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Show Jp L' Page Two FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1973 Cancer Research Specialists Gain Grants from Amer. Cancer Soc. IRS Checking On Three grants to cancer research specialists have been made recently by the American Cancer Society, according to Dr. Cyril D. Fullmer, President of the Utah Division. attic of an old In a walk-u- p building on the UniUtah of campus is some versity most of the efficient, modem laboratory equipment imaginable. This is the domain of Dr. Karl Gordon Lark, biology department, who is the recipient of a grant totaling $55,856 to support his program entitled Replication and Segregation of DNA in Bacteria and Eukaryotes. This funding will enable Dr. Lark's laboratory to continue its research directed toward understanding how DNA (the genetic material which all cells contain) itself is made and how the cell regulates the number of copies of genes which it contains. This is being investigated by studying mutants of various cells which are able to make DNA at one temperature but not at another. When the cells are placed at ivy-cover- ed a higher temperature, Dr. Lark explained, some of the mole- cules are placed at a higher temperature, Dr. Lark explained, some of the molecules resons-ibl- e for making DNA fail to function. Studies of these mutant cells placed at these higher temperatures help to locate and describe these molecules which are crucial for making DNA. Dr. Lark continued, Understanding the synthesis of DNA should help other workers to understand how cancer cells can have extra copies of some genes and not enough of others in other words, toio many or too few regulators of different cellular functions. Major scientific research doesnt need an elaborate setting. The innards of a deserted-lookin- g University edifice are teeming with test tubes and flasks and funnels, chemicals and chemists, and hope for a cure for cancer. A grant for $53,931 has been awarded to Dr. Leroy B. Townsend, department of medicinal 11 i Unemployment Tax Filers The Internal Revenue Service a program to help enannounced chemistry at the University of sure that employers are filing Utah, for his study entitled Syn- Federal Tax reRelated turns. Unemployment thesis of Employers are required to to Pseudouridine as Potential file Form 940, Employer's Annual Federal Unemployment Antitumor Agents. Tax Return, if they had one or research-wilDr. Townsend's more employees during each of involve efforts designed to fur- 20 calendar weeks or paid wages nish a total synthesis of pseu- of at least $1,500 in any calendar douridine (a minor component quarter. The tax' rate was 3.2 percent which has been isolated from on the first $4,200 of wages paid transfer RNAs from various sources.) According to this sci- to each employee in 1972. Howentist, research in this area has ever, a credit is allowed for conbeen very limited, due to the in- tributions to a certified state unaccessibility of pseudouridine employment compensation fund. which has made the use of this IRS will match its computer compound economically unfeas-ibl- e records to determine if employ90 pure, $350 per gram! ers who filed Form 941, EmployDr. Townsend said he now has ers Quarterly Federal Tax Reapproximately 100 grams of this turn, for 1972 also filed Form expensive compound for use in 940. Generally, employers who his research project, and that are required to file Form 941 on should provide us with sufficient which income and Social Securmaterial for extensive research ity taxes withheld are reported, involving pseudouridine as the must also file Form 940. IRS will contact employers starting material for preparing anticancer agents. potential who apparently should have filed has did not do so. Form 940 for but Although pseudouridine not been reported to possess an- 1972 was due January 31, 1973. ticancer activity, Dr. Townsend Employers can be penalized continued, chemical modifica- for not filing and for not paying tions of pseudouridine in our la- the tax. boratory should result in an increase in antitumor activity for the pseudouridine derivatives. These pseudouridine derivatives V A Ups Checks! will be tested as anticancer It was reported by Mr. George agents in the National Cancer L. service offiCarey, national Institute screening program at ' Bethesda, Md., as well as with cer for the Disabled American that during the just private investigators throughout Veterans concluded fiscal year, 1972-7the world. These derivatives will also be tested as antiviral agents, his office had won and protected since there is increasing evi- almost two and a half millions of dence to link specific types of dollars ($2,417,314) in veterans administration benefits for Utah cancer as being viral induced. veterans and their surdisabled At Utah State University, Dr. vivors. Eldon J. Gardner, department of According to NSO Carey these zoology, is the recipient of a Cancer society grant for $7,425 monetary gains resulted from for his study, Origin and Inher- the DAVs prosecution of 1,549 itance of Abnormal Growths and claims for disabled veterans and veterans widows from all parts Cancer. Dr. Fullmer noted that these of the State of Utah. Because of the extremely three grants are among the many cancer research funds returned heavy claims load handled by to Utah by the ACS. Currently his office over the last several Utah universities and hospitals years, Mr. Carey reports it has are receiving about $450,000 per become necessary to employ anservice officer to assist in year from the ACS for continued otherwork. Associated with