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Show Page THE HERALD 2 Provo Utah, Sunday. November 19 1978 Matheson to Ask Questions in Washington A-Te- - SALT LAKE CITY st are discovering new cases much faster then we anticipated "We've seen cases where cancer hit all three generations of a family," he said "On four farms adjoining th? town of Parowan, four husbands died and two wives died of cancer." Mrs Irma Thomas. 72, St George chairman of a group called the Committee of Victims, said 15 people in the Nevada (UPI) atom bomb tests years ago showered most of Utah with radioactive fallout and Gov Scott Matheson is going to Washington this week to try to find out if that s why parts of the state have abnormally high cancer rates Matheson will demand to see all government files on the health effects of the tests on American citizens in Utah and other states that received doses of radiation from the 87 open-ai- r tests made in the Nevada desert between 1951 and 1962 He will also ask Health Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Cahfaho to include a Utah cancer study in a plan to spend $40 million researching and identifying environmental health hazards Califano announced the proposal last week "We want all the information the Department of Energy has,'' said Mag gie Wilde. Matheson's press secretary "We have reason to believe there is a lot of stuff filed away that has never been seen by the public We want it all out." Matheson this past week visited St 130 miles from the George, Utah Nevada test site and was confronted by citizens who presented him with a list of 157 cancer victims "There are too many unanswered questions and the percentage of cancer is too high," he told them "We must pursue this vigorously." Many of those citizens are working with a team of lawyers headed by former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall which has already filed 38 claims with the Department of Energy seeking $8 million in damages for cancer victims or their relatives "Eventually there could be several hundred claims," says St. George attorney MacArthur Wright, a member of the team. "We know of about 100 actual deaths or cases of cancer and we 15-2- 0 block where she lives have developed cancer in the past few years including her husband low-lev- She said she knows of about 170 cancer victims who lived in St George population H.uoo, during the tests of those have died Thirty-ninMrs Thomas and others are bitter towards the government "They just she said figured we were expendable e Several studies, including some confidential U.S. Health Department records made public for the first time last week have determined that the CMCCr rate in southern Utah, particularly the leukemia rate is much higher than for the rest of the nation But most scientists agree that there is no proof directly linking the nuclear testing and the cancer rates, and none can be established without a massive study of the medical histories of people who lived in Utah during the blasts Dr Robert Pendleton, director of the Department of Radiological Health at the University of Utah, has been urging such a study for a number of years. In the meantime, he urges everyone who lives in the region to get an annual checkup "We spent a fortune checking the people in Japan But we have done little or nothing to determine the effects of the tests on our own people," said Pendleton. "The cost of such a study would be less than the cost of shooting off one of those big bombs," he said. "We owe our people a little more than that." - Solons Travel Mostly At Expense of Taxpayers (Continued from Page 1) also are trips on this subject and buck publicity-sh- y callers to the offices of the members of Congress themselves, of which there are 535. A spokesman in the Senate secretary's office, for example, said senators notify the office when they are traveling, but the information is not ficial business supposed to be made public. "If I told you about it, I would have senators on my back," he said. The State Department said senators notify the department of their official missions overseas, but 'he information is not made public unleis a formal request is submitted under the Freedom of Information Act. An aide in an office whose congressman turned down a trip said, "They did not have a real good reason for the trip." The itinerary, she said, "was outrageous." Some of the trips are undoubtedly hard work. Few could contend that Sen. George McGovern, who is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was going to Marxist-rule- d Angola for fun. A large contingent of House and Senate members is going to Khartoum, the dusty desert capital of Sudan, for a n Inconference of the African-America- stitute. was in Rep. Mario Biaggi, London for discussions on how to prevent oil tanker wrecks. Some groups going to China and Russia did so at the invitation of those countries to discuss trade and foreign relations. But some of the trips also include enviable stopovers. A House Appropriations Committee group bound for China and Japan, for example, included stops in Hong Kong (three days), Manila (two days), and Honolulu (three days) en route home. And sometimes the work site itself is a beachcombers dream. Nine House members have just filed a report on their attendance at a U S. European parliamentary conference last March when Washington was shivering through the blahs. The conference was in Taormina, Sicily's posh seaside 29-3- 0, resort. Here is a partial list of current congressional travels, most of them at least partly taxpayer-fundewhere official business is involved d At President Carter's request, Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and his wife are going to Africa and the Middle East, at dates still to be set. Biggest attraction was Japan Members of eight different House committees were listed for travel there, with their wives and staff members, for an "interparliamentary symposium" on Far East security, trade, energy, agriculture and other topics. Seven House Agriculture Committee members were planning to visit China Nov. 3, to promote sales of American farm goods. went to Sen. Alan Cranston, Israel and planned stops in Jordan and Egypt, with a stopover in Paris on the way home in late November. Various members of the House International Relations Committee were listed for trips to Paris, China, Japan, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Guiana, and c. Khartoum. Sen. Charles Percy, planned a private vacation in France before going to Cairo, Yemen, and Khartoum on official business in the coming weeks. Four senators were in China along with representatives of the White House and the National Security Council. Several members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee planned a trip to the Middle East, then to the NATO meeting in Lisbon Nov. 26-3- 0. Some members of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee left Nov 9 for Russia, at the invitation of the Soviet government. Some will stop in London, Budapest and Morocco before returning to the United States Nov. 21. One senator and three House members were in Saudi Arabia with Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal. Wives were authorized to go, along with one or two staff members. Granddods Answer an ttu Ad by Lady 1 LI 1 m grandfather. (Continued from Page 1) Norman Walhstrom, Logan, and Gary Brockbank, Salt Lake City. The January legislative session will be one of "people participation," Ferry said. He invited anyone who has questions to call Republican leaders for help Committee assignments will likely be handed out next week, the GOP legislators said Democrats met last week and elected Thorpe Waddingham, Delta, Senate minority leader, andC DeMont Judd. Ogden, House minority leader Pow Wow Error Noted Prices Ettectnt YAMS ." One Loveland, hopeful grandfather canOhio CILERY didate addressed his is envelope to "The Grandfather Wanted Department " Ocean Spray Pound Pick SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS who had worked on this $87 million project were ecstatic about this, the first picture ever radioed back from the new orbiting observatory called HEAD-2- . The spacecraft carries the largest telescope ever built The unit radioed the pic- - Black Hole' spaper'' "I've always wanted to do that, I just never had forwarded Mrs. Miller to the city editor. Newspaper stories resulted, and the tidal wave of mail began. But, why does Mrs. Miller want a grandfather? "I don't know," she responds uncertainly. "I know they're interesting. I like the stories they tell. They know a lot about trees and things. You know, they know a lot of interesting things. They could tell my children stories. "A lot of times when my kids are in school. I'll want to go somewhere for lunch, but not by myself. So I just stay home. If I had somebody like that, I could take them to lunch, or have them here for dinner on Sunday. "That would really be great." Her husband, Jim, and four children, ages 19, 16, 14 and 8 years old, all are X-Ro- sr. HOAGIES SANDWICH Md. - A new obser- two-thir- 330-mi- near-perfe- TMrkey Each... ot X-r- X-- l. X-- l, RIB STEAK lo. uwy 5"" LO. COUNTRY FAIR HAMS Country Tasty SAUSAGE CraU (Ultra lo. w Western Family 303 FRUIT COCKTAIL JT Holiday Fantasies for Yule EGGS Ex Large Grade U doz.Ol SHORTENING J i LOS WHIPPING CREAM ! 389 ran modern doll houses. SEGO MILK 389 Ei s. GELATIN enthusiastic about the Examination from groundbased telecopes in visiprospects of "adopting" a grandfather and will help ble light indicated that Cygnus l consists of two choose one from among stars rotating about each other. Giacconi said the the stacks of letters. system appears to consist of a large main star and an n Royal O'l 30t X-- GREEN BEANS Jt Double Luck rONIGHT! 4M lZ MARSHMALLOWS Let's get Together Campfire H).i Only 39 B" 7:30PM GREATEST HEROES u OF THE BIBLE ORANGES Your child might become an excellent musician. Or perhaps not. That's why we rent new Baldwins. For a low monthly fee, your child can learn on a piano with great tonal qualities and response. One that feels right and sounds right. We'll apply all rental fees to the purchase price if your child continues to play. And he'll have a piano that will last a lifetime. Western Family Renting a N.J. -- 2 ITOGETHERI il Mandarin, 11 Oz TOMATO JUICE . p 107 Mcranenra 46 Ui MARSNMALLOW CREME U..U ... 0 JUZ. 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Some of the trees carry out a theme musical instruments, birds, glittering stars; some display an straw figures on a Scandinaviethnic background an tree, tin ornaments on a Mexican creation; others are trimmed with contemporary abstract designs. There also will be an exhibition of antique and T -- uencwus capture Saturday. Roger Kern I lb. Only invisible companion no bigger than Earth yet having a mass 10 times that of the sun. "One was left with the conclusion that either this (companion) star was a very massive neutron star, bigger than we thought could exist, or that it was a completely collapsed star that is, a black hole," he said. neutrons A neutron star is a body of densely-packe- d (atomic particles with no electrical charge) believed to form when a large star burns up much of its nuclear fuel and collapses. A black hole in theory is a collapsed star so dense its intense gravity sucks up all nearby matter and not even light can escape. Giacconi said it is bslieved that gas from a nearby star spirals in toward the black hole. The theory is that just before the gas is sucked past the point where light cannot escape, it reaches a very high temperature and emits are what scientists believed they Those step-by-ste- h m. 4T turTeys However, if for some reason your child decides not lo continue with the piano, you simply return it. -- i. PT Each Parti I io (UPI Telephoto) ys GREENBELT, (UPI) orbiting vatory carrying the world's largest Xray telescope radioed back its first picture Saturday the image of coming from the edge of what may be one of space's mysterious black holes. When the picture first appeared on a Goddard Space Flight Center television monitor as a collection of bright dots against a black background, scientists and engineers who had worked for years on the $87 million project were ecstatic. "The significance of today's event is for the first time y astronomy has become of age, and it has achieved the kind of resolution and sensitivity which has been traditional in the fields of radio and optical astronomy," said Dr. Riccardo Giacconi of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He said the telescope should be able to detect of the way toward the from objects edge of the universe, meaning the satellite will be seeing radiation created roughly 10 billion years ago. The automated space agency satellite, known officially as HEAD 2 but called Einstein by its scientists, was launched from Cape Canaveral Monday into a high orbit. Saturday's p operation was the culmination of a week of activiation procedures. The picture that was reconstructed by computer from data radioed back by the satellite was a test to demonstrate the capability of the telescope, which has a wide mirror and an focal length. Giacconi, the principal investigator, called the picture "the proof of the pudding." "The scientific significance is what it tells us we are going to get in the future," he said, noting the telescope is 100 to 1,000 times more sensitive than detectors placed above Earth's atprevious mospheric screen. The target Saturday was an intriguing star system in the Milky Way galaxy called Cygnus Giacconi said it was selected for the test because its location is well known and it is very bright. which is 6,000 light years away, also Cygnus happens to be the best candidate for a black hole, Giacconi said. 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