European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes . Saturday. January 9, 1993 liver death rate Falls in ., officials say Atlanta apr the death rate Tom chronic liver disease is dropping As americans reduce their at Cohol consumption officials say. Liver disease remained the nation s ninth leading cause of death in the latest statistics even though it is largely preventable the Federal centers for disease control and prevention said thursday. But a the recent decline in alcohol consumption had a major major effect on the mortality and hospitalize a Tion from chronic liver disease a said Jim Mendlein a cd epidemiologist. From 1980 through 1989, the death rate from chronic liver disease decreased 23 percent from 13.5 per 100,000 people to 10.4, the cd reported. The hospitalization rate for treatment of the disease dropped 44 percent from 50.6 to 28.2. During the period alcohol consumption reached its lowest rate since 1968, when record keeping began said or. Mary Dufour epidemiology chief at the National Institute of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. I Cedarville Calif. A a soldiers family trapped on a Rock ledge a deep Snow survived for Days on snack food and vitamins before inc food ran out and the army private set out for help. As coyotes howled James d. Stolpa trudged on Frozen feet desperately seeking help in the Snow covered desert for the wife and baby head left sheltered Only by a sleeping bag. After 22 hours of wandering through Waist High drifts Stolpa spotted a. Highway worker wednesday and his right Day ordeal ended. Five hours later California Highway patrol officer Pat Green found Jennifer Stolpa 20, cuddling 5-month-old Clayton beneath an outcropping. The couple ate Coconut cookies Dori tos and prenatal vitamins but had run out of food by sunday. Jennifer Stolpa nursed the baby and melted ice in her Mouth for water. Quot we were worried about freezing to death or starving to death a James Stolpa said thursday at Surprise Valley Community Hospital in Cedarville. Quot we did a lot of  the ordeal began when a fierce Snow storm trapped the pickup truck borrowed by Stolpa a 21-year-old private at Camp Roberts near paso Robles. After spending five nights in the snowbound truck the couple walked 12 Miles through drifts up to Waist High until they found shelter under a ledge sunday. The Mother and baby stayed while the father continued his trek for help. Jennifer Stolpa said her husband a is More than a hero to  Quot he had the courage and the drive to get us out of there Ana he did Quot she said. The parents were in stable condition with severe frostbite to their toes and feet. The baby was unharmed. A a report spurs Call for stricter smoking Laws Washington apr health advocates Are calling for tighter restrictions on smoking in Public in Wake of a government report classifying cigarette smoke As a cancer agent More dangerous than arsenic or radon. It also has spawned a government Campaign to educate americans about the dangers of secondhand smoke. The environmental Protection Agency report released thursday estimated that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 lung cancer deaths annually in adults and As Many As 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia in children. The american heart association american lung association and american cancer society immediately called on president Bush to sign a proposed executive order prohibiting smoking in most Federal buildings. The organizations also have called for a Steep in crease in Federal excise taxes on cigarettes. They Esti mated that an increase of $2 per pack would save at. Least 2 million premature deaths by discouraging Young people from smoking and encouraging some smokers to quit. John of Banzhaf a lawyer and the executive director of action on smoking and health in Washington d.c., said he had filed a new action in his suit to Force the occupational safety and health administration to regulate smoking in the workplace. In response to the Epa report the Federal centers for disease control and prevention in Atlanta launched the Public information Campaign warning of the danger of smoking. A tobacco Industry spokeswoman dismissed the report saying it would have Little effect. A most places already have smoking and nonsmoking sections a said Brennan Dawson of the tobacco Institute. A my Industry does no to have a problem with nonsmoking  alcohol is the leading cause of chronic liver disease which includes cirrhosis in which the liver hardens to the Point that it no longer functions. Alcohol consumption peaked in 1980 and 1981 before dropping to a record Low in 1990. That year Dufour said the per capita consumption was about 311 12-ounce cans of Beer 67 5-ounce glasses of wine and 161 shots of 80-proof spirits. In 1989, the latest year for which statistics were available chronic liver disease killed 26,720 americans the cd said. Alcohol was diagnosed As the cause of the disease in 46 percent of those cases. Chronic liver disease also contributed to the deaths of an additional 14,101 americans the cd said. The death rates were More than twice As High for men As for women a 14,7 per 100,000 is. 6.6. More men than women drink alcohol and men who drink consume More alcohol than women who drink Dufour said. Two or More drinks a by Are considered heavy drinking. Family beat cold with snacks prayer a James d. Stolpa holds his son Clayton As his wife Jennifer smiles thursday in a California Hospital. The family got caught in a Snow Drift l cd. 29 and spent More than a week outdoors before being rescued. Judge bars Bush s of six from postal boar from wire reports Washington a Federal judge thursday temporarily barfed president Bush from firing six members of the postal services Board of governors in a dispute Oyer the authority to set stamp prices . District judge Louis f. Oberdorfer issued a preliminary injunction against the president ruling that the Board members would suffer irreparable harm if Bush fired them. The postal governors had sought a temporary restraining order but Oberdorfer changed it to preliminary injunction enabling the White House to Appeal immediately to the . Court of appeals. The Battle erupted after Bush tried to intervene in a dispute Between the Post office and the separate postal rate commission. He ordered the postal service to drop a lawsuit against the commission and threatened to fire the governors if they did no to do so. A majority of the governors refused a citing their Independence a and sought court Protection from the firings. Tampering ruled out Morristown Tenn. The Fri has concluded that the death of a Man who took cyanide mixed in a headache powder did no to result from product tampering. A Wayne Baker an Fri spokesman in Knoxville would not say if the Agency determined the death was a suicide. A Hamblen county prosecutor is investigating the death As a possible suicide and plans to present the Case to a grand jury. The death resulted in the recall of Goody a headache powders dec. 23. No More cyanide has been discovered. Goody a manufacturing corp. Of Winston Salem n.c., is laying off 30 workers until it can resume making the powders song mostly in the Southeast. Malcolm x site to be razed Albany . A the Manhattan theater where Black activist Malcolm x was assassinated will be torn Down after the states highest court thursday refused to hear an Appeal by those trying to save it. Quot this is our last possible Appeal a said Matthew Chachere attorney for a group trying to preserve the Audubon theater and ballroom. New York City the state and Columbia University plan to build a $34 million biotechnology research Center the City a first on the site in the Harlem Section where the civil rights activist was killed in 1965. Although the plans include preserving a portion of the building As a Malcolm x memorial neighbourhood groups rallied against the project. They consider the City owned theater a historic site and Are opposed to building a biotech research Center in such a densely populated area Chachere said. Yugoslav sailors aided Charleston , a fishermen have raised Money to help the stranded Crew of a yugoslav freighter and More Cash May come from Frozen yugoslav accounts a congressional aide says. The 506-foot Kapetan Martinovic has been anchored off the Battery in Charleston Harbor for about a month. The . Government seized the vessel because of an International embargo against Yugoslavia. The ship is one of five operated by the Milena ship management co. That have been confiscated. The others Are in new Orleans and Baltimore Milena representatives said that the company a finances Are in ruins because of the embargo and that there is Little Money to support sailors hired to maintain the vessels. Local fishermen stepped in and raised $600 to help the Crew the ships food was nearly gone and the sailors laundry had not been done in a month. . Rep. Arthur Ravenel a office also contacted the . Treasury a office of foreign assets and control the Agency responsible for administering assets seized in embargoes. The office of the South Carolina Republican was told there was Money available to maintain the ships from yugoslav accounts Frozen in the embargo. F