European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pagi 6 the stars and stripes Friday july 25.1966 Senate panel approves 84 Rise in cigarette tax Washington Fyt the Senate finance committee defying its chairman and the Reagan administration wednesday approved an scene increase in the cigarette tax to make up part of the increase in Revenue proposed in the 1987 budget. The increase which would raise the Federal lax to 24cents a package would be effective oct i. The vote in the finance committee which came As Surprise was 11-8. When word of the vote reached the House ways and Means committee which to working on its own deficit reducing package that com mince agreed to consider its own cigarette tax proposal. While the Outlook for approval was unclear the House committee chairman. Rep. Dan Rotten Kosslo d-i1l, said he thought the committee might approve an increase. He said. I Don t think 1 can Slop it for Many members of Congress raising the cigarette tax is seen As an easy Way to increase Revenue because it penalizes smokers. In addition the pressure to Cuttle deficit to the $ 144 billion ceiling set in the budget balancing Law sponsored by Sens. Phil Gramm and Warren a Rudman u adding pressure for such an  s Gramm Rudman and they re looking for Money said rep. Charlie Rose d-., an opponent of Law increase. The Reagan administration is opposed to any tax increase to reduce the deficit. O. Donaldson Chapion the Deputy assistant Treasury Secretary for lax policy told the finance committee before the vote thai the administration opposed the proposal. Bob Dole of Kansas the Senate Republican Leader and sen. Bob fac Wood r-ore., chairman of the finance committee also opposed the increase in the cigarette lax. The proposal if approved could Bun Republican front tobacco raising states this year especially sen. James t. Broyhill the Republican candidate in Nort Carolina who was appointed to till out the term of the late sen. John p. East senators from the tobacco states Are expected tonight the cigarette lax increase when it comes to the Senate floor. But unlike other Bills in the Senate this package of Revenue increases and spending cuts has a 20-hour Lime limit on debate protecting it from a  Vole in the Senate finance committee came As the House ways and Means committee the finance committee and other committees in the House and the Senate worked on the Revenue increases and spending cuts needed to achieve $9.2 billion of the promised $40 billion savings in the budget for 1987.at the same time the Senate began debate of the Bill to raise the government s debt ceding $244 billion to$2.323 trillion. Stu cry advises women to gain up to 35 pounds while pregnant Washington Ufi a new study recommending women put on As much As 35 pounds during pregnancy in order 10 deliver healthier babies Contra dict decades of medical opinion advising against such weight  Public health service study released wednes Day by to National Center for health statistics concluded the More weight a Mother gains up to 35 Pound the Tower tie risk of lightweight Bahy an the Chance of fetal death. Birth weight u � key Factor in an infant s survival and growth potential for several decades prior to the Early 1970s, com Mon medical practice in the United Stales was to mini Mize a Mother s weight gain during pregnancy in the belief thai excessive gala might predispose her to the development of to Xemia blood poisoning As Well Solher obstetrical problems the study said. A tout weight gain of 20 pounds or less was frequently recon the report noted however that nearly 14 percent of babies born in 198016 women who gained less than 16 pounds during pregnancy had Low birth weight the proportion dropped to 6 percent when the Mother gained 21 to 25 pounds and to 4 or s percent with gains of 26 pounds or , teen agers women who smoked during their pregnancies and others at High risk of having a Light weight infant or a fetal death generally were the most Likely to have smaller weight gains in pregnancy the study said. For example nearly 20 percent of babies born Loteena agers who gained less than 16 pounds during preg Nancy Nad "5 or 6 percent v least 26  reduction during pregnancy u no longer advised even for women Wilh a High Ore pregnancy weight because of potential Adverse effects on fetal growth and development the study  report was based on a Sample of 9,811 live births and 6,150 fetal deaths where Souiers receive prenatal care in 1980. Officials said the report is limited to the association Between maternal weight gainsaid mean birth weight and the risks of having a Low birth weight baby or fetal death. Low birth weight but the figure dropped local when the Mother s gain increased to at House oks waste site studies Washington a the House voted wednes Day to let the Energy department proceed Wilh studies of potential nuclear Wasle dump Sites in three Wester states despite an impassioned attempt by westerners to Cut out the  amendment to the Energy and water development appropriations Bill Defeated 351-68, would hive eliminated $291 million earmarked for excavations and other work at prospective Sites in Texas Nevada and Washington. The Mutt billion Dollar funding measure includes$10.8 