Thursday, September 20, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Idahoans tested for PCB
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Federal health investigators are testing blood samples taken from residents of Franklin, Idaho, to determine how much of it is causing chemical PCB ingestion from eggs produced by a local poultry farm.
In neighboring Montana, possibly contaminated eggs were pulled off supermarket shelves in 30 cities.
Technicians from the Center for Disease Control have demonstrated that residents to see what effects they might have suffered from eating eggs produced at the Riley Woods Egg Co., which supplies the eggs for local restaurants.
Excessive amounts of PCB were found in 350,000 cells and millions of their eggs at the Ritewood farm. The chemical was also present in the processor that ships its product to six states.
Contaminated eggs have also been found at a Utah farm, and eggs from a Montana farm are being tested for the chemical.
The disease center researchers also interviewed many of Franklin's residents to see how many eggs they ate and how they were involved with the Ritewood farm
Managers of Montana's three largest supermarket chains removed thousands of eggs from the refrigerator, and said there was no proof that the eggs were contaminated, but they decided that contamination would be addressed.
Some of the eggs came from Cherry Lane
Farms at Three Forks, Mont., where laying hens had eaten poisoned feed, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
"As soon as we can determine there is no problem, the eggs will be put back on the farm." And when they are sold in stores, said Buttrey Foods, which operates stores in 38 Montana cities and towns, withdrew all
Residents of Franklin trickled into a green stucco church yesterday to give blood samples they will hope will worries over the PCB contamination from the local egg farm.
"The expert opinion is we're not going to find a thing," said Burke Cannon, state health officer assisting in the testing.
If it can be shown there are no significant levels of PCB in Franklin, it will prove there is no problem to egg consumers elsewhere, said Cannon.
Outside the Franklin church, the air was filled with the stitch of dead chickens from Ritwelo's sprawling hillside poultry farm. Ritwelo rolled by, on its way to the county dump.
The firm is killing all the laying hens and smashing millions of eggs.
"If you find this in my blood, do you kill me like the chickens?" one woman asked as she gave a blood sample.
The researchers hope to sample about half of Franklin's 400 residents.
Actor to conduct theater class
Kevin Kuhke, an actor with the Iowa Musical Improv School, conducts an improvisational theatre workshop Saturday and Sunday at the Lawrence School of Ballet, 842
The workshop will develop students' abilities in "responding to different situations." Kuhlie said.
"I will instruct the students in exercise techniques I have learned that enable them to become more responsive to what is around them," he said.
These exercises would not be like calisthenics, he said, but would be more "mental."
He also said that a student would not act out "whathever he felt," but that there would be more "discipline."
"I want the students to do work that is very deep and personal to them," he said, "but I don't want the workshop to be chaotic."
The workshop is from 10 14 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
The fee for the workshop is $10.
--sent seven inspectors to the plant Tuesday. "An intensive review of accounting methods is underway." NRC spokesman Frank Irnaum said in Washington.
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He said they preliminarily notified the FBI.
"We haven't issued an order like this before," said Ingram, who described inventory discrepancies as common. "We thought it was prudent in this case."
Last January, a construction worker removed 150 pounds of low-grade uranium from a General Electric & Co. nuclear fuel plant in Illinois. N.C., and demanded $100,000 in ransom.
Missing uranium closes plant
The man, now serving 15 years in a federal prison, vowed to distribute the uranium throughout a major city if the ransom wasn't paid.
ERWIN, Tenn. (UPI) – An undisclosed amount of highly-enriched uranium that could be used in making an atomic bomb apparently is missing from a Erwin nuclear processing plant. Federal officials have known the facility and ordered an investigation.
The uranium was missed during a routine inventory at Nuclear Fuel Services Inc., a private concern in a mountainous area of Tennessee near the North Carolina border.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent seven inspectors in the plant Tuesday.
He said the shutdown meant the firm would halt the manufacturing process involving the uranium until the check is completed.
Federal officials would not disclose the amount of uranium missing, indicating the extent to which it was leached from the firm's operating license, any discrepancy of 18.9 pounds or more requires a shutdown of the facility.
Ingram said the agency is "not ignoring" the possibility the uranium could have been stolen, but said it was considered to be an inventory difference.
Experts do not agree on how much highly enriched uranium would be required to make a nuclear device. In 1977, the US estimated the bounds of the material would be sufficient.
"This will be followed by a detailed materials reinventory."
The Erwin plant's primary function is the manufacture of pellets to fuel the Navy's nuclear submarines.
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