European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 30, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 two year of Udy of contamination Hudson water called health threat new York not a two year study by environmental and consumer groups has concluded that the Hudson River is contaminated by a Complex spectrum of toxic and cancer causing chemicals that pose a threat to 150,000 people upstate who drink the River s water. The study also casts doubt on the Wisdom of plans recently developed by the army corps of engineers to use nearly a million Gallons Aday of the Hudson s water to supplement the new York area s water Supply. The environmental defense fund a publicly supported National organization headquartered in new York and the new York Public interest research group a nonpartisan research Effort made the study and released it wednesday at a news conference in in Manhattan. Scientists involved in the study said that even though hundreds of millions of dollars had been spent to upgrade old sewage treatment plants and to construct new ones in attempts to make the state s water ways look and smell cleaner than they did when the state s pure Waters program was enacted in 1964 these appearances Are  the pure Waters program according to the study has ignored the pollution caused by the discharge of chemically Laden Industrial waste  the study asserts that the state program focused on traditional pollutants such As total suspended solids and col form Bac  it Points out that the usual techniques of chlorination and Sand filters Are ineffective against toxic  entitled troubled Waters toxic chemicals in the Hudson River the 210 Page study asserts that hundreds of Chemi Cal compounds have been dumped into the Hudson by Industry of which 15 to 20 per cent can cause cancer either in Laboratory animals or humans. Among the More hazardous substances identified were benzene poly chlorinated biphenyl xylene cyclohexane tet rahy Dro furan toluene chloroform Methyl Ben z a Anthracene Dichioro diphenyl and  All Man made compounds that Are part of Industrial processes. They were apparently dumped either directly into the River or indirectly via Muni Cipal sewage treatment plants. Researchers took water samples from four general areas in the upper and Middle Hudson and although not All chemicals were found at the same Levels throughout the River they frequently reached Levels regarded As unhealthy by Federal Stan Dards. The findings Are not inconsistent with observations by fishermen and others that fish abound in the Hudson. Some fish live in the sea and come to the River Only to spawn. Among fish that spend their entire Cycle in the River contamination Levels Are High enough to make them dangerous to eat but not enough to make them incapable of reproduction. Because of the health Hazard Commer Cial fishing for most kinds of Hudson River fish has been banned by the state since february 1976. Researchers were critical of the . Environmental Protection Agency which has refused to require Industry to divulge what chemicals Are present in its waste let alone conduct an analysis of their potential environmental and health  we Are no closer today to knowing the sources of potentially toxic chemicals in our drinking water than we were before the Federal water pollution control act amendments were signed five years ago the report said. Actress Olivia de Havilland manages to maintain her composure during a har rowing scene in the movie the this is show Bee Ness  according to the script of the Hollywood thriller she was supposed to be unconscious during a sequence in which killer bees swarm aboard a wrecked train. The actress was stung just once on the hand. A new study links bladder cancer and smoking new York a a new study blames cigarette smoking for causing half of All bladder cancers in men and one third of such cancers in women. Inhaling the smoke seems to be the important Factor and the risk rises with the number of cigarettes smoked drs. Ernst l. Wynder and Robert Goldsmith report. Writing in cancer the journal of the american cancer society they Tell of a five year study of 574 men and 158 women with bladder cancer in 17 hospitals in six . Cities comparing them with nonsmokers. Both physicians Are associated with the american health foundation new York. Wynder was one of the Early re searchers linking cigarettes with lung cancer. The new study confirms earlier ones linking bladder cancer with cigarettes but the association is not As Strong As that for lung cancer they said. Those persons now smoking Between one half and two packs a Day have a Dou bled risk of bladder cancer. At More than two packs per Day the risk is triple that  when smokers quit the excess risk of bladder cancer tends to decline after seven years or longer they said. As for artificial sweeteners the new study found no significant difference in bladder cancer Between persons consuming them and persons who do not. But it added the data reflects Only con sumption of those sweeteners that have been on the Market for several decades not those such As by climates that were developed in the recent  Wynder and Goldsmith said they found no relationship Between alcohol consumption and bladder cancer in either men or women but did note a slight increase in relative risk for Coffee drinkers somewhat higher among men than  exposure to Industrial chemicals May account for about 18 per cent of bladder cancers in men and a lesser percentage in women they said. They said they hoped their studies would stimulate experimental scientists to explore bladder cancer As a combined effect of environmental factors such As to Bacco smoke specific chemicals and cer Tain  Sec took Legal action on other Loans Washington up1 the securities and Exchange commission took Lega action against insiders who got a $2 Mil lion loan from the same Chicago Bank which loaned $3,425,000 to former budget director Bert Lance commissioner John r. Evans said wednesday. Evans said a commission investigation of Lance is under Way. Evans told the Senate banking commit tee that Sec investigators had found Many cases in which insiders got personal Loans from Banks in which their companies had deposited  included a $2 million loan to two directors of Daylin inc., by the first National Bank of Chicago the same Bank which loaned Lance $3,425,000 while hold ing deposits of $250,000 from his Georgia  said the Sec sought civil action against the Daylin directors because the Loans were not disclosed to stockholders As required under Federal securities Laws. Chairman William Proxmire d-wis., asked Evans whether he saw any differ ence Between that loan and the same Bank s loan to  principle i Don t see any Evans said but added he did not wish to discuss Lance because of the investigation. Evans told the committee the Sec s jurisdiction Over banking was limited to Laws requiring full disclosure by corporations and the commission was not in a position to recommend changes in banking practices at this time. Proxmire said the commission should crack Down on failures to disclose Loans to insiders. I think we re moving in that direction Evans said. The presidents of two country Banks w. Laddon Mcpeters of the Security Bank of Corinth miss., and Raymond Campbell of the Oberlin savings Bank of Oberlin. Ohio warned against putting too Many restrictions on Banks. Mcpeters president of the american Bankers association said requiring Public disclosure of Bankers Loans would be an invasion of their  he also warned against making violations of some banking regulations subject to criminal rather than civil action. Both Mcpeters and Campbell vice pres ident of the Independent Bankers association of America urged Congress not to make it More difficult for buyers of Banks to put up Bank Stock As collateral for Loans As Lance did in buying Stock of the National Bank of Georgia. Campbell said requiring such buyers to meet the same requirements for collateral As other investors would make it impossible for a younger Bank official to buy a meaningful share of a Rural Bank