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Friday, July 13, l984/ r The Battalion/Page 5 acM Researchers think enzyme turns growths into cancer ... ... Warped by Scott McCullar OKAY, CLASS, /WSTE.AD Of WAVING CHEW5TR7 LAB INDOORS TODAY, WE1R£ GOING TO TAKE A WEAR BY FIELD TRIP. HOWEVER, YOU'LL STILL NEED TO WEAR YOUR LAB APRONS,GOGGLES AND GLOVES, 'CAUSE WE'RE STILL GOING TO BE DEALING WITH SOttE DANGEROUS CHEPIICALS., WE'LL 5£ DEALING WITH CAUSTIC SODA ('lye'), CONCENTRATED HYDRO CHLORIC ACID, ETHYLENE GLYCOL, VINYL CHLORIDE... ...AND ALL THE OTHER CHEMICALS A^M ADMINISTRATORS ALLOW TO ROLL THROUGH THE CAMPOS EVERYDAY THAT RISK DERAILMENT jses ase ’asc i Intcmationil United Press International BOSTON — A natural body sub stance that helps regulate cell growth appears to be the switch that xansforms benign intestinal growths — such as President Reagan had — nto cancer, Johns Hopkins re searchers said Wednesday. They are using the substance, an nzyme, to develop a test to deter mine who is at high risk for devel- ping colon cancer. A drug to com bat the enzyme’s action and prevent the disease is in the first stages of hu man trials. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, re ports the presence of higher than normal levels of the enzyme can be a good predictor of whether benign polyps in the intestines will become cancerous years later. "We have fount! a chemical in hese cells that preceeds the forma tion of cancer,’’ said Dr. Oordon D. uk., an assistant professor of medi- :ine and co-author of the study. ’‘An increase in this enzyme may be the same sign that starts cancer in any other cell. “If we block this enzyme, we have found a cell cannot grow,” Luk said. “It offers a promising avenue of fur ther study.” Polyps, which are similar to moles, are common occurrences in the in testines. Their prevalence increases with age. The growths are not can cerous, but are believed to be pre cursors of cancer. Reagan was found to have polyps in his intestine and part of one was removed without incident earlier this year. Cancer of the colon and rectum is a major public health problem in the United States, with 130,000 cases ex pected to be diagnosed this year and 59,400 deaths expected to result. Luk and Dr. Stephen B. Baylin found in their study of 29 patients that polyps in patients with high lev els of the enzyme almost always turned into cancer, while the polyps of those with normal levels usually remained benign. The enzyme — ornithine decar boxylase — is believed important in the growth and development of cells. Enzymes are chemicals in the body that regulate chemical reac tions. The patients studied had a rare genetic condition called familial col onic polyposis. But experts say the test may be useful in testing people without the disease. Luk said the next stage of his re search will be to see how effective a test the enzyme proves to be and to' test how well the blocking drug can be toleVated in humans without can cer. The drug kills lung and colon can cer cells in the test lube and in mice. Dr. Paul Sherock of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York said in an accompanying editorial a test for the enzyme is of “great interest.” He said it has the potential to be able to test for high risk of colon cancer in all people, not just those with this rare genetic dis ease. Soviets protest lifting of ban on Qerman bomb building Texas Rangers arrest ‘Animal’ ci cal diseastpl lied on ihe b ■xans who ( medical irtan and theircaicl i nd 1983, th( cases of infi from % mber of repc ica jumped 'cording to ivci rateofsjj le than any of >politan area. 1 t of the reasot e city's 10 peti •i reporting vcntive Medi rp increase in exuals who an tiseases. it director sat >f the people it tic for trean • result of aim lal cotnmunit) he last few yea c postulating! r of cases that ry communityi i our clinic." order to stop ^ I disease the) | Clinic, the venereal dist eds rnoremoK Beal incidents ^ university Rolf jglt Thursdat DR THEFT: Miise was stole bird floor ele ii ngton Buildih tied her driver Y card, keys a® Raleigh Tea' bicycle wass! fi nl of Good** as stolen front in 201D A« was stolen frof ■nl Housing^ llet was siolf loor basket^ lie White 0 t contained I red it cards ar United Press International AUSTIN — Texas Rangers have arrested a 25-year-old ironworker who authorities say apparently was paid to make a bomb to kill a witness in another criminal case, court re cords showed Thursday. Brian Lee “Animal” Groves of Austin was arrested Wednesday and charged with possession of compo nents of an explosive weapon. City of Austin starts water rationing United Press International AUSTIN — City officials Thurs day announced the initiation of mandatory water rationing to com bat an overtaxed water system in Texas’ hot, rain-thirsty capital. Fines of up to $200 will be levied beginning Monday against residents who violate restrictions on watering lawns. The major water rationing provision will limit lawn-watering to once every five days and prohibit watering between noon and 8 p.m. Other restrictions limit the days and hours to wash cars and prohibit residents from hosing off sidewalks, driveways or other paved areas. City officials said more stringent rules could be initiated if water supplies continue to dwindle. "We don’t want to risk fire protec tion and safety and we don’t want to strain our treatment system any more than it already is,” City Man ager Jorge Carrasco said. Austin’s water system has been strained by weeks of 100-degree heat and a below-normal rainfall for the year. The 400,000 city residents since May 11 have been urged to fol low a voluntary rationing program. The arrest ended a two-week in vestigation by the Rangers and other state and federal agencies. Assistant Travis County District Attorney Ben Llorey said Groves in tended to combine high explosives with blasting caps to make a bomb. Thirty-one ounces of explosives were seized after Groves was ar rested. Llorey