European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday May 6, 1977 in drinking wafer chlorine hinted As cancer cause stotes de Oregon u. Faculty moves to ban Campus Roth Eugene Ore. Up the University of Oregon faculty has voted 86-7ttorecom new York a a researcher who headed a cancer study group has found a possible link Between drinking chlorinated water and cancer of the bladder and Gastro inc spinal  Alavanja. An assistant professor at Hunter College said a study of i.500deaths from cancer of the Gastro intestinal and urinary tract showed a Strong Statis tical association Between the deaths and the use of chlorinated  Alavanja. Who headed a team of co Lumbia University researchers for the study said analysis of upstate water sup plies for other possible cancer causing agents must be done before any conclusions Are drawn. He said research was along Way from proving a causal relation ship Between chlorinated water and  study was undertaken in upstate new York As part of a Federal program under which the environmental Protection administration sought information on the Gao finds lax Security at nuke Sites Washington a congressional investigators have reported finding lax Security procedures at nuclear fuel processing facilities in Tennessee. Pennsylvania and  general accounting office cited in rope Ray tested Security alarms unclear requirements As to where armed guards should be placed poor control practice for employees at the plants and Lack of emergency lighting at certain key Security  Gao. An investigatory Branch of Congress released the findings at a House Energy and Power subcommittee earlier this week but did not name the plants involved. Sites disclosed however committee chairman John . A Mich. Identified them in a statement As the nuclear fuel services Plant in Erwin. Tenn. The Babcock and Wilcox co. At two locations near  and the now closed Kerr Mcgee nuclear corp. Plant in Crescent.  report said Gao found specific shortcomings in the physical Security sys tems used at the three licensees visited. The Gao said that unlike commercial Power plants which handle Low Grade uranium not suitable for use in atomic weapons the nation s commercial fuel fabrication and processing facilities employ Large quantities of plutonium and highly enriched  these substances can be used for build ing atomic weapons. Consequently these facilities Are attractive  the Gao said. There Are currently 13 such plants operating in the . At one of the commercial nuclear fuel fabricators Gao visited significant quantities of plutonium had gone unaccounted for for about 1 to Imi months the report said. It said that while the Security at the plan twas Good enough to assure that the plutonium was not removed from it neither the Plant operators nor the nuclear regulatory commission could be certain whether the loss was due to clerical error to measurement inaccuracies or to actual  possible presence of chloroform in water supplies in various communities. The Columbia team surveyed the death certificates of 1500 women in seven up state counties who had died of cancer of the Gastro intestinal or urinary tracts be tween 1968 and 1970. Only women were studied because women were More Likely to have been drinking water in the  controls the cancer deaths were matched with a like number of deaths fro Mother causes. The Matching was done by age race county of origin and  we found Alavanja said wednesday was that the cancer death clustered in areas served by chlorinated  is what we would expect to find if there was a causal relationship but it does t prove that there is one the cancer deaths used in the study occurred in the counties of Allegany. Cattaraugus Chautauqua Erie Rensselaer Stlawrence and Schenectady. Older the matter in  to faculty Assembly has voted on i my Sass Tott Gyi a Fht Meths Horary however because a parliamentary Kneuver resulted in a decision to recon Force 2 Mary Tyler Moore show stars get to series on tuesdays will have Asner in the role i City editor of a los Angeles newspaper. The Betty White show will be a half hour series on mondays in which the Star car Mary lbs fall new York api the. Tyler Moore show won t be i television lineup but iwo featured Stayert Iran that series Edward Asner and Bett White will have shows of their own. The one hour weekly de Asner show plays a movie actress who embarks of second career to television. Comedienne Totie Fields to have Eye surgery los Angeles a american comedienne Totie Fields whose left leg was amp Taek no Tea user 5bsa3s?, involves using Light beams to Seal off blood vessels that have Haemorrhage a and caused formation of Scarf Uffre Cleu Taloiv problem aether comedienne s leg was amputated because of a severe circulatory proo Iem. One had resumed her nightclub act just last month. No props for next miss .a., promoters soy Charleston . A promoters of the 1st7 miss .a. Pageant Promise contestants for the first time will Wear to tally in constructed one piece swim suits. That Means no Bra or other construction. That s what the vast majority of our contestants have told us they want to be judged on. Not on How much help the get from their swimsuit says Harold l. Glasser president of miss universe inc. Competition begins May 12 and the Winner will be selected May 14. A protest pageant sponsored by the National organization for women is planned for Charleston on May 13 to choose a or.  contest promoters have said the Competition is open to men Between the Ages of id and 28 who Are of Good moral  Brandeis agrees to keep soviet refugee prof Waltham mass. Tupi Brandeis University has agreed to keep a soviet jewish refugee professor on its staff head ing off a hunger strike threatened by Stu  officials originally decided not to a Chirac David Zilberman. A philosophy pro Fessor who had been employed for the past two years citing budgetary  240 students rallied to the univer sity s Rabb graduate Center following Amock funeral which they said mourned the slow death of Liberal arts at the  students threatened to begin a hunger strike if the school did not Rehler Zilberman. Inventor predicts Boom in electric bikes Chicago a an inventive manufacturer says 10 million electric bicycles and tricycles May be travelling american streets in the years ahead. Joe o Neill who first rigged an electric motor to a Bike when he was 12, holds a Patent on an electric Power pack that can be installed on any bicycle. He is assistant to the president of a new Jersey company which also markets its own electric Bicy cles and  predicted that within five years the Young electric Bike Industry will have about 10 per cent of the bicycle Market As americans search for Energy saving alter Nate methods of close in transportation. Aims for the top Dolly i Arton. Queen of country has sets her sights on the lop of the pop Rock Market an audience that has been increasingly willing to lend an ear to the Nashville product. A photo 17 aged Spanish american vets assemble yol Neville. Calif. Up time i thinning the ranks of the nation s Spanish american War veterans but 17 of the turned out for recognition  ceremonies at the California veterans Home marked the 79th anniversary of the declaration of War against Spain. Veterans of that conflict about 400strong nationwide Are believed to have an average age of 98. Housewife dope ring arrests go on Chicago i api a 30-year-old Manas arrested wednesday As agents continued their efforts against what they called Aring of suburban housewives led by a cub scout Den Mother who peddled dope i shopping Center parking lots. Donald Smith the husband of one of three women seized tuesday was charged with Possession of marijuana. He had pro fessed to know nothing of the charges involving his 17-year-old wife . Smith and Carol Ann Shane 27, were arrested tuesday in the Shane Home by agents who said they penetrated the group that operated quietly among the ranch style houses carports and Barbecue pits of Chicago s Western suburbs. Also seized after the agents said the purchased 12.000 dollars in illicit pills was William Seybold 27. An Iron worker with pistol strapped to his ankle under his Trou Sers. Police said he supplied the won with narcotics. Spokesman John Hinchy said that the women sold marijuana and illicit pills known As Speed in shopping Center Park ing lots to put a Little Money in the cookie Jar. Hinchy said undercover agents first purchased narcotics from the women out Side a shopping Center in the suburb of Hoffman estates. He said mrs. Shane and mrs Smith were seized in the Shane Home along with Seybold. After they agreed to introduce the investigators to their sup plier. Two thirds of the families out Here smoke marijuana occasionally a neighbor estimated "