European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday october 1, 1977 Fred and Friend eight year old Fred Tibbitts Iii gives commands to the 6-foot Tan robot that us father a food Salesman in West Field n.j., built for him. The robot completed in a month is equipped with Battery powered limits. Up photo Accident at Philadelphia Plant my m 0 stateside . Publisher gets Brezhnev biography new York not Simon & schuster will publish a biography Early next year of Leonid i. Brezhnev with a foreword by the communist Leader titled to the Ameri can  Book is a result of discussions that began 2v4 years ago Between the publisher and soviet publishing officials. The Ameri cans wondered aloud whether the soviet Leader might be interested in writing 1iis autobiography. It s not impossible the soviet officials responded. A year ago a Simon & schuster editor outlined what he thought might be in the Brezhnev Book from personal life to political affairs and relations with the United states. This month a manuscript arrived by courier from Moscow it was not an autobiography but rather a biography by a team of unnamed writers. The title Leonid Brezhnev pages from his  friars club roasts amputee Totie Fields new York a it was the first time that women were in the audience and that the friars club Ever roasted a woman Totie Fields who fought Back from a leg amputation to resume her career. Some of the country s Best known comics Gath ered at the luncheon Here wednesday to pay tribute to the Fields comedy and the courage of Fields and to zing her with one liners on an infrequent topic for humor amputation. Noting that the roasters had to tone Down their Ribald humor because of the women in attendance toastmaster Jan Murray said and if that was t enough Well get a woman with one leg now let s see How funny these clowns  that s what i like a woman who can stand on her own foot said Milton Berle. This bionic Yenta this Short John Silver. I love you he told the laughing Comedi Enne. Just watch the  too much quor buy no says House speaker Washington a speaker Thomas p. O Neill said wednesday one reason the House needs a new manage ment system is to get out of the practice of buying $750,000-a-year Worth of liquor for private parties. O Neill told reporters he understands that is the yearly Price of liquor that a House manager buys for groups who rent House reception rooms for private parties. The groups then pay for the liquor As part of the rental fee. O Neill said he does not like the practice. I think any individual who is an employee of the House should not be buying liquor for people the speaker said. O Neill said the House does not even Geta discount on the liquor. It s not run on a very Businesslike basis he said. Increased radiation noted in air and milk Washington a monitoring stations across the United states have picked up increased radiation in air and milk after last week s passage of an air mass contaminated with radioactive debris . Officials said tuesday. But the environmental Protection Agency said the increased radiation is Well below danger Levels and that there is no reason for concern. Debris from China s nuclear bomb test sept. 17 passed eastward Over the United states at 30,000 to 40,000 feet and cleared the Atlantic coast on saturday. However officials noted that residual debris would Drift to lower altitudes and be detectable Long after passage of the main air mass. The Epa said fallout from rain has been detected so far in Alaska Oregon Idaho Indiana Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania and new Jersey. This so called rainout is of concern be cause it can bring Down increased Radia Tion to grass eaten by Dairy cattle. Chlorine Gas leak sends 190 to Hospital by Bruce Dallas Philadelphia a More than 190 persons were treated at hospitals Early Friday after a steel Cylinder at a water treatment Plant leaked spreading deadly chlorine Gas through Western portions of the Tity police said. I thought i was a goner said George Pell who along with his wife fled half dressed from their Home across a Street from the Plant. My wife and i were actually rolling on the floor. You feel like you re choking to death. That burning sensation i never experienced anything like that in my life he said after returning to his Home where a Strong chlorine odor lingered. Soviet Grain forecast Washington up the agriculture department said its information Indi Cates the soviet Grain crop this year will be about 5 million tons less than forecasts and import needs Are expected to Rise by 4million tons. Patients in the recovery room of the medical College of Pennsylvania also across a Street from the treatment Plant were moved to upper floors As the heavy Gas seeped eastward from the Plant said or. William Morrissey director of Pul monary Medicine at the Hospital. We were making plans to move patients to different sections of the Hospi Tal but fortunately there were no prob lems Morrissey said. Fumes got to the level of being irritating. Doors persisted in intensive care where we could t ventilate Las Well because there Aren t Many win Dows he added. The injured including 37 firemen and policemen were treated Early Friday for respiratory problems Hospital officials said. No serious injuries were reported. They came in coughing and crying said William Calvin president of the Rox Borough memorial Hospital. Many came by themselves others were brought in by  said up to 50 persons had been treated at Roxborough and "10 or 12" would be admitted. They won t be critical he said however they will have to be hospitalized a Day or  about 15 persons were treated at Germantown Hospital. Most of them had dry Mouths sore throats and watery eyes a spokesman said. Everybody s upset outdoing  officials said the chlorine leaked from a one ton steel Cylinder at the Queen Lane filter Plant. Chlorine lines to the Plant were turned off and All four chlorine cylinders at the Plant were capped. Police capt. Henry Marek said the leak was reported shortly after 2 . Resi dents in a three Block Section of single Homes evacuated and Roosevelt Boule Vard one of the City s main thoroughfares welfare executive Dies Columbus Ohio a Joe r. Hoffer former executive Secretary of the National conference on social welfare died Here at age 70. Was closed people were permitted Back into the area about 3 54 . When the Gas began to dissipate Marek said. Happy newyear Dies at sleepy Eye Minn. Sleepy Eye Minn. A Happ newyear a Man who did t celebrate his unusual name died monday at the age of 9u. Born in Gresham neb., his real name was Emil Neujahr. In the German Neu Jahr Means new  he changed the spelling of his last name to  Happy was a nickname Given him by friends years ago. The name stuck. Eventually he had his name listed in the sleepy Eye Telephone directory As Happy new year. Because of his name newyear frequently was sought out for news interviews around the new year s Holiday. But he did t like publicity and generally refused to be interviewed