European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 16, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 against a background of piled up fruits and vegetables Lucas Drew conduct members of the Florida symphony or supermarket symphony Chestra in a wednesday afternoon con Cert inside a Large Miami supermarket. The hour Long concert sponsored by an encyclopedia company included music by Handel Mozart Grieg and Scott Joplin. A qe2 arrives in new York after storm new York up its Bow railing Bent and a Boom ripped from its platform the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 steamed into a sunny new York Harbor thursday having weathered one of the worst Atlantic storms in several years. Hundreds of the 1,213 passengers who made the crossing from Southampton crowded the decks of the liner that Rode out 50-foot Waves during a storm that began5 30 . Monday and ended Over a Day later. The liner which was a Day late reaching port was to leave again at 7-p.m. To return to Southampton. When Captain Douglas Ridley appeared on the Bridge the passengers lining the decks applauded him and he returned a Salute. The Force-12 storm the most severe lashed the ship with Waves that towered More than 50 feet and 75 Mph winds damaging the ships railing one of its two Bow booms and tossing passengers about be Low decks. About a score of passengers were treated for injuries suffered in the storm that hit the qe2 Midway across the Atlan tic. Children will be monitored 75 Epa probe found pc in mothers milk san Francisco a a nationwide sampling of mothers milk by the Environ mental Protection Agency in 1975 found a widespread presence of the toxic chemical pc the san Francisco chronicle reported  chronicle said the report was scheduled for release  Epa said it took 1,038 samples of Mother s milk with 309, or 31 percent con Taining measurable amounts of the pcs the newspaper  study Means that pcs Are so pre Valent in the food Chain that it even gets into mothers milk said Jerry Blondell of the Epa s pesticide  officials at the Epa and the depart ment of health education and welfare said they were Uncertain whether the pc Levels found in the women were High enough to cause health problems for the mothers or the  Epa said it arranged to Monitor the children in the , Short for poly chlorinated Diphe Nyls Are used mainly As insulating fluid i heavy duty electric equipment Brake Lin Ings and other products. They have caused tutors birth defects and Adverse liver effects in Laboratory animals and Are a suspected cause of some  women involved in the study were not  from 45 states volunteered the samples while hospitalized for childbirth. In general the milk of women from Kan Sas Michigan new York Texas and wis Consin contained the highest Levels the newspaper  309 contaminated samples averaged 0.093 parts per million pcs and re searchers found the fat Content of the milk averaged 2.2 parts per million. The food and drug administration has set a provisional tolerance level of 2.5 parts per Mil lion for pcs in the fatty part of the whole milk sold in stores. Higher Levels Are considered  highest Reading was in a California Sample containing 16.92 parts per million of the chemical in the milk  said it can be assumed from the Sample that most women face the potential of transmitting pcs to their babies if they nurse them. Judge shake Dies at 91 Vincennes ind. A Curtis , former chief Justice of the Indiana supreme court and presiding judge at on of the Numberg War crimes trials after world War ii died Here at age 91. Barnard says bypass often misused Gainesville Fla. Up South african heart transplant Pioneer or. Chris Tian Barnard said thursday that the Coro nary bypass is the most misused piece of surgery in the Western world and said Many surgeons do it Only for  speaking to a press conference at the fifth annual cardiovascular symposium sponsored by the North Florida regional Hospital Barnard said some doctors per form As Many As 15 to 20 coronary by passes a Day. It is not supposed to be a cure but palliative Barnard a world Pioneer in heart transplants said. A bypass is not replacement for a  Barnard said the purpose of Medicine snot to prolong life but to improve its Quali  said Middle aged males Are often frightened by the incidence of heart disease and thus will do anything to escape the big  As a result Barnard added Many physicians Are tempted to perform unnecessary heart  another development the Hospital is sued a statement calling mediocre poor and inept a study by the veterans administration that criticized the frequency i which coronary bypass operations were being done. The Gainesville Hospital said the a study failed to cite the reasons Why the opera Tion was being overdone and added that when it is useful the coronary bypass is necessary. Non violent crime rate drops in 78 Washington up crime in . Decreased 2 percent during the first half of 1978, but there was a substantial in crease in reported rapes and a slight Rise in other violent acts attorney general Griffin Bell announced thursday. Most of the increase in violent crime came in the West and in Middle sized cities according to the Fri s uniform Crim report. Rapes reported to police Rose in cities of All sizes and in most parts of the country. The report is based on a composite Index of total crimes reported to police in More than 150  total of reported crimes according to the Index fell 2 percent during the first six months of 1978 compared with the first six months of 1977. The Overall drop resulting mainly from fewer property crimes and thefts continued a trend that started in the first Quarter of 1977.bell cited the report As evidence that Progress is being made in the fight against ," he said the volume of Vio Lent crimes Rose by a Small margin emphasizing the need for persistence in our crime prevention  Index showed a 1 percent increase in violent crimes of All types caused mainly by a 5 percent increase in rapes and a 3 percent Rise in aggravated  showed no change while Rob Bery offences dropped 2  have shown rape victims Are of ten reluctant to go to police and it was no Clear whether the increase in rapes resulted from additional reporting or a risen the actual number of offences. The West with a 2 percent increase waste Only Region reporting a Rise in crime Overall and the report showed it had a 7 percent increase in violent crimes. Overall crime decreased 6 percent in the Northeast 5 percent in North Central states and 1 percent in the  with populations of More than 50, 000 reported a decrease of 2 percent in re ported crime. Rural and suburban areas each recorded declines of 3  cities outside the major metropolitan areas reported offences remained stable. To expert Dies at 89 Minneapolis a or. Jay Arthu Myers 89, a retired University of Minnesota professor who was an expert in tuberculosis control has died. Of time sept. 16, 1948 ground breaking Cere monies in new York have been held for the United nations new Headquarters build ing. The Headquarters will be located on 17 acres along the East River. Sept. 16, 1958 Charles Malik foreign minister of Lebanon has been elected president of the . General Assembly beat ing out the Arab Block Choice Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub on the first ballot. Malik is strongly pro Western. Sept. 16, 1968under censorship which forbids mention of the russian inva Sion of Czechoslovakia on aug. 21, the czech news Agency has come up with a new synonym the extraordinary  example the extraordinary event in the last third of August caused a drop in sex