European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 29, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 mayor fakes Job again despite vandals no pay Iron City Tynni a nobody s name w Ai on tuesday s ballot for two scats on the City commission but inc incumbent major won 61 write in Voles out of 78 cast and said he d serve again despite being bothered by hoodlums who dash his fires and throw eggs at his House. Mayor Loys Sledge had said in a recent interview that he wanted to step Down after six years in office because of vandalism against him by hoodlums who Hung out at the local Pool Hall. Bui he apparently changed his mind tuesday. "1 Don t think it Wilt be easy said Sledge 61, after the polls closed i be never expected an easy Job but it s not going to be any tougher either. I m going to hang in county officials did t bother to Send voting machines to the tiny town of 525 people and opted for paper ballots instead since no candidates signed on for two of the three come Simon scats up for grabs. One of the three commissioners is chosen mayor by. The commission. Jack Forsythe the other commissioner up for re elec Tion also was written in and got 43 votes while 11 other1 write in candidates picked up a few votes As Well. Commissioner James Doyle steel has two More years to serve on his four year term. Iron City has 300 to 400 registered voters. Normally. 250 people vote in City election said . Forsythe the town s of Leer in charge of elections Camilla Lawson who helped out at the polling place said published reports of vandalism in the town near the Alabama Border were overblown. Nobody wanted the commission Job because it does t pay anything she said. Who would want to do it my Mother was vice mayor. If they make a decision not everybody s going to agree with it she said. Tammy bucket St clo who regularly hangs out in the Pool Hull says the trouble began when the mayor tried to step up enforcement of Beer drinking taws. The Law won t let anyone drink Beer by the Pool Hall said Siccle a Foreman at Saunders manufacturing co. We always kept it hid. We never littered. Then the Law started arresting people. Thai is Why All the buildings got lore up St Etc said. Police chief Dean to dissect who has been in town for a year is the Only of Deer. An officer in a Small town like this is in a goldfish bowl he said. They know. If they see me working during the Day they know i probably won t be working that night so that s when they ii plan their  modish cd said if he tickets troublemakers they usual mayor and we  of people always calling our Modisse sol House and waking us up out of bed. It s a big headache by get even by tearing up the City Park or knocking out and it seems like nobody really thinks too much of the the windows at City Holt. Forced dieting slows aging in animals researcher says Philadelphia a forced dieting somehow slows the aging process in animals and understanding How this works May help scientists figure out new Strate Gies for letting humans live longer a re searcher said tuesday. When the diets of Laboratory rats Are severely restricted they live tar longer than do otherwise identical animals that Are Al Lowed la eat As much As they want. In fact researchers say that such food limits Are the Only Way they know of significantly extend ing these rodents Normal lifespans. No one knows precisely Why this works and finding out is the subject of study at several labs around the country. Undoubtedly we have a phenomenon that is retarding the aging process said or. Edward j. Masoro. And if indeed this is a Good Model in which to study aging then we feel that learning about How in docs this is going to be important not Only for learning More about aging in mammals but also the possibility of meaningful interventions for human aging Masoro a researcher at the University of Texas health sciences Center in san Ante changes in . Diet 160 Nio presented his findings at the annual meeting of the american association for the advancement of science scientists disagree on this Point but Majaro said he doubts that rigid dieting alone will extend people s Normal lifespans. My gut feeling is that if food restriction could make a human live to Iso some human would have done it and t Don t know of any data that would imply that a human has lived that Long he said. There is no evidence that it works in humans or if in does work in terms of maximizing the lifespan we be already achieved  even though in this Case rats Are very different from people Masoro said that if scientists can unravel the influence of diet on longevity in rodents that information could open up strategies for helping humans delay death. From knowing How food restriction works he said it May Well be possible to Deal with far More palatable ways of human aging than not eating we think in is promising. The question is How does in work Masoro said recent studies in his lab have discounted several theories including the ideas that food restriction works by slowing metabolism by making animals leaner or by delaying their growth and development. Instead he said there Are hints that harsh dieting keeps animals alive by some direct effect an the secretion of hormones that orchestrate their internal processes. Among the possibilities Are an influence on the regulation of sugar the production of steroids or the turnover of protein. In his studies rats that were allowed to cat As much As they wanted lived about 800 Days. But rats fed 60 percent As much food lived about 1,300 Days. Another expert. Or. Richard c. Add Man of the University of Michigan noted that people Are surviving longer because of the Conquest of disease and improvements in living conditions. What has not changed he said is the apparent maximum lifespan. Which has remained fixed at approximately 100  he said reports of extraordinarily Long lives among some isolated groups such As the people of soviet Georgia have been disproved. Twa cuts .