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iren surviving cancer longer
national
The survival
United Pres^h cancer has
WASHINGT-reased in the
health care although new
people coding at the same
governme^nal Cancer Insti-
enough -tirsday.
promisbert W. Miller and
healthy. McKay reviewed
tribe;.'ertificate diagnoses of
Ln from 1950 through
H'provided by the National
tier for Health Statistics.
‘The incidence does not de-
•me over this time,” Miller said
in a telephone interview. “Cases
are occurring at the same rate,
but they’re dying less often.”
The greatest decline in can
cer mortality among children in
the United States was in the sec
ond half of the 30-year period,
they said.
“From 1950 to the mid
1960s, death virtually equaled
incidence,” Miller said. “The as
tonishing thing to me is that in
the 1950s, no child survived.
But in 1978-1980, 50 percent
survived more than five years.”
The NCI study showed that
the numbers of deaths of chil
dren
younger than 15 felt be
tween 1965 through 1979 as
compared with the number ex
pected at 1950 rates. The death
rale fell 80 percent for Hodg
kin’s disease, 68 percent for kid
ney cancer, 50 percent for leu
kemia and bone sarcoma, 32
percent for non-Hodgkin’s lym
phoma and 31 percent for aH
other cancers.
8,073 deaths and kidney tumor
mortality by 2,393.
Data from 1980 show the
mortality rates for leukemia
and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
are still declining, they said. But
die rates for Hodgkin’s disease,
hone sarcoma, kidney cancers
and other cancers seem to have
reached a plateau.
methods of X-ray treatment
and surgery, Miller said. Better
nursing and better pre-opera
tive and post-operative care also
have helped.
“Further gains are to be ex
pected as work progresses in fit
ting therapy to the individual
tumor. Miller said.
There were 17,411 fewer
deaths from childhood cancdt
from 1965 through 1979 than
expected at the 1950 rate. Le»-
kemia mortality declined by
The researchers attribute the
reduction in mortality to im
proved therapy.
This therapy includes che
motherapy combined with new
“I think that even more at
tention should be paid to the
causes and contributing factors
of children’s cancer so that
methods of preventing it can be
made available.”
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SAN JUAN — An activist
group that claims to represent
more than 100,000 in the de
pressed Lower Rio Grande Vat-
ley telegraphed the Whitt?
House Thursday demanding to
know whether ACTION direc
tor Tom Pauken is speaking for
the Reagan Administration.
Pauken arrived in the Valley
this week and got into a shout
ing match with leaders of Valley
Interfaith — a mostly Catholic
organization — over the correct
approach to alleviating some of
the hardship in this area. The
area has the nation’s highest ute
employment rate — 23 percent.
Pauken, who said he was ap
pointed by the White House to
coordinate millions of dollars
worth of federal programs, said
he would announce next week a
major private sector-oriented
program to provide jobs in llw
border area, rejecting a $66 m«l~
lion public works proposal Ivy
Valley Interfaith to createjobs.
Interfaith organizer Jim
Drake said other members of
the administration had ap
peared amenable to the public
works program until Pauken ar
rived and verbally attacked In-
terfaith, calling it “a broker'
with “a hidden agenda” to en
hance its own power.
Pauken said he would deal
only with long-term Valley or
ganizations with “proven track
records” and not with Valley In-
eerfaith, which is less than a
year old.
Pauken said he was tired of
Democrats “taking potshots” at
the administration’s efforts to
help the Valley, which has suf
fered economically for two
years since Mexico devalued its
peso. *
The situation was com-
*K> unded last Christmas when a
devastating freeze killed citrus
and vegetable crops and threw
more than 20,000 people, most
of them poor Mexican-Ameri-
can laborers, out of work.
Pauken met with Cov. Mark
White and his assistant, Gerald
Hill, in Austin to try to get more
cooperation with the state gov
ernment in administering
emergency programs under
President Reagan’s January di
saster declaration. The disaster
declaration was set up to pro
vide special unemployment
compensation, food programs
and low interest loans in the af
termath of the freeze.
