European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 10, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 health precautions urged to Stem Florida typhoid from wire reports Miami confronting 13 cases of typhoid fever that have turned up in the county state health officials warned Dade county residents to Wash their hands and food thoroughly before eating. The bacterial disease is spread through food or water contaminated by focal matter from someone carrying the disease said Anita Bock head of the state health and rehabilitative services department in Dade. Bock emphasized that typhoid fever is treatable with antibiotics. Symptoms include headache loss of appetite and abdominal pain. The disease i sometimes accompanied by Small red spots. Boy ordered to wheelchair Dade City Fla. A boy who shot a teen Ager Point Blank in the forehead has been sentenced to spend some time As his victim did in a wheelchair. Circuit judge Lynn Tepper said Raymond Thomas 12, should get a taste of the life he created for 16-year-old Reggie Haines who after months in a wheelchair can walk with a Cane. After two Days the boy will be required to use a Walker for a week and follow that by walking with a Cane. The judge said Thomas also must write about the experience and Send a copy of his essay and a letter of apology to his victim who was shot with a .357-caliber pistol. He also must visit a prison pay restitution to Haines family and perform 200 hours of Community service preferably in a Hospital or health care facility. Thomas was convicted two weeks ago of attempted murder in the August 1992 shooting of Haines during a confrontation on a Dade City Street. Green acres actor Dies los Angeles Pat Buttram singing Cowboy Gene a try s sidekick in the 1950s and the annoying or. Haney on the sitcom Green acres die saturday. He was 78. He died of kidney failure at the University of California los Angeles medical Center said radio executive Bill Ward a longtime  was just a natural comedian Autry said. From 1965 to 1971, Buttram played or. Haney on lbs Green acres. Haney was the irritating country con Man who sold a tumbledown farm to Oliver Wendell Douglas Eddie Albert and Lisa Douglas Eva Gabor. Buttram played under his own name on the Gene Autry show from 1950 to 1956 on lbs to driving his jeep Nellie Belle the sidekick helped Autry and his horse Champion keep peace out West. They also appeared in about 40 feature movies As Well as1 stage shows. Avalanche victim sought Cooke City Mont. Authorities searched for a missing snowmobile rider saturday after he and nine friends were buried in an Avalanche. The Avalanche occurred in the Lulu pass area of the Bea tooth mountains near Yellowstone National Park said Park county sheriff Charley  missing Man was identified As Dick Larson 40, of  was part of a group of 10 snowmobiles from Cooke City and Billings. They were buried in an Avalanche 10 to 12 feet deep and 200 Yards across Johnson said. Warning on baby bedding Washington soft and fuzzy bedding for baby May seem cozy and comfortable but it can also be lethal. Researchers say some infants sleeping face Down in soft bedding May die from continually inhaling their own exhaled breath. A series of studies about the dangers of soft bedding in baby cribs prompted the . Consume product safety commission last week to warn parents to put infants to sleep on their backs on Flat firm mattresses without any Plush fuzzy bedding. No soft Fluffy products pillows sheepskins toys should be under the infants while the sleep said the cps statement. The cps warning was prompted in part by research at Washington University in St. Louis that suggests soft bedding May be responsible for up to 25 percent of deaths from sudden infant death syndrome or Side. Mit Leader regrets tests on unwitting youngsters Cambridge mass. A the president of the Massachusetts Institute of technology expressed sad Ness that researchers from the school apparently experimented with radioactive materials of retarded youths without the subjects consent. I was sorry to hear that at least some of the Young people who participated in this research and their parents apparently were unaware that the study involved radioactive tracers Charles m. Vest said of tests in the 1940s andj1950s at a state school for the retarded. People should not unknowingly become the subjects of research studies of this Type he said in a statement late Friday. Vest said an internal review concluded that the radiation exposure slightly increased the subjects Chance of developing a fatal cancer but the increases were extremely Small. Vest said the studies were designed to promote health through better understanding of nutrition. The radiation exposure appeared to Haye been Well within current acceptable limits he said7more than 100 residents of the Fernald state school in Waltham were fed or injected with radioactive Calcium and Iron during at least six studies by Harvard University and Mit researchers from 1946 to 1956. Radioactive forms of the minerals were used so scientists could Trace How they were digested and absorbed. The Levels of radiation to which test subjects were exposed were 30 percent to 99 percent below current Lim its allowed in research Vest said in another statement saturday. The internal review found that Fernald residents who ate seven hot Cereal breakfasts containing Iron marked with a radioactive tracer were exposed to an average of 230 Rill items of radiation Over 40 weeks. The Iron supplements increased the boys lifetime risk of contracting a fatal cancer by about ,05 percent while the Calcium supplements increased the risk by up to .000018 percent the review concluded. Today s limit for radiation exposure in research or on the Job is 500 Milli rems per year in addition to 300 Mil Liems of background radiation a year and medical radiation treatments Vest said. Three studies that used radioactive Calcium to Trace Calcium absorption exposed the subjects to 4 to 12 Mil Liems of radiation about the same amount of exposure an air plane passenger receives flying round trip from Boston to California Vest said. The research helped scientists learn that cereals Block the body s ability to absorb Iron but did not Block its ability to absorb Calcium if enough Calcium was present. The studies also looked at the ways in which Calcium is eliminated laying the groundwork for much current research on osteoporosis Vest said. Workers in san Juan puerto Rico secure an Oil Skimmer at the Entrance of a Lagoon where much of the Oil from a crippled Barge had collected. Hotels in the area made arrangements to bus tourists to beaches away from the spill. In drained from wrecked Barge san Juan puerto Rico a hundreds of workers saturday night began pumping Oil out of a Barge that ran aground and broke open fouling beaches and leaving a nauseating odor in the heart of san Juan s tourist District. Although the leak continued it was slower than in the Early stage of the wreck Friday morning when the Barge Haemorrhage a about 750,000gallonsotheatingoil half its cargo of fuel. The Barge went aground on a reef about 300 Yards offshore As it was being towed to the Caribbean Island of Antigua. There s a danger of it breaking up. There is no two ways about it said coast guard cmdr. Jerzy Kichner Leader of the coast guard strike team sent in to Drain the crippled vessel. By saturday afternoon the spill stretched Over 20 Square Miles of Ocean and sullied three Miles of beaches lined by High Rise hotels and apartment build Ings. With the tourism season at its Peak hoteliers scrambled to placate inconvenienced vacationers bus ing tourists to other beaches on the Island and feeding them free lunches. Labouring late into the night with the help of flood Haiti Dom Caribbean Sta aps a lights workers pumped Oil from the crippled Barge onto another Barge equipped with rubber containment devices said coast guard chief warrant officer Jerry Snider