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Show THE SAX JUAN RECORD PAGE TWO 7k SaK THE fuan Record OP UTAH OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY. SAN JUAN Published Every Thursday at Monticello, Utak Entered at the Pest Office at MnoticeUo, Utah, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 EDITORIALS HELP YOURSELF HELP OTHERS is too The saying "Better late than never often a tragic pronouncement in cancer More than 75,000 American lives could have been saved from cancer last year if treatment had begun in time. These facts should be remembered during the In addition to giving April Cancer Crusade. make it a point to have a cancer to generously no matter how well you health examination feel. As the American Cancer Society sums it up: "Fight Cancer With a Checkup and a Check. After all, part of the money the Society seeks will be spent encouraging Americans to make the health checkup a regular habit . This is your He who gives to the ACS, best cancer insurance. but fails to take a checkup is only robbing Peter to pay Paul later. Apparently it is no longer possible to discharge a duty to philanthropy by simply making a gift. We are also bound to follow sound health practices and to recommend them to others. Some will say its nagging, but we admit pleasure with the concern of a voluntary health agency like the American Cancer Society shows for our This is the stuff of which our way of life is made, and and hope it will persist long after cancer has been conquered. well-bein- g. So help yourself, help others and fight cancer by supporting the 1957 Cancer Crusade. And dont forget that checkup. RIGHT OR WRONG THEY VOTED GIVE to the American Cancer Society A subscriber writes us: "I am the mother of three children. My son, who is seven, got three Salk polio shots at school. But my oldest child ,a high school girl, has had none. Neither has the baby, who is three. Do they need to be inoculated and should we do it now? Yes, they do need it and you should do it at once. Polio authorities, like the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, say that a large portion of elementary school children have already been protected. But most teenagers and still more preschool children havent. They are first on the list. urgency At the moment, heavy demand has strained the supply of vaccine. Temporary shortages will be made up as rapidly as the manufacturers can produce new supplies. Every family should protect itself at the earliest possible time. And that means the whole family for polio is not excluThe percentage of cases sively a childs disease. adults 20 aged among through 39 has taken a turn Furthermore, it is the adult sharp upward. more likely than the the child who winds up in an iron lung. It is the adult, and not the child, whose paralysis leaves a family bereft of a mother or a wage earner. So bundle up your family all who haven't had their three shots yet and get them vaccinated. Dont delay any longer than is absolutely necessary. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE CHALLENGE American public. Industry, medicine and agriculture are benefitting from the use of radioisotopes. From 800,00 to a million patients are being diagnosed or treated with isotopes each year. Isotopes have brought to the hand of agricultural scientists tools which are enabling them to make studies never before possible. More than a third of a billion dollars has been saved to industry through the use of radioisotopes. Add this to the score that private enterprise has rolled up in the development of atomic energy, and one is led to wonder how Senator Albert Gore has the temerity to propose that Congress should take $400 million of the taxpayers money with which to build atomic power plants. Senator Gore in making this proposal also would also have Congress forget its mandate to the Federal Power Commission that development, use and control of atomic energy for peacetime purposes should be directed so as to strengthen free com- petition in private enterprise." Surely Congress will not forget that mandate and reject the Tennessee Senators proposal to have government butt into the atomic energy field in which private enterprise has already demonstrated it has the situation well in hand. -- favor the same amount. Should John Foster Dulles continue as SecMr Dulles is given a vote of retary of State? confidence 57 per cent to 38 per cent. 4. Should farm price supports be returned to the old 90 per cent of parity level? Only 22 74 as favor cent opthis, against per per cent 3. posed. 5. Scientists Still Seeking Drug Cure For Cancer; Note Progress With Animals Should corporations be exempt from taxation on that portion of earnings they distribute as dividends and upon which individuals pay taxes that is, should this form of double taxation be eliminated? The vote is 69 per cent "Yes to 28 pe rcent "No. (EDITORS NOTE: One in a series of articles prepared by the American Cancer Society, Five describes efKeys to Cancer, forts to cure cancer with drugs). Until just a few years ago, it was axiomatic that no drug cured cancer. Many scientists used to add, And, What's more none ever Should any budget surplus be applied to reA will. ducing taxes or to reducing the national debt? the reduce 70 to Today one has to qualify. No big majority, per cent, prefers cures human cancer. A drug tax as 25 cuts. debt, against percent favoring or so drugs will cure 81 should the bill authorizing a minimum experimental cancers in animals cure them completely and for all of $600 million a year of federal money for school half-donze- n construction be approved? Here is another close one 45 per cent of the editors say "Yes, and 53 per cent "No. Should bills requiring that cooperatives and loan associations be subject to the same taxation The "Ayes as other businesses be approved? 