X-RAYS AND YOU-4
New Research Offers Hope in
Treatment of Cancer
Twenty years ago the cancer
patient who was wheeled in for
radiation treatment often felt
empty of hope. Radiation treat
ment, or radiation therapy, was
usually prescribed when surgery
was no longer possible—a last
resort. And fe w survived.
Today the situation has
changed dramatically. New in
sights into the nature of cancer
and the life and death of living
cells, combined with new equip
ment and new drugs, have pushed
survival rates substantially up
ward, in some cases as much as 50
per cent. Moreover, radiation
therapists, or physicians who spe
cialize in the use of x-rays and
other radiation in treatment, pre
dict leaps forward in the effective
treatment of cancer within the
next decade,
Specific evidence of this prom
ise, they say, can be found in the
relatively new field of radiobiol
ogy, the study of living cells and
the effect of radiation on these
cells. Scientists have known for
years that radiation kills cells.
The medical problem, in brief,
was to kill the cancerous cells
while permitting healthy body
cells to survive. The radiologist
turned to the radiobiologist for
answers.
An important result of this new
study was reported recently by a
leading New York radiologist,
Dr, James Nickson. He said it has
now been established that oxygen
affects the living cell’s sensitivity
to radiation. Diseased tissue is
destroyed more easily when it has
a large supply of oxygen. There
fore, the patient is given a high
concentration of oxygen before
being subjected to radiation treat
ment. The clinical applications
have thus far been encouraging,
resulting in a more lethal attack
on the cancer cells.
This is the last in a series of
reports on recent advances
in the diagnostic and thera
peutic use of medical x-rays.
Today's report discusses new
research developments in
the treatment of cancer,
Yet this is just the beginning,
says Dr. Nickson. New drugs, bet
ter equipment, more knowledge
will combine to offer additional
hope to cancer patients. Dr. Nick
son concluded: "We stand on the
threshold of a new scientific era
in radiation therapy in which the
future holds greater promise than
ever before.”
25 YEARS IN NOME”
D T. CAVO
FOR
COUNCILMAN
VOTE TUESDAY, APRIL 3
8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
w# o' ■»* i"Bl» »”*»
as a bigger and better school, better street* and more street lights,
« *"“£ puk **4 playground. t w*»T tai*v*n .y^.m. 8ood
sidewalks, a museum bunding and so forth. The ctthtens of Nome
right to be, a city of the tirsi-class. However, the things we want
in Noth* cost money—money which we do not have at present.
For several fears we have been asking government agencies for
the money without results. it to obvious by this time that no one
k going to give the City of Nome the money needed for the things
we want it becomes more obvious all the time that if we want
these improvements in our city, we will have to do it ourselves.
Now this could mean that we may have lb Increase our taxes
a large amount but I don't think so. X think that instead of
raising taxes appreciably to get these things we want we can do
the Job better by operating our city like the big business that it
is. Any business, and especially a business die sise of the City of
Nome, should be operated with a long range plan that provides
for future needs as wall as the daily needs. This plan should in
clude the establishing and using of a budget I have heard it said
that die City cannot make a budget became they don't know
what the income will be for the next year—to the penny a& least
Neither can any other business tell you exactly what their income
will be for the next year. Sul, there to no business with over
2 Vi million dollars of assets that attempts to operate without a
ccept the City of Nome,
m
YOUR YOTE IS YOUR VOICE
FOR THE FUTURE OF NOME
i believe that the City of Norn* should have a realistic budget
with adequate provisions for unexpected emergencies. The City
of Nome should have a plait for obtaining the improvements that
we all want with the budget being coordinated with that plan. That
&e provisions of the budget and plan should then be dirtied eta
in a businesslike manner* If *hi« is dftne t em convinced *****
any appreciable increase in tfuc r
merits will take time, several yeen
sure that our pfey government c«n
like operation in One year. But 1
unJ*“ »• “«»• I ttifk to #m
me for Mayor will show that yo
is now. Thank you*
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Kennedy Names
Byron R. White to
U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Former
All-America halfback Byron R.
(Whizzer) White has been appointed
to the IT.S. Supreme Court — the
first team of the nation’s courts.
White, Deputy General, was
named to the court Friday night by
President Kennedy.
At 44, he will become the court’s
youngest member if he’s confirmed
by the Senate for the seat vacated
Sunday by Justice Charles E.
Whittaker who retired on doctor’s
orders.
