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Show flrvi BAm - TFT? DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Tuesday, 19, 1971 January B 1 4'. 1ft: a 0 ff fi --v w ' & Ft 3 o By PAUL SWENSON Deseret News Staff Writer m A UtaL radiologist today agreed with one premise of a national magazine article that not enough is known about radiation effects on Utahns, and proposed a study to settle the argument. We call for a large-scal- e study of the effects of radiation on our young people who were exposed to heavy radiation doses be- Radiological Health. Pendleton has proposed the research in the past and he the reiterated suggestion today in the face of a story in the February issue of Atlantic magazine, which reached the afternewsstands Monday noon. POSSIBLE EFFECTS M. Sanchez is a sawbones of some note back east in Hackensack, N.J. Being a doctor, he probably doesnt say Joisey like some of the. natives. And, the good doctor apparently has other interests besides medicine. He has written a letter to the Utah State Real Estate Board. He wants to buy a ghost town somewhere in the different world of Utah. He has asked the real estate people to send any information they have on such matters. There are 37 such reminders of the past listed by the Utah Travel Council. The towns range all the way through the alphabet from Ajax, 24 miles of Tooele, to Widtsoe in Garfield County. south-southwe- st CHOKED UP All of them are choked in historic dust. Take the ghost town of Silver Reef in wonderful Washington County. Only the bank still stands. One hot summer day when coyotes walked in search of their prey, or panted in the shade of a Joshua tree, Father Scanlan rode into Silver Reef. His object was to hold a special Mass for the many Irish Catholics among the mine workers. He had no one to sing the necessary hymns, and the church he had started to huild was not complete. Apostle Erastus Snow and Stake President D. T. McAllister, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, offered their help. Thats how it came about that in 1879 a Catholic Mass was held in the St. George Mormon Tabernacle with a Mormon choir singing in Latin. A MOVIE SET There is Paria, named for an old Piute word meaning water muddy. Peter Shurtz settled his family there in 1865. He was forced to leave the homestead by constant Indian attacks that depleted his stock. In 1870, a dozen families moved in, but the water which attracted them, was also responsible for their leaving. Each spring, water gushing down Paria and Cottonwood creeks, would destroy the small town. By 1930, only one man hung on. It has been used by movie companies for shooting westerns. In crumbled ruins are Gold Hill, Mercur, Clifton, 37 of them. Lewiston, Slagtown As their ruins tumble and decay into the dust, the heritage of each lives on. Their stories, and each has its own, have been woven into the intricate pattern of Utahs pioneer culture. I dont know what Dr. Sanchez is prepared to pay, but the Utah ghost towns are priceless to us who hang onto the past ! ... M ITS END They have come out with a new drug so powerful you have to be in perfect health to take it! Harvard Elects Utahn Marshal J. Edwin Atwood son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Atwood, 1283 E. South Temple, has been elected one of four senior class marshals at Harvard College in Cambridge. Author and investigative reporter Paul Jacobs charged in the article that the Atomic Energy Commission has been delinquent in reporting possible effects of nuclear testing on Nevada, Arizona and Utah residents. Jacobs is quite right when he says the part radiation absorbed by Utahns may have played in the incidence of cancer and leukemia is not known with any precision, Pendleton said. While it is possible the specific groupings of leukemia he refers to could have been caused by radiation, there has not been a sufficiently detailed study made to imply that this is so. STRONG POTENTIAL is a fact, however, It that the radioactive material that has reached Utah from past tests does have a strong potential for causing leukemia and cancer, he emphasized. The small particles we breathe can deliver a radiation dose to the lung tissues that is greater than the external dose the AEC and Public Health Service regard as insignificant, Pendleton said. The U. of U. radiation expert said it is imperative that instead of continuing an argument on insufficient evidence, a detailed follow-u- p study be made of the children exposed to earlier heavy fallout in 1952, 1957 and 1962. i3 jfiL Salt Lake City as wet, gloomy weather combines with Environmental Editor The United States will develop a synthetic fuel, low in pollutants, to meet all of the nations power needs by the end of this decade, a federal government fuels expert predicted today. Dr. G. Alex Mills, Washington, D.C., chief of the Division of Coal, Energy and of U.S. Bureau Mines, said laboratories are making tremendous strides in converting coal to clean gasoline fuels. Research, If we continue at this same rate for several more years, ve should he able to totally cent ml power plant emissions ght-tim- River reported a crisp 22 degrees early today to take the prize