European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes Friday september 6, 1991nasa must first sell program in . Cleveland apr scientists and engineers dreaming of interplanetary exploration via nuclear powered rockets lunar Power plants and Martian robots say they have their work Cut out for them a not in space but at Home. Their main Challenge is getting the government Congress and . Industry to support their efforts to Send people Back to the Moon and on to Mars. A a we be got a big Selling Job a Nasa associate administrator Arnold Aldrich warned wednesday at the Start of a conference on space exploration technology. A we can always Hope of course that the hand of god will appear from the sky and Money will flow. But that s not going Quot to happen a said Mark Craig special assistant for exploration at the National aeronautics and space administrator More than 500 people Are attending the the Jav conference in Cleveland Home to nasal a Lewis research Center. It is the first gathering of government and Industry officials to discuss advanced space exploration initiative technology. Nasa received $33 million for the space exploration initiative during the current fiscal year. The Bush administration wants $94 million in the upcoming fiscal year a figure Congress is sure to Cut. Government officials said wednesday it is impossible to predict How much a Mars Mission will Cost. Development expenses for a nuclear rocket alone Are estimated at $1 billion to $2 billion. Some plans sound like science fiction. One scenario involves sending a robot to Mars to collect soil before humans go to the red planet. A you done to want to contaminate the planet or return hazardous material to Earth a said Carl Pilcher chief of the advanced studies Branch at nasal a solar system exploration division. Another concept is a Tel presence a or the use of robotic explorers that can transmit sensations a sight sound even touch a to astronauts confined to the area around their Martian module. Scientists can also conceive of building Power plants on the Tjon that would collect and store solar Energy in lunar Rock formations. More than half the 200-plus papers being presented at the conference Deal with nuclear rocketry suggested by a White House panel As the Best Way to get to Mars. President Bush has set the goal of putting people on Mars by the year 2019 a 50 years after the first Moon Landing. The White House panel headed by Apollo astronaut Thomas Stafford Calls for astronauts on the Moon in 12 to 14 years and on Mars in the years 2014 to 2016. Epa wants Public s assistance on Labelling discarding used Oil Washington a the environmental Protection Agency asked the Public for advice wednesday on issues it has been wrestling with for years How to encourage recycling of used Oil and whether to Label it a hazardous waste. Epa estimates that individuals changing the Oil in their own cars and trucks Are the source of nearly 200 million Gallons of used Oil each year a Only about 10 percent of which is recycled. Much of the rest gets poured into sewers or onto the ground fouling the environment. Altogether nearly 1.3 billion Gallons of used Oil is produced each year the Epa says. About 770 million Gallons Are reprocessed by recyclers. Used Oil contains toxic and carcinogenic substances but Epars attempt in 1985 to declare it a hazardous waste was stopped Short. Many service stations stopped accepting used Oil concerned about meeting the requirements of handling a regulated hazardous waste. Epa concluded that listing used Oil As a hazardous waste could damage the then infant recycling Industry. But the natural resources defense Council took the Agency to court and won obtaining a court order in 1988 requiring Epa to reconsider. The Public is being asked to comment on two options listing Only those used oils that Are typically and frequently hazardous or leaving used Oil off the list of hazardous wastes. Epa also asked for comment on proposed a Good housekeeping rules for storage and disposal of used Oil including record keeping and reporting As the Oil is collected and passed along for reprocessing. It is also seeking advice on whether to allow disposal of used Oil in landfills. The Agency said further incentives to recycling could be considered later if it seems necessary. The most stringent regulatory options could Cost Industry $60 million a year while implementation of just the Good management standards could Cost As Little As $500 a year for a Small business the Agency said. Us a reviewing food inspection Cox news service a Tanta a the . Secretary of agriculture Edward Madigan has ordered a major review of the Federal food inspection service responsible for ensuring the safety of the meat and poultry sold to Consumers in response to concerns that a there is a real  eight senior officials Are expected to report on the results of its review of the . Food and safety inspection service by october officials said. The review comes after a . Senate hearing and Media reports earlier this year on possible links Between poultry plants and the