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'r- I .. With Christmas only a short time away, the shops and department stores are fully decorated in the holiday tradition, and shoppers fill the aisles with bustling activity. Christmas is truly trie season to be lolly, but also the time of year to be a wise shopper. Experts give shoppers these hints. v Plan your purchases; think about what you want to buy be fore you go to the store. Leisurely browsing in stores and attractive displays may induce you to buy something you realize later you really didn t . want. Also, even though you may be rushed and the stores are crowded, try to compare prices at the different stores. Shop early. You can avoid huge crowds, busy salesclerks, and possibly find bargains you might overlook in the last minute rush. Ken Layne c$3t t fos most .By Ken Layne Banks offer a number of services that help espe cially during this busy season. If you have a bank credit card, you can put all of your purchases on one charge account You can also use the card to obtain cash from the bank for shopping in stores that do not accept credit cards. When your state ment comes, you will have a complete list of how much you spent for Christmas. While interest is charged from the day you receive a cash advance, you have 25 days from the date your statement is printed before finance charges are applied to mer chandise purchased. If you don't want to pay the full amount due, you can make a minimum payment and pay the rest in coming months. Many banks offer reserve accounts that allow you to write a check for more money than you actually have in your checking account. With this service the extra funds are automatically transferred into your checking account, and you can repay the loan, with finance charges added, either in one payment or spread out over several months. If you plan to use credit in your Christmas shop ping, think about how you will make the payments before you make the purchase. Keep a list of expen- No field in medicine is as exciting or as rapidly chang ing as Oncology (Cancer Medicine). The prognosis for the disease varies withithe type of cancer one has. Ten years ago when I started medical school, there was no talk of known cures for any cancers. Instead, one spoke of survival rates how many were alive after one year, two years, five years, ten years, et cetera. Today, we not only talk of a cure for some cancers, but we can point to improved survival rates for most forms of cancer. We're not talking about existing, but people living to enjoy meaningful, fulfilling lives. Research into new therapeutic modalities has been fruitful and statistics show improved outcomes for many with cancer. Radiation therapy has become more refined with the addition of neutron radiation, radiation during surgery, and radioactive labelled isotopes which can be tagged to attack the tumor specific. Though it is true that in destroying the "bad cells," it hits some of the good ones, more and more we see it surpass our ex pectations. One may get a bit nauseated and lose ones hair with chemotherapy; but for a second chance at life, many find that it is worth the risk and discomfort. Im munotherapy is the newest subdivision of treatment, it involves stimulating ones own body's natural defense system to fight malignancies (serious cancers). One bit of excitement here is a substance called Interferon which is a natural protein used by the body to fight off some forms of cancer. Unfortunately it costs more than .$50,000 to produce enough Interferon to treat one per- Spectacles: A Closer Look Cancer Treatments: Hope Abounds By Ada M. Fisher son with cancer. (Understanding this, the high cost of health care can be appreciated. There are alternative therapies some of which still re main controversial and most of which need investiga1 tion. Vitamins C, E and A are being studied for their possible benefits to cancer patients. Laetril has it sup porters but few of prominence in oncology have seen any data to substantiate its benefit. Home remedies, brews, and magic potions are taken by many but there is no proof that they work. Much of the therapy used with cancer patients is still experimental or investigational. Though none of us wants to feel that we are "guinea pigs" or wants to be a subject for human experimenta tion; unfortunately, the only way we'll ever find a cure for cancer, is to get more people with the disease to par ticipate in research trials with the new drugs and therapies. Science demands disciplined, methodical, and reproducible results for a study to be held valid. The people with the most experience and skill in handling cancer patients are hematologists and oncologists. It is most important that the psychological-perspective of the person with cancer not be underestimated. Many physicians can recount experiences where two people with the same type and stage of cancer have responded differently to the same modes of therapy. The will to live is an undeterminable factor in survival with cancer. Positive thinking can have some benefit. Groups such as "Reach to Recovery" and other self help groups of cancer victims try to get patients to "make today count" by standing up to their disease and society. Too many cancer patients hide the fact of their disease from family, friends, and society. Too many with cancer, by denying its existence or covering up their disease, have failed to help others with cancer seek help