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" u" " -- :. . ,.. i:. . f MITT L'; V.:. Y .'?. ..:; 73rd Year - No. 290 Good Morning! It's Sunday, August 23. 1981 4 Sections 48 Pages 50 Cents Facing rising rents, central city stores forced to relocate By Calvin Lawrence Jr. and Linda Finders Missourian staff writers Susie Scott's Children's World sold children's apparel at 710 E. Broad-way for six years and in the down-town area for 18, years. Since April 30, Susie Scott's has been looking un-successfully for a new location. " They put the rent up so high I couldn't afford to renew the lease," says store President Glenn A. Bra- de- n. Mike Atkinson, owner of the build-ing that formerly housed Susie Scott's, says that, because of rising mortgage costs, owners must in-crease rents in order " to break even or to make a profit. " Increased rents, decreased busi-ness and competitive pressures are combining to force an unusual num-ber of downtown businesses to take tlie same course as Susie Scott's. At least 19 stores within a four- bloc- k ra-dius of Ninth and Broadway have changed or are changing occupants. Many of those being dispossessed are bitter, but the Central Columbia Association sees the changes as signs of economic vigor. Jean Garrett, owner of The Clay Hand, is being forced out. After setting up shop at 908 E. Wal-nut St. four years ago, Miss Garrett, a potter, says she can no longer af-ford to operate her specialized busi-ness. But shrinking profits and soar-ing interest rates, two factors that usually hamper small businesses, did not cause the shop's permanent closing. The going- out- of- busin- ess sign reached the store's window after the rent was significantly increased at the end of her leasing period, she says. " I figured the landlord would raise Insight the rent but he increased it by 50 per-cent," Miss Garrett says. " There was no way I could afford that. ' ' Paul Mashburn, the building own-er, says Miss Garrett was paying a rate per square foot lower than his other tenants. The new rent is " right up to par with the rest of the rents," Mashburn says. He has not yet found another ten-ant. As downtown retailers continue to prosper, marginally profitable busi-nesses such as The Clay Hand find it increasingly difficult to compete. Other businesses suffer from growing competition for downtown property. H. R. Mueller Florist, a 54- year-- old shop, closed July 31 when Ralph Maledy, owner and president, was unable to negotiate a lease with the building's owners. Mark Foreman and Klifton Altis, landlords for H. R. Mueller, 29 S. Ninth St., and Bill Geel's Mens wear, 27 S. Ninth St., told the two men that other plans had been made for the lo-cation and neither store owner could renew his lease, Geel says. Geel is moving to 19 S. Eighth St. at the beginning of September. " We were not being forced out because of the rent," Geel says. " The owners told us after the first of the year that they had other plans and indicated to us to look for another place." Part of the property is now being advertised for rent as office space. Maledy would not say whether he will be relocating. Braden, Maledy and Miss Garrett of The Clay Hand are bitter and an-noyed by the hefty rent increases. ( See FACE, Page 12A) Mating 5em Schools given better marks than parents in raising kids DAYTON, Ohio ( UPI) Public schools got higher grades for edu-cating students than parents did for raising their children, accord-ing to a survey of public school at-titudes by the Gallup Poll. Nine percent of those surveyed gave the public schools an A rat-ing; 27 percent gave them a B; 34 percent gave them a C; 13 percent gave them a D; 7 percent gave them a failing grade; and 10 per-cent said they didn't know. For the first time in 13 years in polling the public's attitudes on education, respondents were asked to grade parents in their communities for the job they were doing in raising their chil-dren to be " self- disciplin- ed and responsible young people." Five percent gave parents a grade of A; 24 percent gave them a B; 36 percent gave then a C; 16 percent gave them a D; and 11 percent gave parents a failing grade. Eight percent indicated they did not know. " The success of the public schools Is due in no small part to the kind of job parents do in rear-ing their children in the home to be responsible young people," George Gallup, head of the Gal-lup Poll, said. " It was thought, therefore, that in rating the schools and teachers it would be only fair to rate the kind of job parents are doing." The work of principals and school administrators as a sepa-rate group was also rated and found to be higher then the rating given parents. A total of 10 per-cent gave principals an A rating compared to the 5 percent for parents; 26 percent rated princi-pals B compared to the 24 percent who gave parents a B. The survey showed that young-er people are more critical of the public schools than are their eld-ers. And respondents from small towns have a higher opinion of their public schools than persons living in large cities in the United States. Discipline continued to be re-garded as