The first Senate reaction to White
was favorable. Democratic leader
Mike Mansfield said he couldn’t be
happier. Senate Republican leader
Everett Dirksen described White
as “one of those solid people who
makes a decsion and stands by it.”
Kennedy called newsmen into his
office to announce his selection of
White—his first Supreme Court
appointment.
“His varied experience in legal
practice, in government, and in the
Navy — in addition to his remark
able scholarly accomplishments and
his service as law clerk to Chief
Justice Vinson — have given him
a humane and understanding ap
proach to people and to problems,”
said Kennedy.
“He has excelled in everything
he has attempted/’ Kennedy said,
“and I know that he will excel on
the highest court in the land.”
White got word of his appoint
ment by telephone while attending
a Social Science Foundation meet
ing at the University of Denver.
He said, “I’m very, very honored.
I’m very happy the President has
the confidence in me to nominate
me and I’ll try to justify his con
fidence. It’s a very large under
taking.”
The appointment was the latest
of many honors for White.
He was graduated as valedictor
ian of the 1938 class at the Uni
versity of Colorado. He was a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa and won a
Rhodes scholarship.
But when he joined the admlnis
tration as No. 2 man in the Justice
Departmertt undear Rr^ident’s Ken
nedy’s brother, Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy, White was best known
nationally as Wfckaer White, the
spectacular 190-pound halfback who
led Colorado to the Cotton Bowl in
1938. He played that fall for the
Pittsburgh Steelers of the National
Football League.
la 1939, while taking off a year
to study at Oxford is a Rhodes
scholar, White 'met the Kennedy
brothers. Their fattier, Joseph Ken
nedy, then was Ambassador to the
Court of St. James.
When he returned to the United
States, White began wc&king his
Way through Yale Law School by
playing professional football with
the Detroit lions and won all-pro
honors his first 'yeay.
The war interrupted his football
career. He was a Naval intelligence
officer In 1943 In the Solomons
when Kennedy returned to the
Pacific base after his PT boat was
rammed and sunk by a Japanese
destroyer.
WAGES AND HOURS ACT
BILL GETS MIXED REACTION
I FROM HOUSE COMMITTEE
| JUNEAU <ff> — A bill amending
the State’s new Wages and Hours
Act got a mixed reaction from the
House Commerce and Labor Com
mittee Saturday.
The bill, which has passed the
with 10 or less employes from the
overtime provisions of the State
Wages and Hours Act.
The act now exempts employes
in firms with 3 or less employes.
Two members of the Commerce
and Labor Committee, Reps. Jim
Binkley and R. W. Stratton, Jr„
signed the bill “Do Pass."
Four members of the committee
recommended that" it “Do Not
Pass.”. They were Reps. Frank
Cashel, Robert Ditman, Henry'Pratt
and John Nusunginya.
Rep. Gilbert Jarvella signed “No
Recommendation.”
TROOP 66 NEWS
By Don Young
At 7:30 the meeting was called
to order by Asst. Scoutmaster Bob
Johnson. He told us how we looked
at the last meeting when the awards
were given out, and that we should
be neater. After that, we practiced
giving quick snappy salutes.
Then we played a few games of
O’Grady, a game where you must
know how to follow military orders.
After that we practiced military
drills which we need a little more
practice on.
We broke up into patrol corners
and discussed a few things on
scouting. Dues were collected and ,
we had our Boy Scout friendship
circle.
Philatelic Society to Hold
Its 10th Annual Exhibition
On April 28, the Anchorage
Philatelic Society will have the
opening of its 10th exhibition with
a cacheted cover honoring the
event. The theme will be “Alaska,
the Great Land.” The ASsska
Statehood stamp will be used.
Orders for the cacheted covers
should be sent to Anchorage Phila
telic Society, P.O. Box 2214, An
chorage, Alaska. The price is 150
each. The covers requested for
mailing will have the address typed
and be mailed on April 28.
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BILL WOOD OF ALASKA
STEAM TRANSFERRED
W. K. “Bill” Wood, longtime
representative of Alaska Steam
ship Co. in Alaska and most re
gently district traffic manager with
leadquarters in Anchorage, is being
transferred to the home office of
the company in Seattle for further
assignment, D. C. Rose, Alaska Line
traffic manager, said.
Wood served Alaska Steam as
purser aboard ship, as agent at
Nome and general agent at Ketchi
kan before moving to his Anchor
age assignment in January 1959.
The position of district traffic
manager is being dissolved and the
responsibilities formerly assigned to
Wood will now be assumed by the
Alaska Line agents in their com
munities, Rose pointed out.
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