Portage Daily Register from Portage, Wisconsin • 3

I i 1 I Approves cancer warning labels PORTAGE DAILY REGISTER Fri Sept 16 1977 Page3 enate blocks saccharin ban 4 WASHINGTON (AP) Diet sodas find other products containing saccharin are likely to remain on store shelves for at least another 18 months but they probably will have to carry a cancer warning similar to that printed on cigarette packages While there is agreement on the need for a cancer warning a fierce congressional fight is developing over whether manufacturers should also be required to include a similar warning when they advertise products containing saccharin The Senate voted 87 to 7 Thursday to block a government ban on saccharin which had been scheduled to take effect Oct 1 The vote also approved the requirement that cancer warnings be placed on all products containing the Carter administration are now looking to the House to revive the proposal A douse health subcommittee has approved the saccharin legislation but without Such a provision in a bill that goes before the full House Commerce Committee for a vote next week The Senate bill would require saccharin products to carry this label: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS SACCHARIN WHICH CAUSES CANCER IN ANIMALS USE-OF THIS PRODUCT MAY INCREASE YOUR RISK OF DEVELOPING The Food and Drug Administration announced the proposed ban last spring citing a Canadian study which showed that saccharin when fed in high doses to laboratory rats caused can-cer A subsequent Canadian study concluded that human male saccharin users have an increased risk of developing bladder cancer -The ban wMch would not affect over-the-counter sales of saccharin as a non-prescription drug has been delayed several times but is now scheduled to take effect on Oct 1 The announcement of the proposed ban (Hi saccharin generated a storm of protest from the public and also from such groups as the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association And the medical and scientific community is divided over the risks of saccharin Many claim the doses given the laboratory animals were far above the doses that humans could consume under ordinary circumstances even over a lifetime Saccharin defenders argued that Its benefits for dieters or for others who must restrict their sugar intake far outweigh any risks But Sen Gaylord Nelson D-Wis! argued that it has been proven that saccharin causes cancer in rats and that it most likely has the same effect in humans satisfy a sweet-tooth going to subject millions of people to a cancer he said Before approving the moratorium on the ban the Senate rejected 76 to 18 a move by Nelson to prohibit any use of saccharin in food products EPA decision due Lance to decide While there is widespread congressional support for delaying the ban and requiring a warning on saccharin products the real controversy is over advertising The Senate stripped from the bill a provision that would have required cancer warnings in printed advertising or in radio or television commercials for products containing saccharin That action prompted the sponsor Sen Edward Kennedy D-Mass to repudiate the legislation Kennedy said allowing saccharin products to be advertised without appropriate warnings against the recommendation of every health expert in this Kennedy and others who want the advertising warnings including the Carter WASHINGTON (AP) Bert Lance invited the people to be his jury but President Carter says ip the end he and Lance will sit down friend to friend to decide whether the budget director will survive in the job he is fighting to hold am sure that the decision that I make along with Bert Lance will be satisfactory to the American Carter said Thursday in a question-and-answer session with members of the Radio and Television News Directors Association White House Press Secretary Jody Powell said he had no idea when the decision on future will be made except that it will be after the former Geoigia testimony to a Senate committee Asked how much public opinion will enter into the decision Powell said: I CHICAGO A decision on whether an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be required for the proposed Portage sewage plant on the Wisconsin River has been reached at the staff level of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) but nobody is saying what that decision is The final decision by the EPA on the EIS which was requested on a 3511 signature petition delivered to the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on July 28 by Lake Wisconsin area residents and resort owners who believe the sewage plant will harm the river will come in the Accident i PORTAGE The city police department reports two accidents on tiie same comer Thursday morning The intersection of Slifer St and New Pinery Road was the scene of a rear-end accident at 9:50 am when a car driven by Jean Andres 46 Portage was hit in the rear by a car driven by Russell Stensrud 17 Portage The brakes on the Stensrud auto failed at