European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 20, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Minnesota milk tainted with penicillin St. Paul Minn. A penicillin has been found in certain milk products in 37 Rural counties and state offi Cial have warned residents that the adulterated product was potentially fatal if consumed by people allergic to the drug. There was no indication that anyone has been affected by the tainted milk. Slate agriculture officials were investigating How ii got onto the Market. Agriculture commissioner Jim Nichols said wednesday. Dairy Farmers use penicillin to treat cow udder infection known As mastitis the officials said. The drug is injected into a muscle and reaches the milk through the bloodstream. Nichols said. It s a Normal treatment done by just about every Dairy Fanner at some time or other said Bill Coltman director of the agriculture department s Dairy industries Divi Sion. Nichols concurred that mastitis is a common problem and that penicillin is the drug normally used to treat it. But when you have this he said you take them off the milking line. I Don t know what happened Here. Sometimes you run Short of Money get a Little desperate i just Don t  the milk processed by sanitary Dairy of sleepy Eye inc., has been on the Market in 40 stores and 75 vending machines in Southern Minnesota since monday Nichols said. It is sold under the labels pincer be Dairy. Sanitary Dairy and Dairy Kins he said. The milk travelled from a farm and through another Dairy before being handled at the Plant in sleepy Eye Coleman said. The agriculture department does not Check Dairy products daily and discovered the adulterated milk through a spot Check Nichols said. There was no answer at the Dairy after the officials made their announcement wednesday night. Only products with the code 27-035 9-30 arc adulterated Nichols said and the Plant was in the process of removing the products from stores and machines. The amount of penicillin in the milk is enough to cause an allergic reaction in people who arc sensitive to the Antibiotic said stale epidemiologist Michael osterholm of the stale health department. Symptoms of inc reaction called anaphylaxis. Vary from hives to watery eyes osterholm said. In also May produce severe anaphylaxis in which a Pinon goes Inlo Shock and in actually can cause  he said. Of i Host who consume penicillin Al the level found in inc milk Only Aboul four to 15 persons Oul of 100,000 would experience any re action he said. Since milk drinkers May not know whether they arc sensitive to penicillin osterholm said Consumers should do Elroy the affected product. Should anyone  Early signs such As hives general weakness sweating they should Contact their local emergency room Oslo Holm said. Security squad member of the Security Teui it be atomic Energy comm ski i Savannah hirer pull near Alken , Are armed and ready for deployment in their Heli copter. Team members Wear masks to keep their identities secret. Sudds criticizes Reagan Tor his stance on aids Washington a liven though he labels aids research a top adminis Lra lion Priorie president Reagan has Only spoken Oul once about the  disease and then Onk when prompted by reporters says rep. Cherry t. Studds the Only acknowledged homosexual in Congress the president said last night it is one of the lop priorities of the last four  the Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview wednesday i under those circumstances it is More than a Little difficult to imagine Why he has never mentioned it once before in Public. This is a major National Public health crisis Studds said. There arc medical authorities who think in is one of the very worst we have faced in a Var Long  at his news conference tuesday night Reagan responding to reporters questions said More than $500 million had been spent to try to find ways of combating acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Aids is a fatal virus which attacks the body s ability to fight disease. Ludds said realm s requests to con Gress for fiscal  1982 through 1986 were far less than that amount and the Money was appropriated on because con Gress went beyond administration requests. The administration s request for the five fiscal years in question. 82. To "84, 85 and n6, add.1, up to $213.5 million  said. The Way i read that it s less than Over half a billion by a substantial  Studds said the administration s original fiscal year 1986 request was for $85.6 Mil lion less than the $97.4 million Congress actually appropriated last year Tor a ids research. After rep. Henry Waxman a Calif. Pressured the administration Studds said hat request was increased to $126 million. Congress Likely will approve More than that. Studds said. One subcommittee in the House has author cd a 5196 million spend ing level and if it is approved. Congress will have provided $389 million Over those same five cars he said. I think the country has a right to expect a great Deal More than this from our presi de ill he said. The White House press office did not return Telephone Calls wednesday seeking comment about Studds remarks on aids spending. Ludds said he was concerned that what he feels is inc administration s Lack of re Pons could be be cause aids started out in the United states As a Gay Dis  aids most frequently strikes  recipe Klu \ ends of contaminated blood transfusions and intravenous drug abusers. As of sept. 9, the National Center for Studds disease control in Atlanta had tabulated 13.074 cases of aids of whom 6,611 had died. No one has recovered. Studds said he also was disappointed Hal  did t speak out More strongly when asked if he would Send a Young child of his own to a school with students who had aids. Medical experts have said there is no evidence aids car be spread from casual Contact such As a child going to school with someone who has the disease Studds said. Studds made his sexual orientation pub Lic in 1983, when he was censured by the House for a relationship he had 10 years earlier with a House Page. Divers to seek $500 million in East River treasure new York up buried treasure lies off the South Bronx in the murky East River and divers arc preparing to Salvage $500 million in Gold and Silver coins believed slashed in a British frigate. But the slate of new York May be wailing ashore to pirate away every Penny. Barry Clifford. 38, president of maritime underwater surveys inc. Of Martha s Vineyard mass., said wednes Day the British payroll ship . Hussar Hil a Rock and tank in the hell Gale Section of the River in 1780. Clifford found the Hussar off the South Bronx with the Aid of sonar scans but would not disclose exactly where the ship u located for obvious reasons he believes there is $500 million in Gold and Silver coins aboard. Clifford Laid in two weeks his 16 divers plan to Start blasting away the mud the Hussar has been buried in for 205 years Bencale 80 feel of water. It s sitting there Prelly As a  Clifford said in an interview. You can t Sec a Mark on the Hull. There arc no  but state officials said Clifford who began searching for the frigate in March had not yet applied for the proper permits and May not be Able to keep what he finds. All material belongs to inc stale of new York said Phil lord senior scientist in the office of stale archaeologists. There has never been an  Clifford expects the state to Lake some of the Booty but said he wants to keep some Hie plans to Donale the 114 foot Hull of the wooden three Mast ship to the South Street seaport museum in Manhattan. Robert Cahill a former member of the Massachusetts Board of und Crawler archaeological resources and a Friend of Cliffords said the treasure seeker became inter ested in the  because in was  it s fairly Well known where it is. But he s one of the Only ones with the device to dredge in up said Cahill author of several books on treasure Hunting. Cahill said Clifford also has probed the Piralic ship whydah which Sank off the coast of Cape cod recovering $12 million during the Pas three years. The Hussar paymaster for British troops during the revolutionary War struck a Rock called the pot Rock in inc Waters at hell Gale in september 1780, while on its Way from Buckman s wharf in lower Manhattan to new port. R.i., said historian Norman Brouwer of inc South Street seaport museum. The Captain of inc ship tried to get her ashore bul she Sank he said. Most of inc sailors were Able to escape but the Gold and Silver was lost. Although the British denied it witnesses saw sailors Load four chests of Gold coins and 10 chests of Silver coins said to be Worth a total of 5500 million aboard the ship he said. Also believed to have gone Down with inc ship were 50 american prisoners locked below deck Brouwer said