Page 10/The Battalion/Tuesday, September 24, 1985
Warped
by Scott McCullar
New study calls for changes
in daily dietary allowances
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A National
Academy of Sciences committee is
completing a study that calls fof
changing the daily recommended di
etary allowances of certain vitamins
and minerals, a move that critics say
could have important effects on the
nutritional habits of the nation.
The draft report, which has not
been concluded or released, also will
make a subtle change in the defi
nition of recommended dietary al
lowances, or RDAs, that the authors
say is more realistic.
Dr. Henry Kamin of Duke Uni
versity, chairman of the academy’s
committee on dietary allowances,
said Monday that the proposed new
RDAs are not designed to establish
minimum standards, but to assure
what is healthy for all Americans.
“We make dietary nutrient recom
mendations within the context of the
American diet as it is, not as it should
be or not as interpreted by food fad-
ists,” Kamin said in a telephone in
terview.
Gail Porter, a spokeswoman for
the academy, a private, congressio-
nally chartered organization that
does studies for the government,
said the report still is in the review
E rocess ana may not be ready for re
vise until the end of the year.
However, The New York Times
said a draft of the report it obtained
called for decreasing recommended
allowances of vitamin A, vitamin C,
vitamin B-6 and iron, while increas
ing the suggested intake of calcium
for women.
Michael R. Lemov, executive di
rector of the Food Research and Ac
tion Center, said his group learned
of the proposals and opposes them.
“We fear that decreased RDAs
will be used to ‘prove’ that fewer
people are hungry in the United
States,” Lemov said in a statement.
“It would be very convenient at this
time to be able to wipe out hunger
with a simple change in the num
bers.”
RDAs are used in planning the
food intake of people of all ages in
food programs at hospitals, schools
and other institutions. They also are
used in developing dietary supple
ments, new food products, diets, and
for nutritional labeling on packages.
Since 1943, a committee of the
academy’s Food and Nutrition
Board has revised the RDAs every
five years to keep pace with the na
tion’s changing needs.
The latest official nutrient report,
issued in 1980, defined RDAs as the
intake of essential nutrients consid
ered “adequate to meet the known
nutritional needs of practically all
healthy persons.”
The new definition, Kamin con
firmed, would define RDAs as the
levels of essential nutrients needed
“to protect practically all healthy
persons against nutritional deficien
cies.”
Kamin said the subtle difference
reflects the fact that the committee
does not know what the “nutritional
needs of practically all (healthy) per
sons” are because of the diversity of
dietary patterns in the country.
Superintendent of Ohio hatchery
says raising fish ‘kind of like an art’
Associated Press
PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio — Every
time tourists look into a swarm of
fish at the state hatchery here, the
fish stop growing.
But the sacrifice in size, about a
quarter inch each time sightseers
peer into the display tank, is worth
the public relations value, superin
tendent Steve Riddle said.
“The fish are so upset by the peo
ple that I’m going to lose one-half of
their growth every month,” he said.
He learned last spring how his
fish have captured public fancy.
When the Ohio Division of Wildlife
closed his hatchery, politicians were
besieged by angry sportsmen and
tourism officials.
The closing was intended to save
some $100,000 in operating costs,
but it brought more than a dozen let
ters to the office of Senate president
Paul Gillmor, along with a flood of
calls to other state officials.
“I had no idea until this last year
how popular it was,” Riddle said.
“We closed the doors on Saturday —
that was the first of June — and on
the third we were back open.”
Now that Riddle, a stocky,
friendly man who seems to enjoy
tourist visits, believes the 92-year-old
hatchery is free from threat of clo
sure, he’s gone back to the round-
FarmAid —
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and a campaign to increase aware
ness of farm problems.
“You can spend it quick or spend
it right,” Nelson told reporters. “So
we’re not going to rush into any
thing.”
He said he was not disappointed
with the pledges because raising
money was only one FarmAid goal.
The other objective was reminding
city dwellers of their links to the na
tion’s food producers.
the-clock task of nurturing 150,000
trout to be stocked in Ohio streams.
“It’s like taking care of a bunch of
little babies, because they’re very del
icate and you can hurt them very
easily,” Riddle said. “And there’s a
“The fish are so upset by
the people that I’m going
to lose one-half of their
growth every month. ”
— Steve Riddle, superin
tendent of the Ohio state
hatchery.
lot of mess to clean up day after day
after day.
“Basically it’s kind of like an art.
You learn by mistakes and hopefully
not to the point of hurting any fish.
The most important part of it is be
ing very conscientious and caring
about the fish.”
The hatchery has raised salmon,
walleye and trout, all by similar
methods.
