European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 13. 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 7 letter says cigarettes were laced with cyanide san Josl Calif. A cigarettes were pulled off shelves it two san Jose stores wednesday after Anonymous letters warned they had been laced with sodium cyanide o terrorize slinking scum  the Fri and san Jose police were investigating the letters which were received by three television stations and the san Jose Mercury news newspaper said police spokesman Don Tietgens. Bill Wade senior vice president of the Alpha Beta corp. Said the company immediately removed cigarettes from the shelves of the two a lures identified in the letters. The company also offered refunds to anyone who returned cigarettes purchased at the stores in the Pam in weeks. Wade said Law enforcement authorities and company officials had heard of no incidents of Pui Kinin among customers at the two stores. Preliminary examination of Dur it is pulled from i lit shelves showed no signs of tampering.  . Fri officials referred All queries in an agent in Sun Francisco who was out of his office and unavailable for comment the letter postmarked june 10 in san Jose was Type written and had been photocopied . It read in part i have laced cigarettes., Wilh sodium cyanide powder. Smokers will die. Thai s Good. Non smok ers will die from the poisonous second hand smoke thai s unfortunate but unavoidable. Death to the minting scum  school to keep Reading lists despite petition Boston a books described As filthy and depressing will stay on Wayland schools Reading lists despite a petition by 8d parents in the Boston suburb to drop the popular novels in favor of ones with happier endings. The Wayland school committee voted to stand by the lists and the teachers who assembled them although Par cams complained in the petition thai the Reading Hal emphasizes depressing hopeless and anti authority  i have never in my life read such filthy language As some in the literature on the compulsory Reading list for the seventh  Jetta Gerendas who helped collect signatures told the Board. Or codas said she withdrew her daughter from the town s Junior High school last fall because of the novels the teen Ager was required to read but she declined to name the Bonks for fear of coming across As a  the Junior High school lists hundreds of books from which teachers choose required Reading said Richard Schanc. Principal. He said the list includes such popular contemporary novels As i am the cheese by Robert Cormier "1 know is by Maya Angelou and a y Robert Peck As Well As such Shakespeare s Romeo and  i would rather my daughter read less and be not is fluent in Reading than stuff her mind with this junk Gerendas said tuesday. The school Hoard however voted to adopt the following statement the school committee reaffirms its commitment