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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1959 Apr 7 DOC NMA118 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION LA Times - Cigarette Smoking Called Major Cause of Increasing Lung Cancer Amend|mPreimarny Balorintg Bal orinsg Pub eparate 7 of their HUHOFS supreme shipped to Basra Ira SCHEUER . Times Motion Picture Editor long time a musical an Acad- since won be or best picture but last night Gigi did- commander Adm Jerauld main Persian Gulf port un- . Wright who declared der that a pretext of being repa triated to their country of one of the reasons the So- origin They woul gid ven viets picked Berlin for the Iraqi nationality immedi Primary Balloring to Gigi made a runaway Oscar honorary ning nine awards and taking an preeeeeee . - ard won the , | ward for her " Want to Full page pictures on Oscars ceremony on Page 3 and Part I. Other news pictures on Pages 2 and 27. Part 1.3 David Niven , = in Separate from the acting classifi- hange of cation despite his joyously excellent com- unsouciant of ward for best unsouciant portrayal the gay old boulevardier on the Oscar Gigi but was recompensed in support night with a speel cited for his Oscar Gigi waltzed i Big Country with 10 kudos orting actress It was musical to Wendy Hiller win as a picture since An Tables Miss American in Paris Not only gland making that this figure of 10 tes > a with 1939's eight plus two presentation honorames reached by Gone pattern - that with the Wind It also ed from passes the eight plus an hon - icluding orarium Samuel Goldwyn - icluding for The Best Years of Our Times Lives " Lives 1916 of Nine night for inventnphed withing withing champagne the e possible celebrators did at the party ionorary followintg he Internation- of its three al Ballroom of the Beverly Chevalier Hilton . The > Icademy Icademy an ries whose poured ately current showdown is upon their arrival pos- BY ROBERT BLANCHARD BY CARLTO Staff Representative naval and marine sibly for use as soldiers in forces the armed forces of leftist Times With an opportunity to SACRAMENTO can't get at it Premier Abdel Karim Kas- April 6. concerning the city tax rat municipal offices The four American sem the sources added Gov. Brown today scored a portant ar decisive victory admiral heads one of More Expected in his fight approximately a million vot NATO'S two international That polls today at the agency regular_ giving military commands pointed without a source add tices legislation that virtual . election out that most of the colded colded that other ships are ex ly assured its enactment war's previous trouble pected to carry Approval of Proposition A additional have bordered on the Communist groups to Iraq later in the week the last item on the balot sea J where allied sea power Port and police officials of The test of strength came would hike the elementa described by NATOCouncil Said when to when t S he e Senate na by te school tax were reported ceiling 35 President Joseph Luns as have had difficulty of going 23-14 rejected changes cents that second to -s given aboard the Gruzia to make al Brown said would from 1.30 to 1.65 per 100 the West decisive cantage cantage routine check emasculate the administra- assessed valuation if po- Port Said said other Rus backed bill posed City Charter Amend- ~ ..- Called Artificial sian ships loaded with arms The changes which were ment No. 1 heading the list Luns who is foreign min had passed through canal supported by the Senate F1 of eight proposed har measures ister of the Netherlands last week week and healed healed for nance Committee were revision the told a press conference that Iraq while their papers posed gave by Senate President is rejected the for it is often forgotten that their destinations as Pro ports of Burns Tempore Hugh Hugh Mirate next year will go | the Amend- - erisis Yemen and Red China Fresno =. Charter go Amend- artificial provoked This crisis to test the unity and resolve resolve West's counts report follows in the press of ac- \ the : Effect of Changes Basically they were ment 7 is designed to put the fire and police pension system on actuarial basis The tall speaking Adm Adm statesman by flanked strip Turn Please to Pg Col. 3 signedsigned to the spread the cost over a 0- alber commissiwohn ich theperiou bill would up investi oes. General