A I a T-—. CA ALE s EU ]., DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1957 PAGE THREE CANCER SURVEY FIGURES ARE RELEASED Pennsylvania Smokers’ Death Rate’ Is 63% Higher Than Non Smokers Pennsylvania Division of the®- American Cancer Society released this week final figures on the por- tion of the National Society’s four year smoking study which was car- ried out in forty-two Pennsylvania counties. The figures reveal that the por- tion of the smoking study carried out in Pennsylvania covered a total of 104,274 man years. (“Man years” means the number of men multi- plied by the number of years each man was traced.) 1,986 of the Pennsylvania men died between January 1952 and October 1955. 1,230 of the Pennsylvania deaths occurred among men with a history of regular cigarette smoking. Only 756 of these cigarette smokers would have died between January 1952 and October 1955 if their age spe- cific death rates had been the same as those for Pennsylvania men who never smoked regularly. In other words, the death rate of the Penn- sylvania cigarette smokers was 63% higher than the death rate of the Pennsylvania men who never smok- ed regularly, are being taken into consideration. For the study as a whole (including nine states covered in the study) the comparable figure was 54%. 321 of the Pennsylvania deaths occurred among men who said that they were smoking a pack or more of cigarettes a day in 1952. Only 189 of these pack-or- mdére-a-day cigarette smokers would have died between January 1952 and October 1955 if their age specific death rates had been the same as those for Pennsylvania men who never smoked regularly. In other words, the death rate of the Pennsylvania pack-or-more-a-day cigarette smok- ers was 70% higher than the death rate of the Pennsylvania men who never smoked regularly, age being taken into consideration. For the study as a whole (including nine states) the comparable figure was SL Now’s The TIME To Trade UP! 1957 FORD, Fairlane Town Sedan —fully equipped plus power steering and power seat. 9000 miles never $000 titled. Save .......... 1956 BUICK Super 4 door, Hard- top, Radio & Heater, Dyna Flow Power Steering, Power Brakes and $2465 Power Seat FORD Fairlane 4 door Town Sedan, Fully Equipped CHEVVY “210” 4 Door, Radio & Heater, $1 595 Power Glide ........ 1956 1956 1955 FORD Custom Ranch Wag- on, Radio, Htr., $1595 Overdrive ............ 1955 PLYM. 2 dr. 51195 Equipped -............ 1955 DODGE Coronet 4 dr. V-8 Radio, Heater, $1 495 Auto. Trans. FORD 2 dr. V-8, Custom- line, Radio $705 and Heater ........ So FORD V-8 4 Door $350 Radio, Heater ...... No Down Payment On Those Units Under $600 LUZERNE MOTOR CO. Your Friendly FORD Dealer on the West Side Kingston-Dallas Highway Many Others At These Same ~ Low Prices Luzerne, Pa. ARN Phone BU 7-1155 {fmm BU 7-4264 1953 1952 88%. 70 of the Pennsylvania men died of lung cancer. One had never smoked. 52 of these deaths attrib- uted to lung cancer were micro- scopically proved and none had never smoked. The Society’s study was begun in November, 1951 when some 20,000 volunteer workers enlisted for the project in 394 counties of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and California. A total of 188,000 men were included in the study. This report is based on the deaths of 11,870 of these men. The smoking study project was undertaken to determine whether or not there is any relationship be- tween smoking and the increase in lung cancer. The national study showed that lung cancer death rates were ten times higher among reg- ular cigarette smokers than among men who never had smoked, and accounted for 13.5 per cent of all excess deaths among men with a history of regular cigarette smoking. County Units of the Pennsylvania division recruited 3,728 ‘volunteers who agreed to interview ten appar- ently healthy men between the ages of 50 and 70, and have those men answer questionnaires describing their smoking habits. In November of each year a fol- low-up ‘was conducted by the same volunteers to determine whether the men originally interviewed were alive or dead and, if dead, to ascer- tain the cause of death. Then pho- tostats or abstracts of death certi- ficates were obtained from health departments and, where cancer was given as the cause of death, detailed accounts from doctors, hospitals, tumor clinics, and cancer registries were obtained. Pennsylvania interviewed the sec- ond highest number of men in the study, and had a very low percen- tage, (.03%) of men not traced after four years. Alderson Women Plan Dinner For October 16 Members of the Alderson W.S.C.S. met at the church Thursday evening when plans were made for a turkey supper to be served on October 16. Slides of the United Nation were shown. Present were Mesdames Howard Higgins, Joseph Rauch, Harry Beck, Robert Avery, Amos Hunsinger, Giles Comstock, Clarence Montross, Gilbert Carpenter, Alan Kistler, Herman Garinger, Harry Allen, Albert Armitage, Garwin Smith; Miss Lina Garinger. “Peace of mind is better than a bank account—but one helps the other.”