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News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska, Monday, November 20,1972 Fishermen hit salmon dam FRIENDS-Dr. S. K. Dicksheet, left, president of the Friends of India Society in Fairbanks talks with Mrs. Ruth Barrack, at head table with Dr.

William R. Wood and Mrs, Wood during Diwali dinner Saturday at the Traveler's Inn. (Photo by C. Darby) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Alaska fishing spokesmen and political leaders, while admitting the problem of diminishing Bristol Bay salmon runs, have criticized Gov. William A.

Egan's threat to dam (he area's river system. Retiring State Senate President Jay Hammond, R-Naknek, called Egan's proposals "as mind-boggling and biologically unsound as they were several years ago." And several biologists said the governor's plan to create a land locked salmon fishery would not work. Last week Egan vigorously denounced the Japanese salmon fleet and Pacific Coast fishermen he said were "stealing" the fruits of Alaskan fisheries management and rehabilitation programs. Unless the Japanese completely abstained from the harvest for at least a few years, Carbon monoxide study set here (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following aftide examines the hazards of carbon monoxide, long a problem in Fairbanks beca use of our unique temperature inversions). ByPHlLNlCPON For the News-Miner A study of carbon monoxide in the home environment will be conducted in Fairbanks this winter--the only city in Alaska to undergo such a study by the U.S.

Public Health Service, according to David Bruce, city sanitarian who will conduct thesurvey, health and medical authorities believe thedeathsand injuries reported as due to carbon monoxide are only the "tip of the iceberg. 11 In many other cases, feel, carbon monoxide poisoning is not recognizea or even su pect ea because the symptoms resemble those of many other ailments such as food i i i a acute alcoholism and others. Carbon monoxide is a product of incomplete combustion of fuel--wood, coal, oil and gas. In the home it can come from heating appliances, water heaters, kitchen ranges, or even catalytic heaters. Of particular danger are fuel-b urning space heaters.

Carton monoxide hazards can be caused by poor ventilation, poor design, poor maintenance, and by just normal wear and tear of fuel-feed home appliances. Since the physiological insult, injury and death resulting from the exposure to unsafe levels of carbon monoxide in the home is often of the same magnitude as many communicable diseases, public health officials are dealing i it as woutd a communicable disease. Exactly what will Bruce be doing to assess the magnitude of the potential domestic threat herein Fairbanks? He will examine 100 homes to determine the amount of carbon monoxide present by employing a special'dttector tube through which a small volume of the home atmosphere will be drawn. The color that develops in the special material in the tube will indicate the monoxide concentration. i is not as sophisticated as the instrument used by the Fairbanks North Star Borough to monitor the amount of the dangerous gas downtown.

However, it is accurate to about plus or minus 25 per cent and is sensitive enough to indicate when a hazardous level is present. a i investigations with similar devices have shown positivie results in about 10 per cent of the homes tested. If a hazardous level of the gas is observed, Bruce will be available to check the home combustion devices and to help get the problem results won't be used for any otharpurpose," he stresses. Another part of the study involves taking a blood sample from 100 children within two hours after they leave home. The blood samples will be collected in capillary tubes from a small prick in the child's finger, The samples will be sent to a laboratory in the lower 48 and immediately analyzed for the a i (COHb) content of the child.

Bruce notes he will be notified within 48 hours if high levels are found. He would then check to see if he could determine where the problem is. "The anonymity of the child will be protected by a code and no names wilt be released," assures Bruce. "The Public Health Service 3 Idren a more susceptible to this," comments Bruce. He recently attended a training course at government pen se in enver he re he learned how to make the home survey and how to take the blood samples.

The homes used will be randomly selected and Bruce acknowledges he will receive help in selecting them from Dr. Roger Pearson of the Arctic Health Research Center. Pearson is carrying out another study for the Public Health Service also in cooperation with the City's Department of Health and Social Services. Bruce has not decided how he will select the children for, blood samples. He i of need the cooperation of the parents and also their permission.

But he also is willing to examine any home for carbon monoxide. Bruce may be contacted at City Hall or by phoning4524881. Let us examine the deadly gas mo re closely. Railroads, while still important, are not quite the life's blood of the nation as they once were. But there is one transportation system run on iron that everyone depends on--the hemoglobin in the blood which carries oxygen to all parts of the body.

UA receives grant to make study of auroral scatter The University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute has received a grant of $150,000 from the National Science a i for continued research on the auroral zone ionosphere. The project, titled "Auroral I Scatter Project," is directed by Dr. Howard F. Bates. Co-principal i i a is Dr.

