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Alamogordo Daily News - By Joan E. Price, For the Daily News - TULAROSA - Ranchers and citizens of the Tularosa Basin were originally told that the searing light rising into the sky on July 16, 1945, was a military ammunition cache that exploded. Henry Danley, founder of Sanders and Danley Feed and Supply Store in Alamogordo, was manning a military watch tower that morning. He was ordered not to tell anyone anything; he told friends and family much later. Fred Tyler, a son of Rufina Tyler Utter, of Tularosa, heard the story often from his mother before she died of multiple bouts with various cancers. Tina Cordova grew up in Tularosa. She has had thyroid cancer and has lost family members to cancer. She looked up statistics on the Internet under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for auto-immune diseases and cancers. For example, in 1999, the national average was 202.7 per 100,000 people, but in Otero County, it was 694.6. In Lincoln County it was 764.5 per 100,000 people. "From year to year, the numbers are very consistent," she said. Cordova and Tyler founded the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium several years ago to gather data from family histories and individuals who may have been damaged by Trinity radiation exposure. Then they decided to push for financial compensation like the downwinders in Utah and Nevada received to ease the often devastated incomes of cancer families. They took
the data to congressional offices. A thorough historic review began of the clandestine Los Alamos project that brought the Trinity Test to the basin has been completed under the CDC. The final report, the Los Alamos Historic Retrieval and Assessment Project that contains an "unprecedented" wealth of additional information and recommendations to the Department of Energy, will be presented at a public meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Tularosa Community Center, 1050 Bookout Road. "We had radioactive ash fall three days later in La Luz, Tularosa and Alamogordo. Ash was found in six counties," Tyler said. "What we have been told is that when a mother of childbearing age is exposed to high doses of radiation, her eggs are genetically altered." "I believe that is why there are generations, including those born shortly after the test, having cancers," Tyler added. "We have some very unusual cancers like brain, esophageal and thyroid cancer that have been directly linked to radiation exposure."
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CDC to talk about Trinity Test impacts, recommendations
From the Alamogordo Daily News - By Joan E. Price, For the Daily News - TULAROSA - Ranchers and citizens of the Tularosa Basin were originally told that the searing light rising into the sky on July 16, 1945, was a military ammunition cache that exploded. Henry Danley, founder of Sanders and Danley Feed and Supply Store in Alamogordo, was manning a military watch tower that morning. He was ordered not to tell anyone anything; he told friends and family much later. Fred Tyler, a son of Rufina Tyler Utter, of Tularosa, heard the story often from his mother before she died of multiple bouts with various cancers. Tina Cordova grew up in Tularosa. She has had thyroid cancer and has lost family members to cancer. She looked up statistics on the Internet under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for auto-immune diseases and cancers. For example, in 1999, the national average was 202.7 per 100,000 people, but in Otero County, it was 694.6. In Lincoln County it was 764.5 per 100,000 people. "From year to year, the numbers are very consistent," she said. Cordova and Tyler founded the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium several years ago to gather data from family histories and individuals who may have been damaged by Trinity radiation exposure. Then they decided to push for financial compensation like the downwinders in Utah and Nevada received to ease the often devastated incomes of cancer families. They took 
the data to congressional offices. A thorough historic review began of the clandestine Los Alamos project that brought the Trinity Test to the basin has been completed under the CDC. The final report, the Los Alamos Historic Retrieval and Assessment Project that contains an "unprecedented" wealth of additional information and recommendations to the Department of Energy, will be presented at a public meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Tularosa Community Center, 1050 Bookout Road. "We had radioactive ash fall three days later in La Luz, Tularosa and Alamogordo. Ash was found in six counties," Tyler said. "What we have been told is that when a mother of childbearing age is exposed to high doses of radiation, her eggs are genetically altered." "I believe that is why there are generations, including those born shortly after the test, having cancers," Tyler added. "We have some very unusual cancers like brain, esophageal and thyroid cancer that have been directly linked to radiation exposure." Read more
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