-Europe youth fares by up to 57% from press and staff reports new York trans world airlines tuesday Cut trans Atlantic summer discount fares for passengers age 12 to 24 by As much As 57 percent As part of an Effort to improve business devastated by fear of terrorism in in rope. The new York based airline said the discount fares Are valid Between 26 us. Cities and 18 Points in Europe and the Middle East but tickets must be reserved and Pur chased at least 72 hours before departure. The one Way youth fare from Washington to Brussels will be 198, a is percent discount from what had been the lowest promotional fare of s404. The new York Rome fare j420 regularly has been reduced to j24b, the announcement coincided with the Start of summer vacations for Many american College students historically an important source of business for airlines that rely heavily on Europe bound american travellers. Twa the dominant is. Carrier across the North at lactic with about is percent of the traffic has been severely affected by a decline in bookings especially after a n april 1 explosion aboard one of its jets in route from Rome to Athens that left four people dead. The Cost of replacing nearly 6,000 flight attendants who struck March 7 also has Hurt the airline. The business slump intensified april 15 after the . Bombing raid on Libya which the Reagan administration has accused of sponsoring anti american terrorism in Europe. Other trans Atlantic airlines also have taken Steps to improve business. Earlier this month. British airways announced a lottery in which it will give away All seats from 15 . Cities la Britain on june 10. Pan american world airways said in was adding a highly visible anti terrorism Security Force to reassure travellers that its flights Are Safe. As of wednesday he fares were not in effect for flights originating in Europe in order to reduce fares for flights to the United stoles airlines must file requests with the governments in each country said Paul Macel general manager of Twa in Frankfurt Alaska go Vernor asks air Force to postpone exercise Juneau Alaska a gov. Bill Sheffield has asked the air Force to Post Pone a Large scale military training exercise scheduled la begin saturday because it could disrupt the critical Spring calving of Caribou Moose and Dall sheep and the nesting of trumpeter swans. Sheffield asked it. Gen. David a Nich ols commander of the alaskan air come to delay flight exercises Over Central Alaska for three weeks. Biologists say the noise from the planes could cause an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 Caribou to panic and trample or abandon Newborn calves and cause others to abort their Young the exercise also could jeopardize the offspring of an estimated 30,000 Moose. Several thousand Dall sheep and several Hundred trumpeter swans habitat biologist Phil Bra said. He said the state can t Tell How Many animals might be killed been use of the exer Cise which is scheduled at the Peak of the critical birthing and nesting period. A spokesman for the alaskan air come said tuesday that Sheffield s letter dated Friday had just been received and that Mil itary units involved had not decided How to respond. As of right now the exercise is on said , he said the flights allowed under a temporary military operations area per Mit from the Federal aviation administration would be made during four of 11 Days of a military exercise involving More than a dozen units of the air Force army Alaska National guard and pos Sibly Reserve troops. We expect that there would probably be no More than six aircraft in that area at a Given time but there May be up to 40 or 45 Lota that might go through in a Day Tilma said. He said the military can Fly in the area year around at altitudes As Low As 300 feet though not in Large numbers. At the state s urging the air Force agreed to limit flights to a Small part of the operations area at a minimum Altitude of 10,000 feel Over the calving grounds of most of the Caribou. Outside the grounds c-130 transport aircraft and a-10 fighters would maintain an Altitude of 2,000 feet and f-15 fighters would keep an Altitude of 3,000 feel. While 1 appreciate these concessions i do not believe that they go far enough in protecting the extremely important wildlife populations found in the area Sheffield said in his letter Tilma said it would be difficult to delay the exercise which has been postponed twice since last fall. It s a significant important exercise that allows us to train the Way we would fight in defense of both Alaska and the Continental United Stales he said. Alaska officials first objected to flights in the area in april 1984, Sheffield suggested in his letter thai future flight exercises to confined to eight permanent operating areas which the Mili tary already has in Alaska