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Show Page Two FRIDAY. MAY THE SALT LAKE TIMES 21, 1965 Inheritence Tendency Senator Will Urge Oil Shale Hearing In Arthritis Senator Wallace F. Bennett Considered Low said this week that he would By and large and despite con- Relatives of patients with arthritis often go to their doctors with rather minor complaints because they are fearful of developing the same trouble and want to know their chances of becoming crippled and disabled. In most instances the doctor can be reassuring, because the inheritance of a tendency to arthritis, like that of high blood pressure or stomach ulcers and many other prevalent diseases, is of a low order. Nevertheless, arthritis does run in families, some kinds more than others, exposing apparently healthy relatives to the omnipresent risk of its development. Hereditary mechanisms in the disease are perhaps best known in gout, a form of arthritis featured by exquisitely painful and swollen joins, which sometimes become chronically deformed. Relatives often suffer from the same affliction, and even more frequently from the poorly understood biochemical fault which leads to increased stores of uric acid in the body, and is primarily responsible for the acute attacks of gout or gouty arthritis. Similarly, ankylosing sponlylitis a disease which stiffens and deforms the spine, attacks close relatives twenty times as frequently as members of the general population. The familial occurrence of rheumatoid arthritis, the most prevalent and President Johnson has the y benefit of Mr. Trumans experitinuing Leftist, Pacifist, ence and is moving swiftly to price and Academic opposition, President Lyndon B. prevent a repetition that could Johnson still enjoys widespread quickly collapse his bapartisan support for his policies in Viet- consensus. nam. Mr. Truman enjoyed a biparThe opposition to those poli- tisan consensus every bit as cies his been more vocal, but great or greater than President every public opinion poll and Johnsons when he first sent the President has been taking troops into Korea, but as the some of his own has indicated stalemate and casualty list grew that the President still holds the as airpower proved indecisive countrys confidence in dealing (without carrying the war into with the Castro threat to the Red China proper) and the U.S. Hemisphere and the Red Chinese people were told they would have to accept bloody stalematthreat to Southeast Asia. But while most of the public ed fighting of an indefinite durathey rebelled at the polls may have forgotten, politicians tion, LB as J fears they may again. havent forgotten that former It can be presumed that the President Harry Truman also had the countrys complete sup- Presidents only concern in this port and that of the UN and area of the war is not the pomost of our allies when he sent litical effects of a failure of his our troops into Korea to halt air attacks which he has often the Communist thrust in 1950. personally ordered. The graver danger would be the effect on Then, as now, the public, Re- the future conduct of the war publicans and most of the if, after rainy reason setbacks, Presidents own Democrat party into a purely parti-sio- n it explodes wholeheartedly supported our issue with angry, divisive Korean intervention. Prominent congressional investigations simRepublicans, including even the ilar to those of the McCarthy Sen. Joe McCarthy Era during the Korean War. applauded Truman's swift inThe President, profiting by tervention. It was not until the 1952 pres- Trumans unfortunate experiidential election approached the ence during the Korean War, is Red Chinese entered the Korean swiftly moving to prevent this. While strengthening the U.S. war, our casualty lists grew, Gen. MacArthur protested a position in Vietnam, militarily, stalemate in the fighting and he is launching a new diplo- crippling of all rheumatic disTruman administration could of- matic effort to negotiate the eases, is not as pronounced and fer no early end to the war that wars end. He is seeking to ex- as only four to five times that in it became a violent partisan po- ploit divisions between China the general population. In addiapparently etical issue which ended 20 and Russia as a force for peace tion, a number ofabout 15 per in Pacific. the The Administrarelatives, healthy of Democratic rule that years tion is redoubling its efforts to cent contain in their blood the had begun in 1932. y substance known as President Johnson knows that win Allied support for the war, a major reason for his wide- participation wherever possible, rheumatoid factor which has spread support for his Vietnam and in Frances case, an agree- some strange connection with the war policies is that he usurped ment to at least stop meddling disease. Moreover, relatives of patients with rheumatoid arththe traditional Republican hard against us. ritis show an increased tendency New are to efforts line stand to the extent that his being made policies are now being likened bring the UN into the area, to to contract other kinds of conn Peace- nective tissue disorders, such as to Teddy Roosevelts Speak create an to begin offering disseminated lupus erythematoSoftly and .Carry a Big Stick. keeping Force, Asia tempting economic alter- sus, which are less common, but It was on the eve of last No- natives to continued warfare, to even more serious, but obviously vember's elections that the distressed linked in some mysterious way. President first began borrowing split economically GOP candidate Barry Gold-wat- Asian nations from the Chinese, Even the relatives of patients massive retaliation pro- to bring India and Pakistan to with rheumatic fever are more air compromise their own feuding susceptible to it than unrelated posals with his attacks against the Communist in a common front against the individuals, suggesting an inherited predisposition to the North Vietnamese in the Tonkin graver Red Chinese threat. At home, the President has disease. Gulf. Thus it is clear that inheriSince then retaliatory strikes already begun a campaign to answer his critics of tance has a lot to do with the first urged by Goldwater have actively been a major element in our ef- Vietnam policies in world af- development of arthritis, but fort to pressure the Viet Cong fairs groups and on the college how? Recent developments in Communist guerillas to nego- campuses. The clergy, labor medical genetics, expanding at unions, veterans groups, women a rapid rate, are yielding a clear tiate an end to the war. This is a principal reason why organizations will soon be asked picture of the relationship. It Johnson enjoys such widespread to involve themselves with the is now known, and only since bipartisan support in carrying Vietnam war. More Republicans 1956, that each cell contains 