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Show November 10, 1961 The PARSON What Makes Iodine-13Important? U Elected Iodine-13goes straight to the thyroid gland if you get Three weeks ago Dr. Mos-toit into your body. Childrens of the University of Utah thyroids are particularly senhere on campus. In his spoke and fallout are sitive to radiation produced Radioactivity Dr. Mostofi predicted tospeech, heard the iodine. This radiation words by everywhere the that unknown Burmese to answer has In been questmany day. proven to cause U delegate, Thant, would soon cancer. their effect concerning ions be named Secretary General. on the peoples of the .world What Is the Dose from At that time the threat of the the Herald Tribune News Fallout? Russian Service issued a series of The amount of radiation loomed. proposed troika still questions and answers sum- you get from fallout is less marizing what is known about than 4 per cent of the natural Last Friday, both the Seradioactive fallout, some- radioactivity you get every atom bomb called dust. day. , curity Council and the Gentimes , What Is Fallout? Just However, some of the dose eral Assembly unanimously endorsed the 52 year old Most of the dust from the from fallout has some special Buddhist diplomat. U Thant of hydro- characteristics. Here 3 eleground explosions will Hammar-skjol- d replace Dag or uranium gen plutonium ments are important; Iodine-31- , who died last SepStrontium-90- , drops down in an area not far and Carbon-14- , tember. He will earn from the site of the blast in although others contribute a year plus expenses. less than a day. This is local to the total dose. After being sworn in, U , fallout. Why Is Strontium So Thant swore to follow BurAnother portion of the dust Dangerous? mas traditional policy of moves into the stratosphere Strontium-9behaves like He also statwhere it circulates for years. radium. It gets into your ed that Ralph Bunche' of of this dust, carried bones. There it may cause the Particles United States, and Gregby wind and water fall on bone cancer like leukemia. land and sea. This is world- Again there is considerable ory Arkadev of the U.S.S.U. would be among a group of . wide fallout. controversy over whether the U.N. Undersecretaries with Hasn't some of the Russian amount of strontium in fall- whom U Thant would conFallout Arrived Here? out can cause cancers. sult on important questions. Yes, it has been detected in Some experts say any dose various parts of the country. of Strontium-90- , no matter It travels here on the prevail- how low, will cause cancer in Though little information is ing winds that go from west somebody, somewhere. Others available on U Thant, this to east. a dose much can be said: He is a. say there is a In general, the dust in the below which no cancers will true neutral and not a passi-fierHe has said, Peace canupper stratosphere will begin appear. There is no experinot be to drop down in through heavy mental evidence to prove passive achieved which neutralism, amounts next spring and par- either contention. could mean a withdrawal Childrens bones will have ticularly in the northern the battle for peace." As hemisphere since the Rus more radiation because they from sians have been exploding are growing faster. People head of the Burmese delegatheir bombs near the Arctic. who live on vegetable diets as tion to the U.N., U Thant has Bombs exploded in the lower in eastern civilizations, will criticized Russia for its in in Hungary, latitudes drop their fallout in have twice as much because tervention for France its Algerian policy both hemispheres. of the high concentrations of and States for its United the strontium in plants rather Why Is Fallout Dangerous? Cuba. in actions Fallout is dangerous to man than in meat and milk. s because of its radioactivity, Can Strontium Be Removed? The New York Times At present there is no prac its ability to emit rays also called gamma tical method to do this, al calls him A man of action, rays; high speed electrons, through certain laboratory opposing any attempt to also called beta rays; or high procedures have been devised. weaken the authority of the Fallout 1 Thant 1 Discussed fi $35,-00- 0 0 non-alignme- nt . cut-of- f, lack of respect and regard for rules. What concerns me the most, though, is what Mr. Hunter calls our defeatist state of mind. I am constantly hearing comments of this sort: Theres no point in studyhe only gives ing for his class; n A V to Dont bother to petition for anything. Nobody cares what we want. One of the Gripers Anonymous The committee of Activities had a pamphlet printed called Communist Psychological Warfare This pam(Brainwashing). phlet is the record of a consultation the committee had with Edward Hunter, American author, foreign correspondent, and authority on Communist propaganda techniques. I would like to quote in the last issue pointsome of Mr. Hunters remarks because they apply to all of ed out that we have to earn the right to be treated as adus at Westminster College students, faculty, and admin-stratio- ults. Basically, this means as much as they ap-l- y that we have to be willing to to every other segment of work for the things we want, rather than expecting them to the American population. I have been watching de- come our way because we ask velopments under commun- for them. In opposition to the defeatism in other parts of the world,' and now I see ex- ist attitude, we have developactly the sa me develop- ed a negative approach which is more active but not any ments here in America. They include, first of all, more constructive. Criticism the penetration of our is necessary for effecting a leadership circles by a sof- change, but without positive action we will find tening up and creating a follow-udefeatist state of mind. This ourselves right back where ineffectual and includes penetration of our we started educational circles by a sim- unmotivated. I see ilar state of mind as a of this primarily, part softening up process in America, the liquidation of our attitudes on what we used to recognize as right and wrong, what we used to accept as absolute moral Un-Americ- an letters-to-the-edit- n p ... Mayor J. Bracken Lee standards. This quotation is not meant to be a prelude to either a communist hunt or a lecture on morals, although the latter is of some concern to us. Ad Speaks mittedly, we have problems on this campus which might be considered as moral problems such as cheating, in all its forms, and an almost total November 30th s, speed helium atoms, also called alpha rays. These rays have deleterious effects on living tissue. How Can Radioactivity Hurt You? It can give you cancer, shorten your life, make your hair fall out, give you anemia, make you sterile, or affect heredity so that you or your offspring will produce malformed children. However, it all depends on the dose. Thats what all the shouting is about. At the world-wid- e dose levels generated by the atomic tests prior to 1958 and including the latest Russian series, the chances are you wont lose your hair, get anemia or become sterile. ' But there is controversy over whether the fallout dose can give you cancer or produce heriditary effects. How Does Iodine-13- 1 Get into Your Body and Can It Be Avoided? Like the rest of the radioactive materials; we eat it or drink it in milk. Most of the children get it in milk. Fortunately, radioactive iodine has an average life of about 12 days, disintegrating with time. If left to stand about a month, the iodine will practically disappear. One way to avoid the iodine would be to use aged, powdered milk. SCHOOL SUPPLIES and HARWOOD'S Open to pills which contain no Strontiubut because milk is m-90, such an important part of a childs diet, few doctors would recommend cutting it out now. Allowing milk to stand wont has work because Strontium-9an average life of 40 years. What About Carbon-14- ? does its dirty work Carbon-1the genes, the into by getting units inheredity-controllin- g side your germ cells. Carbon-1hangs around for 8,000 years and its damage, if any, can be projected that far in the future. 0 4 4 Political writing and teach ing were among U Thants early ambitions. At Rangoon University he became ac quainted with U Nu, the current prime minister of Bur ma. They later taught English and History in a Burmese secondary school. Both men have only one name, Thant and Nu. U in Burma is not a name, but a title of respect, similar to the British Sir. The pronunciation is Ooh. Thursday ENGINEER United Nations executive. 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