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NORMIE ICWONG NAMED LEADING MALE ATHLETE Edmonton's Normie - Kwong's outstanäing performance V w^ him the title of outstanding male athlete for 1955. , ^ • • • Noxmie','tEwong one rot the finest ba£ik£elders -in pröfesäonal footbäll is ,Canada's outstanding nible' athlet^ of 1955. ' ano sportscastöns put the tag on the 26- . year"«ld 'lamonton th^21staiinual Canadian Press yeai*? end;:fii»rts poll Bi(d3 Pergu^ rento a^ex vho iheaded the 1954 poli, I was. of the list of 45 athletes -mentioned. Ferguson received oidy one ivote. ing Canadian athletes m order, more than^ on-third. of! ;Qie i selectors put Swong at the head of thelr list. Ba-. 6ed;.on three points for first choice twi> for second and one for; third, i5:wong's point total was 145, far ahead of second choice Cliff Lumsden, Toronto long-dlstanceswimmer •who polled 90 points, , I Jackie :!Parker, the gangllng, shuf-led &kbnQ0 to ibeir 8«-i9 bircy cup victoqr over MOntrea! Alouettes Jast mojitb, vas tiOra vitb n points. Fourtti vas Slontreal Canadiess' Jean Bdtveau witax tz potots. , r«to ti«re in i t wa*n't *ven a race. Selftctors praeöcsUy ^ the tu31%anmt oi j ^ r t s , covering the top meri in football, hocteyr svkimlngr. ffcJdi^ tenpis, curling, fe^cing;"*3tilng: hayfaan, racing and rifie ioiootlng. The <voten'fr<mi !Nev(rf<mnd'and to^ BritUh CoIund>la Iooked;Wr the.re-cord 7 of. thft Ca|gäry>boxn Kvrong in Westem Interprovinciar Football X}!bl9h and Grey Cup' play :th's year and inade~him thelr solid No. 1 choice They had plenty to £^ oh. fee;se1^. fäar'WIPU niSMng records duriq^ the season, was chbsen as of-fensive baäk on the OP all-star team and barged -over: for two touchdowns in the cUp fixial, his fifappearance. in .the autumn «lassie. At the iend of the seasqn vriters ia the e a s t and w»st football clties named him the cutstandlng Canadian player of the year-liumsden hit the sports pages last Sept.. 9; when he plunged ir^to icy Laite; Ontario with 29 others,-inc:ud- Ing the vi<uiA's leading distance swinupers and: was. the only one; to f ö i e 32-niiIe : laJcefront,ygrind• for a 415,000 fhst" priae. iGerry James "VVinnlpeg ^Blue Bom-ber haif :who gave « p f o o t b a l l at the end of the ; S e a s o n v to joinj Toronto <&läplö Leafs: of the Natkuial.Hockey LeaguÄ, placed f if öi i a the OP. poll ivith ,35 points, two inore than Cana-diens^ Maurice RichanL Stan Leonard:: o f vVancouver..-»ho forced a sudden-death playoff in the $26,800.. open^ golf championship at MOTtreal-. in-.August and; lost out to. Gene Litfer of Palm i-Springs, Calif Vi-as J i e x t Tvith 13 points. i i i i i l i i i PBE-SEASON TRAINING Traihing £nsure Success In Sl<iin§ MARILYN BELL AGAIN TOPS THE SPORTS POLL Marilyn Bell, n-year-old Toronto school girl who inakes history' neatly everyi time • stoe goes! swinimine; wäs naihed: Ganada's' outstanding' -female athlete oi'1955. Shealso von "«he honörhi 1^4/ .MarUyn became the youngest.8wim-mer to ..conquer ttoe; -English C h a n n e l last July 31 and'sports editors and , sportscastgrs: ^e^yarded[^ her v i t h an almost lUnanimous i^^vofe, Just as'j(they did in 1954 when she was the''i«riy human'-'l^^'swlm JLiaike Ontario be'- tweeniN^ewYori:sta<re;imd-Ontario^ • The 6 e l e c t o r s . ' ^ p t i n g ' i n t h e 2lÄt aimual - Canadian ' Kess - year-end sports'pollj ;were?asked. to. naaie the three. outstanding female" athletes in order of preference. It -»as Marilyn*s show ali the way. Twenty-six-others were mentioned and of ttoeseorfly eight caugait the voters' eyes for n:o 1 choice. , The votes, computed on a 3-2-1 basls, showed Marilyn with a whop-ping 216 points, nearly three thnes as many as jsecondrchoice Marlene Stewart, the golfing whi2 froim Pon-thill, Ont.i who received a 77 polnt-total, Third on the listTvasErEfestlhfi Russell, 16-year-old gymhast fröm iWlndsor, Ont.