Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1986 Page: 2 of 12
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19,1986
Editorials
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MEMBER 1986
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PAGE 2, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, Sept.
PAUL HARVEY NEWS
EFFICIENCY PUNISHED ON FARM
"Expert strongly criticizes
'eports of 'no increased risk
the regular rates.
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
ASSESSING
CHERNOBLE'S CANCER
CONSEQUENCES -
SYMPOSIUM ON
LOW-LEVEL RADIATION
SCHOOL BOARD
From Page 1
Eddie Prather -Social Studies
and Physical Education. Jenni-
fer Green, Language Arts Lab.
Employed the following bus
drivers: Guadalupe Tavarez,
Martin Tavarez. Maria Elena
Galvan, Estela Moreland, Kay
Hilburn.
Employed Nurse Maria Val-
verde. Lewis/Foreman. carried.
Meeting adjourned at 9:19 PM
Snodgrass/Rasco, Carried.
Opinion
Page 2-F Sunday, September 14,1986
TA
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Second class postage paid in Dell City, Texas 79837
Subsidiary MARY-MARY, INC.
As a result, estimates of in-
creased cancer risk from low-
level radiation, including from
Chernobyl, have generally been
too low, he said.
Another problem in estima-
ting Chernobyl’s true cancer
toll has been obtaining accu-
rate dose information from
various countries, Gofman
added.
He called for a concerted, in-
ternational program to mea-
sure radioactive cesium-134
residues, which will be present
for at least the next five years
in soil and pavement in exposed
areas.
“There can be no doubt that
a correct final assessment of
the cancer consequences from
the Chernobyl accident can be
validated if the will for such
assessments exists,” he asserted.
The persistence of 50 per-
cent of Chernobyl’s radioactive
fallout, long after the accident,
Berkeley -More than a million
people exposed to fallout from
the Chernobyl nuclear accident
will develop cancer as a result,
and half of these cancers will
be fatal, a University of Califor-
nia scientist from Berkeley pre-
dicted today (Tues., Sept. 9)
at the 192nd national meeting
of the American Chemical So-
ciety.
From exposure to radioactive
cesium alone, 424,300 people
in the Soviet Union and 526,
700 in Europe and elsewhere
will develop cancer, Dr. John
Gofman said in a research pa-
per and accompanying press
conference in Anaheim, Cali-
fornia.
Another 19,500 will develop
cesium-caused leukemia, while
an unknown number will de-
velop thyroid and other can-
cers from additional radioac-
tive substances in the fallout,
said Gofman.
Gofman, professor of medi-
’ cal physics, emeritus, at U. C.-
Berkeley, is an expert on the
health effects of low-level ra-
diation and the author of Ra^
diation and Human Health,
Tm^FfeSeafclTwbrkrHeTS'
also a physician and lecturer
in the Department of Medi-
cine at U. S.-San Francisco.
“These numbers from a sin-
gle event certify Chernobyl as
the worst accident in history,”
said Gofman, who has been
studying the effects of low-
level radiation on health for
more than 20 years.
Discrepancies about
radiation and cancer risks
Gofman noted the discrep-
ancy between his estimates of
Chernobyl’s cancer toll and
previous, lower counts, and
explained that a number of
reports have been based on
false assumptions about radia-
tion and cancer risk, drawn '
from studies of Heroshima
and Nagasaki.
According to Gofman, these
A-bomb studies have not taken
into account many cases of
breast and lung cancer that
are just now developing--and
will continue to develop-a-
mong Japanese who were chil-
dren when their cities were
bombed.
“ Estimates of cancer risks
from low-level radiation,
including Chernobyl, have
generally been too low "
is also significant because it
will increase the risk of cancer
and leukemia even among chil-
dren conceived or bom after
Chernobyl, Gofman said.
"Youngsters most vulner-
able .... though their disease
may not develop until they '
are adults "
And it is well established
that youngsters are most vul-
nerable to radiation-induced
cancer, though their disease
may not develop until they
are adults.
Dump site closer
than anticipated
El Paso may be too casual in its interest in the
proposed site of a low-level radioactive waste dump in
Hudspeth County. Perhaps its potential impact on El
Paso has not been sufficiently explored because its
proximity has not been recognized.
No one wants a nuclear dump in the backyard, yet
there must somewhere to put the waste being
generated by industries, hospitals, the federal
government and universities. A Hudspeth County site
is favored by the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Disposal Authority. Another near Dell City was
considered, but it is on top of a major aquifer that also
may figure in El Paso’s future. Others over the state
have been discarded.
But where is the proposed site in Hudspeth County?
