European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 15, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7citizens Tell Congress of recession pain by Jack Sirica new Day Washington a Nancy Mckenna of new Jersey has returned to work As a Secretary so that a possibly a she and her husband can Send their son to College. A my husband works hard and i work hard and we re not getting anywhere a Mckenna told a Senate committee Friday. Paul Cohen of Philadelphia has not worked since March when he was Laid off from what he fears was the last Good supermarket Job he will Ever find. Cohen a former Dairy manager appealed Friday for a Cut in taxes on unemployment benefits. A i am scared to death a the 51-year-old Cohen told senators. A i done to know what ill do at the end of february when my benefits run out. I see no Light right  after two weeks of hearings during which Congress listened mainly to the administration outside experts and itself legislators heard from Middle class americans who brought tales of the recession from places like Cleveland Philadelphia and Cliffside Park . The Senate finance committee hearing was the second of two unusual Possession hearings last week into ways to ease the longest running recession since the depression. In hearings the week before the House ways and Means committee also began sifting through a raft of proposals Many of which have been around for some time and have resurfaced now that Middle class Relief has become a cause in Washington. Republicans have been touting a a a growth package that they say would create jobs by reducing capital gains taxes and allowing penalty free withdrawals from individual retirement accounts for the Purchase of a first Home. Democratic proposals Center mainly on tax credits for working families. Sen. Bill Bradley d-., who was chairman of Friday s hearing would give families a $350 tax credit for each child younger than 18. Bradley also is pushing a proposal that would fund Loans of up to $33,000 for any student younger than 50. Once they got wot students would have to pay Back a percentage of their income for up to 25 years. Mckenna told the committee Friday that such a loan program would help her the most. Mckenna said her son had been denied financial Aid for College because she and her husband an electrician Quot make too much Money and we own a  Cohen had worked in grocery stores since age 15, when he got his first Par time Job with the food fair Chain. He ended up working As a Dairy depart ment manager until food fair went bankrupt in 1979. �?o1 Felt i had a Job i could retire from a Cohen said. A food no one Ever heard of food stores going under. Everyone has to  Cohen said he had worked at several supermarkets since then but that he was Laid off earlier this year by Thrift Way Quot and replaced by a much cheaper  Cohen argued Friday that a Cut in taxes on unemployment compensation would Aid both the unemployed and the general Economy. A if you want to help the Middle class Don t forget people like me who Are being pushed rapidly into poverty by this terrible recession Quot Cohen said. Quot we will use the stimulus that conies from a tax Cut on our unemployment benefits immediately. We have no Choice. We have nothing else to spend.�?�2 in plane crash redirect rescuers looking elsewhere Valdosta a. Apr rescuers searched in the wrong place while two injured men waited overnight in a Small plane that crashed in a swamp 1 i Miles from an Airport. The men finally managed to Contact the Airport Tower with a hand held radio after the Tower opened Friday morning directing rescuers to the wreckage through mud and thick vegetation. A a it Sall to pieces a said Roy Bennett who lives nearby and was among the first to reach the plane. A those boys Are Lucky to be  Bennett said the men told him that the plane ran out of fuel on a flight from Baltimore to key West fla., and they could not find a place to land. They crashed into a clump of Trees in an area known As mud swamp Northeast of Valdosta municipal Airport. The Pilot of the single engine Cessna 150 was identified As John Murray 38, of Ashton md., and his passenger As Paul Lacoste 32, of Ocean City my. They were taken to South Georgia medical Center where they were listed in stable condition. Murray had a broken knee broken Finger and a bruised lung. Lacoste fractured his Pelvis. A they Are Alert and talking Quot said Hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Sayles. A they Are undergoing a full Battery of  she said the two had blankets and made it through the night a pretty Well a despite their injuries. The two seat plane disappeared late thursday from a radar screen at nearby Moody fab ga., officials said. The Valdosta Tower closed for the night about four hours earlier. Lynn Mccracken head of the civil air patrol in Albany ga., said authorities searched All night in the wrong location. The patrol