as the coldest official reporting station. Light rain soaked the Salt Lake area all day Monday with .17 of an inch reported at the International Airport and up to .26 of an inch on the east bench. reached a Temperatures high of 45 for the day and a low of 38 degrees, both about 10 degrees above normal for the date. More of the same is expected through Wednesday. Increasing clouds are forecast for the northern parts of Utah Wednesday wdth scattered light rain due late that day. The rain will change to snow Thursday, but clearing is likely before the weekend. Rain continued to fall in southern Idaho today, but the problems of floods, snowslides and mudslides which had plagued the area for the past several days apparently are past. A mudslide some 2,300 feet long and four feet deep which cities.- - By daylight, however, the fog had thinned so that planes were moving in and out of the airport on schedule. Visibility was good enough in most places so tha the fog did not cause extreme driving hazards on the highways. Unseasonably warm temperatures and light rain have created flood and avalanche dangers in Utah and Idaho the past few days, but the threats appeared to be easing in both states today. Snow slide dangers, which kept the road to the Alta ski resort closed for more than a week, apparently have been reduced enough to open the canyon road to traffic. The Alta road opened early today after Forest Service crews had spent several days shoot to using artillery down potential avalanches along the canyon. Other canyon roads in the northern areas which were plagued by slides the past week are also open to traffic. The road to Brighton, which was closed briefly Monday afternoon due to a small slide, also is open. , In the southern portion of the state, the winter has turned into spring, bringing had closed U.S. Highway 95 between Weiser and Cam- bridge was cleared late Deseret News photo by Reed Madsen Jay Poulson, left, Wayne Anderson and Klar Jorgensen take advantage Richfield. of weather to play a round of golf in sunshine-soake- d farming ac- golfers out and central were clear and temperatures in the high 50s and even into the 60s in some locations. It was 66 degrees at Cedar City for the warmest spot in the state. OPINION SAYS CLUBS, TAVERNS GET GAMBLING WARNING City Aides Private clubs and taverns were warned today that a crackdown on gambling violations is planned by the Salt Lake County Attorney's Office in response to several Legislators complaints from citizens. Alleged violations ranging from payoffs on pinball machines to dice and crap games have been reported, County Atty. Carl J. Nemelka said. Utah State law prohibits all forms of gambling, including bingo, he pointed out. Persons conducting games of chance may be charged with a felony and players may be charged with a misdemeanor, All gambling paraphernalia is subject to seizure and nate this widespread disregard of the laws against g and destruction, Nemelka said. A campaign to elimi-gamblin- will be undertaken. The price of such synthetic fuels will be high at first, but power offftials are now pren pared to meet the public Dr. Mills made the statement in a technical meeting for a clean environment con-cer- as a high priority. With the cost of natural fuels rising, synthetic fuels may be as cheaply obtained as natural fuels by the end of the 1970s. the predicting that environmental control will be one of managements major concerns from here on out, Mills noted that it is also In nationwide public confor clean environment which has spurred research efforts for such synthetic fuels. a cern Ecological concern is here of 60-degr- back birds, some tivity and sending on the links. In the southern regions the skies stay, and power officials across the nation are a beady working to provide a possible s n v i r ormiental protection made available by present he said. technology, 1o Dr. Mills said technology may not be in time for the Navajo Power Plant, a fossil-fire- d plant now under construction four miles east of Page, Ariz., but it could be for the other power plants planned in the Lake Powell area. Dr. Mills is the author of over 50 technical papers on fuels and power, and has been in instrumental obtaining some 50 patents in this area, according to the College of Mines officials, v. Can't Be Municipal officials elected to office cannot serve in the Utah State Legislature at the same time they are holding their city posts. That opinion came today from Asst. Atty. Gen. Homer Holmgren. City officials requested the legal interpretation two weeks ago. Mayors, city commissioners or councilmen, city auditors and judges are prohibited from legislative activities, Holmgrens opinion noted. Holmgren said Article 6 of the Utah Constitution denotes the legislative bar against city officials being elected to the Legislature. Also, Article 5 forbids any invasion by the judiciary into the legislative thus barring department, lower court judges from the same legislative posts. The law prohibits even officials part-tim- e elected from serving in the Legislature. Courts have held that local elective offices are con-- s i d e r e d even lucrative though the officials collect as little as $10 per diem. Holmgrens opinion further cited rulings that a city is primarily incorporated as a political subdivision of the state for the purpose of performing local governmental Thus Salt functions. . . Lake City would be considered an agency of the state. Machine Stolen machine was reported stolen from the car of Steve Hession, 1733 Park St., according to Sheriffs Office reports. A $103 sewing Mon- day. Swollen rivers and streams which had threatened the southern Idaho area appear to be going down, but floods are still a danger in other portions A. 0 Dr. G. Alex Mills , . . U.S. fuels experj Kasteier northern Utah. e Ni temperatures were above freezing in most areas of the state, but Green pre-daw- n of fly ash and sulfur dioxide, he said. Oxides of nitrogen remain one of the knottier problems to overcome. Dr. Mills emphasized that the new fuel would not solve tiie sulfur emission problem the from smelters because process there is different. Sulfur is locked up with the ore and is not fed into the system as it is in the power plants, he said. temperatures all-da- Ja-Se- gy Wednesday at 3:20 p.m. in 214 Mines under Building sponsorship of the U. College of Mines. News Photo by O. Weitace in Patches of heavy fog moved northern Utah early today on the heels of an y rainstorm Monday, while the southern half of the state basked in balmy springlike weather. The fog hampered airline traffic at the Salt Lake International Airport from Monday afternoon until the hours today, causing some flights to be diverted to other using church and other records available. We are calling for a followup on at least 40,000 children so that we can get down to a level that is meaningful in measuring the effects of radiological doses, he added. In the Atlantic article, Jacobs said the AEC deleted significant material from reports. The agency also refused to recognize the seriousness of possible fallout effects and characterized agency critics as nuclear nuts m a k i ng foredoomsday casts, the author said. An AEC spokesman today issued a blanket denial of e at the University of Utah Mines Building. He will give an address on fuels technolo- al into 'Clean' Synthetic Fuel Foreseen By HART WIXOM above-norm- Foggy In North, Balmy In South FOLLOW CHILDREN Even though we have exported some of our population w'e must follow the- children w'ho were exposed by SCIENTIST on Page in Q Q 4? Deseret Fog blankets fore the Test Ban Treaty said Dr. was signed, Robert C. Pendleton, director of the University of Utahs Department of Juan $ s the state. A cooling trend is iorecast for both Utah and Idaho late in the week, bringing temperatures back down to the 30s a more norduring the day mal range for this time of the St. George, Richfield, Milford and Blanding also reported balmy weather which brought out local fishermen and golfers Monday. year. S.L Crimes Pet Rise 5 By ROBERT D. MULLINS Deseret News Staff Writer Crime in Salt Lake City in- creased by 860 cases last year, or slightly more than five per cent, according to figures released today by the Salt Lake City Police Department. The total number of crimes in the seven major categories was 15,950, according to Police Chief Calvin C. White-head. Whitehead noted that in all of the major crime categories, the totals are down in Salt Lake City for the past four months. That is encourhe said though aging, whether it is a trend setting pattern cannot be determined yet. MAJOR INCREASES The major increases for the entire year wrere in burglar, theft and auto theft. Decreases were recorded in rape and assault with a deadly weapon. In addition, the department made 12,459 arrests in 1970, an increase of 289 over the previous year. There were 167 fewer adult arrests, but 456 more juvenile arrests. Along with the increase in amount of crime, there was also an increase in the number of cases cleared. In 1970, 2.731 cases ww darpd. a net increase of 8! over 1962. CRIME BY CRIME A breakdown of the major ciimes, as identified by the FBI for 1970, follows: Murder, 13, up three; rape, 52, down seven; robbery, 358, up 12; assault with a deadly weapon, 265, down seven; burglary, 4,169, up 521; theft, 9,512, up 218; and auto theft, 1,581. up 120. Police received 87,932 calls during the year, an increase of about 12 per cent over the previous year, Whitehead said. A year ago, the department had 257 police officers in the field. That number is row down to 243. SHIFT OFFICERS This number' is down despite the fact that we have shifted a number, of officers from the jail, dispatch and e other fighting positions into the field, explained Whitehead. The positions have offibeen filled by non-crim- non-poli- cers civilians, as it were. Among the non-maj- the chief marked increase were drug abuse. In 1969, 197 persons were arrested, with 179 of the cases cleared. In 1970, 252 persons were arrested, and 218 of the cases w ere cleared. A breakdown of the figures shows there were 4,754 arrests for misdemeanors. Of this number, 2,217 were for public intoxication. crimes listed by which showed a SECTION City, Regional Our Alan Jones Comics TV Highlights Sports B 1, 10, 11, 20 1 2 3 7 Financial Obituaries Action Ads Weather Map 8. 9 H 11-1- 9 T12 f |