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January 19, 1982
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Las Vegas Hilton arson-murderer
attempts permanent escape: suicide
Warped
By Scott McCulk
W1
United Press International
LAS VEGAS — The attorney
for the busboy convicted of
arson and mass murder in the
Las Vegas Hilton blaze denies
his client tried to kill himself, but
guards kept Phillip Cline under
constant surveillance Monday in
a jail hospital.
“Cline was seeking a tempor
ary escape rather than a perma
nent one,” said attorney Kevin
Kelly. “This is not a serious
attempt to take his life.”
Cline, 24, was taken to South
ern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Saturday, less than 24 hours af
ter he was found guilty of arson-
murder counts for the $14 mil
lion fire that killed eight people
at the resort on Feb. 10, 1981.
Authorities, noticing Cline’s
speech was slurred and his
movements uncoordinated, ori
ginally feared he had taken a
drug overdose in a suicide
attempt.
Traces of a mind-altering
drug commonly found in pre
scription medication were
found in Cline’s stomach, but
hospital officials said the drug
did not endanger his life.
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BER HIS INTENT TO TRANSFER
| LARGE AMOUNTS OF UNIVERSITY
[funds to campus computer-
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BY‘CUTTING BACK" ONE FACULTY
AND STAFF POSITION PER
DEPARTMENT, AND ANY VACATED
POSITIONS THEREAFTER WOULD
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NEW YORK — Lung cancer
deaths are increasing and the
disease will kill a record 111 ,000
Americans this year even
though it is among the most pre
ventable cancers, the American
Cancer Society says.
The society said Sunday in its
1982 edition of “Cancer Facts &
Figures” that an estimated
430,000 Americans will die of
cancers this year — 9,000 more
than died of the disease in 1981.
Two-thirds of the additional
deaths will be directly attribut
able to lung cancer. In 1950,
lung cancer deaths accounted
for only 8.7 percent of the can
cer mortality rate.
The report said the causes for
today’s rate of lung cancer,
which has an incubation period
of 15 to 20 years for most lung
cancer victims, began with
smoking patterns a generation
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The society said Sunday in its
1982 edition of “Cancer Facts 8c
Figures” that an estimated
430,000 Americans will die of
cancers this year — 9,000 more
than died of the disease in 1981.
“If it weren’t for lung cancer
— developing at a much faster
rate than any other kind of can
cer — the overall cancer death
rate would actually be going
down,” said Lawrence Garfink-
el, society vice president for can
cer prevention.
“The irony of this situation is
that lung cancer is among the
most preventable. The best way
to avoid getting it is to give up
cigarettes.”
A new session of Jazzercise will be starting in College
Station on January 26. Jazzercise is a unique way of body
conditioning using joyful jazz dance movements and
swinging music. Each class works through a warm-up
period, peak performance, then cool-down. Classes are
held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-5:45 p.m. or 6-
6:45 p.m. Registration can be completed by calling in
structor, Cindy, at 693-1309, after 5 p.m. please, or stu
dents can register in class. Classes are held at the Unita
rian Fellowship, 305 Wellborn Rd, and each 4 week ses
sion, 2 classes per week, is $15.
On the treatment front, the
society said research with inter
feron, a natural body substance
working at least in part through
the immune system, showed
promising anticancer activity.
Interferon is being tested
against multiple myeloma, mela
noma, breast cancer and non-
Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“A number of patients so far
have shown some response to in
terferon, ranging from those
whose steady downhill course
was stabilized to those whose
tumors disappeared entirely,”
the society said. “It is still too
early to tell what the long-term
effect will be on the patients’ sur
vival and well-being.”
From 1950 to 1978 — the last
year for which statistics are avail
able — the death rate for all can
cers increased from 157 to 169.9
per 100,000 population. But ex
cluding lung cancer, the death
rate dropped from 144 to 128.7.
The society anticipates
129,000 new cases of lung can
cer this year, 123,000 of colon-
rectum cancer, 112,000 of
breast cancer and 73,000 of
prostate cancer.
“The startling aspects of lung
cancer’s rise in incidence and
mortality are matched by tk
of statistics relating to five-)!
survival," the society said. “Li
cancer’s record is one of
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ALLISON — In t
exas Panhandle, a I
grimmest.’
