EDITORS NOTE: This is the second in estimates that up to 85 per cent of all Researchers have had some hints The birth control pill taken by many a two-part series on cancer. cancer cases are the direct result of about clustering of cancer in certain women can cause liver tumors, Holmes By RICK SAIGLING exposure to environmental factors. areas. Holmes cited a cancer clustering said, but they might possibly not be UD Reporter "There is an awful lot of cancer in incident in California where seven malignant. Cancer can be caused by something Lubbock," Holmes said. He believes children in the same school were The hormone diethylstilbestrol simple — something even as simple as this could be related to the great stricken with leukemia in a one-year (DES), which was given to thousands of eating peanuts. amount of crop dusting in the area, period. pregnant women after World War II to Aspergillus, a fungus that grows on since the chemicals used to spray the EVIDENCE has been presented that prevent miscarriages, has been linked peanuts, when they become damp crops are potentially dangerous. Little links a person's working conditions to cancer in the reproductive organs of trigger cancer of the liver in eastern data is available on this subject, but with a certain type of cancer. their daughters. Indian residents if they eat the peanuts Holmes said he is working on his "One of the biggest difficulties in Researchr- c: at the University of or drink the milk of a cow that was fed substantiating theory. evaluating working conditions is that Washington :ecently reported that the these peanuts, according to Dr. A. W. IN CITIES with heavy air pollution, exposure takes many years—it's hard use of estrogens by middle-aged women Something simple Holmes, chairman of the Tech Med cancer cases are more frequent. to make a connection between the two to alleviate symptoms of the School internal medicine department. Holmes said researchers have found (working conditions and cancer)," menopause increases their risk of This is not likely to happen with the most of the air pollution in cities is Holmes said. cancer of the uterus. packaged peanuts that Americans buy. made up of carbon particles from the According to a study by the In- HOLMES said that a professor at the CANCER CAN be caused by many internal combustion engines of ternational Agency for Research on University of Chicago 30 years ago different agents. Holmes believes that automobiles and bits of tires that have Cancer, bladder cancer is prominent related the use of estrogens to cancer. can cause cancer the disease must be triggered by more been rubbed away like sandpaper. among men who work with rubber and Cancer has also been tied to foods and than one agent. "The air we breathe today contains aniline) coal-tar) dye and lung cancer food additives in recent years. Sodium Holmes, a former instructor of a gases and particles that never before is frequent among men who work with nitrite and sodium nitrate, which are course on cancer viruses at the entered the human lung. Our food has uranium ore, nitrogen mustard, present in some foods and water sup- University of Illinois, has completed chemicals designed to improve its chromate and nickel dust. plies, have caused cancer in animals extensive research on cancer viruses in taste, freshness, appearance — but The study also shows that nasal-sinus when combined with a chemical animals. which are strange to our intestines, cancer is prominent among wood- compound derived from ammonia "If you can repeatedly and con- livers, kidneys and blood," according to workers and cancer of the lining of the found in the body. tinually irritate a tissue, you can get a Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, vice chest and abdomen and cancer of the These chemicals are also added to cancer," he said. "For example, sailors president for epidemiology and esophagus, stomach, colon and rectum bacon, ham and smoked foods to frequently get skin cancer from con- statistics of the American Cancer is prominent among asbestos workers. enhance their color. stant sunlight exposure and men who Society. A committee of the National The Federal Drug Administration smoke pipes often get lip cancer from Legislation which would require pre- Academy of Sciences determined that (FDA) is seriously considering lifting continuously rubbing their pipe on the market testing of chemicals to see if ultraviolent radiation from the sun its ban on cyclamates, according to same part of the lip." they might cause cancer was in- increases the risk of skin cancer. If Newsweek, because studies made after ENVIRONMENTAL agents also can troduced in both the House and the received in high doses, radiation from the artificial sweetener substance was be linked to cancer, according to Senate during the last session of X-rays can cause leukemia and other removed from the market have failed Holmes. Congress, but no committee action on forms of cancer, according to to confirm that cyclamates cause The World Health Organization the proposal has been reported. Newsweek. bladder cancer in animals. 