European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1w7 the stars and stripes widespread fraud cited at hearing change in cleaning instruction labels urged Washington Upil citing wide spread fraud on labels which Tell Consumers How to Wash or otherwise care Tor a Federal Trade come Mission Tiffi car wednesday recommended major changes in the Labelling John who presided Over weeks of hearings into this ftps proposal to revise care recommended bleaching instructions be that both washing and dry Denning advice be Given and that the labels be required for first time on leather Yand suede carpels household furnishings and care labels were first required by i lie itx3 in 1971 sen Warren d told the Agency in 1975 that deception had particularly labels which said dry clean Only when in fact the garment could be washed and others which said do not Blench when bleaching was perfectly Etc investigations also revealed prob lems and the Agency last year proposed re Vised Label an which Gray held the record is Gray said in his report to the Ullh evidence at widespread and false care Labelling if could under mine the Consumers Trust in and Reliance upon the Ontl re care Labelling int it reasonable to expect thai before a manufacturer or importer places care instructions on id such instructions be appropriate Tor the product he asked apparently Many Label cars dont think and View care la Beling As just another government Regula Tion o Slough off with Only cursory Complin he said the government should require Persona who write the labels to have Evi Dence the instructions arc accurate before they put them among his specific recommendations language such As can or bleach when needed if Hal is the Magnuson had said the do not bleach Label frequently showed up need Lessly on baby depriving Consumers or a valuable  permanent labels of or leather garments warning that laundering and letting it Fly Mary Helen Barnes of Loase with a it fool Effort in the 1977 Indiana state fair tobacco spitting con test at the Fairgrounds in she was the Only woman to compete against h even though her try was ii eel Short at the Winner she won a Small Spittoon Lor her the Winner was Only three feel Short of a National press regular dry cleaning should not be Aid that a specialist should be sought out for the leather suede Market is with an estimated 11 to 13 million such Likely to be sold in the United states this labels on upholstered furniture and rugs to Tell Consumers How to remove both washing and dry cleaning instructions on clothes and fur in Shinjun except towels and the like the next step in for the Etc i Tiff to review Grays report and make final recommendations the five commissioners Hen will decide whether to Issue a final re Vised Rule and what it will say Mandel wont resume Job before sentencing my gov Marvin Mandel will not we aver his duties Between now and his sentencing on political corruption charges 7 when he automatic Al will be removed from Blair Lee Iii said operation of slate government is in my Lee said after an hour Long me Ellne with handels Only Hope of avoiding removal from office would be to gut a new before his thai is considered unlikely the Only tangible solid a statement thai Henna no intention of with drawing his designation of dated june As acting Leo said about his meeting with Lee said Mandel did not mention whether he might resign boffo his sentencing for conviction tuesday on 17 counts of mail fraud and one of u has been speculated that Mandel might not resign in order to retain his pen sinn of annually the Maryland attorney generals office said it was possible Mandel could lose his pension regardless of whether he resigned or was forced from but the Law is ambiguous regarding the Hes a Man who at this Point has Virtu ally no visible Means of Lee said he docs in Haw two Nickels to rub after ocl he Doest even have a roof Over hts if you think in going to him out acting Blair Lee in my hands of the governors mansion forget Lee while Mandel and prosecutors Dis agreed about whether hundreds of Twu Sands of dollars he received were Loans or there was agreement most of it was used to pay for his 1973 divorce from his first my financial Publ cams began with my Mandel said during Llic loser in Bias suit told to reimburse the Washington Lap a Black female pm plume of the Community services administration abused the judicial pro Cess by filing a sex and racial discrimination suit against the Federal District judge John Pratt Beer drinkers get heartening news Boston a a Beer a Day May keep a wort attacks a new study says researchers on a project called the Lynn Aiulu heart study have found Thill deaths trim heart merc twice As common Amund Teeto tales its men who downed nne or two bars u Day this finding is consistent with a Fossil ii direct of fort of a Kiihul intake m Peduti Bijj Ite risk of Imru Surj heart tire searchers think firt mss Wetre published in thurs Days Issue of the new England journal of Medicine an accompanying editorial in the Jour Nal warned while mud Eratt drinking May be heavy use of alcohol has been shown to cause Sunus heart in Milc tie Liui Nind the drinking Mer six of japanese men living in of Jill Tavel to find ail the report Thi i toss was far ass Nim nmn in Thuai Whu drink up to four boors a the there were 68 due to heart disease fur every whose Iho drank the equiv Alent of one or two Beers a there were per the researchers could not explain the but they speculated that drink ing Miry Aller tht1 Chol Istrol level in the Maxl about two thirds u the drinkers in the study used wily Tiu research liars crr nut Able to determine the effects of wine and hard liquor on heart the report also found no link Between Coffee of inking and heart Pratt ordered Barbara Copland to reimburse the Federal government for its costs in defending itself against her government attorneys said they would Bill her an or about How Praus ruling is believed to be the first in which a plaintiff in a Bias Case has been ordered to pay the Federal government after losing a said attorneys familiar with discrimination her alleging she was a victim of and racial discrimination because she Wax passed Over fur promo was filed in bad with an intent to harass her supervisors and generally vex the defendant through her abusive con Pratt ruled a  she claimed inc had been the victim of Job reprisals because Whir was a Union officer she was not available for comment in the her exact salary was not Dis but salaries in her Job Grade nor Mally average around a