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The Oshawa Times Pibhished by Conadion Mewspapers Limited, #6 King St. E., Oshows, Ont fom 4 Friday, Port 7, 1964 Reluctance Of Doctors To Shock The Patient Almost 90 per cent of US. physi cians tend not to tell & cancer patient he has cancer, pecording to & swrvey #t 8 Chicago hospital. Of 19% mem bers of the hospital staff who re- sponded to 8 questionnaire, winety doctors said they "very rarely" tell thelr cancer patients the full story end eighteen said they "never" tefl Though the doctors varied widely ss to the frequency with which they made exceptions to their rules, #% per cent seid not telling was their ususl policy. Only 12 per cent said it was thelr usual policy to tell the patient be had cancer, The policy ie now to tell as little as possible in the most general terms consistent with maintaining eoopera- tion in treatment, the survey report seid, adding "Exceptions sre made most com- monly when the patient is in & posi- tion of financial responsibility which carries the necessity for planning Questioning by the patient invariably Is disregarded and eonsid- ered a plea for reassurance unless persistent Even then it may ignored, The vast majority of these doctors feel that almost all patients really do not want to know regardless of what people say," The survey was on tionnaire answers and personal inter. views with physicians ana surgeons on the staff of Michael Reese Hos- pital and Medical Centre, Chicago almost ne based (JUes- repovt on the study was made in the April 1 lssne of The Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Donald Oken, He is pesistant director of the medics) centre's Instis tute for Psychosomatic and Peychi- stric Research and Training. He said he believed the sampling of doctors was quite representative of Bigh-quality medics! practitioners in general, The results of bis study showed two points on which the doctors were virtually unanimous: thet some mem. ber of the family must be informed if the patient is not told; and that, whatever his policy on telling the patient, the physician's "resolute and determined purpose is to sustain and bolster the patient's hope" Although a doctor's policy is always based on what he believes best for the patient, there is very little depend- able fact as to which policy is really Dr. Oken said. Further thee has been an aimost eom- hest he de- clared plete absence of systematic research on thi He would he entirely NEO interpret his ating whether patients or told The point bared by the research was that # 'mportant matter emphasized that M to stud should not be snouiad # physician's adherence to either policy Hkely to on emotional factors bias than on logie and coldly evalu Was be based more and personal ated experience Restoring The Forests Each day in Ontario an average area of Crown forest land almost a mile wide and two miles long (1100 aeres) is eut or burned over, Natural regeneration provides new forest eover on much of this area, but much of It too needs artificial help in the form of tree planting to ensure the future forest erop, Many professional foresters, hoth in government and private woods industry, are kept husy with both tree planting programs and induce a new erop to grow naturally, Buch efforts and investments in to ensure not only the future of the highly important industries that de- pend on the forests for raw materials but also for the well-heing of the province's people in general, The re. moval of forest cover can hring drought and erosion; it can also de- stroy priceless recreation facilities, It is good news, then, that in ad. dition to the projects of the private companies, professional foresters of the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests. will soon begin supervising the tree planting and seeding of nears ly 60,000 acres of lands in the prov- ince, The 1961 program, which ex- tends from April to mid-October, will see 20 million trees planted on Crown lands, with more than half of them on lands under licence to Ontario's $1.5 billion forest industry, In addi. tion, the foresters will supervise the planting of 4.2 million trees on lands owned by counties, townships, river valley authorities and managed on an agreement basis by the province, The largest concentration of plant. ing will take place in the central re. gion, particularly in the Gogama, Chapleau and Sault Ste, Marie areas, Main species to be planted will be white spruce, white and red pine, Jackpine and black spruce, in regions that have been hard hit by forest fires, An additional 17 million trees are expected to be supplied by De- partment tree nurseries to farmers and private woodland owners, mostly in Southern Ontario While we applaud such a program, we should not forget that we too have a part to play, In our trips to the woodlands, we can guard against damage. Difference Of Opinion Some time ago we discussed the pace of columnists in a daily news- paper, and