the stop sign Andres suffered a bump on the head no citations were issued At 11:34 am Sara Harding 16 Portage pulled out from the stop sign and was struck by a northbound auto In the world we have shown anything at all in this it is that we are willing to take a considerable amount of heat and shed some blood If we had ever intended to base what we were going to do on a public opinion poll we have gotten into it this Carter spoke by telephone to the annual convention in San Francisco Hours before in Washington Lance had told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigating his finances that he wants the American people to be jury in this Lance who got best wishes from Carter at 6:30 am in the study denied to the committee that there were irregularities in his financial dealings when he headed two Georgia banks food products and was fqd a milk substitute The Booms say they are convinced the contamination occurred during pregnancy Christina was to have been one of about 30 children tested here as doctors from three medical schools attempt to determine if PBB causes birth defects Earlier tests on adults who lived on PBB contaminated farms have indicated that the chemical may be linked to neurological problems and a weakening of the resistance to disease The Moorestown dairy farm in north central Michigan was one of hundreds statewide tainted by PBB Parents seek to determine if PBB caused child's death artificial sweetener Vending machines selling such products would also have to post the warning as would displays in supermarkets During the 18-month moratorium on the saccharin ban the government will study health risks and benefits of the artificial sweetener which has been linked to bladder cancer in laboratory animals The Senate-passed bill probably will win approval by the House which' gets to act on it next House members have gone on record as favoring the delay on the saccharin ban They voted for such a postponment earlier this year as part of another piece of legislation a tactic the Senate go along with at the time next few according to Cathy Grissom a community planner in the EIS preparation section Before the final decision is reached she explained Charles Sutfin who is the director for the District 5 Water Division which includes Wisconsin will have to complete his in-progress review The decision will then be forwarded to George Alexander the regional administrator with whom the final decision rests Grissom said that she expected that some people might not be pleased with the decision reached at the EPA staff level report driven by Walter Smith 83 Illinois Smith and his wife Catherine received bruises The Columbia County Department reports two accidents At 11:40 am Thursday Kevin Roundy 18 Pardeeville was cited for inattentive driving when he looked away to see a deer on the side of the road went into the ditch and hit some trees The accident occurred on Pardeeville Road in Pacific township At 11:30 pm Thursday a deer was killed by a car driven by Daniel Lapp 17 Baraboo on Hwy 127 in Newport Township young black leader died Monday after three detention on a charge of writing pamphlets encouraging anti-government activity The government said he had eaten nothing for eight days but his widow rejected the assertion Biko who hacT been or officially restricted to King Williams TowA for the last four years was the 21st black to die in police custody in 18 months is the big one the one they get away liberal newspaper editor Donald Woods said at' a protest meeting at the predominantly white University of Cape Town is the death they will not be able to explain Prisons Minister James Kruger turned down demands for a special inquest into death development is designed so never see anything from the lake or the he explained Current plans call for the development to be served by a yet-to-be-constructed private access road with all families in the development members of ja property owners association the dues for wMch will defray the cost of services said Berst The Columbia Corporation will retain ownership of a 75 ft wide strip of land between the lake and the the plots of land which will be sold off for the single family dwellings on the bluff according to the plans In the northwest comer of the lake a harbor will be dredged out to provide for boat storage for the residents of the development The state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has objected to the plan to dredge out the harbor and a public hearing will be held on the proposal within the next several weeks according to Berst getting a lot of flack on said Berst with opponents claiming that the permit for the dredging should he denied by because lake is already Berst claims that the development will not significantly affect lake usage because other recreational opportunities are being planned Besides the golf course addition which will be more-or-less given to the Portage Country Club if an arrangement can be worked out the development will have a stable tennis courts a