iaturday,,April 16, 1977. THE MICHIGAN DAIQY Page Five Farmers, scientists, and legislators: The tragedy ofPBB (Continued from Page 1) tration, opposes the Spaniola mental health researcher at of information - and each oth-. ' FRYF! SAID that while Crim's formation to the legislature. We similar packages, and the Fire- proposal for two reasons: "For *New York City's Mt. Sinai Hos- er - for government's late support for legislation lowering could have used more informa- ,)Tonight in the Modern Languages Buil master had been accidently one, (PBB) doesn't appear to be pital. Selikoff said he was in- start in dealing with PBB. . PBB tolerance levels was still tion on what are the human sent to the Battle Creek plant nearly as toxic as people are terested in studying PBB con- "The Farm Bureau is the in doubt, the house speaker's of- health effects." where it was accidently mixed trying to suggest, and two, if tamination in Michigan, but right arm -of the Republican fice was deluged with as many with cattle feed. The result: you consider that lowering the needed an official invitation to Party," charges Alpha Clark, a as fifty calls a day from Farm F R Y E C 0 N T I N U E D: (Charles Chaplin 1936) Complete shows: 7 and contamination as high as 13,500 tolerance will remove (PBB begin work. veterinarian from Marion, Mich- Bureau members urging him "Through 1975, the executive of- Today is sir charle's 87th birthday! To honor the o parts PBB per million parts from the state's farm), that's igan. Clark, who has treated to oppose the change. fice was downplaying the risks are showing his veryfst screen (appe(A)and his(I feed. ridiculous. There isn't even "BUT THE people in the many cattle poisoned with PBB, of PBB and reassuring the citi- feature (MODERN TIMES). In the feature, Chaplin is Li Although that level may seem enough of it left around today." MDA (Michigan Dept. of Agri- has kept a collection of deep- "It's a big business and a zens that there was nothing to made his last appearance. Charlie get a job in a factory minor, it is catastrophically But Willett's conclusions have culture) said they didn't need frozen deformed calves born to m e in b e r s h i p organiza- worry about." up sbotaging the machinery A mostly silent filn-with poisonous. As Lou Trombley, a been severely questioned. Just any help," Corbett said. He cows stricken with PBB. tion," Eckstein remarked. Sandler countered, saying the tion of Chaplin's famous nonsense song Hersey farmer, put it, "What this week, two more farms were sought an in itation for Selikoff "It's the economics of it, if "When its business interests legislature had failed to heed HAROLD AND MAU you can get under your finger- placed under quarantine by the from Milliken's office through you want to know the answer,'"W are thseatened, it can start a the governor s call for a lower nail can wipe out an entire herd Department of Agriculture, in- one of the governor's aides. He he said. "Two to three hundred communications chain. The abil- PBB tolerance limit since May, (Hal Ashby, 1971) 7, 8:45 and 10:30 of cows. That's how toxis the dicating that toxic levels of received no response. million dollars in damages - ity of t be Farm Bureau to gen- 1975. A charming love story of a necrophiliac teenager anda PBB do persist. "It would have been of no that's why the government cov- erate h-tters and other forms of Regardless of who is respon- old lady. Their meeting and their romance is a lovely m ' cost to the state," said Corbett, ered it up." pressure on the legislature, sible for the state's slow re- tale set aglow by some sharp, fresh jabs at motherhood Early in 1974, hundreds of FURTHERMORE, feed being whose own research is federally along with the governor's lack sponse to the PBB crisis, most tary, psychiatry, and computer dating. Music by CatI cows began to show the symp- sold today is still being tested funded. "AT SOME levels of the De- of leadership is responsible for observers concede the issue is cult fil that people see five or six times. Ruth o toms of a mysterious illness. and quarantined, despite the Without the go-ahead for Seli- partment of Agriculture, the state inaction on PBB." likely to have a big impact on co' i Adm ision:$2.00 double feature Milk production dipped drastic- fact that Farm Bureau Services koff, study plans lay dormant Farm Bureau just has too much Al Snndner, Milliken's press the 1978 gubernatorial and legis- ms $1 .25 single feature ally, gaping sores appeared on told its customers in May, 1974 for two and a half years. influence," remarked Peter secretary, disputed the charge lative elections. Milliken, as a the hidesirof the afflicted an- that the feed it was mixing was Eckstein, an economist on the that t1he governor was negli- result of a recall effort against " mats, their skin became abnor- no longer contaminated. LAST YEAR, a chance con- staff of the Michigan