the main problem fac-ing the local public schools. Other problems listed in descending or-der by the respondents. were use of drugs, poor curriculum, lack of proper financial report, difficulty of getting good teachers and inte-grationbusing. wmwmmmgmm HMHMB M UonJ. C. HUo A blast A worker sandblasts an oil tank at Wi-lliams Brothers Pipe Line Co. on U. S. Highway 63, three miles south of Co-lumbia. This is the first time the tank has been cleaned since 1974. Cancer detection plan skips blacks By Ken Weiss Missourian staff writer Like most other volunteer organizations in Co-lumbia, the American Cancer Society chapter is nearly all- whi- te and some Cancer Society officials are worriexfcthat its white orientation may be deny-ing some blacks information that could save their lives. Locally as well as nationally, Cancer Society offi-cials stress early diagnosis as the key to cancer sur-vival. The annual April Crusade, in which volun-teers go door to door dispensing information and soliciting contributions, is the society's most impor-tant educational effort. While no statistics are available on the actual number of cancer detections par month, Jim Schell, state director of public education for the society, says " it's our general feeling" that the highest number annually occur in April and May as a direct result of the crusade . The 1981 Columbia Crusade covered less than 20 percent of the city's black neighborhoods, accord-ing to the local chapter's records. Derrick Willard, a local field representative for the Cancer Society, says this figure means that many Columbia blacks are being deprived of impor-tant information. The need for early diagnosis may be even more important for blacks than for whites because, pro-portionally, more blacks die of the disease than do whites. Figures for 1980 show that just under 7 percent of Boone County's population is black. During the de-cade of the 1970s, 9.2 percent of the 1,033 people who died from cancer in the county were black. Nationally, according to Cancer Society esti-mates, 134,000 Americans with cancer who might have been saved through earlier diagnosis and treatment probably will die in 1981. Currently, 31 percent of black women nationwide seek early diagnosis and treatment for cancer com-pared to 42 percent of white women. For males, the breakdown is 28 percent for blacks and 37 percent for whites. With increased education about early detection, Willard believes the survival rate could surpass 50 percent " tomorrow." Willard says that, if the Cancer Society is to meet its public education goals, it must enlist the aid of black men and women to explain to the black com-- munity " what we have to offer." This task is made tougher by the society's per-ceived image as a " white and middle class" organi-zation, he says. ' This has added to the difficulty we've had in relating to minorities."' Robert Rodgers, the society's northern Missouri executive director, does not dispute the need for more black involvement in the annual Crusade, but he insists that the impetus must come from olacKs. " This is a volunteer organization run ijv volun-teers, and volunteers make the decisions. ITus orga-nization has never refused an one . " And, he says, the Cancer Societ is not tne only one with the problem of getting minorities more in-volved. Other health care organizations, such as the Heart Association, have the same difficult . Willard says that one reason for the Cancer Socie-ty's undercoverage of black area in its April Cru-sade has been the tendency to " go w here the money is." " It's a real problem." be says, fcp. a r.' s been too easy for us not to worry about it. " We're trying to impress on the crusaders that education at the doors is as significant as tne money we collect.' Rodgers disputes the notion that the crusade may give priority to wealthier areas of the community " The fact that the main purpose of our residential program is to collect money is not true. Of course, it takes money to run an organization such dS this. " But it gets back to the number of people we need to get things done. Black people haven't responded to calls for volunteers to cover their community. '" This is not an organization that rejects the black community. Their welfare is as important as any-one else's. If we had enough volunteers you could be sure ever area of the city would be covered. " Only a " handful" of blacks participated in the April effort, according to Willard. The general canvassing method used by the Can-cer Society calls for residents to reach out to their immediate neighbors. White volunteers are gener-ally too uncomfortable to go door- to- do- or in black neighborhoods, Willard says. Much of the blame for the low black voiuiteer ef-fort lies " right here in this office." he admits. " Part of our job is to monitor the effort and influence vo-lunteers to get out into those areas . ' ' One black who did volunteer for the Apnl Crusade is Rosie Turner, a tumor registrar at Boone County ( See CANCER, Page 12A ) Report checks cancer rates in black, white population By Ken Weiss Missourian staff writer Medical researchers