European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday february 8,19b7 surrogate Mother praised As capable Loving Parent Hackensack n j. A the surrogate Mother vying with a couple Tor custody of the baby she agreed to Bear for $10,000 is a concerned Loving Par ent friends and relatives testified. In testimony Friday witnesses contrasted Marybeth while head s behaviour toward the Newborn with Tinl of the couple who they said acted  they visited the infant in the Hospital. However under Cross examination they said the did not know of Richard while head s alcohol prob lems a threatened mortgage foreclosure car accidents or that the couple separated for about a year when i Cirson Ryan was 3.superior court judge Harvey r. Sorkow rejected a request from while head s lawyer Randolph Wolf Lallow her 11-year-old daughter named tuesday to de scribe her Home life. Mary Bell what Hwd Aff Hato Sorkow said the harm the child would suffer out weighed the value of her evidence. While Chad s lawyers have said the testimony is in tended 10 show that of Weir client would provide the Best Home for the i0-Monlh-od known in court records Asba Bym. We ilex cad has characterised the biological father Wil Liam Stem and his wife. Elisabeth As cold unloving and unable to provide the infant an extended family , 29, agreed to be artificially inseminated with Stem s sperm then give up the baby. But she change her mind about the contract after the birth setting the stage Tor an emotional tug of War Over the infant and the first courtroom test of surrogate parenting legality. Her witnesses testified that her son Ryan now 12, had problems in school and that she worked hard to help him. Sister in Law Sheri Messer said Whitchead has a Lov ing relationship with her husband. He s always there for her and she s always therefor him and they always work things out she said. Messer and another family Friend said they knew that Whitchead worked As a dancer at one Lime but they did not offer  alcoholism and the dancing Job were among 35 reasons listed by the stems lawyers in opening arguments on Why the whiteheads lacked the emotional and financial stability to justify  described a close knit family saying that Whitehead takes Ryan sledding and that bout Parent Swatch tuesday play soccer and help their children with  Anderson a neighbor testified that when she saw Whitehead at the Hospital after giving birth White head was Nappy and breastfeeding the baby. The baby was Happy. It was just like a Mother with her  contrast Anderson said the Sterns looked through the Nursery window but did not say anything hug each other or display emotion. The Sterns have testified that they tried not to show any emotion because Whitehead had told them Hospi Tal personnel did not blow of the surrogate arrange ment. Friends have testified that the Sterns marriage is sound and Loving and that the baby is Well cared  Simmons a Long time family Friend portrayed Whitchead As extremely concerned about Ryan s education driving him to a special school Sev eral time a week and at one Point transferring him Toa program in Florida. In a stiff Cross examination baby m s court appointed lawyer Lorraine Abraham questioned Sim Mons qualifications for assessing Whitehead s  has recommended that the stems be awarded custody and did not Cross examine Friend who testified in their behalf last week. Sorkow Mutt decide the custody Issue As Well As the contract s legality. Expert says Lou Gehrig s disease i morganite fertilizer May be linked Milwaukee a a possible link Between Lou Gehrig s disease and. A fertilizer produced by Milwaukee s sewage treatment District requires investigation an expert on the disease said Friday. Or. Benjamin Brooks said he was alerted to the possible link Between the rare incurable disease also known As Amy Trophie lateral sclerosis and the Fertil Izer i morganite by the cases of three players on the 1964 san Francisco 49crs football team who contracted the disease. Former 49ers mall Haze line and Gary Lewis have died while teammate Bob Waters 48, a football coach at Western Carolina University has been diagnosed shaving the disease. The use of i morganite on the 49ers practice Field in the 1960s has been suggested Asa possible Factor in their illnesses. Patrick Marchese executive director of the Milwaukee metropolitan sewerage District said it would co operate with any study of a link with the disease but we Don l see a problem with our  the Levels of cadmium and other toxic metals in he fertilizer have been reduced he added. The fertilizer has been produced for �0 , director of the als clinical research Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison said three of his patients two from Wisconsin and one from Illi Nois