AOLIOS FROM THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER ----- NOVEMBER 3, 1965 MEPOSITOAY bokL,LYA So COLLECTION RokfeMV soxne, LALE, Ejay #3" ¢cases reported| an ‘fallout’ Isle. “WASHINGTON (AP) —A government doctor says — s@me natives in the Marshall Islands are beginning “ ta<show thyroid gland damage from an accidental 3 dfpnching of radioactive fallout during an American ogen bomb test. . Robert Conard told the Washington Post there to is evidence that fallout damage to the thyroid d may be causing an observed stunting of growth agheng children subjected to the drenching in March, sConard is the leader ofa medical survey team tint commutes between Brookhaven National LabS Blor MED Dr Conard FOLOER ot ELE atory on Long Island. an@ Rongelap Island in the shall’s. He is in charge ot. treating the Islanders @ fOr thyroid damage, * «The finding is viewed as meaning that estimates 3 ; ofthe hazard from short-lived radioactive debris will & Have to be revised. upward.This.is the kind of fall- % Ee tatar as radioactive iodiné—which persons near % t areas may. absorb through food and drink. e Post said the médical..team’s most. recent 3 Teport to the Atomic Energy Commission is being = ditculated this. week to members’of the Joint Con- | @essional Committee on Atomic Energy. . & sAmong other things, it, was reported, the’ study & © discloses that 10 new cases of thyroid abndrmalities | 3 were found betwéen March and October: among 82 < ngelap natives exposed to fallout in March, 1954: other natives previously showed gland abnormalittds, At least one. moltgett turied out ta be a