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‘BULLETIN . 4 WASHINGION COMNITTSE FOR 4 SANS FUCLEAR POLICY * WCSiP WICNESS TESTIFIES OF RADIATION to a Senate subcommittee by a young mother representing the “ashingt: 2 aes Le -~ AD &pp = 7. be | CommitteeTor a Sane Kuclear Policy bra reaped artionwitse news coverage. .--—-- LucillpHarris, mother of a 13-nonth-old son and expecting her second child in Auz- h Bee AT es i 3rPa iaeuse ust, estified in favor of more money for radiation rescarch as a group of mothers and their children crowded the hearing roon. The story and a photo went out nationally through the tire services. The Vache ington Post carried a long story and photo; The News published a photo; The Star earried a story. visited irs. Harris to tape-record her testimony, WOP Radio and. TV carried accounts of the event, while ABC News WDC conducted a teped intervier The Yorthern Virginia Sun emphasized the local anrcle of participrtion by Virginia mothers, some of whom carried small bebies on their ems, about 70 Lister Hilt! mothers and children ettended the hearing on May 18 before Senator s Subcommittee on Appropriations for Hsalth, Mucation and Velfare. Mrs Harris called for funds for radiation research by the Public Health Service. “] can assure you," Mre, Harris told the committee, “that a pregnant voman's pormal fears are multiplied by the thouzht that her unborn child y invisible particles coming from bonds manufectured and tested might be deformed by her fellow nen. "I can't tell you what a mother of growing children gees through when she wor- ries whether che is puisoning her child with radioactivity every time she gives hin a glass of milk or a piece of bread." ans Se se ee eer elt arr el eer leh reel el ele le SOnE COniEi2S ON THIS ISSUE As e@ result of the publicity, phone cell: came in from nevsneper readers interest & of thanks in SANE's progren, Ve all owe Mrs. Lucille Harris a vote / for the actions described on this pege. It is to be hoped that this presagzes the veginning of a "direct action" group which will continue to make the SAE position known. The hearings described on radiation perils underline the rather tentative significance of things like Humphrey's S, Res. 96. 411 politicians are for mother- hood - but when the chips are dotn, how many are for maternal and child health p+ grams? foo late to make the Literature round wp ie a new book, The West in Crisis, by Janes P, Warburg, a Doubleday paper bock. ., -_— —_= ae _—— Pa ne < - om Tis is an excellent study, wnich ali should read. a There will soon be hearings on the effects of nuclear wat, and it 18 anti- cipated that the picture created of mass destruction will not only scare us half to derth, but will make us determined to increrse our “deterrent” power, As these hearings go on, each of us should make a drawing more intelligent con= - The idea of politicel ection by a grow mathere avnivead fram tra meetings HY Wwe FWY Fe — eaten = ial a workshop on radiation which was set up followlng the last membership neeting. Interest in fallout hazards is now run- ning so strongly that followup action 4s being planned for the near future. Be] of Lister Hill is the chairmen of another subcommittee which heard testinony on ._ hie bill to transfer radiation eafety: control to the Public Health Service. Ve were unable to testify before this other subcommittee because only tech- nical experts were given such an cpport~ unity. . Senator Hill, however, has in- formed us through the Committee Clerk that he was very favorably impressed by tes Harrie! teemoyavage -\ YX Letters to. Senators and the Washington newspepers in favor of such a transfer are urgently necded if it is to ant off o the ground. £0 ce