Fallout Fears And Facts
THE UNBORN GENERATION
KDITORS NOTE What effect
might today's fallout from Soviet
bomb testing have on children yet
unborn? Scientists aren t agreed
on the extent of the danger,
though most geneticists consider
some harm likely. This is the sec
ond of three articles on fallout.
By ALTON BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Writer I
NEW YORK f AP) - The great
est toll from the Soviet I'mon's
monster 50-megalon H-bomb may
be among tomorrow's children.
Princess Visits
Maryhill Museum
MARYHILL. Wash. fAP)
Thirty-five years ago. Queen Ma
rie of Romania rame to Maryhill
to dedicate the Maryhill museum.!
htiilt in her hnnnr hv railroad tv-l
eoon Sam Hill.
She was accompanied by her
son and her 17-year-old dauehter.
Princess tleana, then an interna
tional beauty.
Ileana princess of a kingdom!
that no longer exists returned!
Wednesday to the museum to look;
at the displays of royal treasures
of bygone days.
Still a strikingly handsome!
woman, Princess Ileana wandered j
through the museum, looked at'
pictures of herself at 17, and ex-j
a mined two thrones, one from her
mother's summer palace and the
other from the queen's private
sitting room.
It was a good deal quieter than
the first trip she made to the mu
seum, which sits on a bluff over
looking the Columbia River.
Then, the royal party was taken
to the museum in a private rail
road ear. Schoolchildren greeted
the party, waving tiny U.S. flags.
When Queen Marie snippped the
ribbon in the dedication, flocks of
white pigeons were released.
Princess Ileana, now the wife of
Pr. Stefan Isreseu of Boston, is a
lecturer and worker for the Ortho
dox Church of Romania in Amer
ica. She was the speaker for the
Yakima Knife and Fork club Wed
nesday and her hosts drove her
to the museum.
Ileana can not go back to her
homeland, now under Communist
control. She has lived in this
country since 19.S0.
lis radioactive fallout might
doom huiulrriis uf lulure genera
tions to early death or physical
or mental detects from hereditary
damage.
Almost all geneticists assume
that any increase in radiation
could cause genetic damage to
some people.
Inerata Sliaht
Most think the effect from pres-!
em lauout aim mat added now
by the Soviets will be a very
slight traction of one per cent in
crease over the number of children
presently born with genetic de
tects. The increase could be so
slight as not to be delectable.
But with 100 million children
born in this world each year, even
a slight increase in the rate of
defective births could mean siza
ble numbers of damaged or still
born humans in So to 100 years or
more.
Dr. Linus Pauling, famous Cal
ifornia Institute of Technology
chemist and a crusader against
bomb testing, does estimate a
number:
From a 50-megatun bomb alone.
40.000 infants born with physical'
or mental defects in the next few
generations throughout the world,
he says. And 400.000 more geneti
cally injured during the next 6, (KM)
years thruugh radioactive carbon
ii iictitru wy sum a uuiuu.
Other scientists disagree with his
estimate, particularly that dealing
with carbon-14.
Crucial Facts Unknown
The difficulty in any estimate Is
that some crucial facts are not
known about human genes, produc
ed in the sex glands, which deter
mine the inherited characteristics
that babies will have.
It is known that radiation can
alter or mutate genes, and that
most mutations are harmful.
H is not known if genes can re
sist tiny amounts of radiation, such
as represented by fallout atoms
which enter sex glands or genes.
All the evidence from experi
ments with animals, fruit flies, and
single cells indicate there is no
threshold or tolerable level.
Thus, geneticists assume any in
crease in radiation is potentially
harmful.
Encouraging Note
One encouraging note, from
mouse experiments, is that chron
ic exposure to a low dose of ra
diation (10 roentgens a day) given
over a number of days produces
; fewer mutations than an equal to
tal dose given all at once. Expos
ure of sex pianos to fallout atoms
can be chronic or long-lasting, ami
at au almost uilinitesimally small
dose
Many experts assume that nat
ural background radiation has al
ways been causing some of the
genetic mutations to which the hu
man race is subject. Heat and
chemicals are mure powerful caus
es of genetic changes.
A National Academy of Sciences
committee has estimated two bil
lion children will be born in the
world during the next 30 years,
and that come four million of them
would possess tangible genetic ef
fects from natuial or spontaneous
causes.
Diflerent authorities estimate 2
to 10 per cent of such genetic de
fects might be due to natural back
ground radiation.
So, even a slight increase in ra
dioactivity produced by bomb tests
could increase this rate of genetic
mutations. The experts all agree
the increase wouWl not be enough
to cause any worry about the fu
ture of the human race by any
means.
Estimates Can Be Made
Various estimates can be made,
as Dr. Pauling does, of the abso
lute numbers of persons who might
be affected by the additional ra
diation frm fallout. All such guess
es start from the unknown as to
what natural radiation actually is
doing.
Dr. Pauling sees a sizable total
number of future infants affected
out o f many many billions who
would be born in the next 6,000
years from carbon-14 created by
H. bombs.
The H-bomb reaction releases
neutrons which can change nitro
gen atoms in the air into carbon
14. Cosmic rays from space do the
same thing, and create the natural
carbon-14 which enters all living
things on earth.
Dr. Pauling estimates a 50-mcg-aton
H-bomb would create enough
carbon-14 to cause 411 000 deaths or
defects from genetic changes in
the next 6.000 years. Reason: carbon-14
can become part of the
chemical materials oof genes, and
damage genes by the rays it emits,
or because it then changes back
to nitrogen.
