The Times Recorder (Newspaper) - May 8, 1977, Zanesville, Ohio I a Cancer's False Hope Or Valid KANSAS CITY Is a valid cancer treatment being suppressed bv a con- of the medical Or is it simply a product of those who traf He in false The evidence put forth scientists testifying for the U.S Fowl and Drug Administration at two days of an intense and emotional public hearing in Kansas Mo last was heavily on the side of those who say that Laetrile represents false hope the U S Food and Drag the Canadian Food and Drug the National Cancer the American Cancer nor any reputable has found anv evidence to sub- the use of Laetrile in the treatment or prevention of the FDA said in its argument as Dr Daniel S Martin of the Catholic Medical Center in New York told the is a a a fraud and a The only thing it can do is take your money The Laetrile supporters branded the hearing a with the witnesses stacked against them has passed no law against argued Michael L of a spokesman for the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer pits are one source of The side also contended that recent actions in Indiana and Alaska in- approval of Laetrile legislation showed that claims for the substance were gaining wider Laetrile is the chemical which occurs naturally in the pits of and peaches aud in bitter almonds It is banned from interstate commerce the FDA The agency also has banned the import of the but some individuals have been allowed to bring it into the country under court including one which led to the Kansas City hearing In recent proposer ts have made much of a conducted at Memorial Cancer Center bv Dr Kanematsu Suguira which seemed to show that Laetrile reduced the spread of breast tumors in mice But now scientists have reported that TO one has ever been able to reproduce those results is expected that a report on 32 studies carried out at confirm the fact that Laetrile no ac said Dr William K editor of the Journal of the latest series of add the large evidence which that Laetrile is not effective prevention or treatment Another point made bv Laetrile supporters is that an individual should have a right to of in medical treatment and that if there is no evidence that it does any st can't do harm here is the great tragedy said Dr Sherwood executive to the California State Cancer Council the time it is apparent that doesn't really most patients w ill no longer be arse some no longer capable of effective long-term control often the inherent variations in the progress of the disease are seized on as signs of regression too There then results prev entable and loss of life the supporters also argue that the substance is a v and that cancer is a disease Dr Thonias H phv at the Umv v of California .it disputed the point with laboratory animals on purified diets show no indication of a need for Jukes said substances have nose of the characteristics of a vitamin Another key argument in of Laetrile is that there could be no harm in allowing ill people to have a seemingly though substance if it makes them feel better savs the line between the ill and the patient who may benefit from e or from new approaches to treatment that hav e genuine cannot be so drawn as to separate the ill from the osKe an substance ss made legal for one group of the FDA would be no to prevent access others Patients who have cancer in an early aid controllable state could be their es the line taking a w substance instead of seeking an effective is now being promoted as a treatment for cancer in its early supporters dominated the emotional aspects of the Kansas City often booing and the scientific The focus of most attention vias Glen L. 60. of Conway Kan -A hose suit to obtain led to the public hearing to compile an administrative Rutherford drew cheers when he countered the scientific testimony bv saying in authority consider all the rest of us a bunch of dummies The administrative record that resulted from the hearing win go to the U.S. District Court in Oklahoma so the court can rev the basis for the contention that is a new drug that is not safe and Sunday Inside When curtain goes up next Saturday night on the nth annual Miss Southeastern Ohio Scholarship one of 10 anxious finalists will emerge with the coveted title of Miss Southeastern Ohio for 1977. The sponsored bv the Zanesville is almost sold out once again this year and pageant chairmen Dave and John Kunkel expect this year's extravaganza to be the best IThe 113th Year No. 128 Jim cook supervisor in Bethesda Hospital's food service oversees the preparation of 1600 meals daily for and He's just one of the hundreds of employes at both Good Samaritan and Bethesda who put the into health Times Recorder Since the Family Tree opened in October of 1975. the non-profit agency has helped hundreds of troubled juveniles avoid situations which might lead to a day in The agency serves a area and its case load is increasing all the time Times Recorder assistant news editor Nancy Keeley talked with its executive Dr Nancy for an insight into the value to the Where To Look About Soc Security Builders Page Campus Cable Classifieds Chuck Martin Consumers Crossword Deaths Editorial Page Financial Page 10 A For What It's Worth C 9 C 2 C 9 A Late News 2 A 2-6 D Mystery Aerial A 10 A A D Rich Bloom D B A A B A B C Women's Pages 1-4 C 10 C C Sunday Outside If you enjoyed yesterday's sunshine and don't be disappointed if you feel a bit cooler There'll still be plenty of only not just as After highs in the 80s the mercury slides down to the mid to high 60s during the day and continues its slide into the 40s bv The chance of rain is almost nil the whole day with highs Monday