European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday june 18, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 cancer Battle deaf is decreasing in be/ow-35 groups under stepped up program panel told Washington api cancer deaths Are decreasing in every age group under 35 As a result of the fight against the killer disease the National cancer Institute s acting director said thursday. Or. Guy r. Newell credited the decline to what he called a balanced Effort in the National cancer program Over the past five years. His Praise for the program came before a House government operations subcommittee which is holding hearings on the Federal cancer National cancer program is a response to the urgent wishes of the Ameri can people to curb the Legal Power of the group of Over 100 diseases known As Newell said the goal is to develop the Means to reduce the incidence morbidity and the mortality of cancer in Man and ultimately eliminate All human Newell said major activities in the pro Gram included research on the treatment of cancer As Well As on the environmental causes funding of centers and individual cancer investigators and the dissemination of information to the Public As Well As through the disputed published reports that up to 90 per cent of All cancers arc due to environmental actors and therefore Are preventable. 3,000 join protest Parade Bryant is target of Houston Gays Houston api several thousand people marched peacefully through Down town Houston thursday night in a protest organized by homosexuals against an appearance by Singer Anita Bryant. In addition to the protest outside the meeting of the Texas bar association about a half dozen attorneys left the group s dinner when Bryant took the stage saying they were protesting her political stands. A candlelight Parade sponsored by the Texas Gay political caucuses passed around the hotel where Bryant was appearing and ended at a mall in front of City Hall a few minutes after the conclusion of a meeting in support of Bryant. The prayer meeting directed by there. Joe West a Baptist minister was at tended by an estimated 200. Police officers said Between 3,000 and ,-000 people had joined in the protest March the protest was aimed at Bryant s Rolein a successful Campaign in Dade county. Fla. To repeal an ordinance that banned Job and housing discrimination against homosexuals. Since the Miami area vote last week that repealed the ordinance Bryant s appearances have been met by protests in Chicago and Norfolk a. And More pro tests Are planned in new Orleans where she was to appear Friday night and Satur watergate guard is now bitter jobless Washington a Frank wills the Security guard who discovered the water Gate break in says he doubts whether he would notify authorities if he had to do it Over years after he discovered burglars at the democratic party Headquarters inthe watergate office building the 28-year old wills is reported As bitter unemployed and told the Westinghouse broadcast ing co. Washington Bureau he s angry be cause he did not receive the recognition he deserves. Wills feels the Federal govern ment should give him a humanitarian i had it to do Over again i think i would just pass by and continue to let i happen due to the response i got he said in an interview that was broadcast thurs while making his rounds after Midnight on june 17. 1972, wills spotted a piece of Lack tape that the burglars used to tie Back a door Latch. Wills Call to police brought about the arrest of five men. Which in turn led to the White House cover up and eventually Richard m. Nixon s res ignation As president. Wills played a bit part in All the presi Dent s men the movie about watergate but he has not worked in More than a year and has exhausted his unemployment compensation. opponents of her stand including no homosexuals. Have accused her of Dis regarding Basic human Dallas lawyer Don Maison said he refused to stay at the dinner because what is happening Here gives the impression the state bar endorses Anita Bryant and that is not the Stenger another Dallas attorney said he walked out because not All of the members of the state bar agree with Anita one of several speeches to the protes ters rally David Goodstein of California publisher of a National Gay newspaper said our real enemies Are the fascist who want to use us to take Over this coun Apuzzo. Co chairman of the Gay rights National lobby and a professor at Brooklyn College in new York said i people want to know who the Gays Are in this nation Well they arc the ones who fought the wars nursed the sick and even represented us in government the Rev or. West told his Small gather ing that homosexuality is a perversion of the god ordained plan of love marriage and Fidelity Between Man and he asked that Bryant s supporters display no violence toward the Gay demonstrators or they May hit you with their purse or powder puff twelve policemen in riot gear stood bin Reserve near the City Hall mall. We can account for 55 to 60 per cent of All cancers leaving the sources of some 40percent unknown Newell said. In males tobacco accounts for 40 percent of All cancers and is constantly in creasing for females he said cancers caused by known chem ical carcinogens account for no More than10 per cent including s per cent related to tobacco plus alcohol use and another s percent related to occupational exposures. Sunlight x rays and other forms of radiation May cause another s per cent and genetic inheritance still another s per cent he than food additives or contaminants dietary factors also Are implicated but to an unknown extent Newell said. Until further research has identified additional specific cancer causing agents research on detection and treatment mus continue he said. Newell listed several accomplishments in the fight against cancer. Among them he said were whole new classes of anti cancer drugs an International cancer re search data Bank less hazardous cigarettes and inexpensive and reliable tests for determining if one has cancer he said More than 35 states Are now engaged in screening for cervical cancer i High risk women. Newell said that eight years ago the nation had no organized Effort for screen ing of chemicals in the environment that May cause cancer. Hut he said More than250 chemicals Are being tested now. Doris Milner i left10, Michelle guse center9, and Lori Lee Farmer 8, assailant s victims were found beaten to death and sexually molested in their sleeping bags at a girl scout campokla., 13. At a will Grove up girl scouts killer urged to give up Locust Grove. Okia api authorities thursday urged the killer of three girl scouts to surrender for his own Wise Mayes county District attorney said feelings in this area of easter Oklahoma were running extremely High. Wise urged the unknown assailant to Telephone drug awareness inc. At Pryor a private organization which pays drug informants and could assure the Man protective custody while turning him Over to la need Protection As far As most of us feel said Kitty Maner of Pryor. Grandmother. Personally. I feel the Law ought to allow the parents to kill him David Sullateskee. A 16-year-old Locust Grove service station attendant said they ought to hang him. I d be one of the first in line if they want to string him the fear and horror which first greeted the news that Lori Lee Farmer. 8, and Doris Milner. 10. Both of Tulsa. And Mich die guse 9. Of broken Arrow had been sexually molested and brutally slain soon gave Way to anger. Two of them were beaten to death and the other one was bodies were found at Daybreak monday at Camp Scott near the tent where they had been camping out in sleep ing bags. The Camp is in a heavily wooded area less than two Miles from Locust Grove a town of 1,090 lot of strangers Are going to find it unhealthy to mess around in our area after warned Floyd Mcfarland Farmer was buried wednesday Milner s funeral was thursday and guse was to be buried , a state trooper from Pennsylvania. John Preston arrived in okla homa with his three specially trained dogs to Volunteer their services in the manhunt Trainer Donald Lakin also accompanied the dogs Harras and spurt both German shepherds and Butz. A German cattle said the dogs can pick up a three Day old Trail and his wife Lenore said. They have exceptionally Fine noses. They re much better than said the assailant May have burgled a Counselor tent and a nearby farmhouse. One of the our Counselor who slept in the tent reported monday that he purse was stolen. Police also found a pair of glasses Andrase belonging to a Counselor along the path where the bodies were said the four Counselor had been questioned extensively