early. The courage of First Lady Betty Ford, UN Am bassador Shirley Temple Black, Chef Julia Child, and Marvella Bayh should have inspired other women to do breast self exams and go for routine breast exams for SAT., CECEBSER 13, 1323 THE C A?. CUM A TItS" ditures charged to your credit card so that you won't go over the credit limit the bank has extended to you or extend your credit too far. Many banks now have automated teller machines which you can use day or night These are con venient for withdrawing cash to help with your shopping, for transferring money from one account to the other or for finding out account balance information. Some automated teller machines allow you to make payments to your credit card account or to your reserve funds account If you want to give someone cash as a Christmas gift, most banks will be glad to exchange your . wrinkled bills for new dean bills. Also, if you find yourself short of money this Christmas and would! like to avoid the same prob lem next year, you can set up a savings account with your bank and put aside some money all dur ing the year so that next year you won't find your self caught in the same situation. Ken Layne, a banker for eight yean, is an assistant man- ager at the Wachovia Bank and Trust office in Franklin. their doctor. Modesty has no place when oje's !:fe is threatened. Be open and honest with your doctor you think you have cancer, or other concerns. As a primary care physician, I feel it is in the best in terest of cancer patients to treat them inTonjunction with the oncologist. I also believe every patient deserves the best possible treatment which can be coordinated through one 6f the ten regional cancer centers in the L S such as ours here at Duke or Chapel Hill. It is not preordained that if you have cancer you must die or suffer. Forget the horror stories you have heard. Medical care has some treatments which work, can do much to relieve pain and suffering, and can help us toward a more healthful life. If you have a persistent or nagging cough which has lasted more than a few weeks, a lump which persists, show a dramatic weight loss, a 'change in stool or bowel habits, unexplained bleeding, a change in a mole, sores which are slow to heal or will not heal, unexplained bruising, are sexually active (especially with more than one partner), or have any -Other persistent complaints, or abnormal findings, treat yourself right with a check-up. Black people, wake-up! You deserve better than you have gotten. The one who can best help you is you. Our health statistics are atrocious. Some of it reflects our un willingness to seek medical care or our waiting until we are in such poor shape before we seek help. Our lifestyles need re-examining if we are to stay healthy and we need to have periodic check-ups to remain healthy. AfriCQ tlOVS (Continued from Page 13) that is the standard in most Western countries. In Kenya, for example, which has a relatively well-' developed news industry, the major national daily newspapers are all foreign-owned. Because of poor com munications links that continue to make it dif-; ficult to ' communicate with different parts of the continent and the outside world, ji Africa's,, news agencies have been slow to develop. To date, 25xun tries have local news organizations, not one of which maintains cor respondents anywherej outside its borders. Thus,1 for foreign news, they must rely on the five ma- jor news agencies. Nigeria, Africa's most populous state, has no news agency of its own. In book publishing; on ly two per cent of the world's titles come from Africa, and there are only 27 titles to be shared by one million people. All of this constitutes the equivalent of a news vacuum, and the major, wire services are filling it. ' The Western agencies may; not choose to place cor respondents everywhere in the Third World in fact only eleven per cent of their reporters -work in1 .Latin America and fouri per cent in Africa, accor ding to Anthony Smith in the Geopolitics of Infor mation. Even so, their resources are superior to those of the African news . media. Thus it is not uncom mon for one African country to get news of its neighbors via Europe. In fact, last week citizens of Senegal first learned of President Senghor's retire ment in a newspaper ac count distributed by the .French press. ' Even if. the news is car- ried by Western agencies, the presentation and con tent w,fcfjteB geared to the desires ofL editors seeking, sensational stories on coups and famine. Ideology is also frequently a bone of contention: African sensibilities were repeatedly offended, for example, when the wire services regularly referred to Zimbabwean guerrillas as 'terrorists' and con sistently gave more coverage to the deaths of Zimbabwe's whites (in 'massacres') than to the deaths of blacks (in 'crwss-border raids'). While the Third world, did win some important victories at the Belgrade meeting, the controversial issues involved in creating the 'New Information Order' were put off for further study as a result of Western objections. Among the major ac tions adopted by the delegates was the establishment of an Inter national Program for the Development of Com munications (IPDC). In its first stage the IPDC will seek to resolve the most pressing needs of the developing countries in the . area of communica tions infrastructure and technical expertese. Originally formulated and proposed by the United States, the IPDC will