15 October 19£° Dr. Robert A, Conard Dr. Eugene P. Cronkite 7 October letter to William A. Bonnet I concur with everything in your letter but feel obligated to emphasize thet the Department will not be able to pay increased expenses for any purpose on the coming survey other than what is already budgeted. As of the moment we do not even know what our final financial plan will be for this year. In view of the development of the thyroid cancer in one individual of the Ut&rik group, I believe it is essential to have a survey of Marshallese in general for the tweeifincidence of thyroid tumors as a function of age. This I assume will be a rather formidable procedure and will cost a lot of money and time. Perhaps we should discuss this in the near future with Dr. Totter, Saye * we ee A Wat Lae acposironY Lanier: ep. COLLECTION BOX No. aw 7 eco TONS dy OR | Ceovk, we C, frees Lid FOLOER ‘Conazo, ®. Lf: BEST COPY AVAILABLE a :‘ ’) pacatheatlree