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Show Koge Four THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1974 Price Dip Hurts Utah Dairymen THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah At least -i ! 364-846- 4 GLENN BJORNN. Publisher "Th:s publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation. Number 12 Volume 54 Advances In Chemotherapy (Continued from page one) Surgery and radiation have always been and still are the primary forms of cancer therapy. Surgery is most frequently used on tumors, and is successful for certain types of malignancies such as skin and breast cancer, ltadiation is particularly useful for treating internal solid tumors, such as cancer of the eye or Hodgkins disease, especially if detected early. Both surgery and radiotherapy, however, are reaching the height of their development especially since they are generally useful only against localized tumors. Chemotherapy, on the other hand, is beginning to have a substantial impact on cancer therapy. There were approximately G drugs in clinical use in 1954, none of which could produce substantive improvements in large number of patients. Now , approximately 40 active drugs are used to treat cancel-10 or so for which clinical testing has begun, and another GO that are in earlier testing stages. There are also at least 10 types of cancer in which a significant proportion of patients can live at least 5 years longer with drugs, and the median period of survival is increasing in a number of others. A problem confronting chemotherapists, says Maugh, , is their poor public image. For example, because of ethical considerations, untried drugs were used only on patients for whom all other forms of therapy had failed. Frequently, the prolongation of suffering and the side effects that accompanied use of the drugs were viewed as cruel, resulting in bitterness and skepticism toward anti-canc- er chemotherapists. These early investigations, however, laid a strong foundation for 'future research. Initial successes were made in the treatment of cancers for which the prognosis was hopeless. These included cancers of the blood-formiorgans such as leukemias and lymphnomias in which malignant white blood cells produced by bone marrow and the lymph glands are disseminated throughout the body. Since these malignancies were not amenable to traditional forms of therapy, chemotherapists were able to begin treatment as soon as the tumors were ng diagnosed. Not only were these malignancies treated successfully. but several new principles of chemotherapy evolved and have recently been applied to other types of tumors. One principle is that chemotherapy is most successful against small tumors in very early stages. This is true whether chemotherapy alone is used, or if it is combined with other techniques. Also significant, explains Maugh. is that appropriate combinations of drugs arc more effective than single agents. Solar Energy Black is not only beautiful; it can be a veritable sponge for the light of the sun. A Penn State fuel scientist has made use ot this principle to develop the preliminary design for a new wav of harnessing solar energy. Ilis sponge is graphite. which soaks up about 90 per cent of the visible light that readies it. It could speed the day when solar farming can generate electric power for large cities. In the proposed new method, developed by Dr. Howard Palmer, a thin slab of graphite would he installed in a long- pipe through which helium gas is pumped. 'The suns rays, concentrated by mirrors, would pass into the pipe through a window and be absorbed by the graphite. The resulting heat would! naturally transfer to the flowing helium. Heated to' well-insulat- ed d of Utahs dairy farmers could be out of business by the end of this year! This warning was made last week in Tremonton by Utah dairymen who said the result will be a serious milk shortage and extremely high prices to the housewife. The dairymen said recent sharp decreases in the price they get for milk, without a similar decline in operating costs is pushing most of us to the edge of bankruptcy. Those of us who have to buy our own feed are going to be lucky if we can hang on until the end of the year. said Keith Blanch, Plain City dairyman and president of the Weber County Farmers Union. Unless something is done about the pinch were in, few will survive much longer, said Tremonton Cleon dairyman Summers, president of the Box Elder County Farmers Union. Theres no way we can stay in business under present conditions, said Mr. Summers. When 1,200 Class Postage paid at Salt Lake City, Utah Sunth W :st Temple Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 Scum one-thir- the farmer goes out of business there wont be any food at any price. Dairy farmers from Weber, Box Elder and Cache counties met to discuss what they termed the serious financial pinch caused by recent drastic decreases in the price of Class II and III milk. Utah-Idah- o Farmers Union President, Roy Holman, of Og-II den noted the price of Class and III milk had dropped $1.55 60 per hundredweight in the last see to days and you are going another drop. Class II and III milk is that used in cheese and other manufactured products. Mr. Holman said the price farmers are etting for Class I milk which goes into the bottle for home consumption has been If the price of holding so far. Class H and III milk takes another big drop, which were told it will, then the price the farmer gets for Class I milk will have to Unless drop also, he said. some corrective-adequatel- cor- y rective action is taken soon by the government, large numbers of dairy fanners are headed for bankruptcy. about 1100 degrees (F) tbe helium from a network (or farm) of pipes would drive a gas turbine coupled to an electric generator. This scheme, says Dr. Palmer, involves no fuel. no pollution or waste, uses no water, and is relatively Such a farm on a thrifty in land-usmile parcel of desert could provide a thousand megawatts of power, enough electricity for a city of 200,000 inhabitants at present rates of consumption. No other scheme for large scale electrical power gen-- 1 eration from solar energy takes a heat transfer route. Most use molten sodium or heat pipes for this purpose and entail, in addition, evacuated piping, exotic-opticafacilities, extraction of coatings, stored heat by water, and a steam turbine to generate four-by-fi- e. ve LEASED GRflPEVIAIt; f Utah received $225 in federal funds for every man, woman and child in the state during fiscal 1973 or a total of $261 million. These were the figures released this past week by the U.S. Treasury Department. Utah ranked 22nd amon the 50 states in federal aid received, Idaho 19th, Nevada was 20th. The final environmental statement of the Central Utah Projects of the Bonneville Unit fully complies with all federal laws and requirements according to a 15 page finding of fact and conclusion of law which was filed this past week. Chief U.S. District Judge Willis Ritter formally filed the court order upholding the CUP in line with his ruling of June 18. The judge said that the statement makes a riorous exploration and objective evaluation of alternative actions that might avoid as many of the adverse environmental effects as is reasonably possible. The Federal Aviation Administration said this week that Salt Lake City is scheduled to rceeive an additional $1.8 million for land acquisition for a third runway. The land will provide a clear zone, an approach protection for the new runway. FAA officials said that the monies is in addition to a $4.5 million grant announced earlier this year. blaek-solid-to-g- as l heat-stora- ge power. Palmer's system is much simpler and more direct, largely because of the use of graphite and the gas turbine. Of course, one can't avoid all complications. notes Palmer. Good mirrors and controls will be required for our system, thick insulation for the pipes, and as for some provisions for energy all solar power systems storage. Dr. Palmer estimates that the graphite-sponge- " technique combined with the use of a gas turbine could produce power from the sun at about twice the cost of conventional means. However, this could change with a change in our attitude to solar energy. Until very recently virtually no research money has been spent on the subject. With increasing funding in this area, there is real hope that efficiency can be improved and a graphite-typ- e solar farm can be made competitive with conventional power. The Palmer system would convert solar energy to electrical energy at an estimated twelve percent efficiency. which is comparable to efficiencies achieved by other systems. gas-turbi- the Some of Utahs foreign students are finding their long cherished goal of an American Collee education involves a new dilemma, deportation if they take a summer job, and possibly not having funds to finish school if they dont. Because of a recent policy change by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services district offices rather than through individual college advisors as in previous years. A recent University of Utah study showed that the number of poor people in Salt Lake County calculated at the present level, must be raised by 30 percent above the figure of the federal government because of higher food prices. The poverty line is defined as the income required to meet minimum needs. If federal estimates of food costs are used to calculate, a minimum income of $4,317 a year for a family of four is the poverty line, according to the study about 46,000 Salt Lake residents or 9.7 percent of the population fall below that economic level. ne solar-therm- al Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day! 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