European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes june 2 new Jersey mayors lose hard fought Runoff elections stateside Jersey a former councilman Anthony Cucci Defeated mayor Gerald Mccann Here and underdog councilman Thomas Vezzetti ended the three term incumbency of mayor Steve Cap Picollo in Hoboken in hotly contested Runoff Cucci won or to on term incumbent Mcminns in received or to for the 62yearold the voting followed by four weeks an election in which the 62yearold Cucci upset but fell 190 votes Short of the majority needed to the people have spoken and they have spoken loud and Cucci told jubilant they didst like Mccann and they didst like his arrogant style of they were continually insulted and demeaned by his especially in the dirty Campaign he in both waterfront where rents have soared in the last housing is a hot Mccann said he sparked unprecedented improving the tax base and Job while Cucci charged that his opponent gave sweetheart deals to devel and tried to undermine rent control Laws to Force out Low income aimed his Campaign at voters unhappy with High rent and land while Cappiello slogan was with Progress for but in Jersey bitterness and personal attacks Al most overshadowed the Therese been Many this is consistent with the very bad said former mayor Thomas the Battle began when Cucci came within 190 votes of ousting Mccann with 50 percent of the vote on May in a City of mayoral spokesman Tom Golodik said Mccann finished second in the first election because he ran on his record and didst get out on the for round both candidates put on their gloves and engaged in escalating personal in a full Page newspaper for the Mccann staff asked what do we do on april 15th that Tony Cucci Doest we file our Federal income tax Bill Gucci Campaign said the candidate was not required to file tax returns in the years he made less than the Cucci Campaign distributed fliers with the head the final insult it carried a partial quote from Mccann As referring to the lowlifes you Cucci have been attracting throughout the in an Effort to soften the mayors the Mccann Campaign ran an advertisement in which the candidate told voters some of you have told me Over the past week that youve been offended or angered by some of my i am sorry if you Felt that health hazards of chewing tobacco under study by government panel Washington a a panel of government scientists is preparing a comprehensive report on whether chewing tobacco and snuff Are health a decision Likely to influence whether warning labels should be required on the increasingly popular surgeon general Everett an outspoken anti smoking activist who already has said smokeless tobacco is appointed the panel tuesday in response to a request by the Federal Trade which is considering the warning Label Koop said in a letter to the commission in december that smokeless tobacco including snuff does indeed pose a cancer threat and is associated As Well with certain other pathologic Oral but the Etc requested additional study because of a petition filed by the Ralph Nader organized health re search group seeking the warning the in seeking the cited the grow ing popularity of smokeless tobacco among one study in cited by the coalition on smoking on reported that 19 percent of ninth graders and 23 percent of lot graders admitted they were daily users of smokeless Koop has cited local studies indicating that As Many As 22 percent of 1 it graders May dip or Chew chewing tobacco and snuff Are not covered by current restrictions on which include warning labels on packages and a ban on television television commercials for smokeless tobacco often feature which critics say is an open pitch for teenage whether aimed at teenagers or the popularity of the products is clearly the National institutes of health estimated earlier this year that 22 million Ameri cans use smokeless tobacco and that sales of snuff in creased by 188 percent from 1970 to Koops announcement cited a 65 percent increase in manufacture of moist snuff since when the Etc requested Koops study earlier this it was criticized Sidney head of the health research As a waste of the surgeon general already states that smokeless to Bacco causes so i dont understand Why they Are delaying what should have been done a Long time ago by another scientific Wolfe said at the but Wolfe said tuesday he met with Koop last week to discuss smokeless tobacco and believed the surgeon Gener Al was not attempting to delay a he is really Adamant on this Wolfe if he has his this Issue will get moved As quickly As Possi if he Doest get his it will be because of pressure from above or the committee will be headed by Joseph Deputy director of the National cancer institutes division of cancer prevention and members will include scientists from the cancer inst other divisions of the National institutes of the Public health the Center for disease control and the National Center for health an aide to Koop said the panels study would take at least four months and possibly 10 months to swindler woos victim number 115 v1 a a convicted swindler duped a widow out of her nest egg and promised to marry then fled after leaving her a note Labelling her his 115th authorities and the woman James of was charged with larceny after Trust and is being held in Sevier county jail on the Case will go to a grand Ury next said assistant District attorney Dick Cassie Rose Strickland of Pigeon forge said tuesday she met Lindquist in the summer of last she he asked her to marry him and two months later she gave him to buy items for a Wood crafts Lindquist repaid and the couple planned to travel together in a bringing their crafts to Flea she i signed a paper stating that i would be his he kept telling me that he would bring me the Bank cards to Lindquist said he had deposited the Money in a business account at Sevier county Strickland last Lindquist accompanied her on a visit to her son in where she sold a House she owned for giving to she before we Ever went Down there we were talking about the Sale and becoming working she and i trusted i loved in Lindquist left without she when i got Home the the the the crafts everything was and i found a Nasty note in the closet hanging on a coat he called me number Lindquist pleaded guilty earlier this year in Minnesota to a charge of theft by swindle for bilking a woman out of she thought would pay for a part interest in a Wood crafts according to court Lindquist was sentenced 15 to a year in and served a shortened said Jeff a probation officer in Scott a photo not so tiny Skeeter a Mosquito head is magnified times in this electro scanning Microscope the photo is part of a display celebrating the reopening of the exp Lorato rim in san red tide forces Clam Beds in Massachusetts to be closed Boston a Clam Beds along most of Massachusetts Northern coast have been closed after tests showed unsafe Levels of the red tide toxin that can be fatal to people who eat the authorities the soft Shell Clam Beds in Gloucester and sea Clam and Mussel Beds from Manchester to the new Hampshire Bor Der were closed because shellfish Are now considered unfit for human consumption and dangerous to Public said department of environmental Quality Engi Neering commissioner Russel red first reported in Massachusetts in is actually an infestation of Marine algae which produce a toxin absorbed by the shellfish that eat the the toxin causes paralytic shellfish which can be fatal in Forbes spends million for Imperial russian easter egg new York up Malcolm Forbes bought his Lith Imperial russian easter egg at an auction for giving his Forbes Magazine collection one More Faberge egg than the soviet government Forbes outbid the agent for the Kremlin museum in Moscow to obtain the so called cuckoo clock egg in a Sale of russian Art at so Thebes there were six bidders vying for the 8inchhigh masterpiece by jeweler to the russian after the bidding hit i feel leavened Only by the Forbes outdoing the Kremlin is a costly Forbes said he has been anxious to top the 10egg Kremlin collection Ever since he obtained his own 10th egg several years the Gold egg form richly enamelled in Violet and set with diamonds and was made for Czar Nicholas ii in 1900 As a gift for either his wife or a mechanical Bird pops out of the top and flaps its the Price paid by Forbes set a new world auction record for any russian work of health club Pioneer Vic Tanny Dies in Florida at age 73 a Vic a body builder and health club died Here at age of Wesley died four Days after he was admitted to University Community Hospital said spokeswoman Joann Bert Dannys said Tanny suffered a stroke several months Tanny opened his first health club in his native Roches in 1932 and opened another in Santa in the Chain grew at one included More than 100 clubs in the United states and Goodrich Tanny lived in California most of his but moved to Florida about two years Goodrich Tanny is survived by his 93yearold Mother three Sis ters three daughters a son and four