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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1980
Aeronautics
acting head
resigns post
United Press International
AUSTIN — Texas Aeronautics
Commission acting director Joan
Whitworth resigned Thursday be
cause commissioners refused to
name her as the agency’s permanent
director.
Former Director Charles Murphy
resigned unexpectedly last month,
and Whitworth had agreed to serve
as the agency’s interim director until
Thursday’s commission meeting.
At the session Thursday, she read
commission members a prepared
statement saying she would serve as
permanent director of the agency
only if given a full vote of confidence
by the commission and a guarantee
that the commission would continue
development of its airport program.
“Either I am your director with a
full vote of confidence from all of you
or I am not,” she said in her state
ment. “That choice is clearly yours.”
Commissioners had suggested
that Whitworth remain an additional
30 to 60 days as interim director.
“I have (considered the proposal)
and I respectfully decline,” she said
Thursday.
“As your director, I can offer you
my very best efforts to preserve and
protect our legacy and laws. As an
interim chairwarmer, I cannot,” she
said in her statement.
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WASHINGTON — Although sto
mach cancer accounts for only 3 per
cent of the cancer deaths in the Un
ited States, a leading Chinese resear
cher reports it is the No. 1 killer in
China.
Yet breast cancer, which causes
the most cancer deaths among Amer
ican women, is relatively uncommon
in China.
Lung cancer, on the other hand, is
a leading cancer killer in both nations
and, in fact, is rising nearly every
where in the world.
Dr. Calum S. Muir, head of epide
miology for the International Agency
for Research on Cancer in Lyon,
France, says stomach cancer either is
decreasing rapidly or is at least show
ing signs of reaching a plateau in vir
tually all parts of the world.
He told a recent American Cancer
Society meeting that Japan, which
along with China has had high rates
of stomach cancer, is experiencing a
decline in the disease of 1 to 2 per
cent a year. This decrease may be as
high as 5 percent in Iceland and
Finland.
At the turn of the century, Muir
said stomach cancer in the United
States was as common as in Japan
today. However, it has declined by
more than 50 percent during the past
25 years.
The reason for the decline in sto
mach cancer is unknown, but many
researchers believe it may be associ
ated with the increasing use of re-
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Muir said it also may be the earlier
stomach cancer figures were inaccu
rate. He said cancers of the pancreas,
colon and perhaps the ovary pre
viously may have been mistakenly
diagnosed as stomach cancer.
Dr. La Ping, deputy director of the
Cancer Research Institute in Peking,
noted that stomach cancer in China
is most common in rural western
areas and along the coastal pro
vinces.
He said cancer of the stomach
accounts for 23 percent of all cancer
deaths in China and various kinds of
digestive tract cancers account for 60
percent of cancer’s toll in the
country.
Li said lung cancer, on the other
hand, is mainly seen in three big
cities in China — Peking, Tianjing
and Shanghai and in coastal and
northeastern provinces which are
old industrial areas. Li noted that the
northeast is cold and inhabitants use
coal stoves for long periods to keep
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Muir said further increases
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a year in North America, Altl»^
still relatively rare in Asia,
the disease appears to be 0
crease there too.
Transplant allows
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ST. LOUIS — Anne Snyder re
members the day she saw a strange
woman in her hospital room.
“I got out of bed and went to the
sink,” she recalled. “A woman was
standing there. I waited for her to say
something, but she didn’t, so I raised
my hand to wave and said, ’Hi.’
“The woman raised her hand, too
— that’s when I realized it was my
reflection in the mirror.”
Snyder hadn’t seen her reflection
— or anything else — for 25 years
before her operation at the Universi
ty of Florida in October. A rare dis
ease had dried up the membranes in
her body, causing bum-like lesions
on her skin and taking away her
sight.
Now, with the help of a camera
like lens implanted in her eye, the
70-year-old widow delights in the
sight of many things — from her 13
grandchildren and one great
grandchild to branches stripped of
their leaves in the winter. But she
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reflection in the mirror.
“I said, ‘Oh, dear God, what hap
pened to me,”’ she laughed, recall
ing the shock of seeing 25 years of
aging all at once. “I was all gray and
wrinkled. That was my first surprise.
I didn’t have any gray hair when I got
sick. ”
Anne Snyder and her husband
were living in Hammond, Ind., in
1954 when they went to Columbus,
Ohio, on vacation. A pounding
headache cut short her enjoyment of
the trip, and they sped home as
quickly as they could. Her real trou
bles began with a reaction to the
medicine she took for the pain.
“I got a skin rash that led to blisters
on my eyelid,” she said. “I couldn’t
open my eye unless I threw my head
back real fast. When the doctor saw
me, he said, ‘What’s she doing here?
She’s more dead than alive.’ Then I
went to the hospital for 10 weeks.
“I came home looking like a dried-
up prune. I lost so much weight be
cause I couldn’t eat at all. They had
nothing but ointment on me. I had
blisters over my whole body. I’d try
to turn over and my blisters would
stick to the sheet. The screaming I
did because of the pain shook the
whole hospital floor.”
Snyder had no tear ducts and a
constantly dry mouth. She lost her
hair and nails. The condition, later
diagnosed as Stevens-Johnson Syn
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