Robert Hunsucker. The project is now in its second year, and is conducted jointly with Stanford Research Institute. a i the project uses a high-power radar system to transmit energy into the auroral zone ionosphere to heights between 30 and 300 miles. "A very small portion of the energy we send up," he said, "is returned back to us from random thermal irregularities in the ionosphere." This data is then analyzed to a i i a i a electron density, electron ion temperatures, and motion of irregularities in the ionosphere. This ineoherentscatter technique can be used to look at the "inside" of an aurora, at the way the electrons and ions are behaving there.

explained the project hasan important practical application: learning to make Anchorage permits rise A A A A a officials say building permits valued at nearly J8 million were issued by the borough during October. Officials said that brings the total permit valuation for the ytu to 83.KHJ886 In addition, the Building Department conducted construction Inspections during the month. use of the auroral i i comtnunicationsin Afasks. "The auroral ionosphere is very i a a to mid-latitudes," he said. "The aurora often interfereswith radio transmission.

We're attempting to learn about these irregularities to i i a i telecommunications." The project uses radar Facilities at 27 mile Steese Highway near a a i a i i a 4-million-watt pulsed transmitter and an 88-foot parabolic reflector antenna. This is the world's only incoherent scatter radar located in an auroral zone. Research is closely coordinated with activities of the university's Flat Rocket Facility. Researchers from the University of Californiaat San Diegoand the i i of California at Berkeley have also been involved in the project. The funding from the National Science Foundation is to support the project for an additional year.

I Iron has an affinity foroxygcn, the result of which is a chemical compound commonly called rust. Similarly, so does the iron in the hemoglobin of the blood have an affinityforoxygen. The interaction between oxygen and hemoglobin (known as oxyhemoglobin) is not so strong as in rust, however, and the oxygen is easily removed. Thus, the "oxygen express" picks up in the pulmonary capillaries and transports it to its tissue destinations. Carbon monoxide seriously interferes with the transportation of oxygen.

The affinity of carbon monoxide forhuman hemoglobin is more than 200 times greater than oxygen. A small amount of it then cuts down the number of "seats" available for oxygen. The "seat" occupied by carbon monoxide is referred to as carboxyhemoglobin or, more i i a dissociates to release the carbon i a i hemoglobin available tor more transport. But carbon monoxide "rides" longer than oxygen all the while preventing transport of oxygen by that "seat" for tissue metabolism. The amount of COHb in blood depends on the concentration of carbon monoxide in the inhaled air and the volume of air breathed per minute.

The effects also depend on exposure time and the oxygen demand of an individual. Public health officials estimate an average of more than 10,000 persons per year have been i incapacitated during the past decade due to exposure to a a levels of carbon monoxide gas. During the same period, an average of 1,500 persons per year expired as a result of carbon i a i a (lack of oxygen). People in a i a are probably aware of the carbon monoxide problem in the streets of the city. Do they also know that mortality statistics on a a i a a i approximately 70 per cent of all carbon monoxide fatalities occur in the home environment with 50 per cent of these injuries occurring during the heating season? The COHb level in the blood is directly related to the carbon monoxide concentration In the air.

In winter we may not be outside long but we do remain encapsulated in our living and working spaces for long periods. Carbon monoxide may be a hazard in these environments because the combustion processes (the source of carbon monoxide) that occur within them and due to their tightness in encroachment of winter. The blood'sCOHb levelreaches a certain amount, called the "equilibrium" level, after an exposure to a given carbon monoxide concentration. This level, or the per cent of available "seats" taken up by carbon monoxide, increases at higher concentrations of the gas. The length of time required for equilibrium depends on the physical activity of a person.

This might take eight-10 hours at rest or two-three hours at strenuous work. If theinhaledaircontainsa a a a monoxide (on the order of a few tenths of a per cent or more), physical activity is unimportant. The time period for dangerous levels of COHb to occur in the blood for such cases can be very short, indeed--on the order of minutes. i i i can best by a i wih the railroad analogy. Think of a passenger a i i under certain conditions, always has the same of passengers.

This occurs even though people are constantly getting on and off. The only way this can happen is if the same number get off asget on at each stop. This idea approaches a i i a i a equilibrium. Some researchers have found i exposure to air containing 10 volumes of carbon monoxide in a total of a million volumes (10 parts per million) will produce a COHb equilibrium level in the blood greater than 2 per cent. This is the amount at which effects upon the nervous system become apparent.