86 per cent to 12 per have it, overwhelmingly cent. 10. Should first-clas- s postage rates be raised to would 5 cents, along with the provision that received a be used when possible? This proposal "No majority of 60 percent, as against 39 pet cent saying "Yes. be relieved of 11. Should the his job of presiding over the Senate, and given The editors favor this specific executive duties? d possibility by a margin of 63 8. air-ma- il Vice-Preside- nt much-discusse- per cent to 33 per cent. The American Press prints pages of comment from country editors on these and other issues. One thing is clear whatever side or solution they favor, most of them have definite ideas and they dont hesitate to express them vigorously. time. And every now and then the pessimistic conviction that drugs will never cure human cancer is given a severe jolt. The recent and experiments with styryl quinolin-iusalts are an example. These deeply colored antiseptic dyes have been used variously to make photographis films more sensitive and as a treatment for sleeping sickness. Back in 1944, British scientists, engaged in making counterfeit hormones which they hoped might work against cancer, prepared a few quinolinium compounds and found that they had some but not curative activity against animal cancers A decade later Dr. Carl Tabb Bahnier, a chemist at College in Jefferson City. Tenn., decided to tinker with quinolinium molecules. He shifted a few atoms here and there and sent his products up to Drs. Margaret Reed Lewis and Boland Hughes at the Unit versity of Pennsylanvania for testing. These Investigators had transplanted lymphatic cancer which was particularly lethal injected under the rat skin, this lukemic-liktumor spread rapidly to many vital organs and killed the animals within three g Carson-Newma- n e IN THE LIGHTER VEIN , My dear San Juaners: Should foreign aid (which has been runannual rate) be inning at about a $4 billion creased, decreased, or maintained at the same amount? Only 6 per cent of the editors say 63 per cent say less and 26 per cent while more, 6. A Lis' 2. favoring reduction, 35 per cent favoring favoring continuance of and 29 per cent endorsing reductions on the first $25,000 of profit. 1 and, as in animals, they have been active against sarcoma. While an occasional patient has derived dramatic benefit from these compounds patients have been restored to health and cancers have disappeared temporarily they have never cured a single human cancer. Because they are tremendously toxic, these drugs have to be used with extreme caution. Thousands and thousands of compounds now are being screened for their effect against They are tested for their ability to arrest the growth of bacterial cells, for their effect on human cancers grown in laboratory dishes or transplanted to animals and for their destructive capacity against a wide range of animal cancers. Some of these compounds have proved promising enough to try on humans; and a dozen or more now are used routinely against human cancers. They polliate but do not cure so far. Pessimism has given way to Somewhere among these hope. countless compounds natural and sythetic hormones and vitamins, antibiotics, antimetabolites, poison gases, bacterial products, herbs, organ extracts and molecules now awaiting there may be some testing which will cure cancer. cdn-ce- r. made-to-ord- ODDITIES The Olmec, a mysterious of American. Indians that flourished some 400 years B.C., built elaborate tombs and monuments of basalt rock in southern Mexico, the National Geographic Society says. Findings indicate these people had a knowledge of mathematics and developed a calendar that the Mayans may have All the progress, every item of improvement and every worthwhile invention which men have made since the dawn of history, has been in response to the urge of necessity: drought, floods, hunger, thirst, heat, coal the difficulty of getting and doing things necessary to life and its essential needs and comforts. The Creator has kept mankind supplied with one splendid urge after another, that they might be alive and active and make all possible progress. We are forced to conclude, even if it were not clearly stated in holy writ, that men were intended to dwell on all the face of the earth, and that would be quite impossible without studying out the particular way and means of adapting to the difficulties and dangers of the different zones and climates and unusual countries. We have been, and possibly Erne still, feeling the sharp urge of meeting and overcoming the hardships of a drought. It has set many minds to thinking what they otherwise would not have bestired themselves to think. Some unique and promising schemes have begun to materialize, and if the urge continues, we shall do some wonderful things ahead of anything we ever did and gave him a numbered pink ticket fot Since the officer which he was asked twenty lira. could not speak Italian he thought it advisable to pay without discussion, assuming the ticket was his authority to park the car. When he returned to his hotel, however, he showed the ticket to the desk clerk and asked what it was . He was chagrined to learn that he had insured his car against damage in the event that the Leaning Tower fell on it during his visit. Arthur J. M. Ethier (Montrealer) o old There once was an Finnish woodsman who He boasted that he was