Show I f si 4A THE OGDEN (UTAH) SUNDAY MORNING STANDARD-EXAMINE- R APRIL 17 1933 Radioactivity Is Least Dangerous Element in Modem Atomic Weapons Science Says Finds Panic Blast and Fire Fcom Bomb Are Worse ’ By ALTON L BLAKESLEE (Editor’s' note: The most LAS VEGAS Nev (AP) — widespread effect of any Scientists have made an en’cour explosion would be radior fall out Under ceration aging start toward drugs to profall-ou- t tain conditions this might kill tect you from millions who were untouched or radio alctivity And in case you should be by the explosion itself The affected they’ve also discovered following story shows how medthat radiation sickness is not the ical research has found some incurable illness which some hope that these millions might not need to die) have thought it to be These facts are overlooked in The truth is that several chemmuch of the worried sometimes icals work effectively to save even fatalistic talk about atomic mice when given before exporadiation and fall out sure None is practical yet for humans but they mark a beginning where none existed before And clues have been uncov- - 4' ered to treatments for overcom ing radiation sickness if you’ve been affected by fall-ou- t or X bombs from rays Many people seem to think radioactivity is something entirely new absolutely mysterious always lethal quite hopeless to defend against Some seem to shut their minds even to thinking or hearing about it But talk with scientists and you learn how false and even dangerous these ideas can be Radioactivity they point out is a fact of life and always has been Our bodies are a bit radioactive and always have been Now we have new more powerful sources of radioactivity to use for harm (war) or benefit (peacetime power and tools) In this regard radioactivity is like electricity which lights our homes (and can electrocute) or the wonderful indispensable automobile (which kills 35000 Americans a year) Radio activity is the new thing H-bo- b j I Cl INSURANCE O "PROTECTION PLUS SERVICE" SINCE 1929 J -gg ft ftfl BftO-ft-gJLgg-f- -g- lft i liT' (IlTZHj MflMT ( -- in toDCznmn: On ftJl j? 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PapP Protects animals from as well or a well Civil pVin£ oses of having functioning an also cysteine Papp £et®r to Defense system able give proto be given beforehand Thus tective suggestions nickname for paramino-drug- s Another defense would be PaPP to prevent radiation sick- - Propiophenone also is not a prac-nes- s or methods of overcoming lcal preventive for humans as anyhow its effects And some scientists None of these protective drugs think there is a chance of doing 2000 2050 does any good' if given to mice j just that to the Give mice a shot of cysteine after they are exposed before they are exposed to kill- - s But the exciting prospect is and they sur-ing doses of that they protect by halting the One of the most obvious aspects of the modern era has been the increasing tendency for lh4 world’ vive scientists find reaction of damage from population to center in large cities This tendency is increasing despite the chain are a main hazard in threat of before the chain reaction atomic attack Pictograph above illustrates recent predictions of Sociology Professor Kingsley Da— exploding nuclear bombs if you vis of Columbia University who says that in 2050 half the world’s population will be living in cities are near to the explosion — or in gets under way Unifall-outhe of 100000 or more This he says is explained by advancing technology which enables the few on Scientists t the of radioactive dust including S G Dr E the of land to feed the many in the city He adds that as the of humanity livipg in underdeChicago’s a bomb from such versity “ Barron that countries modernized have becomes movement this toward the cities will increase Development figured veloped Inexpensive Chemicaf cause damage mainly by their of-- low-coto influence could workers live well o outside the cities and transjportation Cysteine is an inexpensive effects on vvater in the body — o to work commute o chemical one of the ammo acids an you arc 50 per cent water components of protems such prospects to date from animal dangerous radioactive atoms hitting start The way isto protection energy £ now radiation clearer One such chemical tested 'In against aSrrv?eat tests is zirconium citrate salt creates nllk water molecules charged Theoretically a large quantity chemiCals (ions or free radicals) than ever before animals is sodium fluoracetate Another chemical nicknamed of cysteine might protect human and Dr of Brues Austin the head creates instant-froextra amounts of citric It can peroxides These “Edta” also can speed up the ex- acid otherwise lethal amounts of at biology jnter-reac- t department Argonne detrimentally upon In quantity such a pill jy chance of find- cretion of some dangerous atoms essential chemicals of body cells sees about a Another chemical a derivative be a might produced cheaply ing preventive including! plutonium used in of guanidine! increases- - the Chemicals hiiup Soi£ But it isn’t practical for And Dr Kenneth P Dubois but it doesn’t amount of citric acid in the blood ori Thfe mans The mice must be given al-amount of the the reduce lead Radiation Air Force going to the and! might be helpful in eliminreactoon Some of most poisonous amounts of cys- bones another Laboratory 'directing t ating internal atom? Still A combination