European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday september 17, 1985 expert sinks myths of titanic treasures Randolph . L i common belief holds that the titanic the luxury Ocean liner thai Sank on its Maiden Voy age contained a treasure of Gold Bullion and jewelry that still lies intact under 13,000 feet of North Atlantic Waters. But a recent find throws those myths right out the window an expert said sunday. The Pride of the White Star line pre served in its watery grave did carry opium but never held the Bullion and it lost the jewels during Rescue attempts said Charles Haas president of the National titanic historical society. Haas was Given Access to the ship s recently disco arc a cargo Manifest and cargo diagrams by a source he would not identify. Con try to what everyone believed there was no Bullion at All on the ship Haas said. The ship s cargo was basically a mundane pedestrian commercial  the cargo included feathers Linen Straw Hatter s fur tissue Auto parts leather Rabbit hair elastics hair nets and refrigerating apparatus he said. It s All like that totally who cares Type material Haas said. The wreck of the titanic which Sank 73 years ago after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic was found by a . French expedition on sept. 1, largely in tact 13.000 feet below the Ocean surface. More than 1,500 people died in the Accident one of the worst maritime disasters of All time. Part of the folklore of the ship was that it carried Bullion Hass said explain ing that such talks were fuelled by the existence of special storage rooms de signed to hold Gold and Silver Bullion. In Stead he said the rooms contained opium. Passengers jewels listed with the Purser May have amounted to a Fortune Haas said but the entire Purser s Crew perished along with All records. And ample histor ical documentation shows the first class women were reclaiming their jewels for Over an hour before the ship  a survivor told Haas he saw the Purser s staff scooping Safe material into mail bags during the sinking. The bags and people guarding them probably Slid Down into the water during the ship s final plunge. Who knows where they arc now Haas said. Another myth Laid to rest by the Manifest is that the titanic was doomed by the curse of the Mummy because it was carrying an egyptian Mummy across the Atlantic. The cargo Manifest throws those myths right out the window Haas said. Smoking costs Economy $10 million an hour Washington a disease and lost productivity due to smoking Are coiling the United states some $65 billion a year More than $2 for every pack of cigarettes consumed according to a new con Gressional study released monday. The new estimate from the office of technology assessment Congress scientific advisory body is substantially higher than past calculations of the costs of smok ing reflected in increased medical Bills pre mature death and time lost from work. Our Economy is losing More than $10 million an hour because of the smoking habit said rep. Fortney Stark d-calif., who requested the study. This study con firms our suspicion that smoking is not Only a deadly habit but a costly one for the fed eral health care  Stark who chairs the health subcommittee of the Tan writing House ways and Means committee is pushing legislation to keep the cigarette tax a. 16 cents per pack instead of allowing it to revert to eight cents a pack As scheduled at the end of this month. Stark s Bill would earmark part of the Revenue to help pay for Federal health care programs. Focusing on the three major causes of disease attributed to smoking cancer heart disease and lung ailments the con Gressional researchers said the habit adds $22 billion a year to the nation s health care costs and costs $43 billion in lost productivity and wages. Ota put the total Cost of smoking in the Range of $38 billion to $95 billion a year with a Middle estimate of $65 billion or $2.17 for each pack of cigarettes sold. The Agency said its new figures represent a conservative  in 1984, surgeon general c. Everett Koop said smoking costs $40 billion a year and an estimate in August in the new York cortege cracking Down on students alcohol abuse Boston a Boston University s backstage pub no longer serves Beer. There s a two drink Limi at Williams col lege. And Smith College students charged with underage drinking won t get Legal help from the school anymore. Students returning to College campuses throughout Massachusetts where the Legal drinking age Rose to 21 from 20 Over the summer arc encountering strict measures to guard against alcohol abuse. Several years ago the legislature raised the drink ing age from i8lo20. A key reason for the crackdown is the threat of lawsuits according to school administrators interviewed by the Boston Sun Day Globe. We re thinking in terms of the liabilities involved said Harvard s police chief Paul e. Johnson. At the University of Massachusetts am Hyrsl Campus new policies require a guest list for gatherings of Loor More people. Two thirds of All guests must be 21 for Pope elevates american to Post of archbishop Albano Italy up Pope John Paul ii elevated los Angeles born clergy Man Justin Kigali to the rank of archbishop during a mass concite Bratch by High rank ing Church prelates. The Pope travelled by car from his sum Mer residence at Castel Gandolfo 15 Miles from Rome to the nearby town of Albano for the special mass in the Cathedral of san Pancrazio. Kigali 50, is an official of the Vatican s secretariat of state. Since june he also has headed its school for diplomats. The party to be approved if liquor is to be served according to Larry Mannetta assistant director of residential education at the school. Non alcoholic beverages must be provided for underage guests he said. Part of the impetus for the new rules was last Spring s refusal by the school s insurer to provide liability coverage for Campus employees serving liquor said University spokesman Arthur Clifford. Other new policies being tried at other schools include stricter penalties for Campus drunkenness requiring students to Register for events where alcohol will be served ban Ning open Beer kegs at student parties and requiring student identification cards at parties where liquor is served. Officials at Smith in Northampton have stopped providing Legal defense to underage students arrested for drinking or Drunken behaviour. Moreover students whose drink ing Leavis to Rowdy or destructive behaviour Are subject to investigation by the student government association and May be sus Pended or dismissed. Failure to comply with Massachusetts and College rules will result in the loss of social privileges on the part of individuals or entire houses said Smith spokeswoman Mary Callahan. At Williams officials have limited the log a local student bar to serving two drinks per student. Northeastern University is considering revoking the liquor License of the rathskeller a Campus restaurant said John o Bryant vice president of indent affairs. The backstage pub at by dropped Beer from its menu because of the new drinking age. Restrictions have also been imposed on student pubs at Brandeis University and Bentley College. State journal of Medicine put the Range at $39 billion to $55 billion. Tobacco interests immediately disputed the figures saying the congressional study was Hasty and inconclusive. The Ota memo Rel card today Demon Strates How Little is known about the relationship of personal behaviour to disease and then in turn disease to costs said Anne Browder the assistant to the president of the tobacco Institute the Industry s lobby ing group. If the report is supposed to provide a rationale for legislation earmarking a por Tion of the cd Era cigarette excise lax for medicare in our View it fails she said. Most of the data for the new estimate arc drawn from earlier studies by the american cancer society and other groups. The Ota paper says the latest estimate for smoking related deaths for 1982, includes 139,000 caused by cancers 123,000 from cardiovascular disease and 52,000 from chronic lung diseases. The report acknowledged that it did not consider the economic benefits of smoking including jobs and profits from the production and Sale of tobacco and its products. Sale of cigarettes also brings in some $4.7 billion a year in Federal tax Revenue. Researchers acknowledged the difficulties in coming up with accurate estimate for example smokers tend to be heavier drinkers of alcoholic beverages meaning that some health effects May not be directly linked to their smoking. For that reason cirrhosis of the liver and ulcers were excluded from the Cost figures. Smoking effects which cause a far smaller number of deaths or for which less data arc available such As damage to infants born to smoking mothers the breathing of cigarette smoke by non smokers and the effects of cigarette caused fires were also Ift out of the study. And no mirrors a phole4$�rch&q it  it lr.1 College s football learn the cd la ? Tim Franklin. 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