European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday december 6, 1988 Surprise guest Bush honors trusted Friend during gala Jwj stateside Washington a president elect George Rush paid a tribute to his trusted Friend president Reagan in a Surprise appearance sunday night at a Saquic to this year s winners of the Kennedy Center honors. Joining a Parade of stars who included Helen Hayes and Kathleen Turner on the stage of the John of Ken Nedy Center for he performing arts in the finale of the annual gala. Bush looked up toward the presiden tial bos and spoke a few lines from Auto Lang  Bush recited. So Here s a hand my trusted Friend give me a hand of thine Well Lake a cup of kindness yet " for aul Lang  flush then joined Hose on stage and in the audience in singing the irad Lional song of memories. From the Box Reagan called Back that the recognition was better than winning an Academy award an Honor he never received or was nominated for during his Hollywood career. Earlier at a Black tic reception at the White House Reagan old the five Kennedy Mcnier Honoreus thai i was a night for All americans 10 celebrate the glory that you have Given  your contribution to our National culture has been More precious than the most precious of rubies the president said. Those honoured join 52 others who have receive similar recognition since the awards were instituted in 1978. This year s Honor pcs Are Alvin Ailey founder of the predominantly Blac Kalvin Ailey american dance theater which will open its 30tli anniversary season at the new York City Cen Ler on wednesday. At s7, Alley is one of the youngest persons Ever to receive the Honor. Beverly Sills was 56 when honoured in 1983 and leontyne Price 53 in 1980.Reagan said Ailey had brought a new vocabulary to Iii Erica dance. Comedian George Burns who starred with his wife Oracle Allen in film and on radio and television from 1932 to 1958, in recent years. Burns has made a comeback in movies including an Academy award winning performance in the Sunshine  at 92, Burns is one of the oldest persons to receive the Honor. Director George Abbott was honoured at 95 in 1982, and actress Lynn Fontanne at 93 in 1980. Burns entered the East room assisted by while House aides at each Arm. The 77-year-old president joked thai Burns is the Only Man in America older than i  actress Myrna Lay 83, Busl known for 14 films she made in 13 years with the late William Powell including the thin Man detective series. Loy also has been Active in Liberal democratic politics. In her autobiography she said of Reagan As president Ron Ald Reagan has lived up to my expectations which were not very  speaking of toy s Many roles the president said she made in All seem easy which Idon t need to Tell All of you is the hardest thing of  Alexander Schneider 80, the russian born violinist who moved to the United Stales in 1938 As a Mem Ber of the Budapest quartet and Taler founded Theale Cneri Trio and the Schneider quartet. Schneider has been a Champion of contemporary music. Reagan saluted him for his work in teaching other musicians in addition to his performing. Roger l. Stevens 78. Chairman of the Board of trustees of the Kennedy Center from 1961 to 1988, arts assistant to president Johnson from 1964 to 1968, chairman of the National endowment for the arts from 1965 to 1969 and a producer who brought works by such writers As Eugene o Neill Tennessee Wil Liams Harold Pinter and . Eliot to the stage in London and new York Reagan said Stevens brought hundreds of plays o the boards from popular musical comedies to difficult Modem  the Kennedy Center honors gala is a fund raising Benefit to support special projects of the Center including performing arts education and Public service pro Grams. Selenium in water Market food poses health peril probes find Sacramento Calif a selenium at Levels High enough to Poison millions of High risk americans has been found in food from supermarkets across the country according to a newspaper s seven month investigation. Toxic concentrations of selenium also taint the Home grown food and drinking water of hundreds per haps thousands of farm and ranch families in several Western states the Sacramento Bee reported sunday. Selenium is a naturally occurring Gray non metallic chemical element of the Sulphur group. Its Levels in commercial foods Are High enough to expose even healthy adults to Levels above Federal guidelines the newspaper said. V. The potential effects for healthy adults May be Noth ing worse than slight declines in Overall health or Resis Tance to disease and infection. But  living in the Rural West and High risk groups across the nation the very Young old and the chronically ill the effects can be much More serious including severe digestive problems kidney or liver damage paralysis even death the newspaper said. The Bee said