have known for years that American blacks are more likely than whites to contract certain forms of cancer and vice versa. Now, a study in a medical journal compares just how frequently the two races get the various can-cers and speculates on which ones are genetic and which ones environmentally caused. According to an August article in the Journal of the National Medical Association, a predominantly black organization, blacks are almost 3 times as likely as whites to suffer esophagus cancer. Ameri-can blacks also are at least twice as likely as whites to contract multiple myeloma and cancers of the cervix uteri, penis and vagina. Blacks are also more than 12 times as likely as whites to get pros-tate, liver or stomach cancer. The article, by four physicians associated with Howard University in Washington, D. C., suggests environmental causes for these types of cancer be-cause their occurrence varies widely in different lo-cations and under different conditions. It cites alco-hol as a primary factor in esophagus and liver cancer, poor genital hygiene in penis, cervix and vagina cancer, and diet in stomach cancer. By contrast, whites are more likely than blacks to develop cancers that are traceable primarily to ge-netic influences. The physicians endorse a currently popular " two- step- " hypothesis that explains cancer's devel-opment in two stages. The two- ste- p process requires a certain genetic makeup before a carcinogen, or cancer- causin- g agent, can take effect. The physicians . this hy-pothesis in the journal to explain the s. h .- - idence of skin cancer in whites. Whites are 100 times as likely as blacks t come down with skin cancer. In this case, the genetic makeup, the white skin, is required before the car-cinogen, the ultraviolet B rays of the sun. can be ef-fective. Whites are also between four and 10 tunes as like-ly to suffer lip, melanoma of the skin and testis can-cer. And they are lh to two times mere susceptible to eye and orbit, thyroid, bladder, corpus uteri and brain cancer. The two- ste- p process involving ultraviolet rays also is used to explain the high incidence of lip can-cer and melanomas. Little is known about the causes of testis cancer, but the physicians say it's a " good candidate for having a genetic base " Thyroid, bladder and utenne corpus cancer seem to have no genetic basis. Environmental factors ap-pear linked to all three types through radiation and goiter for thyroid cancer, smoking anci aniline dyes for bladder cancer and estrogen disturbances for the utenne corpus form. Genetic factors seem likely to explain the higher incidence of brain cancer in unites, the phsicians say. Some common cancers that occur in relatively equal incidence among American whites and blacks include cancer of the pancreas, soft tissue, lung. small intestine, larynx, vulva, bones. kidne . colon, rectum, leukemia, breast, ovary and gallbladder. Super sleuthing leads to spy's recapture SEATTLE, Wash. ( UPI) Christopher John Boyce, interna-tionally sought spy whose love for falcons, jogging and Vitamin E led to his capture, was held Saturday under tight security by U. S. marshals 19 months after he staged a cunning escape from prison. A hearing before a U. S. Magis-trate on escape charges was sched-uled Monday morning. Boyce, a 28- year-- old Southern Cali- forni- an convicted of selling U. S. de-fense secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1970s, was arrested Friday night by a swarm of federal agents. He was seized while eating a cheeseburger at a drive- i- n in Port Angeles, a fishing port 60 miles northwest of Seattle where he had been living in a small apartment. He was carrying no weapon and offered no resistance. In Washington, D. C., Howard Sa- fi- r, assistant director of operations for the U. S. Marshals Service, said I8 knowledge about Boyce's interests provided clues that helped concen-trate the manhunt. " We focused on areas where peri- gri- ne falcons still exist and this was one of. them," Safif said. " We fo-- Christopher John Boyce Internationally sought spy nabbed cused on remote areas, since Christopher Boyce was into camp-ing, jogging general outdoor types of pursuits. " Over the last 19 months we have looked into every falconry area, into jogging stores, health foods, vitamin stores anything that would give us a lead, right down to the type of jog ging shoes that he would utilize," Sa- f- ir said. ( Boyce was wearing Nikes when arrested; Safir said he pre-ferred Etonics.) " We had information that he was using a specific Vitamin E and was taking a great deal of it when he was in prison. So we focused on the par-ticular stores around the country that stocked that particular vita-min." Several weeks ago, a driver's li-cense with Boyce's picture on it led agents to believe he was somewhere in the Northwest. Boyce was not pre-sent at the address on the license, but it was that of a family in Beaver, 40 miles from Port Angeles, with whom Boyce had spent time. Three cities were staked out by a task force of 30 agents. As a result of putting some of our people into roles as waitresses, fish-ermen, loggers, we