A cigarette smoker who inhales may easily havea COHb concentration higherthanthis. Bethel chief shot fatally the governor said, he would allow fishermen to "fish out" the runs. Alaskans caught 1.4 million red salmon at Bristol Bay this year, compared with 20.7 million harvested in 1970. Egan's threats mirrored those made in 1964 following a 2J million fish catch, when he said he would take "drastic action" to dam the bay system unless the Japanese diminished their fisheries pressure. That year, University of British Columbia biologist Dr.

Norman Willmovsky said: "This is madness." Hammond--an advisory to the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission since 1966 and part of a group now studying a state program to limit entry to the fisheries- said Egan had "more effective weapons in his arsenal." Demo poll gives lead to Croft to shut off or restrict exports of Alaska's natural resources to Japan would force Ihe Japanese government lo decide whether it wanted Bristol Bay salmon or raw materials for its industries," said Hammond, a parttime fisherman. He said redrafting the North Pacific Treaty to move farther west the abstention line beyond which Japanese fishermen may not cross might be an adequate solution. "I don't think the threat of cutting off your nose to spite your face will do much dissuade them," he said. Commercial fisheries biologist Steve ftnnoyer said international -and federal statistics show that Japan gels only 10 per cent of its high seas salmon catch from the Bristol Bay run. Most Japanese salmon come from Russian streams, the figures show.

Though the Bristol Bay run in 1973 may be as bad as that this year, biologists say an upward cycle is expected in 1974. In Dillingham, fisherman Joe McGill, a member of the state House, said "75 years of mismanagement are citchjng up." And Nels Anderson, an official of (lio Alaska Federation of Natives, said the state should halt unlil July 1 part of the Western AUsks glllnet fishery. Anchorage Borough Assemblyman Walt Parker, in another commentary on the situation, suggested limiting the Japanese to a quota maintained by observers with their fleet. Solutions to Ihc problem, he said, are "going to require some very hard-knuckled negotiations." Coast Guard will open investigation of Jarvis BETHEL, Alaska (AP) Police Chief Tom Dillon is dead following a gun battle at the Yello Cab here, authorities say. Dillon, about 40, died late Sunday at the Public Health Service Hospital here.

A spokesman for the cab company said a man entered the building Sunday evening brandishing a shotgun. Police said Dillon answered the call from the firm. A spokesman at the hospital said Dillon died of severe chest wounds. It earlier was planned to fly Dillon to Anchorage where he could receive further treatment, the spokesman said, but his condition would not permit the move. Police said Dillon's assailant fled the building after the shooting.

A man was captured about half an hour later and also was being treated for gun wounds at the hospital, police said. A A (AP)-The Anchorage Daily News has reported that a poll of the Democratic State Central Committee shows 11 of the 29 members favoring State Sen. Chancy Croft of Anchorage for nomination to the Alaska scat in the House of Representatives. The News also said Sunday that three of the 22 members polled over the weekend supported Pegge Begich, wife of missing Congressman Nick Begich, and eight were undecided. Seven commilteemen were not contacted, tho paper said.

Of the eight undecided party leaders, three said they would back Croft, an unannounced candidate for the position, or State Sen. John Rader, also of Anchorage. Two said they would be for Lt. Gov. H.A.

"Red" Boucher, two backed no one but said they would oppose Mrs. Begich and one committeewoman said she would vote for any electable liberal. The poll came as Mrs. Begich reported that Croft, who largely is responsible for the state's new oil legislation, visited her in Washington D.C., last week to discuss the situation. Begich has been missing since Oct.

16 on a plane flight from Anchorage to Juneau. Reelected Nov. 7, he may become the subject of a presumptive death hearing early next month that in turn could lead to declaration of a vacancy in his office and a special election to fill the seat. Only Mrs. Begich has announced her candidacy for the position.

Croft, according to several central committee members, has asked for support, while Rader has indicated his interest in the nomination and Boucher and Atty. Gen. John Havelock have been mentioned as possible candidates. Mrs. Begich said the only conclusion reached in her one- hour talk with Croft was that "we didn't want it to break into a knock down, drag out battle which would do no one any good." She said the announcement of candidacy was meant to let friends know she was interested in the seat, and she declared Croft's apparent edge to be "what happens when you actively campaign against someone who doesn't." Slate Democratic party chairman Emil Notti has said the central committee will review candidates for the nomination early next month.

Most central committee members say they favor selection of the nominee by the committee rather than a statewide convention. Meanwhile, Republican state chairman Jack Coghill says his party's central committee will meet in Juneau Dec. 2 to plan for a special election and sup port State Sen. Don Young of Fort Yukon, who lost to Begich in the general election. JUNEAU (AP)-A Coast Guard board of inquiry was to convene here today if all involved parties could be on hand to investigate damage which left the cutter Jarvis powerless and leaking badly on the high seas Thursday.

