European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday april 26,1986 health risks vary widely state by state study finds Steif Eside Atlanta a tennesseans Are More Likely to Slack off when it comes to exercise while folks in Wisconsin report More Binge drinking and West virginians Wear seat belts less often than other americans. Those Are some of the findings of a 15-state Survey into health risks conducted by the Federal centers for disease control. It s All part of a new Effort by the Atlanta based cd to Survey people on How their own behaviour creates risks to their health and How that behaviour varies from state Testate. The eight risk factors covered in thursday s report being overweight not exercising not controlling High blood pressure smoking Binge drinking defined As five or More drinks on one occasion heavier drinking averaging 60 drinks a Mont drinking and driving and not wearing seat belts regularly. Adults were surveyed throughout 1984 by Telephone the cd said. David Williamson a cd epidemiologist said the 15 states in the Survey were the first to ask to participate in the surveys. Other states have since signed up and will be included in future reports. We think this information is useful for those states carrying out health programs in these areas he said. This is one Way for them to get a handle on what  the 15 states Are Arizona California Idaho Illinois Indiana Minnesota Montana North Carolina Ohio Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Utah West Virginia and Wisconsin. Here Are the percentages for each state for each risk Factor overweight Arizona 20.4, California 18.6, Idaho 21.8, Illinois 23.2, Indiana 23.7, Minnesota 20.7, Montana 19.9, North Carolina 23.4, Ohio 25.7, Rhode Island 19.2, South Carolina 21.9, Tennessee 21.4, Utah 17.4, West Virginia 25.7, Wisconsin 24.6. Lack of exercise Arizona 39.5, California 42.2, Idaho 46.3, Illinois 53.8, Indiana 53.7, Minnesota 49.4, Montana 50.0, North Carolina 50.1, Ohio 52.5, Rhode Island 59.9, South Carolina 54.9, Tennessee 60.9, Utah 42.7, West Virginia 60.7, Wisconsin 50.4. Uncontrolled High blood pressure Arizona 1.7, California 1.9, Idaho 2.1, Illinois 1.5, Indiana 2.5, Minnesota 0.8, Montana 1.7, North Carolina 2.8, Ohio 3.0, Rhode Island 2.4, South Carolina 1.8, Tennessee 1.6, Utah 2.4,-West Virginia 3.2, Wisconsin 1.5. Smoking Arizona 27.7, California 25.6, Idaho 24.5, Illinois 33.6, Indiana no data Minnesota 26.5, Montana 28.9, North Carolina no data Ohio 28.7, Rhode Island 31.3, South Carolina 26.2, Tennessee no data Utah 16.1, West Virginia 32.8, Wisconsin 27.4. Binge drinking Arizona 20.8, California 20.4, Idaho 17.8, Illinois 22.8, Indiana 16.6, Minnesota 25.3, Montana 27.0, North Carolina 14.2, Ohio 22.5, Rhode Island 19.2, South Carolina 11.0, Tennessee 8.6, Utah 10.5, West Virginia 11.6, Wisconsin 28.9. Heavier drinking Arizona 12.0, California 10.5, Idaho 5.8, Illinois 10.2, Indiana 8.1, Minnesota 7.7, Montana 6.9, North Carolina 6.8, Ohio 8.7, Rhode Island 8.6, South Carolina 5.7, Tennessee 4.8, Utah 3.2, West Virginia 5.7, Wisconsin 10.3. Drinking and driving Arizona 6.3, California 4.2, Idaho 4.2, Illinois 6.9, Indiana 4.7, Minnesota 6.9, Montana 8.2, North Carolina 4.6, Ohio 7.4, Rhode Island 5.0, South Carolina 2.0, Tennessee 3.3, Utah 3.9, West Virginia 2.9, Wisconsin 11.3. Not using seat belts Arizona 61.1, California 51.2, Idaho 71.0, Illinois 68.2, Indiana 73.3, Minnesota 71.0, Montana 70.8, North Carolina 71.3, Ohio 68.6, Rhode Island 71.4, South Carolina 66.6, Tennessee 71.8, Utah 66.8, West Virginia 75.9, Wisconsin 67.9.�v pm kit re a h 7tl 6 St-7 animal rights activists hold protests at campuses laboratories across . By the associated press criticize activists who break into labs to damage Equi scores of demonstrators were arrested for blocking a ment and free animals. By the associated press Cess to centers doing research on animals As hundreds marched peacefully on campuses and laboratories to pro test what they called gruesome experiments. Protesters on what was proclaimed National Laboratory animals Day targeted facilities thursday in California where most arrests occurred Arizona new York Nevada Pennsylvania Florida Washington Michigan an Minnesota. In los Angeles 48 of 100 demonstrators some carrying signs that read animal Auschwitz were arrested for blocking a Urcla driveway. We object to the use of All mammals said Margo Tannenbaum spokeswoman for last Chance for animals one of the groups belonging to the sponsoring april 24 coalition. Elsewhere in California there were 21 arrests at the University of California at Berkeley eight at the univer sity of Southern California in los Angeles 19 at Stanford University 14 at us Davis 10 at us san Francisco 10 at us Irvine and five at us san Diego. Washington gov. Booth Gardner who was moved by a television report on the Issue made a statewide proclamation in Honor of animal rights. About 50 people marched to the University of washing ton health sciences building in Seattle. Help us find an alternative to burning animals and turning animals into alcoholics Wayne Johnson asked students outside the husky Union building. On wednesday the California biomedical research association held a news conference in los Angeles to defendant fails in plea for stoning by sinless Des Moines Iowa up a 54-year-old Man convicted of terrorizing his former employer told a judge he s too old to go to prison and asked instead for a Public stoning. But Ellsworth Donald Griffith s request had one catch said prosecutor Odell Mcghee. He insisted that Only those without sin be allowed to cast stones. Mcghee said judge Richard Strickler sentenced Griffith to five years in prison. Criticize equip ment and free animals. These acts of terrorism must be stopped said Ray mond Eden executive vice president of the american heart association. Among