ucation. He will speak on contem
porary and world affairs at 3
o'clock at 'the grade school audi
torium. .
Preceding his talk, school will
observe National Education Week
by inviting all parents and friends
to visit classrooms ar-d see class
es in regular session from 1 to
2:40 p.m.
School will be dismissed at 2:45
and the buses will return tile chil
dren to their homes.
A supervised nursery for pre -school
children will be held in the
afternoon. Refreshments will b2
served. Entertainment will be fur
nished by a boys chorus of t h e
seventh grade.
Many groups from other Parent
Patrons clubs are expected to at
tend this outstanding meeting.
Chinooks Return
To Umpqua River
A mass return to the Umpqua Is
being staged by spring Chinook sal
mon according to the latest reports
I from Bill Pitney, Oregon Game
Commission fisheries agent in the
area.
Counts of adult spring Chinook
salmon passing over the counting
board at Winchester dam on the
north Umpqua show that the run
this year was far m excess of the
parent run five years ago. In fact,
since counting b:gan in 1946. the
counts of returning' fish had ex
ceeded the parent runs. This year
more than 0,600 adult spring Chin
ook were counted over Winchester
dam, the parent run count was
2.503. Only 1.974 chinooks passed
the counting station in 1946.
The counting station is located
on the north side of the North
Umpr.ua Plver Just above the High
way 99 bridge.
MISSION
TOKYO (.41 Red China's Red
Cross mission, headed by Mme.
lA Ten-Ghuan, left by air for home
Friday after a two-week goodwill
visit.
Farm Bureau
Festival Held ...
BONANZA Speakers at the
annual Harvest Festival for the
Bonanza Farm Bureau Center
were Carrol Howe, Klamath Coun
ty School superintendent, W. W.
Womer, manager of the Klamath
Falls social security office and
Marjorie Brown.
Howe spoke on "The Dispersal
of Basic School Funds;" Womer
on the Social Security Act, its pur
pose, changes and results for far
mers and Miss Brown spoke on
"Democracy Must Be Learned In
the Schools." Marjorie, winner of
the Klamath County Farm Bureau
Italk-meet will go to state competi
tion at Mcdford, November 18.
Between 75 and 100 persons were
Ipresent for the potluck supper.
Monday Believed Deadline
For McCarthy Defense Move
statement" McCarthy might offer
by way of retraction. '
WASHINGTON. Republican
leaders icportedly set a Monday
target dale for efforts to soften a
censure resolution against Sen.
McCarthy (R-Wisi.
Monday was the day specilied
by an influential COP senator who.
askuig to remain anonymous, said
in an Interview that unless Mc
Carthy and his friends can agree
by then on a compromise resolu
tion "it won't be much use to try
any further."
So far, this senator added, Mc
Carthy himself has not agreed to
accept even the criticism involved
in a proposed watered-down alter
native to the direct censure rec
ommendation now before the Sen
ate. The Senate itsell was in recess
over the weekend after a session
yesterday which saw McCarthy as
sailed as a spreader of "slush and
slime" and defended as "the
strongest voice now sneaking out
in America against communism."
During the debate Sen. Knowland
of California, the Republican floor
leader, seemed to be laying the
groundwork for a possible Senate
verdict differing from the censure
resolution unanimously proposed
by the special committee headed
by Sen. Watkins (R-Utahi. Know
land said that while he had im
plicit faith in the six-man biparti
san committee, that did not mean
the committee's recommendation
bad to be accepted without change.
The GOP senator Interviewed to
day said that one suggested com
promise, so far spurned by Mc
Carthy, might declare that while
McCarthy's actions had been "in
temperate and indiscreet" on some
occasions, he had helped in shew
ing "penetration of key govern
ment agencies" by Communists,
this version of the proposed
compromise would strike out all
reference to censure or condemna
tion of McCarthy himself, a move
its backers are not sure could com
mand the necessary majority vote.
However, Sen. Aiken (R-Vt), said
in an interview he believes "some
senators might be willing to cen
sure or condemn acts who are un
willing to vote against Ben. Mc
Carthy personally."
The Watkins committee has rec
ommended that McCarthy be "con
demned" for his alleged "contemp
tuous" treatment of an elections
subcommittee which investigated
his finances in 1951-52. The group
asked that he be censured also for
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WASHINGTON (AV-Mrs. Dwight
D. Eisenhower has a big stack of
j packages to open tomorrow her
68th birthday.
Among thein is one from, her
husband, the President, who re
turns today from duck hunting on
Lake Erie.
Mrs. George Moore, Mrs. Eisen-1
hower's sister, and her husband;
Col. Moore, who live in Wash
ington, and a few close friends
have been Invited in for Sunday
night supper, at which there will!
be a birthday cake. Mrs. Eisen-;
hower's mother. Mrs. John Sheldon!
Doud. is staying at the White
House.
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fore McCarthy's Investigations sub
committee earlier this year.
Sin. Dirksen IR-Ill', a backstage
leader of compromise moves, de
clined comment. But it was learn
ed he had urged McCarthy's
friends to temper their Innguaue
in discussing the censure issue in
the hope that chances for a com
promise would not go up in the
soke of debate.
McCarthy himself flew to Wis
consin to accept an award from the
Young Republican Women of that
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 10
In an Interview here today D.
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