European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes january 1981 stateside Lotar cigarette additives May cause cancer Washington up with scientists divided Over whether health risks to smokers Are reduced by using cigarettes Low in tar and the government is warn ing additives in those same products May cause surgeon Gen Craf Julius in his annual report on said evidence shows less tar reduces the risk of lung can but not necessarily of lung or prenatal he also warned additives that enhance the flavor and taste of cigarettes Low in tar and nicotine May cause but said a conclusive judgment cannot be made be cause the Industry is not required to identify the with the additive threat he the tar yield of cigarettes currently being manufactured probably cannot be used As a precise measure of current smoke exposure nor can it be compared quantitatively the smoke exposure risk of higher tar new Strain Ilu called a Hazard Tor elderly Boston a a new Strain of influenza is sweeping Caus ing a serious health Hazard for the and health officials say its Likely to get worse before it gets any Type a Bangkok flu and its major com were responsible for 18 or of the deaths in Boston last according to Nicholas director of the state division of communicable he said the figure May climb higher when the flu season peaks in the average percentage of deaths attributed to flu and pneumonia at this time of year runs Between 4 percent and 5 Fiumara said this years flu and Flure lated mortality rate is higher than Normal because of the new separated siamese twin girls making Progress a siamese twin girls who were separated during a hour operation Are making Good Progress and their vital signs Are doctors Fredrick Rector led a team of 20 doctors and nurses who separated 11 Mont hold Fonda Michalle and Shannon Elaine Beaver last Friday at Mission me Morial the girls were born with two legs and a common Large a plastic surgeon closed the areas left open by the separation while two urologists worked to Complete the girls urinary sys the girls shared a Randall one of the Uro what we did was to choose to leave the bladder with one of the he said the other girl will have to Wear a device to collect her infants parents Are Kim and her 21yearold Arlin of Forest Campaign against construction bid rigging widens Washington a a Justice department Campaign against bid rigging in Public Highway and Airport projects has moved into five More states and is expected to involve several More states before the years officials the departments antitrust division in the past year has brought 64 criminal cases in six states North Carolina and South department officials said Federal grand jury investigations Are going on in those states and have been authorized in five additional including Louisiana and the who asked not to be identified by would not identify the other two Survey shows salary differences in radio a the average salary in 1980 for top local television news Anchorman or anchorwoman was a compared with a week for their radio coun according to a the Survey found to news directors earned an average of a com pared with a week for news directors at radio top reporters at to stations surveyed earned an average of a compared with a week for top reporters at the radio stations a total of 495 to stations and 389 radio stations participated in the which was conducted for the radio television news directors association by Vernon director of Southern Illinois University school of journalism and chair Man of the the associations research com infant Forkan spoon training sets Are recalled Washington a the food and drug administration says training Forkan spoon sets Are being recalled because infants May become ill after swallowing bits of Metal which Flake the recall by a crib mates of Long Island was the Agency the utensils were made by the Soung Fea enterprises of the Fra described the sets As a moderate to severe health because the Metal contains which when swallowed in Large amounts Over a period of years can damage the Windy City gears for Breezy worlds fair and the proper ambience for a worlds he said that because the lakefront was the site of Chicago previous two worlds in 1893 and its selection was a foregone for the fair to be held in the Commerce department and the Bureau of International expositions in Paris would have to Grant Chicago a if Chicago bid to Host the 1992 worlds fair is the event will be staged at one of three Lake front a site selection committee the committee chose the lakefront Over nine other King a committee consultant who was president of the 1974 worlds fair in said the lakefront provides a feeling of openness to Call for record defense outlays Washington up president Carters final to be sent to Congress this Calls for record defense expenditures of billion and a Federal deficit below billion for fiscal the defense outlay is 15 percent above this years the subject to adjustment by president elect Ronald Reagan and approval by will be More a Carter policy statement than a blueprint of actual spending and tax policy for the year begin Ning while Carters budget writers were wrapping up their reagans economic team was putting together a package of tax and spending cuts for the who plans to submit a revised program to Congress shortly after taking at the request of Reagan sen ate budget committee staffers compiled a list of options to trim the 1981 budget by billion to billion and the new Bud get by conservative economists and interest groups have been cranking out their own proposals on where to James who will be reagans White House chief of said sunday the new administrations budget cuts will not be just on the social but across the Board on a wide Range of interviewed on abcs issues and an Baker said there has been a drastic deterioration of the Economy in the past particularly on the Federal spend ing he will inherit the worst economic mess in 50 among Carters suggestions is a oneyear deferral of an 8 percent tax credit to offset higher social Security the de ferral is intended t keep revenues up and trim the he also will recommend a substantial pay raise for top Federal an idea sup ported by the president elect but which a top Reagan adviser last week recommended postponing in Light of economic Carter also will Issue new figures Friday showing current year spending of More than up billion because of tas Ter outlays than this years which the administration once hoped would be will end up billion in the according to nearly Matching the billion 1980 Defi memorial Rife conducted for lost skipper Bel up hundreds of mourners attended a memorial service Sun Day for the Captain of the the first american freighter lost at sea since some 350 friends and relatives attended the service for Leroy who is presumed dead with his Crew of we dont really know what happened out the Maurice Arsenault told the crowded gathering at the lutheran Church of the Good there is a big question Mark hanging Over this Arsenault they Are looking for a closure to this that is Why we Are Here and wherever that ship is we know god is looking Over the the ship was last seen off Cape hello the coast guard officially declared the freighter lost coast guard officials in Philadelphia held an inquiry and concluded the ship probably went to the Bottom of the Atlantic Ocean during a severe storm 25 and the mourners were led by the captains Kathryn and his Leroy some 25 other relatives sat in the front two rows of the Church during the the service was held in the Warrens Middle class neighbourhood and Many of the people in the Church were no longer viable Law Banning foul talk before women stricken Apata Barnas supreme court says it want condoning insulting or obscene Lan Guage when it struck Down a state Law that banned fou Halk in the presence of the court ruled 53 that the statute protected females Only and thus makes an unwarranted distinction based on the Law was in upon a con Cern for the sensitivities of females and was designed to protect females from insult at All the court these laudable concerns to protect females As a class Are no longer viable in Light of the recent decisions of the supreme court of the United the court the enacted in 1852 and carrying a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a was used in 1979 to convict Joel who was fined and sentenced to a Day in Frolik was accused of using obscene Lan Guage in front of Bodenhamer wife and 4yearold granddaughter after Boden Hamer flicked on his Bright lights when fro Lik passed his car on a Road at Frolik reportedly stopped his car in the jumped out and stood at the front bumper of Bodenhamer using vile Lan Guage to Tell Bodenhamer to dim his frolics conviction was overturned earlier by the Alabama court of criminal appeals on grounds that the old Law violated first amendment free speech but the supreme court said Friday while the appellate justices reached the right re they should have cited the sex Issue in doing dissenting Justice James Faulkner said the majority ruling meant an uncouth person can utter profane and obscene words before females As Well As he said the Law should have been narrowly construed and frolics conviction should have been upheld on grounds that the language he used amounted to fighting if frolics words and Demeanour were not intended to incite an immediate breach of the i do not know what fighting words wrote