those appearing at a news conference by the researchers group was Mary Van Dyke who said operations developed in animal research had saved the life of her 8-year-old daughter who was born with severe birth defects. Or. Kenneth Shine chairman of the Urcla school of Medicine said research on dogs led to cardiopulmonary resuscitation and that protesters exaggerate the amount of research done on dogs and cats obtained from animal shelters. Nine people were arrested thursday on charges of Dis orderly conduct when they blocked a driveway to new York University medical Center. Elsewhere in new York City 20 other members of the human animal liberation front chanted Stop the Tor Ture close the labs and carried photos of cats and Mon keys hooked up to lab equipment. They Are tremendously gruesome said Avi Magidoff a protester who called on the Nyu medical Center to Stop the experiments. Sixty two cats in one Experiment have their spinal cords  John Deats a spokesman for the medical Center said More than half of the animals used in experiments Don t feel pain while the rest Are anaesthetized. There Are 300,000 people in Africa who Are going to die if we Don t develop a malaria vaccine and that s dependent on apes being experimented on he said. About 25 people went to a building at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis but were refused entry to a Laboratory by an employee. In Boston several dozen members of cease the coalition to end animal suffering and exploitation gathered at Harvard medical school and released Black balloons. About 75 people paraded peacefully through downtown Tampa fla., for a half hour. Six people wearing Black hoods carried a coffin symbolizing sacrificed animals to the Hillsborough county courthouse and Laid a Blac Wreath. Turnpike attendants Job takes its toll on personnel Boston a motorists who get an apparent kick out of blowing through wooden toll arms at Boston area plazas on the Massachusetts Turnpike take out a dozen of the Pine Sticks a week toll takers say. Despite wait for Gate signs More than 550 toll arms Are clipped off their mechanical shoulders at the eight Boston Gates to the Turnpike every year said Charles d. Forster toll operations manager. Replacing them is a never ending Job he told the bos ton sunday Globe. And that s Only one of the woes facing attendants on the Highway. For those who thought counting coins from the change baskets was easy consider this Ketchup ice Cream Cones cigarette packages paper towels gum gum is a real nuisance Forster said of the sampling of filth Flung by some Drivers into automatic toll baskets. Patience is a necessary virtue for toll takers supervisor Barbara Sullivan said. Naturally if you Don t put the Money in the Gate won t open she said. Brother May contest will giving $200,000 to Cut deficit Chicago a a Man troubled by the Federal deficit left his entire $200,000 estate to the government but his brother says he May contest the will. The Money was left to the government by Ben Kamin of Chicago who died in december at the age of 71. Kamin s brother Alfred 75, of Las vegas nev., said he has consulted an attorney to determine whether he should contest the hand written will. It s not that i m resentful he said. If i did t have so Many kids and Gran kids i d leave Money to the govern ment  former Mississippi governor who came up hard Way Dies Batesville miss. A former gov. Cliff Finch who campaigned with a lunch pail and drove a Bulldozer to show his Bond with Mississippi s working people has died of a heart attack at the age of 59. Cliff brought what i consider the rednecks and the Black necks together said state rep. Aaron Henry presi Dent of the Mississippi a act. Finch who made a bid for the 1980 democratic presidential nomination collapsed at his Law office and was dead on arrival at South Panola county Hospital. He was born to a poor farm family and worked his Way through Law school before being elected to the state House of representatives in 1959. He came up the hard hard Way said Mike Amis Finch s 1975 gubernatorial Campaign manager and chair Man of the state Board of welfare during the Finch administration. He came up in reality from sub poverty level. What people Call poverty now was t poverty then. He was  7 Dairy cows rounded up after falling out of trailer Milwaukee a sheriffs deputies headed them off before the overpass when seven Dairy cows fell from a cattle trailer on interstate 894. One animal dashed Down the freeway before a Deputy Lassord it and tied it to his patrol car s bumper. Deputy James c. Kohel of the Milwaukee county sheriffs department said four deputies half a dozen motorists and the truck Driver circled the cattle and herded the group toward the trailer from which they escaped. We had a lot of cars braking and swerving As that cow ran Down the Road but otherwise the traffic managed to move smoothly he said. The Holstein cattle on their Way to a livestock auction in fond do Lac fell to Freedom when a rear door of a cattle trailer popped open and a loading ramp flipped Down. One cow remained inside the trailer unharmed and the seven others suffered abrasions from the fall Kohel said. Yale s governors to organize fact finding trip to s. Africa new Haven Conn. A after weeks of divisive anti apartheid protests on Campus Yale president a. Bar Lett Giamatti has announced that the school s governing Board would organize a fact finding trip to South Africa. The trip to take place in late Spring or Early summer will give the Yale corporation a Chance to assess first hand the compliance of. Companies with Yale s ethical investment policy Giamatti said in a statement. The governing body will inspect operations of some companies that the University holds Stock in and will visit some South african universities that Yale May be Able to work with on educational projects he said