Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • Page 22

PAGE 22 A I CITIZEN MONDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1957 --Af SOONERS GET SOAKED The town of Btxby, 20 miles north of Tulsa, was hard hit when the Arkansas River flooded some 800 homes totaling about one-third of the city of 2,300 persons. It was the greatest flood on tht river in 34 years. NEW HORIZONS IN SCIENCE Clues Tying Cigarettes To Diseases Piling Up EARL UBELL land interpretation, two functions NEW smoklne of! neceiMlf in world of technical tobacco, particularly In the form of cigarettes, is ah important health hamd." This was the recent verdict of aeven sober scientists who took a tone took the available scientific evidence linking smoking with lung cancer, heart disease, cancer in general and other ailments. In detail, the scientists, comtnis- ttoMd by the American Cancer Society, the American Heart the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart Institute, found: ON LUNG CANCER: "The sum total of scientific evidence establishes, beyond reasonable doubt that dgaretic smoking is a causa- live (actor iii the rapidly Increasing Incidence of human epldermoid carcinoma of the lung." ON HEART DISEASE: While tht death rate cf smokers certain age groups li reported to double that of non-smokers, "there it no convincing biological or clinical evidence to indicate that smoking per M.haa a causative role in cardiovascular disease." ON CANCER OF OTHER ORGANS: "The relationships have been studied to a degree to indicate statistical association," ON OTHER DISEASES: In one ailment, In which tiny blood vessels in the arms and legs clog often producing gangrene, there is voluminous evidence showing that smoking aggravates the condition strikingly. Only Statistical associations are known for bronchitis, ulcers and tuberculosis.

After considering all these find- Ings, the study group urged: "The implications of this statement are clear Jn terms of the need for thorough consideration of appropriate control measures on the part of the official and voluntary agencies concerned with the health of the people." The study group admitted that it had done no new experiment work, nor was that its purpose. It was charged with evaluation reports. That four of the leading health organizations commissioned these men to do that job means that their views are not to be taken lightly and if they repeated the conclusions of others, that serves only to strengthen the earlier views. Of course, the Tobacco Industry Research Committee took a bleak view of this report as they have at every scientific study made to date linking cigarette smoking with cancer or heart disease, Timothy V. Hartnett, the chairman, dismissed list week's report as "personal conclusions," "viewpoints of seven Individuals," "restating opinions," etc.

THE TOBACCO Industry committee head is correct when he says that the final answers about cancer and heart disease are not known, but In the view of, the seven-man group a substantial part of the story of lung cancer Is known, at least enough to say that there Is a cause and effect relationship. Primarily there Is the statistical evidence, which so many times In the past has provided valuable leads to the origin of human diseases. Two kinds of studies made In this country and England corroborate the association of lung cancer with smoking. There is the type of study, the best kind, that selects apparently healthy persons and then follows them through life. The other, less valid, takes lung cancer victims and searches their histories for common habits and exposures.

Then there Is the evidence from anatomical examinations of the lung which show changes in lung tissue to a far greater extent among smokers than among nonsmokers. Backing this up are animal studies that show substances in tobacco smoke, as yet unidentified, can cause skin cancer in mice. This Mule Must Have Liked Army COLORADO SPRINGS, stubborn old mule finally has bowed out of the Army, but not willingly. At least one mule fought departure until the bitter end. The Army recently disposed of its last In a sale here.

One took the sale as a personal insult. It leaped a four-foot fence at a civilian corral and headed for home--the Ft. Carson corral. Shortly thereafter, Colorado Springs residents began telephoning police that a mule was on the loose. One woman notified Ft.

Carson officials, who turned 136 mules serial number, the sergeant became slightly embarrassed. "I suddenly realized that this was one of three mules I'd bought during the big mule sale the previous day," Rodee said. "I'm telling you that mule didn't wanta the matter over to M. Spt. Albert ct discharged from this here Rodee, a veteran mule-skinner of i Army." 19 years in the Army.

RODEE STARTED a search for ured the mule traveled about five the mule, finally found it wandering along the highway. He and a deputy sheriff succeeded in catching up with the animal--but after the mule had arrived at its old Army corral. As Rodee studied the mule's That seems to be the story on lung cancer, which kills 20.000 males each year and whose rate appears to be rising sharply. The group did not rule out the possibility of air pollution as a contributing factor and statistical studies show that lung cancer is more common among city than rural folk. 'But the bigger mystery, Indeed, the bigger challenge to public health ii the possible effect on heart disease.