Each December, the state delivers
fish eggs to the hatchery, where they
are put in large jars. Water flows
through the jars at about the rate it
flows in streams where the fish will
Jim Skilbeck, special events coor
dinator for Gov. James Thompson,
who helped line up University of Illi
nois Memorial Stadium football field
for Sunday’s concert, said he was
confident the show will have lasting
impact.
Twelve hours of the concert were
broadcast live by The Nashville Net
work cable system to a potential au
dience of 25 million subscribing
households, and were carried by
more than 300 radio stations.
eventually live.
After they hatch, the fish are put
in concrete tanks that run the length
of the hatchery. They are weighed
and counted frequently to monitor
growth, and are fed a mixture offish
meal and soybeans.
In September or October the fish
reach a length of 4 to 5 inches and
are transferred in buckets to larger
fiberglass tanks where they stay until
they are transferred to streams in
the spring.
The setup is monitored electroni
cally, and alarms sound if oxygen or
water flow is disrupted. All the fish
would die in about 45 minutes with
out a constant supply of both oxygen
and water, Riddle said. Up to 1,700
gallons of water per minute flow
through the tanks.
Each batch of fish is worth about
$200,000 and costs about $65,000 to
raise.
The fish are "tlso threatened by
light and by disease, as well as over
exposure to human curiosity.
Whitewash on windows of the
hatchery prevents sunburn. Late
summer is the critical time to pre
vent disease, said Riddle, who mixes
antibiotics with fish food in a cement
mixer.
More people watched a three-
hour, prime-time syndicated seg
ment of the program carried by 156
television stations, but results of a
ratings survey conducted Sunday
night would not be available for sev
eral days.
TNN’s coverage ended at mid
night, but the concert continued
nearly an hour longer, ending with a
spectacular fireworks display that
had the live audience cheering be
fore heading home.
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Marilyn Monroe
police files
made public
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Marilyn Mon
roe sounded despondent about los
ing her contract with 20th Century-
Fox when actor Peter Lawford spoke
with her the day she committed sui
cide more than 23 years ago, accord
ing to a police file released Monday.
The actress, who died of a drug
overdose, bade President John F.
Kennedy and Lawford goodbye-'m a
slurred voice the night of her death
Aug. 4, 1962, according to the inch-
thick investigative file into her
death.
Police Chief Daryl Gates said the
file was released because of numer
ous public requests for access to the
reports.
It included telephone records, au
topsy results and police interviews
with those who talked to Monroe in
her final days. Many of the pages
were stamped “Confidential,” and
some information was blacked out.
Gates predicted release of the in
formation would fuel speculation
into Monroe’s death.
“There were 45 nembutals, I be
lieve, barbiturates,” that Monroe
had consumed. Gates said. “There
was nothing unusual about it. She
was under a doctor’s care and had
been distressed. The evidence
showed she was stressed, and she
took her own life.”
According to the file, Lawford,
who died earlier this year, had told
detectives that most of what was
written about her final days was
“pure fantasy.”
“Lawford tried to convince her to
forget about her problems and join
him and his wife, Pat, for dinner that
evening,” detectives said in the re
port. “She replied that she would
consider joining them.
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Lawford telephoned her a second
time to ascertain why she hadn’t as
yet arrived at his home.
“She stated she was tired and
would not be coming. Her voice be
came less and less audible and Law
ford began to veil at her in an at-
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tempt to revive her.
Mexico
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“The amateur radio operators in
Mexico are tired and very busy,”
Torre said. “About 20 percent of the
phone calls they made couldn’t go
through. We have to be very pa
tient.”
Armando Turrent, a freshman fi
nance major, said he was relieved to
hear from his family in Polanco, 10
miles from the most seriously dam
aged area in Mexico City.
“They’re fine; I heard from them
through Ham radio on Friday eve
ning,” he said. “Then I heard again
on Saturday after the second earth
quake.”
Martha Spencer, a senior psychol
ogy major, was worried about her fa
ther who works in Mexico City. She
called the operator of the MSC Ama
teur Radio Club and found out her
father had been on an airplane leav
ing Mexico City when the first earth
quake struck. He escaped the disas
ter.
Meanwhile, Mexican students are
sending aid to their country.
The Mexican Students’ Associa
tion has set up a table in the MSC to
collect donations for the earthquake
victims.
Gonzalez-Mendez said about $300
had been collected at the MSC table
through Wednesday.
Pier said the money would be sent
to the International Red Cross in
San Antonio.
“We will make sure whoever do
nates will know where the money is
sent,” he said.
Clothes donations can be sent to
St. Mary ’s Church. The church is
one block north of University Drive
behind Alfredo’s Restaurant.
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