UAW. gent it handling PBB. him, has been bearing the brunt Sunda April 17 in MLB mally wrinkled and thick,thij of the adverse publicity so far. SudyApi17nML legs became weak, they lost Farm Bureau Services offic- versation between Corbett and "The Farm Bureau interest isty their appetites, and many cows ials insist they cleaned their Edie Clark, staff aide to Michi- different than the farmers' in- "IT'S KIND OF easy for It is far from sure that the ORPHEUS" delivered dead fetuses. PBB - contaminated plants in gan House Speaker Bobby Crim, terest." someoe to come in and start Democratic state leadership will July 1974, and determined that produced the necessary invita- Eckstein said that whenever secondi guessing what we could come out clean in a showdown AND THlE FIRST persons to probe they were safe. But Kingsley tion for Selikoff. The New York the Agriculture Department or shoaild have done," he said. over PBB. The party's control "RICH RD III the Fmysters nsvey t wre Kay, a New York doctor who doctor's preliminary findings, quarantined a herd of cattle, "Yot and I are speaking with of the state legislature may the mystery extensively wered researched the controversy and released in January, showed it increased the Farm Bureau's the beiiefit of hindsight. We feel make PBB as much of a liabil- FF. LHalbert, a farmeran authored an article published in high rates of nervous, skin, liability and made it easier for we always did move with dis- ity, in the eyes of the voters, who carefkson, th ver.Autop- the scientific journal Environ- joint, and gastro-intestinal dis- the farmer to collect damages. patch on the basis of what we es inmocrats as for Repub- Monday, April 18 in MLB sies of 24 of his cows that had mental Research, cited. a July orders among persons exposed For this reason, he said, the de- did know at the time. A died in six months showed that 1975 report from the Michigan to PBB. partment was often not aggres- Sandner denied that Milliken Aready, the approaching 1978 LUIS BUMUEL NIGHT seven had been afflicted with Senate Investigation Commit- The final Selikoff data will be sive in tracking down all the 1 paid special attention to Farm campaign seems to be stimu-I seven had been afflicted with lati~~ng morepulcdssio("T EC I NA LIE0 unexplained changes in their1 tee which contested the Farm available in several months. contaminated feed or in seeing Burean interests. "He's under lat ubic dsuso I livers and four with similar kid- Bureau Services' claim. Kay The Michigan State Depart- that affected farms were noti- constant pressure from interest of t PB iue deatif "T H I M I N A E 0 ney problems. wrote that cattle which had ment of Health conducted the fied and tested. groups on al side of every is- how future disasters like thenD not actually eaten the PBB- only other study of PBB's effect Eckstein also pointed the fing- sue,' he said..and Researchers pooled their find- tainted feed became contami- on humans. That was in 1974. 1er at Milliken himself for what T 1g E AGRICULTURE De- PBB contamination crisis can ings and established that the ated anyway. Persons from 90 per cent of the he termed his failure to respond partinent also attacked the be prevented, may serve the TRISTANA feed contained lethal accumula- "Three main routes of indi- quarantined farms were sam- to the PBB crisis. charger that it had protected the public asbmuch as any place- tions of PBB in May 1974. Six Fam ueu ahrta h ment of blame, months later the state's Depart- rect contamination appear like- pled against non-quarantined Far_ __ureau,_ratherthanthe ment of Agriculture set a to]- ly," Kay continued. "A) Clean i farm 'dwellers. The results "THE GOVERNOR'S record farm ers or the public: "That is! eran le ofeed was processed or mixed in showed no significant difference has been one of inaction, foot- 1 nonsen ise," commented depart- erance level of PBB umeat, contaminated elevators at the in the frequency of complaints dragging and taking at face ment spokeswoman Margaret milk, and eggs. If produce was Farm Bureau Services ... As between the groups. value the advice of some very McCrill. "Our whole interest is found to contain amounts of regards 16 herds studied by the biased members of the adminis- to asure that the public food PBB over the level, animals Food and Drug Administration HOWEVER, as Kay notes, tration, narticularly the Agri- supplly is safe. We have worked from the source farm w e as late as 1975, feed residues "In terms of family clusters, an culture Department." to eniforce the law. We haven't to be quarantined -not to be found in nine supplying mills interesting finding was that An aide to Michigan House been trying to help the Farm PBB level fell to the "safe" contained from 0 to 19 ppm of some of those on the nonquaran- Sneaker Bobby Grim exlained PBB . . . Cleanup between tined farms had had exposure why he thinks the Farm Bureau ( M