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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1979
Russian
researches
cancer
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A Russian sci
entist has been doing research at the
Southwest Foundation for Research
and Education in the worldwide
search for one of the causes of cancer,
officials said Thursday.
Dr. Zinaida Vsevolodovna Shet-
sova will be at the biomedical re
search center until Sept. 22 as part of
the United States-Soviet Scientific
Exchange Program, then will spend
a week at the National Cancer Insti
tute at Bethesda, Md.
She is working in San Antonio with
Drs. S.S. Kalter, director of micro
biology and infectious diseases, and
Richard L. Heberling, a scientist at
the foundation.
Mom asks court
not to unplug son
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — For the sec
ond time this year, grain sorghum
prices have increased to a level so
that farmers have an option of selling
their sorghum reserves, the Agricul
ture Department said today.
Farmers may remove their sor
ghum from reserve by repaying gov
ernment loans on the crop. They
may sell the grain once the loans are
repaid.
Agriculture Department official
John Goodwin said a five-day aver
age of market prices for sorghum was
$4.33 per hundredweight on Wed
nesday, which was 9 cents above the
$4.24 price at which Agriculture
Secretary Bob Bergland may release
sorghum from reserve.
United Press International
PUEBLO, Colo. — From her
room at the Colorado State Hospital,
the mother of a 17-month-old boy
hospitalized with brain damage has
asked the Colorado Supreme Court
to prevent her son’s life-saving de
vice from being unplugged.
The woman, Rosalie Lovato, 20,
was taken into custody for investiga
tion of child abuse two weeks ago and
now is in protective custody at the
state hospital.
Tuesday, District Judge Donald
Abra ruled the boy, who began show
ing signs of severe brain damage
Aug. 23, could be removed from a
respirator, but he gave the mother’s
attorneys 10 days to appeal to the
state Supreme Court.
Lovato’s lawyer, Carl W. Gellent-
hien, said he met with his client
Wednesday and she asked him to
stop doctors from taking her child off
the life-saving device.
“It’s the mother’s opinion that she
wants every medical and legal test
and remedy possible before the life
support system is pulled. I will have
an appeal or an original writ into the
Supreme Court by Monday or next
Tuesday,” he said.
Gellenthien said a court-
appointed guardian for the child, at
torney Mickey Smith, also wanted to
appeal. The boy, Jerry Trujillo, has
been kept alive by a respirator since
Aug. 23.
Colorado has no law declaring
death by lack of brain activity, al
though three physicians have tes
tified the boy’s brain is dead, there is
no possibility of recovery and the
youngster should be removed from
the machine.
Abra made his decision after
physicians said there had been no
brain activity since last Friday and
said the youngster had not re
sponded to pain or verbal stimulus.
Sun to block transmission
NASA to turn off Pioneer
United Press International
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Pioneer 11 was readied today fora
shutdown of its instruments preparatory to a pass behind the sun.
The spacecraft has been investigating Saturn and its moons, on the
other side of the solar system from the Earth.
The sun will be between the Pioneer and Earth, and will blocl:
communications between the spacecraft and NASA’s Ames Research
Center for seven to 10 days, probably beginning Friday.
As Pioneer closed its angle with the sun and earth, background noise
from solar radiation escalated. As a result, the data bit rate, which was
1,028 per second last week, was dropped to 64 a second, a level tha!
carries little information.
Pioneer, moving at 21,000 mph, was 2.6 million miles away from
Saturn, which it visited Saturday. Most of its 11 instruments alreads
were turned off, but the spacecraft continued to send informatics
about Saturn’s urge magnetic field.
John Wolfe, chief Pioneer scientist, was mildly surprised thatinits
retreat from Saturn, the spacecraft had left and reentered the magneti;
field four times, the last time Wednesday at a distance of 2.3 million
miles.
A NASA spokesman said the signal today was “one tenth with 21
zeroes behind it of a watt. It’s like looking at a match on the moon.