focused its search in Brooks county about 10 Miles West of the Airport because emergency personnel Aid one of two men who were injured thursday night when their plane crashed near Valdosta a. The men were found Friday morning. Smoke was seen there he said. A everyone was hampered by the fog a he said. A we had teams out All night searching but we never suspected they were off the end of the  a a the May have been in sight of the runway but the weather was so poor i have no idea if he could see the Airport a said Airport manager Dick Clark. After the Tower reopened at 7 ., the men made Contact using a hand radio but the wreckage was not found until about 9 30  When the fog lifted Clark said. The National transportation safety Board will investigate said spokesman Ralph Hicks in  wants radar detectors banned in trucks by Cox news service Washington a Congress has told the transportation department to write regulations Banning radar detectors in interstate trucks and buses. The provision was included in a $14.3 billion transportation appropriations Bill that president Bush plans to sign wednesday in Dallas. Sign a spokesman for the Federal Highway administration s motor Carrier division said the Agency is reviewing proposed rules and expects to publish them for Public comment by Jan. 15, the congressional deadline. Radar detectors Are banned in Connecticut Virginia and the District of Columbia. New York has prohibited them in Large trucks. An estimated 2 million arc sold each year. In the summer of 1990, a coalition of eight safety and automotive groups along with the american trucking association petitioned transportation Secretary Samuel k. Skinner to ban radar detectors in interstate trucks. Research by the insurance Institute for Highway safety found that half of All trucks on the Highway Are using radar detectors. The Institute was concerned that Detector use was particularly heavy among trucks that were speeding and among those carrying hazardous materials. A High Speed increases the chances of crashing and when crashes involve tractor trailers the results too often Are catastrophic a Institute president Brian of Neill said at the time. A a there a Only one purpose for a radar Detector and that a to circumvent Speed enforcement a said Steve Campbell safety director for the american trucking association which has supported the Detector ban for the past four years. Most trucking companies have been concerned Over Highway speeding a and the negative image of a truck bearing Down on an innocent Motorist doing the Speed limit a Campbell said. A we Don t need that. Its not Good for the , others want Hospital disinfectant seized Washington a Federal regulators moved Friday to Stop hospitals doctors and dentists from using two products made by a major manufacturer of Hospital disinfectant solutions. A these products do not work a said David Kessler commissioner of the food and drug administration. A doctors dentists and other health care professionals should Stop using  Federal officials also sought authority to seize supplies of those products and three others made by Sporic Idin International of Rockville my. Robert Schattner Sporic Idin president said the action a took us by  he said that the products have a a Long history of confirmatory testing and that a not one Case of nos comial Hospital acquired infection has been reported in 14 years of Hospital operating room  the Fra was joined by the environmental Protection Agency the Federal Trade commission and two . Attorneys offices. . Attorneys offices in Baltimore md., and Nashville tcnn., filed seizure actions on behalf of the Fra against the five Sporic Idin products a because they Are adulterated and mis branded a the Fra said. In addition the Fra initiated Legal action to Force the company to recall two of the products that were deemed to pose a Public health risk. The Epa ordered the company to Slop Selling Sporic Idin cold sterilizing solution which is registered with the Agency As a chemical Ster Ilant and a pesticide. It is used to sterilize certain medical instruments equipment and fib optics used in endoscopic surgery Anaesthesiology and respiratory therapy. An endoscope is an instrument used to visually examine the inside of a hollow Organ of the body such As the bladder the products the Fra wants removed from the Market Are Sporic Idin cold sterilizing solution and Sporic Idin he. Those products along with Sporic Idin Brand disinfectant solution Sporic Idin Brand disinfectant Spray and Sporic Idin disinfectant towelettes Are involved in the seizure action. The centers for disease control in Atlanta said it was not aware of any reports of illness from use of any of the products. But because the solution failed an Epa required test for Potency it is possible that instruments disinfected with the product might still be contaminated with some of the More resistant organisms