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Show 8B The Salt lake Tribune Monday, August Flood Victims Deadline For Aid Near 1983 1, Radiation Study on Target at University of Utah Medical Center scientists have made progress in their comprehensive study on possible effects of radioactive fallout from the open-ai- r atomic testing in Nevada during the 1950s and Special to The Tribune PROVO Utah residents who have incurred damage as a result of lrte spring flooding and who wish to apply for the Individual and Family '60s The scientists say the major components of the study ate on schedule "The university has set out to do an independent study that is developing new techniques to determine whether there is a connection between radiation and cancer," said Joseph L. Lyon, principal investigator and chairman of the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Family and Community Medicine "Were progressing well. r The $6 6 million, epidea year was fundpd miological study ago by the National Cancer Institute and includes support from the Defense Nuclear Agency and the Department of Energy The investigation is an inclusive follow-uto two preliminary studies, one on thyroid abnormalities and the other on childhood leukemia, both published in the 1970s, which answered some questions and raised some others. Grant Program, Temporary Housing or a disaster loan from the Small Business Administration must do so by Tuesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said .Citizens who reside in counties declared eligible for individual assistance may apply for these programs. The following counties have been declared Utah, Carbon, Emery, Sanpete, Salt Lake, Davis, Millard, Sevier, Weber, Morgan and Wasatch. FEMA officials encourage people in the declared counties to complete the necessary paperwork even if they are not sure of their eligibility for the particular program. Eligibility will be determined after the application is processed. To be eligible for he Individual and Family Grant Program, people must first apply for a loan from the Small Business Administration. For this reason, FEMA officials suggested that citizens apply for all three five-yea- p Three departments in the School family and commumedicine, pharmacology and nity are involved in the pediatrics of Medicine multidisciplinary investigation. The study is reconstructing probable radiation doses received by Utahns who could have been exposed to fallout from the atomic blasts and examining whether those doses might have produced an increase in thyroid cancer, leu- kemia and other cancers. The coordinating committee for the study is headed by Chase N. Peterson, newly appointed university president and former vice president for health sciences. During the first year of the investigation 20 staff members have been added; work space has been rented and remodeled; a new computer program to facilitate research has been purchased and installed; efforts have begun to locate 7,000 people who will be studied for thyroid disease; initial work has started on computerizing files that will permit researchers to store and analyze more than 1 million Utah census records, medical records and death certificates from 1950-6and development has been launched on a computer system to forms of assistance. It is not necessary to come to the FEMA office to apply, it is only necessary to apply by Tuesday. People who wish to apply may do so by calling the toll free disaster number, match information with reconstructed residence and fallout patterns. Milk Consumption Researchers are beginning to determine milk production, distribution and consumption patterns for the fallout years. It is believed that consumption of milk was one of the primary ways children in the area might have ingested radioactive materials from the atomic fallout. Dr. Lyon and other epidemiologists are searching cancer registry files for leukemia and thyroid can-- . cer cases. This data will be combined with dosimetry to see what connection there might be between radiation-induced cancer and radiation doses to which individuals might have been exposed. Dr. Lyon heads the leukemia study and Marvin L. Rallison, associate professor of pediatrics and head of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, directs the thyroid research. John W. Gardner, assistant professor of family and community medicine and adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics, also is a principal investigator on both the leukemia and thyroid studies. McDonald E. Wrenn, director of cause-of-deat- h U. Medical Center consumption patterns during the years of heavy fallout. Iodine, Plutonium His group will measure iodine-12- 9 in autopsy tissue samples The rn 1981. iodine was consumed in milk and deposited in thyroid glands. The Field Work group alsp will measure plutoniumThe study includes field and lab-239 and 240 which may be oratory work to supply fallout dofound in lung, liver and skeletal simetry, measure residual radioacsamples These measurements pertivity in human tissue