White and Lt. Cov. Bill
Hobby, both Democrats, have
criticized the Reagan Adminis
tration’s programs to help the
area. Both have been closely as
sociated with Valley Interfaith,
which is carrying out a drive to
register 25,000 new voters in
the predominantly Hispanic
area that political observers say
could play a key roll in electing
the next president.
The Rev. Armand Mathew
and about a dozen other clergy
men involved with Valley Inter
faith called the news conference
Thursday to accuse Pauken of
“arrogance” and to announce
their sending of the telegram to
Reagan, Vice President George
Bush and Sen. John Tower, R-
Texas, demanding to know by
next Tuesday whether Pauken
was speaking for them and
whether they have rejected the
public works proposal.
“We ask for bread and he (Pau
ken) is attempting to give us a
scorpion,” the Catholic priest
said •
Pauken said the federal ef
forts to channel emergency
funds to the Valley were getting
mired in politics because much
of the federal money has to be
channeled through the Demo
crat-controlled state capitol.
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AND
The Dealers
Friday, March 23
8-12 pm
Brazos County
Pavilion
T: ;
FREE COORS BEER
$5.00 presale
86.00
at door
Police beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Po
lice Department through
Thursday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A gray Fuji 12-speed bicy
cle was stolen from the east side
of Mosher Hall.
• A maroon Schwinn ten-
speed bicycle was stolen from
the Zachry Engineering Center
bike rack.
• A silver-blue Centurion
ten-speed bicycle was stolen
from the Haas Hall bike rack.
• A woman’s purse con
taining her driver’s license^
checkbook, $31 in cash and sev
eral credit cards was stolen
from on top of a filing cabinet
on the first floor of Sterling C.
Evans Library.
UNAUTHORIZED USE OF
A MOTOR VEHICLE:
• A 1981 Ford pickup truck
was stolen from Parking Annex
60.
INDECENT EXPOSURE:
• Several students reported
seeing a man expose himself in
the basement study carrel of
Mother Hall.
CLDSE-UP!
fl MULTI-KIEOIfl PRESEMTflTim
ABOUT RDCH MUSICIANS, THEIR MUSIC,
AND THEIR AUDIENCES.
PRESENTED BV DRUMMER HOB LAMP
DATE:
PLACE:
TIME:
Monday (March 26) and
Tuesday (March 27)
Room 224 MSC
7:30 p.m.
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•
Pick up your complimentary tickets
on day of showing at these locations:
— 1st floor hallway of MSC (10 a.m. - 3 p.m.)
Outside Sbisa dining hall (11-1 and 5-7)
— Inside the Commons (11-1 and 5-7)
A limited number of tickets will also be available at the door.
AMCF
What’s up
FRIDAY
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA: A party will begin at 8 p.m.
on the second floor of the MSC. Contact Lila Carden for
more information.
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION; A free international
dinner will be served at 7 p.m. in the student center (be
hind Loupot s). Internationals and their families
come. For more information, call Michelle at 846-7722.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: A Bible study
will be conducted at 6:30 p.m. in 108 Harrington. Call
David Morrison at 260-6205 for more information.
DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE; The course will be
conducted tonight from 6-10 p.m. and on Saturday from
9 a.m.-l p.m. in the Ramada Inn Registration is $20.To
pre-register, call 846-1904 or 693-8178. .||
HILLEL: Shabbat services will be conducted at 8 [>.m. in
the student center. For more information, contact jean
at 696-7313.
POLO CLUB: A meeting to discuss the new playing houry
will he field at 7:30 p.m. in the Animal Industries Build
ing conference room. If you want a say, lie there! Call
Alayna Snell at 764-0587 for more information.
TAMU CHESS CLUB: A meeting will be held at 7 p.m.
in 502 Rudder Tower. Players of all strengths welcome.