- ; ' v ' • Swimming the C h a n n e l hasbeen : ^old hatsince Captain I^latthe*^ Webb did it f u-st hl 1875 but the distincCion ^ ^: of heing the youngest to do i t b e r longed to Philip Mickman, 18^-year-old Briton, unta MaTilyn's crosslng. 'Mickman swam it in 1949. ^ Adding to Marilyn's prestige in the aquatio World was the marathon madness laet summer ! W h e n 25 m e n and women, hicluding some of the best swimmers in the .worldr trled the^ L ^ e Ontario swim. Kone made It. " von *both V - t h e OanBdlan;.'woraen's Opett änd Close i^olf title&'at Victoria-kst 6ummer;-buts*e -received jonly four fiist-choice "votes, against 65 for Marilyn- •Märiy- seleötors jotted^down only - •Marilyh's • •name - «on" 'the ' ballöt • and Tfrrotc "iNo other competttors." ; Jackie. MäacDonald; Toronto ••• track and iieid star • who: placed third" last year; alipped two^^ notches to . fifth pospöötjvith 22 i»ints, two less than Raa' MiUigan, Jasper Alta. Crolfer^ whö i^i^' theOntanoOftenand plac^ ed «e«>nd. \Q Mts$ Stefvart in the Caxi^dlan women's Close. , 'd^hs f a r down In . t h e list in-ciuded:/'-, i . - , ^ " t I-Sfiixtaaets Shirley. Campbell, Fer-gus,' Ont.r Betti -"VVhittall, Montreal, double :wlnner In the Pan-American Games at Mexico City; Lenore Fish-er," Ocean Falls, B.C.; Helen Stewart, Vancouver; Sara Barber;:Brantford, Ont.; Gladys Priestley, Verdun.-Que.; Eila lindell, Montreal, vänd^Kathie Mclhtosh öf St. Vital, Mähtth^' first pärson to swim Lake Winnipeg. •Three women TVho •wlll'' represent Ciittada Itf the 1956 winteri piympic games' at Cortina, -Italy, aläo r^eceived votesi They are : Carole Jane (?1pachl; x>ttawa; Canadian ladlesiseniorligure —. skatlng C h a m p i o n ; Aimk- Heg^ gtvelt,; Ottawa skier, and Toronto's Fratices Dafoe who, with Norris Bowden. also of Toronto, will team u p in the paks figureskating compe-; tition. ;Mifis Stewart, No. 1 choice in 1953,^ A VPELCOME BELXEF Salesman: Come now, just what wtndd you hotel guys do, if it> wasn't ior us travelling salesmen? Hotel ownfir: 'Weil, tjie flxst ^öung VK^^i^ is cut down on ejgpenses. Wp'd fire aU the house detectives! . B Y UNTO PENTTINEN. . A cross-eoimtfy dd 'sdiool vnu^:H r e c ^ l y hdd by ^ f i n a A.C: im-|E , der -the SponscMhipof the^ aor-; ^' ; tbemOn'(3rlo Sfci Zone;^lt prov-ed I)» be a vcry interestfnir event at whieh mxmy hdpful hlnts vjere passedvon b r tbe ;1954 CanadJ^ cross-comitry. - e h ^ .Airo Ayräntö. The pnrpose of «ritlnir.this ar- - ticle Is prlmatily to benef U thoae ^ aiembers of Mthe FCASF viho did nothave the-oi^rtiuilty of.at-i^v tendini: the sehooL By prs-season trainlng we mean the trainiag ; one must ;go . throtigh before actual snow condittons make skiing possilile.: 'Tto get into: top f ora» for cross-coimtry skiing. one -^ould start his pre-season trainlng in late. Ju'y or at least in August. i The V preliminaiy trainlng . should be start^ with gentle walks or hlkes: of 6 — 6 miles twice a week- Cross-country hikes over soft wooded paths with as. httle hard: n>ad9 as posslble; are recommended fo* thls f Jrst traiii-: ing, Tlus is advised. durlng. the break-fn period so ali muscles Involv-ed wiM become gently adjusted to the; strains that-^ill foMow. Thls type of roadwork can becontinued for three of four weeks, After this period' the muscles should i}e.used to- the starain.and'the number of hikes per week shoiild ,be increased to at- least>four..iDlst8mo«t'niay: also b2 mcreased., But the'nutin thing Is to put more effort into' walking. Walks can: be conducted':On> harder . loads; wh'oh, will gSive tt;' ifetter puMi to thestrid6 and wiU also ihcreas^ strain on'the musdes.' \ flhe pi-oper way of :Wlking:ls to use~ the. same ystyle: of mövement and' stride as l/used to ;actual\dcllnp. .1^ kn,ee .ofj tjie leadlngtleg.