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Show Workers exposed to radiation wait OBITUARIES Beatrice Rowley Ipson for compensation and would provide the fund with $710 million for the next 10 years. And President Bush included money to pay off the IOUs in his April 9 budget proposal. For people like Esther Every, any little bit helps. Her husband was a uranium worker who died of lung cancer in 1987, but her prescriptions cost more than $300 a month. Compensation payments come in denominations of or $75,000 $50,000, $100,000, depending on how a recipient was exposed. Some recipients also will have their medical bills paid. Every says she has no idea where in the pipeline her application might be. "They just don't respond," she says, referring to the U.S. Justice Department workers who screen applications. Lori Goodman, an advocate for 225,000 Navajo tribal members in Colorado, said many of the Navajos awaiting checks also are old and ill. They come to her with hearing aids and oxygen tanks from homes that have no electricity or telephone or running water. "There's a push (in Washington) not to carry out justice," she says. "The thought is: These are old folks out in the West. Just let them die.'...The people have lost hope. It is such a shame." Hatch and Matheson hope to solve the problems by shifting the program from the Justice Department to the U.S. Department of Labor, which already handles a similar program for coal miners. State Rep. Max Young, is frustrated by the delays. He said one woman told him she needs the money, which was to compensate her deceased husband, to help a son. "She was really pleading, 'Max, can you do something?' and I can't," says Young. "It's a terrible thing. We can do better than that." The Associated Press MOAB Many of the elderly residents here are but not hoping for expecting government checks intended to compen- i i.1uiem rior ii me inavoc vissauj ited on their families by the federal nuclear weapons program. Many of them first applied for money through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act when the fund was created in 1990. Some reapplied after the program expanded last year to include a broader range of people exposed to radiation and a longer list of illnesses qualifying for the payments. The U.S. Energy Department originally identified 317 sites in 37 states where people worked on nuclear-prograthat projects might have made them sick. A total of 9,342 claims, worth $271 million, have been approved so far some of them in southeastern Utah, where Navajo Indians and residents of Blanding, Monticello and Moab helped mine and process uranium. m A number here were employed by nearby uranium mines, or are kin to those who were, and their family histories are riddled uitH pnncor Inner rliapnoo and other health damage from radiation exposure. About 255 of the people for payments approved under the act have received IOUs because the fund is about $85 million short. Money will come as soon as Congress appropriates it, letters said. Neither John Clements, a uranium worker for 31 years, nor his wife, Vesta, a mill maintenance worker, expects to see a check anytime soon. "Somebody will get use out of ityl guess," says John, 80, his heirs in mind. Members of Congress from the Four Corners states have stepped up efforts to secure those -J j. TTi.l. promised payments, uian Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican, and Rep. Jim Mathe-soa Democrat, have signed on to bills that would make future radiation com- NEPHI Our loving mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, Alene Roylance Sperry, age 78, passed away April 21, 2001 in Nephi, Utah. She was born May 10, Beatrice Rowley Ipson, 86, passed away peacefully at her home after a short illness on Saturday, April 21, 2001. She was born May 8, 1914, in Provo, Utah, the third of twelve children, to Moses Aaron and Maude Gurr .iiibimuu 1922, in Rowley. " V" She served a - ' i mission to the Eastern States, where she met her future husband, John Niels Ipson. They were married October 6, 1948, in the Salt Lake Temple. She was an active member of the LDS Church, where she served faithfully in all auxiliaries. She and her husband loved missionary work and together they served a mission in the Utah Salt Lake City South Mission working at the St. George Visitor Centers. She was an ordinance worker in the Provo Temple for 15 years. She was always loving, charitable, dependable, diligent, and faithful in everything she did and was