were able to get into the community and develop in-formation relative to sightings of Boyce," he said. " He was going by the name of An-thony Edward Lester, and he had used several other aliases. We devel- - oped information that he may have been involved in the fishing busi-ness." The county sheriff's department said Saturday Boyce had recently purchased and was operating a com-mercial fishing trawler. It was not known how much the boat coast or where he got the money. Boyce made no attempt to disguise his appearance. When arrested, he presented his customary short, curly brown hair and clean- shave- n good looks. A Justice Department source said his whereabouts were traced " through talking to a lot of people, one calls and stuff like that." He Kd lived in a trailer in Beaver until a month ago, the source said. " A restaurant, bar and house were under constant surveillance by marshals and FBI agents for three weeks," the source said. " We knew he would return to one of these spots." " He was our number one fugitive because of the crime that he com-mitted. Espionage is certainly a top priority," Safir said. The son of a former FBI agent, Boyce grew up on the affluent Palos Verdes Peninsula overlooking the Pacific and worked as a $ 140- a- we- ek clerk at TRW Inc., an aerospace firm in suburban Redondo Beach un-der contract to the CIA, where he had access to the top secret " black vault." He was convicted in April 1977 of espionage for smuggling secrets of U. S. satellite technology out of the TRW " black vault." The secrets were sold to Soviet Union KGB agents in Mexico City by Andrew Daulton Lee, his boyhood friend, for $ 70,000 over a period of several months. Lee, a convicted cocaine dealer, is serving an espionage sentence at a federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., from which Boyce made a bold es-cape Jan. 21, 1980. While on an outside work detail, Boyce hid in a ditch and scaled two 12- fo- ot fences under cover of dark-ness. Meanwhile, an accomplice fooled guards by stuffing a papier- mach- e dummy in Boyce's prison cell bed. In town today 2 to 5 p. m. Tnjrs. Maple- woo- d Farm histcne house. conducted by members of Boone County Historic! Socie-ty and Lenoir Memorial Home. Nifong Park, off Route AC. Inside today The religiou fanatic who shot to death his four children, his ex- wi- fe and his mother stood before a judge and asked to be put to death, t Story on Page3A.) Index Business 10- 12- B Classified 6- 9- B I Opinion 4B People 1- 3- B Record 11A Sports 7-- 9A I Weather .2A 1
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Item.Transcript | " u" " -- :. . ,.. i:. . f MITT L'; V.:. Y .'?. ..:; 73rd Year - No. 290 Good Morning! It's Sunday, August 23. 1981 4 Sections 48 Pages 50 Cents Facing rising rents, central city stores forced to relocate By Calvin Lawrence Jr. and Linda Finders Missourian staff writers Susie Scott's Children's World sold children's apparel at 710 E. Broad-way for six years and in the down-town area for 18, years. Since April 30, Susie Scott's has been looking un-successfully for a new location. " They put the rent up so high I couldn't afford to renew the lease," says store President Glenn A. Bra- de- n. Mike Atkinson, owner of the build-ing that formerly housed Susie Scott's, says that, because of rising mortgage costs, owners must in-crease rents in order " to break even or to make a profit. " Increased rents, decreased busi-ness and competitive pressures are combining to force an unusual num-ber of downtown businesses to take tlie same course as Susie Scott's. At least 19 stores within a four- bloc- k ra-dius of Ninth and Broadway have changed or are changing occupants. Many of those being dispossessed are bitter, but the Central Columbia Association sees the changes as signs of economic vigor. Jean Garrett, owner of The Clay Hand, is being forced out. After setting up shop at 908 E. Wal-nut St. four years ago, Miss Garrett, a potter, says she can no longer af-ford to operate her specialized busi-ness. But shrinking profits and soar-ing interest rates, two factors that usually hamper small businesses, did not cause the shop's permanent closing. The going- out- of- busin- ess sign reached the store's window after the rent was significantly increased at the end of her leasing period, she says. " I figured the landlord would raise Insight the rent but he increased it by 50 per-cent," Miss Garrett says. " There was no way I could afford that. ' ' Paul Mashburn, the building own-er, says Miss Garrett was paying a rate per square foot lower than his other tenants. The new rent is " right up to par with the rest of the rents," Mashburn says. He has not yet found another ten-ant. As downtown retailers continue to prosper, marginally profitable busi-nesses such as The Clay Hand find it increasingly difficult to compete. Other businesses suffer from growing competition for downtown property. H. R. Mueller Florist, a 54- year-- old shop, closed July 31 when Ralph Maledy, owner and president, was unable to negotiate a lease with the building's owners. Mark Foreman and Klifton Altis, landlords