|iahould-rilp &lightly;«ent^^e^th^'pdsll!is «w4-i pleted with the other leg fully extfiai-ded fromthe hip.to the>ball of :the foot to complete the drlve. In doing this one gets -the fuH benefit:of the stride and. ali ^ the muscles; used in-sisUng will 'become accustomed to the st^in required ixf. competition. .,bn these hikes it is advisable to altemate from 'walklng to running as this wiill.bring'ali- musclös;Into.:play, It willt aaso help to break the mono-tonjr of.these Tongalmost-daily hikes. pärtioularattention should be pald to the climbs and bC: sure •.whether you:are running or'.walktog- to i In-crease; your. speed on^-the cUmbs and ccnttnue the increase in speed b?yond; the top of the hiU or to the next level spot. whlch ever the case xnay be. Onse you get >used to this you will] automaticaliydolt. In. competition which is important asmany races axe lost or won in-'the climbs. ^Tlienaoto is: never give in or slacken pace un-til you have conquered ih« c^ifl;^}:^ The use of poles is • reconunended" on these hikes and - paröcularly f or those who do not usei their: arms in; the course of thelr regular woik. Another good way of buUdhig the strength of the arms i S ; to attach-bicycle .tubes to : a treeäor- pole- or what have you-and pulUng^Ott^ttie^ daily for 15 or 20 minutes.-::In addl« tion to thls road wotk partlcular at-: tentionshould /be' pald tp. exercises. by attending a gym eläss at least twice a weäk. This of course Is in: ad-dition to the road work. * ' Rowing is a very good- way of building the upper body affi ane jShould row as nnich as poBsIb'« as the upper boily gets the least benefit ^from the hikes. , Frerseäson trainlng mustbe cairled out Jigfat; if one intends t o ^ c ^^ and wln races. Only proper. trainlng wlll get your muscles an^vind accus-tontsd to the faazd atrain which you wiU 7 encounterv In ;competlUon and prevent iU effeets vhich hiJght other» wlise occio'. .These trainlng dlstances-for hikes a r e of. course lor.skierslntending to S k l S h o r t dlstanoes up to 20 ten. iBut for skiers who pian to oompete i n ? ^ longer distaases of 30 or 50 Idlo-metenj; they must Increase the length o f thelr daily hlkes to 10 or 15 km. Oflbce tcaitting: te staxted It^ be conducted. on - schedule regard*ess of rajin orshlne. Mlsslng trainlng perlods may hecome a serious hablt. You can only get the full benefit pf your trainlng if: you put your heart and soul into it:?Only'proper;trabi- Ing will assxu% that your muscles and 'Wind wil stand up to the hard strains of • cposs-country competition. Once we are condlttoned; to the-straln no harm can be done to the body no matter how rlgorous the competition. • One m^st keep in mind that several aionths training can be lost in two weeks if training is not maintained on a regular sdiedule. , ' After each training period a steam-bath, shower or even a sponge bath iwlth .warm :water is reccommended f<dlow^ wit&. a cpmpieie duu^^ til^ cc^hes. ^ , ChIIls ixnpt be c^vol^^ durinef trainlng E»isuffidentclpt^ wam to k e e p varm a a d ' ^ eaaUe you topersplre-freely. ExerclslJDS^thehlps