European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes february 1981 Reagan pledges cuts wont Hurt the truly poor7 Washington up president Reagan assured a dozen big City mayors and members of the congressional Black caucus tuesday that his forthcoming Feder Al spending cuts will not Hurt truly banned kids sleep Wear slips on to Market Atlanta a childrens sleep Wear treated with the fire retardant banned after it was linked to is be ing recalled by a dry goods Chain that unknowingly sold the garments in nine South Eastern a company official the family Dollar store Chain is trying to Contact customers who bought the treated childrens said George general counsel for the company based in the recall was announced a Day after the consumer product safety com Mission disclosed that garments treated with the fire retardant had turned up in stores in Philadelphia and North car the commission banned Tris in 1977 after it was linked with ordering manufacturers that used the fire retardant to recall their the manufacturers were Given permission to sell the items to a Salvage operation to be Cut up into Industrial and officials said that where the problem apparently not All the garments were Cut into and after changing hands several some were sold to Flea markets and discount said Tom a compliance officer in Philadelphia for the consumer product safety Mahoney said the family Dollar Chain bought the treated sleepwear in Phila Delphia late in 1980 and distributed the Gar ments to All its 425 family Dollar we had no reason to suspect they contained he since we assumed As everyone had that the product had been poor and Reagan consulted with the mayors and lawmakers to get their views in Advance of his nationally broadcast speech on the state of the Economy at thursday and in a state of the Union message to Congress in a White House press Secre tary Jim Brady told reporters the president will pledge there will be no removal of social programs for the truly poor and indigent and were not going to balance the budget on the backs of the after the meeting with mayor Pete Wilson of san Diego told reporters i think the message we got is that the coun try Economy is in deep we were asked to and assist them in Mak ing judicious not Meataxe Wilson also said we understand the need for the president to act Early and we understand All programs must be the response was following the Black caucus meeting with the District of Columbia Del Walter said the group expressed its grave concerns about the budget cuts in social the in creases in defense the future of affirmative action and the need for fre quent Fauntroy said Reagan has agreed to meet with the group again soon and directed his Cabinet and Cabine level appointees to meet with caucus members about the asked if she believes reagans Assur Shirley you have to give a person an Opportunity to prove his word is Reagan asked the mayors for suggestions on where reductions could be made in a meeting in the Cabinet room and at a luncheon in the family dining but gave no specifics on cuts he is contemplate we were told that while there will be Large reductions in those truly in need will not be asked to said new Yorks mayor Edward All others hopefully will suffer most of the mayors on hand appealed for retention of the Urban development action Grant inveterate Reader Reagan liked Merriwell t Tarzan Washington a Ronald Rea Gan once described himself As an inveterate Reader and listed among his favorite books King Frank Merriwell at Yale and Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan a 1977 letter from Reagan is a prize exhibit at this weeks convention of the american Library Ive been an inveterate Reader All my the future president my idea of torture would be to find myself overnight in a room with nothing to the letter was in response to the Public Library Survey asking 100 famous people to name five books that influenced Reagan didst Stop at besides King Frank Merri Well at Yale and the Tarzan he listed the novels of Horatio James Feni More Cooper and Mark of special pleasure to the librarians Here for four Days of shoptalk and stocktaking was reagans fond memory at least twice a week in begin Ning at the age of would hike Down to the Library for the librarians Are pleased to have a Friend in High libraries Are having troubles in some places these Days con tending with budget squeezes in impoverished big cities and in states like reagans California where proposition 13 has Cut off and contending with self appointed censors the associations office for intellectual Freedom reports attempts to censor libraries have increased from a rate of three to five a week before last no members election when conservatives demonstrated their political muscle to a rate of three to five a Day conservatives Arent the Only ones at reports Judith the associations Cen Sor Are trying to purge Library shelves of materials they con Sider photo Terry York is helped into plastic protective suit he trains workers to repair leaking radioactive tubes repairmen get a week human sponges soak up radiation inside Plant san a there called sponges because of the amount of radiation they absorb on the but the 600 workers repairing leaks inside an aging nuclear Generator Here say the pay is too Good to its Boring but its More Money than Ive Ever made a 22yearold College student said of the a week he its hot inside the plastic suit we but you Arent in there for More than two minutes or said a 29yearold construction the two workers declined to allow their names to be the or were hired to repair an estimated leaking steam Generator the leaks were discovered last but inspectors said no radioactive water escaped from the people from All walks of life showed up to answer a Brief advertisement in a san die go newspaper last Southern California Edison is using the volunteers for a month or two at a until their radiation limit is and rehiring them after a new three month exposure period the nuclear regulatory commission Al lows the workers to be exposed to Milli rems of radioactivity in three a Kern is a measure of the damage that radiation causes to in an average medical an arc official a per son is exposed to 20 to 25 Mill reims of Radi sixty six regular workers at san Onofre were overexposed last two weeks Edison was fined for what the arc called lax safety measures and inadequate since worker safety at san Onofre has improved the arc majority owner of the nuclear Plant Between san Diego and los said it hired 100 health physicists and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for new protective clothing and radiation Monitor ing the which Are expected to Cost involve Boring out of the generators pipes and inserting new Metal but thousands of Gal Lons of water and radioactive residue must be flushed out after 12 years of bombard ment by radioactive Edison said its the first time the process has been tried on a commercial two other generators Are under construction at san which is expected to be closed several More each Down Day costs Edison customers a reported in fuel replacement but Edison says it would Cost million and take three years to install a new