for H. R. Mueller, 29 S. Ninth St., and Bill Geel's Mens wear, 27 S. Ninth St., told the two men that other plans had been made for the lo-cation and neither store owner could renew his lease, Geel says. Geel is moving to 19 S. Eighth St. at the beginning of September. " We were not being forced out because of the rent," Geel says. " The owners told us after the first of the year that they had other plans and indicated to us to look for another place." Part of the property is now being advertised for rent as office space. Maledy would not say whether he will be relocating. Braden, Maledy and Miss Garrett of The Clay Hand are bitter and an-noyed by the hefty rent increases. ( See FACE, Page 12A) Mating 5em Schools given better marks than parents in raising kids DAYTON, Ohio ( UPI) Public schools got higher grades for edu-cating students than parents did for raising their children, accord-ing to a survey of public school at-titudes by the Gallup Poll. Nine percent of those surveyed gave the public schools an A rat-ing; 27 percent gave them a B; 34 percent gave them a C; 13 percent gave them a D; 7 percent gave them a failing grade; and 10 per-cent said they didn't know. For the first time in 13 years in polling the public's attitudes on education, respondents were asked to grade parents in their communities for the job they were doing in raising their chil-dren to be " self- disciplin- ed and responsible young people." Five percent gave parents a grade of A; 24 percent gave them a B; 36 percent gave then a C; 16 percent gave them a D; and 11 percent gave parents a failing grade. Eight percent indicated they did not know. " The success of the public schools Is due in no small part to the kind of job parents do in rear-ing their children in the home to be responsible young people," George Gallup, head of the Gal-lup Poll, said. " It was thought, therefore, that in rating the schools and teachers it would be only fair to rate the kind of job parents are doing." The work of principals and school administrators as a sepa-rate group was also rated and found to be higher then the rating given parents. A total of 10 per-cent gave principals an A rating compared to the 5 percent for parents; 26 percent rated princi-pals B compared to the 24 percent who gave parents a B. The survey showed that young-er people are more critical of the public schools than are their eld-ers. And respondents from small towns have a higher opinion of their public schools than persons living in large cities in the United States. Discipline continued to be re-garded as the main problem fac-ing the local public schools. Other problems listed in descending or-der by the respondents. were use of drugs, poor curriculum, lack of proper financial report, difficulty of getting good teachers and inte-grationbusing. wmwmmmgmm HMHMB M UonJ. C. HUo A blast A worker sandblasts an oil tank at Wi-lliams Brothers Pipe Line Co. on U. S. Highway 63, three miles south of Co-lumbia. This is the first time the tank has been cleaned since 1974. Cancer detection plan skips blacks By Ken Weiss Missourian staff writer Like most other volunteer organizations in Co-lumbia, the American Cancer Society chapter is nearly all- whi- te and some Cancer Society officials are worriexfcthat its white orientation may be deny-ing some blacks information that could save their lives. Locally as well as nationally, Cancer Society offi-cials stress early diagnosis as the key to cancer sur-vival. The annual April Crusade, in which volun-teers go door to door dispensing information and soliciting contributions, is the society's most impor-tant educational effort. While no statistics are available on the actual number of cancer detections par month, Jim Schell, state director of public education for the society, says " it's our general feeling" that the highest number annually occur in April and May as a direct result of the crusade . The 1981 Columbia Crusade covered less than 20 percent of the city's black neighborhoods, accord-ing to the local chapter's records. Derrick Willard, a local field representative for the Cancer Society, says this figure means that many Columbia blacks are being deprived of impor-tant information. The need for early diagnosis may be even more important for blacks than for whites because, pro-portionally, more blacks die of the disease than do whites. Figures for 1980 show that just under 7 percent of Boone County's population is black. During the de-cade of the 1970s, 9.2 percent of the 1,033 people who died from cancer in the county were black. Nationally, according to Cancer Society esti-mates, 134,000 Americans with cancer who might have been saved through earlier diagnosis and treatment probably will die in 1981. Currently, 31 percent of black women nationwide seek early diagnosis and treatment for cancer com-pared to 42 percent of white women. For males, the breakdown is 28 percent for blacks and 37 percent for whites. With increased education about early detection, Willard believes the survival rate could surpass 50 percent " tomorrow." Willard says that, if the Cancer Society is to meet its