1F1E UNIVERSITY DAILY VOLUME 51 NUMBER 111 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Tuesday, March 16, 1976 SIX PAGES Illinois primary set today CHICAGO (AP) — While President vice presidential nominee, said he was hours, with fewer than half the 5.76 sentiment for former Georgia Gov. Ford's supporters forecast a striking still in an Illinois horse race and million registered voters expected to Carter, Wallace, Shriver and former Illinois victory over Republican gaining ground as he battled to keep his turn out for an election that will choose Sen. Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma. Ford challenger Ronald Reagan, Democrat Democratic presidential campaign state nominees, determine presidential and Reagan, former governor of Jimmy Carter on Monday accused the going. preferences, and select delegates to the California, meet headon on the administration of shaping foreign Republican and Democratic national Republican ballot. policy so secretly that Secretary of WITH ELECTION eve forecasts and conventions. The preference voting is State Henry Kissinger may be the only pep talks, the candidates wrapped up purely advisory; delegates will be Republican Sen. Charles H. Percy one who knows the whole story. the campaign for the Illinois balloting chosen separately. campaigned in Ford's behalf among today with the presidential competition rush hour commuters, and said later Alabama Gov, George C. Wallace competing for the spotlight with a THERE ARE 155 Democratic the President will gain at least 55 per insisted that health would be no hin- contest for the Democratic nomination presidential nominating votes at stake, cent of the presidential preference vote. drance to him in the White House and for governor. and Daley, promoting the favorite son "Anything over 55 per cent will be an said he will prove in later primaries candidacy of Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson absolutely striking victory for that he has as good a chance as any That race matched Gov. Dan Walker III, is out to capture control of at least President Ford," said Percy. Ford won rival of winning the Democratic against Secretary of State Michael J. 100. Republicans will select 96 con- narrowly in earlier matches with presidential nomination. Howlett, with Chicago Mayor Richard vention delegates. Reagan in New Hampshire and J. Daley backing the challenger. Florida, and captured two other Sargent Shriver, the 1972 Democratic The polls open at 7 a.m. EST for 12 The preference voting will test imaries without real opposition. Traylor has little free time for obvious reasons By TERRY CULLEN I did, I probably wasn't even aware of students are returned the following Seante, the only such award ever made. UD Reporter it. 91 class period. In his upper classes, He is also adviser for Omicron Delta At 10:35 a.m. every Tuesday and Traylor dresses conservatively in a Traylor said he grades all the papers Kappa, Mortar Board and Delta Phi Thursday, Dr. Idris Traylor walks into suit, vest and tie. He paces slowly in personally. In his monster class, a Epsilon. Bicentennial hallway the lecture hall and begins to teach. front of the History 231 class with a teaching assistant (TA) grades the IN addition to being an adviser for In keeping with the Bicentennial, this hallway in the Administration Building was The mustachioed associate history hand tucked in a vest pocket as he papers for main points and Traylor honorary societies, Traylor is the ad- painted a bright red, white and blue. Although you can't prove it by this black and professor with styled hair lectures in a lectures. He has class notes on the then reads each paper, writing in words viser for Kappa Alpha (KA), a men's white photo, the photographer assures us the ceiling is red, the walls are white and deep smooth voice. He speaks slowly podium, but he does not read or refer to of congratulations or encouragement social faternity. His interest in KA goes the posts are blue. (Photo by Larry Smith) and distinctly. His voice is intriguing. It the papers often. on each test. back to his undergraduate days at the does not reveal his Texas upbringing. The history teacher highlights his Traylor came to Tech in 1965 after University of Texas at Austin. "I've had several students demand to lectures with tidbits (as he calls them) graduate school and study abroad as a "All my activities strike a balance," Bureau to conduct survey know what country I'm from," Traylor such as the extra-curricular activities Fulbright Fellow. Traylor said. "My adviser duties vary said laughing. "Students seem shocked of the Earl of Sandwich.