NATO ' gate of cases discrimination 7. a.m. p.m. - ri Spaak said that success open in the forthcoming Big Four Races to Aid foreign ministers conference employment polls in race creed because The color national a.m. to will 7 p.m. City from Cle origin or ancestry its Walter Peterson yesterday : at Geneva and possible the So- summitwith Seaman viet Union later this sum investigative powers judicialition to a previous predi - make it a judicialition that only between 35:3 body with the investigatiavned 40 of the voters 1 mem show g the Pentured to Waves of Applause mer depends whether on WASHINGTON April 6 work done by its staff polt carried the Guard vere 23 main Applause There were at least four or the Russian side there is P_The al U.S. Coast bers real desire to cutter Storis was en route They also would have booth If it range range y doesn't expect even Clerk wish 11. I I five occasions on which the pro- luck ceremonies achieved the negotiate He said there will to be a Russian trawler in the ited the pay of the commis- to vote Bering Sea tonight to ren sion members to 50 a day The complete ballot today to te portions of an ovation One something gained if only occurred when M. Chevalier show whether or not the der aid to a critically injured for each commission meet includes contests for eight ssed on were If received the knightly tap Russians are sincere they Soviet seaman - ing -- -- . Council offices fo do reconfirm the western The emergency emergency emrgency emergency aid was Burns the Senate that posts the Board of Ell following his wonderful in response ine Fazan of re- powers rights in West Ber- being rendered unless his amendments were ucation eight proposed cy cy d The De Prise Thank Heaven for to call to and Little Girls from lin Khrushchev chal- the State De adopted there amendments and mu- picture and gallantly Gigi lenged last November with partment from the Russian nothing to prevent the five Proposition A the school school reciprocated itic picture picture I by bussing Rosalind Russell not the slightest reason embassy asking for help in members of the commission tax treasure there e erome Moros bussing Countryal- whom he Rosalind calledRussell x then 4 is some chance getting the man to a hospital from running all over the School Contest Countryal- the earliest state Apress per- Mamie 4 Please Turn to possible mo- initiating cases discl The Board of Education ment Apress Anniher chec Pg 9 Col. 1 : Please Turn to Pg , Cal contests which involve no imly was almo- raised for Miss Hay s paniment toward toward victory as and the Sea tress her devastating off with the formance As the best ac- ner- lated ird s the Graham Barbara went who highly to her death in the San Quen- te to Maurice un death chamber Miss who was cu- Hayward was making it on ogically omit- Please Turn to Pg 2 Col. 7 DEX OF FEATURES Must Be Big Truman Advises have big fist and be sure any agreements kept by Russia before we hold a summit President Truman says Page 1 Part 3 ON OTHER PAGES ge 2 Part 2 CINWOLD Page HOPPER Page 8. Part 2 JUMBLE GAME Page 9 Part 3 zes 7-29 Part 3 Part 3 OCTRINE Page MOTION PICTURES Pag^s 9 Part 2 POLYZOIDES Page 12 Part 4 RADIO Page 11. Part 2 ge 29 Part 3 Page 2 Par ! 510 Pages 8 SHIPPING Page 11 Part SKY MASTERS Page 12. SOUTHLAND Page 16 4 Part 4 Part es 11. Part 4 SPORTS Pages 15 Part 4 TELEVISION Page 10 Part VITAL RECORD Page 28. Part 1 WEATHER Page 28 Part i) * only also a wide Tote in made sever but ity apparently wele VI : | Cause of Increasing Lung Cancer - 4 with other issues for top interest in the election . state of candidates backed by 1 2 BY HARRY NELSON Times Medical Editor EXCELSIOR SPRINGS Mo. April 6 - A panel of the nation's leading cancer detectives today condemned smoking as the No. 1 culprit in the rising incider dence of lung cancer Only two of the eight experts made more than a passing reference to air pollution as a cause The fumes haven't been in the air enough years and not enough people have lived there Los Angeles long enough to get any big change in the statistics said Dr. E. Cuyler | Hammond * American . Cancer Society and Yale University statisti- clan i Committee for Bet " It is true that the lung a nonsmoking population Schools was opposed by 1 cancer rate is higher in such as the Seventh Ad- Please Turn to Pg 21 Co 3 than in rural areas but ventists