spread of food borne illness. A spokesman for the commissaries in Europe said All of the Frozen poultry in the commissaries comes from the United states Joann Smith us a assistant Secretary for marketing and inspection said the review could involve interviews with hundreds of staff members from the inspection service ranging from on line food inspectors to senior managers. A i done to View this review As routine at All a she said. A any time you get the negative headlines that the food any time you get the negative headlines that the food inspection got you know not everything is  Joann Smith us a official inspection got you know not everything is right. We re looking at ways to  Industry officials also have announced that they arc testing new poultry processing methods at five plants to reduce bacterial contamination of chickens. Last week Industry executives met in Atlanta for three Days with us a officials to develop a Pilot program to Correct 10 key areas in the processing operations where contamination and problems Are most Likely to occur. Great lakes toxins hazardous panel says traverse City Mich. A an advisory Board is urging Canada and the United states to bump great lakes toxins up from a human health a a threat to a a a Hazard and to use mothers milk As a measure of contamination. But the Public health Community Isnit unanimous about How much danger there is. A there is cause to look into this but we re not Able to conclude yet what it Means a said or. Gerald Humphrey of Michigan s department of Public health in Lansing. The Agency determines at what Levels to warn state residents about eating great lakes fish. The great lakes science advisory Board recommended in a report released tuesday that the toxins be considered a  a we want to get the toxic chemicals out of people. By talking about the Levels of these things in mothers milk we will perhaps be Able to Rouse the human spirit a said or. John Vallentyne the boards Canadian co chairman. However he said he does not want women to Stop breastfeeding. The Board cited a Long list of studies linking great lakes toxins with birth deformities and development problems in humans and animals including cormorants and by Uga whales. The advisory Board also relies in part on a study of Michigan women who ate about 15 pounds of Lake Michigan fish a year. Their children were born earlier and weighed less than others. By age 4, they had poorer verbal skills and Short term memory than children in a control group. The children now 10, Are still being  Star turned novelist Thomas Tryon Dies at 65 from wire reports los Angeles a Thomas Tryon who gave up a career As a Hollywood leading Man to become the Best Selling author of such books As the other Harvest Home and crowned Heads died wednesday. He was 65. Tryon died of stomach cancer at his Hollywood Hills Home according to publicist Judy Hilsinger. Tryon is survived by two Brothers a. Lane Tryon of West Hartford Conn., and William Tryon of farming Tryon ton Conn. Private services Are being . Drug scandal widens los Angeles a five sheriff s deputies and one of the lawmen a wives have been charged with allegedly skimming seized drug profits in the latest indictments arising from the worst corruption scandal to hit the los Angeles sheriffs department. The 17-count indictment returned by a Federal grand jury aug. 28 and unsealed wednesday brought to 19 the number of los Angeles Law enforcement officers either charged or already convicted As a result of a 3-year-old investigation into drug Money skimming by narcotics officers. Named in the indictment were deputies Virgil Bartlett 49, of Chino Eufrasio Cortez 39, of Ontario Daniel Garner 45 of Irvine garners wife Yah Vona Garner 42 Robert Juarez 46, of los Angeles and Tyrone Powe 38, of san Dimas. The indictment alleges that the deputies stole a portion of Cash they seized from drug suspects and that the Money was then parcelled out among them by the supervising officer. A false report of the amount seized was then made to commanding  saxophonist Dies san Diego apr saxophonist Charlie Barnet a Rowdy swing Era band Leader who was among the first Whites to hire Black musicians has died. He was 77. Barnet credited with discovering Singer Lena Horne died Early wednesday at Hillside Hospital a nursing supervisor said. He suffered from alzheimer a disease and died of pneumonia said his wife of 33 years Betty Barnet. She was his 11th wife. Best remembered for the jazz standards Cherokee and Redskin Rumba Barnet had retired from music and divided his time in recent years Between Homes in san Diego and Palm Springs. His career spanned four decades. Barnet hired Black musicians As Early As 1937, including Frankie Newton and John Kirby. He featured Horne As vocalist. Born oct. 26, 1913, to a wealthy new York City family Barnet began developing an interest in music when he received a saxophone As a gift. He disappointed his parents by eschewing Law in favor of a musical career joining a band on an Ocean liner at age 16. Betty Barnet said he did not want a funeral service and would be cremated