Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - August 13, 1969, Oakland, California Aug. New Hope on Leukemia Gnarled redwood may be oldest living tree in Original Redwood Here The only known survivor of magnificent redwood grove which once covered the hills has been found in Naturalists and hist o- rians had long ago ed that not a single one of the thousands of coast woods which once grew in the hills had been spared the men's But Oakland Park alist Paul Covel spotted the twisted sequoia on an rocky c r o p p i n g above in Memorial Park several months Glen of the State College forestry depart was in and took tiny core ple from the copic examination of the growth rings show it is 415 to 420 years All other woods in the are second almost all less than 100 years Descriptions of the nal redwoods indicate it was one of the finest stands of redwoods on the West The periodic fires which ravaged the Gold Hush boom town of San co a century ago created a demand for The hills were Only a few of the stumps of the virgin forest still re- and until Covel made his it was accepted that every single virgin redwood had been Covel said the sible location and twisted probably made it unprofitable for the loggers to take it It is an exceptionally scramble up the brush covered hill to the but it can be seen by walking up the canyon extending eastward Leona Lodge in McCrea Memorial at Carson S t r e e and the Warren NKW i i Soviet scientists have reported to Western colleagues a bold promising ment with that inevitably thal scourge of acute The experimental subjects were 12 children in the ad- stages of this blood They were paired and live leukemia cells taken from each member of each pair were injected into the The Idea was to stimulate their defensive chemistries against the injected The hope was that enough of defensive ity would be left over to at- tack their own leukemia The risk was that defensive chemistries would be in die In that ease the injected cells would proliferate and haslen Hut seemed to the told Western cancer Levels of leukemia cells in peripheral blood dropped from to 89 per cent zero to Id per cent. Kight of the children have been in from their disease for more months In cancer science any im- provement in the conditon is called a since it is Three of the eight children went into ing 1 e it k e m i c cells entirely from the American cancer scientists queried by United Press Inter- national were i m p r e s s e d though mindful that sions in leukemia are not un- They are sometimes produced with drugs and they occur Nevertheless remissions brought about by ral means are promising and should greatly s t i m u 1 a t e scientific interest in the im- approach lo cancer in general and leukemia in t h e s e scientists This approach was once considered a probably answer to cancer because it involves the powerful defensive body chemistry which attacks thing to the It hearts and other transplanted organs and is why people don't have most viral and bacterial diseases more than Hut efforts over years to it against cancer have been ing and many scientists have concluded that cancers are tmt to the bodies in which they arise and hence do not rouse gic certainly all their 12 kemic e h i 1 d r e n were o I or a of their own leukemia the Russians reported to Western scientists through the British Science Their blood chemistries were being over- whelmed by despite drug they cells could stimulate a defensive reaction against both foreign and tive leukemic cells since they most probably had many l u a 1 Each child was paired with a child whose leukemia was of ferent i The principal Kussian tist was Dr. S. 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