Vice Adm. Mark A. Whalen, Pacific Region Coast Guard commander in San Francisco, said Rear Adm. Joseph McClelland of Seattle would preside. It was not known if the inquiry would be delayed if key personnel in the probe were late arriving.

Spokesmen said they would include Jarvis Capt. Frederick O. Wooley. At last word, Wooley was still with his ship more than 1,000 miles away. Meanwhile, tho battered and still powerless Jarvis was awaiting more patchup at an emergency repair staging area in Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island in the Aleutians, where it was towed Sunday from a temporary shelter 25 miles away.

Accompanied by two buoy tenders and towed by a private tugboat, the high endurance cutter traveled from Scdanka Island to Dutch Harbor in about five hours. The Jarvis had been tied up in a sheltered Sedanka inlet since being rescued by a Japanese fishing boat after nine harrowing hours adrift in the North Pacific. At Dutch Harbor, about 750 miles southwest of Anchorage, spokesmen said maintenance crews would clean up her drained engine room and temporary palthes on cracks at the very bottom of the hull. Then, probably sometime this week, either the tug or the cutter Winona from Seattle was to tow the Jarvis lo drydock, most likely in her home part, Hon- lulu, or Seattle. Meanwhile, an airlift of Coast Guardsmen from throughout Alaska continued, with officials seeking electricians mates and other specialists to safeguard the culler's jel and diesel engines stilled by sea waters late Wednesday.

KFAR-TV Channel 2 Alaskans beat cold by eating ice cream A A (APh-Residents of Alaska, the nation's northernmost and coldest slate, are the nation's largest per capita consumers of ice cream, the state Agriculture Department has reported. None of the major ice cream chains grace Alaskan cities, but figures show the average state resident puts away six gallons a year, about twice the national average. In southcentral Alaska alone, hometown creations like Bubble Gum and Choc Suey ice cream are consumed along with standard flavors at the rate of a million gallons a year. "For some unknown reason, people like to sit in front of the fire, watch the snow fly and cat ice cream," Arden Farms' Ben Nolan says. At one Anchorage shopping center, a single parlor sells about 800 scoops a day and up to 1,500 scoops a day in the summer.

Manager Al Marriott says special concoctions, like dill pickle ice cream, don't sell well, while the traditionals--va- nilla, chocolate, strawberry, banana, mint and peach--sell traditionally. His shop also sells Choc Suey, a combination of chocolate, rice and raisins; Bubble Gum, which when melted reveals bubble gum balls. inside', Sump'n Else, including bananas, cherries, crushed pineapple and peaches, and Love ice cream, a cinnamon, almond, cherry and chocolate combination. At another shopping center, Andy Anderson says his regular customers include a man who wants a spumoni cone a day and a girl who consumes a daily scoop of mint chocolate. "I don't know who buys most of our ice cream," Andy says.

"Kids, I guess. Everyone who comes in here is a kid at heard." MONDAY The Streets of San Francisco (ABC) Monday Night At the Movies (NBC)-'They Might be Giants" Hour News 11:10 NBC Nightly News Tonight Show (NBC) TUESDAY Television Place (NBC) (NBC) of The Century (NBC) Squares (NBC) What, Where Game (NBC) on a Match (NBC) of Our Lives (NBC) Doctors (NBC) to Peyton Place (NBC) American Style (ABC) BigThirty 6:30 NewsReport HAWAII ROUND TRIP AGAPULCO ROUND TRIP SEATTLE 1 ROUND TRIP MARKET DAMAGED-Damages estimated at $10,000 occurred Saturday when this pickup truck driven by James H. Gronmack, IQ 1 A Mile Steese Highway, crashed into the auto here owned by Frank W. Howard of Livengood. The impact pushed the auto through the front of the Steese Market.

Clarence Nicholson of Fairbanks, a by-stander, suffered minor injuries in the incident. Gronmack was cited for operating a motor vehicle under theunfluenee of intoxicants. (Photo by Steve Preston) SEASON ENDS DECEMBER 23rd 1947 nun KIKMFNI MCCTUlt OPEN 5:00 p.m. Doily except Sundoy 731 Second HER WHO LIKE TO SING Join ihf Golden Hwrt Chorus for on evening of borberihop singing, fun and on Tuesday, November 21, 7:30 p.m. crt the G.V.E.A.

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