European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes saturday april 28,1990 Bush admits census task a Mammoth Washington apr president Bush said Friday that completing the nation s problem plagued 1990 census is becoming a Quot Mammoth undertaking Quot and he urged americans who Haven t returned their forms to Quot get  thirty seven percent of the 95 million census questionnaires sent out in March Haven to been returned. Quot i simply want to. Urge every american who has not returned the census form to do so to stand up and be counted a a Bush said in remarks to a group of state legislators at the White House. A we really need to get moving on  in his first comments on the difficulties vexing the . Census Bureau Bush said census takers had begun a to visit All addresses from which census forms have not been received a Mammoth undertaking in Light of the door mail response. Rep Thomas c. Sawyer a Ohio chairman of a House subcommittee that oversees the census Bureau estimates that Fielding the expanded army of census takers needed to Cope with the Low return rate could add $180 million to the $1.3 billion earmarked this year for conducting the census. Bush told the american legislative Exchange Council that helping persuade americans to do a better Job of returning their census forms was a a project that needs your  the census will help determine distribution of hundreds of billions of dollars in Federal and slate Aid among states and local communities for the next 10 years. It also will be the basis on which congressional and state legislative District lines will be redrawn. Preliminary data suggests that As Many As 14 of the 435 House of representative seats May shift into different states As a result of the 1990 count. Elementary student Jimmy Leonard is right in the Middle of things during re Center of attention Cess a but it does no to _ seem to be by instead of a rope to play tug of War at Choice. Classmates decided to use him the Morse school in Cambridge mass. Bush keeps Japan off Trade a hit list Washington apr president Bush shrugging off congressional pressure announced Friday that he has decided not to place Japan on a a hit list of countries with the worst Trade barriers against . Products. India is the Only country that his administration has decided to keep on its list of nations targeted for unfair trading practices Bush said in a statement. Bush hailed what he said was recent Progress in easing .-japanese Trade frictions. A recent agreement with Japan that included japanese concessions on open ing its markets to More . Goods was a a promising Start a he said. At the same time he said he was under no illusion that the agreement alone would a Lead to an immediate improvement in the $49 billion Trade deficit with Japan. But he said he was persuaded that japanese prime minister Toshiki Kaifu and other japanese leaders a share my commitment to ensuring that Trade strengthens rather than undermines the Friendship Between our  a year ago the administration named Japan Brazil and India As the countries with the most offensive barriers. Both Japan and Brazil have won Praise from the administration for making significant concessions during negotiations aimed at opening their markets to . Products. . Trade representative Carla Hills said that India was targeted again because it has the most Trade barriers of any non communist country. Lawmakers had warned Bush that it would be a serious mistake to fail to target Japan once More As a Way of keeping pressure on the country to Honor its Market opening commitments. Doctor discovers growth on Polhill a vocal cords Washington apr freed hostage Robert Polhill has a growth of undetermined nature on his vocal cords an army doctor disclosed Friday As Polhill urged americans to join him in showing that they want to a dose the file on the hostage  pol heirs prepared statement was read by his lebanese born wife Feryal at a news conference at Walter Reed army medical Center where the released hostage is being treated. Or. Russ Zajtchuk Deputy commander of clinical services at the army Hospital said that Polhill a diabetic a has lost a lot of weight and has a growth on his left vocal  the doctor said the growth could be a tumor or it could be an infection. He said a Biopsy would be performed As soon As Polhill is Strong enough to stand the general anaesthesia. He said this would be a in the near future. Probably about  he said the freed hostage might be in the Hospital As Long As three or four weeks. Pol heirs two paragraph statement came a Day after his return to the United states after 39 months of Captivity in Lebanon. He was released sunday and flown to Washington thursday from West Germany where he had spent three Days in the air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden. Sex postman gets 6 months in Calif jail for killing dog san Fernando Calif. Apr a former mail Carrier was sentenced to six months in jail thursday for shooting a dog to death just As its owner was about to hand the postman his Christmas present. Floyd Bertran Sterling 35, pleaded no contest to felony cruelty to animals in a plea bargain agreement with prosecutors on feb. 21. In return charges of carrying a concealed weapon and negligent gun use were dropped. The mail Carrier killed Tammie Bro dyes German Shepherd mix named Skippy in the front Yard of her Home on dec. 26. Brody said her dog was shot just As she was about to hand Sterling a bottle of Vodka As a Christmas gift. Sterling had said Skippy was a vicious dog and had bitten him before. Brody testified that he a freaked out and fired a .22-caliber revolver without provocation. The . Postal service paid the $773.50 Bill for Skippy a funeral and burial in a silk linked casket at a pet cemetery in  repellents yanked after tests turn up risks Washington apr two major brands of insect repellent and scores of others Are being pulled from store shelves because an ingredient used for decades damaged reproductive organs and caused tutors in test animals government regulators said thursday. In All 200 brands of insect repellent including off and cutters use the ingredient 2,3,4,5-Bis 2, Tetrahydro-2-Furaldehyde As an additive to repel flies that bite said Ai Heier a spokesman for the environmental Protection Agency. About 25 percent of All insect repellents on the Market use the additive known industrially As re a although that name does not appear on the Label of any consumer product. The labels instead carry the Long technical name Heier said. The manufacturer Mclaughlin Gormley King co. Of Minneapolis provided the government with test results showing that the additive caused a Adverse reproductive effects ovarian atrophy and Oncogenic Ity or tutors a in Laboratory rats and mice Heier said. A these Are the preliminary results. The studies Arentt completed a he said. A the company has voluntarily cancelled their registration on this product and informed All the users a Heier said. A they did the responsible  cancelling the registration Means the company is asking for revocation of its License to produce or sell a pesticide. Two of the major users of the additive Are . Johnson and son co. Of Racine wis., which makes off and Miles co. Of Chicago producer of cutters Heier said. Both Are notifying retailers to take the products off their shelves. Sixty five other companies also produce repellents using re 1 under a variety of Brand names. The government has done no Independent testing of the additive a it requires pesticide manufacturers to conduct safety tests a and does not know How dangerous it May be. A we just done to have enough data to do a risk assessment a Heier said. A we have no evidence that it Hurt