Missiles, prison, power sought
Dying town looks for new life
United Press International
ELY, Nev. — Most city folks turn
up their nose at the idea of a prison or
a giant power plant in their bac
kyard.
But when you re down and out,
any new industry looks good.
Ocean-air relationship studied
United Press International
SEATTLE — It may not seem
likely that ocean currents and tem
peratures and the anchovy harvest
off Peru have much to do with the
European livestock industry or the
poultry business in the United
States.
But strong evidence supporting
just that kind of interrelationship is
one bit of the mass of information
coming from studies into how the
oceans and the atmosphere interact
to make and change climate in one
region or another.
Among the scientists working on a
global basis in such studies is Dr. D.
James Baker Jr., chairman of the
University of Washington oceanog
raphy department and former re
searcher for the National Oceanog-
raphis and Atmospheric Administra
tion.
Baker says it has long been sus
pected that energy contained in
oceans may be the major force in
determining why a region will get a
stretch of extremely cold winters or a
period of drought.
“We know less about the ocean
than the atmosphere,” he says, ex
plaining why research into ocean-air
interaction now is concentrated in
the depths of the seas more so than in ^
the atmosphere.
“When we get the answer, it will
have a big impact on agriculture and
fisheries.”
Baker says scientists look forward
to the time when they will be able to
tell a farmer the kind of moisture and
growing season to expect a year or
more in advance, or to tell a fisher
man when he can expect an abun
dant harvest.
Most of the important questions
remain to be answered, he says, but
researchers have come up with some
major findings.
One example: In the fall of 1976,
the Northern Pacific was one to three
degrees Celsius below normal. At
the same time, water off the west
coast of North America was a degree
or two warmer than usual. To the
south, the equatorial Pacific for
thousands of miles west of Peru was
one to two degrees above normal.
The following winter brought se
vere cold, record snowfall, droughts
and crop failures in many parts of the
United States, but Alaska was so un
usually warm that the Yukon River
didn’t freeze for the first time in any
one’s memory.
Off Peru, the warm surface water
acted like a barrier preventing the
usual nutrient-carrying upwelling of
cold water from the ocean floor. The
anchovy fishery, largest in the world,
all but disappeared.
In a good year, the Peruvian an
chovy harvest amounts to 12 million
tons. Many of the finger-sized fish
are processed into fish meal to help
raise European livestock or U.S.
poultry. The “anchovy drought oc
curred at about the same time as a
world short-fall of grain and the price
of meats soared.
Scientists have been increasing
studies of this phenomenom off
Peru, known as the El Nino (the
child), since the 1950s and have
found it occurs about once every
seven years.
Baker says stronger trade winds
have served as a barometer in fore
casting the El Nino, indicating the
relationship between air and water.
That’s the plight of Ely, a small
eastern Nevada city which has been
supported by its copper mining in
dustry during most of this century.
The ore supply has run out and the
work force of 1,450 has dwindled to
less than 150 persons at Kennecott
Copper Corp.
“Were facing some deep trou
ble,” says newly hired Economic
Development Director Mike Bourn.
In the last year, the county popu
lation of 10,500 has dropped by an
estimated 2,000 persons, mostly be
cause jobs are scarce, and some mer
chants are starting to feel the pinch.
Two ideas the townspeople have
come up with to replace the mining
operation call for convincing the
Nevada Legislature to build a $25
million prison on the outskirts of the
city and also promoting construction
of a $1.5 billion electricity generat
ing plant which would transmit 50
percent of its power to Southern
California.
“I tell these people these things
won’t get them the reputation the
Mayo Clinic brought Rochester,
Minn.,” says state Sen. Rick Blake-
more, whose district includes Ely.
“But these people don’t care. They
are 100 percent behind these
projects.
If help isn’t forthcoming, Blake-
more estimates half the population
will leave for greener pastures.
Remote Ely, 250 miles from Salt
Lake City and 300 miles from Reno,
has experienced the boom and bust
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