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Look out for summer sun
Cancer victims younger
United Press International
The glorious sunshine of
spring and summer, which
bronzes, reddens and beautifies
the skin — also prematurely
ages it and can make it sick.
So at this time of year when
people are emerging from win
ter hibernation and are getting
out into the sun a lot more, ex
perts are renewing their warn
ings against over-imbibing in so
lar rays or not shielding skin
properly before a basking and
baking bout.
Dr. Perry Robins, a founder
and president of the Skin Can
cer Foundation, which studies
the entire field on cancer from
cause to treatment, said the
broiling and baking of skin so
popular among young people
who want that sun-bronzed look
is showing up in the develop
ment of skin cancers at earlier
“The average age of a patient
was 65 for a generation,” he
said. “Now patients under 30 are
not rare.
“Fifty percent of all skin can
cers on the face are on or around
the nose.”
And noses are being excised
“The average age of a
patient (with cancer)
was 65 for a generation.
Now patients under 50
are not rare. ” — Dr.
Perry Robbins, a found
er and president of the
Skin Cancer Founda
tion.
ages.
— cut off— when indicated, to
keep the cancer from spreading.
Plastic surgeons then rebuild a
new nose. The patients having
to undergo this treatment are all
ages.
Doctors say the surgery saves
a life but it’s a tragedy because
the skin cancer could have been
prevented if the person had
used caution when sunning,
protecting the skin which is no
match for the sun’s toughest
rays.
It can take 20 or 30 years of
battering by the sun for skin can
cer to develop, Robbins said.
But he said he also has seen
cancer develop in two or three
years. He told of a man who
basked under a sunlamp that
mainly warmed one side of his
face every morning. Af ter only a
few years the man had skin can
cer on the side of the face getting
the biggest dose of rays f rom the
sunlamp.
“The sun,” Robins said, “is a
contributing factorinon
percent of skin cancers,ft
who live where the suni
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obvious risk.
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filters out some of theb
rays of the sun.
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light hair, fair skin,
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the disease should bee
wars . Robins said.
Wind, rain whip across West;
Midwest has spring weather
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staff photo by Sumanesh Agrawal
Admiring the intricate work of the
jewelry on sale at the Memorial
Student Center, is Jesus Acosta, an
animal science major from Mexico
City. The ornaments will be on sale
until Friday.
Farmers encouraged
to develop other crops
United Press International
Chile winds of up to 128 mph
roared into the West, blowing
cars off highways, whipping
fires out of control and blasting
the Pacific Coast with rain that
collapsed mountains of mud
and broke 119-year-old rainfall
records. Storms eased Tuesday
after leaving four people dead
and four others missing. The
midwest is experiencing spring
like weather after unseasonable
blizzards.
Winds gusting to 128 mph
whipped two forest fires out of
control and fanned a dozen
grass fires near Fort Collins,
Colo., before being brought
under control Monday. One fire
destroyed 10 acres of timber and
heavily damaged a home.
(fusts up to 50 mph ripped
across northern New Mexico
and swept a station wagon off an
interstate highway, killing one
person and injuring six.
Investigators said Noreen
Anaya, 24, of Dona Ana, N.M.,
lost control of the station wagon
in high winds and ran off die
right side of the highway. The
car rolled five times, ejecting all
the victims.
Anaya was killed and her hus
band and five children were
hurt.
Winds of 30 mph whipped
flames for seven hours at Impe
rial, Neb., consuming about
20,000 acres of grassland, an
abandoned house and four or
five outbuildings. No injuries
were reported.
A C-130 search plane and a
helicopter were used by the
Coast Guard in a renewed
search for two boats with four
people aboard feared lost off
San Francisco after a squall shat
tered a weekend yachting race
with 50-mph winds and 25-foot
swells.
The same storm was blamed
for the death of a woman hit by a
blowing tree limb in Golden
Gate Park and a collision that
killed two men in a sailboat.