—Bob Hames. TICKET TO FUN AND EXERCISE So For Pete’s Sake ROLLER SKATE! _ EVERY WED. - FRI, SAT., SUN. NIGHTS Also Sunday Afternoon WOLFE’S GROVE Private Parties Welcome Transportation - Reservations CALL MUHLENBURG 3367 New Swedish Car At Kunkle Motors Mrs. Harriet Rauch Is Mrs. Roy Warden Breaks Guest On 76th Birthday |Same Leg As In Hurricane Mr. and Mrs. Peter Delaney en- Mrs. Ray Warden, Mt. Airy Road, | tertained on Sunday evening for the | Shavertown, fell d fractured her | latter’s mother, Mrs. Harriet Rauch h, | kle M. wi | who celebrated her | 2ukle Monday moming while going | birthda seventy-sixth | down the walk to the mailbox. Dr. y anniversary. Present at|\ichael Bucan ordered X-Rays at . | supper were Mrs. Walter Kitchen, | ogee Memorial Hospital, and ap- _ | Mrs. Herman Garinger, Mrs. Mildred | plied a cast from toes to above the 7 | Delaney, Mr. and Mrs. Walter 1... pro Warden broke the same { Rauch, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gar- | jog at the knee, during Hurricane rity, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rauch, |p. three years ago, when she t Bradley, Kendall and Brenda, Linda essayed to pick up some fallen | and Rosemary Delaney, Christine branches and tripped | and Michael Garrity, the hosts and ’ | guests of honor. | ! | man stepped from a raft into what he believed to be shallow water, | divers were hampered by algae, | which made underwater seeing al- i most impossible. In both cases, they | brought up the bodies. Men in the Underwater Divers | Association are all mature, ranging | in age between 25 and 36. For mem- | bers of the club, the charge is $5 per year for maintenance of the club room, and charter members get a tank of compressed air for $1. To associate members, the charge is $2 per tank. All members furnish their own equipment. FI Ear "EVENING HH) REGISTER TONIGHT tod Classes Start Sept. 26 PROGRAMS: Drive Carefully - Protect Children have been chosen to show the car. The car’s name is derived from Svenska Aeroplan AB which is the name of the Swedish aircraft company that manu- factures it and the famous SAAB supersonic double delta wing fighter airplane. Mr. Meeker received six of the new automobiles this week from the com- pany’s main depot at Hingham, near Boston. The sensational SAAB-93, the remarkable Swedish economy car with aircraft quality that has swept hill climb events throughout the Eastern United States, will shortly be on display at Kunkle Motors, Kunkle. Introduced to the U. S. market early this year sales so far are limited to the Eastern States in order to insure good servicing and facilities. Daniel Meeker is among a select sixty dealers who Harveys Lake Underwater Divers . : consumption increases. until at 100 Find Strange New World Under Lake! oniv 25 minutes can ve ex pected, and at this depth, time must be allowed to get back to the surface slowly, in order to get rid of the excess nitrogen in the blood. Mr. Lewis had to come up fast once, because his tank was exhaust- ed, and he developed a pressure headache. He strapped on another tank, sank to the depths again, and waited below until he could make the ascent with proper time elapsing for safeguard. That was the first year, when skin-divers were not so knowledge- able. A group had gone down to see about lifting Jack Zorzi’s motor boat, a total loss for 27 years in 85 feet of water. Diving with George Dombek and Gerald McGroarty, Mr. Lewis got tangled in g nylon float line marking the plafe where the wreckage was located, and before he got himself torn loose, he was out of air. He shot to the surface, jet- tisoning his weights, but he does not recommend this procedure. Sometimes the divers tour the bottom of the lake on a sled, hauled behind a motorboat. Vegetation does not extend be- yond the thermocline. it’s mud and not at all handsome. through the reserve tube. Below 33 . *Building Construction feet of depth, the first atmosphere, *Business Administration *Industrial Electricity *Mechanical and Produc- iota? Movies tion Tool Design Featuring Poul Richards in a Gillette Exclusiv SKIN-DIVER ADVISES LIFE JACKETS FOR FOLKS IN BOATS Harveys Lake Underwater Divers, with nine charter members and twenty associate members, one of them a diver’s sister, have been in operation at the