told him ibis week that they had used the fertilizer. We have noticed Many More cases Here than another parts of the country he said. The Milwaukee Sentinel Friday said it had locate six als patients who had used the product on their lawns and gardens some More than 20 years  is characterized by a gradual deterioration of nerves and Muscles commonly resulting in a loss Rouse of the limbs and increasing difficulty in eating and speaking. Once the disease is diagnosed victims die within three to five years on average. No cure or cause is , one of its most famous victims was a new York Yankee baseball player who died in 1941.donald Wood associate director of research for the muscular dystrophy association which studies als said Friday that no link has been shown Between als and  the possible causes under investigation Are previous viral infections genetic predisposition an exposure to heavy meals he said. Brooks said the . Environmental  in 1977 warned against using i morganite in vegetable gardens because of High Levels of cadmium at Otic and heavy Ornelal. The sewage treatment District which advertises i morganite As a natural organic fertilizer placed a warn ing Label on bags of the product but the warning was removed in 1982 after cadmium Levels were reduced. The in Blirer is produced by preconditioning sewage sludge in an acid Bath and then vacuum filtering the material to remove Moi Hurc said John h. Moser the District s research manager. Stateside Board of directors chief chosen by educators Washington a since Dorothy Ann Kelly president of the College of new Rochelle was named to Lead the Board Odir Octora Friday of the National association of Independent col Leges and  group of 800 private campuses wound up its annual meeting Here Friday. Sister Dorothy Ann has been with the new York College since 1957 and has been its presi Dent since 1972. Man Dies in attempt to Rescue Guinea pig Forestdale Ala. A a Man was fatally injured when he ran bade into his burning Mobil Home to Rescue his daughter s pc Guinea pig. Kevin Hiram Crucco died of smoke inhalation Afler being flown by helicopter to a Birmingham  can sit Here and say. That s crazy what he did but when your daughter s crying for her Guinea pig you can t make a rational decision. You want to make her Happy said fire chief Don Mellon. Crucco 2&, awakened his wife. Lisa Early thurs Day and told her to grab their 2-year-old daughter and get out of the burning Mobile Home. Cruse rat towed Ihram out but then win Lack inside. Firefighters found him slumped against a bed room door overcome by smoke. The Guinea pig s Glass aquarium was on the floor next to hint Reagan aide defends cuts in Indian health program Washington a the director of the Indian health service defended Reagan administration Budge culs in the program while conceding thai per capita spending on health care for India Sis less than half that for Alt other americans Everett Rhoades testified Friday before the House Interior and insular affairs committee on the Reagan administration s fiscal 1988 Bud get request of $794 million to provide healthcare for 1 million indians Down from about $920 million being spent this  while Crow executive director of the National Indian health Board said the budget cuts would be  health service director acknowledged that per capita medical care spending in the United states is about $1,450 annually compared to 1600-700 for indians. Company sues Newsweek Over alleged drug link Washington a Newsweek is being sued for �20 million for libel by Southern air transport inc. Over an article it published about cocaine smuggling and the contras. The lawsuit was filed in . District court against the Magazine by the Miami based airline that has shipped arms to the nicaraguan rebel Sand helped ferry weapons to Iran. The airline once owned by the Cia has Bee linked in published report. To cocaine traffic from  lawsuit charges the Newsweek piece was defamatory because it suggested Southern airhead been lingered by a convicted drug smuggler and another Man accused of drug trafficking. Jewish Seminary to certify women As cantors in . New York a the Nulion l leading Seminary for Judaism s conservative Branc says it will certify women As cantors to Lead serv ices among the movement s i million Congre  jewish theological Seminary s announce ment thursday came two Yean after it ordained its first women As  the Seminary has issued bachelors degrees in sacred music to women it has Only issued cantorial certificates to men. Unlike rabbis who Are viewed As teachers cantors represent congregations in  main objection 10 women As Canton had been that women Are not obligated to perform allow the Bible s 613 commandments said Ismar dior St the Seminary s Chancellor