samples and mit estimates of the internal doses perfect a thermoluminescence of radiation received through inhatechnique to allow researchers to lation and food intake. The thyroid look for hot spots sites where doses may have greatly exceeded fallout and radioactivity may have external exposure. been significantly elevated. Dr. Rallison is continuing thyroid The research is going well. Dr. gland research he began more than Wrenn said, and will have impor15 years ago. "We intend to locate tant applications in other areas, as many as possible of the 5,000 inlong after the Utah fallout study is" dividuals we examined as school complete. The radiation dosimetry children in the 1960s and studies, funded by the Defense Nuthem, Dr. Rallison said. clear Agency and the Department The pediatric endocrinologist beof Energy, will add as much as $2 lieves abnormalities may exist in 4 million to the overall research budto 8 percent of the study subjects. get by the time it is completed. Cases of thyroid cancer and leuIn a supporting study, Howard A. kemia are being studied because Howthorne, research professor of these diseases, known to be induced pharmacology in the radiobiology by radiation, are the most likely to occur from exposure to fallout. The division and principal dosimetry coordinator for the NCI epidemiolpopulation exposed to the heaviest ogy study, directs efforts to trace fallout resides in Utah, downwind milk production, distribution and' of the Nevada test site. the Division of Radiobiology in the Department of Pharmacology, shares principal investigator roles on the radiation dosimetry research, a separate program begun 9 mg. "tar", 0 8 mg. nicotine av. per cigarette by FTC method; FILTERS; 15 mg. LIGHTS- "tar, 1.0 mg. nicotine av. per cigarette, FTC Report MAR. 83 Disaster assistance cannot be given to people who fail to file an appli- cation for these programs. Applications will not be accepted after the Tuesday deadline. Yellow Lawns Caused by Many Things Many lawns in Utah have been yellowing this year. The problem, say Utah State University specialists, may stem from disappearance of nitrogen, iron shortage, insect damage, lack of water or disease. They fall in that order as the most common lawn problems. Considering effects of the wet the specialists say the spring, chances are more than 50 percent that yellow in your lawn is due to either or both of the first two causes. Spring rains or excess watering may have dissolved all the nitrogen from fertilizer applied to a lawn and moved it past the grass roots. The result is a lighter green color in the lawn from lack of nitrogen. Bring Back Color Application of a high nitrogen fertilizer will help bring back the green color. Fertilizers that contain nitrogen in a slow acting sulfur coated urea capsule or as a long organic nitrogen chain (ureaformaldehyde) that breaks apart slowly through the season may cost more but will last longer for a single application. An iron shortage (iron chlorosis) may be the culprit stealing green color from your lawn if you have been regularly applying lawn fertilizers containing nitrogen but the lawn is still yellow. Soils staying cool and wet too long combined with fluctuation of air temperatures may have caused iron in the soil to "lock up and be unavailable to the plants. On lawns suffering from lack of iron, there will be yellow patches, especially in shady or low spots on the lawn. You can green up the turf for five to six weeks by applying lb. of iron sulfate per 1,000 square feet of lawn, or sulfur coated iron called ironsul or iron chelates. If iron shortage is your problem, you will get faster results with a liquid iron product than a dry one. Turn Yellow Spots turning yellow, then brown in your lawn signal possible insect damage. Pull lightly on the ailing grass plants. If they pull easily from the ground, you are probably seeing results from billbug feeding on grass roots late in the spring. Treat with Diazinon or Dursban any lawn space uffering from damage caused by the insects. Its not usually necessary to treat the entire lawn. If you see spotting of leaf blades, either tan with purple borders, purple brown spots, death of grass in round spots, spots in semicircular pattern or brown spots with green centers, suspect disease. Applying fungicides such as Dyrene, Fore. Benlate, Tersan 1991 or Tersan LSR should help control the disease. In all situations, check the soil moisture to be sure the yellowing is not just a lack of water. A lawn turnbefore turning brown ing blue-graindicates a lack of water. Note that water should be penetrating eight to 10 inches at each watering If water is not penetrating the soil adequately, aerify the brown spots so it can LIGHTS and FILTERS s!!?. y FOUND THE CAT I WANTED I AND DION T EVEN LEAVE HOME GET RESULTS WITH Warning- . The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health WANT-AD- S 237-200- 0 , : V- ? r4r , 4M 1 i : A V-? f v rl JT L . .f ' Camel Lights or Camel Filters. - yx Experience the Camel taste. V 3 t JtonTiii Sr i .22 h |