only receive voluntary contributions from the developed countries and their transnational news companies, leaving finan cing up to the UNESCO general fund. Western participants are hopeful that the steam will be let out of the political demands of the poorer nations if the IPDC is successful in pro viding basic technology and training for the establishment of the Third World news agencies. Many members of UNESCO, however, are doubting whether they can depend upon the goodwill of the West for their future development. Underlying many of the debates at the conference were the findings and recommendations of a UNESCO-appointed com mission headed by Sean MacBride, a former Irish foreign minister. Mac Bride was co-founder of Amnesty International and the only person to receive both the Nobel and Lenin peace prizes. The MacBride commis sion prepared a 312-page report entitled, "Many Voices, One World," which sets out controver sial steps to be taken in the establishment of a new in formation order and is sure to play an important role in the further debates through the 1980s. Select Toy That Offers Range Of Experiences Trying to select the right toy for a child? You mayjbe ahead of the game if you choose toys that could give that child a whole range of play exper iences, says Dr. Frances Wagner, extension human development specialist, North Carolina State University. For example, toys of the active, physical type include any plaything from skis to ' bicycles that require physical exertion and aid muscular development. Any kind of ball falls in this classification. For toddlers, there are push-and-pull and wheel toys, and at any age, sports and gym equipment. Creative, constructive, manipulative or scientific toys embrace a broad range, be- ginning with an infant's first set of blacks and extending to the most modem microscopes and complex electronic assembly sets. A coloring book is as creative toy to a toddler as advanced drawing or painting supplies an toJbjs older brother and sitter. Both share the qualities and characteristics of this group of toys - they enable a child to develop and express his own ideas, en courage the use of initiative and stimulate observation. Play that's imitative, imag inative and dramatic is great fun for children and has a highly desirable effect on their growth. Tools for this kind of play include stuffed animals, dolls and dress-up costumes, toy soldiers, trucks and miniature tools. Shared or social play helps children learn to get along with each other, and ultimately, in the world. In such joint activities they begin to understand fair play and to get a sense of the exciting challenge of healthy competition. Game and sports equipment fit this description as do intriguing board games such as checkers and chess or quiz and word games. Any toy that is durable and provides one or more kinds of play is probably a good toy -one a child will enjoy and learn from, the specialist concludes. . x : to enjoy your 19SI Cadillac To all the pleasures of driving and owning a Cadillac, now add a unique choice of power systems for 198t K New for 1981... V8-6-4 Fuel Injection Is standard equipment. Trust Cadillac to lead the way with exclu sive advances , like the new V8-6-4 fuel injected engine, the standard gasoline en gine for all 1981 Cadillacs. As you drive, the -1981 Cadillac, automatically goes from 8 to 6 to 4 cylinders. , As you start out, all 8 cylinders are in operation. As your power needs lessen, the car automatically goes to 6 cyl inders . . . and then to 4 cylinders. When you need the power, the car instantly reverts to 8 cylin ders again. To know the number of cyl inders active at any given moment, merely push a button on the MPG Sentinel (also standard). This combination of V8-6-4 fuel Injection and ' the MPG Sentinel can help a person to become a more efficient driver. Available V6 engine. (With overdrive for Fleetwood V Broughams and Devllles.) Ail 1981 Cadillac Fleetwood Broughams and DeVUIe models are available with a 4.1 liter V6 engine combined with a newly designed four-speed automatic trans mission that incorporates over drive. ' t Both the front-wheel-drive Eldorado and Seville are available with a V6 en gine that utilizes a three-speed automa tic transmission. If you are looking for a car with the comfort, ride, roominess and quality of a Cadillac combined with the advantages of V6 power, mis is an excellent choice. .. The V6 engine has performance you as sociate with "V" design, but with two fewer cylinders than a V8. Diesel Power available across the line. . Only Cadillac offers you a full line of re sized luxury cars available with Diesel. As a matter of fact, it's standard on Seville . .making it the only car anywhere with V8 Diesel engine as standard. Unlike foreign Diesels, the -engine . used for Cadillac is a V8. A significant advancement for 1981 is an extension of the recommended mileage for an oil change from 3,000- to 5,000-rnile intervals. See owner's man ual for conditions requiring more fre quent intervals; Cadillacs are equipped with GM-built engines produced by various divisions. See your Cadillac dealer for details. And to buy or lease (or test-drive) the Fleet- wood Brougham, DeViile, Eldorado or Seville of your choice ,.with the power system of your choice. . iiiiill 1 .it jf . If .V """""W . W . i , I CAOILLAC MOTOR CAR DIVISION. U.S.A. Trust Cadillac to lead the way. .
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