Judging
Scheduled
Judging to wtect Um
organized communities In
Western North Carolina which
have made the greatest progress
in 1969 will be held next week.
The occasion will be area
judging of the WNC
Community Development
Program with over $5,000 in
awards at stake. The judges will
be lookint at county winners in
three divisions, baaed on the
number of families in the
individual community.
Peach tree, which represents
Cherokee County in Division
C, for communities of 150
families or more, will be judged
on Monday at 1 p.m.
Texan na, which is the
county winner in the Division
A, 75 families or less, will be
judged on Tuesday morning at
8:15.
Tomotla, the Cherokee
County winner in the Division
B, for 75 tO 100 families, will
be judged en WeJncs.iay .
1:30 p.m.
Winners will be announced
at a banquet in Asheville on
Dec. 6 in Asheville City
Auditorium.
The program is sponsored
by the Asheville Agricultural
Development Couhcil in
cooperation with the
agricultural agencies in each
county and local sponsors.
Junior Girl Scout Troops
Members of Girl Scout Junior Troop 211 and 328 in Murphy
posed this week for their picture. Front row (L-R) Becky Alvester,
Betty Summerouse, Pam Brugh, Angela McClure, Peggy Golden,
Linda Hughes; Second row, Susan Ridenhour, Brenda Worley, Lisa
Woody, Becky Mauney, Belinda Smart, Vickey Palmer, Betty
Roberson; Back row, Ivy Lovingood, Vicki Beat, Jane Blakemore,
Donna Lovingood, April Chastain, Cindy Dickey, Donna Ramsey.
Instructors are Mrs. Harry Dickey, Mrs. Henry Gaines and Miss
Deborah Radford. (Staff Photo)
Bookmobile
Schedule
The Nantahala Regional
Library B ookmobUe will
be in the following
aectiona of Cherokee
County, Nov. 10-13.
Monday ? Ebeiteezer,
Hanging Dog, Boiling
Springs, Owl Creek, Fair's
Store, White Church
School.
Tuesday ? Unaka
School, Upperbeaver Dam,
Ogreeta, Grape Creek.
Wednesday ? Peach tree,
Brasstown, Folk School,
Peachtree School
Thursday ? Snowhill,
Macedonia, Culberson,
Hot House, Ranger
School.
If you are interested in
obtaining library books
from the bookmobile, feel
free to stop the
bookmobile anywhere
along these routes, or call
Nantahala Regional
Library, Murphy.
N.C. Memorial Hospital
Stresses Cancer Cure
CHAPEL HILL - Cancer,
the moet mysterious of diseases
and one of the most feared in
this country, is the object of an
intensive treatment program at
North Carolina Memorial
Hospitri.
The hospital opened the
Division of Radiation Therapy
in April, with the most modern
and advanced equipment
available for cancer treatment.
In addition to the cobalt
treatment most hospitals offer,
Memorial is providing
treatment with a 25 million
volt betatron machine, the
only such piece of equipment
in the entire state. This
doubie-banelled machine can
bombard the cancerous area
with either high-energy s-rays
or electrons.
The Chapel Hill-located
hospital has also recently
acquired it a simulator for
RadiatioV Therapy. The
machine is the only one of its
degree of complexity in the
state. The model obtained by
Memorial is the "most
sophisticated, up-to-date one
made," according to Dr. Gerald
Hanks who heads the Divison
of Radiation Therapy.
The machine's purpose is
"to more accurately plan and
arrange our treatment fields
before the patient is treated,"
he said. "I think it is essential
to the highest quality work."
The hospital is now
shopping for a transverse
tomography machine which
will help to ensure North
Carolinians of the very best
treatment available. This
machine takes a special kind of
diagnostic x-ray that increases
the accuracy of localizing
various cancers and planning
their treatment
Since Radiation Therapy
opened, the number of patients
on the cancer treatment
program has risen steadily. Dr.
Hanks, formerly of Stanford
University, said he expects that
figure to level off eventually.
At the present time, about
60 new patients are seen in
consultation each month.
Almost all patients now
being treated are referred to
Radiation Therapy from other
services, such as Gynecology,
Ear, Nose, and Throat, and
General Surgery. There are,
however, an Increasing number
of direct referrals from
physicians throughout the
state.
Average treatment period
runs about four to six weeks,
and the cure rate is
approximately that of the
national figure-overall 40
percent of all cancers are
cured.
Dr. Hanks noted that early
cancers are, of course, more
curable, and that at least half
of all cancers are best treated
with radiation. Having heard
that Cancer in incurable, many
people, he said, don't
understand what is meant by
curing it. In essence, a cured
cancer patient can live out a
normal life with no recurrence
of the disease.
Mosf ot ehe patients are
seen on an outpatient basis.
That is, the patient is not
sdmitted to the hospital, but
comes in for treatment for a
short while each day. This
situation has created some
problems.
The patients usually are
out-of-towners and must spend
almost all day In an unfamiliar
area usually without
transportation for the period
of treatment In addition.
many have no place to stay.
Motels are generally ruled out
as too expensive. The Division
has attempted to arrange
housing in private homes, but
the response has not been
enough to fill the need.
There is stiO a shortage.
In addition to offering
patients excellent treatment
with the most advanced
equipment, the Division of
Radiation Therapy also
provides training in radiation
therapy for resident physicians,
radiologic physicists, and
students in radiation therapy
technology and general x-ray
technology.
Considering the national
shortage for such qualified
radiation therapists, these
programs are of vital
importance to North Carolina.
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