Surgery Advanced for Preventing
Breast Cancer Among Women
By RENNIE TAYLOR
Associated Press Science Reporter
ABOARD SS MATSONIA, (*)
— A way of virtually knocking
out breast cancer as a cause of
death has become a possibility
in the not too distant future even
though no blanket cure is in
sight.
The idea is based on the simple
arithmetic of breast cancer fatal
ities and consideration of what
surgery can do. It postulates that
women past the child-bearing age
free themselves of the danger of
breast carcinoma by haying the
milk glands removed from their
breasts even though there is no
danger of malignancy. •
This would mean extradition
of about half the bulk of the
tissues within the breasts, but not
the removal or destruction of the
breasts themselves. It also would
serve as a start toward reshap
ing breasts for aesthetic reasons.
A surgeon who neither ap- j
proved nor disapproved the idea
brought it to light Monday in
discussing the future of medi
cine before a group of about 50
doctors from all over the United
States.
He is Clarence Berne, profes
sor of surgery at the University
of Southern California medical
school. His talk was part of a
unique medical refresher course
conducted by USC aboard this
liner enroute to Los Angeles
.from Honolulu.
Baruch Is 88 But
I - .
He’s‘Not Celebrating
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.,
UP)—Elder statesman Bernard M.
Baruch was 88 Tuesday but he
resisted attempts to turn the oc
casion into an elaborate event.
The self-made millionaire and
adviser to presidents was asked
by a newsman whether he had
any comment to make to the
world on reaching 88.
His answer: “No.”
To the reporter’s question
about his health, Baruch replied:
“Fine, how are you.”
He is at Saratoga for an an- '
nual visit in which he takes the ]
baths at the famed spa and also i
goes to the races.
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Statehood Will Not
Bring High Taxes
'Statehood for Alaska does not
mean taxes will go up.
Statehood for Alaska means
more revenues for the state gov
ernment than the territorial gov
ernment ever received.
The cost of the new functions
assumed by Alaska’s state gov
ernment will more than be offset
by the new sources of revenue
available only to a state—but not
available to the territorial gov
ernment.
Basically, the question of tax
ation is decided by the legisla
ture, whether Territorial or State.
Taxes were imposed for many
years by the territorial govern
ment. They would continue to be
levied by the Territorial Legisla
ture if Alaska were to remain a
territory!
However, under a state govern
ment, Alaska will receive reve
nues for the state treasury that
it was not permitted to receive
as a territory. These revenues
that will accrue to the state gov
ernment include:
$1,000,000 As the state’s annual
income from the Pribalof
seal industry.
$3,000,000 As the state’s annual
income from oil and 'gas
leases. (This probably will
be more, quite likely as
much as $5,000,000.)
$ 500,000 As the state’s annual
income from fines, fees,
forfeitures and other mis
cellaneous items.
$ 250,000 As the state’s annual
income from sports fishing
licences.
$ 250,000 As the state’s annual
income from National For
est receipts.
$5,000,000—Total which repre
sents revenue not available
under any form of terri
torial status.
This $5,000,000 in new revenue
represents more than the entire
proceeds of the 1957 income from
the -territorial motor fuel tax,
automobile license registrations,
and school tax.
This $5,000,000 is more than
the total increase in costs of con
ducting the state government
over the territorial government.
Edw. G. Robinson In Hospital
HOLLYWOOD, OP)—Edward G.
Robinson is in Cedars of Lebanon
Hospital for observation. He says
he’s feeling fine.
The veteran actor became ill
Sunday on a flight from New
York, causing the airliner to
make an unscheduled stop at Las
Vegas, Nev.
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SEEKS 4 -YEAR TERM
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Teamster Union Official’s Ex-Wife
Links Him With Greenlease. Ransom
WASHINGTON, UP) — The for
mer wife of Robert (Barney) Ba
ker swore Tuesday he once told
her that Joseph Costello, St.
Louis taxi line operator, “got the
Greenlease money, and that’s
why he tried to kill himself.”
“I may get killed for telling,”
Mollie Baker, divorced wife of
Teamsters Union official Baker,
told the Senate Rackets Investi
gating Committee.
The committee had hinted last
week that it might produce some
sensational testimony about the
$300,000 that has never been re
covered from the $600,000 ran
som paid in 1953 by the parents
of young Bobby Greenlease of
Kansas City, Mo., who was kid
naped and slain.
Mrs. Baker reeled off a story
of links between the underworld
and Baker, a top lieutenant of
Teamsters Uni'on President
James R. Hoffa.
It was John Hager, a taxi
driver employed by Costello’s
Ace Cab Co., who gave St. Louis
police the tip that led to the cap
ture of Carl Austin Hall, the kid
nap-slayer of the 6 - year - old
Greenlease boy.
Hall and his accomplice, Bon
nie Brown Heady were executed
for the crime, but the police
never recovered half of the ran
som.
Mrs. Baker described her hus
band as close to Costello and said
“Baker told me Costello got the
Greenlease money, and that is
why he tried to kill himself.”
Forest Fires In U.S.
Way Down In 1957
By DION HENDERSON .
Smokey Bear finally has bro
ken 100.
The big guy in the fur coat,
symbol^of the Forest Service cam
paign to reduce the fire toll of
timber and wildlife, might look
a little happier on the familiar
warning posters on the basis of
last year’s record.
Finished totaling of the reports,
the Service figures there were
only 83,400 forest fires in the
nation last year. * That was the
first year that fires dropped be
low the 100,000 mark and com
pares with 143,000 the previous
year. The area burned was re
duced by just about half/
Ten years ago, there were more
than 200,000 fires.
In Idaho, only a few more
fires destroyed trees on more ftian
135,000 acres, compared with less
than 20,000 acres burned the year
before.
Alaska, not ' included in the
state totals for 1957, had one of
its worst fire years on record,
with 264 fires burning over near
ly 5 million acres.
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• Attorney General since 1949.
9 Legal adviser to 3 Governors.
9 Taught school 10 years at McGrath, Hoonah,
Unga, Hope. Seldovia, and Juneau
9 Assistant U.S. Attorney — Anchorage 1942 - 43
9 Private law practice — Anchorage 1943 ; 48
9 Alaska resident since 1930.
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