“The longer it (the search)
gets, the less likely it is we’re
going to find something promis
ing,” Coast Guard Lt. Steve
Branham said.
The rains that took the San
Francisco area by storm pushed
the total amount of precipitation
into the record books.
Seven-inch rainfalls brought
the season’s total figure for San
Francisco to 36.25 inches, mak
ing the season the wettest since
1862, when 49.27 inches of rain
fell by June 30.
Rain and winds reaching 40
mph raked Oregon and
Washington before moving on
and leaving behind a few show
ers. However, another storm
was reported heading down
from the CiulfOf Alaska.
The cold front was expected
to move inland along the Pacific
Northwest accompanied by
more clouds, wind and rain.
Light tain dotted the North
ern Plains and uptofiniit
snow blanketed parts ofn
ern New England.
Spring-like weatherretiit
to the Midwest, meltings
with bright skies and tem
lures in the 50s and 60s.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Faced
with anti-tobacco sentiment and
the need to diversify crop pro
duction, some North Carolina
farmers are being encouraged
by a nonprofit group to broaden
their operations.
“What we say to the f armers is
rather than wait until the rug is
pulled out from under you, de
velop other crops now,” Arnie J.
Katz, coordinator of the North
Carolina Land Trustees, said.
Some farmers in the Pied
mont Vegetable Marketing
Cooperative are planting sweet
potatoes in tobacco field rows
left vacant for the passage of
truck and spraying equipment.
“Sweet potatoes are particu
larly suitable for that particular
method because, by growing
under the ground, they will not
get hurt when a tractor goes
through spraying the tobacco,”
Katz said.
Katz said sweet potato pro
duction is complimentary to
tobacco.
“They don’t happen at the
same time,” he said, adding that
North Carolina is the largest
sweet potato producer in the na
tion. “We’re also placing an
emphasis on sweet potatoes at
the beginning because it’s a less
risky crop. It’s not nearly as per
ishable.”
Although Katz said farmers
are beginning to move away
from tobacco because, of the
anti-smoking movement, he said
other factors also are involved.
“The mechanization of tobac
co harvesting along with the
changes in the allotment system
have made moving from farm to
farm a lot easier. As a result, the
small tobacco farmer is having
more difficulty competing,”
Katz said. “Tobacco has been the
basis for the small farmer in
North Carolina but it won’t be
for very long.”
Katz said his group encour
ages farmers to develop other
crops so they can keep their
land, stay in business and not be
totally dependent on tobacco.
“They’re not giving up tobac
co but they realize their future
should not be dependent on the
crop,” he said. “They will con
tinue to grow it as long as they
can make money off of it.”
Growing other crops besides
tobacco not only provides an
alternative way for making a liv
ing, but Katz said it’s a possible
solution to serious problems de
veloping with the nation’s food
supply.
“The production of produce
is becoming more concentrated
and vulnerable to disruption in
energy supplies and localized
pest problems,” Katz said, citing
the situation last year with the
Mediterranean fruit fly in (Cali
fornia and Florida. “We need to
bring the food system back to a
local level rather than ship food
all the way across the country on
imported oil.”
Tobacco farmers ex
perimenting with other crops
are dealing primarily with
cucumbers and peppers. But
some are growing corn and soy
beans, Katz said, while others
are working with small grain
and a variety of vegetables.
The farmers also are working
on eliminating the middle man
in marketing their produce.
“They don’t have any trouble
growing the stuff. The problem
comes when they have to market
it,” Katz said, adding the state
Agricultural Marketing Project
has helped set up farmer’s fair
markets and direct consumer
marketing.
Three years ago, several
Carrboro farmers began mar
keting their crops directly to re
staurants and independent
groceries.
“The following year they put
more effort into it and they sold
a couple thousand dollars worth
of stuff in Ghapel Hill,” Katz
said. “Last summer, they ex
panded into Durham and other
markets and did about $5,500
worth of business. So far, we
have found the higher quality
restaurants are the most in
terested in what we have:”
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