Carbon-14 Over-Estimated
Other scientists hold Dr. Paul
ing has far over-estimated the
amount of carbon-14 from bombs
which would be available to affect
humans.
And some say that through mod
ern treatment, and humanitarian
treatment, we are keeping alive
people ill or weak because of de
i lective genes, and the fact they
can ha 'e children may result in
passing along more detective genes
than would ever result trom fall
out radiation. i
; A consensus of the experts: bombi
Resting represents a definite but
Ismail hazard to human posterity.!
Friday: Fallouts bad actors.
Hospital News
Visiting Hours
t to 3:50 o.m. and I it I .m
Douglas Community Hospital
Admitted
Medical: Jim Elwood. Annie
Steele. Mrs. Wally Miller, M r s.
George Lindstrom. Mrs. Tom Har
ris, all of Roseburg; Clarence
walker. Winston,
Surgery: Mrs. Clifford Lovell, I
Mrs. Max kimmel. Koseburg, j
Discharged j
Mrs. Alfred Boyd, J. Henry Bar-j
neck, Joyce Welling, all of Rose-j
burg: Mrs. D. L. Burton. Wilburs
! Linda Steeprow, Kiddle; Jav
iScholield, Kiddle; Mrs. Frank!
Butcher and son Kevin James, j
Sutherlin; Mrs. Larry Exceen and
daughter Lisa Jean, Dillard.
1 Mercy Hospital
Admitted
Medical: R. Leonard Lark. Jen
ny Jory. Mrs. Albert Samuels, all
I of Roseburg; Mrs. Laurance Ed
wards. Siilherlin; Mrs. Glen Bar
I ton, Winston; Kenton Parsons,
i Umpqua.
I Surgery: Mrs. Lewis Wilson,
i Roseburg.
Discharged
' Melvin Rand. Dena Hansen, No
! lie Bicktord, Mrs. Edward Shillet.
! Mrs. John Wyatl. Mrs. Gilder
Ford. Sirs. Cliftord Courtney,
j George lnsley, Craig Jordan, all
I of Roseburg; Ann Blakeley, Suth
ierlin; Mrs. Kober Warmack, Win
jston: Russell Emel. Yoncalla; Kar
en Thayer, Oakland; Mrs. Bobby
Lincecum, Myrtle Creek.
Unemployment
Climbs Over
Most Of State
SALEM ( API I ncmplovment
climbed everywhere in Oregon
over the past four weeks, except
in the Ontario area, as seasonal
agricultural work tapered off. the
State Employment Department
said Wednesday.
It said that 14.092 claims for
unemployment insurance were
filed for the week ending Oct. 26
com pared to 11.395 tour w eeks
earlier This was a 23 per cent
increase.
Unemployment was highest In
the Grants Pass area where 9.3
per cent of the labor force
covered by unemployment insur
ance was out of work. The low
est rates, 24 per cent, were in
Corvallis and Ontario.
Percentages elsewhere in the
state were 38 at Eugene, up .7;
4 9 at Medford, up 1.3: 4)3 at
Pendleton and Milton-Freewater.
up .9; 2 8 in Portland, up .2; and
3.2 in Salem, up 1.1.
The percentage of persons cov
ered by unemployment insurance
who were out of work in Oregon
was 31 while that for the entire
t'nited Slates was 3.6.
Employment Commissioner Da
vid II. Cameron said that extend
ed temporary unemployment in
surance claims were increasing.
He said there were 323 of these
claims for the week ending Oct.
26 compared to 2.VS for the week
ending Sept. 28. To date 122,494
benefit weeks have been paid un
der this program for a total of
$4,028,762.
Oregon's unemployment insur
ance tnist fund, he said, con
tained $43,820,312. compared to
$42,931,588 the prior week and
$47,946,280 a year ago.
Thur., Nov. 2, 1961 The News Review, Roseburg, Ore. 5
A YOUNG GIRL sifts through debris for personal belongings ond walks away with pait
of a bed as residents of Belize began to dig their way out after the onslaught of Hur
ricane Hattie which struck the city early Tuesday. (UPI Telephoto)
SHAW IN 'CARETAKER'
NEW YORK (AP) Robert
Sutherlin Junior High PTA Sets Member Drive
A membership campaign contest ; rentage of parents joining the PTA Shaw, an actor who doubles as a
was launched last week by tlie!wl" l,e presented with a special writer, has been signed to appear
Sutherlin Junior High PTA, under j pr'ze' , , t ,,!!" ,!,roa(!wa.!: Pro,d,uc,ll,n
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school, reports correspondent Mrs. hailed bv London critics for his
Jerry DeMuth. I novel, "The Sun Doctors."
the direction of Mrs. Betty Ouel
lette, membership chairman.
The room with the highest per-
ENGLISH STAGE IN FRANCE
PARIS fAP) A permanent
English-language theater is being1
planned here by Warren E. Tra-
bant, an ex journalist from New
iVork.
I Trabant expects to present j
! translations of current French pro- j
jductinns, plus soma imports from!
Broadway. '
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OFF-BROADWAY ON TOUR
NEW YORK (AP) Off-Broadway
is becoming a source of cross
country theatrical entertainment.
Two long-run shows have been
booked for tours this fall.
"The Threepenny Opera." hous
ed for six years in a small Green
wich Village playhouse, started its
trek at Toronto in September. In
October, at Dayton. Ohio, "Hedda
Gabler" begins an S week
trip.
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