expected in the 70s. details on 6-AK SUNNY Weekend Roundup 17 Injured In Bus Wreck W Va Seventeen persons were injured early Saturday when a Greyhound bus went off Interstate and slammed into an state police said Kidnaping Attempt Fails BUENOS Argentina Adm Cesar foreign minister in Argentina's military was wounded today in a failed attempt by terrorists to kidnap the official Argentine news agency reported The Telam news agency said Guzzetti was medical assistance Security sources said he was but his condition was not immediately known Wallace Eying Senate Seat Records in the Alabama secretary of state's office list Gov George C Wallace as an official candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U S. Senate now held fay John Wallace is holding off formal but the groundwork for has been lasd Churches Want Cuban Trade CINCINNATI The National Council of in conference closing resolutions voted for resumption of trade with Cuba and urged taking economic sanctions against slates opposing the Equal Rights Amendment Estes Parole Bid Denied WASHINGTON Billie convicted in 1963 of mail fraud for his part in a fertilizer tank has been denied termination of parole and its 6 Sections Ohio 43701 May 8, 1977 52 Pages 30 Cents Summit Leaders Initiate Nuclear Control Study Mother's Day All Of These are for Happy Mother's with love from all of The bouquet may be just but the devotion and love in the eyes of old Chad Uphold is priceless as he presents his gift to his Mrs. Jim 1.Nancy) Uphold of 2S23 Dresden Rd. The scene will be repeated in millions of homes and thousands of different todav as America homage to the oldest and genuine of all emotions love for good old by For People's War Diplomats Say Cubans Ethiopians GEORGE McGOVERN McGovern Blasts Carter WASHINGTON Sen. George McGovern accused President Carter on Saturday of abandoning campaign ises and party principle out of fear of big business and a pre- occupation with imagery In a harsh attack on the new McGovern sometimes seems difficult to remember who won last Speaking at the convention of the liberal Americans for Democratic McGovern called on the party continue the struggle for the principles the Democratic party stood in the election effort may be for he said The speech was filled with pointed references to Carter's public relations efforts during the first three months of his and edly accused Carter of ing action on his own campaign issues End the party platform strange silence has de- on our political said the party's 3972 nominee seem taken bv symbol We seem to count the of polls far more than the content of attacked Carter's programs on economic welfare reform and saving all were being sacrificed or fied to suit special interests at the expense of the needy A week Sen Hubert H. another spokesman for liberal crats praised Carter in an in- ADDIS Ethiopia Cuban ad- visers are helping tram sands of Ethiopian peasants and workers for a against antigovernment Western diplomats sav The diplomats said about 20 Cuban advisers were in with another 200 expected to arrive soon When Fidel Castro made a brief stop here during his rica tour in Ethiopian leader Lt Mengistu Haiie Mariam asked the Cuban dent for advisers to help defeat resistance groups fighting in northern and western the sources said Cuban troops helped a ist faction win a cr. il war in Angola last at least Cubans are believed still in that central African nation Cuban advisers have also been reported in Mozambique and a few other African nations Ethiopia's Marxist ment has built two camps near this capital city of handling 200.000 re- Truck back and forth from the camps are becoming a familiar sight Last 56 trucks were each jammed with some 50 ragged As rode in night they cheered and chanted slogans Two regular soldiers driving a jeep with a gun brought up the rear the convoy It was not clear er the jeep was there to guard the convoy or to deter scripts from leaving At the camps the conscripts are put through a 20-da> ing course The government has not how this be deployed But Western mats say it be back regular province Between 2.000 and 6 vn rillas of the rightist Ethiopian Democratic Union EDU have captured several towris in the province since the begining of the year The EDU was founded 1975 by Ethiopians exiled bv the late Emperor Hade It is led bv Gen w ho has been joined by soldiers and middle fleeing the Marxist upheavals here The EDU is portrayed by Ethiopia's government rolled media as fighting for a return of which Elh revolution replaced The EDU promises non Marxist vilian am to fight the one Ethiopian want the Em- men to return The other possible target for attack is the northern province of where secessionist guerrillas of the Front have waged a hit-and-run for 15 last week reported heavy around and Eritrea He said the in the tins have after is deteriorating The of the offensive is open to however T The flighty Midget items For Sa for I Item Per Ad 2 LINES 2 DAYS Ph 452-4S61 The rainy season has and when it peaks in much of the country will be a quag mire Sources said it uncertain whether a trained ant would be able to op- erate in such conditions It also was not clear whether the peasant would be thrown into battle alongside the 25 000 regular troops June tens of thousands of peasants marched into Eritrea to fight the who ambushed and tered The regular army fired at the fleeing Because of this Western analysts said new march wili concentrate on the weaker and less ex- forces The radio television have mounted a massive propaganda for the which the red campaign io crush invaders The units now being aiso are expected to be better armed