Doctors Like Pipes; Student Views Vary
By Charles Corcoran
After 14 months of exhaustive study and evaluation, a federal panel reported Saturday that cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer and other fatal illnesses.
THE PANEL COMPOSED of nine doctors and a civilian concluded that:
Reaction to the panel's findings on the KU campus ranged from health authorities supporting the report to students caring little one way or the other as to what the report stated.
- Cigarette smoking is the highest single cause of lung cancer in men and apparently is also in women. The possibility of having lung cancer increases the longer a person continues to smoke and the higher number of cigarettes he smokes. The possibility lessens if a smoker gives up the habit.
- Cigarette smoking is a significant cause of cancer in the larynx (voice box) of men.
- Pipe smoking appears to be a cause in the development of cancer of the lip. There are suggestions that other forms of tobacco use are related to other cancers of the mouth, but as yet they cannot be labeled a cause.
- There is evidence to support the belief that tobacco use is a cause of cancer of the esophagus (the tube that carries food from the throat to the stomach). The evidence is not strong enough, however, to decide that tobacco is a cause.
DR. RALPH CANUTESON, director of the Student Health Service, said he thought the report was too mild. Although he was in complete accord with the report, he said that it appeared the Surgeon General (Luther Terry) "was trying to soften the blow. It should have been pointed out that these are the facts after careful research." Dr. Canuteson does not smoke.
Dr. M. Erik Wright, director of the clinical psychology program, said the report only made official what the evidence has been pointing to for a long time. "The decision is still up to the individual. People can get into cars and drive 50 or 80 miles per hour," he said. "They can use cigarettes dangerously or cautiously, too."
Dr. Wright smokes a pipe. "I used to smoke it fairly frequently. Now, I smoke a pipe quite infrequently, maybe three or four times a month," he said.
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DR. SIDNEY O. SCHROEDER, director of the Mental Health Clinic, said that the report "throws more weight behind the belief that medical men have had for some time."
Dr. Schroeder, a psychiatrist, said that it is hard to say flatly that smoking is bad. "Smoking satisfies certain psychological needs. It isn't any worse than overeating. Eating is a necessary psychological thing, but smoking isn't," he said. "People will do something if they're harmful or not.
The doctor said that he smokes an average of 6 to 8 pipe loads a day. "Some days I smoke hardly at all, others quite a bit." He said that cigarettes often causes carcinoma (a cancer) of the lungs, hard to detect. Pipe smoking in excess, he said, might cause a cancer of the mouth, but that is much easier to detect.
KEVIN A. REMICK, manager of concessions for the Kansas Union, said that smoking dropped 12 to 14 per cent in England when the public health service there made its announcement on the dangers in smoking.
"But it's back up to 15 per cent higher now in England than it was before the report," Remick said.
As head of the concessions, Remick sees to the maintenance of the 18 cigarette machines on the campus. He said that the university administration has not, as yet, made any new pronouncement on cigarette sales at KU since the U.S. report. "I don't make the rules; that's up to the administration. I will abide with what they say," Remick said.
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Lawrence, Kansas
The agreement, reached shortly before 2 a.m. after eight hours of intensive consultations, calls for a five-member commission representing the United States, Panama and the Organization of American States, which is supervising the peace efforts.
The United States and Panama each will have a civilian and military member and the OAS will add a representative as chairman. Informed sources said the chairman likely would be Alfredo Vazquez Carrizosa of Colombia.
EDWIN MARTIN, ambassador-designate to Argentina and former assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, and Gen. Andrew M. O'Meara, commander of the U.S. Army Southern Command, will be the American members.
Panama will be represented by Augusto Guillermo Arango, Panamanian ambassador to the United States, and Col. Olivar Vallarino commandant of the National Guard'
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On death toll to 23 Thomas G. Mann, resident Johnson's top Latino American adviser who rushed here to help case the crisis, prepared to return to Washington following the agreement on the peace commission.
Diplomats said it is most important that the commission provide a channel of communication between the United States and Panama pending settlement of the issues underlying the dispute. Panama broke off diplomatic relations with Washington last Friday.
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THE PEACEMAKING committee also reconciled opposing positions on the flying of the Panamanian flag in the zone, limits of the zone, and measures for preserving order.
Congress to Act On Smoking
Five-Man Commission Eases Panama Tension
WASHINGTON—(UPI)Government action against cigarette smoking appeared likely today to center in two fields education and research.
One particular complaint of the Panamanians concerned the ripping
ONE PANAMANIAN soldier wa killed, raising the death toll to 23
There were indications that Congress would be willing to provide more money for such a two-way attack, but there was little likelihood that legislators would try to enact laws to regulate smoking.
SUCH ACTION, based on a government report released Saturday that cigarette smoking is a menace to health, might include giving the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) more power to control cigarette advertising and labeling. Funds might also be appropriated to increase research into the still unknown elements of tobacco that cause the harmful effects.
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The move bolstered a general lessening of tension in the American-controlled zone, although Panamanians were bitter at the United States for the deaths caused by four days of anti-American rioting and bloodshed, and sniper fire rattled in Panama City and Colon again yesterday.
Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, in making public the study by a 10-member advisory committee of prominent scientists, said the public
PANAMA CITY — (UPI) — An Organization of American States peace-making team today announced it has resolved Panamanian-United States differences in which 23 persons have been killed and nearly 400 wounded in bitter street fighting since last Thursday.
Sen. Lister Hill, D-Ala., planned to meet with Terry to find out if any
PANAMA CITY—(UPI) — Interamerican peacemakers agreed today on a five-man mixed commission to restore peace in the Panama Canal Zone and maintain contact between the Panamanian and U.S. governments.