the desire perhaps even the duty -- of responsible newspapers to provide readers with a variety of opinions, As a posteript to that dis cussion we offer the following com ment hy the Pasadena Star News: "Let us say a man who does not like mushroom soup patronizes a supers The Oshawa Times Ine Oshawa (imes combining The Oshawa limes evtabilished 1871) and the Whitby Gazetts end Chionigh (established 1883) in published daily fundays end statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Dally Newspapers Publishers Association' The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau ef Circulation and the Ontaria Pravincial Dailies Asser cation The Canadian Press is exclusively entitied ta the use tor republication of all ews despatched in the paper credited ta 0H or to (he Associated Press or Reuters and alsa the losal news published herein All. rights ot special despatchey are alse resarven Offices Thomsen Building 445 University Avenue Toronta Ontaria. 840 Cathcart Street, Montreal P.O, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by caren in Oshawa Pickering, Bowmanville Broekling ort Perry. 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Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 Whithy Ajax, areas market where this kind of soup, among hundreds and perhaps thous: ands of other foodstuffs, is sold, One day he happens to see mushroom soup on the shelf and is enraged by the sight, He goes to the manager, demands that it be withdrawn from sale, and when the manager inered- ulously refuses, announces he will take his custom to another store, "Unlikely as this hypothetical inei- dent may seem, we believe it illus. trates, hy analogy, the attitude of some readers when they come across a published expression of opinion with which they disagree -- either in an editorial or in a signed column, We are glad to hear and to publish, as letters, views disagreeing with those we have printed, Rarely, the complain. ant announces his intention to cancel his subscription if we do not recant, "This decision, of course, is entirely his own, But let us examine a little further the reasoning behind such ultimatums, We proudly publish, as editorials and columns of signed com- mentary, views representing a con- siderable range of opinion, Obviously we ourselves cannot agree with all these views, We do, however, con. sider it our obligation to make a range of opinion available, on the assump. tion that readers want to apply their intelligence to a spectrum of facts and 'ideas in the process of arriving at their own conclusions" IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? QUEEN'S PARK Ontario Hydro's Duncan Era Ends By DON VBEARN TORONTO--The Duncan is coming to an end at Hydro Sometime next month the con troversial chairman whe has headed the commission since 1956 will hand over the reins And he will walk out on Uni versity Ave. probably without any regrets LOSING IDENTITY The writer has been eritical of James 8. Duncan over the years Sometimes it may have seemed excessively so It can honestly he said that every word was written with regret, For enticism, despite some may think, is not a pleasant task But Hydro, under Mr was getting out of focus It was losing that identity of a public" utility which had heen its powerful hallmark through all its growth And when situations such as these threaten it is the function and responsibility = of the Era Duncan intense , press to bring light on them A GENTLEMAN Now that he is going there is further regret that there weren't more words of praise to say ahout the retiring chairman Perhaps there should been 'more The construction end of Hydro ran smoothly through a great building program--including the Seaway project---while under his direction The chairman also was al ways a gentleman, No matter GALLUP POLL have how much you eriticized him you still had to respect him ut he had no place in the world of politics. And the job he was trying to do is essen tially political--taking care of the interests of "the people." And he was so clumsy in this field that his achievements were overshadowed That Mr. Duncan could not cope with politics is in no way to his discredit INSIDE YOU There have been many excep tionally able men whe have run into the same wall when they tried to work with the public service In the past few years there were two deputy ministers who were brought in from outside Both had to quit after a rel atively short time They were frustrated by the fact that in doing government business human relations is an all-important factor Even efficiency is sacrificed ton And unless a man has grown up in the business this can drive him to the stage of tearing his hair out--(Mr. Duncan obvi ously didn't reach this stage. He has a remarkably fine head of hair,) Holding Actions Against Leukemia By BURTON H. FERN, MD What's leukemia? Can leukemia sufferers he helped? Leukemia begins when the hone marrow or lymph nodes (swollen glands) start