About a million persons die each year from this ailment, 400,000 coronary artery ailments alone, IF THE STATISTICAL association between cigarette smoking and heart disease is a true cause and effect relationship, the danger to public health of even a small effect, as the study group points out, would be greater than that of lung cancer. The American Cancer Society study of IS7.000 men showi that tha death rate cononary disease among men who smoke more than a pack a day is twice as high as among non-smokers. This could mean 200,000 more deaths a year. But as the tobacco committee points out, this is "only a statistical association." Many such associationi in the past, even when backed up by a wrong theory, have'proved to be correct. In France in the last century a statistical association was demonstrated between the eating of corn and pellagra.

It was concluded that there was a poison in the corn and it was outlawed. The farmers switched to wheat and pellagra diminished. There was, of course, no poison In the corn. The poor farmers subsisting solely on a corn diet did not get any vitamins which resulted in pellagra. When they switched to wheat they got the vitamins.

Such "associations" particularly when discovered by acknowledged scientists should not, as the sober seven pointed out, be taken lightly. for Citizen The 62-year-old scrgcact fig- BED WETTING icorrltii br "BlwJdtr Wnkntu Up WlSte B.H weuir.t. miles in its bid to remain in the Army. "That little mule's really got what it takes." Rodee said. "There aren't many mules who could have Jumped the fences he jumped and made his way all the way back to the corral." The mule, incidentally, got one Theft Suspects Live In Midst Of Law RENO--(iV-An ironic note was added today to the case file cf three men arrested here for questioning about a series of burglaries.

The trio was taken into custody after a bullet-punctured, 109-mile- an-hour chase. Officers learned two of the men had been living in the midst of the law. A Reno policeman lives across the street from their rented house, 3 deputy sheriff is a back yard neighbor and an FBI agent lives just up the street. Noil-Farm Job Total Hits 55,400, Up 3,300 In Year Pinia County non-agricultural employment in April stood at more than in March and 3,300 above a year ago. Bruce Parkinson, director of the Unemployment Compensation Di- lision of the Employment Security Commission, reported that both manufacturing and mining gained 100 employes during the month.

Construction employment remained unchanged with 3,900 em- ployes. And there was a seasonal low of 200 in the wholesale and retail trade businesses. This total is now 12,900. The services and miscellaneous group dropped by 100 to a total of 9,200. Government employment gained 100 to a total of 10.900.

And transportation gained 100. over of For the state as a whole, non- 3,500. agricultural employment reached a new high of 258,000. This is 200 above the previous high set in December and 1,200 above a year ago. Manufacturing gained 700 during the month.

This Is 3,600 195S and stands at a total 38,700. Box manufacturing in Phoenix pulled lumber and wood products up by 500 employes to a total Five At Of A Seek Doctorates Five graduate students at the University of" Arizona are candidates for doctor of philosophy degrees to be given at commencement May 29. Three of the candidates--Anil Krishna Banerjee, Daniel Joseph Brennan and Riley Seymour Smith, majored in geology. James Melvin Rhodes is work' Ing in education and Mrs. Margie McCaughey is a student of agricultural biochemistry.

Banerjee it a native of Calcutta, India, and degrees from the University of Calcutta. He has studied here since 1955. Hit major field is economic and structural geology. Smith Is a native of Oklahoma and holds degrees from the University of Tulsa. He Is the father of eight children and has worked as consulting geologist and instructor at the university during the past year.

Brennan holds degrees from Notre Dame University and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He came to the university in 1955 and Is now working for Shell Oil Co. In Billings, Mont. A graduate of Purdue University, Mrs. McCaughey has prepared her dissertation on "The Effect of Cortisone and Other Anti-inflammatory Agents upon Transaminase in Rat Tissue." She is now chemist in the horticulture department and was formerly a medical chemist at Abbott Laboratories In North Chicago, III.

Rhodes has been assistant in the UA student placement bureau and was recently appointed assistant professor of education. He will join the teaching faculty of the College of Education. Broadway Underpass Closed The Iwo-lane Broadway underpass will be closed off to traffic until 'sometime Friday to permit sandblasting and other renovation work. Herman W. Danforth, fity director of public works, said the project which started this morning is to clean scaled concrete from the structure.

