European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 19, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 4 the stars and stripes Friday september 19, 1980 longer zip code foes take Battle to Congress keep us from Effing digit dizzy Washington a lenders in inc rebellion a ii nil inc proposed inc Digil zip code told Congress wednes Day that it s Lime to  the new zip to keep us from getting digit  but n . Postal service official de fended inc nine digit zip code set to begin in 1981, As n Means o hold Down postal rates and increase efficiency. Under the new system inc existing five digits would be followed by a Hyphen and four new digits. A nine digit zip will drive people crazy. It s preposterous and ridiculous Ray Geiger editor of the Farmers Al manac said at a House government operations subcommittee hearing. Lie said people arc satisfied with he five digit zip so there s no Good reason to change it. It would be the wont thing that happened since mount St. Helens erupted said Geiger who has been waging his zip zapping War in editorials in the Farmers almanac. Michael s. Cpughlin assistant Post master general in the postal service s mail processing department expressed his disagreement. He said the new zip code will enable the postal offices to process the mail easier More quickly and More acc  four new numbers Are intended to direct each piece of mail to the appropriate idler Carrier by pinpointing Trie destination right Down to the Street Loca Tion. Coughlin said the automation might reduce sorting costs by about $500 Mil lion a year beginning in 1986. Users will not have to use the nine digit zip to be assured of mail delivery he said. The five digit code is also voluntary. Our priority is to reach the larger volume mailers so they will use the new zip code and we Hope to encourage citizens to use them of their own volition. But if they Don to we arc sure that they arc not going 10 suffer from  saudi hike firm denies tampon toxic Shock link Atlanta up Procter & Gamble co. Hotly contests the government s finding that its rely Brand tampon is strongly linked to the sometimes deadly toxic Shock syndrome Assiut a consumer group is already asking rely be removed from the Market. A joint announcement made wednesday by the National Center for disease control in Atlanta and the food and drug administration in Washington said there was a Defi Nite link Between tampons and specifically the rely Brand and inc newly recognized disease. The announcement was based on a cd study of women who contracted the ailment characterized by High fever vomiting and a rapid drop in blood pressure Dur ing july and August. Or. Kathryn Shands a cd researcher. Said since january 299 cases of toxic Shock syndrome have been reported to the Center almost All happening when the women were in their menstrual Cycle. In inc past five years there have been 25 deaths associated with the ailment most of them since january the cd said. Although the bacteria staphylococcus aureus has been established As the cause of the disease Shands said the use of tampons is a contributing Factor. Further the study of 50 women who had the disease showed that 71 percent of them had used the rely tampon. Of the remain ing victims 19 percent used the Playtex Brand 5 percent used tampax 2 percent used Botex and 2 percent used of. Wolfe said rely gives bacteria a better Chance to grow because As a super absorbent tampon it tends to be used for longer amounts of time. Procter & Gamble had its own harsh words for the cd study but said it would work with the Fra to help determine the real causes of the ailment. The cd s latest report is based on very limited data from a two month time Span the company said from its Headquarters in Cincinnati. Procter & Gamble also said its own studies confirm to Date that no single Brand has an unusual association with the occurrence of  the company has been sued however for $5 million by a Redding calif., woman Linda Imboden who claimed she developed toxic Shock syndrome from using rely Tam  estimated 50 million american women use tampons each year. Women can almost entirely eliminate the risk of ass by not using tampons but that s a decision for the individual woman to make said Shands. There is no cure for ass other than supportive treatment in a Hospital. The cd said that while inc Case rate was still Low the severity of the illness and the Case fatality ratio make ass a cause for concern particularly since ass occurs almost exclusively in previously healthy Young  manufacturers will get a Chance to present their views sept. 25, the Fra said. The Agency could request the tampons be recalled or require warning labels on Tam Pon boxes and require manufacturers to notify Consumers of the risk of ass associated with tampon use. Bui or. Sidney Wolfe the head of Ralph Nader s health research study group criticized the delay. There clearly is enough evidence to take this product rely off the Market now Wolfe said in Washington. For the Fra to delay Banning this product while the company goes Over the data is an extraordinary example of irresponsibility on the part of the Fra Wolfe said. Nixon and an old Friend Nof Hurt .  York a american motorists and Home owners should t suffer much from saudi Arabia s decision to raise inc Price of its crude Oil by 52 a barrel Industry analysts say. The saudi increase will add less than a cent a gallon to average . Retail Gaso line or Healing Oil prices if dealers choose to Russ the increase to Consumers said Tom i Eake manager of inc economics depart ment of Standard Oil co. Of California. There will be an insignificant increase in Oil product prices in the uni cd states amounting to As Little As a Quarter cent a gallon said economist John Lichtblau of inc Petroleum Industry research foundation in new York. The new saudi arabian Price of $30 for a 42-gallon barrel of crude announced wednesday after a three Day meeting of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries is 125 percent above the $13.34 a barrel open s largest member Wai charging on Jan. 1,1979. Open Oil ministers also agreed to Cut the Cartel s official base Price from $32 a barrel to $30 and to freeze prices of All member except the saudis until the ministers meet in Bali Indonesia on dec. 15. Because no member s Price will decline As saudi Arabia s rises the Cartel s move amounts to a 70 cents a barrel or 2 per cent increase in the average open Price to about $32.20 a barrel analysts said. But Lichtblau cautioned the saudi in crease was a Clear move toward a $32-a barrel level for the country that produce one third of open s Oil. Saudi Arabia s Price had been $4 under the former official open base Price. Saudi Arabia provided the United states with 1.35 million barrels of Oil a Day in the first five months of 1980, equivalent to 8 percent of . Oil needs according to department of Energy statistics. Despite the upward pressures on crude prices is. Retail gasoline and Healing Oil prices have risen Little since Early summer because demand has been slumping. There s a surplus of Oil in world markets in excess of i million barrels a Day said William Brown an economist at Chase econometric associates inc. In Bala Cynwyd. Pa., according to Peake the slump in Oil use has left Industry storage tanks about As full As they can  saudi arabic said before its Price in crease was revealed thai in would nol Cut Ili 9.5 million barrels a Day Oil output this year despite the world Oil oversupply. The saudi refusal to reduce production could extend the Oil glut bring pressure on open Hawks including Libya Algeria and Iran to limit future Price increases and unify the Cartel s current free for All pricing system. Deadliest Day of week is monday doctor warns Forner president Richard Nixon Waits As be and his Friend babe Rebozo right depart from Goat Oisund Marina la Newport r.i-, and return to new York after a new England vacation. A sccre.1 so Nice Agram Valulu Ullh them. Up Chicago up most americans Don t have to be told that mondays arc bad news but now there is medical evidence to prove it a Canadian researcher claims. Reporting in the current journal of the american medical association or. Simon Rabkin of the University of Manitoba said that 75 percent of All heart attack deaths that occur on the Job occur on mondays. Rabkin also found that of All fatal heart attacks More occur on mondays than on any other Day of the week. Reinor Duclion to occupational stress activity or pollution Afler a weekend respite May be factors precipitating the fatal heart attacks Rabkin said. In preparing a Chron biology of cardiac sudden death in men Rabkin studied Case of 3,983 men who died of heart failure. He found that 75 percent of fatal heart attacks among men at work and 47 percent of cardiac deaths at Home occurred 09 monday. Monday he said stood far ahead of a Ether six Days of the week in the number of sudden heart attack deaths of men who bad no history of heart trouble. For those who have had previous heart attacks he said deaths were More evenly spread through the week