billion for Doe activities including nuclear re search and atomic weapons development As Well As,$4.1 billion for water project and Money for several Independent  lopsided Vole on the High level radioactive waste dump was More a reflection of most lawmakers Relief that their state Are out of the running than a vote of Confidence in the Doe site selection . Gerry St Korold a Minn. Called the Doe pro Gram fraught with error incompetence and secrecy impervious to citizen participation and callous to local  he and others said the amendment while pre serving some $380 million to pay salaries compute fees and other program costs would Send Doe Back to Square one and put Minnesota and Many other Statelback into consideration As potential Sites. While sympathizing with Western slates Sikorski said i do not want to pay for that concern by putting the citizens of virtually every other stale under the radioactive spotlight once again. The amendment will simply spread fear and Defiance to the country at  continuing controversy Over the Doe program has been fuelled in recent months by the department decision to indefinitely Hall its search for a second waste site in an Eastern state and by its admission to Ahouse subcommittee that it had destroyed All memos relating to selection of the three Western . James Weaver d-orc., sponsor of the Amend ment accused Doe of playing politics rather lha making an objective decision based on scientific and engineering  repository has become ale some kind of radioactive Godzilla that rampages through the states added rep. Ron Wyden Dore. What the gentleman s Amend ment does is Correct this abuse of Power. It s ume to lame this  rep. Morris Udall d-ariz., said he could t defend the Doe performance. Bui he said the amendment would bring All activity to a grinding halt and the nation cannot afford that. This Wasle is Here he said. We have 40 years accumulation of this junk Silling in tanks. For All prac tical purposes if you take away the Money Doe ingoing to have logo Back to the drawing  stateside soft drink machine Falls on top of boy killing him old Bridge no. A a 14-year-Oldboy trying to stake free cans from i 700-Pound soda machine died after in tipped Over on him police said wednesday. John Dawes of old Bridge and big i year old Uncle Guy Dawn were lipping and tilling the Pepsi machine at a condominium Complex tues Day night Laid old Bridge police la chattel Thomson. If you shake the machine apparently it by passes some Fety mechanism and you can gel free soda Thornton said. The machine fell on John he said. I guess Istook a violent shake to get the soon Loose. Two police officers lined the machine which is about 7 feet High and 3 feet wide and Param edic took the youth to old Bridge regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead Thomson said. No charges have been filed against Gary he said. Disabled vet to pull Rickshaw to Washington to protest a Benton Harbor Mich. Up Aman who Ion the use of big right hand 35 Yean ago while serving with the Navy i Korea said wednesday he plans to pull a Rickshaw to Washington Neit month to protest the veterans administration s disability re View  Cudd 61. Said he will leave aug. T from Beaton Harbor City Hill first stopping in Plymouth lod., where a Small Velez us group working to pain indicia review in disability disputes ii headquartered. He said he Hopes to travel Between is Tad is Miles  the Rickshaw with his left Hind and expects to arrive in Washington by nov. 30his 62nd birthday. I want to have a review before toe fun Cott Gas said Cudd i want to show them of paper exactly what has happened to me Wilh the a and the 60 some doctors i be  since 1940, disabled veterans have been barred from gouty to court fora review of claims awards they consider inadequate. Anaheim makes it illegal to brandish toy weapons Anaheim. Calif. Api the City coun cil passed a Law making it a Misdemeanour to brandish a toy gun in a rude angry threaten ing manner wifi the intent to frighten harass or annoy. It s a very lense situation when you re try Anglo determine if someone is brandishing a toy or a real firearm police capt. Randall Gasto said wednesday. When police arc confronted with what appears to be t weapon they respond accordingly. A 5-year-old boy was shot to death in nearby Slanton in 1983 when he pointed a toy gun at an officer who had entered his apartment. The Anaheim Council passed the ordinance Ona 5-0 Voie. It lakes effect aug. 21. 1 Marine Dies 2 Hurt in grenade explosion Camp Pendleton Calif. A an in Fantry instructor was killed and two other marines injured when a 40mm grenade blew up in launcher during live lire exercises wednesday according to a Camp Pendleton spokesman. The infantry training school us Victor a 26-year-old sergeant died a few hours after the explosion of massive Bead and Chest injuries said gunnery sgt. John Farrell of the base Public affairs office. A second victim a private who bad to have his left hand amputated above the wrist and was treated for other cuts was in serious condition a Palomar memorial Hospital Farrell said. The third victim sgt. Robert u Hodges of Marion . Was treated at a base clinic for shrapnel wounds in the Back and released be said