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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1960)
THURSDAY. AUGUST 18, I960 MEDFQBD MAIL TBIBDNE, MEDFORB, ORE. Both Candidates for Presidency Advised By Science Leaders Washington (Science Ice) - Both presidential can didates are independently seeking and getting expert ouvice irom leading scientists un nuclear testing, defense, apace, ana health and medi cal care. Sen. John F. Kennedy has chosen Dr. Jerome B. Wies ner, a member of President Eisenhower's Science Advt sory committee, as his top aaviser on nuclear disarma ment and test suspension. Dr. Wiesner. currentlv director of Research Laboratory Elec tronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has worked extensively in radia- uuu researcn. A Spokesman for Sen Ken. nedy told Science Service that the senator did not consider his selection of Dr. Wiesner unusual. No Legitimate Bole "The senator helieves. said Pierre Salinger, Kenne dy s press officer, "that poli tics or political considerations have no legitimate role in considerine oroblems as unl versal as those of scientific scope." Vice President Richard M. Nixon consults with Dr. G e O r ff e R. KisKaVniusW. chairman of the president's Science Advisory committee and head of the department ot cnemistry at Harvard uni versity. The physical chemist is one of the manv sniemne experts both in and out of administration circles with whom the vice president con suits. Herbert Klein, Nixon's Calcium Reduces Strontium Uptake From Many Soils Washington - (Science Serv ice) - The rate of uptake by soils of radioactive strontium- 90 varies according to their composition and may be re duced by chemical treatment, new studies have shown, Strontium-90 is a long-lived element of fallout from nu clear testing and in large doses is known to be a cause of leukemia and bone cancer in man. It acts like calcium; and well - developed calcium formations in both plants and animals tend to form a natural barrier to strontium-90. This was found to be true of high calcium soils as well, according to experiments by R. L. Uhler and F. P. Hungate of the Hanford Laboratories of General Electric Company, Richland, Wash., reported in Nature. Strontium-90 studies were made on crops grown on un cultivated but watered acidic, calcareous and alkaline soils. Less Uptake Noted The uptake from the cal careous soil was one-half to one-third the uptake from acidic soil. The investigators attributed this to the larger quantities of available cal cium naturally present in cal careous soil. The GE scientists found that it was possible to reduce uptake of radioactive strontium-90 by as much as 80 per cent by adding calcium-high lime or gypsum to acidic soils. Basic calcareous and alka line soils treated with massive doses of phosphate showed a 50 per cent reduction in up take of strontium-90. Except for the phosphate treatment, however, none of the other procedures appreciably lower ed strontium-90 uptake from calcareous soil. Further Studies Needed The lack of cultivation while thoroughly wetting the soil and allowing it to dry established to some extent the potential reduction of radio active contamination through precipitation reactions. Fur ther studies are needed to determine whether an ap preciable part of this poten tial can be realized. The availability of strontium-90 from soil to plants to man is an important factor in evaluating the health hazard presented by this ra dioactive element. Does Council Post Lead to 'Prof it?' Middletown, R. I. - Karl E. Falkenholm, president of the town council, acknowledged a slip of the tongue as he intro duced a new member of the council to an organization meeting. "We hope your term on the town council brings you both pleasure and profit . . ." he began. He w a t interrupted by laughter. "Better strike that," he added quickly. EXPORT MARKET The U.S. buys about 60 per eeni of Canada's exports. press officer, said, "The po litical leanings of these men certainly play no part in his choice. What he wants is the necessary background essen tial to Intelligent decision." In the area of space and on matters of international ex change, Nixon has consulted Dr. Joseph Kaplan, former J U.S. chanrman for the Inter-1 national Geophysical Year and head of the department of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Nixon finds Dr. Kaplan a man with an "extremely prac tical viewpoint," according to Mr. Klein. Coimic Ray Authority Sen. Kennedy's expert on space is Dr. Bruo Rossi, an authority on cosmic rays and a world-famous physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. David Frisch, a nuclear physicist also at M.I.T., is the authority for Sen. Kenne dy on defense and disarmament. Vice President Nixon ben efits from information on space from Dr. Keith Glen nan, National Aeronautics and Space administrator. , Teller Otters Advice , On scientific questions of defense and disarmament, the Republican presidential hope ful listens to Dr. Edward Tell er, father of the hydrogen bomb and associate director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Berk eley, Calif. He has also discussed these problems with Thomas E. Murray, former member of the Atomic Energy commis sion, appointed by the Democrats. On matters of health and medical welfare, the vice president is continuously ad vised by Arthur S. Fleming, the secretary of health, edu cation and welfare, and his staff. Sen. Kennedy takes his medical advice in politics from Dr. Dean Alexander Clark, head of Massachusetts General hospital in Boston and professor of preventive medicine at Harvard Medi cal school. Radiation Guides May Be Exceeded By U.S. Agencies Washington (Science Serv ice) - Radiation health and safety standards or "guides," recommended by the Federal Radiation Council, may be ex ceeded by any federal agency engaged in atomic develop ment according to its own judgement or discretion. This authority was grant ed by the president on May Id, 1960, under power given him by congressional legis lative action Sept. 23, 1959. Under Public Law 373, the Federal Radiation Council, initially set up by the presi dent, was given legislative sanction with broad powers given to the president to act upon and endorse recommen dations of the council toward setting up standards for ra diation protection. The legis lation expressed the hope of the Congress "that the Fed eral Radiation Council will assist in attaining uniformity of basic standards among the agencies as well as programs of cooperation with the states." Could Confuse lint It plainly was not intended to allow the agencies to de cide at their own discretion whether they should keep to the council's "broad guides." Such diversity of standards as may result could only fur ther confuse the issue of safety. This discretionary power the agencies new have was denied to the Defense Depart ment by Congress last fall when it deleted an amend ment to the Atomic Energy Act. Proposed by the Atomic Energy Commission, it was intended to permit the De partment of Defense to estab lish its own safety standards in handling nuclear materi als if the president "deems it necessary m the national in terest." This provision was in corporated in S. 2585 and H. R. 8754. j In deleting this provision, ; the Joint Committee on At-! omic Energy said that "more consideration" is needed by the AEC and the Defense De partment on this subject of respective responsibility for safety. 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