manufac. turing millions and millions of extra blood cells -- all exactly alike, These leukemia cells overs erowd the marrow, causing a hone-crushing pain, Deep with- in the marrow, the leukemia steam roller crushes normal blood cells to death Th skin pales as anemia thins the blood. As special clot- ting cells die off, black and blue bruises decorate the ghostly white skin and raw gums hleed after tooth-hrushing Without the protection of Even Split On Business Capabilities Of Parties By CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION It's a toss-up, in the mind of the average voter, as to wheth- er Conservatives or Liberals could do a hetter job of im. proving business conditions in Canada this year Broadly speaking divides into three segments, Three in ten think Conservatives could do most for the national economy, Ans other three in ten pick the Lib. erals as hetter qualified to do the job, Still another three in ten won't even hazard a guess on the question, The remaining one in ten is divided among those who pick either the CCF, or the Social Credit parties, or say there's nothing to choose between any of them While this is the national average, the type of work a man or woman does has a con. siderable effect on points of view Conservatives get more sup port than Liberals do, as the Party most likely to better bus ness conditions from executive ranks, professional groups, and those in business for them: selves, Farmers, ton, are more likely to endorse Tory forces, than Liberals, for this job On the,other hand the ranks of labor are much mare 'in the nation fairly even Rost party te Executives Improve Business Professional Liberals 20% Conservatives 32 Don't Know 0 oC 4 Others A] Na Difference 5 10% clined to favor Liberals as best for the economy. Similarly Lib. erals get preference from men and women in the nation's white collar jobs, and In the sales organizations With an election expected he: fore the end of next year, the Gallup Poll is carrying out a continuing series of studies, assessing political attitudes from many angles For today's report, interviewers put this question to a national sample of the voters "WHICH PARTY, IF IN POWER, DO YOU THINK WOULD DO A BETTER JOR OF IMPROVING RUSINKSS CONDITIONS DURING 1061 = THE CONSERVATIVES, OR THE LIBERALS?" Across the provinces as whole, the nation divides lik this Hest Party to Improve Business a e Liberals Conservatives Don't Know COR Others No Difference . 100 Looking at opinions of those wha are in four main oeoupa- tional groups, shows these con: trasts of opinion White Collar And Sales 100% Tm 10% World Copyright Reserved healthy blood cells, the leuke- mia-sufferer comes down with eolds, sore throat and every other germ that's going around, Leukemia cells swim through the blood to other organs, Every bit of hone marrow and swollen glands bulges with leukemia cells, A routine blood eount may show these cells, but the final evidence depends upon finding leukemia In a drop of hone marrow, While adult leukemia lingers, the disease explodes all al once in ehildren What triggers leukemia? Radiation? X-ray specialists and radioactive atomic bomb victims at Hiroshima and Nag- asaki are plagued with leukemia more often than most other Eroups. In the laboratory, special viruses can transmit leukemia, Perhaps radiation destroys the normal ability to manufacture anthodies against the ever present leukemia virus, ADULTS HELPED This may explain why radia: tion magnifies leukemia in chil: dren, Still, X-rays and injections of radioactive chemicals help slow the adult type of leukemia From cortisone to mustard gas, a growing group of drugs fill the arsenal against leu: kemia, TREATMENT ROTATED To prevent leukemia cells from learning how to get along with any one chemical, the doe: tor rotates treatment in a medi: By W. WANTYRE ROOW Special London Engiont) int atts id For The Oshown Times LOBDON -- Motion peture fhestregners Rave ong snes become irernciied (a the minh: oh Hotdogs served from the. Fe frashment stand pre fhe atest ommick te cater to the jaded ng of peanits, « y wp wn the front heats, members of the audience pre SERGE their teenth inte delectaiie hot- Angs OTTAWA REPORT E FP. Wyeth, manager of # theatre Wn Cheapside Boweser, think Sher: They have the ides that Strong Opinions Given On Bread By PATRICK NICHOLSON OFFAWA -- "How can # he that we have in this country the best wheat in the world, bat perhaps the worst bread in the world" Those pungent words by # prominent Liberal MP the able and popular Montreal lawyer Alan Macnaughton, were heard in the House of Commons Aur ing discussion of the agriculture estimates Our Prairie wheat - [armers have long seen something alarming in the sentiment voiced. For our consumption of wheat is slumping steeply. Over the last decade, for example our per person consumption of wheat flour during & year has dropped hy 20 per cent, from 163 pounds te 147 pounds Much of this slump stems from our lessened