Mr. the cancer research. Carey now is Wallace H. Hawkins, a Vietnam combat veteran, who will undergo 16 months of specialized training prior to being certified as a national service officer. Veterans, or widows of veterans, desiring assistance from the national service office of the DAV, may obtain help by writing George L. Carey, National Service Officer, Disabled American Veterans, 125 So. State St., Salt Lake City, Utah 84138. . l -- - . DAVChecksUp THE SALT LAKE TIMES Environmental Impact Statement Clears Way for Bonneville Unit Utah Senator Frank E. Moss announced that the long awaited environmental impact statement clearing the way for progress on the Central Utah Project Bonneville Unit has been approved by the Interior Department. Moss said the statement was signed by Laurence E. Lynn, assistant secretary for Programs, Development and Budget, and hand carried to Russell Train, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). The Council now has 30 days to make its recommendation on whether or not the environmental ramifications of the project are satisfactory. If the recommendation is favorable Bonneville will be clear for continued construction. Until the statement has gone through government channels no new contracts can be let on the Bonneville Unit and those currently in force will expire in less than a month. Passage of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 1969 caused new problems for the project which is already underway. NEPA requires the environmental impact statement that has threatened to halt the project until it receives final approval. Since Bonneville was already under way when NEPA was enacted it has been allowed to limp along while the. statement was researched, but that grace period has run out. , Moss has pointed out before that the Bonneville Unit win provide additional water for the Salt. Lake Valley where rationing is a real possibility if the state suffers low water years. Because of the delay by the Interior Department in filing the impact statement we have come perilously close to shutting off construction on the Cental Utah Project. Consequently, I have urged the Council on Environmental Quality to accelerate its clearance so additional construction contracts can be let. Utah needs the water, he said. Mt. Fuel Declares Dividend Increase The board of directors of Mountain Fuel Supply Company declared a dividend of 48 cents a share on the Companys common stock and $2 a share on the preferred stock. This represents an increase of 3 cents a share over the dividend paid in the previous quarter, and is the first dividend increase since 1969. The common stock dividend is payable September 10, 1973 to shareholders of record August 17, 1973, and the preferred stock dividend is payable October 1, 1973, to shareholders of record September 7, 1973. - . 3, iTiHtr.. .i . ir Doctor in the Kitchen9 by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D. Consultant, National Dairy Council FOOD LABELING A most interesting discussion (not a debate) occurred some weeks ago in Denver at a conference sponsored by the National Dairy Council for food writers. The subject was food labeling and the men airing views that caught my ears most were Dr. Ogden Johnson of the Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Dee M. Graham of the University of Missouri. - I to a consuming society. We no longer make the things we use. FDAs approadi now must be to give the consumer more information with which to protect and guide himself. Regarding food, this means there must be new food labeling regulations. The New Regulations The new regulations, he said, will provide: 1) a mechanism to Each man possesses a back- identify the quality of products; ground qualifying him to speak 2) an aid in planning, adequate on this topic which is of such meals; and 3) the stimulus for interest to consumers. But their greater interest in nutrition. approaches "are different Dr. Technically, a food manufacJohnson, being Director of the turer will not have to list the Division of Nutrition with FDA nutritional content on his product and having been closely involved label. his in developing the new FDA food productOnly if he fortifies some nutrient, by labeling regulations, is eloquent or wishes toadding make some daim of in support of those regulations. benefit does he then 'trigDr. Graham, Chairman of the De- dietary ger the requirement for specific partment of Food Science and information on his label. Of Nutrition at the University of course, the realities of competitionMissouri, was formerly with a -such makas a prominent food processing firm ing claims and competitor listing nutritional so his approach is especially content means a food manufacknowledgeable regarding some of turer could well find that the the problems the regulations may Is not voluntary at all, labeling face. but essential and forced upon FDA's Mission him if he wishes to remain in Dr. Johnson explained for the business. assembled food writers that But if one believes the more FDAs mission is to protect the information consumers have, the consumer from hazards and ob- better, such problems as the forevious fraud. He pointed out that going are not a deterrent. And historically FDA has performed once a food processor gets into this task by police work and in labeling, what must he list? his opinion this has not been Well get into that next week, sufficiently effective. along with some of Dr. Grahams Meantime, Dr. Johnson said, apprehensions as to whether alt times have changed. We have this will actually be good for the changed from a producing society consumer. |