is a very esseatial part ö f preRseasoa^ training SO emphasis should be'placed o n ; swinging the hips: to keep them limber. Soft hut flrm shoes are reoommend^r ed for pre^ason road work. A cork compositlön soIe is one o f .the best.. The bcots should. f it properly to prev e n t Gores c from deiveloplng: which would hinder training. The n e x t artide wlll deal wlt2i training durlag actual 6now Mndi> t l o n s . / JOURNEY TO TIBET Life in Legendary Lhasa f'. , Canada^s outstanding youz^ sw3Xttmer l^IarilynJSell demonstrates tltje style that . carried her across.theJlngKsäi Channel,to jnoake hec the ypung^ sivnuner, to. accomplisfa the feat.;;J'or this. deed :she was nanjed eahada's put^tahding female athlete oJE 1955- Se woii:the samcÖtle in 1954 when she became the first perhon The föUoviAg Is the second ot ^ a series of artlclesby British cor'.'-. respcndent Alaa,IVlnalngton « h o - ' Is eurrently vblting Tibet* Ia bfs ^iitst artlde he «rote of th^road-r trhleh the Chlaese have buiit iato. n TIbet. Imagnie drivlng In an open car to Nottingham abqot the time of iRobto Hood and you can ;get some Impression of the ^ ^ t mlies to Lhasa along the new roäd from. China. ^ ' . In.: sparse. barley? fields, peasaats wltlh long matted halr. dressed In unble^hed t home^un,; patchedvahd shaples. lefui on thebr ,hjpes tq the. car. Women with open boc^c-, es.'feed- thelr; hables ot sicream aipdo-f usly as some urohiaä dare eadi. other to'cross-^pCrohtof the:;Jeep. ' -We come to a sectlon where TI-betaas ar^/working on the^road—for wäges, (i' rare thing in "TIbet. •As^.;iv^ fly;'3»ast th«ar Jtimp imd: clap tbe^^^ hands. .!lÄey'teck the peas^nts, '„ , , -J isUppipg through valley af^r go?f geous valley, the aew road fo]lows the rlver past'^moMsterlös?-and: stonei buiit faouses of the JrlchV ''' A splash pf brlgtitcolor in the distance tums out to?be a. noble-woman with' an.escort of three gallants,who pass us.wavlng, vrith thelr' hamess Jingllng. 'What seem to be automobiles: on legs are men carrying the big light boats of yak-skin stretc^ed on a frame.. lEnormous ravens hop lazily out of.^-the- way but mastiff s remain sleeping, exaotly ih the middle of the road. ' In the' dli^nce Is a black raln-cloud, with the sun behind It sending out blindlngrays that-hideeveryr thing: below - in darkness. Suddenly the sun comes .through, lighting; up the whole valley. And there In front Is iLbasa^leg-eadary Lhasa^wlth the goUen- Toofed Potala ^ l a c e domiaatiag the whole laadscape : and. makingv the mountabis : themselves seem Insigoir ficant. I had come 1,500 mlles by Jeep to reach this city and It w'as a moment I shall aever.forget.'I-:Caa understand the feellngs: of ;&pilgrim after walk-ing- the same distance when he Ttrst sees the Potala, where the Dalai Lama Ilves, and icnows that he' has at last reached hls goal. Lhasa; 12,000 feet above sea level, is the capital of the Tibeläin region of China, seat of. the local govern-ment headed by the IMlai Lama and holy of hoJies fcr Lamalsts every-where. ' Splendid as the city Is from- afar, at close' quarters there has clearljr been little Ohange tn sanitätion and ,layout eince ttie 7Öi century, That was when Tibefs most pop-i>': ar k'ng martled a Chlnese princeeii and söt vp house where the f^otala Tiow stands. 