No cancer from tobacco: MDs
WASHINGTON (UPI) Two surgeons said yesterday it was impossible for them to tell from the examination of thousands of human lungs which belonged to smokers and which belonged to nonsmokers.
Dr. Hiram T. Langston of Chicago, a chest surgeon, and Dr. Victor Buhler of Kansas City, a former president of the College of American Pathologists, told the House Commerce Committee that they were not convinced that smoking causes cancer or is hazardous to health. They testified at the behest of the Tobacco
Institute, an organization supported by the tobacco industry, a committee spokesman said.
"I can not distinguish a smoker's lung from a nonsmoker's lung," said Langston.
"I state flatly, unequivocally and emphatically that cigarette smoke will not turn the lung black," Buhler said. A third doctor, Ray Rosenman of San Francisco, told the committee that people with aggressiveness, ambition, drive, competitiveness and a sense of urgency tend to be heavy smokers and tend to have a high rate of heart attacks.
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Debbie Bryant sues Uncle Sam
Mrs. Deborah Bryant Wilson, Overland Park senior, who as Debbie Bryant was named Miss America of 1965, is suing the United States for the recovery of $11,619.02 she claims was illegally assessed against her as income taxes and collected for the years 1965 and 1966.
The district director, Internal Revenue Service, Wichita said sheowed $2,798 for 1965 and $8,507 for 1966 plus an interest of $414.02.
Mrs. Wilson said that the district director listed as income the temporary use of a car which provided nothing of value to her.
"Oldsmobile advertises the winner of the Miss America contest receives a car." Mrs. Wilson explained. "The car is a demonstrator which after every 3,000 miles is traded for a new one.
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"As I was in New York City for most of my term as Miss America I did my traveling by airplane and my family (in Overland Park) had access to this car."
It is also charged that the district director taxed an amount received by her from the Miss America pageant scholarship.
"I was taxed for the money I spent fall semester 1966. This was a very minimal amount, probably $600 as I was counseling in Gertrude Sellers Pearson residence hall at the time. I was not taxed for the entire scholarship fund but just for the amount I spent that semester.
"The Miss America scholarship is $10,000 set up under a trust fund," Mrs. Wilson continued "I send my educational expenses to the persons in charge of the fund and they send me the money. After marriage the scholarship no longer pays for room and board. When I graduate I
receive the remaining amount which is taxable."
Mrs. Wilson said that this is actually a trial case for the Miss America pageant, because no one ever has been taxed on scholarship money. "If the money is taxed, this could no longer be a scholarship pageant," she said.
The suit alleges that the entire amount of Mrs. Wilson's deduction for clothing-$1,377 in 1965 and $4,327 in 1966—has been disallowed.
"The clothing I needed for 1965- 66 I was required to buy," Mrs. Wilson explained. "I was required to purchase an evening wrap, a fur coat, to maintain the Miss America image. In addition, I was required to have numerous other dresses, I filed these as deductions because I was required to have them and the deductions were disallowed."
Mrs. Wilson said her tax report was handled by a certified public accountant in Kansas City.
AWS honors senior coed
Linda Gilkerson, Mattoon, Ill. senior, was named the Outstanding Senior Woman of the year by the American Association of University Women at an Associated Women Students (AWS) honors night.
Forty-one sophomores-to-be were tapped into the Cwens and 28 juniors were capped into Mortar Board.
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Susan Goodwin, St. Louis, Mo., freshman, presented the Corbin Hall's Elma Poehler Brook Scholarship of $200 to Sharon Baucom, Kansas City, Mo., freshman.
Diane Boomer, Winchester, Maine, sophomore, awarded Vicki Swenson, Independence, Mo., freshman, with the Delta Delta Delta Scholarship.
Kathy Hill, Ottawa junior, presented five women with the AWS Memorial $200 Scholarships: Carolyn Dammann, Prairie Village sophomore; Kathy Hoefer, Prairie Village sophomore; Karen Dobbs, Great Bend freshman. Lesca Thompson, Topeka sophomore and Mary Torrence, Topeka junior.
Outstanding women from each living group were announced: Linda Arbuthnot, Prairie Village junior, Alpha Gamma Delta; Janet Marshall, Atchison senior, Alpha Chi Omega; Rita Matousek, Cuba, Kan., senior, Alpha Delta Pi; Karen Elledge, Mason City, Iowa junior, Alpha Omicron Pi.
Linda Kleinschmidt, Bartlesville, Okla., senior, Alpha Phi; Barbara Hansen, Wheaton, Ill., senior, Chi Omega; Linda Ewing, Independence, Mo., senior, Delta Gamma; Barbara Blee, Bonner Springs senior, Gamma Phi Beta; Linda Gilkerson, Kappa Alpha Theta; Martha Dalton, Wichita senior, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Elaine Greenock, Quincy, Ill., senior, Pi Beta Phi
Sandra Marshall, Falls Church, Va., senior, Sigma Kappa; Sharon Baucom, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, Corbin Hall; Jeannie Stevenson, Leawood freshman, Gertrude Seillards Pearson; Marilyn Marshall, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, Ellsworth Hall; Marty Fankhouser, Lyons freshman, Oliver Hall.
Sherry Love, Topeka sophomore, and Betty Mattinly, Lindsborg senior, Douthart Hall; Bobbie Fisher, Auburn, Neb., senior, Miller Hall; Jane McLaughlln, St. John junior, Watkins Scholarship Hall; Susan Rhodes, Wichita sophomore, Sellards Scholarship Hall; Marilyn Asklund, Topeka senior, Hashinger Hall.
Patty Burtch, Kansas City, Mo., junior, Lewis Hall and Carol Kelly, Sioux City, Iowa senior, Naismith Hall.
Graduating Seniors, Candidates
for Masters & Doctorate Degrees and Faculty
Orders must be submitted by Wednesday April 30 at the Information Counter on the first floor of the Kansas Union from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
As a result of the vote among Graduating Seniors regarding Cap and Gown and the establishment of a Class of 1969 Scholarship Fund for financially disadvantaged, a Fund will be established to which anyone may voluntarily make contribution of $1 or more.
You may contribute to the Class of 1969 Scholarship Fund at the time you order your Cap and Gown at the Kansas Union Information Counter. You will be furnished a receipt for your contribution.