European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 4 the stars and stripes january 1978 Epa acts to Cut drinking water risks Washington Lufi citing a Seri Ous Public health the environmental Protection Agency wednesday announced the first rules designed to reduce potential cancer Nushik Chemi cals present in the nations drinking water the which could Cost an initial has two parts setting a Standard for the amount of chloroform and related chemicals that May be present in tap water As a result of the use of chlorine to Dis incl using Carbon fillers for drinking water plants whose ground or River sup plies Are contaminated by organic Chemi Epa administrator Douglas cons Lac said the rules would eventually affect drinking water supplies used by 100 million Ameri he estimated the Cost at up to Mil lion and annual operating costs of Mil with the average family water Bill in some areas rising by some 6 to per this Marks the Start of the first Large scale Effort in history to Deal with organic chemical contaminants in drinking costly it will initiate changes on our approach to protecting and assuring the Quality of the water we and will give the american Public an insurance policy against the dangers associated with chemicals in our Coslic said the organic chemicals identified so far in drinking water arc present in Low Evert the lifetime exposure of our population to these chemicals poses a Seri Ous threat to Public he told a news we Are especially concerned about the potential increase in cancer chloroform has been shown to cause cancer in test it has been found in the drinking water supplies in Many cities across the and in recent years it was revealed that part of it was coming from the use of chlorine to disinfect Costle said the Epa remains convinced that chlorine is still the Best kind of Oisin out he said has reached the place where 11 is now possible to have both chlorine and a method of treating its which Are called the Standard for chloroform and other this would be 100 parts per that would apply initially Only to Community water systems serving Mare than Volunteer firemen and a coworker pull Michael out of a Hutch in a Lank truck Al hinder was fumes almost got him felled by fumes while cleaning the Nineteen other firemen and policemen were felled by the fumes during the successful Rescue three of including were photo Evers picture Hung in Capitol Puli the Field director of the stale a act look matters into his own hands tuesday and placed a picture of Midgar Evers in the Mississippi saying it was time the slain civil rights worker was so Emmett hums Hung the framed photograph on a Wall near the statue of the Laic Theodore a powerful Mississippi political figure who advocated sending All Blacks Back to i dont know How Long it will stay i Hope no one moves it and that it will bums told reporters at a Brief news conference on the first door of the he admitted he did nol have the authority to hand the bul said he decided tuesday morning a picture of a Black should be placed in the Burns said his Union was prompted by news reports earlier this week it i a mys Tery port rail was Hany Bijj in the Capitol tic portrait was thought to be former gov Tillman but a study by state historical officials revealed the portrait was not if you arc going to have the portrait of the wrong person in the Why not put the right fellow up Burns asked Medgar evors is the right Burns said he had tried unsuccessfully to get state officials to place a portrait of Evers in the i just decided this picture would Louk Nice up bums Medlar Evers was Field director of the slate a act from 1951 until june 12 1s63 when he was cited by a snipers those systems have to begin monitoring their Waler within three months after the Epa issues final regulations and would be required to meet the Standard is months All systems serving More than people would have to test their water periodically for a year and give the results to the Epa and to the the Agency said the smallest systems would be phased into the program As soon As it is based on information As it comes the second half of the proposal would require nil systems serving More than 000 people to use granular activated Carbon filtering processes within five years of when the Rule is issued in final systems with unpolluted sources of drinking water would be exempt from this Allback unit is cited for combat role Miami api after a 33year the Allback 761st has been awarded the nations highest military honors for its combat role in world War without president Carter awarded the presidential unit citation on citing the 7blst for extraordinary heroism in the 761s was one of the few Allback units to go into combat with the segregated army of world War the battalion asked for the presidential unit citation six times Between ims and six times it was the which served in is the Only Allback unit to win the the 761st was commanded by two White Paul Bates of Dunedin and David Williams of Williams wrote a sympathetic novel about the called the Book Eleanor and sent a copy to the since Ihu 761st first stepped foot in the the rigidly segregated Boot Camps of Louisiana and the unit has had to Bear the niggers a reminder that the Black Man gained a Chance to fight for his country Only because of the former first Ladys the name was meant As a but in time became a source of Pride to the Carter Brothers Tiff is denied Washington api president car Ter s chief spokesman denied a gossip columnists report wednesday that the president and his brother Billy have not spoken to each Olhorn since december be cause of a disagreement Over their Peanut press Secretary Jody Powell labelled the report by Liz Smith of the new York daily news gossip and inaccurate and said such matters As the Carter Brothers rela Are not anybody business but Smith wrote that the Brothers reached the no speaking Slage in a dispute about whether the family Peanut business to should be sold to outside in As the president or turned Over to the columnist said the two have not spoken since Hoy attended the weddin ii of a Nephew in in dec 17 reporters who covered the presidents christmastime visit to Plains said the Carter Brothers visited each other Billy Carter could not be reached for moment on the