1 I t - is a city of relfglon,- arlstocracy and commerce*. andthelr vcounter-parts <^ pUgrintf, serfs-and :beggärs. Uritil the new pover siation is con^Ieted, a totteringr ol^ 100 kilo- Watt gencrator, w h i ^ was repaired by the:People'6 Liböfatloa Arfoy; «up-- pUes :a V Umited ntanberof fUckertng bulbspart of theday. , Ccrrles are now forlnging. tea f r «n Idland China and the price of this Tibetan essenUal has gone down. Shanghai clgarettes /vracua bot-tles and other cogsnmer, goods ar? popular, but yaks aad <»meii stIU toil into fUakea, <iai]y from Xadia and "Nepal wfth 'lightweightluictiry goods 8ewnupria the «klas: of thelr d e ^^ ed hrotbers. ' , . In this town. that never 8 a w a =wheeled. vehicle before last year,, the most obvlous ^ thing is traf f (c. It islmply was not designed for ansrthing r-Lbut men on loot and horseback. Its zuitjrow,. windingstreets become quag-. imires at the least: hint of rain. ; '> I tumed my jeepinto one street^the "other day ;to' flnd- myself facing a •convoy of, 'tea , lorrles- from inland China'.' I -i^pped,-the' crowd closed i a to'examine the foreigners and that wa$ that. < (/ It took än hour to sort out the trafr fic jam. 1 Apart from twffIc there are: mapy ilgns of the new road's efffect. ' i "VVithout the rbad' it wo'uld nöt !haW been posslble:to.equip the hos-pital, experimental farm, schools or newspaper. 1 »:to-tl^ecweiöf;|h4|nfaetaf^ ineWsp&per,* theuö^vas liotieveh any Tibetan type untll^he first was east ^PÖUng. ' *^i&nong the wealthy here; it Is fash-ceiUngs of houses. .^rmerly these were shipped in sectlons of less than a yard long and:then-bolted tOri gether, because a yak can carry only; 120 pounds. iNow' the newJbridge8 over the rlvcr at Lhasa and Shigatse, as weU as manyothers on the road, are of .steel glrder construction. As ^et the new thinge are hardly vlslble on the surface. The main streets of the towa are stiU as they were: covered with stalls, .with dogs sieeping^in the r^maln^tig patohes of sunlight; pilgrims, dervishes and beggars twirl prayer;wheel8vand^beg r - very successfiilly, 1 'uiidörstand. ' From my'w^ndow,,Ij!an v^pmen and children;,:carryihg ^ wat?ri-up^ the top of the 900-fopt high Potala, for everydrop of wiaief here has'!^ 1 (Dovln^ beid« - Higii 'ofticlals» in . . . . . Ä ^ Iheir jgöld röbes a^ a dozen seinra^tslnjred-frlnge lönable to use steel ghrders in'the like'*electrlc lam •',->rff>iif Just « b a t do HUnken think aboul; vhen they « re thinking? Ibis is a questioa vhlcb bas per'^; plemt manklnd ever since aumkiad became that kind of mm. Tbe fa> mpus eduptor Rodla. indeed. entitled m best tuur^pf^i^'p3ui Th{aker.| .t;It ponra3« a^eUpw, d i la in hand, thiaktngtU ."K* ' - j lVhatiTbe.']^Inker was thioking ' about äobody - seenu to know.; Had he forgottea a telephone aumber? .»^Waji' he trying - to xecall what f t vas > hlsÄrife had 0sked hhtt; ttf briDg Ixomm •for supper? ' The laet ..tba,t,.the famous work wa8 done niide has led ebme students'. of .art to!jponder^ ori' whether The Thiakör wa8 wonderlng where he had left his dothes. Thea there are others vtho' con-slder that T3ie Thlnker s was an early effldency expert type who was schem-; ing up aew ways, npt to mentlon means, to speedup the .workers at Anciente Chariot & Ho^seshoe Facto-- We've heard It argued that^ The Thlnker was inspired at Income Tax tlme and the fellow was mere-y figorlng out how to make out the "new, fiimpimeld OD T^k forbi.'v Other opinions run the gamut from trying to flgur4 o i l t a way to get out of doing vorkaround the/hpuse»; rlght up to sUch serlouB toplcs, a^' "Did iRome PalI:^or wfts It Pushed.'! Our thoughts on The Thhiker,wer| prompted when we saw recently in the papers that, "thinkers' from ali överthe world'^wer^ being invlted to the palatiai summer' resldence öf - a^ Canadian mllllonalre at Sdckville. N.B.'The purpose of Invitlng ali of "the thinkers" was so that they coulä-have a hollday and "bet and thlnk.