European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 23, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 calorie count Fra tightens Labelling rules to prevent misleading of Consumers on diet foods Washington up the food and drug administration thursday issued new rules under which foods which promote themselves As Low calorie must contain no More than 40 calories per serving. In addition foods which Are billed As reduced calories can use that phrase Only if they have at least one third fewer calories than the food to which they Are be ing compared. The purpose of this new regulation is to assure that foods labelled Low calorie or reduced calorie genuinely represent a Ca Loric savings Fra commissioner Donald Kennedy said. Consumers who buy foods intended for weight control will have a better under standing of what they Are buying and la Bels will be More uniform so Consumers can More easily  All foods introduced into interstate com Merce after july 1 of next year will have to Alex Haley is cleared of Book cribbing new York up a Federal judge ruled thursday that Alex Haley did not in fringe on the rights of another author in the preparation of his Best Selling work  . District judge Marvin Frankel Dis missed the copyright infringement suit of Margaret Alexander Walker of Jackson miss., author of Jubilee and said her complaint of numerous similarities be tween the two works failed to support the claim of infringement. The review of the alleged similarities Points unmistakably to the conclusion that no actionable similarities exist Between the works Frankel ruled. Walker director of the Black studies department at Jackson state College claimed that Haley copied much from her tale of negro life in Georgia before during and after the civil War. Jubilee published in 1966, was based on the life of her great grandmother she said. Walker Frankel said established that Haley had Access to Jubilee but he found that Haley did not in fact copy any thing or attempt to copy anything or inadvertently reproduce anything from her  Walker s catalogue of alleged similarities is strained insignificant and devoid of factual or Legal substance Frankel said. Wichita police accept pay offer by United press International with one municipal strike settled in Biloxi miss., and another possibly brew ing in Chicago striking police officers in Wichita kan., thursday accepted a wage offer and 300 of the City s firefighters voted whether to end a similar walkout. The Wichita police officers who joined firemen on the picket lines last thursday overwhelmingly approved the new agree ment 192-33 in balloting late wednesday and Early thursday. The terms of the con tract were not made Public. The City s firefighters who left their jobs sept. 11, were considering a City proposal which included pay raise plans con Tingent on the outcome of a citywide vote on a half cent sales tax. The 51 police officers and 84 firefighters in the Gulf coast resort City of Biloxi wednesday won a $100-a-month wage hike and the right to have representatives participate in annual reviews of pay Scales. They were also promised additional Man Power annual leave and other benefits. Comply with the rules which were originally proposed in 1977. Under the rules foods which claim Low or reduced calories must carry a Complete nutrition Label describing the calories per serving As Well As Vitamin fat and other Content. In addition foods which claim they Are reduced in calories in comparison to some other foods must state the percentage of reduction Over the other food. Foods that Are normally Low in calorie such As celery cannot use the term Low calorie immediately before the name the Fra said. For example celery cannot be labelled Low calorie celery because it would Sug Gest that particular celery is lower in Calo Gabby team breaking up ventriloquist Edgar Bergen appears with Bis top hatted be monocle Dummy Charlie Mccarthy at a news conference thursday in Hollywood where Bergen announced that he is easing into retirement. A photo Edgar Charlie Bow ouf offer 56 hilarious years Hollywood a the 56-year partnership of Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mccarthy is coming to an end with Bergen easing into retirement and Mccarthy headed for an eventual Home at the smithsonian institution. America s most successful ventriloquist and his top hatted monocle Dummy appeared at a news conference thursday to announce the parting. Singer Andy Williams also was present to announce that the pair s final appear ances will be with Williams at Caesars pal Ace in Las vegas and at december con certs in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Mccarthy was his irrepressible self with reporters and camera Crews. He gazed sentence suspended for damaging portrait Amsterdam a a dutch artist Drew a 10-month suspended jail sentence wednesday for slashing Van Gogh s la Berceuse with a knife in Amsterdam s municipal museum last april. A Public prosecutor had called for Peter Jan Lammers 31, to be sent to prison for 10 months but the court decided to suspend the sentence after the artist promised he would never again attack a work of Art. La Berceuse valued at around half a million dollars is one of several portraits Van Gogh made of the wife of his postman in Southern France. It was slashed from Corner to Corner and is still being repaired. Blankly at Bergen and cracked How can you retire when you Haven t worked since you met me when Mccarthy accused Bergen of be ing unable to throw his voice without mov ing his lips the ventriloquist responded i be taken a lot from  Mccarthy yes and you have kept every  Bergen 75, admitted that he might make a few Charity appearances and that the Dummy would remain with him for his lifetime. Why is he retiring i get tired of work ing and saving Money and sharing it with those who did the said. A voice thrower whose lips move Ber Gen has nevertheless made millions with Mccarthy the Soltish Mortimer nerd the old maid Effie Klinker and other dummies. He traced his career through the Chautauqua circuit the lyceum Heaters Vaude Ville radio nightclubs movies and television. In my senior year in High school in Chi Cago my English teacher told me that i should t count on graduating Bergen told the news conference. That was when he began working with Mccarthy and when the teacher saw him perform she agreed to his graduation saying the world needs laughter More than another history  Bergen and Mccarthy made their debut on May 9, 1937, on the Chase and Sanborn Coffee radio show. For years they were the no. 1 program in radio and Charlie s feud with . Fields became legendary. Ries than other celery. It May be labelled celery a Low calorie food the Fra also said any food Billing itself As diabetic must in fact be useful to diabetics and foods which Are labelled As sugar free must also Call themselves Low or reduced in calories and meet the same Label ing requirements. East siders told to boil their water new York up residents of a densely populated 45-Square-Block area of Manhattan s East Side were advised thursday to boil their drinking and Cook ing water after City health officials found a High bacteria count in samples. Notices were distributed to area Resi dents wednesday night As health depart ment officials tried to determine the source of the contamination in the affluent Murray Hill neighbourhood. While officials said no Adverse effects have been reported they cautioned that an intestinal disorder such As diarrhoea could occur if the water is not boiled. Health commissioner or. Reinaldo Fer re said about 25 health department employees were canvassing the area from 23rd Street to 38th Street and from Lexing ton Avenue to the East River warning Resi dents to boil drinking water for 10 minutes. High readings of a b Coli bacteria were found in 35 out of 52 buildings in the area sampled monday and tuesday City health officials said. Environmental Protection commissioner Francis Mcardle said the area s Supply source would be shifted to a different Reservoir and increased amounts of chlorine would be added to the Supply. In the meantime residents of the area found substitute refreshments. 9 on bail for tossing pies at . Anti porn advocate Brisbane Australia up seven men and two women have been freed on bail until oct. 2 on charges of hitting Brit ish anti pornography campaigner Mary Whitehouse with two pies. The Strawberry coloured pies which soiled Whitehouse s skirt and Blouse were hurled As she spoke to about 1,000 persons at a festival of Light rally in Brisbane City Hall. The seven were remanded on bail after pleading not guilty of aggravated assault. Of time sept. 23, 1948 bavarian Beer lovers were up in arms Over an 8 percent Price in crease which they termed As unjustified and  the Price of one Glass half a quart now costs 90 pfennig. Sept. 23, 1958 the new York City planning commission said the typical unit in new apartment private construction in Manhattan contains three rooms and rents for $184 a month. Sept. 23, 1968 the soviet Union took a big step toward Landing a Man on the Moon by recovering an unmanned space Craft which has orbited the Moon