European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april 18, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 where factory workers Eam tie Adonai i by y _ used on weekly Connecticut citizens boast highest average income Washington a residents of Connecticut enjoyed inc highest average income per person of any stale in Ino country in 1986, displacing Alaska Tor the no i spol for the first Lime in 14 years inc government said thursday. The Commerce department said Resi dents of Connecticut earned an average of $19,208 Tor every Man woman an child in 1986, an increase of 6.1 percent Over the 1985 level. This gain far surpassed the nationwide average gain of 4.3 percent in income to 1986, for the nation the average income was s 14,461 in 1986. Compared with per capita earnings of j13,867 in 1985. New Jersey ranked second among the states with average per capita income of $18,284 in 1986. By contrast Mississippi the perennial last place finisher was last again with a per capita income of $9,552, less than half the Connecticut total. Alaska which had held the no. 1 spot since 1973, when it displaced connect Cut fell to third place with per capita income of $17,744 last year a decline of 2.2 percent from 1985. It was inc biggest income setback of any stale last year a decline analysts blamed on the stump in inc Oil and Gas Industry caused by fall ing prices. In All Alaska and residents of six other slates located primarily in Energy regions had income performances last year that failed to keep up with the Rise in inflation which was put at 2.1 percent last year. After Alaska the states with the Wea Kest percentage growth in incomes last year were Louisiana Down 0.3 percent Wyoming up 0.1 percent Texas up 0.4 percent new Mexico up 1.2 percent Oklahoma up 1.3 percent and North Dakota up 1.9 percent. The smallest percentage gains in per capita income were generally in inc Rocky Mountain Region and the South West while inc highest percentage gain were concentrated primarily in the new England states and inc Mideast. In All 15 states had income gains thai were i percentage Point or More above the 4.3 percent nationwide average Montana the highest increase Al 8.4 per cent followed by Maine Massachusetts new Hampshire new York new Jersey South Dakota Connecticut Hawaii Vermont Virginia North Carolina Georgia Tennessee and Rhode Island researchers new scale weighs cancer danger Washington a a Peanut butter Sandwich has 10 times the cancer causing potential of a serving of Bacon but is 20 times safer than breathing the air Ina Normal Home for 14 hours according to researchers who developed a scale for measuring the dangers of cancerous substances. California scientists said thursday that they devel oped a system for ranking the potential Hazard Lohu mans of natural and Man made chemicals that cause cancer in animals. The scale is designed to help assess realistically the hazards of numerous carcinogens people hear about but Don t know How to relate to personally they said scientists at the University of California at Berke Ley said their system which for example rates a daily Glass of Beer As a greater cancer Hazard than come pesticide pollution takes into account real life exposures to the Many cancer causing sub stances. Our purpose is not to scare people about an Occa Louisiana refuses Load of garbage from new York Venice la. A state officials intercepted a Barge carrying 3,000 ions of garbage from new York s Long Island at the Mouth of the Mississippi River on thursday and refused to allow its Load to be dumped in the state. Gov. Edwin Edwards said he and department of environmental Quality Secretary Martha Madden would take every Legal Avenue to keep the garbage from being put ashore in the state. We certainty have notified the company we do no feel it is the proper use of our facilities and we suggest it go Back from whence they  the garbage came from Islip n.y., where it was turned Over to a private disposal contractor. It was put aboard a Barge owned by Lowell Harrelson who tried to dispose out in North Carolina but was denied per Mission by state authorities there. Charles Weidner chief Engineer of Islip resource recovery Agency said he was certain that the Load was commercial solid waste. Islip stopped taking comic rival waste last novem Ber because in did not have enough room at its land fill Weidner said. Wherever in came from they have to move in on somewhere but not in he state of Louisiana mad Den said. A letter was delivered wednesday to inc Barge s owner Lowell Harrelson informing him that dump ing in Louisiana would be in violation of slate regulations she said thursday. We re in inc process of gelling a town order that they will be required to move she said. Signal raw mushroom or Beer but to help them make sense of the Many reports they Sec about this or that causing cancer in animals said or. Bruce n. Ames the principal researcher. Ames said the scale expressed at a percentage of risk Over a lifetime of exposure Rales possible cancer hazards to people based upon the known Potency of a substance in animals and me Likely human exposure. Under this system a daily ration of the Peanut but Ter used in one Sandwich has a rating of 0.03 percent because of a Carcinogen from Mold thai forms on pea nuts. Bacon which develops carcinogens called Nitroso mines when cooked has a 0,003 percent rating if eaten each Day. And the Normal air pollution in a conventional House breathed 14 hours a Day is rated 0.6 per cent. The researchers including Mcnae Macaw and Lois Swirsky cold describe their human exposure dose rodent Potency scale in the april 17 Issue of the journal science a special Issue focusing on assessing risks. Ames bases his rating on a ratio Between the dose rate that induces cancer in half of the animals tested called to to and lifetime human daily exposure tothe chemical per unit of body weight. Using this scale chlorinated tap water Hud a Low rating that still was several times higher than the potential Hazard of pesticide residues the researchers said. Because chlorine in water kills Many disease causing bacteria and viruses they noted its potential cancer Hazard is insignificant compared with the sick Ness and death it prevents. By contrast the potential Hazard from breathing formaldehyde from building materials in the air of Amobile Home is 1,000 limes greater than the risk of chlorinated tap water according to the scale. The alcohol in a Glass of Beer poses a possible cancer Hazard 3,000 times that of tap Waler said the report and dried herbs raw mushrooms peanuts and other natural foods can have higher scores in the amounts generally consumed than race pollutants Large scale nose Job town employees Robert Chambers left and David a tonic of Gro Lon conn., Sci to he riving Relief to this 30-f