| Newspaper reportage on theHhink* ';er8' athembly' aptly bring :out; whai' some of the "great minds" of the World are concerned::Withwhen they Just set ahh think. . i [ ' ^ One of the tlilnkera whien^aske$ what he was thlnkitig of> at the moment an8wered^ that M e ; thoug^ "it ,waii abPilt'tInie' for \nnoh:', Anptherj intel^ectuali.giantit redc-oned, 4iha:t; it^ loo^d l^e 41 ,migh| 'raij^|^gy?i;j^«^'(i'^^:^ But>y far' the' lottiest .Ihoughi caniefrdma tJSA'pfö^eäÄPr-l!ype'w!HÄ' Btatid' that' M "He-d^"knbwtt 'tliat' thinfe* v^ere fi^%ood' as they '?were at the Thinkers^Paradise, and for^fxee,! he ,never wpuld. have ^nt ,hl$ ^p^n mpoej^ ^«^^tilng| ^...»fi^gi 'jP^| -ylojiflly:' spme « I tbe «7«atiffi9ds nnfl| On the tbenite of gmM^ inl ane imlnded « f tbe^tta^^l twp iamous, astn3qunie»/«}y» ,— Jppktog Ihrough the iaö»t'aÄ^ J ^ j. eqaipment et the tismvmr^*^?^ 9--. - gping to Ä in tomorrov/X "11491^1 "Bow come you «Unk-tlMrt?**?4«ie/'% J We ;iiBed to lancy spmewhat of a thiaker; too 0||"',Sri^ ' M ,Thb, thpugh,. wa» ttntll^^we«toWl; our missus one'*'day duxlng VöftTl^ ^"'^^ tioiisebold debate' that,'1ier- fitfband' /-^'-{M waÄ.a tbtoker. ,»Amy/' we a « a ^ . / . ; J •:doa't,bug me »U thc;'ilme ^«hpttti^ft^i dolag pdd-jbbs. After m"i^we, Ä V |;| "thfre has to'be one,thlnker,Jriitbis ::M '.There .thertainly 1 d o t k " ' ^ r ^ Q kalbs. thus endiag our,a!a^pia(Wf^'''- Now miad jrou ^m'n,noidag^tg!^/':;V n?ChUjk«3J have 'contrnjutid'i,|ni«teh4, Like.reiceatly, jtrtiea Utrd 'JÄrttK^f^y «he läte Albert'^ Eii)8teln«:'ai)d''<^i^'^>^J emtoeat «ctentlsts Issued" ar/»ii«nl>»45/"'j;fq fe8to,which d e d i ^ Vtdt imapJOppL^J l|i These aclentlsta had-,t|ielr'täu4^~'' Ing caps Oh stralght, VVhdttb^l^. makes sense to'most>;peopI^<=Wttittji-^^:^| iröridÄ^'=:?^?^^SiS!^^^ koa thai pcople ,diould he^ä^Iä UtiyM Hve and..ralfie' *beirffaxnUIea ^In r»§r(^: dimate- pf fuU emplpyment, .ti^eä»^" 1 Ing llvlng- standaTds'-6näL.iiöÄe * i i » ^ ^-/j tha World. TSfUsis Wcal](y most pepplp'thInk'arik'wiait. -''m ; iihd. Citizen^ Uuvt"' te' ptS^' what .people^ areMgoiag r t » Jl^V^>? - They^ebeenthinklxigy^OMjnt-Hfri^ör' • beUig the guestft of ataS^imlifkx,'^' \ -yn : TodayrthMe ,lpfty )thbt«^ls'^!,of r y manklnd are' beinjg put^^iutbt^Mttoo'^ . •Mm m m ^nd wiU succeed. AtleastHhati' oiib/V^;< thlnker*s thlnkitig bn iheJquegtlölttf' T i "1% b«Si}ipdUrtd;'^8atd ihe^a»ftijf»v%.f^^i rer-bn'^Wa.lbfi':£i3v^^ ./.•Ah know^ho«r.^:ali^fl^H9t» Gigarettes - < Bigger an ; What is the tobacco companles' answer' to^mounting evidence that clgarette smoking causes or helps' ib cause Ivmg cancer? On the basis of evldence it appearg to be standard big Inisiness practlce, reflecting * the usuai big business dlsregard of people'5 wel£are — more" and more confusing advertlsing. !Hbw ströng^ls the- case agamst cgarettes? LeVs take a lo<*. A recent study on older men conducted for the American Cancer Society a>y ^Drs. Hammond and Horn revealed that cigarette smokers-had a lung : cancer death rate ; seven tiipes higher than non-^anokers. T h e study Tävealed: "The lung cancer death rate Is more than three times as high for those. who smoke over two packs a day as for those who 'smoke less than one 'pack. Cancervof l^e lungs ranks second cnly, to heart dlsease as a cause of death for ,two-pack smokers. :^en light smokers, those puffing' less than a; half a pack daily have considerably higher lung cancer rates than non-smokers, IThe relatlonship of clgarette smoking and lung cancer, holds in rural as well as Jn