It offers a 42 percent ft
year survival among whites
treatment starts when the
ease is still localized, 4 perceaL
it has spread and 9 percents! ‘ I ‘* ec ‘ Wlt ^ choppy,
all. For blacks, five-year stini , j in, j UI J c * s a we * s P e '
prospects are 24 percent A cloud ol natural gas •
localized, 3 percent if it 1 *
spread and 6 percent overall
Other highlights of the
port:
—More than 278,000 Ame
icans who get cancer in 1981
survive five years or more.
—Two million Amelia
have passed the five-yearsuni
al mark, a yardstick general
associated with cure. More lb
a million are working towardli
mark.
—Several cancers had w
poor prognoses a few decade
ago, but today are beingcuredi
many cases, mostly becauseci
drug advances. Among thef
are acute lymphocytic leukero
adult myelogenous leuke®
Hodgkin’s disease,
tumor, testicular cancer, ovarii!
cancer, and breast cancer
Postman- policeman
nabs Jeep thief
United Press International
PORTLAND, Ore. —
Richard S. Forza is one letter
EVERYONE
TAX-SHELTERED
NOW
CAN START THEIR OWN
RETIREMENT FUND
With A HrstCity
carrier who really would ratht
be a policeman, and he show
his talents when someone
his Postal Service Jeep.
Forza, 25, a reserve politf
man who has been a postal wort-
er for two years, was sorting In
ters into apartment mailboxs
Thursday when he saw a
driving off in his vehicle.
Forza, unable to keep up will
the Jeep, flagged down anothtt
driver, Allen Lee Dowd, at
told him: “Follow that Jeep.
The Jeep finally turned into)
dead-end street and bumped
pickup truck from behind b
fore coming to a stop, he said.
Forza said when the drivet
got out of the Jeep, he stuck his
hand into his pocket as if he hail
a weapon but then jumped bad
into the vehicle.
Donald Edmun Gibbons, 2i
was charged with unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle and jailed
with bail set at $2,500.
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(IRA)
Police find
smuggled
drugs
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SAN FRANCISCO — Narctv
tics officers have broken u
what they call the City Prison')
“Custard Eclair Conspiracy”
plot to smuggle narcotics behind
bars in eclairs.
Sheriff Michael Hennessey
said investigators were tipped
off two weeks ago by an inmate
that drugs had been delivered to
the jail inside sweets at least
once.
So Friday an undercover
officer posing as the brother ofs
prisoner gave a former inmate
of the jail who was suspected in
the smuggling ring $50 to deliv
er amphetamines to City Prison,
Hennessey said.
Narcotics officers said Sun
day as a result of their investiga
tion Sheriffs Deputy Robert
Williams, 33, was arrested on
charges of trying to smu
methamphetamines in pastries.
Also arrested were Marvin
Blueford, 39, an inmate who
allegedly received drug-filled
pastries from Williams and dis
tributed them to other prison
ers, and James McDonald,
who delivered the pastries to the
jail.
as more than
thmovers attempt to<
into the ground to st
The well, which
Nov. 3 approximate
southeast of Allison
releasing more than
cubic feet of gas per d
sparsely populated ci
Some involved in
have estimated the
the massive digging a
effort at approxima
million dollars a clay
man for Apache Cor
responsible for the
dined to estimate tl
said the expense was
a well control insura
Officials in Apa<
Minneapolis, Minn.,
the well, which initia
Oct. 4 but was r<
month later, began r<
uncontrolled flow o
the wellhead.”
Workers and arc
1 a different story
“The pumper was
after checking the w<
ing it had 11,000
pressure,” said Orv
who has a construct
nearby Canadian.
“He heard an ex
turned around to sec
mas tree and the pi
hundreds of feet in
The pipe and Ch
— pipes and valves
the wellhead to com
and prevent a blov
back into a virtual ci
plosion cut into the
Now heavy equij
ators are digging da
in efforts to relocat
the pipe releasing g
well.
A Woodward, Ol
vicing firm, Cudd Pi
trol, is in charge of
ousoperation to lite
the well hole. Althoi
say chances of the 1
are remote, highly
gas hangs over the
Bob Cudd, win
7:30 A.M
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WEDNESDAY”
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