Traffic was being jonto 1st avenue at the tube's east entrance, north to 8th street, west to 4th' avenue and thence through that subway to' Congress street. Eastbound traffic was directed to 9th street. The Dixon Tucson, was work, to be followed by cleanup and painting operations, Danforth said he hoped the subway would be reopened by 5 p.m. Friday. Sandblasting performing a Deer Run Riot Through Town WEST READING, Pa.

-ay- three deer wandered into town Saturday night and butted store windows, jumped through glass doors and sailed over back yard fences before townspeople killed one and chased the other two out of town. One dashed wildly through the corridor of an apartment house, which he entered through the front glass door. Another leaped over a back fence, almost bowling over off-duty Patrolman Lloyd Detter- llne, who was working in his garden. The buck leader of the deer trio was shot by Patrolman Foster Griffith after it appeared the animal had been badly wounded in its escapade. The other two deer, both does, outran police patrol cars, sprinters and boys on bicycles, escaping into the woods.

Supports Hot Rod, Skin Diving Clubs Volkswagen Vote Issue In Germany BONN, Germany W) The sturdy Volkswagen has become an issue in West Germany's election campaign. The "people's car" was created by Adolf Hitler's engineers to help fulfill Hitler's promise that every German would have his own car. Originally designed to sell for $240, the first Volkswagens were produced with money contributed by 330,000 Germans, all expecting a car for their contribution. Few got it. The plant was three- fifths destroyed in World War II and contributors lost their money.

Some are.still fighting in court to get some return. The Volkswagen wo'rki was taken over by the West German government. i i a. decade, West Germany has be Europe's No. 1 auto exporter, largely on the Volkswagen's popularity.

Last year Volkswagen produced 395,211 cars and exported 216,540 of them, chiefly to Sweden, Belgium, the United States, Switzerland and Austria. One sells for about $1,000 in Germany. The Socialists, fighting to unseat Chancellor a Adenauer's Christian Democratic regime, are campaigning for eventual nationalization of basic Industry. They want Volkswagen to continue to be state-owned. Adenauer struck back this week.

He laid the government would share Volkswagen by offering iioek to West Germany's "little man." Mil plan calls for a joint stock company with million marks (f 14.25 million) in capita), broken into mark ($12) shares. Only private citizens could buy the stock. No one could hold more than $6,000 worth. Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard says this If an attempt to give West Germani "a real share" in the wealth their work produces. "Cheap election propaganda," retorted the Socialists.

Getzwiller Funeral Set Tomorrow Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Benson for Pierre F. Getzwiller, 53, a pioneer settler in the San Pedro River valley. Mr. Getzwiller.

operator of the Home Ranch Supply at Benson died Saturday at the hospital in Benson. His funeral will be at the Community Presbyterian Church tomorrow burial will be in the Benson cemetery. Native of Hope, N.M., he came as a child to Arizona with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jo H.

Getzwiller. They were pioneers in the San Pedro valley and developed the Sari Pedro Ranch, near Benson. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Clar A. Getzwiller, a daughter and three brothers.

Arizona Mortuary of Tucson is making the arrangements for services. Defense Test Causes Real Casualties TOOELE, Utah A B25' decision to a ze new trails" in bomber and three jet fighter-j J' outh activities. The council urged YMCA's PHlLADELPHIA-OF)-The na- aODetite tiona! council of the Young Men's Christian Assn. has endorsed "hot! rod' 1 and skin diving clubs in a Actor's Son Is Hearty Eater LOS ANGELES--WV-For a 2- year-old boy, actor Rod Cameron's son is a hearty eater. The child's mother says she needs $100 a month just to keep up with Tiis bombers buzzed Utah community this and northern dropped across the land to develop clubs smoke bombs in a test of civil 1 channel such modern enthusi- dcfense preparedness.

There were 100 mock "casual- asms on the part of the nation's youngsters. The recommendations came in a policy statement yes- Angela Alves-Lico, 25, the Ex- Mrs. Cameron, has asked an increase from $200 to $500 a month in Cameron's support payments for their son, Anthony. Among his expenses she listed $100 a month for food. Observed Superior Judge Wallace L.