TAMU POETRY CONTEST: Today is the deadline for
all entries. Entries may be submitted at four locations:
Blocker Building (English Department, faculty lounge),
entrance to Sterling Evans Library, Zachry BuildingfEn-
gineering Department offices), and the Kleberg Build
ing student lounge.
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL: Grad stu
dents and single undergrads over 22 are meeting to go
out for the evening meal. Those students who aveinter
ested in attending should meet at the student centerarfi
p.m. Contact Pastor Hubert Beck for more information.
SATURDAY
ALPHA CHI OMEGA/STUDENT Y: A fnsbee golf
tournament will be held from 1 I a.m.-4 p.m. at Bryan
Utilities. Contact Alpha Chi Omega for more informa
tion.
ALPHA PHI OMEGA: Pledges, for their APO pledge
project, will be assisting the Twin City Mission of Bryan
m teat ing down an old condemned army barrack on Jen-
kitis Road from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
DELTA SIGMA THETA: A&M’s newest service sorority
will be holding a “Get Acquainted Party” from 9 p.m.to
1 a.m. in the Pavilion. Contact Kelly O’Neal at 260-5365
for more information.
HILLEL: A Bible study will be conducted at 10 a.m. in the
student center. Call Jean at 696-7313 for more informa
tion.
LIBERATARIAN PARTY OF TEXAS: A stale exec
utive committee meeting and reception will be held at l(
p.m. at 505 Gilchrist (College Station). Everyone wel
come. For more information, contact Mark Ferris at 693-
, 1401.
MSC AMATEUR RADIO COMMITTEE: The Fourth
Annual Texas Aggie Techni-Fest will be held all day in
the Zachry lobby. Radio equipment, computers and
hard-to-find parts will be available. For more informa
tion, call Ben Ewart at 693-6159.
MSC OUTDOOR RECREATION COMMITTEE: A
river safely seminar will lie conducted from 10 a.m.-l
p.m. in 401 Rudder Tower. Cal) Mike Pfeuffer at 693-
8200 or the ORC at 845-1515 for more information
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TAMU RUGBY TEAM: The Texas Collegiate Rugby
Championship Tournament will be held all dav today
and Sunday on the fields next («> die Zachn parlunglot
There will be a party Saturday night. Contact Robert
Cougler at 846-9772 for more information. T
TAMU WOMEN’S RUGBY: The women’s rugby team
will play LSU at 1 p.m. and New Orleans at 5 p.m. in
Houston. For more information, call Iris Polleyat69h-
8186 or Kristy Crenshaw at 846-6614.
TAU BETA PI: A BB<) will be held foi pledges atvl
members at 1 p.m. at Bee Creek Park. Call Po Let Tsoi#
260-8344 for more information.
SUNDAY
METHODIST STUDENT MOVEMENT: Dinner ml
be served at 6 p.m. and a Vespers worship service ml
follow' at 7 p.m. in the Wesley Foundation (behind Pizta
Hut). Call 846-4701 for more information.
TEXAS A&M SPORTS CAR CLUB: An autocross mil
be held at the Zachry parking lot. Registration beginsat
10 a.m. T here wilt be a driver's meeting at 11 a.m. ji
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Tan Greg Lang at 696-1129 or 1
tend and compete. Call Greg
Donna Reed at 846-6866 for more information.
TAMU INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANGERS. The 1
folktluncers will meet at 8 p.m. in 140 of the MSC, Ethnic |
dances from various countries will be taught and per-1
formed.
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Wednesday
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utility offi<
operation
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Ippolito
task force
for the pi
Glen Rose
MSC Cepheid Variable
presents
AGGIECO
15 1
March 29 - April 1
The Largest Science Fiction
And Fantasy Convention In
the Southwest
Authors * Artists * Dealer’s Room
Art Show * Banquet * Auction
Masquerade * NASA * Excitement
Action * Danger * Romance
Movies: Dragonslayor, Blade Runner,
Allegro non Troppo, many more!
of Fort Wo
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days of me<
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raised alleg
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