than their sources imported some weapons from nations including ana rifles These are for the regular which be able to hand over rs American some of which from the the the sources said sources also report troop car armored U S was waiting to cross the bridge 150 of the of military ment Ababa northward has over the past the said Tanks and other heavy vehicles by train in the capital and are moved out overland and by they LONDON President Carter said Saturday night the United States and six other in- nations meeting at a summit here will trv to achieve a in- on the use of fuels for nuclear power production Earlier in the first round of the the leaders of the top industrial nations pledged a coordinated fight against ment and trade barriers the leaders did not agree on nuclear energy policy during six hours of talks at No. 10 Downing official home of Britain's prime minister Carter told reporters he and the other leaders agreed to point a panel of technicians try to all of the facets of the which has be- come the key issue at the is such a diversity of interest and a deep concern about the future that we thought it was time to address this Carter told re- porters after returning from an evening at Buckingham Carter and the other summit leaders dined w Queen beth II and members of the British royal family at a tie slate dinner Carter said the is how to guarantee quate supplies of nuclear fuel for electrical production while guarding against misuse of the fuel to make nuclear ex- plosives He said the summit leaders unanimously agreed that less we do take there w ill be a lot of other of the called threshold nations who will produce explosives in the future as India did j few ago And all of us want to pre- vent that India became the sixth nation with nuclear ex- a nuclear device on Mav 13. 1974 Carter did not give any table for reaching an inter- national agreement on nuclear Sources in the German said the panel is to report hack within eight weeks on its curbing the potential spread of nuclear thought it went ter told reporters after an got started on energy and we will up on that But he to re- solve this problem with so different kinds of needs is one that will probably be our most difficult Asked if there were major Carter that we can't resolve The United Slates has sought to limit the export of sensitive nuclear technology But some Teachers Still Out CINCINNATI ing Cincinnati teachers voted Saturday not to go back to their classrooms and urged the board of education to return to the bargaining table to an end to the old Union officials estimate that about teachers voted against a resolution to go back to school now and to resume their strike again next fall if Aboul half of the district's 100 teachers have been on strike since April 13. More than half the system's dents have stayed away from their classrooms during the There was no specific vote taken on a unilateral board of- fer of a 6 per cent immediate increase and another 3 per cent boost if a June tax levy is successful Teachers currently earn a base salary of vote left no doubt lhat everyone wants to continue the strike now than com- said Roger president of the striking Cincinnati Federation of Teachers Stephens said a call also had been made to the federal mediator urging that tions be resumed again notably West see nuclear exports as a major source of foreign ings and seek tighter inspection instead of export West Germany has declared it will go ahead with a planned billion nuclear deal with Brazil despite U.S. Washington also has also op- posed a French sale of nuclear reactors to Pakistan and pan's plans to build a nuclear enrichment Carter met privately for more than 90 minutes with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and a top U.S. aide said they reached an un- of differences on the nuclear National curity Adviser Zbigniew zinski would not spell out the understanding but said the U S. could not force West Germany to give up the Brazil German sources said the en leaders agreed to appoint a working group of nuclear perts to report in eight weeks on means to control nuclear Nuclear issues and trade were discussed by Carter and Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda in a 20-minute private talk before the On general economic leaders and their aides said the meeting produced none of the acrimony that had been feared on such issues as the rate of economic expansion and trade barriers to protect domestic in- was a very large ing we were all on the same said Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott are approaching problems in a common Carter told reporters the four-hour opening session of the two-day summit had been very British Foreign Secretary vid Owen said the meeting was fun and and other British sources described the atmosphere as The leaders and their aides said the first meeting was marked by broad agreement on how the non-Communist world should speed its recovery from the worst economic recession since the 1930s. Downtown Water Service Restored service was restored to downtown Zanesville about 6 p.m. but pressure did not return to normal for several hoars after that since Pioneer Reservoir had run The trouble began shortly after noon Friday when a four-inch service line in the basement of Supply Co. Whitey Cravenor of 231 Main St. over the worksite in a nearby alley where attempts to then shot toe water off at a six-inch main resulted in a broken Donald Longfellow of the city water department said attempts were then made to shut the water off at other When one was finally located which could be it deprived central downtown section of water until be by Larry