its first set of tests established a Clear danger to Rural families in Oregon Montana South Dakota Nebraska Wyoming Colorado and Nevada. The second set turned up elevated selenium in super Market foods in seven american cities Sacramento Chicago Washington . Atlanta great Falls Mont. Rapid City . And morose Colo. The findings were based on Laboratory analysis of More than 200 water meat fish egg Cereal Grain and Dairy product samples and on interviews with dozens of selenium victims their doctors Public health sex pens and Lexicology its. / y selenium has killed or deformed thousands of fish waterfowl and other wildlife at pcs Terson National wildlife Refuge in California s Central agricultural Val Ley. Similar effects have been confirmed by Federal stud is in other parts of California and in Nevada Utah and Wyoming although the Interior department is studying the selenium threat to wildlife no Agency is studying its toxic effect on people the Bee said. Selenium enters the human food Chain from thou Sands of Square Miles of selenium tainted soil in the West by being added to livestock and poultry feed and through the vigorous marketing by nutrition Compa Nies of selenium As a dietary supplement. People could gel no More than a Good Bellyache from a single High exposure or get very very sick from prolonged intake said or. Arthur Kilness a researcher on selenium and a retired South Dakota surgeon. According to the newspaper s study a healthy adult would surpass the Federal food and drug administration s Safe selenium level 200 micrograms by eating two six ounce Servings of the sampled foods a Day. Those Servings averaged 105 micrograms. A weekly menu prepared from the foods yielded Cven straight Days of intake averaging 410 Micro Grams. The National Academy of science the National institutes of health and others have stated hat health adults suffer Adverse effects above 500 Micro grains. Five of 11 samples of baby food exceeded the Safe level of 40 micrograms for infants. One four ounce serving of Oatmeal Cereal had �3 micrograms. So far no government or health Agency has determined the toxic level for infants. Doctors agree that sudden High doses of selenium can cause lethal effects. Deaths have resulted in eng land and the United slates from acute Industrial expo sure to selenium and in China from tainted food. But much less is known about chronic Long term exposure to lower concentrations. I doubt seriously that doctors know enough to recognize the symptoms of selenium poisoning in humans said or. Bruce furl professor emeritus at the University of san Francisco where he has spent 30years studying the toxic and cancerous effects of Trace metals. L it is such a recent problem and up to now most of those who have looked at this whole Issue have spent Loo much Lime on deficiencies of a lot of Irace elements but not enough on their  Wool gathering with Christmas Tut approaching Woolen mufflers Are nuking their More. Entwined in her work. I Shiw Schulner production Lul Stant t Pendleton Woolen Mills in Wuhan pm Wain. She s inspecting shipment hued for retailers 6 teens on Way to party die in car truck collision Warrenton Ore. A sin teen agers in route to a party were killed when their com pact car swerved in front of a pickup truck and was crushed police said. Sheriff John Raich said there was no Evi Dence that any of the teen agers had been drink ing before the Accident on . 101 along the Northern Oregon coast.  victims were identified As Debra Raappana 19, of Clatskanie the Driver and owner of the car Tim Morgan 17, of Astoria Jason hurly 16, of Hammond and Kenneth Coin 16, Darren Godwin 15, and Sleven Cory Binga Man Story 15, All of Warrantor. The pickup Driver Robertjohn Larson a 28 year old . Coast guard member from War Renton was treated at a Hospital for cuts and bruises and released. Deputy sheriff Mark whisper said Larson re ported he barely had Lime to hit the brakes be fore the teen agers car crossed his path. Raich said in did not appear that the pickup had been speeding. Police assessing damage in . Capitol break in Albany. , a officials examined ransacked offices and files on sunday to try id assess damage resulting from a break in Al the. State budget office. Capital police discovered a broken window on the first floor of the Capitol late saturday night and concluded that intruders had gained Beccu to two offices of the stale budget division said Tom Cooper a spokesman for the office of general services. The intruders dumped out files but in was t known sunday whether anything was stolen said Cooper. The Capitol. Break in occurred less than a week after a burglary at gov. Mario Cuomo living quarters in the nearby executive mansion two men who had been arrested on burglary charges across the stale in Oneida county were found with stolen goods from the mansion later last week