taste for bread, Agriculturists and econ omists here, whe themselves join the huge line-up on Satur day mornings at one or other of the small hand hakeries sell- ing unwrapped bread, believe that we would eat more hread if our hread tasted hetier, Further, as an adjunct to eat ing more bread, we would hoost our consumption of cheese, hut: ter and preserved fruits, which now all suffer from falling sales These same individuals agree that our Saskatchewan wheat: farmers produce the world's hest hard wheat for baking bread, But several countries which produce less good wheat ean nevertheless hake hread widely believed to he more en joyahle than our grocelerias' wrapped "shelf bread'. And they add that certain countries which buy our wheat, notably Japan and Britain, hake bread which sells for less than it does here, despite their extra freight costs OUR BREAD HIGH GRADE In discussing this Great Bread Slump with officials here, it was stressed to me that our bread is of very high quality It has been charged in UKA., of our bread, that "the en. riched white hread fed to the public today Is a scandal, The modern flour mill removes the precious vitamins and minerals, The flour is then bleached with apowerful oxidizing agent, chlorine dioxide (which 1s a poison) and to this lifeless mess a few dead synthetic chemicals, improperly called vitamins, are added. We not only know these are worthless, we believe that many are positively harmful." That quotation from a hook now enjoying a wide eirculation refers to the ready-sliced soft erustiess loaf, sold wrapped in waxed paper in USK, groceter: ias, Officials here stress that, on the contrary, the Canadian cal round robin, He'll prescribe blood transfusions to buoy up resistance and antibiotic germ- killers to guard against infees tion, Faith and hope are essential far this holding action, Perhaps, while treatment keeps the leu: kemia victims alive and com- fortable, someone somewhere will discover the true eure! BY-GONE DAYS 85 YEARS AGO R. T. Keller, vice-president and general manager of Gen: eral Motors, was tendered a farewell banquet on leaving his post At the annual meeting of the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club, T, P. Johns was elected presi: dent and W, J. Trick, vice president, for the ensuing year, H. § Smith, chairman of the Board of Education, acted as chairman at the closing exer cises of the Industrial night classes during which 106 certifi: cates were issued General Motors produced 6120 oars in March, 1026, the highest record in the company's history up to that time Customs returns for March at Oshawa for the year 1925-24 were $8,084,421, the highest on record R. H. James was appointed city assessor of Oshawa, with Cyril Luke as assistant The Oshawa Curling Club held its annual meeting electing to office, © W. Drew, presi. dent; W. Halland, vice-presis dent and Robert Henderson, secretary-treasurer HE, P. Heaton, Ontario Fire Marshal, praised the efficiency of the Oshawa Fire Dept, in keeping down local fire losses. The Oshawa Maroons Foot. ball Club were given a banquet and presented with new unis forms by members of the La- dies' Auxillary on the eccasion of its sixth anniversary, George Corby, president of the Club, presided for the event Heavy damage was done hy an explosion which followed a fire in the photographie studio of BE. J. Runnalls on King street west Harold Millichamp, Eldon Stacey, Douglas Bailes and John Hare represented Oshawa HY Club at the fourth annual convention held in Guelph, soft crustless loaf, baked from bleached flovr in TASADFME: tion bakeries, is equally' as mi. tritions as the crusty "home bakery" loaf QUALITY GAINS This "shelf loaf" Is econom eal to produce and has a long shelf life. In the personal pin ion of some Canadians, it has poor eating quality compared in the bread of our grandmothers' day. Dentists sometimes blame the soft crust for our children's poor teeth. The hig Baturday- morning line-ups to buy freshly baked unwrapped crusty loaves reflect only a taste preference not a quality judgment Economists say that our switch away from hread to su- gars and fats reflects at least in part our rising living stand- ards; we are now buying the more costly proteins, instead of the cheap but filling earbohy- drates But these officials here, while unwilling to put it in words, ap pear to me to feel that our farmers would sell more wheat if the crustiess wrapped loaf disappeared. Farm representa: tives indeed flatly question the oft-heard assertion that the soft wrapped loaf is what the mw Jority of the public want. FOR DAD WATSON'S 372" Athletic 8'Port Shorts = shorts and support all in one, Sized for perfect comfort, Soft combed cotton, Tailored fil; heiili after-mavie snack. (ne A] ""Fhese people want { cheap and satisfying. Some them are family men who have Wrought their wives and children to town from the cowntry for » might out. 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