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Show Page 20 - THE HERALD. Provo. Utah, Sunday, October 24. 1982 The latest developments in Utah and around the Intermountain West Utah-Region- al SLC "Big Guns" Take Turn in Trial By JANICE PERRY The SALT LAKE CITY (LTD tears of the victims have dried but the smoke from the "big guns" is still in the air after their testimony that radioactive fallout from above-groun- d atomic testing caused canand that cer in southern Utah government officials knew it would. Now, defense attorneys are lining up their experts to knock the props out from beneath that testimony to show that there wasn't that much radiation in southern Utah, and that Atomic Energy Commission officials knew next to nothing about the e radiation. effects of The plaintiffs rested their case Wednesday, five weeks to the day a that the first cancer victim took bald woman green-facethe stand and told how she was showered with fallout while atop a mountain near St. George. She was one of 24 cancer victims - low-dos- selected to represent the 1,200 claims against the government, saying the Atomic Energy Commission fully knowing the effects of fallout showered them with fallout without telling them of the danger. The plaintiffs' attorneys reserved the last two weeks for their big an epidemiologist and a guns prominent atomic and medical researcher who delivered devastating one-tw- o punches. Epidemiologist Carl Johnson testified that he found 288 incidents of cancer among the residents of southern Utah, where he expected to find 109. And, he said decisively, eight of the 24 cancers were caused by radiation. Then, Dr. John Gofman, whose credentials in atomic and medical "an astounding confirmation study's validity." is charged in connection with the 17 shooting death of his wife, chareed with murdering ms es Rosia Marie Jackson, at her apart- tranced wife last month, will have ment in Salt Lake s Central City a pretrial conference Nov. 18 in 3rd area. The charges against Jackson District Court. Henry Louis Jackson pleaded in- claim he also threatened to kill murder another woman who witnessed the nocent to second-degre- e and aggravated assault Friday. He shooting. argue a motion tor dismissal targeting Johnson, on whose work Gofman's testimony balances. He characterized Johnson as an epidemiologist who leaped at a $15,000 grant to do a project that University of Utah researchers hoped can be accomA third punch was delivered by an plished with a $6 million appropriaDr. Karl Z. Morgan, an emininent tion. physicist who had been director of U.S. District Judge Bruce Jene health physics at the famous kins, who is hearing the case withNational Laboratory for 29 out a jury, denied the motion for years. He said top scientists by the dismissal, saying the facts late 1940s knew there was no by the plaintiffs raised "safe" level of radiation, as had presented serious questions," not very "very, been supposed for decades. only about the legal issues involved, Morgan also said he taught men but also the related social issues, To undo some of the damage, who supervised the AEC's fallout monitoring program how to avoid defense attorneys presented testiradioactive exposure, and how low mony from Morgan's successor, Dr. John Auxier, who said sciendoses are cumulative. So, the cards were laid out. The tists knew little of the effects of radiation during the experts said there was too much low-dos- e testing period. cancer, that the cancer was caused above-groun- d A pair of Department of Energy by radiation, and that the government knew about the dangers of researchers this week presented a radiation. report designed to blo-- holes in a The plaintiffs rested their case, study by Dr. Joseph Lyons. A Salt Lake City man, Sept. U.S. Justice Department Attor of the ney Henry Gill began to fervently Gofman, author of a voluminous, landmark work called "Radiation and Human Health," used Johnson's data to calculate the internal dose received bv the cancer victims which he said were far above the maximum allowable doses. Innocent Man Pleads - SALT LAKE CITY (LTD Witnesses testified that the research are unquestioned, found and AEC's own employees were told to take certain precautions to avoid excessive exposure to fallout precautions that were not passed along to the residents of St. George following any of the 27 open-ai- r atomic tests that rained radioactive debris on their community. There were tears at the trial as a woman told of how her husband hid behind a barn and retched from cancer therapy, and of how parents chilwatched their leukemia-ridde- n dren slowly bleed to death from their eyes, noses and mouths. sv.il out-of-wo- THE ALL HEW STYLE LOCK ''ni WEISER'LGCK Oak-ridg- brat or anriaut brats Bright Keyed entrance, privacy & Tr I 1 viWyv Jr STANDARD BUILDERS 1 v Briefs pottage tett Now available at SUPPLY 14S0 No. State, Provo V3 pS. At our door 373-106- 3 ihop in reor. rrvn WEISER! cSracrrSf Rep. Williams is theSenator - ter Headstart SALT LAKE CITY (UPD Rep. Lake, is Terry Williams, lt now Sen. Terry Williams, Lake, even though the election isn't for nine more days. Williams, who is running for State Senate District No. 1, was appointed to that post last week by Gov. Scott Matheson. He replaces Sen. James Considine, who decided not to run for and resigned last week. D-S- Utah's newest senator man of Community Crisis Cenand the Center, and serves on the board of Utahns Against Hunger and the Big g Sister programs. He is a Weber State College graduate who received a master's degree in human resource management from the University of Utah. He is married and has two children. Considine has been appointed director of the Apprenticeship Brother-Bi- chair is More Coal Miners Laid Off PRICE - Price River Emery Coal Com- pany is laying off 247 employees and closing down two of its coal mines. Mont Ash worth, Price River administrator, says the layoff of the 233 union workers and 41 salaried employees is temporary. He says the layoffs, which are effective Monday, are due to "extremely conditions." poor The 247 Price River workers join coal-mark- et 100 employees of the Mining Corporation who were told Thursday they would be out of work Nov. 5. Emery mining has now laid off workers in the past six months. Utah's 8.7 percent unemployment is the highest in the state during the Great Depression, and its nearly 60.000 unemployed is the highest number in the state's history. 350 Still Not Open Highway - RICHFIELD (UPI) Although nearly $30 million in highway funds has been spent for construction in Clear and projects along Creek Canyon, the road isn't open yet. Utah State Road Commissioner Clem Church of Panguitch said rural commissioners are making extra efforts to obtain aditional funds to open the area east of the canyon's summit. "It's a shame that all that work has been done in that area and the road is still not to a point where it can be utilized," said Church. He said traffic has doubled in Sevier Valley since the opening several on the west side of years ago of the canyon's summit. "But the remaining sections of highway through Clear Creek are still sitting there not complete because of a lack of funding to get them finished," he said. Church said the narrow winding section of State Road Four, a scenic road, is not equipped to handle the extra burden which has been placed on it by opening the sections to the east and west of the valley. aire State Hotline Has Gone Cold - expose activities Jne at SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) State State Legislature take over the Auditor Val Oveson is closing down concept and operate a hotline of its his experimental telephone hotline own. after six months of operation. Oveson says the hotline began The hotline was established to 6, and produced 99 calls. Of May fraudulent or Y the, regular price. 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