European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes february detection new York a Black americans May be More Likely than Whites to ignore the Early symptoms of cancer and neglect a new Survey by the american cancer society the conducted by a Blackmun opinion research indicated that Only 30 percent of Blacks survive five years after their cancer is compared with 41 percent of doctors believe Early diagnosis improves the chances for the Survey was released thursday As the society announced a new cancer education program aimed at members of minority Lasalle Leffall chief of surgery at Howard University in and a former president of the said the Survey helps explain Why Blacks tend to seek treatment for cancer later than cancer society officials said they believe the differences have to do with economic and social factors rather than since Blacks with incomes above a year have much the same attitudes and beliefs As when people Are concerned with other such As food and avoid Ance of they will put asymptomatic examinations far Down the said Harold director of surgery at Harlem Hospital in new the conducted by Eva xxx and was based on hour Long interviews with 750 Blacks in the 20 major american cities that contain 85 percent of the Black Popula figures for Whites were drawn from a similar National Survey three years ago in which 95 percent of those interviewed were the Survey said that Only 25 percent of Black compared with 54 percent of could correctly identify at least five of the society seven warning signals of cancer a Lump or thickening in the breast 2 colleagues ask Hinson to resign Washington is the lop two House republicans say Jon accused of attempted sodomy with another Man in a Capitol Hill mens should minority Leader Robert Michel of Illi Nois thinks it would be in the Best interests of All concerned if Hinson resigned his seat and concentrated on his personal prob a Michel aide Trent House Republican whip like a said in a statement i am extremely disappointed in Jon Hinson and feel he should pleaded not guilty thursday in District of Columbia Superior court to lie charge of attempted sodomy and hours later admitted himself to Sibley memorial Hospital for professional counselling and several of Hin sons colleagues and sup porters demanded the conservative con Gressmann resignation thursday after learning of the alleged homosexual Hinson was arrested wednesday in a washroom at the Longworth House office allegedly for engaging in Homo sexual acts with Harold a 28year old technician at the Library of the attorneys office initially charged Hinson and Moore with a felony carrying a maximum penalty 01 10 years in Capitol police also charged two other men in the same Wash room with that but prosecutors reduced the charges against All four to attempted a mis Demeanour carrying a penalty of one year or or unusual a Healing persistent persistent indigestion or difficulty in a change in Bowel or bladder habits or a change in a wart or in each Blacks were less Likely to see a Only 40 percent of Blacks would seek medical advice for a changing for compared to 64 percent of by Wacks in correctly identified five warning signals for cancer Healing in Blacks Are More Pessimist indices if tonne of Blacks believe in than Whites Al Hunt fhe in Trump of fifty one percent of Blacks believe in correctly that surgery can expose cancer to the air and cause it to said John president of Leffall said that this myth May be based on cases when surgery is done in a late stage cancer a where the cancer has already spread but is not detected until after in Blacks Are More pessimistic than Whites about the outcome of cancer the Survey Only 77 As com pared with 90 percent of said that they believe there is a Good Chance of a cure after Early and 22 percent of compared to 9 percent of said that they think there is Little if any Chance of hike in debt ceiling gets final approval Washington a president Reagan got his proposed billion National debt limit Friday after the Senate rejected a democratic attempt to Cut the billion boost by nearly the new replacing the current billion limit on government borrowing was sent to reagans desk on a vote of 73 to the Deb limit Bill allows the government to borrow enough Money to pay for pro Grams already enacted by democrats contended that the full amount asked by Reagan and approved by the House thursday was not As that figure was based on an Assumption that Congress would not alter the fiscal 1981 budget submitted by the Carter adm Nistra far state republicans withdrew another amendment that jeopardized the Deb limit the proposal would have barred All Trade with the soviet Union As Long As the embargo on Grain ship ments remains in adoption of that amendment would have forced the Reagan administrations hand on the Rea Gan and his Cabinet Are considering whether to lift Secretary of state Alexander Haig is said to favor keeping the embargo on grounds that this is no time to be making conces Sions to the agriculture Secretary John Block wants to end As Reagan pledged to do during his Campaign last brushing through history the in North Carolina old masters work hints at medical clue Chicago a the swollen Knuckles and wrists of Many subjects in portraits by flemish master Peter Paul Rubens appear to be symptoms of rheumatoid a finding that Means the disease is centuries older than previously medical experts the disease had been associated with modern life because there had been no Evi Dence of it before the 19th but the hands portrayed in Rubens work have led medical sleuths to speculate that the development of rheumatoid arthritis had Little to do with environmental changes triggered by the Industrial four arthritis one american and three surveyed the later paintings by who lived from 1577 to and published their findings in the 6 edition of the journal of the american medical in works from the last 30 years of Rubens they noted the same lesions and swollen hand and wrist joints familiar to the millions who suffer the disease the paintings seem to portray changes that rarely occur in other and the changes occur said George a specialist at the Al Bert Einstein medical Center in Phila the study led them to believe Rubens subjects and perhaps the artist himself suffered from the if Rubens ailment would be the oldest Case history of the disease on the cause of the painful inflammation of joints has eluded if something came on less than 200 years ago its cause is something having to do with the Industrial revolution that environment has something to do with said the idea that rheumatoid arthritis occurred earlier would take some of the More recent environmental factors out of the list of causal Ehrlich noted that old master painters often posed an individual to paint the face and left assistants to fill in other such As those artists May have painted the hands using As a Model the changing appearance of one of the Ehrlich artists in recent times have suffered from the disease most notably French impressionist who painted the hands of his subjects More shamelessly As his own disease the doctors said Rubens in 1609 depicted the familiar swelling of knuckle joints in the hands of his by the time he painted holy family with Between 1633 and he depicted the Saint with major deformities including swollen in later Rubens either omitted his hands or hid them in the folds of clothing a trick that was later used by