tuuban areas. TSiere appears to be some relation-ship between plpe smoking and lung cancer, although lt's much less mark-edthan'With clgarettes. Cigar smokers; on th^ other hnad, don't appear to have appredliab^or hi£^r lui\g cancer rates than nonsmokers; . This latest Hammond-Horn study is only cne of the many Indications, that c'gargttes contain elements that cause lung cancer, and according to Dr. Chai-les Camercn .medical dircct-or; of the American Cancer Society: "Cancer of the Ijmgs is showins the mrst rapid Incxease ever- ascnbed to. any noninfectlous dlsease in.medical hlstory." • This Increase has paralleled a rise :n, smoking. Oetting back to the^oigarettemakers " a n 3 w e r * ' ta this evidence. lel's -take a lock at some of the changes broaght about in the Industry/ not by ths heaUh probiem itself, but by the pubi-city gjvenit,publicitywhich has threatened the profits of the giantVcorporations that make clgarettes. ^ •Iheffirst change came about with th«, iiftrodifction - of king stee dgar-e t ^ S The advertlsing agencies soon gotfbuff^ droppittg ali sorts of hints t'nat''tbe longer the clgarettes, the' more;heathfuLlx>ng clgarettes fllter' mm 1M impiu-Ities, tars ead nicotine out of smcke, wa3>the'Jlbie. ' ''- fThen," as publlb alarm grew oVer the danger of clgarettes, the clgaret<i> te people came up wlt]l^ a new answer, the fllter clgaretto. Unquestionably, the combination of king.size a n d fllter snuÄes; preclpl" tated a revolutiormry change in UJB. smoking habl ts.-^ A dozen new brands have spnmg up and lumped- into. po-pularity. / But the facts about these new brands reveal a shocking.truth. Peor ple today:;are.,actua'lly' getting^more nicotine and more tar per >6moke than bef ore. Here'» w h y ; - ^ filters have less nicotine in thelr smoke (on the average) than d o regular slze dgarettes without fUters, but the much more common klng.size. filter. dgarettes a c t u a l l y h a A r e more nicotine than regular ones .wlthout filters. King slze.sigarettesjvlthout filters, despite advertlsing clalms, actuaUy have far more; nicotine than any other style. Regular clgarettes wlth filters have one third less torUianregulars wlth-out filters,: but king' slze' dgarettes with filters produce only one nhitti less tar than regular8without filters, This dlfference Is not signlficant, but hereVj one that Is: -King slze, non-filter c'garettes yleld 30 percent more tar than the conventlonal ones. To makeimattcrs worse; according to teats recently xcnducted by Con-sumers' Union,: tc4t>acco .compunieti 'have-, greatly Increased the nicotine ccntent, of thelr / oldjcstabllshed brands. , f, . ;Statistically,whatdo.;these facts m e a n in; tcrms,; of . j C u r r e n t > cigarette s m o k i n g hablte? i - j • ' v -. In 1952, 81^6 percent of.iaUpJgarr ettc3.smolcedv^ereregulfu** nonri^ smokes, I7,per<^nt were, k'ng.8lze, non-filter, while only \2 percent werc filters, Nov/ rcgularshave dropped to 63.22 percent of the market, klngs -have jumpsd to 27.06 percent,v and filters, mcstly king sl2S8, have; clmlbcd to 9.64 percent. Thes3 figures indicate that t h e greatest Jump: in clgaretto .smoking occurs for king slze smokes vithout-filters. the c'garettes which have the highest nicotine and tar conteat. And any: advantagegained from -the move toward'filters is a l i but caa-ceUed out„^y^ t h e fact tbatr' the most, populäf^^ t > r a a < t e ; o f d g a r e t t e s are t ä ^ ' s l z e / aadtbc^fore äa deletedousaä regular smokes. "Vjrhllc: recognlzing thp, dgarette* Ivm/g. cancer, dangei- foi^ what It te, we should noV fait into