Harveys Lake Pic- recently Fingorip Movies of BASEBALL'S SECRET LANGUAGE with purchase of Gillette COURSES: Motors and Generators Principles of Electrical Communication Elementary Mechanics Applied Mechanics and Strength of Ma- terials : Strength of Materials Industrial Processes Jig and Fixture Design Algebra - Trigonometry Kinematics and Design of Machine Elements Plan Reading and Architectural Details Architectural Drafting Advertising 1 - Salesmanship 1 Retailing 1 - Engineering Drafting 1 Engineering Drafting 2 Advanced Engineering Drafting Technical Writing and Speaking Direct Current Circuits Electrical Networks Malcolm Lewis, who was in- terviewed on the subject of Harveys Lake Underwater Div- ers for this week’s issue, says that divers are always glad to cooperate by searching for bod- ies, but he thinks an ounce of prevention is worth pounds of cure. Why let a small child who cannot swim, get into a rented rowboat without the protection of a life-belt, he wants to know ? nic Grounds since 1954, completing their fourth summer of skin-diving. Charter members are Malcolm Lewis, Forty-Fort; William Hoblak, Ray Wall Jr., Joseph Elgaway, Don- ald and Robert Hanson, Harveys Lake; George Walters, George Dom- bek, and Gerald McGroarty, of Wilkes-Barre. The sole lady asso- .ciate member is Martha Wallace, of Forty Fort. Skin-divers find a new world when equipped with a tank of com- pressed air, a mask, and weights sufficient to establish neutral buoy- ancy under water. With the body weighing nothing at all, flipper fins propel it easily in any direction. Sometimes it is dark in the depths of Harveys Lake, sometimes light, depending on reflection from the bottom. But it is always cold, once the surface has been left behind. In his opinion, anybody who cannot swim is asking for trouble if he does not have a lifebelt strapped in position or easily accessible. Everybody should learn to swim from early childhood, he thinks. YMCA programs think likewise. Regular price of Razor Set Alone EVANS REXALL DRUG STORE Shavertown, Pa. 669 N. Washington St., Wilkes-Barre Beyond that, sax It is up to the parents to see that children have instruction and that if they cannot swim, they are at least protected. Mr. Lewis, in explaining opera- tions, said that the definite division between warm water and cold varies | between ten and forty feet. Called the thermocline, it can be seen as a milky cloud only at eye level. Below the thermocline there is little oxy- gen, and while trout plunge deep, most lake fish swim above it. Fish, he said, have their peculiar- ities, varying from the extreme war- iness of the trout to the lazy habits of the wall-eyed pike, which pays no attention to a diver. Bass are curious, swimming directly up to the mask and peering in. Fish-spearing is illegal in Pennsylvania, though permitted in many states, especially those along the coast line. The divers started off their ex- plorations three years ago in dry suits, wearing three suits of heavy underwear beneath to combat the chill of the depths, but they have now switched to wet suits. Wet suits are of neoprene, sponge-like in texture. Their millions of tiny cells admit water, but also provide in- sulation. The water next to the skin warms up with body heat and re- | mains warm. A wet suit does not require exhaustion of the air pre- DALLAS OFFICE HOURS DR. A. S. LISSES OPTOMETRIST | 5 Main Street (Gregory Bldg.) Dallas & Phone Dallas 4-4506 “= h TUESDAY Wilkes-Barre WEDNESDAY } 1:00 to 5:00 - 6:00 to 8:00 p.m Office FRIDAY 54 So. Main Hours 9:30 to § VA 3-3794 SATURDAY — 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. “COMPLETE PERSONALIZED OPTICAL SERVICE” paratory to diving, as a dry suit | does. Must Come Up Slowly A self contained unit is carried strapped to the back. Compressed air is taken in through a tube held in the mouth, and used air expelled, leaving a trail of bubbles. A unit holds 2,200 pounds or 70 cubic feet of air. Under slow swimming con- ditions, when intake of air is at a minimum, the tank will last for sixty or even seventy minutes. And by manipulating a rod, 300 more pounds of air can be obtained Divers steer clear of the tall waving grasses that might entangle them, and they always hunt in couples. It is not smart to dive alone, any more than it is to swim alone. | Skin-divers have been called upon twice this summer to bring up bodies from the depths. At Lake Silkworth, when a four year old Philadelphia child was lost, they dived for a time, then had to return to Harveys Lake for warmer cloth- ing to combat the chill at the very deep point where the child was drowned. . 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