European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 12, 198s the stars and stripes Page 7 stars say no to drugs a photo actor John Travolta shows first lady Nancy Reagan an Arm Load of signature boards from people in the entertainment Industry who have pledged to be in tolerant of the glorification of drug use in film Tele vision and music to use their influence Power and Talent to help create a drug free entertainment Industry and to Personalty Lake a stand and say no to  Travolta was assisted by Jeff Pomeranz. Teen se/1/ng to prizes to pay fax Bartlett 111. A a teen Ager who won a record $30,533 in Cash and prizes on television s wheel of Fortune has an adult sized problem How to pay the taxes. That s Why Cameron Clark who needs to raise the $1,150 his parents won t Dole out is holding a Holiday sate in this Chicago suburb. Fourteen year old game show Winner Selling prizes to pay taxes. Great Christmas gifts rends one advertisement this week in to suburban papers. The realization that he would have to pay taxes on his winnings came As a pretty big Shock Cameron said wednesday. Cameron who is Loo Young to drive is holding on to the $9,933 Toyota Tercel and the $830 Yamaha motor Scooter he won on the show lost summer he s also keeping the 17,000 in savings Bonds the s550 his and hers Gucci watches $375 Diamond and Ruby ring $450 stereo and a $600 gift certificate. For the right Price camping gear a Ping Pong late and a car stereo package arc Lor Sale. And he s forfeiting a $7,500 trip for four to Australia. I be Learned to decide what prizes i really need and what ones i can live without Cameron said. Contestants on wheel of Fortune frequently sell prizes to help pay taxes said show coordinator Scott . Clark says the family discussed How to pay the $5,000 in California sales lax and Federal income taxes and decided Cameron will handle the state taxes. Study links hormone to longevity Boston a the discovery that older men with High Levels of a mysterious hormone live longer nay open ways to increase longevity by manipulating the body s Supply of the chemical according to re search published thursday. The hormone produced by the adrenal gland is  sulfite or theas. No one knows what role it plays although it s the body s most abundant steroid hormone. Researchers said i. Is plausible that theas con fers Protection against death in general and against death from cardiovascular disease in particular. The research conducted at the University of Cali fornia at san Diego was published in the new England journal of Medicine. There is no Way to either raise or lower theas Levels with Medicine or behaviour although it is conceivable that we could develop a therapy to alter Levels of the hormone said or. Elizabeth Barrett Connor who directed the study. The research began in the Early 1970s when re searchers Drew blood samples from 242 san Diego men Ages 50 to 79. The samples were Frozen and after 12 years were checked for theas Levels. Researchers found the theas Levels among the 76 who had died during the 12 years were lower than those of the men who were Stilt alive. Among those aged 50 to 54, the theas Levels of the men who died were Only about one third those who lived. Buffalo return to pork escape Hunters sardine. Moni a Hunters who were called in weds to shoot Buffalo that had roamed from ycuowtt�el4atioruu Park were sent. Borne and the Hunt was called off when the Bison wandered Back into the Park wildlife officials said. They outsmarted us said Ron Aasheim of the fun wildlife and Parks department in Helena. Danw Jardine. An old Gold mining sep about Turci Miles outside the Park. The late authorized the Hunt in i98s to keep the singling with cattle Ouli Ide the Park and possibly infecting them with brucellosis which can cause cattle to abort their calves. The Hunts have stirred a National controversy generated a lawsuit and prompted the National Park serv ice to build fences and use noisemakers and rubber bullets to keep the b Jaffa to in the Park. Montana wildlife officials maintain a list of 250 Hunters picked by lottery from 3,000 anxious to Hunt Buffalo for trophy Heads and meat game wardens idol 88 Buffalo during the Winter of 1984-85, and Hunters shot 58 Buffalo outside the Park s North and West entrances during the Winter and Spring of 1985-86, Pilot exams at Faa lax critics charge Washington a the Federal aviation administration s top medical officer defended i prac Tice of certifying commercial pilots wednesday bul congressional panel was told there it almost Universal agreement among airlines thai his decision pose so Nous air safety problems. Or. Frank Austinjr. The Faa s air surf Eon blamed the controversy on a difference of medical opinion and said he a confident hit decisions on Pilot medical appeals present no safely  but in an appearance before a House subcommittee Austin said of is to 20 cases about which he had received complaints 75 Percy no of the pilots later were barred from if inf by their employers. Austin on the Job two years appeared before the House subcommittee on government activities and transportation with three of his strongest critics the medical adviser to the air line pilots association and medical directors at two major airlines. There is almost Universal agreement thai we have a very serious air safety problem in the Way the Faa handles commercial pilots medical appeals said Rob Ert Wick chief medical officer at american airlines. Wick said that Austin has often overruled recommendations by a panel of cardiac specialists. Or. Gary Kohn corporate medical director at United airlines testified that the Faa certification cases since Austin took Over often have reflected poor judgment and irrational decision making that has allowed unfit pilots to be re certified for duty. Both Wick and Kohn said thai their airlines have barred a number of pilots from flying even though they were approved by Austin. Among recent cases cited in which Austin found pilots fit to Fly at major airlines were a Pilot whose peripheral vision was so poor that he was considered Blind in terms of the right Side of his visual Field a 54-year-old Pilot who had a medical condition that caused him to suddenly lose consciousness. A Pilot who had heart disease and extensive heart  Stone chairman of the medical committee of the air line pilots association accused Austin and the Faa of experimenting with new medical Theo Ries in the cockpit of commercial airliners. Ruling settles racial lawsuit Chattanooga Tenn. A an often Stormy Public school desegregation Case filed 26 years ago was dismissed wednesday by a judge who ruled that the Board of education bad finally met an order to racially integrate students and faculty. As a product of this lengthy litigation this court is satisfied hat unlawful segregation in the Chattanooga Public schools no longer exists said . I incl judge r. Allan  Case filed in i960 by Black real estate agent James Mapp was the longest to linger in Federal court Here said school Board attorney Raymond Witt. Now we can really move Forward Witt said. Edgar said the school Board s reassignment of faculty and staff eliminated the last obstacle to dismissal. Based upon their conduct for Many years there it no indication that the defendants will take any Steps to Reinsl tute vestiges of segregation he said. But Mapp maintains that segregation ital exists. I think the past effects of slate imposed racial discrimination and segregation have not been completely done away with he said. The Cal Lanosga school system has nearly 23,700 students i 1.26 percent of them Black. Edgar said in March that the school Board bad com plied with All aspects of a desegregation plan approved i 1976 except in regard to faculty and staff. He ordered that the faculty Al each school be Bala Cedlo match approximately a 60-40 White to Black ratio of teachers system wide. In october the school Bond told Edgar that in reassigned 185 employees to meet his de  court finds that the Board has succeeded in. De segregating the faculty and staff of each school approximately the tame ratio As Black and White faculty and lung the total system Edgar Taid