said the intended victim of the bombing is a juvenile witness in a felony case, who was protected dur ing the investigation. He said there was an exchange of money, but de clined to discuss other details of the case. Llorey said he would ask a grand jury to indict Groves on a charge of attempted capital murderl and pos session of components of an explo sive weapon. United Press International MOSCOW — The Soviet Union Thursday protested a decision that lifted a 40-year ban on the West Ger man production of long-range bombers and missiles. They also warned the city of Bonn of “negative consequences” if it builds strategic weapons. The official Soviet news agency Tass said the protest was delivered to the West German government Tuesday and rejected Thursday by Bonn as groundless and an “unac ceptable interference” in its do mestic affairs. The Soviet warning was in reac tion to the West European Union Council’s decision last month to lift its 1954 ban prohibiting West Ger man production of conventional long-range missiles and bombers. It came amid charges in the offi cial Soviet media that West Germany was in the grips of a “revanchist” movement, seeking to regain territo ries lost during World War II. “As everyone knows, whenever West Germany has had any restric tion lifted, it has used it to build up its military potential, which has long exceeded the sensible defense needs of the Lederal Republic of Ger many,” the Soviet note said. “The Soviet side expects the Led eral Republic to take this address most seriously and to weigh carefully all those negative consequences that would inevitably arise” should it build the long-range offensive weap ons,” it said. Vladimir Lomeiko, a spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, de clined to comment on what the neg ative consequences would be. The Soviet Union also accused the West Germans of violating the spirit and letter of the 1945 Potsdam agreement and the 1975 Helsinki Accords. In Bonn, the West German State Secretary Juergen Ruhfus told So viet Ambassador Vladimir Seyenov his government had no intention to build strategic weapons despite the lifting of the ban. Carpenter leaves million descendents Almost all Chadbournes are related United Press International SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Exactly 350 years ago this week a middle-aged carpenter named Wil liam Chadbourne arrived from En gland to open one of the first saw mills in the New World. Today it is estimated he has left far more than a million descendants scattered across the nation and that 95 percent of Americans with the name Chadbourne trace their roots to him. To mark the anniversary of his ar rival on the shores of Maine on July 8, 1634, some 200 of his 20th cen tury descendants — the 12th and 13th Chadbourne generation in America — are flocking to New En gland for a 350th anniversary family reunion this weekend. The reunion will be held in South Berwick — where Chadbourne landed — and nearby Portsmouth and Durham, N.H. It will feature a massive family picnic, a banquet and receptions. “We’re all very excited about this,” said Linda Hanscorn, 44, of South Portland, whose paternal grand mother was a Chadbourne. “It’s very much a social event — for people to get to know their distant cousins. We’re having people from all over the country, including California, Florida, Texas and Mississippi. The Chadbourne family spread across the country and we even have traced some relatives to Brazil and Monaco, although they are not attending.” Hanscorn, who with several other relatives formed in 1982 “The Chad bourne Family Association,” says the family plans on compiling an ex haustive genealogy and increasing ties with other Chadbournes — in cluding those who remained in En gland about which little is known. “We have about 1,000 families of descendants who we’ve been in touch with,” she said. “It’s growing and we hope to learn more about the family.” One Chadbourne descendant, George Sanborn, is a genealogist at the New England Historic Genealog ical Society in Boston and he has helped trace the family’s roots. William Chadbourne came to the New World with three grown chil dren. By tracing records it was dis covered one Chadbourne in 1790 was a prominent judge in what is now southern Maine. 07109312 Near Wilmington, N.C., there is the town of “Chadbourne” set up in the late 1800s by three Chadbourne brothers. Hospital emergency rooms braced for injuries United Press International As summer begins, hospital emer gency rooms are braced for the an nual onset of outdoor injuries and ailments. “We average five to 10 broken necks a summer,” said one hospital staffer at a Delaware beach resort. “There were nine last year, with four people paralyzed from the neck down. The people don’t pay atten tion, they don’t heed the warnings,” said Jim Monaghan, an assistant hos pital administrator in Lewes, Dela ware. People also flock to tennis courts where they pass out from heat. Lawn mowers maim careless operators, people drown in swimming pools and children fall off bikes and out of trees or are hit by cars. “As soon as the sun comes out and it becomes warm, then everybody becomes a jock,” said Dr. Ben Cor- ballis, a hospital emergency room di rector. Heat stroke — a hot weather mal ady whose symptoms include nau sea, fatigue, no perspiration — can force a person’s temperature to a fa tal 110 degrees if the victim is not cooled down and taken to a hospital immediately, Corballis said. “People must understand that they have to embark on any (sum mer activity) with a slow and gradual introduction. If they don’t, we’ll see them here.” He said the number of emergency cases increases by up to 50 percent in the summer. Lorna Verell, nurse manager of a beach emergency room, said many vacations end tragically because peo ple disregard common-sense pre cautions such as checking the water depth before diving in, and swim ming with a friend. 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