the trap of thinking, that dgarettes alone are responslbie i tor the' tremendous i n crease in hmg oancer death/ Per-haps equally important te'the danger presented hy air poUutlon from. fac-tories, and from exposure to noxlous fumes fm, 'the Job. The fact is that htng cancer te nu)re comnjonä in. Industrial centres. than In rural areas, and lung cancer te most common; among indus-npnferrous,; n6tate»-Steel and , Jrim,ri'"'^ aio^lc iehergy* plastlcs tannsportii^^ ,V|r(uall^ noihlng haa' beek^^döil^C'^ ' äbout the air poUuttpn' ah(t":tumM^' menace, Jargely because to^^tjte^fionie-V thing would co8t blgindustty;i|\^i9^ 1 of nioney. But untU ii^ probiem ; te tfackled, and,cert«iinlsr ottMin^^ labor has the greatest ^f ali TiMm { .M mi in seeing that it ted one, tbon^Gy^ m,m . of ,i>eople wlll die each' yea^ ÖOTI ^''jf lung cancer^ ' "/i 4 / EXPENSIVE "Since I got a glrl I_can't eat„ can't drlnk,'! C8n't amokc." " "Why not?" "I'm broke.", 'SO THAT'S ITJ "vntUe vteitlng the zoo, Mike 8aw a deer and asked.the keeper what kind of an anlmal It was, "You mean you don't 'knowJ" ex-daimed the keeper. "What dpes your wife call you?'< , "Do you mean to toll me," Mike replled, "that thafs a skunk?? Fpr 'vhat^vas IAUIS^JKIV Shlc^ m reaponsibte?" anked the bistorf^ft^^y^ The cager beaver l a the froö^ had hte hand up In a Jlffy. j H " "Loute XV, Blr." he sald. ^^^^-^i^'' AS ^ADVERTlzkD' S M A real estate agent-waa'stfottiAg^^^ a couple one of hte new homes. t *' . "VVhy are ali the r^oma o^l^^e secondifloor?" the >ad/ ask»^ \C ' " D l d n t v i y o u read our ad?';T«n-swered= thci^ent, "nothing iuxm/ LaboKOdditiesjA»' 100.000 MAKtAgEMCNT-UNIOMCONTIMCIS SETTIN6 THEWASESANDW0RKIM6 C0NDlTl0NS^F<mRK6RS M THE ttNlTEOSrATCS/ »AI» ' I5swc issuc ^ r « K CHMiCC TO WIN AfSOtfSAirUMS , eOMD Oti A CMIKi CASD pn^mL mm . 1 • f f
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Title | Vapaus, January 5, 1956 |
Language | fi |
Subject | Finnish--Canadians--Newspapers |
Publisher | Vapaus Publishing Co |
Date | 1956-01-05 |
Type | text |
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Identifier | Vapaus560105 |
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Title | 1956-01-05-03 |
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NORMIE ICWONG NAMED
LEADING MALE ATHLETE
Edmonton's Normie - Kwong's
outstanäing performance V w^
him the title of outstanding
male athlete for 1955. ,
^ • • •
Noxmie','tEwong one rot the finest
ba£ik£elders -in pröfesäonal footbäll
is ,Canada's outstanding nible' athlet^
of 1955. '
ano
sportscastöns put the tag on the 26-
. year"«ld 'lamonton
th^21staiinual Canadian Press yeai*?
end;:fii»rts poll Bi(d3 Pergu^
rento a^ex vho iheaded the 1954
poli, I was. of
the list of 45 athletes -mentioned. Ferguson
received oidy one ivote.
ing Canadian athletes m order, more
than^ on-third. of! ;Qie i selectors put
Swong at the head of thelr list. Ba-.
6ed;.on three points for first choice
twi> for second and one for; third,
i5:wong's point total was 145, far
ahead of second choice Cliff Lumsden,
Toronto long-dlstanceswimmer •who
polled 90 points, ,
I Jackie :!Parker, the gangllng, shuf-led
&kbnQ0 to ibeir 8«-i9 bircy cup
victoqr over MOntrea! Alouettes Jast
mojitb, vas tiOra vitb n points.
Fourtti vas Slontreal Canadiess' Jean
Bdtveau witax tz potots.
, r«to ti«re in i t wa*n't *ven a
race. Selftctors praeöcsUy ^ the
tu31%anmt oi j ^ r t s , covering the top
meri in football, hocteyr svkimlngr.
ffcJdi^ tenpis, curling, fe^cing;"*3tilng:
hayfaan, racing and rifie ioiootlng.
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