46 e out the war in Vietnam: he has will be brought into closer con- chromosomes, structures sultation with the President, the packed with genes, which singly been using the air power recommended to carry the State Department and Pentagon, or in combination account for war into North Vietnam, as as the President seeks to widen all inherited characteristics. By Goldwater and other Republi- his Vietnam consensus just as special techniques, which intercans also recommended, while it is about to be tested all over estingly make use of a drug, at the same time employing such again. colchicine, long used to treat the acute gout, it is possible to see Republicans as Henry Cabot EiLodge and the size and shape and count the senhower to broaden his biparnumber of chromosomes present. tisan backing. Abnormal chromosomes are beSoon, however, the rainy seaing found in a growing number son will begin grounding more of diseases, none so far having of our planes. Thus relieved of much to do with arthritis. air attacks, the Communists are Already with some diseases, it expected to begin a major push has against our own growing ground Amazing Compound Dissolves withbecome possible to identify Common Warts Away certainty the prospect of a forces. Without Cutting or Burning given individual to develop the Inevitably, as our ground disease and depending upon the Doctors warn picking or scratchforce involvement becomes bigmay cause bleeding, nature of the genetic defect, to ger, so, too, will our casualty ing at wartsNow amazing Com- - prescribe more or less specific lists and Republicans will be spreading. W jenetrates into warts, measures to deal with it. It is tempted, for want to any other Sound their cells, actually melts warts away without cutting or to be hoped indeed, expected, major issues, to make these expected losses a major issue of the burning. Painless, colorless that in the near future, some 66 congressional election camCompound W, used as directed, forms of arthritis removes common warts safely, will become paign that is already being planleaves no scars effectively, to amenable ugly a these as became kinds of inned, just major they issue during the Korean war. and treatment. vestigations peace-at-an- . anti-Truma- n urge the Senate Interior Committee to instruct the Interior Department to begin drafting plans for the opening of federal oil shale lands to development. The Utahn said, It is my belief that an oil shale industry can come into being almost immediately, if a reasonable program of development of the pub- lic domain is put into effect. Sen. Bennett said he would urge the Senate Interior Committee to take this action at the first of two days of fact finding hearings which open Wednesday. Ever since I have been in the Senate I have taken a keen interest in the development of an oil shale industry in America for many reasons among which are its great potential economic impact to the areas involved and its importance to our national security, he said. He explained that oil shale is found in many states, but documentation of reserves in all ex- cept the Green River formation of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming is sparse and incomplete. Geologists have told us the Green River shales represent more than a trillion barrels of oil in place. He said, based on my re er pre-electi- on rod-lik- Gold-wat- er former-Presiden- t . get-tn- ig SPECIAL WASHINGTON REPORT 1965 Agriculture Program By ORVILLE L FREEMAN anti-bod- Afro-Asia- search of the oil shale situation, however, I feel that at present there are at least three obstacles to early progress toward development. 1. The lack of clear cut and workable leasing regulations that could permit and foster development. 2. Uncertainty as to the validity of many of the mining claims which were filed many years ago and which are clouding the picture today. 3. Delays and problems confronting the economic development of oil from the shale deposits. Sen. Bennett said that he has conducted a survey of industry and private citizens and that the dominant request by the public ' is that the Interior Department should do something. He said, The one common thread running through answers was that the government should develop some plan of action. There are private companies that indicate they are ready to forward and spend their money so that an industry can be begun. I submit that they should be given the chance if they are willing and if they assume an obligation to produce or of out within a reasonable of time. He said, The government should immediately make certain areas available to private concerns for development.. A logical beginning would be an area where there is intermingled state, federal and privately held fee land. Secretary of Agriculture President Johnson has sent his farm bill to Congress. In transmitting it, he emphasized that commodity programs should be improved so that agriculture may provide farm families with incomes on a parity with non-farfamilies. Under his program the forces of the market-plac-e will play an increasing role in attaining this objective. m CROPLAND ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM One important feature of the proposed program is the Cropland Adjustment Program. It is designed to maintain a balance between production and demand by removing up to 40 million acres from crop production through long-term Orvilla L h Farmers now have over 55 million acres of cropland out of production annually, most of it under the diversion features of individual commodity programs. In the first year, with only 8 million acres in the program, the Government estimates that savings from the CAP compared with annual programs would be about $35 million. year-to-ye- ar CONSERVATION AND POLLUTION CONTROL In addition, the program would be of long-ranbenefit to the general public in terms of resource con-servation and pollution control. The program would help to: Conserve resources, by helping to get needed land treatment measures on the land. Help preserve open spaces and natural beauty around cities and throughout the countryside. Reduce water pollution by converting row-cro-p land to conservation uses. Stimulate other Government agencies, including cities and towns, to acquire for needed public use more of the lands that now are contributing to the oversupply problem. The CAP would authorize agreements with local government agencies to preserve open spaces, natural beauty, wildlife recreation, and to prevent water pollution, includge ing siltation. President Johnsons agriculture program together with those parts of the poverty and education programs directed to rural areas, is a total commitment to improving the quality of life in the farming areas of our nation. It is a program which will assure rural America a proud place in the Great Society. f . |