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Show UTAHS FEARLESS INDEPENDENT THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mining & Legal Newt Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake CSty, Utah 711 South NEWSPAPER West Temple Telephone Salt Lake CSty, Utah 84101 364-846- 4 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher "This publication is not owned Volume 56 or controlled by my party, or corporation." ekm, clique, faction Number 25 10 Researchers Disprove Genetic Behavior Link ; (continued from page 1) very tall.) Of this population, chromosomal determinations were made for 4,139 men, and 12 with the extra Y chromosome were identified. A search of Copenhagens penal register revealed that 41.7 percent (or 5 out of 12) of the XYY males had been convicted of one or more criminal offenses as compared to only 9.3 percent of the normal (XY) males. However, the percentages of crimes of violence against another person were similar for both groups. Of the 12 XYYs, only one had a record of aggression against a person, and this was a mild form of violence, according to the researchers report. Three of the 12 committed two minor crimes each, such as petty larceny, civil offenses, and thefts, and none had been convicted of a crime, more recently than five years before the time of the survey. The fifth XYY with a criminal record was mentally retarded. These data, the authors conclude, provide no evidence that XYYs are more likely to commit crimes of violence thanXYs. THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1976 Page Two . Two data sources were used to compare the intellectual capacity of the survey groups: a test employed in screening army recruits, and examinations taken at the end of the 9th, 10th, and 13th yers of schooling (the educational index). In both measures of intellect, the researchers found normal to have significantly higher average scores than the group having extra Y chromosomes. Of the Xyys with criminal convictions, all had army (XY) males screening test and educational index levels below those of their XY criminally convicted counterparts. The report suggests, in summary, that the XYY chromosome structure does not automatically imply violent behavior, but that it .may imply intellectual dysfunction, and, according to the authors, . . .intellectual impairment may contribute to behavior. anti-soci- al Mushrooms Turn Waste Into Food and Fertilizer Mushrooms can turn crop and paper wastes into food, feed, and fertilizer, it was reported at the recent centennial meeting of the American Chemical Society. The solid state fermentation of straw waste by Pleurotus ostreatus tender, mild, pleasant-fiavore- d oyster mushrooms grown commercially in Europe and Asia was reported by Dr. Ralph Kurtzman of USDA Agricultural Research Services Western Regional Laboratory in Berkeley, California. One ton of dry straw can produce one ton of fresh oyster mushrooms and 700 pounds of fertilizer. Key to the process is the ability of the oyster mushroom to utilize the nitrogen in the air and the indigestible lignin in the straw, he explained. Composed mostly of water, mushrooms are rich in vitamins and contain, on a dry basis, up to 30 proteins. Since mushrooms cannot obtain their energy from the sun as green plants do, they must have food produced by other living things. Generally they grow on plant materials although some times those materials first have been run through a horse or other animal, Dr. Kurtzman said in a summary of his work. Head Trauma Patients Benefit From Scanner r The , nature of brain damage caused by accidental injury is often hard to diagnose. Conventional tests such as angiograms can show if a mass is present in the brain, but it cant show if that mass is a blood clot or localized swelling. The distinction is important, according to Dr. Robert Anderson, associate professor of radiology at the University of Utah Medical Center. If its a blood clot, immediate, surgery may be needed; if its localized swelling, drugs can take care of the problem. In the past, when angiograms were used, surgeons often had to resort to exploratory brain surgery in these. instances. Now, medical center physicians have a tool that not only can tell them if the mass is a blood clot or swelling, but one that is safe and entirely painless to the patient the EMI brain scanner. At best, an angiogram is an uncomfortable procedure, Dr. Anderson noted. It requires insertion of a long tube into the carotid artery, the brains major blood supply source. A special dye is then injected through the tube and a rapid series of X rays are taken with the dye highlighting whatever mass is present. But the EMI scanner has changed all that, Dr. Anderson said.. In operation for more than a year at the medical center, the computerized device takes a series of X rays that can be interpreted by a specially trained radiologist, known as a neuroradiologist. It allows us to begin corrective treatment earlier in many head trauma patients, and more lives are being saved as a result, Dr. Anderson said. Dr. Anderson said he and his colleagues have found that the scanner is the best method for diagnosing the extent of brain injury in accident cases, and it has other applications as well. For example, patients receiving radiation therapy for various brain tumors undergo the EMI scan, and the