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THURSDAY, AUG. 10, 1048 ___

‘Let's Face It, Cancer Victim Urges Others

Cleveland Editor Asks Readers To Fight ‘Hush-Hush' Attitude

By CARLTON K. MATSON, Associate Editor, the Cleveland Press |

(Reprinted from the Cleveland Press)

I'VE DECIDED to write a piece which will be quite

shocking to some people. But it shouldn't be.

I write it not just to be shocking, although I'm willing | to be that in a good cause. I'm writing it because I think |

it’s time that some history be made by being as frank

I'm going to be here today. Anything anybody can do to free the human race from terrifying and crippling bondage to ancient fears, should be done. To that end I aim to make my contribution. = I was told the other day that the back injury which has been bothering me for months, involves a malignancy. In plain language my friends, that, of course, means cancer.’ This wasn't a complete surprise to me, by any means, but neither

I've Been Told and | Know

WHAT 1 WANT to do is to strike a blow against this mys-

| terious, paralyzing hush-hush

that surrounds every case of cancer. I don’t want anybody having to ask me “Does he know what he's got? Has he been told?” Yes, I've been told "and I know. | Also I don't want good friends of mine feeling cautious and apprehensive about talking ito me about anything and everything, including cancer. If my life on earth must be foreshortened—as certainly seems possible at this moment ! =I want every particle that's Jeft of it wide open and un-

Kept a Desolate Silence

FOR INSTANCE, I have , thought about a husband "and wife, very close and dear to | each other, who nevertheless

| Hived together for six months .

throughout the death throes of her cancer, without the corsolation of simple candor. They kept a desolate silence between them about her illness, secretly asking, each about the other, “Does she know? Does he know?” What tragic nonsefise. I will have none of it, and I want my friends to have none of it. If they want to think of me m time to time as a man with a cancer, OK. The doctors might fool them, at that, but it's the fact, subject to further

Teasing Wife Pulls Trigger; Husband's Condition Critical

WILLIAM MERIDETH, 20, of 142 Tacoma Terrace, is in critical condition in General Hospital today after being “playfully” shot by his wife. Police said his wife, Rhuetta, admitted shooting him with a pistol following a “good-natured” argument last night over whether she could go out with “some friends.” , Merideth said he “jokingly” threatened to shoot his wife if she left the house, then tossed the revolver into a chair in the bedroom and left the room. s = = HIS WIFE picked up the revolver, he said, and warned him not to come back into thé room. Paying no heed, he returned and she pulled the trigger. She said she didn’t think the gun was loaded. Police charged both with vagrancy. They said the bullet lodged against Merideth’s spine after entering his body near Ris heart.

other chain N and in in 1937. i's beén run. cent on such items as soap, ducted entirely electricalifood and milk, to a maximum : and mechanical three cents on luxury goods. “Key Does It AW “It costs us no more to handle was it good news. It was stag- The “Keedoozle" title is a con- stuff worth a dollar than it does gerngly bad news, and: would traction from the camera-like/to handle an item worth a anyone. 1 nbs 5 oo mechanical t used nickel,” x Le But I didn't lose any. time IN. HITCH-HIKING—Cpl. Tony Furic is shown as hopper, The Kye: Hence, “Key{ahy chiies Toor rel. pao lying on the floor. I made ar- | he was reunited with his 25-year-old wife, Marjorie, and their shooting recalled the un-/does it all” comes out “Kee-profit—and the master key will rangements to get the best | 22.month-old son yesterday in Old Orchard Beach, Me. Mrs. [solved murder . of Benjamin |doozle.” keep a running total of our treatment 1 a. rae Furio, who is expecting another child, had set out with her young |(Bugsy) Siegel on June 20, 1947.! The shopper receives a keyprofits so we can tell exactly yD bh: - Slepty) Yeatment son to hitch-hike to California fo see her husband before he left He as i. hot ws i Jaton a ota upon entering. The buyer inserts where we stand at any hour of , right here in | for an ovérseas post. Cpl. Furio, after reading of his wife's plan [pom the Sunset , . Wanted lr Shopping Mer Saunders id “individ c in a newspaper got a furlough and rushed by plane fo Maine to | Cohen has a picture of him and|is complete the key is turned Rg rant will Be _"g RS vidual

But let's skip the therapy, because this isn't a case discussion of the writer's back ailment. I'll work that out with the doctors.

inhibited to the freest intercourse I know with all good souls. I think these *“ campaigns” about cases of can-

deadly destroyers of the human spirit. They make the hard fact of cancer doubly hard. I want none of them. What I'm doing here today has been a matter of resolution every since I've thought about

have hardened my resolution.

notice, and let's face up to it. Meanwhile, there's so much to be done in this world, so much to think about, write about, and talk about, that it's an infernal nuisance to be laid up for repairs even for a short time. What a world it is: It's full of cause for worry, to be sure, but it's also a place where it’s actually difficult to be

Remember, we have a “pt perity” that couldn’t stand One “washing.” Under its soft surface anybody can discern the mortal symptoms of inflation. We have on our hands the danbusiness of a cold war. We're in the midst of a political

- campaign that looks like a cir-

cus, but is trademarked by des-

y. A We've made Iof ourselves the Atomic Age, and now we don't

know what to do with it. We

have all the to make the world a constellation of shining opportunities for everybody, beyond the utmost outer boundary of the most gifted imagination. Yet in the midst of it we sit, scared to death. So, you see, I don’t want to miss anything I can miss-

help ing. Good willing, for a long time I shall be writing in this column on many subjects,

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prevent his wife from completing her cross-country jaunt.

hanging in his office.

with his “Keedoozle,” a mechanical grocery store

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Conductor Found Dead Downtown Suffen Heart Attack

N. Arlington Ave. was

attributed tc*’a heart attack. New York Central Railroad for

on the James Whitcomb Riley the last six years.

ductors, No. 103. He was also

He lived in Indianapolis 36 years. Services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Monday in Moore Mortuaries Irvington Chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park. The Rev. J. B. Ferguson, pastor of Irvington Presbyterian Church, will officiate. ’ He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Miss Jane Brodalick, all of Indianapolis, and a brother, Anthony Dienhart, Lafayette.

International Harvester Employees

Mr A. M. Bowers, works manager of the International Harvester Plant, wishes to inform the employees that they will be paid on Friday, August 20, at the plant.

All shifts will he paid between the hours of 9 A.M. and 12 o’clock noon. |

Employees are requested to wear their Plant badge as a ‘means of identification.

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A. M. Bowers ‘Works Manager

George E. Dienhart, 63, of 25 found dead early today at Illinois and Washington Sts. His death was

Mr. Dienhart was employed by

43 years. He was a conductor

Born in Lafayette, he was a member and local chairman of the Order sof Railroad Con-

a membgr of the Benefit Asso ciation of Railroad Employees.

Fern Dienhart; a niece, Mrs. Robert Brodalick; a grandnephew,| Donald Brodalick; a grandniece,|

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