swimming pool and trails to occupy the residents Memorial services set MUSKEGON Mich (AP) -Raymond Booms was alarmed because his pregnant wife had eaten meat and drunk the milk of cows that gave birth to deformed calves But he had no proqf his unborn child would be affected Two-year-old Christina Booms died last week after open-heart surgery Boom and his wife Marjean are demanding to know if the fire-retardant chemical PBB had anything to do with it i' she was Mrs Booms recalled husband said know been eating that meat and It started us thinkingbut we have any Christina died during surgery to correct an arrhythmia a variation of normal heart rhythm The disorder was discovered shortly after she was bom Tests conducted last year showed Christina had 200 parts per billion of PBB in her body tissues The state does not now have a minimum acceptance level of PBB contamination for humans but as of Oct 1 a new state law proMbits the sale of any food that has a PBB level of more than 20 parts per billion body tissues had a higher PBB level than anyone else in her family even though she never ate the TAKING IRS TO COURT Taxpayers who want to challenge an IRS action involving $1500 or less can present their case without a lawyer in the small case branch of the US Tax Court The fee is only $10 the atmosphere is informal and hearings can be scheduled in virtually every large city 26 challenge population estimates future allegations against Bert Lance that' I have read or heard through the news media I would have discharged him the President said of those allegations I know to be incorrect and the ones that prove to be correct of course I will have to make a judgment on them' I have no reason to feel that Bert Lance is dishonest or incompetent nor that he is acting unetiiically The propriety of loans overdrafts and so forth obviously will be assessed by The President said he still has not read the FBI file on its investigation into background before heVas confirmed by the Senate But he said his staff has and everyone interviewed by the FBI Bert Lance an Ag Department adopts sale advertising rules CASSVILLE Wis (AP) -Regulations for sale advertising which require merchants to be able to prove the sayings claimed were adopted Thursday by the Wisconsin Agriculture Board The rules which Trade Division administrator Claire Jackson said would go into effect about the first of the year require that goods advertised as being on sale must have actuallly been sold at the Mgher price within the last 90 days or at a time stated in the advertising good must have been sold in the community where the advertising takes place not in New York or he said want to keep advertising honest andtcompetition fair Many states are watching to see how these regulations yrork out The board also approved standards for the production and handling of milk on farms and in dairy plants One of the key requirements is that milk be picked up from farms at least every four days and preferably every two days Food and Standards Division administrator Norman Kirschbaum said milk used to make cheese is occasionally seven days old before it is picked up The new rules apply to all milk including milk while the old rules applied only to milk used for manufacturing dairy products The regulations call for handwashing knliftAa In mlltf VtAIIQOQ On) facilities in milk houses and better lighting and require plans for construction processing plants to be submitted for department review Our Native Landscape pursued an active interest in geology landscape design and conservation in nature He was devoted to pollution control at a time when the need for this was hardly recognized He was extensively involved in design and construction of sanitary facilities which are now protecting waterways and subsurface said his son Tennant and his wife had two children Robert has been a geologist for more than 30 years and is presently working in Calgary Alberta Canada Betty is a Methodist missionary with the Board of Global Ministeries of the Methodist' Church and teaches in a Christian school in Nagasaki Japan She has been there since 1948 Four shot CLIMAX SPRINGS Mo (AP) Four children were shot to death by gunmen who broke into their home while their parents were away police said Two girls aged 1 and 2 and a teen-aged boy were found dead inside the house and another teen-aged boy was found in the back yard authorities said The shootings occurred between 7 pjn and 7:30 pan Thursday Police would not release the names He conceded that he and his family and the committee that handled his unsuccessful 1974 campaign for governor of Georgia had overdrawn their bank accounts by thousands of dollars course there is no way for me to excuse my own or anyone Carter told the news directors is something that was obviously a mistake (But) I believe that rather than my trying to judge at this point the accuracy of the charges that have been made against Bert Lance it would be better to wait for his completion of testimony under The committee