It is 11 miles from Fort Hancock. It is also 12 miles
from El Paso County line, 39 from El Paso’s city
limits, 33 from Horizon City, 24 from Fabens, 19 from
Tornillo and 12 miles from the Rio Grande, the water
lifeline of this entire area. That puts the proposed
dump in El Paso’s backyard. Is it a potential hazard
. for both surface and underground water?
What will be buried there? Texas now produces
30,000 cubic feet of low-level wastes. When four
nuclear power plants being constructed in Texas come
on line, low-level waste will quadruple, to 133,000 cubic
feet per year. Nestor Valencia, El Paso’s director of
planning, says this is equivalent to a. football stadium
three feet deep every year for 30 years, of 4 million
cubic feet. Of this waste, one percent will be generated
in the El Paso area and 78 percent will come from the
South Texas and Comanche Peak area alone.
After 30 years, the dump may be closed or expanded.
In addition to the potential danger to water — and
- we emphasize “potential” because safety precautions
will be many — there is potential hazard in its
transportation. Much, if not all, of the material will
pass through El Paso on its way to Hudspeth County.
Then, too, there is worry about the city's image, its
future in attracting new industry and permanent
residents, when El Paso becomes the home of a
nuclear dump.
The authority will recommend to the Legislature a
site for the low-level nuclear dump by Jan. 1 and it
will be licensed in June 1987.
El Paso might want to look more closely at its
future before the Legislature decides.
Mary Louise Lynch. ............... Editor-Riblisher
Nancy Lewis, Mary Gentry Assistants &. Advertising
Joyce Gilmore Salt Flat Editor
C. Warren Crow Flat Editor
Linda Polk,. Ft. Hancock Editor
Bernice M. Elder. .Sierra Blanca Editor
Jean Ellison. .Courthouse News
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The only workers who get punished for working harder and pro-
ducing more - are farmers.
Think about it.
Right now from Ohio west through the Dakotas we are harvesting
one of the biggest crops in years - corn ■, beans, wheat..
Yes, the world market is glutted. Stateside storage bins are still
overfilled with last year’s crop.
And giveaway crop prices don’t even cover the farmer’s cost; the
Oklahoma wheat farmer who brings in a good crop this year will
lose $50 on every acre!
Campaigning in Illinois, President Reagan promised help, said far-
mers would continue to receive price support loans even if they had
to store their grain on the ground.
So that will add hundreds of millions more to our government’s
Pr°gram which is already costing $30 billion a year.
And every farmer knows that what he needs is not more places to
store his stuff but more places to sell it.
So, one might deduce from this that: we have too many farmers
though that number has been in decline for 50 years.
In 1930, one in four Americans lived on a farm.
By 1950, it was one in seven.
Today - one in 45.
Ten percent of American farmers have left farming in this decade.
Before there are too few left to feed us, somebody had better come
up with a viable remedy.
trouble V°terS unhappy’ historically the party in power is in
Farmers are unhappy.
Pragmatic politicians are
ness.
sical proof, from his own analy-
ses of low-level radiation effects
on individual cells, that no
“safe” threshold exists for ra-
diation.
“Though it is accurate that
the smaller the radiation dose
the smaller the cancer risk, there
is no dose so small that the body
can perfectly repair all resulting
damage to DNA and the chromo-
somes,” Gofman said.
He also emphasized that per-
sons exposed to small radiation
doses over an extended period
would face no less cancer risk
than those who received an equi-
valent total dose in a single ex-
posure.
Gofman’s paper was scheduled
for presentation at a symposium
Df cancer or leukemia because ,on low-level radiation.
:hey received too low a dose of
radiation' "
Gofman strongly criticized
both scientific and news reports
suggesting that some people
exposed to the fallout would
face no increased risk of cancer
or leukemia because they re-
ceived too low a dose of ra-
diation.
He cited a number of epidemi-
ological studies showing that
even the most minimal levels
of radiation led to increased
cancer among those persons
exposed.
He also offered new biophy-
trying to harvest hay from that unhappi-
t Democrats call the farm recession a Reagan recession. They’re saying
ericaC”FeS m°re a^out Centra* America than about the center of Am-
That is politics.
The fact is that under the Reagan Administration our government is
spending more on agriculture in one year than during all of the years
of any previous Administration. *
No other area of the budget,-including defense, has increased
fast as has government support for agriculture
Politicians always have underestimated the American farmer.
Kight now however frustrated they are, farmers know that their
plight is nobody’s fault.
The most recent survey of Reagan popularity shows it’s running
highest, 70 percent, in rural America. g
I’m listening to farmers for recommendations.
Somebody has to resolve this supply-demand imbalance before
there are no American farmers left and we’rehaving to import food
(c) 1986, Los Angeles Times syndicate
The ancestors of the horse were only about a foot tall
60 million years ago.
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