of zirconium another teine They have to have it be- - Them like cysteine—provide search chemicals for preventive increase the ra may and salt to minimize the amount of of citric acid in the bonCs amount nits it this way: exposure to the so that the protection only lasts about an t0iS0Saupihiauge which slow metabol- atoms lodging in the bones and more citric acid leaves “Things reacbones the hour Humans couldn’t dose them- - ?als ism (life processes) or produce a of “Edta” to speed excretion with it taking dangerous radioselves continually or take a dose tl0J? ack of oxygen will protect when from soft tissues has worked well active atoms the reduce OthcrsUto Papig-for an air raid alert which might amo given beforehand Perhaps some-hin- in animals There is also a prospect that unt of turn out to be a false alarm Pesel can be developed Radioactive strontium which some ?jyjen practical there1° and cells drugs can speed up the °r stimu-atin- g Some 40 different chemicals goes to bones is created in large movement - The discoveries so far are of chance pf certain white cells the reduce damagshow some degree of protective and encouraging I think amounts by exploding bombs from the llungs so they would small The chemical reactions mg of a practical Taking epsom salts early after 6arry away with them some raeffect from lots of alcohol in the the prospects strontium a ( om s dioactive atoms are good” swallowing recomes from body apparently would speed their excretion beCertain Metallic Salts The practicality of such treat- ducing the oxygen supply bones to Dr went fore the they ments would depend upon knowCertain metallic salts look Without protection the t atoms ing what kind of chain reaction can damage the promising for grabbing some Schubert says Jiad been ingested! These treat- blood forming organs— such as kinds of radioactive atoms while Get Rid of Atoms MAKE YOUR OWN the bone marrow and spleen — they are Another line of approach is to ments could be useful in treatpresent in the creating anemia and lack of white bloodstream or in soft tissues give a person chemicals which ing persons exposed to rajdioac-tiv- e atoms by accidents the blood cells to combat germs An- and speeding up their excretion make the body produce its own for to of and seize to rid of best One can the be damage from the body get other effect agents coming atomic age industrD the intestinal wall so germs may escape into the weakened body Other effects include loss of hair graying of hair or changes which later bring on leukemia the blood cancer or cataracts Radiation Protection “We’re gaining insight into how radiation jams up the bioy 10 pm (MST) April 15 A maxi- compared with the 39 DENVER (AP) — Atomic logical system” says Dr Patt per hottr biological dose Commission spokesmen here mum radioactive level of 16 “If we can hit at the source we meas- to whiih an individual was hour Woodworking tools and amaz per maybe may stop the whole chain reac- said yesterday radioactivity in the ured” at the AEC plant at Rocky exposed without harm ing Reynolds can we we that do tion If hope area which aroused concern in Flats northwest of Denver Aluminum are all you need to Pasqual W Jacoe industrial the amateur prospectors whose Geiat effects bad all to the stop “This level” the report said hygientist with the Colorado make handsome professionalger counters were reported “going “while measurable by sensitive Health Department pointed out looking screens Come in toCUSTOM-MAD- E represents— “no hazard to instruments represents no haz- the high of 16 crazy” morrow for complete instrucanyone’s health” ards to anyone’s health” per hour recorded was considertions and materials over carried was fallout The said A ably below the 300 government spokesman See the New Do It Yourself of altitudes at winds Colorado 5 to allowed diminished had the technicians per by reading Storm Sash interchangeable feet to 40000 30000 Veek and a for lifetime by yesterday with screens A ban on commercial and miliMtHH iitui ceNrat to Factorymade tary airplanes travel through cerYour Order tain sections between penver and the West Coast were termed VENETIAN BLIND “routine” by Civil Aeronautics Administration officials The ban The here 55 miles from ground zerp LAS VEGAS (UP) COMPANY was in effect only about eight Atomic said the flash from the explosion was Energy Commission hours Or OGDEN night Friday 4 yesterday it pfcms no further plainly visible It was the second 3645 Washington Blvd Radioactive Level at the largest detonation of the curnuclear experiments Phena AEC statement official The Like Is No Guarantee "T here On Wall Ave said fallout in the area “appears Nevada Proving grounds until rent series and the first shot Service" fectery Dial to have begun at approximately the public test scheduled for at Frenchman Flat since the April 26 firing of the atomic cannon there The 12th shot of the series was in 1953 fired Friday atop a 400-fotower Flat It was the most elaborate effects test of Rare Volume the 1955 test series and exploded with the force of 25000 tons of AMESBURY Mass (UP) — A TNT amid more than a million first edition once part of John dollars worth of equipment at Greenleaf Whittier’s library is 11:15 am now considered a collector’s was sun the shining Although item The book narrates the history of the mythical Indian city Need Help to Stop 0:! 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