A Verdict That
Nobody Wants!
iEditor’s Note — Two years ago TV
star Arthur Godfrey underwent sur
gery for lung cancer. Now Honorary
Education Chairman of the Ameri
can Cancer Society’s current crusade,
Godfrey tells about his own bout
with the disease in this first of three
articles, i
By Arthur Godfrey
Written For The Associated Press
I was in Hawaii doing a tele
cast when I first noticed the pain.
It wasn’t severe or steady; but it
made me uneasy. I decided it was
heart. So whenever it got out of
hand, I’d dive into the Waikiki
surf, swim out, and tell myself:
“If it’s a coronary, okay, let it
come now.”
Since it didn’t, I changed my
diagnosis to gas pressure.
Back home, the doctor did not
agree. His diagnosis was based on
X-rays. After he examined them
and me, he gave me the verdict.
It was the kind of verdict no
body wants.
As the doctor spoke, the lights
went out in Godfrey’s great big
beautiful world.
It would have been easier if
I’d known more about cancer —
if I’d known then what I know to
day — that there are now, here
in the United States, well over a
million people who also once
heard the diagnosis, cancer, and,
after treatment, lived on to hear
the doctor say: “Well, you’ve
passed the five-year checkup.
Guess we can both relax.”
I hope to hear those words too
— three years from now. Because
it’s just two years ago that I
underwent surgery for a cancer
in the left lung. The doctor says
I’m in fine shape. There’s no
trace of cancer in me. But a
patient is considered cured only
when there has been no recur
rence of the disease for five
years after treatment.
But I acquired an education in
the days and months after sur
gery; involuntary at first, it be
came an education I consciously
pursued when . I recovered. For
years I’d been active in the fight
against cancer.. But now I wanted
to know fundamental facts.
What I found out is hopeful in
the extreme. I want to share this
knowledge with the public, be
cause it may help other people
face the ordeal of cancer if they
must — and escape it, if they can.
Many thousands of lives could
be saved if more people knew the
facts about cancer cure and pre
vention. To help spread these
facts is the purpose of these arti
cles.
My advice? Get a checkup —
get one every year even if you
STATE OF ALASKA
Invitation to Bidders (No. 815)
Sealed bids will be received by
the Department of Administra
tion. Division of Supply of the
State of Alaska at Room 517,
Alaska Office Building, Juneau,
Alaska until 11:00 a. m. on April
24. 1361, and then publicly
opened, for the purchase of the
following:
Charter of Aircraft for non
cheduled flights over various
areas of Alaska.
Standard bid forms and com
plete specifications may be ob
tained from the Department of
Administration, Division of Sup
ply, Box 2420, Juneau, Alaska.
The State reserves the right to
reject any and all bids to waive
any formality in bidding pro
cedures.
R. G. BERG,
Director, Division of Supply
Pub: March 31, April 7, 14, 1961.
have nothing wrong, and if you
suspect cancer — if you have one
of its seven warning signals for
more than two weeks — see your
doctor witnout delay. It may not
be cancer at all. But if it is, the
sooner it’s treated, the better
your chance for full recovery.
Keep away from quacks, fake
remedies and home remedies. Only
surgery or radiation can cure you.
Second, what did my reading
and interviews teach me? As of
April 1, 1961, there were over
lVfe million people in the United
States cured of cancer — men,
women, children.
That’s another thing I learned.
Cancer can strike at any age. It
often hits hardest at the young
and defenseless. More children
die of cancer than of any other
disease; in half the cases they die
of a cancer called leukemia.
The third thing I learned was
that this most dreaded type of
cancer is, (from a research point
of view, the most hopeful. A num
ber of scientists believe that the
big breakthrough in cancer con
trol may come in leukemia. Some
believe that this cancer is virus
caused. Viruses have been used
to produce leukemia in mice, and
also to make mice immune to leu
kemia.
Will we ever be able to vaci
nate our children against leuke
mia, as we now do against polio?
