By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Please watch for further information to come on meetings
to be held in St. George that will deal with topics relating
to Downwinders.
"Iris Tolley has been collecting information on how the
nuclear tests have affected citizens of Juab County," said
Wm. Boyd Howarth, Juab County Commission Chair.
Howarth said, as other commissioners could witness, that
he had passed on this information to Maurine Casper, aide to
Senator Orrin Hatch, when she had attended a meeting with
county commissioners earlier this year.
The information was to be passed on to another aide in
Washington D.C.
On Aug. 1 and 2, the Department of Science is holding
conferences which will be held in St. George. Those
conferences will center on the exposure of Utah residents to
nuclear testing in Nevada and its effect on the long-range
health of citizens.
"Wayne and Piute Counties have now been recognized as the
sites of fallout and the resulting Downwinder victims," said
Howarth.
When the conferences are held, which will likely be
conducted by telephone, residents of Juab County must be on
hand so their testimony can be included, said Howarth.
Residents of Emery, Sanpete and Carbon should also give
statements.
"I want Commissioner Robert Steele to be present," said
Howarth. "He had experiences with a geiger counter in Juab
County which will be good for the people from the Department
of Science to know."
Tolley, a cancer survivor, should also be present.
Howarth said, his neighbor in Nephi, Jim Phillips, was
required to dump the milk from his cows seven times because
of the high levels of fallout present in the milk.
"I just lived a block from his farm," said Howarth.
Howarth said the up-coming meeting was discussed at the
latest AOG meeting where he was present. He determined that
the residents of Juab County should watch for the
to-be-announced time and place of the conferences and those
who have been affected by cancer and other diseases which
could be attributed to fallout should attend.
"Our residents should be there to add our information to
the study," said Howarth.
In addition, those who have pertinent family history
dealing with diseases which have since been attributed to
illnesses and diseases caused by nuclear fallout, should
contact Senator Orrin Hatch or one of his aides, Ms. G.
Holt, in Washington D.C.
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