St. George - £9 ¢ I+ ig tho thermostat that dictates how hot and fast wo burn our nouristment into cnoriye . 7 ’ 4+ 4 in di and d any radio from :idodina, hormone, thyroxin, Lta makes Tho thyroid ty activa tocine in the environment is «ty picked up along. with normal tedine end quickly concentrated in the gland. During atomic tests the ~edtoactivo iodino (1-131) torn of atomic fission gets into human thyrodds =] einly through miik *rom cows which have fed on pasture grass or hay 2 eee lage tare Oe ee - ~ : * is tno exposure of infantis that has been of greatest concern to physicians and public health officials. | In the first oxamination, held last fall in the gymnasium of the St. Goorgea high school, oach child was seen independently by three doctors. Ha was asked to take a mouthful of water, tilt his hoad back and swallow. With thosycis=o? a strong light and sensitive fingers the doctor watched and Polt the throat as the water went down. Among the 2,000 Utah childor nodular ren the physicians found 70 suspiciously Tumpythyroidse In a "control® Safford, group of 1,400 childron in,a southern Arizona town, selected because it . NN was out of the fallout track, the nedical team found only 25,..iteetoocj=~ chp « few weeks later, all of the youngsters picked out by the initial Scrcening were given another oxamination by three thyroid specialists, Dr. Raymond Keating, Jr., of the Mayo Clinic; Dr. Brow M. Dobyns, of the Ciucyclandé General Hospital and Dr. Joseph E. Rall, of the National InsvLuute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. They narrowed the “suspicious* group in Utah dow to°25 and referred 13 of then to the UniversitLy of Utah Medieal. Conter ia Salt Lake City for more detailed studies. tysts vere Additional. given theArizona group but none required modical center . it pe camila ow nae a E. t-? contaminated by fariout. And because an infant's thyroid collacts about (_and is apparontly more sensitiveto radiation, mos as much iodineTtcr eeeieESTESas does the adul Jive 0