An increasing number of sci
entists now believe that it will
eventually be possible to produce
vaccines to mobilize the body’s
defenses against cancer. When?
Maybe in 1 year, in 10 years,
in 25. Nobody knows the date.
But everybody knows that money
for research can help advance the
date.
Next: Lung Cancer.
INVITATION
The Advisory Board and Director, Miss
McCoy, cordially invite you to the La
vinia Wallace Young Community Cen
ter’s 50th Anniversary activities on Sun
day, April 9, at the 11 a. m. service at
the Community Methodist Church.
Local board members and assistant
teachers will be recognized for their
contribution to the Center program.
Speakers will give a resume of the
present work and personnel of the
Center.
An Open House for adults only will be
held Wednesday, April 12, from 8:00 to
9:30 p. m. at the LWY Recreation Hall.
Advisory Board and
Director
Three Uncontrolable
Youngsters Await Their
Transfer from City Jail
COLQUITT, Ga. W) — The three
youngsters pressed their faces
j against the bars on the jail house
j window and shouted: “We won’t
j run away, honest we won’t. Let
us out.”
The 10-year-old boy and his
j two sisters, aged 12 and 14, have
j been in jail in this southwest
I Georgia city for two weeks be
j cause they stayed away from
! school and threatened to run away
from their grandmother’s house.
Sheriff W. Felix Tabb said the |
three were abandoned by their
mother and that their father died
in 1959. He said they had violated
no laws but were locked up be
cause their grandmother could not
control them.
Superior Court Judge Walter I.
Geer held a hearing, the sheriff
said, and decided the best thing
to do was send them to training
school. “There was no other place
for them to go. We figured the j
mother might cause trouble i
they were located in a home,” he
said.
The sheriff said the youngsters
would remain in jail until papers
can be processed for them to be
transferred to state training
schools. He said he did not know
how long this would take.
The children told a reporter
they were willing to go anywhere
as long as it wasn’t another jail
or a training school. And as the
reporter left they shouted after
him and waved from the window.
sen. john McClellan does
NOT AGREE WITH JFK's
NEW FRONTIER POLICY
NEWARK, N. J. UP) — Sen.
John Li. McClellan, <D-Ark.), says
he is not in complete agreement
with President Kennedy’s spend
ing plans and he would like a de
finition of the President’s New
Frontier policy.
At a meeting last night of the
Building Contractors Assn, of New
Jersey, he said he opposes bur
dening “the heritage of future
generations with a perilous na- '
tional debt.”
There are 12 administration j
proposals before Congress now j
that would increase the annual ;
debt by $4.7 billion in the next
■fiscal year and would add $20
billion in the next five years, he
said.
-,
NOTICE
The partnership known as Q
Cab and Trucking owned by R.
W. Cannon and C. M. Reader has
been dissolved and is now two j
businesses known as Q Cab own- j
ed by R. W. Cannon and Q
Trucking owned by C. M. Reader.
As of April 1, 1961, I will no
longer be responsible for any
bills other than those contracted
by myself or an agent of Q Truck
ing, Box 355, Nome, Alaska.
I wish to take this opportunity
to thank all the patrons of our
former businesses and will be
looking forward to future busi
ness with you in the contracting
and trucking line.
—C. M. Reader,
Q Trucking
Office: Res.
Black 76 A Main 76
Call . . .
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Meaty Maine Sardine Cassere'e
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Maine sardines combine well with frozen artichoke hearts
in an unusual supper dish. The high quality protein in the
little fish makes them delightful meat substitutes during this
season of the year.
MAINE SARDINE ARTICHOKE HEARTS
1 9-ounce package frozen
artichoke hearts
1 cup white vinegar
2 cans (4 oz. ea.) Maine
Sardines
72 CUp Oil
* 2 teaspoon basil
Va teaspoon garlic powder
Prepare artichoke hearts as directed on package, substitut
ing vinegar for water. Drain. Add remaining ingredients and
heat. Place in chafing dish to keep warm. Yield: 4 servings.
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