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r;. . .,; ::~.. .,:.TESERT NEWS;.Sa1t Lake City, Utah october 27, 1962 Dr. Walter J. Burdette, pro- . : t.J ~ w ":*'T :I 17 7 R. PLAIN DEALEFt ` Clevelaad, Ohio October 29, 1962 - Ex-Clevelander on Team Asrirsg Tobacco Effect ~ f ten scientists named - Dne o yesterday by the federal gov= ernment to study• tobacco : smoking's effects on health is a natlve Clevelander and a graduate of'the Western Re+ serve School of Medicine. Dr. Leonard M. Schumw 49, professor of epidemiology at the University of' Minne; sota,; is the son of Mrs: Mor- ris Schuman, 3826' Warren, dale R•oad, Sout'h: Euclid. He was graduated from John, Adams High School and Oberlin College, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. He. wo na master's degree in bac- •teriology on, a Johns Hopkins fellowship while at WRtJ, and a medical degree abotit 1938. He was cited by President. Roosevelt for his research work in World War If. He didd studies on frostbite in Korea during liostili'ties there. His first wifie,, the former Natalie E. Rosen of Cleve- land, died three years ago. They had two children, Jud- ithi who lives here, and Low, ell„ in the Air Force in. France. Dr, Schuman has since re:narried.. A brother, Joseph, lives at 2692 Hampshire Road, Cleve- land Heights. A sister, Mrs. Cerald' Coher, resides at 411'5 Hillside Drive, Cantom fessor and head of the Uni- versity of' Utah Medical Col- lege Department of Surgery, has beem named to the Sur- geon General's A d vi s o r y Committee on Smoki and. Health. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett (R- Utah)' announced the appoint- ment Saturday. . . Dr. Burdette is one of 10 members of' the newl.y-formedd committee, which widl' hold itss fflrst meeting at Washington- Nov. 9 and 10. The committee will study all data available or1 the re- lationshfo of s mio lli n R, to- health during the first phase of', ita activity: That' phase of the program Is expected to be comnlete next summer. Dr. Walter,J. Burdette Then the comrnittee wi11 : , . to study smokirng recommend any action It deems necessary on the sub- ject. Formatnon of the committee has been widely publiciaed be. cause agencies of' the federaP, government have generally re- frt•a9nPd from entwrino, tho con- troversial a r e a concerning 'heaUth and the use of tobacco. However. the federal gov ern'nent' did halt gidt ship, ments of rigarettes to setvice- men in hospitals recently. The tobacco industrv: thernedic ; nrofecsion and anti- tobacco faeticns will' eye t~~,e adivisow committee's concLu. sions with interest. eaithoTobacco Probe :,. s Utal~ l~esearcher t0URffiVT . Hartford, Conn . Qctober 28, 1962 y Eic-1'alle De2n N amted' To Advisory &olo<p ~' NASFiINGTON (The Courant ~~ Bureau) = Dr. Stanbope Bayne-• ;,Tl Jonesi retired dean of tha Yale• '~ Medical Schooli was named Saturi ~~ T day by Surgeon General Luther ;;: L. Terry of the Public lfealUhiSer-. ~i vice to be one of' 10 scientists to constitute a special advisor com- mittee on smok and health. ,~ Dr. Bayne-Jones will also serve •; as a special consultant to the b •committee staff in addition to • - ,and causation of disease In hu- ' man populations on tbe scienti- ~'" , fic advisory panel. The committee will hold ita first meeting here November 9-10::The first activity, expected I to be vom- ~, pleted' by next .ummer. r,i11 be a~' comprehensive review of all avai!-.~- ! bl da a e te on +unoking, and othec reprnesenting, the fieldl of natum factors in the environment thrt ~; l jnay afft•ct health. The second : . ;Aase will concern recomfnenda• . ; . tions for action but no dtciuinn on' E' hoiv thqserond phas. will }i.i randucted until the first phasal lcted lia3 been com p .