The Port Arthur News from Port Arthur, Texas • Page 17

Tuesday, December 20,1977 THE NEWS, Port Arthur, Texas 17 Cancer scares bouncing around microwaves (L to R) Dorothy Alpough, Jerry Knippel, Anna M. Francis, Tina Flanagan and (seated) Audrey Roy Excelsior making efforts felt The 16 members of the Excelsior Ladies Family of the Golden Triangle, a service organization dedicated to giving assistance to needy citizens, is currently trying to make its efforts felt by donations such as food baskets given to Some Other Place in Beaumont and the United Board of Missions in Port Arthur. Also, plans have been made to contribute food to a similar facility in Orange. Recently the handicapped patrons of the Regional State Center for Humaii Development were gifted i a wheelchair from the Excetsior Ladies. On hand at the presentation were Dorothy Alpough.

Mrs. Anna M. Frances and Mrs. Tina Flanagan. The center's director.

Jerry Knippel. accepted the gift, with Audrey Roy. client of the center Mrs. Johnetta Londow is president of the organization. By United Press International Good spy stories are made of shadovy transactions, dolls with microphones tucked in red silk bikinis and two- way phones hidden in cufflinks of sexy male operatives.

Health detective yarns of any merit include puzzling diseases, innocent victims, cries for a Congressional investigation, and developments threatening to ignite World War III or very quietly wipe homo sapiens off the earth. The spy and health tales, if really good, include two sides each with its own experts studded with impeccable credentials. A true spy and health story these days combines elements of the two tales. It doesn't depend much on dolls in bikinis or handsome male operatives. It depends on microwaves.

The big microwave mystery circling the globe right now sets up shivers and shudders in both the West and communist countries. The Soviet Union, authorities speculate, uses microwaves to listen in on conversations at the American Embassy in Moscow and to American eavesdropping equipment of a related type. U.S.S.R. officials always deny the charge. Henry Kissinger probably knows the truth." Lots of persons who worked at the American Embassy since the Russians started pelting the place with microwaves in the are said to have come down with cancer or pre-cancerous conditions.

Is it the microwaves or something in the One authority has told President Carter the alumni of that embassy have the highest incidence of cancer of any group in the world. The truth will be known about the embassy's cancer Living, loving holiday gifts. Send Our FTD Season's Greater Bouquet. link with microwaves when Dr. Abraham Lilienfeld reports in June on his analysis of health records of up to 4,000 persons who worked at the embassy at one time or another since around the 1960's.

Lilienfeld. health detective at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, was commissioned by the United States State Department to look for the cancer link if, as suspected, it exists. The question Lilienfeld addresses goes beyond the American embassy in Moscow and the persons who worked there. Other researchers are trying to answer it through research with laboratory animals exposed to various doses of microwaves. The question, actually, for everyone in these times of a swiftly developing technocracy, is: Do microwaves injure people if not at once, eventually? Dr.

William J. Thaler heads the U.s". Office of Telecom- munications Policy, part of the executive branch. In an interview he said he's pushing for a long-term study of populations living in areas of microwave pollution. This would provide something better than animal research.

People living near airports, in urban areas near broadcast towers powered by microwaves may be the ones to keep track of. according to Thaler. Such studies, as the physicist sees it. would bring some significant answers to the questions about microwaves pollution and its alleged threats to health. "We need research trying to identify the problem without causing panic," he said.

"1 don't know," he answered when asked if people living near radar installations or broadcast antennas were in any greater danger than others. The National Research Council of the National Academy of Science is circulating a proposal to investigate microwaves Theriot Club circuit Alpha Eta Tau. BSP anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Odeon Theriot will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary from 7 until 10 p.m.Friday.

Dec. 30 with an open house reception hosted by their children at the home of Lolan and Jane Savoy. 6760 32nd St. An Anniversary Mass will also be celebrated in their honor at St. Catherine Church 8 a.m.

Thursday. Dec. 29. The couple wishes to extend an invitation through the press for all friends to attend The Couple requests that no gifts be brought. Norris Shower Jan Ann Norris.

bride- elect of Ronald Cyril KntTht was honored with a miscelaneous bridal shower recently at College Station. Delta Zeta sorority sisters including Carol Cangelosi and Shelley Lord hosted the shower. Miss Norris was also honored with a kitchen and bath shower recently. i Marianita Paddock. Cyndi Edwards and Denice Harrell.

Alpha Eta Tau chapter of Beta -Sigma Phi will have a bake sale from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Nederland State Bank. Members and husbands recently had a Christmas dinner at Sue Bevii's home. Members exchanged secret sister gifts.

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