European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. July 11, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 Wethersfield Conn. A fuming motorists waited in Long lines at Connecticut a motor vehicles offices tuesday As the state government tried to return to Normal from a we Klong shutdown due to its ongoing budget crisis. In Pennsylvania a judge ordered the state to  10,000 workers who sued after their checks were held up Friday because of that states budget impasse. Elsewhere North Carolina lawmakers reached tentative agreement on a $7.8 billion state budget late tuesday. Budget negotiations continued in Illinois and Pennsylvania. In Maine 10,000 workers returned to work monday after gov. John r. Mckernan or. Signed a budget Bill. In Maryland a circuit court judge tuesday upheld gov. William Donald schaefers order expanding state employees work week to 40 hours from 35vi hours. Schaefer issued the order earlier this year to ease the state deficit saying the alternative was layoffs the workers sued. Much of the Wrath in Connecticut was directed at gov. Lowell p. Weicker jr., who ordered the shutdown after he vetoed two budgets that did no to contain an income tax As he proposed. Even though there is no new budget Weicker ended the shutdown this week allowing 20,000 furloughed state workers to go Back to work. A i want to know what it proved a Sharon Woodruff of Meriden said As she waited for her son to Register his car. A what did it accomplish. In a sure if they took a vote today for governor he would get  motor vehicle offices reopened to crowds that were bigger and burlier than usual. Although the office opened a half hour Early and extra staffers were called in lines moved slowly with Waits of up to three hours. A fire them All a suggested Irwin Mendelson of Glastonbury As he waited to Register a car. At the state Capitol in Hartford legislative leaders said tuesday they  Muster the votes needed to override weickers veto despite growing sentiment for the override among conservative democrats and republicans. Opponents of a state income tax Are trying to pass a budget that avoids that income tax by expanding the sales tax on More goods and services. Such an approach would increase state revenues by about $1 billion but Weicker an Independent has criticized it As harmful to the states limping Economy. Weicker threatened to recall the legislature if it passes an unbalanced budget. A a we re out of Law and we re out of Money and in a not going to blink and in a not going to Wink a he told  state employees March through the Capitol tuesday protesting the Lack of a budget and paychecks. Connecticut faces a projected deficit of $942 million for the last fiscal year and $1.8 billion for the current one which began july 1. It is one of 10 states without an income tax. In Harrisburg pa., judge David w. Craig overruled a decision by gov. Robert p. Casey to withhold about $23 million due employees last Friday and this Friday. Craig ruled the plan violated state Law. John Taylor a Casey spokesman said the administration wont Appeal. A we were not trying to create a crisis a Taylor said. A it was a difference of Legal interpretation and we re Only too Happy to comply with judge Craig Slegal  after a two hour negotiating session tuesday Senate republicans and democrats said passage of a budget is at least a week away. At Issue Are spending for education mass transit the lottery children and youth programs and Selling state liquor stores to private owners. Pennsylvania which has 117,000 employees is struggling with a $407 million deficit from the last fiscal year. In Illinois the largest employees Union tuesday threatened Legal action possibly by weeks end unless lawmakers approve temporary spending  can cause cancer Federal panel told Bethesda my. A poverty is one of the most powerful and underestimated risk factors for cancer in America health experts told a Federal advisory panel tuesday. Inadequate Access to Jie Alth care and unhealthy habits among the poor contribute to the problem the presidents cancer panel was told. Or. Samuel Broder director of the National cancer Institute told the panel he sees a poverty As a cause of cancer and cancer As a cause of  a it is difficult for an individual to say a ill go for a Mammogram today when you Are worried about How to  for Din Ner a said Broder. Added Louis Sullivan Secretary of the department of health and human services a poor people Are More focused on Day to Day survival a and in a afraid that health care More often takes a Back  people living below the Federal poverty level have a death rate from cancer that is twice As High As that for the rest of the population. Black men who outnumber Whites in poverty 3-to-l, have a 25 percent higher risk of contracting cancer. Broder linked the higher cancer rates for poor people to what he called a poverty driven lifestyles that May include unhealthy diets greater use of alcohol and tobacco occupational risks and less Access to medical care. What a More cancer can cause poverty he said. For some families on the Edge of poverty a cancer in any family member will Start an inexorable slide into  the three member advisory panel is appointed by the president to Monitor developments in the National cancer program. Its chairman is or. Harold Freeman a surgeon at Harlem Hospital Center in new York. Freeman the first Black to chair the panel said his experiences in Harlem graphically demonstrate the links be tween poverty and cancer and show that race too is a Factor. A National cancer Institute study released earlier this year found that the incidence of cancer increases As family income and education decrease. The study showed that when income education and living conditions Are even Blacks have a lower Overall cancer rate than Whites. Sullivan acknowledged that the Lack of affordable health care for millions of uninsured and under insured americans was part of the problem. The american cancer society estimates that one of five deaths in the United states is caused by  closings layoffs planned by Abc news new York apr Abc news plans to close its Rome and St. Louis bureaus and Lay off More than 90 employees a network official said. Some of those facing dismissal May be offered jobs at abcs planned overnight news service a network executive said speaking on condition of anonymity. The new service for affiliates would compete in the pre Dawn hours with can and an overnight news service that Abc Hopes to begin at the end of the year. Abc spokeswoman Sherrie s. Rollins  comment on the Job cuts or the Bureau closings. The news division which has 1,100 employees also is scaling Back its Paris and Miami operations. The Job cuts Are the largest by a network news division since the Layoff of 100 lbs staffers last Spring. Like those at other networks the layoffs Are the result of High costs during the persian Gulf War and the economic downturn in the United states network officials say. New Jersey bashing gets week off Washington apr a Book and record store has called a one week halt to Jersey bashing by declaring a be Nice to new Jersey week a although organizers  resist a couple of jabs at the states toxic reputation. Olsson a window display on Busy Wisconsin Avenue is glorifying new jerseys authors and musicians promoting its beaches boardwalks and gambling casinos. The display opened sunday. But tucked into the arrangement Are such volumes As global dumping ground and Greasy Lake and other Short stories by t. Cora Hessan Boyle included a just for the title a conceded Dianne Conley who organized the display. A new Jersey is the Brunt of a lot of abuse a said Conley the stores assistant Book manager. A nationwide it has a reputation for being filled with chemical waste and kind of cheesy stuff. That it is the Garden state makes for a bit of a Paradox Quot she said. Surrounding a state Road map in the store window Are Frank Sinatra cd recordings by Bruce Springsteen Bon Jovi Southside Johnny and the Fec lies travel guides to interstate 95 and the Jersey Shore and novels by Philip Roth Stephen Crane and f. Scott Fitzgerald. Also included Are poems by William Carlos Williams and Walt Whitman biographies of actor Jack Nicholson and Singer Paul Robeson and a smattering of picture perfect postcards. There seven a Book that gives new Jersey credit As the Home of baseball called the Jersey game