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Times staff reporter stationed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservaoon were scposed wthout warnmg to large doses of radioactive matenak, according to two veterans who say they and many of tbeu fellow Wis are dying of cancer caused by the releases more th#l30 years ago. The veterans' emotional tesn mony and their plea for an immediate investipnop into radiatlon accidents at Hanford was made yesterday dunng the fim day of a weeklong Centers for Disease Control pand meeting. Ihe pand wU deter ne If tuntrtr health ztudles are needed at the !EOsquare-miIe federal complex, hich began o p eranng in 1% to produce pluroruum for nuclear weapons. Tn-Clties and Spokane rcgldencs were subjected to mieases of mfioactive iodic from 1445.1956 that would mit urea national emeqcncy if they occurred today. "We'd call Out the Nnnonal Guard," said AI Conklin, an official of the nate Office of Radiation One of the two veterans who testified Richard Mecklenburg of Brpokings, Ore, said, in testimony read by his wifc, Rachd, as he stood at her side, ''I f e d oumged Meckienburg was stationed by the A m y at Camp Hanford in Battery B of the 518 AAA Banalion, an anu-almaft detachment, In the summer of 1954. MeckIenburg said h e was "involved in to b u n our clothes and were xrubbed. Then my halt fell OUI on the bunk. but when I complained it was useiess. Upon discharge I was not told of any possible aitereffects, but was just sent on back and berrayd by my camtry." was diagnosed ak havmg cancer- "The dmor told me a? that pomr the bepartmept, of Energy re classifled qorrs earlier this year, Meddenbarg cafculated that he tton) plant a iacilit): used to mraa plutonium For nuclear weapons that was shut dawn m called "A history of the REDOX was one of at I& nrny accidena Mecklenbuq said h e turned to Rep. Jim Weaver, D-On., when he nn into a bnck wall a t the DOE and other government agencies. An aide to Weaver. Wally Cummins. told the panel he has contacted five men among rhe 300 wno served in Battery B. Cummvs said rhnt of the five men "arc fighting massive battles with cancer. two have dled of cancer. For the three rtiU livirtg, their lives read like the scenario of Another Camp Hanford veeran. George Mwr of Mead. S p kane Coup, aim tofd the panel of his battle with the cancer he and Cummm atmbure to the REDOX The Energy Depamnent, in an April 1BU5 letter to Weaver, tfons were not locaicd in &tion areas. thus there wa3 no need to monitor milimy persomiel for stationed at Camp Hanford from h all. abaut 3,700 tradps wen Conklin and other state officiai mimared that an infanr living in the Tri-Ciries area dunng the penad of h i g ! radianon nieases from Hanford recuvcd doses to the chyrotd of m o R than 1,500 The dose assessments by the bffice of Radlauon Protection are the first to gauee the effects of the more than SO,-WI cunes of iodine 131 released from 1444-1956. By contrast, 15 anes were released cy, heard from more d m 30 state and governmenr officials and cjtizens yestetday. Most called for' release of radioacnvity from ranford posed a htalth threat. : 1 0539