Ware: "I live pretty well, but my wife and I don't eat $100 a month worth of food--and we en- more night in the old Army cor- tics ra! before Rodee took him away i And thcro was a man who a at thc end of the council's! tertain a lot." once more "for riding on hand, a boy who fainted when annual convention. A Cameron's rt for CTETTX into. bow iut jou fcr.provt. enas" by the sergeant and i saw realistic "wound" make- iup, a young war widow who generals, mules never die fainted as the jets buzzed over- they just fade away. Rodeo's and the man who thought wanted to depart smoke was caused by a fire a bit less gracefully.

on his property. attorney: can a child new! drink?" The i The judge raised the monthly payments from $200 to $300 and Also approved was a $5 million "How much milk fund-raising campaign for YMCA buildings overseas, drive is part of a worldwide campaign for new structures 1 to cost advised Miss Alves-Lico to begin an estimated $17,500,000. practicing economy. Construction employment dropped sharply during the month as 700 workers were lost. The total became 19,300.

Statewide a employment gained 400 over March to a total of 63,300. Total mining employment was unchanged at 16,500 but copper mining rose by 100 to a total of This is 900 above a year ago. Production workers in manufacturing were earning an average $2.22 per hour in mid-April. Aircraft workers were earning $2.46 an hour. And copper miners topped wages with an average weekly earning of $110.38.

Flagstaff Girl Given Scholarship Phyllis Babbitt of Flagstaff, who graduated i from the University of Arizona last year, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in France. Miss Babbitt to the daughter of Mrs. James, E. Babbitt and a niece of-John Babbitt; a member of the board of regents. She will study French literature "at the University of Besancon.

She earned a bachelor's degree in English at the university. Among her honors were those of vice president of her senior class, membership in the student senate and of the women's honorary Spurs. She was-a member of Kappa Alpha Theta social aoror- ity. Mist Babbitt received senior class honors in her last year on tha campus. Her hope is eventually to earn a doctor of philosophy degree.

ATLAJNTIC TEST NEXT Super Sabre Sets U. S. Speed Record McGUIRE AFB, N. F100F, Super Sabre jet yesterday flew from Pajmdale, to this base in 3 hours 38 minutes to set a new unofficial transcontinental An Air Force spokesman said the plane left California at 9:13 a.m., local time, and landed here at local time. The old unofficial record.of 3 hours, 44 minutes, 53,88 seconds was established on Mar.

9, by an F84F jet plane flying between International Airport, Los Angeles, and Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, N. Y. The F100F fighter was piloted by Robert Eisner of the Tactical Air Command, 479th Fighter Day Wing at George Air Force Base, Calif. The spokesman said the plane will continue to Paris at 6 a.m. tomorrow in effort to set an unofficial transatlantic record.

The" transatlantic flight will commemorate the famous Lindbergh flight, which took place exactly 30 years ago tomorrow. FIRE CALLS (Calif In a.m. Today) Saturday: 8:56 a.m.-l:iS a.m.--To Municipal Airport, First aid. Truck tu, (city. 3:23 p.m.-3:M a.m.-To IMS 13tt St.

Stove Waking gai. Engine 3, (city). Sunday: 11:19 a.m.-ll:30 a.m.--To Alvernon and East 3rd Ave. Grais lire. Engine (city).

11:35 a.m.--To E. KJ- mer. Traah (city). liM p.nv-Z:OJ p.m.--To 38th St. and llth Ave.

Rotut Kngtaes 1 a j. (Sotith Turaon). p.m.--To 825 I. Copper St. Auto on flre.

Engine truck (dty). 1:40 p.m.-2:SO W. 38th I St. Shed lire. Dngtnei 1 and 2, (South Side).

5:38 p.tn.-5:50 p.nv--To 43H 8. Elaj' Ave. Garage lire. Engines 1 and 4, truck 11. Prescott.

Gtes Gains PRESCOTT UD Prescott's bank debits for April increased about a half million dollars over the corresponding period a year ago, the, Prescott. Chamber of Comnterqe reports. The fighter plane will be displayed at the International Air- Exposition in Paris. i Charles Lindbergh, then 25, was the-first person to fly the Atlantic aboard his famed "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took him 33 hours 29 minutes and 20 seconds.

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