Rep. Harold Cooley, D-N.C., proposed immediate construction of a $5 million federal research laboratory in his tobacco-growing state to discover ways to make smoking safer.
health service was considering "remedial action," and would recommend specific steps to President Johnson soon.
TERRY ADDED that he expected other federal agencies and state and municipal government units would consider whatever action they might take after studying the book-length report.
George Allen, spokesman for the American Tobacco Institute, supported Terry's call for more research into tobacco hazards. He said the tobacco industry was ready to cooperate fully in further studies of the danger.
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While no one expected the government report to end cigarette smoking, it was hoped that it would encourage many persons to cut down their cigarette consumption, and discourage non-smokers from picking up the habit.
HILL, AN EXPERT on health legislation, is chairman of the Senate Health Subcommittee, its parent Labor and Public Welfare Committee and the Appropriations Subcommittee for the Department of Health Education and Welfare.
Sen. Frank E. Moss, D-Utah, asked the Labor and Public Welfare Committee to hold hearings soon on his bill to apply the pure food and drug act to Tobacco. Other Senators have suggested that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require cigarette companies to label packs with a warning of hazardous substances.
new legislation is needed and also to hold public hearings on the subject.
down of a Panamanian flag by American students in the zone. The Panamanians considered this an insult and demand some sort of action to erase the alleged afront.
The Panama government pressed efforts to end the general strike that has paralyzed the nation since the riots broke out last Thursday.
Panama City and the Canal Zone were calm by midnight following a rash of sniping at U.S. troops in the zone from positions in the city's mob-wrecked Pan American Building yesterday.
In Colon, on the other side of the Isthmus, Panamanian snipers attacked U.S. troops yesterday with rifles and molotov cockails.
MARTIN, THE U.S. delegate to the peace talks sponsored by the OAS, was reported to have rejected a Panamanian proposal that Panama's National Guardsmen take over patrolling the Canal Zone border from U.S. forces. The proposal was made formally in yesterday's discussions, informed sources said.
The death toll in the violence stood at 23, including 4 American soldiers. There have been nearly 400 injured, including 88 Americans, most of them soldiers.
The violence was set off last Thursday by Panamanian students who wanted their country's flag flown alongside the American flag in the
Canal Zone. The outbreak reflected ill feelings that have developed in creasingly over the past several years.
Panamanians resent the better living conditions of Americans in the zone, and they charge discrimination against Panamanians working in the zone.
PANAMA'S PRESIDENT Roberto Chiari severed relations with the United States and demanded "complete revision" of the 1903 treaty providing for U.S. control of the Panama Canal. Panama also charged the United States with "aggression" at an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council.
In yesterday's sniping attacks, an estimated 18 to 20 shots were fired at U.S. troops in the zone, but no casualties were reported. U.S. troops did not return the fire.
In the Colon attack a Panamanian National Guardman was killed and another injured, and a Panamanian fireman caught up in the excitement collapsed with a heart attack.
A large mob built up in front of the Panamanian legislative building. There were shouts of "Yankee go home" and "Yankee assassin."
THE MOB APPEARED stimulated by emotion from the mass funeral earlier of 12 Panamanian students buried as martyrs in the anti-American outbreaks.
Italian President Begins U.S. Tour
Discussions between the two Western leaders were expected to center on prospects of a unified European policy, especially in relation to the multifateral nuclear force proposed by the late President Kennedy.
ROME, (UPI) —Italy's President Antonio Segni left today for a six-day visit to the United States and talks with President Johnson on firming up the Atlantic Alliance.
THE FIRST U.S. stop for Segni was Philadelphia where honorary citizenship and a formal dinner awaited him later in the day. Heading the welcoming committee in Philadelphia was Mayor James H. J. Tate.
Scgnit's visit, diplomatic observers said, likely would provide clues to Johnson on whether he can stabilize the political and military ties with the NATO partners in Europe.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk will join Johnson in Greeting Segni and his party at union station Tuesday. Included in the party are Segni's wife, Donna Laura, and Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat.
The 72-year-old, white-haired Italian leader will proceed to Washington by train Tuesday. He will confer with Johnson both Tuesday and Wednesday, and address a joint session of Congress Wednesday.
AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES said Segni sees his meetings with Johnson as a step toward the partnership of Europe and the United States as envisaged by President Kennedy. It was anticipated that the talks would search for ways to translate the vision into concrete action.
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to such a partnership is France's independent policy, French President Charles ds Gaule opposes the multilateral nuclear force, has blocked Britain's entry into the European Common Market, and wants Europe free of political and economic dependence on the United States.
Student Dies In Ellsworth
An 18-year-old KU freshman was found dead in his room at Elsworth Men's Residence Hall yesterday afternoon.
Dead is Donald Eugene Spradlin of Winfield. He was enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Spradlin's roommate found the body when he returned from a weekend visit at home.
DR. BYRON WALTERS said the result of an autopsy showed Spradlin died of strangulation from vomiting.
Residence of the dormitory said Spradlin had been seen studying us late as 2 a.m. yesterday in his room. He was discovered at 2 p.m.
The survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Spradlin of Winfield.
Another freshman resident of the 670-man dormitory was listed in critical condition at Watkins Hospital yesterday after he apparently had taken an overdose of medication.
THE STUDENT was found unconscious in a room on top of the 10-story structure by an elevator repairman. The student remained unconscious today, but his condition was slightly improved, according to Dr. Ralph Canuteson, director of the Student Health Service.
The student was also suffering from pneumonia.
Dr. Canuteson said a chemical analysis was being made of the Medication.