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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 5, 1964
Cattle Fallout 'Monitors' Take on New Value
NEW YORK —(UPI)— At this particular time it is of sharp scientific interest that cattle are a reliable "monitor" of the Iodine-131 settling out of the atmosphere and any place in the northern hemisphere is as good as any other place for measuring the atmospheric deposits of Strontium-90.
These are among the more potentially dangerous of fallout particles. Nevertheless scientific interest in new findings was mainly academic until news came that Red China soon will be adding to the radioactive particles already in the stratosphere by testing an atomic bomb. That news changed the academic into the immediate and practical.
Scientists concerned with the ultimate threat to all life posed by fallout had stopped worrying with
the signing of a treaty by which the U.S. and Russia gave up testing atomic weapons in the atmosphere. No treaty could reduce the store of fallout particles accumulated in years of atmospheric testing but this treaty promised there would be no additions.
UNBOUND BY ANY treaty and not likely to accept any restraint, China now heats up the fallout menace again. A few test explosions of relatively moderate yield wouldn't increase the potential danger a great deal, but China has a long way to go to "catch up" and many tests could force other atomic powers to resume atmospheric testing to avoid being surpassed.
The possibility frets fallout scientists as they appraise the Iodine-131 "monitoring" efficiency of cattle. The thyroid glands of all crea
tures have affinity for Iodine. When the Iodine is made radioactive, as Iodine is in atomic explosions, a high enough accumulation in that organ would be deadly.
Clifton Blincoe and V. R. Bohman of the University of Nevada in Reno and E. L. Fountain of the Atomic Energy Commission measured the Iodine-131 content of thyroids taken from Nevada range cattle and from cattle commercially slaughtered in Reno from 1957 to 1961.
THE VARYING LEVELS accurately reflected both the frequency and intensity of atomic testing, whether by Russia or the U.S., during that period. Some of the cattle ranged within 30 miles of the border of the American atomic testing area but the U.S. tests put
no more Iodine-131 into their thyroids than the Russian tests did.
Atomic bomb particles must first go up before they come down and then they fall out of the stratosphere at much the same rate everywhere. This was the essential point of the calculations of Herbert L. Volchok of the Atomic Energy Commission's New York laboratory, with Strontium-90. It is a menace because in plant and animal metabolism it is as acceptable as essential nutrients.
The New York laboratory has measured Strontium-90 fallout monthly and with precision since 1954. Volchok compared these measurements with measurements made in many places throughout the northern hemisphere. He found there was mathematical agreement among all of them, and the New York measurements were an accurate index of fluctuations in Strontium-90 fallout everywhere.
"Any single fallout collection site could serve as well as New York City as an indicator of worldwide fallout," he said. Where and how atomic explosions "distribute" radioactive particles in the stratosphere does not affect where those particles will be distributed on the ground as fallout, his calculations demonstrated. This must mean they enter the lower atmosphere from the stratosphere at a uniform rate, he added.
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Avery Says Barry Will Win State
Rep. William H. Avery, Republican candidate for governor, said here this weekend Barry Goldwater will easily carry Kansas "if bumper stickers are an indication of how people are going to vote."
Avery and Robert C. Londerhold, candidate for attorney general, attended a KU Young Republican party Saturday afternoon.
"THERE ARE MANY similarities between this campaign and the '48 election," Avery said. "When the polls showed Dewey leading, he kept himself above all the issues and only came out in favor of God, country and the flag, which is actually what President Johnson is doing. Goldwater is out slugging just as Truman did.
"I believe the polls are way off the mark in Kansas, and if they are that far off in Kansas,they
"The candidates can barely scratch the surface in a campaign," he said. "It is the people working for them before and after they visit that make the difference between defeat and victory."
may be nationally too. What little polling has been done doesn't justify their results," said Avery.
OLIVER HUGHES, Republican state chairman, and Kent Hilliard, state collegiate chairman, attended the party. Rep. Robert Ellsworth was unable to attend the coffee or the party because he was called back to Washington Friday night.
Londerhold addressed an informal coffee hosted by the KU club Saturday morning.
After the coffee teams of KU CYR members placed campaign pole signs on all the highways leading in to Lawrence.
Folk Singer Emphasizes Degree
DETROIT, Oct. 6 — (UPI)—The United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. today reached agreement on a national contract. But the union will continue its strike against the company until new contracts have been written at 130 locals around the nation.
By Corrine Newberry
By Corrine Newberry
The leader of the Good Time Singers who performed here Saturday night advises folk music aspirants "to get something solid behind them before they strike out, some kind of degree they can fall back on."
"We were a bunch of very lucky kids," Drake said. "It doesn't always happen that way, and it is for this reason I advise any aspirants to
Tom Drake, the 28-year-old leader of the singers, should know. He holds a B.A. degree in speech and English from UCLA. He was teaching in a Los Angeles high school when the group was founded.
UAW and GM Sign Pact
Married and the father of three, Drake and Mike Storm, another of the present Singers, were singing at night in local folk music haunts of west Los Angeles when they heard Andy Williams was looking for a group to sing regularly with him.
DRAKE IMMEDIATELY rounded up eight other singing friends, rehearsed them four days, and was hired by NBC.
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"I love teaching," Drake continued, "and someday I'll pick it back up. I've also got an unfinished master's degree at home that I work on whenever I can."
PREPARING TO LEAVE for a concert at Lakeland College in Wisconsin on Sunday, the group all agreed they would like to play and sing for more universities and colleges than they do.
"We simply don't have the time to travel very much." Drake said.
"This fall, for instance, we'll do 20 of the 22 Andy Williams Shows. That's lots of rehearsal."
The Good Time Singers concert was the first in a series of programs for KU students to be sponsored by the SUA.
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