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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, December 27, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday december 27, 1986 the stars and stripes of v hawaiian Holiday in i la Aii the Christmas season Means surfing not lobe to the banal pipeline during Holiday compe so win. Chris  of California rides the Lilion at Sunset Beach on Oahu. Healthy food not lust o fad report says Washington a healthier fast foods a Boom in Brand name meats and vegetables and More controversy Over food additives and chemicals Are on the horizon predicts a health oriented consumer  f. Jacobson head of the Center for science in the Public interest predicted menu makeovers at Many fast food restaurants. In the december Issue of his group s newsletter nutrition action he said the chains have begun adding More nutritious items to their  restaurants will move away from serving items Rich in Butler Cream Oil and sugar. Marketing to health conscious Consumers is expected to have an effect in supermarkets. Jacobson anticipates a Boom in Brand name promotions for products that traditionally have been sold Gunc Mically  As meals and vegetables. Jacobson also foresees increased use of health claims in marketing foods resulting in Fra guidelines on what claims can be made on labels. Jacobson said he is pacts continued controversy Over food irradiation with Congress holding hearings. Organic foods Are Likely to find their Way onto More supermarket shelves with meat being advertised As free from hormones and other drugs. Chemical free pro Duce will also begin making inroads in the stores he added. Californians urge agencies want hands funds Boycott of Japan Santa Ana Calif. A California officials of the league of United Talin american citric is Are Call ing for a Boycott of All japanese goods because of prime minister Yasuhiro nakasonc1 remarks about Blacks and hispanics in America. This is not intended As an attack on the japanese people said Alfredo Lugo Lilac s state ene Cutic director. We Are attacking the prime ministers statement and his refusal to meet with  in a sept. 11 speech Nakasone said Japan owes its High literacy rate 10 its homogeneity. The level of japanese society far surpasses that of the . There arc Many Blacks puerto Picans and mexicans in the  whose average level is extremely Low he said. Los Angeles up a National coalition of agencies that help the homeless and hungry has demanded that $13 million raised by hands across America last Spring be spent immediately. We have no particular interest in gelling the Money released to us said Robert Hayes counsel for the National coalition for the homeless a non profit network representing the interests of More than 4,000 shelters soup kitchens and food Banks. We just want the Money released to where it can do some Good immediately. It s just not a difficult pro Cess contrary to what the hands across Amanca peo ple seem to think he said. Martin Rogol of Usa for Africa which sponsored the event told the los Angeles times that most of the s15 million proceeds from the May 25 event would be distributed Over the next two to three months. To Date about s600.000 in Grants has been distributed to Relief agencies he said adding the rest of the Money will go out in the next two to three months. All the Money should be committed if not spent by the the anniversary of the  Rogol said that immediate disbursement of the remaining funds would not be practical and would buy Little More than two 49-Ccnt meals on average or a single night s lodging for America s estimated 3 million homeless people. In a letter to Rogol Hayes generally praised the foundation s efforts. But he was critical of its elaborate and costly mechanism to distribute the Money. Gas explosion claims 2nd victim Alsip 111. A a Man died thursday of injuries suffered in a gasoline storage tank explosion and fire becoming the second person killed by the Blaze and leaving investigators with one surviving Wilness of the initial blast officials said. The three men were injured in tuesday s blast at the Martin Oil co. Tank Yard Southwest of Chicago. Steven Szymakowski 33, of Chicago Ridge died Early thursday morning in Cook county Hospital s bum unit spokesman Denis Sullivan said. Szymakowski s death came nearly 24 hours after Rudy Harrington 52, of Cliel died from injures suffered in the same Accident. I. Ronald Fraider of the Alsip fire department said investigators hoped to interview the surviving witness Bruce Tullke 23, of Tinley Park to learn How the explosion occurred. Cuttle remained in critical condition Friday at Loyola University medical Center s Burn unit. Oldest american celebrates 116th Roosevelt. . Up the daughter of a former slave the oldest living american celebrated her i16lh birthday thursday with Lemon cake and or Aubeny Shortcake and said thank the lord for giving me Christmas one More  Susan Brunson. Who has outlived three husbands and 10 children was feted with a chorus of Happy birthday and two cakes. She said she Felt Fine As she marked her 116th birthday in her daughter s Home in Roosevelt. Thank the lord for giving me Christmas one More time she said. Yes one More time. Everything s All right. I m feeling  this year she got several nightgowns Robes and lingerie in pinks lavenders blues and beige As pre sents. She also received a Poinsettia Plant and a cake from rep. Raymond Mcgrath . Her family including seven grandchildren and More than 35 great grandchildren planned a big Combina Tion Christmas and birthday dinner. She was bom in Bamberg s.c., on Dee. 25, 1870, when Ulysses s. Grant was president. Utah prison paroles inmates Early ii t i aka City api overcrowding at Utah lease dates As a necessary emergency measure. But Salt lakj5 Cit a overcrowding at Uta state prison has forced authorities to Grant Early paroles to nearly so inmates in the past four months and another 35 Wilt be freed by the first week of january state corrections officials said. The Utah department of corrections defends the policy of letting convicts out before their original re Leas Amany Law enforcement officers oppose it. We re very much concerned that these people Are being released Early before their sentences Are Over said sail Lake county sheriff Pete Hayward. It seems to me we re kind of circumventing the system and putting the Public in  historic crossing James Gallagher of new town Square p�., lends 110 Volunteer troops onto the new Jersey Shore in the 34th annual re enactment of George Washington s crossing of the Delaware River on a Rainy Christmas night in 1776, surprising British ind hessian troops nine Miles of Prover in Trenton  
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