public education goals, it must enlist the aid of black men and women to explain to the black com-- munity " what we have to offer." This task is made tougher by the society's per-ceived image as a " white and middle class" organi-zation, he says. ' This has added to the difficulty we've had in relating to minorities."' Robert Rodgers, the society's northern Missouri executive director, does not dispute the need for more black involvement in the annual Crusade, but he insists that the impetus must come from olacKs. " This is a volunteer organization run ijv volun-teers, and volunteers make the decisions. ITus orga-nization has never refused an one . " And, he says, the Cancer Societ is not tne only one with the problem of getting minorities more in-volved. Other health care organizations, such as the Heart Association, have the same difficult . Willard says that one reason for the Cancer Socie-ty's undercoverage of black area in its April Cru-sade has been the tendency to " go w here the money is." " It's a real problem." be says, fcp. a r.' s been too easy for us not to worry about it. " We're trying to impress on the crusaders that education at the doors is as significant as tne money we collect.' Rodgers disputes the notion that the crusade may give priority to wealthier areas of the community " The fact that the main purpose of our residential program is to collect money is not true. Of course, it takes money to run an organization such dS this. " But it gets back to the number of people we need to get things done. Black people haven't responded to calls for volunteers to cover their community. '" This is not an organization that rejects the black community. Their welfare is as important as any-one else's. If we had enough volunteers you could be sure ever area of the city would be covered. " Only a " handful" of blacks participated in the April effort, according to Willard. The general canvassing method used by the Can-cer Society calls for residents to reach out to their immediate neighbors. White volunteers are gener-ally too uncomfortable to go door- to- do- or in black neighborhoods, Willard says. Much of the blame for the low black voiuiteer ef-fort lies " right here in this office." he admits. " Part of our job is to monitor the effort and influence vo-lunteers to get out into those areas . ' ' One black who did volunteer for the Apnl Crusade is Rosie Turner, a tumor registrar at Boone County ( See CANCER, Page 12A ) Report checks cancer rates in black, white population By Ken Weiss Missourian staff writer Medical researchers have known for years that American blacks are more likely than whites to contract certain forms of cancer and vice versa. Now, a study in a medical journal compares just how frequently the two races get the various can-cers and speculates on which ones are genetic and which ones environmentally caused. According to an August article in the Journal of the National Medical Association, a predominantly black organization, blacks are almost 3 times as likely as whites to suffer esophagus cancer. Ameri-can blacks also are at least twice as likely as whites to contract multiple myeloma and cancers of the cervix uteri, penis and vagina. Blacks are also more than 12 times as likely as whites to get pros-tate, liver or stomach cancer. The article, by four physicians associated with Howard University in Washington, D. C., suggests environmental causes for these types of cancer be-cause their occurrence varies widely in different lo-cations and under different conditions. It cites alco-hol as a primary factor in esophagus and liver cancer, poor genital hygiene in penis, cervix and vagina cancer, and diet in stomach cancer. By contrast, whites are more likely than blacks to develop cancers that are traceable primarily to ge-netic influences. The physicians endorse a currently popular " two- step- " hypothesis that explains cancer's devel-opment in two stages. The two- ste- p process requires a certain genetic makeup before a carcinogen, or cancer- causin- g agent, can take effect. The physicians . this hy-pothesis in the journal to explain the s. h .- - idence of skin cancer in whites. Whites are 100 times as likely as blacks t come down with skin cancer. In this case, the genetic makeup, the white skin, is required before the car-cinogen, the ultraviolet B rays of the sun. can be ef-fective. Whites are also between four and 10 tunes as like-ly to suffer lip, melanoma of the skin and testis can-cer. And they are lh to two times mere susceptible to eye and orbit, thyroid, bladder, corpus uteri and brain cancer. The two- ste- p process involving ultraviolet rays also is used to explain the high incidence of lip can-cer and melanomas. Little is known about the causes of testis cancer, but the physicians say it's a " good candidate for having a genetic base " Thyroid, bladder and utenne corpus cancer seem to have no genetic basis. Environmental factors ap-pear linked to all three types through radiation and goiter for thyroid cancer, smoking anci aniline dyes for bladder cancer and estrogen disturbances for the utenne corpus