European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 29, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3sculptor shapes nuclear debate his list shows cancer victims near atomic lab los Alamos . A a soft spoken sculptor has unsettled this onetime Haven for nuclear weapons research by compiling a lengthy list of residents and former residents he believes fell victim to brain tutors. Tyler Mercier has been besieged by interview requests and berated by critics since he went Public in May. There have been Calls from scientists universities and tipsters purporting to know about unreported accidents at los Alamos National Laboratory he said. Mercier gingerly opened a mysterious cardboard Box that arrived on his Doorstep recently to find a plastic quart bottle of potassium Mineral supplement that the sender assured him was a cure for cancer. A a in a just astonished a Mercier said of the uproar. For 11 months the grandson of a nuclear safety Engineer at the lab where the first atomic bomb was produced has collected names of people who possibly fell victim to brain tutors. Quot after his disclosures the department of Energy which funds the lab agreed to finance a study to determine what if anything is going on. As publicity has snowballed Merciers unofficial list has grown from a dozen people to More than so. Most Are dead. His phone rings almost constantly in his modest rented Home in a Complex built 40 years ago for lab workers. His daily routine a sculpting in the Early morning and then caring for his 14-month-old son while his wife works at the lab As a computer specialist a has been disrupted. Tyler Mercier holds a radiation detection device used in his los Alamos investigation. Mercier who has a degree in engineering stumbled onto the tumor Issue while doing his own investigation of radiation Levels in los Alamos a Mountain Community of 18,000 about 30 Miles Northwest of Santa be. Mercier said he was startled when he got radiation readings around town higher than those historically reported by the lab. Last August he was handed a list of several brain tumor victims in one neighbourhood. As he made inquiries the list grew. Mercier speculated that radioactive waste or emissions from the lab could be related to the brain tutors. He gave a dozen names to the lab in october. Disappointed by what he considered the labs unresponsiveness Mercier spoke publicly about the list at an Energy department hearing in May. Mercier said he undertook the monitoring project to reassure residents of their safety after they expressed concern at a Public meeting. A live always assumed the lab had adequate safety precautions and it was a matter of educating oneself and the Public to understand them a he  Puckett head of the labs health safety and environment division recently called the list a anecdotal  Mercier said the lab is trying to pressure him to be quiet. A doctor has checked the first 23 names on Merciers list against medical records and determined that nine of the people died of primary brain tutors a tutors that began in the brain. Most of the others had brain tutors from cancers that began elsewhere in the amp body. The rest of the list will also be checked against medical records. A federally funded data collection Center said 19 los Alamos residents were diagnosed with primary brain tutors Over the past 20 years. Mercier said his list is longer because it includes former residents who were diagnosed elsewhere. Mercier said the planned study May determine that the brain tutors and other cancers can be explained by other factors such As the nature of the population. That could encourage los Alamos residents to be More vigilant about their health Mercier said. A i Hope we see the Community being much More attentive to cancer. And see higher rates of Early detection a he  scout with aids receives Eagle award Cooperstown . A Henry Nicols the Only boy scout in the nation known to have aids attained the Eagle rank on saturday night at a Lakeside ceremony punctuated by both tears and laughter. With his parents and grandparents at his Side the 17-year-old received an Eagle scout medal a the highest rank a boy scout can achieve. Nicols devised an aids education program to fulfil the Community service requirement for becoming an Eagle scout. A thank goodness it does no to happen very often but in a at a loss for words a said Nicols drawing loud laughter. Afterwards Nicols father Hank fought Back tears. A for him to become an Eagle scout is something i always secretly hoped for a the father said. Henry Nicols a Haemophilia a contracted the his virus a which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome a through one of hundreds of blood transfusions he received As a child. About 150 fellow scouts parents and relatives attended the Eagle ceremony at a private Camp on Otsego Lake. A table was covered with photos and drawings of Nicols and letters of recognition from president Bush the boy scouts of America Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf commander in the persian Gulf War and new York gov. Mario Cuomo. Nicols is the Only one of the More than 1 million boy scouts to announce publicly that he has aids said Blake Lewis spokesman for the Irving Texas based boy scouts of America. To receive his Community service badge the final requirement for attaining Eagle scout status Nicols planned and coordinated an aids education program that has included 30 Public presentations mostly to High school students. Black woman 104, denied burial in All White cemetery a v v a it it True a id v a a. A Graceville Fla. A a 104-year-old Black woman denied her wish to be buried in the All White cemetery in the town she helped Settle was interred in an All Black burial ground seven Miles away. Ada Dupree a family took her Silver casket across Florida a Panhandle from Esto to Graceville on Friday and buried her amid Public apologies from some Esto residents for Anonymous racist threats. Several dozen relatives were joined by a dozen White friends As they paid respects to the oldest citizen of Esto a town of 250 near the Alabama state line. Dupree wanted to be buried in Esto where she moved in 1902 and cared for Many White families who settled there. A if anybody deserved to be buried there it was her. She was there before any White person was a said . Woodham a White Mourner. Dupree died last week at a nursing Home. Relatives changed their plans to Bury her at the Esto town cemetery after callers threatened to shoot up the Hearse and any Black mourners. R a 4 / a a y a v j. A flipping out a Chip Milner of Salt Lake City is headed for a Cool splash a on a bicycle a in the training Pool for the Usa freestyle siding team at Lake Placid . Milner and his teammates performed jumps and tricks at a fund Raiser for the group saturday