The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 - - Thursday, July 11, 1957
Fatal Habit?
Health. Dept. Tells
Of Smoking Facts
(Editor’s Note—The following ar
ticle is a weekly feature from the
State Department of Health)
AUSTIN—Half of the men and
a fourth of the women in the Unit
ed States smoke cigarettes daily,
according to a recent survey by the
U. S. Bureau of Census. That adds
up to something like 38 million
cigarette addicts—25 million men
and 13 million women.
Those figures, besides revealing
the extent to which the smoking-
habit has become ingrained among
Americans, accentuate the grim
ness of the recently validated rela
tionships between cigarette con
sumption and the general death
rate, including dreaded lung can
cer.
It took the American Cancer So
ciety four years of concentrated
study of the smoking habits of
188,000 men to reach these conclu
sions:
A 57 per cent greater death rate
from diseases of the heart and cir
culatory system among smokers as
compared to non-smokers; a 97
per cent greater cancer death rate;
a 180 per cent greater death rate
due to pulmonary diseases exclud
ing cancer; and a 29 per cent, great
er rate of death from all other
i
causes.
Among men over 50 with a his
tory of regular cigarette smoking,
the general death rate is 52 per
cent above the death rate for men
who have never smoked.
The same study revealed a slight
relationship between pipe smoking
and lung cancer, and practically no
relationship between cigar smoking
and lung cancer. Present studies
indicate that the reason cigarettes
are mox-e important in the cause of
lung cancer than either pipes or
cigars is that the tars in cigarette
smoke are drawn in at much high
er tempei-atures.
A mathematics professor has
calculated that a perfect bridge
hand 1 -—13 cards of one suit—could
happen only once in 40 billion
hands.
In support of statistical evidence
relating smoking to cancer death
rates, it is possible to prove the
connection by laboratory methods.
By condensing the smoke of burn
ing cigarettes and painting the
gummy tars on the shaved backs
of mice or rabbits, laboratory tech
nicians have produced cancerous
growths on the animals.
The question as to whether men
who smojeed but quit have a lower
death rate than those who have not
quit has also been answered statis
tically. Men who quit ten years
before the study was made showed
a death rate almost as low as those
who had never smoked.
Should you stop smoking? You
must answer that question alone.
Ask yourself if the fleeting pleas
ures you get from cigarettes—de
scribed as “adult pacifiers”, by the
late Dr. William Mayo—outweigh
the risks involved.
And keep in' mind that the best
scientific research talent in the
world is convinced that steady ci
garette smoking- constitutes a
health hazard of major proportions.
The American Cancer Society
has turned its results over to the
National Institute of Health for
further checking.
Alumni Council
Names Hervey
J. B. (Dick) Hervey was re
cently elected as director of district
activities of the American Alumni
Council at their recent national
conference held in Pasadena, Calif.
He is the’ secretary of the A&M
Former Students Association which
has its offices in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
New president of the group is
Howard W. Mort, alumni director
of the. University of Chicago. He
was made president-elect last year.
President-elect for the oncoming
year is Donald E. Smith, director
of university development at Wash
ington and Lee University.
Wilson Of A&M At
Navigation Congress
Representing the United States
at the International Navigatioji
Cong-ress in London, Eng., is Dr.
Basil W. Wilson of the Depart
ment of Oceanography and Me
teorology.
The chief of engineers, Depart
ment of the Army, . in extending
the invitation to Dr. Wilson to
attend the Congress as a member
of the United States delegation,
asked him to present the United
States paper on Communication 1,
Section 11 of the program, “Origin
and effects of long period waves
in ports, precautions to be taken
for the safety of vessels, possibil
ities of minimizing the effects, ex
periments using scale models.”
Only one paper on each subject
is allowed each country having
Aggie Graduate
Begins Study
Of Alcoholism
LOMA LINDA, Calif. — B.
P. Baliga, of College Station,
Texas, graduate student at
A&M began 12 days of exten
sive classroom and field trip
work here Monday, July 8, on one
of the nation’s major health and
social problems—alcoholism.
The local resident is among
church leaders, educators and so
cial workers from 12 western
states, Canada and Cuba enrolled
at the Eighth Annual Institute of
Scientific Studies for the Px-even-
tion of Alcoholism being held July
& through 19 on the campus of the
College of Medical Evangelists
here. Purpose of the institute is
to prevent the scourge of alcohol
ism, now classed as the nation’s
number four health problem,
through educational means.
Each year the winner of the
$100,000 Preakness is draped with
yellow daisies. The centers are
dyed black with shoe polish to
simulate black-eyed susans, Mary
land’s official flower.
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MAKING USE of the facilities offered in the MSC this summer are two local residents.
They are participating in the art course taught under the direction of Mrs. Ralph Terry.
membership in the Association.
The Permanent International As
sociation of Navigation Congresses
is supported by 48 nations and
governmental entities, including
the United States.