form. Genetic factors seem likely to explain the higher incidence of brain cancer in unites, the phsicians say. Some common cancers that occur in relatively equal incidence among American whites and blacks include cancer of the pancreas, soft tissue, lung. small intestine, larynx, vulva, bones. kidne . colon, rectum, leukemia, breast, ovary and gallbladder. Super sleuthing leads to spy's recapture SEATTLE, Wash. ( UPI) Christopher John Boyce, interna-tionally sought spy whose love for falcons, jogging and Vitamin E led to his capture, was held Saturday under tight security by U. S. marshals 19 months after he staged a cunning escape from prison. A hearing before a U. S. Magis-trate on escape charges was sched-uled Monday morning. Boyce, a 28- year-- old Southern Cali- forni- an convicted of selling U. S. de-fense secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1970s, was arrested Friday night by a swarm of federal agents. He was seized while eating a cheeseburger at a drive- i- n in Port Angeles, a fishing port 60 miles northwest of Seattle where he had been living in a small apartment. He was carrying no weapon and offered no resistance. In Washington, D. C., Howard Sa- fi- r, assistant director of operations for the U. S. Marshals Service, said I8 knowledge about Boyce's interests provided clues that helped concen-trate the manhunt. " We focused on areas where peri- gri- ne falcons still exist and this was one of. them," Safif said. " We fo-- Christopher John Boyce Internationally sought spy nabbed cused on remote areas, since Christopher Boyce was into camp-ing, jogging general outdoor types of pursuits. " Over the last 19 months we have looked into every falconry area, into jogging stores, health foods, vitamin stores anything that would give us a lead, right down to the type of jog ging shoes that he would utilize," Sa- f- ir said. ( Boyce was wearing Nikes when arrested; Safir said he pre-ferred Etonics.) " We had information that he was using a specific Vitamin E and was taking a great deal of it when he was in prison. So we focused on the par-ticular stores around the country that stocked that particular vita-min." Several weeks ago, a driver's li-cense with Boyce's picture on it led agents to believe he was somewhere in the Northwest. Boyce was not pre-sent at the address on the license, but it was that of a family in Beaver, 40 miles from Port Angeles, with whom Boyce had spent time. Three cities were staked out by a task force of 30 agents. As a result of putting some of our people into roles as waitresses, fish-ermen, loggers, we were able to get into the community and develop in-formation relative to sightings of Boyce," he said. " He was going by the name of An-thony Edward Lester, and he had used several other aliases. We devel- - oped information that he may have been involved in the fishing busi-ness." The county sheriff's department said Saturday Boyce had recently purchased and was operating a com-mercial fishing trawler. It was not known how much the boat coast or where he got the money. Boyce made no attempt to disguise his appearance. When arrested, he presented his customary short, curly brown hair and clean- shave- n good looks. A Justice Department source said his whereabouts were traced " through talking to a lot of people, one calls and stuff like that." He Kd lived in a trailer in Beaver until a month ago, the source said. " A restaurant, bar and house were under constant surveillance by marshals and FBI agents for three weeks," the source said. " We knew he would return to one of these spots." " He was our number one fugitive because of the crime that he com-mitted. Espionage is certainly a top priority," Safir said. The son of a former FBI agent, Boyce grew up on the affluent Palos Verdes Peninsula overlooking the Pacific and worked as a $ 140- a- we- ek clerk at TRW Inc., an aerospace firm in suburban Redondo Beach un-der contract to the CIA, where he had access to the top secret " black vault." He was convicted in April 1977 of espionage for smuggling secrets of U. S. satellite technology out of the TRW " black vault." The secrets were sold to Soviet Union KGB agents in Mexico City by Andrew Daulton Lee, his boyhood friend, for $ 70,000 over a period of several months. Lee, a convicted cocaine dealer, is serving an espionage sentence at a federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., from which Boyce made a bold es-cape Jan. 21, 1980. While on an outside work detail, Boyce hid in a ditch and scaled two 12- fo- ot fences under cover of dark-ness. Meanwhile, an accomplice fooled guards by stuffing a papier- mach- e dummy in Boyce's prison cell bed. In town today 2 to 5 p. m. Tnjrs. Maple- woo- d Farm histcne house. conducted by members of Boone County Historic! Socie-ty and Lenoir Memorial Home. Nifong Park, off Route AC. Inside today The religiou fanatic who shot to death his four children, his ex- wi- fe and his mother stood before a judge and asked to be put to death, t Story on Page3A.) Index Business 10- 12- B Classified 6- 9- B I Opinion 4B People 1- 3- B Record 11A Sports 7-- 9A I Weather .2A 1 |