though living in | of this difference is due smog Los Angeles sug- to t greater cigarette gest that pollution by it- tion in cities saidcoannostuhmepr iself plays rather minor role panelist Dr. Ernest L. in Wyn the development of lung . incider of the Kettering :cancer Institute New York Smoking contributes to The more rarity of lung cancer than 80 of the lung cancer in American males INDEX OF Our Fist Must Be B I'S must have hig fist an made will be kept by Russi conference Present + THE WEATHER No smog today U.S. Weather Bureau forecast Decreasing cloudiness today becoming mostly this afternoon and to morrow High today near 72 Yesterday's hugh 66 low , 35 according to available evidence The death rate for cancer of the lung in white American males in ON OTHE ASTROLOGY Page 2. Part 2 BRIDGE BY SHEINWOLD Pa 12 Part 2 x 1956. In females the rate has gone from 2.1 to during - the same period . Several of the experts who addressed medical writers on CLASSIFIED Pages 729 Part COMICS Page 6. Part 3 COMMUNIST 4. Part DOCTRINE Page CROSSWORD Page 209. Part DRAMA AND MUSIC Pagro 8 Part 2 DR ALVAREZ Page 2. EDITORIAL Pages 43 43 P^1/2 Part 1 | 21 Please Turn to 23 Col. FAMILY Pagen 1-7 Past 2 FINANCIAL Pg 1 Pages 11. Dart 4 ^' 4 Article 3 - No Title Los Angeles Times Current File Apr 7 1959 ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times 1881-1985 1881-1985 1881-1985 Pg 23 C| ANCCEANCER RSESMEIMNINAARR Continued from First Page | the final day of American Cancer Society seminar in, dicated that . smog have that far more influence in caus- ing death in people with heart or asthma conditions Occupatioan Factor A new study conducted in California indicated that shipboard ricating plants zinc and copper miners shipboard en- room workers exposed to petroleum products con- struction painters and com- mercial and restaurant cooks Both industry and labor organizations have social ob- ligations to employees for the development of cancer including welders cooks and commercial painters have high incidence lung can- cer The study was reported by Dr. Lester Breslow chief of the chronic disease bureau of the California Department of Public Health . " that cigarette smoking seems to be the major causoef the large in- crease cancer cases Dr. Breslow said But at Breslow said Industry fears the costs unfavorable pub- licity and increasing govern- mental regulations which might emerge from more general knowledge of such problems he said Trade unions have some- times times stressed extra pay for hazardous occupation such to those involving exposures even affect miners of urani- to certain disease risks rather than . - radioactive radioactive emphasizing us and other radioactive os 1 preventive measures which eight specialists might might undertaken hh ee . All eight of the specialists undertaken agreed eight added - Among the established chemical and physical can- causing agents for man according to Dr. Michael B. Shimkin of the U.S. Public it has been defi- nitely established that ciga- rette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer Only two of the panelists smoked and they smoked pipes the Health Service are chemi- Dr. Breslow emphasized cals like arsenic affecting the potential danger of dyes the skin chromates for lung aromatic amines chromate nickel for nasal sinuses and ores petroleum products lung and naphthylamine for including wax and paraffin bladder which have been associated | . with cancer of the scrotum Only Two Smoke In modern industry he Also violet radiation said new chemical processes including sunshine causing are being developed almost cancer after excessive ex- faster than they be cat posure and radiation from alogued to say nothing of rays or radioactive ma- their being adequately in- terials affecting the skin or vestigated for possible dan= the bone marrow This may gers to workers least a substantial minority it appears must be accounted for by occupation . Indeed the whole subject of industrial exposure and cancer needs urgent at- tention examined Dr. Breslow examined records of more than 500 cancer patients in 13 California hospitals starting in 1950 and found a higher- than expected cancer incidence among welders steamfitters boilermak- ers and other workers exposed to asbestos bridge- crane operators in metal fab- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission