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Show 1 ll gri I Friday, August 10, 1990 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah Elephant man's disease now linked to cancer - NEW YORK (AP) The newly isolated gene for elephant man's disease appears to be a switch that can turn on cancer, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for brain tumors and other lethal cancers, researchers said. "The payoff here is going to be that we may come up with a treatment for brain tumors," said Dr. Allan Rubenstein, medical director of the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation in New York. Elephant man's disease is properly known as neurofibromatosis, or NF. The first priority, he said, is to search for a treatment for neurofibromatosis. But that research now holds promise for many others with cancer. "Research is going to explode in a disease which a couple of years ago was an obscure phenomenon which practically the whole scientific world ignored," Rubenstein said Thursday. "It's the kind of understanding we hoped discovery of the gene would lead to," said the author of the new finding, Raymond L. White of the University of Utah. "I expect it to make a fundamental contribution to our understanding of cancer genet. ics." Researchers cautioned that treatments may be years away. White's findings were to appear today in the scientific journal Cell. The report concludes that the neurofibromatosis gene of GAP of the family is one genes that may operate as anticancer genes. That is, when the genes are normal, they cancer keep growth switched off. When they are defective, they allow cancer tumors to grow. These genes have tumor-suppress- been found to be among the causes of lung cancer, breast cancer and colon cancer. White said his findings suggest that neurofibromatosis tumors, which are not cancerous, may be an intermediate stage between normal tissue and can cer. Similar discoveries have been made in colon cancer, where White and other researchers have shown that benign polyps have some, but not all, of the genetic changes required to form colon cancer. afflicts Neurofibromatosis Americans whose symptoms can include learning disabilities and crippling, tumors all over their bodies. Until now, researchers have had no clue to its cause. Four weeks ago, White and Francis Collins of the University of Michigan reported that 100,000 they had each independently discovered sis gene. the neurofibromato- That discovery opened the door to further studies to determine precisely what goes wrong in neurofibromatosis, and how it might be fixed. The latest findings are an important step in that direction, researchers said. "The potential to start to design therapies is now a couple of years closer than it could have been otherwise," Collins said. The GAP genes are known to switch off certain cancer genes called ras genes, which have long been known to contribute to the formation of cancer tumors, said Michael Wigler of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. "A number of pharmaceutical companies are trying to develop strategies for modifying ras," said Wigler. "I don't want to raise false hopes, but the implication is it might be possible to treat some forms of NF." A scientific "summit meeting" has been called for October for researchers working in many different fields. They assess the importance of this finding to other areas of biological research, Rubenstein said. White said he made his discovery by determing the DNA sequence, or genetic code, of part of the neurofibromatosis gene. He then compared that sequence to known sequences stored in a computer. nnane rlnnr slithers away from home Dnt niithnn - Julius Squeezer has a knack for manipulating doorknobs. BurThe long, mese python has slithered out of Marty Bone's Salt Lake County residence before last time by shoving a swamp cooler out the SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ot 180-pou- window. Bone says he's seen the huge serpent open the door a couple times, and that he tries to keep the doors locked. But this time he forgot. "I guess he's watched me enough that he can do it himself. He's always fooling around with the doorknob." That was Tuesday night. Now 15 county search and rescue members and 5 does are combing the area in search of "squeeze," as Bone calls him. snake is Bone says the not a threat to humans; he mostly eats rabbits. In fact, Bone says when he takes squeeze to the park, passers-b- y like to ride on his back. "After they see me handle (him), they're not scared of him anymore. If you ask me they're just like cats." - adapt to today's market condi- Bonneville Pacific Wheeler Energy Corp., Corp., Pittsburg and Midway Coal Foster Mining Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corp. all pulled out of the 27. State - Democratic Party Chairman Billings has proposed a tax credit for the poor as an alternative to repeal of the sales tax on food. Under his proposal, taxpayers below a certain level of income would be allowed to document the amount of tax they paid on food for the year, then take that amount as a credit on their income tax. For the proposal to succeed as an alternative, a special legislative session should be called before November's election to handle the - A thunFT. DUCHESNE (AP) derstorm hampered firefighters attempting to contain the 5,350-acr- e Florence Creek fire on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in eastern Utah. crews reAbout 30 "heli-tack- " pelled into inaccessible areas and ..L?iiL 7:00 l- being contained late Thursday when a thunderstorm swept through, by lightning about day. 2 p.m. Wednes- Court upholds school boundary LAKE (AP) - The the boundaries. The school upheld the 3rd District SALT CITY boundarealignment of high ries after closing of South High School did not violate the constitutional rights of the Salt Lake City students, the Utah Supreme Court has ruled. The court, in a unanimous decision written by Justice Christine Durham, concluded the school board met all of its constitutional and statutory duties in realigning ruling Judge Scott Daniels' dismissal of a class-actio- n suit by Maria Espinal, Donnie James, G. Harvey Hamilton, Joyce Campbell and Terry Hoecker. The plaintiffs claimed the school board's boundary realignment denied their liberty to control the education of their children in violation of the Utah Constitution. "Where you've got people kicking 10 bucks or even a thousand bucks, that's not going to get very far," Bates said. "To say we're going to do this with voluntary resources is naive. It's not going to work." in five bucks, Granite Deputy Superintendent Riley O'Neil said that although the district's costs to prepare its case likely will be minimal, it will take "some pretty good commitments" to cover the cost of losing the lawsuit. Bangerter hasn't said how much money he'll ask lawmakers to ap The victim's nude body was found tangled in a debris gate of the canal. Shoes and clothing, including Mormon temple garments, were discovered neatly folded and placed alongside the canal about a half-mil- e upstream, police said. "We got one cleancut person here, nothing that stands out that we can circulate," he said. The body remains at the state medical examiner's office, which determined the cause of death as drowning. Lucas said until police, know more about the victim, they can't say whether the death was accidental or a possible suicide or homicide. "We can't say because there's a lot of questions to be answered. It very well could still be a homicide. We don't know what kind of person she is," he said. The woman is described as being between 5 years old, 190 pounds, with graying brown hair and green eyes. But other than the basic description, Lucas said, there were no identifying articles with the clothing and the body had no marks, tattoos or surgical scars that could help determine identity. 40-5- . ONews "umiv 1 Wheel of Fortune g 7:30 I u a yi KCTi i O KXIV Full House Girls run the family for a day. (In Stereo) g New Attitude 2020 g Perfect Strangers "He's "I'm Not a the Boss" Balki Crook" A street Prime Time Pets (In Stereo) Nightly Business Report William Lippman. 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He said The fire was on the verge of officials believe the fire was started million. AUGUST 10, 1990 FRIDAY EVENING CBN cleared landing spots Thursday propriate. Estimates of the legal costs range from $100,000 to $1 expense would entail paying the ACLU's legal costs. Federal law prohibits the government agencies from recouping their legal costs if the ACLU loses. The governor's office has received donations totaling about $100 since late July, when Bangerter announced his intention to help with the districts' legal costs. Much of that money has been in amounts of less than $15 and will be returned to the senders with a note suggesting it be forwarded to the districts. Television Today food-sales-t- Meanwhile, firefighters in southwestern Utah contained the Steamboat fire west of Lund. "Sixty-thousan- churches and the U.S. Postal Service for any indications of a missing person. "Now we're sitting here going, 'Man, what do we do?'" Lucas said. The next step, he said, will be to issue a photograph of the dead woman to Utah newspapers in hopes of reaching a relative or or acquaintance of the victim anybody who might recognize her. If that fails, police will distribute a flyer with a photo and description to law enforcement agencies across Utah, and the Mormon Church has indicated it could send a similar bulletin to its bishops in Utah and other states, Lucas said. Detectives say OGDEN (AP) they have struck out in efforts so far to identify a woman found dead in an irrigation canal, and appeals to the public are being made to help solve the mystery. "It's a zero," said Ogden Police Detective Dave Lucas. "We've done everything we can think of to find out who she is and we just keep running into dead ends." Since the body was found Tuesday in a Pineview Water Systems canal near the mouth of Ogden Canyon, police have checked the NCIC and AFIS law enforcement computer systems and contacted nursing homes, area Mormon Stereo) g starting new fires and generating high winds, she said. Containment was expected by this evening. The proposal has been criticized by Reps. Wayne Owens, and Richard H. Stallings, who complain that Southern California would get the power, Nevada would get the tax benefits and their states would get the air pollution. d tons of pollutants ... will drift across our borders each year. This will be, in tonnage, one of the dirtiest power plants in Ogden police baffled by drowning victim's identity Newsg Crews tighten grip on fire "We figured it was effectively over when Bonneville Pacific pulled out," he said. "I guess the first hurdle these projects have to clear is economic viability. When they don't clear, it spares the rest of us from struggling with the environmental impact." Scruggs said Bangerter was never outright opposed to the project, but had withheld judgment to assess any environmental threat to Utah. "He did not hold the Wayne Owens position, where Wayne Owens said it was the No. 1 political issue of the 1990s. He held the line that the project had to bear the burden of establishing there would be no detrimental effects to the Utah environment," Scruggs said. ar tion ceremonies and other school events, although Bangerter maintains the districts have stopped prayers at other events. But the same Utahns who are demanding that government stand up to the ACLU attack on graduation prayers may not be so willing to help pay the bill if the lawsuit is lost, said Doug Bates, legal counsel for the state Office of Education. "If the case is lost, are they going to be willing to kick in the hundreds of thousands it is going to cost? Or is it going to come out of kids' textbooks and teachers' salaries?" Bates said. If the districts lose, most of the VolSALT LAKE CITY (AP) unteer lawyers would help cut the cost of fighting a lawsuit over graduation prayers, but there may still be more legal bills than Utahns are willing to pay, an education official says. Gov. Norm Bangerter announced this week that support from several Salt Lake attorneys and the public will help offset the appropriation he plans to seek from the Legislature for the Granite and Alpine school districts. Both Wasatch Front school districts have been sued by the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah for permitting prayers at gradua- - i issue. Billings said Thursday he would seek support for the proposal from Democratic legislators. "It's a matter of honor. If it is to be done, it should be done before the election," he said. "Otherwise, we would continue to throw our full support behind the initiative to eliminate sales tax on food." Calling a special session would be the task of Republican Gov. Norm Bangerter, who opposes the repeal on the November ballot. said earlier this Are Utahns ready to foot bill for prayer suit? Tax credit proposed for poor - Peter Owens Bud Scruggs, chief of staff to Utah Gov. Norm Bangerter, said Thursday's decision by Sierra Pacific was not unexpected. coal-fire- d plant would gradhave ually brought on line eight units over a period on 15,960 acres of public land 40 miles northeast of Wells, Nev., near the Utah and Idaho borders. $1.84-a-sha- re Utah-base- d America," year. The The company said none of the loss could be passed along to its customers and would be reflected in the annual report to its 30,000 shareholders at the end of the year. It will be up to the board of directors to determine whether the charge would affect the company's annual dividend, according to John Madariaga, vice president and general counsel. Sierra Pacific Resources reported earnings of $15.8 million for the first six months of this year. Its Thursday's announcement comes less than three weeks after the withdrawal of four of the eight corporate backers of the proposed plant in northeast Nevada. if ci SALT LAKE CITY (AP) stock fell $1,134 cents a share Thursday, closing at $20 on the New York Stock Exchange. Sierra Pacific Resources, Thousand Springs' project manager and largest participant, said earlier this month it was reassessing its commitment in light of demand for electricity and environmental opposition to the plant. 1990 tions," Austin W. Stedham, Sierra Pacific Resources chairman, said in a statement. KTy Briefs "Significant changes occurring in have persuaded us that, although Thousand Springs is a sound concept for the future energy market, it is no longer financially feasible for us to go forward with the project at this time," Stedham said. He said Sierra Pacific Resources, the parent of Reno-base- d Sierra Pacific Power Co., would take an after-ta- x charge of approximately $35 million against 1990 earnings as a result of the withdrawal. The ThouRENO, Nev. (AP) sand Springs power plant, once envisioned as a work of Hoover Dam proportions, succumbed to environmental opposition and a soft demand for new electricity Thursday as its key backer pulled the plug on the fi billion plan. "We regret this project, which could have provided many jobs and economic benefits for our home state must be shelved, but we must (pythons) Bone says pythons need to be fed only about every six weeks and that squeeze last was fed three weeks ago. pulled on Thousand Springs IPlug project July W LI7 11111 0ep"(1977. Adventure) Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolle. 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