neuroradiologist is able to determine how the therapy is life-savi- ng affecting the tumors. the LEASED Knowledge of whether the tumor is changing, shrinking or has actually disappeared because of the thereapy will help chart the patients future course of treatment, he siaid. We are particularly pleased, however, with the machines capa? bilities concerning head injury management, the medical center radiologist said. This diagnostic capability is timely because the medical center has recently been designated as a major trauma center. Dr. Anderson referred to research programs planned for all aspects of trauma under the trauma center grant, and the brain scanner will be a useful diagnostic method for part of that research. The scanner has also filled an educational role for physicians in the Salt Lake City area, he added. Since it was the first scanner to be installed in the area, it has aided a number of radiologists in becoming familiar with scanning techniques. This has led to rapid acceptance of the scanner as an essential diagnostic tool as additional scanners have become available to the community, he said. Next spring, the centers diagnostic capabilities will be further enhanced by installation of a total body scanner. It will play an important role in assessing abdominal trauma as well as other bodily disorders. That machine will represent the latest state of the art, capable of producing high quality images in a short a time as six seconds. - GRAPEVINE Finance Commissioner Jennings Phillips Jr. said this week the city probably can repeal a substantial increase in franchise taxes which was to have taken effect January 1. Phillips said the city decided to put the franchise tax increase into its current year's budget because officials were uncertain about the future of federal revenue sharing allocations. . Salt Lake County Commissioners were asked this week by motorcycle enthusiasts to make Decker Lake Park a motocross facility. Representatives from the American Motorcycle Association gave the commissioners a petition signed by 428 persons asking that the park at 28th West and 21st South be used for motorcycle races and1 other cycle events. 70-ac- re Salt Lake county's finance director, William Finney, wants to keep his $28,000 appointive job when his boss. Commissioner Ralph Y. McClure leaves office Jan. 1. Incoming commissioners, traditionally have filled appointive positions, such as the .directorship of finance, with persons of their choice. Finney said, Under the merit system, I would have a chance to compete for the job using a set job description and guidelines. Pete Kutulas, Salt Lake County BIRTH DCFCCTS ARC FOREVER. unless you HEIR mARCH Of Dimes As oyster mushroms grow on straw or other wastes, the nitrogen is taken up from the air and combines into the wastes and the growing mush- At the same time the rooms, he continued. mushroom is using lignin from the wastes. Lignin is a complex chemical which is not digested by animals and makes the straw indigestible to cattle. With lignin removed and the nitrogen increased, the straw is now more suitable for cattle feed. A typical acre of rice yields about two tons of grain and four tons of straw. The straw has little or no market value, and in the U.S. it is generally burned in the field. As a result, the major product of solar energy in the field is wasted, and the air is filled with choking, blinding smoke. The waste problem with other grains and some other crops is similar. . .Crop wastes and waste paper alike can be used to grow mushrooms. this week anCommissioner, nounced he has hired a third professional hydrologist to work in the County Flood Control Depart ment. Alton H. Sorensen Jr., 3284 Millcreek Dr., began work in the department this week at a salary of $9,704 a year. Airport director Paul Gains said the Federal Aviation Administration has approved a $1.5 million federal grant enabling the . Salt Lake International Airport runway to be extended to handle any type of flight today was received by the City Commission. The grant will pay for 90 percent of the construction work, just two days before the deadline for awarding the money was reached. Gaines said the grant will include additional money next year to pay a total of $3.2 million for a 2,000-foo- t extension to the main airports runway. Dr. Lennis M. Knighton, legislative auditor-genera- l, recommended this week that work should be stopped immediately on the development of plans for a new administration building at the State Hospital in Provo, pending the completion of an audit. He said the hospital received permission last February from the Legislature to use the proceeds from the sale of surplus land to construct a new administration building. Volunteers who have given 100 to 6,000 hours of service to the Holy Cross Hospital were honored this week by the hospital Auxiliary. Receiving a pin for 6,000 hours was Lucille Hobbs, Phyllis Smith received a pin recognizing 4,000 hours of service. Fifteen volunteers received 1,000 hour pins. Where thousands of listeners enjoy concert music and news every day I Mountain Fuel Supply Co. has applied for a $2.7 million increase in natural gas rates to offset supply cost increases approved by the Federal Power Commission. Mountain Fuel asked the Utah Public Service Commission this week to allow the rate increase to become effective Oct. 1. |