Dr. Wilson is the author of
many technical papers including
many articles concerning the ori
gin and effects of long period
waves in ports. He is a member
of many professional organizations
and came to A&M in 1953.
A native of Cape Town, South
Africa, Dr. Wilson holds degrees
(civil engineering) fx-om the Uni
versity of Cape Town, South Af
rica and the University of Illinois
(railway and civil engineering.)
He has had wide professional ex
perience.
Recent articles by Dr. Wilson
include Analysis of Wave Foi'ces
on Cylindrical Piles in the Gulf of
Mexico, Hurricane wave Statistics
for the Gulf of Mexico, Origin and
Effect of Long Period Surges of
Shipping in Pox-ts.
LIONS AND LION CUBS gather for a group picture of the College Station Minor Little
League team, the Cubs. Some members of their sponsoring group, the CS Lions Club
are shown above. This is just one of the many activities of the civic group.
CS Swim Club Competes
In Amateur Meet In Tyler
A delegation of 15 local tankers,
under the banner of the College
Station Swim Club, depart tomor
row for Tyler where they will com
pete in the Texas Amateur Athletic
Federation Swimming Meet Satur
day and Sunday.
The meet, the thixd of the sum
mer for Coach Art Adamson’s
swimmers, is expected to provide
top-notch competition for the
Brazos County crew. Judging from
past showing however, the College
Station tankers should prove to be
serious threats in most of the
events in which they have entries
Activity in this annual TAAF
meet will be held in four divisions
—men’s (17-and-over), women’s
(15-and-over), boys’ • (16-and-
under), and girls’ (14-and-under).
Local entries in the men’s
division include Dick Hunkier,
Frank Holmes, Tetsxxo Okamoto,
A&M Prof Attends
Statistics Session
BLACKSBURG, VA.—John Ed
ward Roche, 608 Montclair, College
Station, associate professor of bus
iness administration at A&M, is
attending the Southexn regional
summer session in statistics here
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
June 12-July 20.
Students and faculty from 15
states and six foreign countries
are participating in this year’s
summer session which is termed as
‘unusually successful” by Dr. Boyd
Harshbarger of VPI, chairman of
the sponsoring regional committee
on statistics.
Galveston, Texas, terminus of
the Canada-to-Gulf highway, was
named in 1782 for Bernardo de
Galvez, then governor of Louisiana.
A&M MENS SHOP
103 MAIN
NORTH GATE
AGGIE OWNED
DELIVERY NOT SAME
JAMESTOWN, VA., CP) — The
replifca of Captain John Smith’s sea
chest may be a faithful copy of
the original but its arrival here was
quite a bit more modern. A heli
copter delivered it for exhibit dur
ing the celebxation of the 350th an
niversary of the first permanent
English settlement in America.
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John Harrington, Orlando Cossani
and Bill Tudor; in the women’s
division, Gail Schlesselman, Ann
Cleland, Eileen Cossani, Judy
Litton, Ann Schlesselman and Mary
Frances Badgett; in the boys’ divis
ion, Bill Farrar and Joe Brusse; in
the girls’ division, Pam Hayes.
The complete list of local en
tries in the various events is as
follows:
Men’s 200-meter free style:
Hunkier and Holmes.
Women’s 200-meter free style:
E. Cossani, Litton and A. Schessel-
man, ,
Boys’ 200-meter free style:
Brusse,
Men’s 200-meter breast stroke:
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. Woxnen’s 200 - meter breast
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Gills’ 100-meter breast stroke:
Hayes,
Boys’ 200-meter breast sti’oke:
Farrar,
Men’s 400 meter individual med
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Cossani,
Women’s 200-meter individual
medley: E. Cossani, G.‘ Schlessel
man, and Badgett,
Gilds’ 200-meter individual med
ley: Hayes,
Men’s 400-meter free relay: (4
of the following) Okamoto, Hunk
ier, Harrington, Holmes, and O.
Cossani.
Women’s 200-meter free relay:
A. Schlesselman, Litton, G.
Schlesselman, and E. Cossani
(alternates, Cleland and Badgett).
Men’s diving: Tudor,
Men’s 100-meter free style:
Okamoto, Hunkier and Holmes,
Women’s 100-meter free style:
E. Cossani and Litton,
Boys’ 100-meter free style:
Brusse,
Men’s 100-meter butterfly: Har
rington and O. Cossani,
Women’s 100-meter butterfly: G.
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Boys’ 100-meter butterfly: Far
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Girls’ 50-meter butterfly: Hayes,
Men’s 100-meter backstroke:
Hunkier,
Women’s 100-meter backstroke:
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Men’s 400-meter free style:
Holmes and O. Cossani,
Women’s 400-meter free style:
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Men’s 400-meter medley relay:
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Women’s 200-meter medley re
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