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Show COURIER CLASSIFIEDS now being accepted at COPY COPY FOR ALL YOUR PRINTING NEEDS _IN WASATCH COUNTY. WASATCH COUNTY. _ COURIER INVESTIGATION IS THE GROUND SAFE? — Fit to Print ‘Best’ press in state gives Scientists questions whether high plutonium rates are linked to cancer Courier neu, clean look © SILVER DEREK JENSEN. MANAGING prin? : MEDIA Local health physicists, however, caution against assuming the plutoni- & um levels are lethal. | 2 GROUP KIRSTEN SHAW COURIER STAFF EDITOR he Courier has a revitalized | look thanks to a new $10 mil- a KING n “thes weeks © chal since the “Literally the entire world was cov- have. Hicsed Courier presented research about potentially higher ~ cancer rates in Wasatch County than health agencies have reported, phone calls and letters have flooded the lion press in Ogden that uses de latest trends in the printing mdisiry Unveiled last ork the facility at : panes the Standard Examiner is regarded as A recent interview with a soa : perhaps the best in the Intermountain Utah researcher has introduced new West. (This is the third issue to run on information about the high levels of the new web.) “A great. paper: at he old a ar fallout Heber Valley received from. Cold War atomic tests. looks like a horrible paper here,” said “There were more plutonium iso_ Sterling Yeaman, assistant to the oper-— topes that fell in Heber Valley than fell ations director at the press. “It’s night _anywhere else in the’ nation,” said and day difference and it will look betPhillip Williams, a retired professor of ter and better.” o sociology and statistics from Dixie The reason?” The Standard College, from his St. George home. Examiners old rubberstamp “letter” “Health physicists say once you get | press was Said to be one of only three one molecule of (plutonium) in your still operating west of the Mississippi. body it is a guarantee you'll get cancer The upgrade to the “offset” press if you live long enough. It can survive includes six towers for increased -.capacity and besides commercial, will utilize a heat-set for glossy inserts. The most notable difference in the. | Ogden daily, the Courier and Salt Lake City Weekly is color quality. The press — _in the soil. It’s still getting in people’s » early 1960s during testing. But is | everybody dying from it? Of course not. There is a difference between ccorrelation and causation.” Plutonium is a radioactive eee with a long half-life, ranging from 90 to 24,000 years for different isotopes. During But the ae pages. “We think it’s by far the best press in the state,” Yeaman said. “We TIM WESTBY PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE The National Cancer Institute:’s atomic test- © ing dosimetry map. in Heber Valley according to the people that know, the health physicists.” decay, The radiation Agency is for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry said harmful health effects are not likely to occur unless you breathe or swallow plutonium, Thompson asserts plutonium’s half-life ensures it would not decay— Williams researched the effects of lowand become radioactive—until long doses of radiation more than 20 years _ ago for a study released by the New CANCER continued on AS is getting worse, say officers Enforcement Network and _. ANZ a clandestine methamUtah County’s SWAT Team phetamine lab. entered a home in Officers found three Wallsburg on suspicion that adults and three children in the residents were operatthe home along with a stash — COURIER STAFF n big city streets and in small town neighborhoods Be ice Wallsburg, it’s known by literally hundreds of from guns,S dias cash and all the makings to manufacture meth. The adults apparently used a fifthwheel travel trailer in the back of the house as the lab. The trailer was later determined to be unlivable — names. Ugly dust. Booger. Hillbilly crank. Cristy. by the ‘county health department and may be . destroyed. : = | Blue belly. Crystal. Crank, ~ Meth. 3 «And Wasatch County~ law enforcement officers say they are seeing a sharp Perry. 4 Becker Cammie R. Bennett, charged with possession of amphetamine, possession manufacture. Ten days ago ment and § pplies, and possession of paraphernalia. “It officers from two counties broke up the latest meth lab in the area and charged METH continued on A7 three people with a variety of drug charges. According to Wasatch County Sheriff Mike Presorted « Standard POSTAL PATRON Spanos, around 3 a.m. on March 3, officers Wasatch of the Area. Sere and Kevin Reesor were all increase both in the highly addictive drug’s use and __NEW. COURIER ¥ WERSITE COMING SOON! : its released. sbure Meth Lab Buste can run 32 of 64 broad sheet pages in | PRESS continued on A4 make a statement that people are still being irradiated is probably true, particularly if you were alive during the systems. There is still some plutonium | England Journal of Medicine. full color as well as 32 in spot color. It can also be set up to run 48 full color could have color on every page.” The other change is the reduced web size, which has shrunk the Courier — from a 13-and-a-half inch to a 12-and-a- ered with some amount of plutonium,” said Dr. Jim Thompson, University of Utah Radiological Health director. “To — _ Local “PHOTO. COURTESY HEBER CITY POLICE DEPT law enforcement busted. up a Suspected meth labs fs ee on March 3. oe U.S. Postage Paid Heber City, UT Pernt No. 32005 MARRIOTT LIBRARY. _ ARCHIVES 295South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT, 84112 |