extremely knowledge- able in the gospel of Jesus Christ. She is survived by her husband; three sons and three daughters: Lou Ann (Sheldon) Wolf, Dean (Toni) Ipson, Larry (Carolyn) Ipson, Ilene (Jim) Hales, Kaye (Daryl) Gamett, and Kent (Carla) Ipson; 31 grandchildren; three brothers and two sisters: Alvin (Myrtle) Rowley, Reed (Leah) Rowley, Norman (Judy) Rowley, Maude Nielson, and Margaret Robinson. She was precede ' in death by her parents, five brothers, one sister, and one ' , y Lakeshore, Utah. She was the oldest of Y.'nine children born to George Elliot and Hazel Jane Evans Roylance. She graduated from Springville High School and attended LDS Business College. She worked at Hill Air Force Base before her marriage. She married Samuel Jay Sperry Feb. 8, 1943. The marriage was later solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple March 21, 1947. Alene was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving in numerous callings in the Relief Society, Sunday School, and Primary. She worked for Avon, First Security Bank, and NRP. She was an active member of 6-- 8 Callaway Brown and on the Manhattan Project, and ending at Whirlpool Corporation in St. Joseph, Michigan. Since 1982 he made his home in Provo, where he was known for his exquisite intellect and his gentlemanly manner. Dr. Brown is survived by one of his sisters, Virginia Hale, from Richmond Virginia, by his three daughters: Cindy Otto (Brigham City, UT), Mandy Dill (South Salem, NY) and Penny Brown (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), and by seven grandchildren. He will be sorely missed. PROVO Callaway Brown, 88, passed away Friday, April 20, 2001, after a long illness. Callaway was born August 30, 1912. He grew up in Virginia, was educated through the PhD level at the University of Virginia, and had a long scientific career as a research chemist, first working in New York at Bell Labs The Associated Press A Weber County woman is suing the maker of Alka- Seltzer Plus, saying she suf fered a stroke and became disabled last year after taking the medication. The ingredient PPA (phenylpropanolamine) was removed Wednesday, April 25, at 12 noon at the Sharon Stake Center, 545 S. 800 East, Orem. Friends may call Mortu- at the E. 800 646 North, Orem, on ary, p.m. and Tuesday from Wednesday at the church from a.m. prior to services. Interment will be in the Orem Walker-Sanderso- n 6-- 8 10:45-11:4- 5 City Cemetery. Mom and Grandma, we love you! Frequent Urination Hesitancy Straining These are just a few of the symptoms of a enlarged prostate (BPH) which can now be easily and safely treated using an advanced process with the PR0STATR0N. 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The Utah lawsuit, filed in 2nd District court by Marlus Hardy, 60, alleges that Plus maker Bayer Corporation promoted the use of products containing PPA "long past the time it should have voluntarily halted sales, while hiding the dangerous risk of hemorrhagic stroke." During a hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel bursts in the brain, killing brain tissue and leading to disability or death. Bayer Corporation, an Indiana firm with its principal place of business in Pennsylvania, could not be reached last week for comment. Hardy allegedly had a stroke last Sept. 10, "hours after taking the medication," said her attorney Colin King. grandson. Funeral services will be held DEADLINES ,!. - - Tuesday Saturday: 00 p m Day before publication. Sunday. 12.00 p m. on Saturday Monday: 12.00 p.m. on Sunday Photo deadlines same as above. M 4 Your 1 source for buying and selling www.sweetdealclassifieds.com Mon.-fr- i. am to 6 pm Sal am 9 am to 8 373-645- 0 Introducing our generous NEW an payments the Friendship Club, American Legion Auxiliary, and the Chalice Club. She was an avid Jazz fan and enjoyed visiting with friends. She found her greatest joy spending time with family and will be greatly missed. She is survived by her children, Sharon Sperry, Shelia Jordi-soGregory Sperry, David (Debbie) Sperry, Janet (Richard) Bacon, and Richard (Brenda) Sperry; 17 grandchildren, 15 two sisters, Betty Hone and Karen (Richard) Healy; two brothers, Ron (Carolyn) and Orville (Carol) Roylance. Preceded in death by her husband; a son, Brent; two sisters, Beth Roylance and Norma Jenkins; two brothers, Rex and Dwaine Roylance. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 24, 2001 in the Nephi Stake Center, 351 N. 100 West. 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