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Show Our Voices In Washington Senator Wallace F. Bennett, as a member of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, has an encouraging encour-aging word on fallout. Less than 5Pjo as much as the average exposure to cosmic rays and other natural radiation exists from weapon try-out. Also, less than 5Po of the estimated average radiation exposure to X-rays for medical purposes is a result of testing. As for the internal effects of strontium-90, the Atomic Committee Commit-tee found that the amount of strontium-90 which has been found in food 'and water is less of a hazard haz-ard than the amount of radium normally present in public drink- ing supply in parts of the U. S., In use for many years. Some recent press releases have caused quite a bit of alarm among the public and this seems quite reassuring at this time. The setting-up of a test in Nevada while awaiting international decision de-cision on further probing, has alarmed many a citizen needlessly, needless-ly, it would seem. Senator Moss in a speech before be-fore the Senate gave his support to an amendment to the Mutual Security Act to "end blank check spending for foreign aid." "We cannot escape the fact that a program pro-gram ..under Truman... to rehabilitate rehab-ilitate industries in war-torn Europe, Is still being applied without with-out much adaptation and change to 'under-developed countries whose political, commercial or other institutions in-stitutions are very different from those of Western Europe." Senator Moss reports that the bill to establish a Youth Conservation Conser-vation Corps which he co-sponsored is receiving favorable attention from the Labor and Public Welfare Committee. He has also introduced a bill to make it easier for authorities author-ities to find fathers who have fled from one state to another to avoid contributing to the support of their children. A bill to study labor relations by means of a 9-man commission has been proposed in Congress by Representative David King. It would be on the same lines as the Hoover Commission. |