very proud of his axe. had had the same axe for twenty years. "You mean, marveled a friend, "that you have really used that same axe, day after day, for twenty years? "Gosh, yes, said the woodsman loftily, "and all it has ever needed was six new heads and seven handles." o Pierre Lazareff, editor of the Paris newspaper, Ce Soir, summed up the life of a journalist in one sentence for a college class recently: "A journalist spends the first half of his career writing about things he doesnt understand, and the second half concealing the fact that he understands them only too well! If the cancerous rats were fed the quinolinium drug, however, they did not die. Their cancers Treatwere completely cured. ment was successful even when it was started 16 days after the a few days before .transplant the animals would have died. The drug cured 100 percent of the treated animals if it was fed to to them from 10 to 19 days. Some rats were given insufficient drugs. These seemingly would get well, but in an month or so later the cancer would in many of their organs. If they were given a second course of quinolinium salt for 10 days, they were cured. The drugs were to the animals. The cancers just withered away without any apparent mess or ill effects. So far quinolinium salts have cured no human cancers, and it is doubtful if they ever will. These drugs however, served once again to revive hope that some day compounds will be found which will cure human cancers. They also have indicated that a drug may affect one kind of cancer only. With time, however, it may be that medicine will have a large series of drugs, each specific for a different kind of cancer. Bacterial polysaccharides, a mixture of sugars produced by bacteria, have cured experimental sarcomas, the kind of cancer which was completely impervious to quinolinium salts. The polysaccharides have been used experimentally on cancer patients, re-cu- During the historic Berlin airlift, which started in 1948 when Russians blocked land and water routs to Germanys divided capital, Allied planes ferried 2,325,500 tons of food and fuel to the The total, says the Nacity. tional Geographic Society, averaged more than a ton of supplies for each inhabitant of West response of mankind to the challenge of necessity has been going on since the invention of the wheel, and men have come to the conclusion that barriers were provided for them to surmount and they set about it with calmness and assurance, figuring of course that they can do it and will do it regardless, and that in doing their chief aim will be the new power they develop, and not just the difficulty they overcome. 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Nigeria annually exports tons of chocolate beans. This British colony on Africas west coast accounts for about 15 per cent of world production, says the National Geographic Society. City Ctaff CiesedS .... Just Remodeling non-toxi- c It's Going to be a NEW STORE inside and out to better serve the needs of Monticello and San Juan County. Watch for ... . Grand Opening MONTICELLO LUMBER Keeping Pace with Community Service Ben Askew, Mgr. 121R1 BECOME A STENOGRAPHER followed. ! d t . before. This weeks. Air Force officer A young Royal Canadian stationed in France spent a period of leave travelOne day he went to visit the ing through Italy. As he was parking his Leaning Tower of Pisa. car nearby, a man in a dark grey uniform approach-hi- They answer the challenge of sickness and disease; they answer ene-ie-s the challene of sane and to good government they focus their attention on the wars and perplexities of nations, and aspire to fortify against or control the ravages of the elements. This is what men have been doing down through the generations, and each generation has endured by a short time to enjoy its achievement, leaving it for the next generation to build upon. Where then, is the just reward to those who have achieved? Like the discoverer of vulcanized rubber, the inventor of the sewing machine, and the originator of some of the best things that men enjoy, if their patent is not stolen from them it is monopolized by some one else, and they are often left to live through want and die in poverty. The , big thing, the thing that men come on earth to gain, is the strength of achieving, of overcoming, of meeting and masterIf it be drouth, ing difficulty. flood, or fire, or bodily handicap-iis yet the divine urge to overcome, to hope on, fight on and master the splendid problems which are given us to solve. A. R. LYMAN lean-braine- Should the President have the authority to use U. S. forces in the Middle East if he deems The it necessary to stop Communist aggression? has faction the Yes overwhelming majority 71 per cent to 27 per cent. m The development of nuclear energy by private utility industry is already paying dividends to the By Albert R. Lymaa 1. 7. ADVICE TO A MOTHER The Old Settler How would the country editors of this nation vote on major public questions if they were in The American Press, their Congressmans shoes? which is an independent magazine for hometown newsapapers, decided to find out by means of a In its March issue it publishes the resurvey. from the replies of 794 country tabulated sults, editors, representing every section of the country. Here, in brief form, are some of the questions and findings ("No Answer replies are not included in this summary, hence the percentages do not total 100.) Should corporation taxes be moderately reduced, by returning to the rate of some years This is a very close one, with 32 per cent ago? 11, 1957 Thursday, April Phene 1 3R 1 |