European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 measles shots set for schools Atlanta a a program to immunize at least 90 per cent of the nations this fall for measles and other childhood diseases was announced Friday by the National Center for disease the program will include a special Effort to Stem outbreaks of which have increased markedly in some states this the cd said state Public health officials will be urged to enforce school immunization Laws More actively than Ever Many states have Laws requiring children to be immunized against measles in order to attend Public but the Laws often go were going to try to get the older children vaccinated As Well As those entering school for the first Neal a medical epidemiologist in the cacs division of said in an if we can get the older i feel that we can Stem the outbreak of Mea he we have usually managed to vaccinate Only about two thirds or three fourths of the kids in the As of the cacs figures showed cases of measles nationwide this compared with at the same Point in expects cases Halscy said the cd expects at least 000 cases by the end of the the record is cases in 1971 the Low was in the mortality rate from measles is about one in but the disease can cause permanent brain states reporting major increases in measles to the cd include 159 this year compared with at the same time last year Virginia and 730 Kansas and 661 Iowa and 41 Minnesota and 389 and Missouri 945 and California Law requires but officials say enforcement in some areas has been the legislature has a Bill pending to provide to improve school record keeping and reporting o childhood the Bill also would give school districts More Power to require documentation of immunization from Virginia plans to bar from classes Chil Dren who have not been and a new Law goes into effect in Iowa requiring children to be immunized against measles and other the cd said itis encouraging states also to press for immunization against pertussis and no outbreaks of those diseases have been Brock urges boost nato spending Washington up ii Republican National chairman Bill Brock urged presi Dent Carter to increase defense spending for conventional forces and weapons in nato Brock said he was concerned with news reports that Carter was being urged to adopt a secret plan to give up one third of West Germany if there were a communist attack on Western Kurosu administration spokesmen denied there is such a but Brock the members of my party would be willing to stand with the president to spend the Money necessary to strengthen our conventional weapons and conventional forces in nato countries and 1 believe most democrats would As the Price of Freedom is but the Congress realizes that the Price must be he said melodies in Manhattan folksinger Odetta sends out her earthy tones Over Manhattan at a recent music for the City evening concert held at Rockefeller up Golden Gate Bridge suicide Barrier debate remains undecided san Francisco a the Golden Gate an ominous Shadow when shrouded in Brilliant Burnt Orange in the spans a narrow Gap in the coast Between san Francisco and the mountains of Marin county to the some have called the Graceful Span an invitation to a debate has raged for almost 30 years Over whether to build a Barrier to discourage such talk was expected to be put to rest but instead Bridge officials left the Issue in 40 years since the Bridge was 618 people Are known to have jumped to their death from the Scenic authorities believe hundreds of others have slipped quietly off in the dark of ten have survived the including one who told David of an Affinity Between the Golden Gate Bridge and death there is a kind of form to a certain Grace and since Bridge officials have talked of a Barrier to would be some thing to discourage the spans macabre at a recent meeting of the Bridge Dis a subcommittee recommended scrapping plans for a once and for but in a Surprise move directors told Bridge engineers to report in 90 Days on the possibility of building an eight foot Barrier three to four years from when the existing Bridge railing is due for say a Barrier could be in stalled at a Cost of p million to w several designs have been proposed Over the the most recent an eight foot lightweight much has been said during the Long bar Rier debate of the attraction of the Golden Gate Bridge for in addition to the 618 known 550 would be jumpers have been pulled off the one a Young Man with the number 500 stencilled on his Back who appeared in 1973 As to cameras watched in anticipation of the 500th one Side of the Bridge offers a View of the Pacific the other the jumpers looks out on san Francis the Bay and the Silver Bay Bridge run Ning to its a View carried by most jumpers As they step Over the oot railing and plunge 200 feet to the cold water one of the More vocal opponents of the san Francisco supervisor and Bridge director John switched his position claiming a vote for the Barrier the right thing to who had called those pushing for a Barrier said he bad personal second More than 400 Barrier supporters marched across the Bridge last a few Days after the 40th anniversary of the Bridges the Golden Gate Bridge is far and away the single most deadly spot in the world right psychologist Richard Seidon said it is the 1 spot for opponents claim the Barrier would ruin the Bridges Graceful lines and that people Bent on self destruction simply would find another Way to do away with who has interviewed Many of the despondent people pulled from the Bridges said 95 per cent did not go on to kill themselves its like having a loaded gun around the Seiden new taxes t i i s re on natural Gas blasted j Washington a president car ters proposed new taxes at natural Gas would Only Lead to More Reliance on foreign Oil leaders of natural Gat associations told the Senate the nations Gas Supply is being Given Short said George president of the american Gas Assoc a who spearheaded the attack on car ters attempts to tax Oil and Gas As an incentive for utilities to convert their Power plants to Coal and nuclear Carters program Calls for rebating the fuel tax to utilities to offset the costs of new Coal burning equipment but Lawrence and other witnesses told the Senate finance committee that pro duct on incentives to find new sources of natural Gas Are what is needed not an other there is general agreement that a Gas shortage is the result of the counterproductive Federal regulations and policies which have kept Gas prices regulated Well below the minimum level that would pro Mote exploration for and development of new said he said the artificially Low Price of Gas has encouraged its expanded often leading to wasteful Lawrence also said that the administrations plan May create a serious Energy Supply problem by setting goals for and electrical Powers while inhibiting natural Gas which he said can Only result in increasing Reliance on foreign Oil lawrences association represents 300 natural Gas transmission and distribution companies whose members serve Over 160 million providing More than 85 per cent of the Gas Utility service in this Bud executive director of the Energy Consumers and producers association of said the Price of new Oil and Gas must be fully de controlled to enable the increasing costs of exploration and development to be the Siergy Consumers and producers association is an organization of primarily inde pendent Oil and Gas in earlier executives said new taxes on Oil and natural Gas in the Carter Energy plan would run up household electricity Bills and give the companies a fiscal Japan Volcano Tokyo a mount Usu Volcano on japans northernmost main Island of Hok Kaido has erupted hurting smoke and ashes As High As meteorologists the Dandy of time 1m7 four Zumm shells landed on gatow Airfield in the British sector of Only one of the shells exploded and no one was the origin of the shells Wai 1957 thousands of workers staged a strike in polish communist party chief Wladyslaw Gomulka tent army and police reinforcements to us City to help control the 1k7 Britain Prince Charles made the news when he pulled a 48yearold Conleu into a swimming Pool during a party in