European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday june 5, 1994 r . The stars and stripes Page 15principal in prayer dispute allowed to return to Job from wire reports Jackson miss. A a High school principal suspended for allowing students to read prayers Over an intercom can return to work pending an Appeal the state supreme court ruled Friday. The Jackson school Board suspended Bishop Knox without pay dec. 15 for the remainder of the 1993-94 school year. A Hinds county judge ruled in april that Knox had been wrongly disciplined and should be reinstated with Back pay. But the Board appealed the ruling to the state supreme court which said Friday that Knox can return to work while it reviews the Case. Perry Sansing who represents the school Board said the District was satisfied with the supreme courts ruling. He said the concern had been to keep Knox off the Campus until the school year was completed for the students. School is out but teachers and administrators remain on duty through june. Knox a lawyer Nate Kellum said the principal plans to return monday. The supreme court will decide whether Knox _ should get Back pay and whether the school District should have guidelines for prayer in the classroom. Childhood leukaemia linked to eating too Many hot dogs Kellum said a decision could take two year Knox 38, be reached for comment at his Home catches fire Baton Rouge la. A when mourners smelled smoke at a funeral a mortician investigated and found a fire inside the coffin. R investigators said embalming fluid leaking from the body of 25-year-old Wycliff Robertson who was shot to death earlier this week May have caused a chemical reaction inside the coffin touching off the fire. After the thursday night funeral at it. Gillion Baptist Church officials from Winnfield funeral Home said they would remove the body from the damaged coffin and prepare it for burial in a new los Angeles a children who cat More than 12 hot dogs a month develop the risk of childhood leukaemia nine times above Normal according to a study. Other researchers warned however that such studies Are hard to conduct and interpret because it is difficult for subjects to recall accurately what they have eaten among other reasons. Quot there Are an enormous number of variables in a study like this a said Michael Puriza a nutrition expert at the University of Wisconsin. A you done to know whether they were undernourished for example or if they had adequate exercise. It would be extremely premature to draw any conclusion from this Type of the research was published in the journal cancer causes and control As were two others about hot dogs. Those two found that children born to mothers who ate at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy had double the Normal risk of developing brain tutors As did children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception., the los Angeles times reported on the research Friday noting that critics attacked the studies because they appeared in a journal that fails to get outside experts to critique results before publishing them. The researchers led by University of Southern California epidemiologist John Peters believe the findings May explain a two decade Rise in reported childhood leukaemia and brain tutors. They suggest the trigger for the cancers could be nitrites used to preserve processed meats. The investigators done to advise people to give up hot dogs saying their studies Are too preliminary to have established a cause and effect link. The research was based on relatively few cases 621 cancer victims and an equally sized control group work that could confirm the studies is under Way University of Minnesota researchers have modified their study on childhood leukaemia to explore the possible connection to hot dogs. The study is sponsored by the National cancer Institute. David Savitz author of one of the studies on pregnant women said the incidence of these childhood tutors is still Low. There a nothing to show that eating hot dogs poses a Hazard at the level of tobacco smoke or High fat diets he said. Quot the rational response would be a Small modified Tion of your consumption a said Saywitz an epidemiologist at the University of North to one. Riverside Calif. Apr former nation of islam spokesman Khalid Abdul Muhammad was released from the Hospital five Days after he was shot by a defrocked minister of the organization. Muhammad a former senior aide to nation of islam Leader Louis Farrakhan was surrounded by bodyguards As he was wheeled out of the Hospital Friday and into a Van. The 46-year-old Muhammad was shot last sunday As he left a University of California Riverside auditorium where he had just Given a speech. He had surgery for Bullet wounds below his left knee. Four of his bodyguards and a bystander also were hospitalized with Bullet wounds and released earlier. James Edward Bess 49, pleaded innocent to charges of attempted murder and assault with a firearm. The motive for the shooting was unclear. Bess of Tacoma wash., was defrocked As a nation of islam minister three years ago. He has appeared on Public Access television to preach his own version of islam. Bess who was beaten by onlookers after the shooting was taken to the county jail wednesday after being treated at a Hospital. A ice in mystery fumes death Newport Beach Calif. A a woman who died in an emergency room after Hospital workers said her body emitted toxic fumes was improperly treated before she died her family alleged Friday in a wrongful death claim. The family of Gloria Ramirez filed the claim against Riverside county and the county run Riverside general Hospital alleging malpractice and negligence. Family lawyer Ronald b. Schwartz said Ramirez could have been treated and despite cervical cancer could have lived longer had the emergency room not been evacuated. A the family a been really traumatized and in a lot of pain and suffering know eng that it Wasny to time for her to die a said Ramirez a sister Maggie Ramirez Garcia. If the county rejects the claim the family will file a lawsuit seeking a a substantial seven figure claim a Schwartz said. If the claim is accepted a monetary settlement could be reached. The county has 45 Days to respond. Emergency room workers who treated Ramirez on feb. 19 said they noticed an ammonia smell apparently coming from her body or a freshly drawn blood Sample. Six members of the Hospital staff passed out and were hospitalized. One doctor developed acute circulatory problems in the ensuing weeks. A Coroner found that Ramirez 31, died of kidney failure brought on by cancer and hat the smell May have been a natural odor from a dying body. The family also claims the Hospital failed to inform Ramirez that a Pap smear taken in May 1991 showed Precan Cerous cells on her cervix Schwartz said. In addition the family claims the county failed to allow relatives to Bury Ramirez promptly because of autopsies. Phone Calls to the Hospital and county were referred to Tom Desantis the county spokesman. Siamese twins dad in jail this time accused of theft Rensselaer ind. 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