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national Battalion/Page 8 September 23,1881 Health official claims forgery United Press International SALT LAKE CITY — A for mer public health official says his signature was forged on two reports praising the federal gov ernment for protecting the resi dents of St. George, Utah, from atomic fallout. Harry Butrico, a retired Pub lic Health Service engineer, monitored fallout levels in St. George during the 1953 “Har ry” atomic detonation at the Nevada Test Site. He testified Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins in a lawsuit brought by some 1,200 people who lived downwind from the blasts. Butrico testified none of the upwind radiation measuring stations warned him of the approaching radioactive fallout, and St. George residents were not advised to take cover until after the dark cloud began rain ing particles over the town and readings on his equipment ‘‘went right off the scale.” A report bearing Butrico’s signature, however, detailed the amazing success of a take-cover order by the Atomic Energy Commission. The Bethesda, Md., man said he never signed the report and had not seen it until two years ago — 27 years after the test he monitored. He said he was surprised and shocked when attorney Stewart Udall Monday showed him a second report bearing his name that detailed his visit with a Mr. Emmert regarding the man’s radiation sickness, and Butrico’s subsequent report of the meet ing to his superiors. “I wracked my brain trying to remember,” he said, “but no flashback came to me.” Then, he said, his wife pro vided a “piece of the puzzle” — an old newspaper clipping quot ing the AEG as saying he visited Emmert at a local mine. “I don’t know what their mo tive is” for putting the false in formation in the report, he said, except to make the AEG look good. Residents of the southwestern Utah town about 150 miles east of the testing range were told to stay indoors, after gamma radia tion levels reached high levels, he said. They are among downwind residents alleging cancer re sulted from the government negligently exposing them to radiation from above-ground atomic blasts in the 1950s and early 1960s. Butrico emphasized most of- the residents had been exposed to an hour of the high radiation levels before the word finally got out, and St. George resembled a ghost town. “The only thing that was amazing is we got a city the size of St. George to go through that exercise,” he said. “However, it was obvious to me that not ev erybody took cover.” He said he and the sheriff drove around the deserted streets and saw children playing at a nearby school at recess. He said he knew of no attempts to notify school officials of the dan ger although a general take- cover announcement was made on a local radio station. Udall, attorney for the plain tiffs, quoted from the minutes of a workshop attended by Butrico two years ago, regarding the ato mic tests in the “Upshot Knothole” series, of which the May 19, 1953, “Harry” test was one. “The thing we have to admit is we got the population of St. George indoors too late, just like we stopped the vehicles too late,” William S. 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The increase was a drama tic turnaround from the first quarter of the 1982, when cor porate profits plunged 20.6 percent. current third quarter GNP estimate of 1.5 percent annual growth, and the second quar ter final revisions of 2.1 per cent annual growth are still far less than the 4 to 5 percent growth economists consider necessary to keep unemploy ment from getting worse. Gross national product is the value of the nation’s goods and services as distributed throughout the economy, to consumers, suppliers and manufacturers. To arrive at the percen tages the governmem attempts to measure changes in prices throughout the eco nomy. The inflation figure usedin the second quarter, dubbed the “implicit price deflator," was just 4.6 percent. The fixed-weighted price index, which the department says is a more accurate mea sure of prices, showed lower inflation rate of 4.1 percent As recently as last years fourth quarter those rates were nearly twice as high. A (coi vered She portar dally a less i s(hool athlete tic Def ate th of the • “W1 it’s ust been c tb say, rill sai evalua dass.” The is put progr; The the op tent c< emph; class a impor said. ; “If and g< they’n expecl get oi Hunt ing a 1 ;after their b •their i Coache ‘class.” Cable car closes for system c repairs United Press International SAN FRANCISCO — The last cable car to trundle over the city’s steep hills for the next two years rolled into the storage barn early Wednesday and the nostalgic but worn-out transit system was shut down for a $58.2 million repair job. Hundreds of fans in a festive mood waited for hours to catch a ride on the final funs of the two lines. “There’s always the danger that three or four years later they the cable cars still won’t be back,” said Bill Gore, who, along with several friends dressed in white tie and tails, and sipped champagne while waiting for the ride. “You don’t want to wake up three years from now and real ize the cable cars are gone and you didn’t enjoy the last night,” he said. The last car on the Powellafl Market line was crowds beyond usual limits for the rii into the barn. There machinery that drives a cot- tinuous cable that tugs the can was turned off with the pushofi button. “I’m saddened that itwastlc last ride, but I’m glad theyati going to rebuild the system said W.J. Batiste, gripmano’ the final run. “It’s long needed On Tuesday the city 109-year-old system a festiit send-off with a Mardi Gras-styi parade of 34 elaborately ailydt corated cable cars. 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