European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday september 3, 1977 Aldene Haskell of Chelsea mass., went All the Way wet in her attempt to Epa to hold hearings on pesticide Chicago a hearings will be held on whether to ban the pesticide a Bop a Likely cause of sterility in men and a Possi ble cancer causing agent a top Federal environmental official says. We re going to bring out the facts to see if regulation is necessary Douglas Costle environmental Protection Agency administrator said thursday. It s not just sterility we re talking about. This May be cancer causing he  would t go into such procedures without a pretty Clear indication of a Case otherwise we would t be considering Steps that could Lead to this a Bane told a news conference at a National meeting of the american cancer society that companies producing a Bop Dibro Mohlor propane will be Given a Chance to comment at the hearings Date for which will be announced during the next week. Dow chemical Shell chemical and the Occidental chemical companies voluntarily stopped production of the pesticide after Occidental reported that its male production workers in Lathrop Calif., were re porting a High incidence of sterility. A Cool step temper the effects of a 90-plus Day in Boston. She simply stretched out on the first Ever Calif test Steps of the City Hall Plaza Fountain and let the water Cool her. Up pot smoked by 1 in 5 drunk Driver suspects Sacramento Calif. Up initial results in a first Ever California test show that More than one in five motorists stopped for Drunken driving have marijuana in their blood it was Learned thursday. Officials said indications Are that As More blood is sampled the incidence rate will jump to one in four. The preliminary report of the Experiment by the state Justice department Dis closed that 22 per cent of 291 blood samples drawn from suspected Drunken Drivers contained varying amounts of marijuana. That s High assistant Highway patrol commissioner Lloyd Sellers commented about the findings. I am sur  the initial findings covered the first three months of the year Long project. A researcher who asked not to be identified said that unpublished results from the second reporting period indicate an in crease to 26 per cent in the number of Sam Ples that contained marijuana. Some Law enforcement officials have Long suspected that Many motorists stopped for Drunken or erratic driving but who easily passed sobriety tests were using marijuana or a combination of Mari Juana and some form of liquor. The Justice department and the state office of traffic safety began the federally financed $82,000 Experiment in april to de Termine the incidence of marijuana use by Drivers suspected of being intoxicated. The samples Are gathered from suspects and Analysed in a private Laboratory in los Angeles. The Drivers Are not told that their blood is being used in a marijuana study and they Are not subject to additional charges because of the findings. Officials said this was the first time a study of this Type has been done in the United states one traffic safety official indicated that Many of the blood samples containing mar Ijuana came from Middle income motorists in their 30s who were apparently Well educated. The study results obtained by up showed that 16.1 per cent of 124 Drivers who failed blood alcohol sobriety tests also had been smoking marijuana in a four hour period prior to arrest. But 26.4 per cent of 167 samples of motorists who were at the legally intoxicated .10 per cent blood alcohol level or below had traces of marijuana in their blood. Sirhan plea for return is denied los Angeles a a judge refused thursday to allow Sirhan Sirhan convicted Assassin of sen. Robert f. Kennedy to return to the scene of the killing. Superior court judge William Hogo Boom scoffed at suggestions that Sirhan s memory could be refreshed about the shooting he says he cannot remember and said to Grant Sirhan s wish would be to operate the court on the basis of old wives  i know of no scientific evidence which shows that returning a person to the scene revives his memory Hogoboom said. Sirhan s lawyer Godfrey Isaac had conveyed to the court his client s request to be taken from Soledad state prison to the Kitchen of the ambassador hotel in los Angeles to see if he could remember what happened on the night of june 5,1968. That was when Kennedy was shot moments after winning the California democratic presidential primary. Second gunman involved in recent years controversy has Arisen Over whether a second gunman might have been involved. Sirhan interviewed by two los Angeles county supervisors at Soledad some 160 Miles South of san Francisco said his mind was Blank about the shooting. During the hearing Hogoboom commented once a year i get invited to a luncheon at which i m told that John Wilkes Booth did t kill  he indicated that he placed theories about sir Han s innocence in the same category. However his refusal came on a technical Point that there is no Legal precedent which gives his court jurisdiction to return a criminal to the scene of a crime. No Appeal planned outside court Isaac told reporters he would visit Sirhan soon and urge him not to Appeal Hogoboom s decision. The attorney said he Felt the jurisdictional matter was properly resolved but that it would have been in the Public interest to let Sirhan return to the ambassador. People All Over the world Are interested in this he said. If Sirhan went Back and realized he alone shot sen. Kennedy it would have put this matter to  similarly he said the Assassin might have remembered other possible participants in the shooting. However Isaac said Sirhan s main goal now is to win release when he comes up for parole in 1984. He said the palestinian born Sirhan wants to return to society. Hungarian troupe attacked Tehran a a hungarian theater troupe known As the squats was showered with bricks and stones when it staged a partly nude performance on a Street Corner in Shiraz during the annual International Art festival there a Tehran news paper reported. White House is sympathetic to tax easing plan Washington is the White House has indicated its support of Legisla Tion to ease Federal income taxes on re tired Federal and postal workers annuities. At a meeting with officers of the nation Al association of retired Federal employ is Carter aides appeared very sympathetic to such a tax easing proposal for the retirees. While not making any specific commit ments White House aides spent a consid Erable amount of time discussing the various approaches to such legislation. And White House officials have scheduled another meeting with the Warfe group within the next few weeks to discuss More details of the plan. It is expected to be included As part of president Carter s comprehensive tax Reform package that is to be sent to con Gress later this year. The House ways and Means committee is scheduled to begin hearings on the tax Reform plan Early next year. It generally was agreed that the tax Relief for retired Federal and postal work ers would be in the form of a tax credit rather than any exemption from taxes. This is because Congress always has gone for the tax credit approach. Tax credits Are designed to favor lower income annuitants while tax exemptions generally Benefit High income annuitants to greater degree. The plan would abolish adjusted Gross income tax credit ceilings now in effect. Also and very important it would contain a provision whereby the tax credit would be tied to the Cost of living and would be raised in line with Cost of living increases. Legislation along this line has already been sponsored by rep. . Bafalis a Fla. Still to be worked out is the amount of tax credit that would be Given. For years Warfe and Federal and postal employee unions advocated giving government retirees the same tax exempt status As social Security recipients. But it has become apparent that Congress will not go for such an approach. Therefore the employee organizations Haave adopted the tax credit approach As the Best Way to win some tax Relief for re tired government workers. While a tax credit system won t give government employees the same tax break As social Scuri to recipients it will substantially narrow the difference