Sto Goorga = ¥ This dovsn't moan there ia not a relationship. At is wo oarly to rule it out. Indeed, several authoritics bell At the moment the point is not proven one way or cnownier, and for thia roason tho St. George caildron will remain undor study for sons wance DOr, Rallicon doaaon't think there do any way of oayang now that vadtation pleyo a fecur in the thyroid conditions he Tound. Sut the examination of tho St. Georgo children, thoroush as it wag, may have Zavolved too smali &@ sample to provide a firm conclusion. tho University of Utah's Dr. Charles W. Mays, of radiobiology division, points out that reliable data on the elfecws of icuelevel radiation require larger numbers, And he thinks the state of Utah as a whole can provide them. He has cstimated that 250,000 children there wore exposca bofore they wore two and halt years old to significant amounts of fallout during the tests of the 1950's and carly 2960's. In the latter part of that period “oO seys Salt Lake City recoivod more callout than did St. Gcoorge and most other arose Ds. Mays has therefore renewod a recommendation he first made in 1963 that the survo} bs oxtended tw all 250,000 of the exposed children, including a comparison of thoss sno lived in radioactively "hot spots" with those in lightor fallout areas. "Utah may provide a unique chance to determine tho exact radiation level to which humans may be safely exposed,” he remarked, "or to find out what small amounta of radioactivity will do to us. Hopefully, never again may 250,000 infants be ire rediatod with Lodine-131 and become available for obsorvation." The Radiolorical Health Division is carefully considering such a plan, the exencion of its studios at least to soveral other Utah communitioa,. Sovoral experts, considoring the possibility that radiation might have been a fc in the St. George thyroid findings, feel it is significant that thyroid nodules (thc no% tne St. Goorgs typo of thyroiditis) have recently turned up in 16 of the 69 you and céults now living who wero on Rongelap atoll whon that and four other inhabited s 5 Marchcll Islands were showered with heavy fallout cshoe on March 1, 1954. Hieronellose had boen caught when the wind shifted during Tho