The Michigan Daily-Friday, January 23, 1981-Page 7 ---I bib, is preserved on 3mmTMOROFHX The Michigan Daily 420 Maynard Street AND Graduate Library the ann arbor film cooperative PRESENTS TONIGHT ,TONIGHT THESE TWO SQUAWFISH are similar-to 14 others which were allegedly stolen from the National Fish Hatchery in Arizona last November. Federal game authorities have indicted three men in connection with the theft, which wiped out 10 years of scientific efforts to restock the fish, an endangered species of freshwater salmon. .ishrh y AFRICAN QUEEN 2:00, 4:00, 7:00 89:00 MICHIGAN THEATRE ® 1:00 3:1s" 530 PICNIC AT P7145 1 00 0 HANGING 2 for the Price of 1 FIRST FAMILY ROCK 130 530 930 7:00 & 9:00 FORMULA MLB4 330-730 Admission: $2 INTERESTED LS&A STUDENTS LS&A Student Government is holding interviews for: 2 seats on the Student-Faculty Policy Board. 1 seat on the LS&A Student Government Council. 1 seat on the Michigan Student Assembly. Interviews will be held Monday, Jan. 26. Sign up for interviews at the LSA-SG office. 4th floor of the Union. LSA Student Government is also starting Action Groups for students interested in working on a variety of academic and nonacademic issues. NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED Get Involved-You CAN Make a Difference Call 763-4799 PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP)-Three men who allegedly stole and probably ate 14 fish from a hatchery wiped out 10 years of scientific efforts to restock an endangered species of fresh-water salmon, a federal official said yesterday. Bob Wright, special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said 14 of the 27 adult Ptychocheilus lucius in captivity were stolen the night of Nov. 26 from the National Fish Hatchery at Willow Beach in northwestern Arizona. MAKING, IT EVEN worse, 12 females were taken, leaving only two alive. And, said Wright, "that's not enough for a genetically divergent pool from which to develhpa hardy population." Steven Alan Runyon, 25; Jeffrey Alan Brown, 28, and Russell Orick Christie, 23, all from Las Vegas, Nev., have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the incident. They are charged with theft of government property, interstate transportation of stolen property, and possession of an endangered species. Possible penalties range up to a $20,000 fine, a year in prison, or both, for each stolen fish. THE HATCHERY, about 40 miles from Las Vegas, is surrounded by a wire fence. Individual breeding tanks are also fenced and under covered sheds. The missing fish-sometime known as squawfish-were in a 108-foot-long, clear-water raceway that is eight feet wide and four feet deep. The squawfish, a large game fish, long was a staple of life for Colorado River Indian tribes, but becameendangered-after giant dams kept the fish from natural breeding areas. Wright said the stolen fish "were the largest fish in the hatchery, the ones that looked the best to eat." He said females "are much bigger than the males, and appear the best to eat." WRIGHT SAID THERE was evidence that the missing fish were eaten but he could not divulge it pending trial of the three men. The fish grow to a length of 17 to 25 inches. Wright said fish scientists believe that if bred suc- cessfully in the hatchery, the fish could replenish itself easily if released above the dams. "This is no little one-inch endangered species that nobody can see in the water," he said. "These have the potential for being of tremendous value as food and sport fish." They are not known to exist other than in the Colorado and its tributaries. The fish breed between the age of 6and 12, and can live about 28 years, he said. The missing ones were about 6 years old, "just approaching the best breeding age." * MA AZINE ACCUSED OF SUPPRESSING INFORMA TION: Medical journals argue BOSTON (AP) - The nation's two major medical journals have turned their gentlemanly rivalry into a bitter public squabble with one accusing the :other of suppressing the free flow of in- formation in the medical world. At issue is the New England Journal's long-standing, policy of refusing to publish studies that have been reported elsewhere, including newspaper ar- 'ticles - based on interviews with the researchers. THE JOURNAL OF the American Medical Association, known as JAMA, says that policy is "unrealistic and eleitist." It says that because of this "attempted information monopoly," doctors refuse to discuss their work before it is published, resulting in in- complete and inaccurate reporting of the latest medical developments. 4 JAMA blasted the New England Journal and its editor, Dr. Arnold Relman, in two sharply worded editorials published in today's issue. In an interview, Relman responded that the criticism was "misinformed and misguided." The so-called "Ingelfinger Rule" is a recurring source of controversy for the New England Journal, generally xregarded as America's leading Medical journal. The policy is named for its in- stigator, former Editor Franz Ingelfinger, who died last March. RELMAN DEFENDS the policy as a way to keep researchers from releasing inaccurate, half-baked findings to the world. Instead, he feels, such work should be subjected to the scrutiny of journal editors and medical reviewers. The JAMA editorials, written ,by staff editors Gail McBride and Dr. Lawrence Grouse, complain that scien- tists are afraid to talk to reporters about their work, even if chances are slim that it will ever be published in the New England Journal. "Dr. Relman would like to call the shots for all and say when it's all right policy to report on medical information and when it's not," JAMA wrote. "Are clinical investigators going to continue to allow such an unrealistic and elitist attitude to prevail?" JAMA Editor William R. Barclay said in an interview that he decided to run the editorials because the Ingelfinger Rule was causing trouble for reporters in JAMA's Medical News section, a weekly digest of the top health news. FLICKS!! AT - MIDNIGHT HARDR.+4 T E "THE FIRST t,,,+ rnnnnn R A .:; L.1