European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 05, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday april 5,1990 stateside suburb raising the Devil about precinct number Houston a a suburb is having a Devil of a time with its new voting precinct num Ber. Deer Park City Council members approved a Resolution tuesday asking the commissioners of Harris county to renumber precinct 666 be cause some religious Folk View the number As symbolic of the Antichrist. Deer Park is a fairly conservative religious Community and it s just a stigma they Don t want said Harvey Petree a Deer Park City councilman. "1 had never heard that the three Sixes had any religious connotation said county com missioner Jim font no. If i would have known then what i know now i would have just asked the clerk to skip a  election officials redrew precinct 470 in a gust because it had grown to include 3,200 Resi dents. Font no  the Deer Park districts were split the new jurisdiction got the next available number 666. Prices on Kosher food inflated . Official says new York a retailers Selling Kosher jewish food Are gouging Consumers in the Days before passover a City official says. Price surveys during the past three months show prices jumping Between february and mid March on Many of the foods that observant jews cat during the eight Days of passover which starts april 10, the City commissioner of con Sumer affairs Mark Green said monday. Price differences of More than 100 percent occurred from store to store without a consistent pattern Green said. Stores charging the least for one item might be among the highest prices for another. Green said for example that a Jar of be file fish Cost $2 at one store and More than $4 at another. Some fresh fish prices jumped by 72 cents a Pound Between february and March Green said. Nickname for Blue baby has parents seeing red Nashville Tenn. A a couple Are suing a Hospital for $4 million complaining staff members nicknamed their baby smurf Etc be cause her skin was accidentally dyed Blue. The lawsuit claims Kirsten Madsen was subjected to the callous distressing remarks. Among which was the reference to her just delivered daughter As smurf the " smurf Etc is a character in the smurfs car Toon show. The smurfs arc Elf like creatures with Blue  lawsuit says Madsen was injected with Blue Dye in her womb to test for a urinary tract infection 12 hours before she went into labor at Baptist Hospital year ago. Hospital spokeswoman Debbie Koch said no one at the Hospital has any knowledge about use of the term  the lawsuit filed last week asked damages for negligence and for extreme distressing and permanent emotional damage humiliation and  a fiery flow from Kilauea Volcano spills onto a Highway near Kaapana Hawaii. Residents flee Kilauea lava Kaapana Hawaii a dozens of residents packed their belongings and left As lava from Kilauea Volcano crept to within 300 Yards of their Homes. Authorities had estimated the flow could reach the Homes As Early As wednesday but the lava s move ment toward the Kaapana gardens subdivision appeared to have slowed said Hawaii county civil de sense spokesman Bruce Butts. Civil defense officials evacuated 50 Homes monday and put All remaining residents of Kaapana gardens on Alert meaning they could be ordered within 72 hours to evacuate. They would be Given 24 hours to leave. Officials were watching two major flows from the vol Cano which has erupted continually the past seven years. The flow posing the most immediate danger to the 125 Home subdivision was Corning from the West said Harry Kim Hawaii county civil defense administrator. But a Finger from that flow was draining into a Crater almost 100 feet deep slowing its Progress he said. Lava continued to pour into the Crater Early tues Day and Butts said it was impossible to say when the flow could reach Homes As Long As the diversion drained much of the Power from the front of the flow. The second flow from the East was less than three quarters of a mile from any residence Kim said. Residents told to evacuate were leaving with As Many possessions As they could take and some hired Container trucks to take everything they have. Foul up prevented delivery of 1.5 million census forms Peoria 111. A some 1.5 million households nationwide received no census forms because the Cen sus Bureau failed to print Post office Box numbers on the mailings officials said. Each form will have to be delivered by census work ers to the Homes instead of to the boxes before the census can be completed Gail Kremenek spokeswoman for the regional census office in the Chicago sub Urb of Westchester said tuesday. Officials were unable to estimate the Cost of the foul up but said they Don t expect any significant delay in completing the 1990 census. About 106 million forms were mailed nationwide in the last week of March. But forms destined for people who have their mail sent to Box numbers went out without the numbers and the postal service was unable to deliver them census officials said. Officials said each bag must be sorted by hand and the forms redistributed to District offices so they can be delivered by census workers. The got about 30,000 forms to  said Don Leadill manager of the census Bureau s Peoria of  postal service checked the census Bureau s mail ing lists before distributing the forms but the Post office Box problem was not discovered because addresses with Box numbers weren t checked Kremenek said. Kremenek said census employees hired 10 do door to door surveys next month will be pressed into service to deliver the forms. However in at least two Central Illinois districts extra census employees will have to be hired at to per hour to deliver the forms. Leadill said he will hire people for the task As will Jerry harder District Man Ager in  have about 15,000 forms being returned to us As undeliverable said harder whose largely Rural District includes 13 counties. But he said we Don t con Sider it a big problem. It s no big  drug speeds chickenpox recovery study i Minneapolis a a drug used to treat genital probably later this year herpes has been found to Speed up children s recovery from chickenpox a University of Minnesota study says. Acyclovir reduced the number of itchy blisters and shortened by a Day the Normal five Day course of chickenpox in 50 twin cities children who received the drug according to a report in this month s journal of paediatrics. Acyclovir is a Safe and effective treatment for the illness which almost every american gets sometime during childhood said or. Henry Balfour the Pedi Atri Cian who headed the study. Balfour said tuesday that the finding is important because most complications develop near the end of a typical five Day  said some doctors May delay prescribing acyclovir until results of a larger 10-City study Are released chickenpox sores 50 youngsters got a syrup. Co Tami no jul Ariy Cui i 11113 Jav.  j other doctors May limit the use of acyclovir to acyclovir and 52 others got one inn youngsters 11 and older who tend to have the most it. Medication in severe cases of chickenpox Balfour said. But he predicted that its use eventually will be widespread. Chickenpox is caused by the Varicella zoster virus member of the herpes family of viruses so it was Natu ral to try the herpes drug against it he  3.5 million americans a year develop chickenpox. About 4,000 children Are hospitalized each Yea from complications of the disease which include skin or ear infections pneumonia and brain infections bal four said. No chickenpox vaccine is licensed for use in the United states but vaccines Are being tried in other countries he said. The children getting the acyclovir ended up toe Oping an average of 336 skin lesions compared Wun More than 500 lesions for those who did t get  started within a Day after Thetro ungers Goi acyclovir compared with two Days Tor most did t get it.  tests a year later indicated that a c did t interfere with the youngsters develop a Anity to this virus a process that normally Prex in person from having a second Case of chickenpox. The study sponsored in part by Burrou Giscome co., manufacturer of acyclovir was Cameo from february through june 1987. Testing to in the study within a Day of developing their first nity and analysis took two years