European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Saturday november 17, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 7 los Sam r4f  % a % a a is vex so Vvs is or with All the efforts being made to con serve fuel we May be heading Back to asks lifting of by climate ban Washington up Abbott Labora tories asked the government thursday to lift its ban on by climates the artificial sweetener ordered off the Market three years ago As a possible cause of cancer. Abbott which was the largest producer of by climate before the ban filed a Peti Tion with the food and drug administration Fra saying that More than a dozen new studies have cleared the sweetener of any connection with cancer Fertility reproduction or birth defects. The Fra said it would review the new data before deciding whether to allow the sugar substitute Back into such elements of the food Supply As diet soft drinks and other Low calorie products. Ironically it was a study made for a Bott which led to the ban. Rats were fed High doses of by climate and 8 of 80 test animals developed tutors at least four of which were cancerous. Abbott admitted to the Fra thursday that the new studies do not explain fully Why the older tests produced such negative results. But it said the important aspect of the new studies was that they were unable to reproduce the negative result of the earlier tests. The bridle path to Church the horse and buggy Days. An example of those Good old Days is Diane Murray led to Dallas riot of Attleboro mass., As she rides with her father to the Church to be wed. Up cop is ruled guilty in youth s slaying Austin Tex. A a former Dallas policeman was found guilty of murder thursday for the shooting death of a 12 year old mexican american boy that touched off a riot in downtown Dallas Las summer. Montreal jury clears doctor in abortion Montreal a a Canadian doctor who testified that he has performed "6,000 to 7,000 abortions in the past two years has been acquitted of performing one of them illegally. A jury of 11 men and one woman found or. Henry Morgentaler 50, innocent of performing an illegal abortion on a graduate student. Abortions Are Legal in Canada Only when a Hospital Board decides that one is necessary for the woman s health. A jury returned the guilty verdict against Darrell Cain 30, after 5 /2 hours of deliberation. Cain admitted shooting Santos Rodri Guez in his Dallas squad car about 2 30 . July 24 As he questioned the hand cuffed boy and his brother about a service station burglary. Cain testified that he thought he had emptied his .357 magnum pistol before holding it near Rodriguez s head and pulling the trigger in an attempt to make him talk. The trial before judge de Gossett was moved to Austin because of publicity i Dallas. The jurors were to return Friday to de cide punishment and Rule on whether Cain acted with malice. If the jury decides Cain acted without malice he could receive two to five years in the Penitentiary. Murder with malice carries a possible life sentence. Connolly denies taking Dairy Money Washington a former . Treasury Secretary John b. Connally de Nied emphatically thursday night that he Ever accepted Money for his help in arranging higher . Government support prices for the nation s Dairy Industry. Connally emerged from a closed door interrogation session with Senate watergate committee lawyers and told reporters anyone that supposes he was present when i received a payment is a  those making such charges Are opera Ting out of motives that Are neither Good nor fair but vicious Connally , who said he does not expect to be called As a witness when the committee opens Public hearings into the so called milk Deal later this month acknowledged he had favored higher Dairy prices. Published reports Connally said the committee lawyers questioned him about published reports denied by Connally that he received $15, 000 for his role in the decision to approve higher Price supports. He said his position was in no Way re lated or linked to Large contributions from the Dairy Industry to president Nixon s re election Campaign. He did say however that he was told in 1971 by Jacob Jacobson then the general manager of the Texas based american milk producers inc., that $10,000 was available for contributions to the Nixon Campaign next year. Connally said Jacobson a former White House staff member offered to allow him to designate where the funds should go but i said i did not want to do so because i was a Democrat in a Republican  now a Republican Connally who headed democrats for Nixon in the last presidential Campaign and who has since become a Republican said at the time of the milk support controversy he had consistently refused to involve himself with partisan politics. That controversy entered on a March 12, 1971 decision by Clifford Hardin then Secretary of agriculture to hold the milk support Price at $4.66 per hundredweight or about 80 per cent of parity. The decision brought forceful protests from dairymen and their professional associations. On March 25, following a meeting involving Connally the president Hardin and Dairy Industry representatives Price supports were increased to $4.93 per hundredweight. Swiss lower Speed limit Bern Switzerland a the Swiss government has decided to reduce the Speed limit on the country s highways to 62 Miles per hour but did not ban weekend driving As have other european countries because of the Oil crisis. High society women urge gonorrhoea testing new York not the Junior league of new York and the City s Bureau of venereal disease control announced thursday a joint Campaign to get women to demand regular testing for gonorrhoea now the most prevalent. Disease that women Here have to worry about a Bureau spokesman said and rapidly mov ing into the suburbs and Park  speaking at the Junior league club House Here or. Vernal Cave the Bureau director predicted 200,000 new cases of gonorrhoea among females in new York Cit this year. Describing As a first the league s sup port in this important Public health prob Lem Frank Santora educational director of the Bureau said the women in this room Are part of the  a few years ago we could not have got such women involved in such a program he said. The Junior league a National organization whose members Are the social upper crust of their communities de scribes itself As an organization with Volunteer members who train for leadership in meeting Community needs through a program of projects and  under a Crystal chandelier in the Junior league clubhouse which was the Vincent Astor mansion until 1927, a technician tested blood samples drawn from 12 members of the league s venereal disease Educa Tion committee. To emphasize the Point that All such tests Are confidential no re sults were disclosed. Another health department spokesman said the department was excited about the Junior league participation because of the need to break through the Barrier to reach Middle class  this is the first time Well to do women have publicly associated themselves with what has been considered a very Sleazy disease he said. Christine Valentine chairman of the venereal disease education Campaign acknowledged that the new project was a Long reach from the Green Ostrich Feather fans and the traditional Junior league Waltz of the new York organization s 25-year succession of Debutante balls. But i would t consider it atypical she said. The Junior league has been involved in the area of health for All of its 75 years and we re often the first volunteers in a Field we try to pick the ones where volunteers really Aren t  the league committee members most of whom have jobs have written and re corded eight radio spot announcement Sand produced one videotape for Cable Tele vision All concerning the gonorrhoea Detec Tion program. The announcements have already been accepted by some stations. Following orientation and training ses Sions with the Bureau of venereal disease control Over a period of five months the committee now functions As a speakers Bureau available for appearances at women s organizations