hearings may extend into next week Carter said he will read testimony I believed all of the charges or polybrominated i biphenyl after the fire retardant accidentally was mixed with animal feed in in 1973 Many of the farms were quarantined More than 30000 animals were destroyed and buried in a pit near Kalkaska Mich Another 34000 will be killed after the new PBB-level law takes effect Oct 1 and a fight has developed over where those carcasses will be buried Oscoda County residents Opposing plans to put a burial pit for carcasses in their area won a court restraining order Thursday barring the state from beginning work on the pit Millions of dollars in damage suits have been brought Merton (Waukesha County) Oconomowoc (Waukesha) Grafton (Ozaukee) i Seymour (Eau Claire) Richfield (Washington) Genesee (Waukesha) New Glarus (Green) Lincoln (Kewaunee) and Winchester (Vilas) 1 Also asking' that estimates be reviewed are Cudahy Marshfield Brookfield Kewaunee Greenfield Chippewa Falls the villages of Howard Whitefish Bay Bayside and Plover and the towns of Monroe (Green County) Jackson (Waukesha) ad Allouez (Brown) The department will issue its final estimates Oct 10 been a school teacher in South Dakota and the two had met during college In later years in Wisconsin Mrs Tennant became a published poet with the publication of Flavor of She also has an unpublished set of poems according to her daughter Mrs Tennant served as chairwoman of the committee to restore the Quarters As a result her husband became an important partner in the restoration project Calling him a in the project Vik explained how the engineer worked with the DAR of the American Revolution) owner of the Quarters to build the home and facilities Tennant got the stone for the building from the quarry located in the town of Fort Winnebago It is the same stone that lines the' levee along East Wisconsin Street put in when the levee was rebuilt when Wisconsin Street was improved to four lanes Other credits to name include his work with the Methodist Church in Wisconsin He was chairman of the building committee for United Methodist Church on New Pinery Road He was instrumental ip the construction of the Pine Lake Camp near Westfield and the Whispering Pines Camp near Frederick Tennant was a member of the JOHANNESBURG South Africa (AP) Angered white students black nationalists and churchmen across South Africa planned memorial services today for Steve Biko the black leader who died in a prison hospital Demands rose for a special inquest into his death The! white minority government cracked down on the first memorial service Thursday as riot police with dogs arrested 1200 black student mourners at the University of Fort Hare Authorities said the students were detained under the Riotous Assemblies Act which requires official sanction for most public gatherings It has been in force since protests against South apartheid system erupted in black communities throughout the country last year Biko at 30 the foremost Development stalled Tennant's Contributions MADISON Wis (AP) Twenty-six Wisconsin local governments challenged the state Administration Department estimates of their population before the deadline for doing so Thursday a department spokesman said Half of them have indicated that they plan a special census in an effort to disprove the preliminary estimates made in August before final figures are used to determine how much a community received in state shared taxes Local governments planning special censuses are Port Washington Richland Center Onelaska the village of Germantown and the towns of quality standards The engineer also worked with the Columbia County Farm Drainage Board and developed much of the lowland farming that has become very productive through the years In Columbia County alone there are 30 farm drains organized under the farm drain laws The water regulatory board was first organized under the depression Work Progress Administration (WPA) and the Public Works Administration (WPA) recalled daughter Betty phone call came from Madison asking if Dad would direct a program these said his daughter This is how the regulatory board was initiated By 1939 the government was going to phase out the board but Tennant felt it was a valuable agency and initiated legislation for the board to be continued He served as city engineer for several years before 1934 and served on the paik board during the years when the area was developed into Pierre Pauquette Park according to his son Robert As a member of the Portage School board for many years he was instrumental in getting the high school Mult He served as president of the board Tennant married- Nellie Burch i Continued from page 1 its natural The 528 acre area contains three separate developments Saddle Ridge I which overlooks Swan Lake from the bluff near the northwest corner of the lake containing single family dwellings on lots of three-fourths to one and one-half acres Saddle Ridge located just south of the railroad tracks which will comprise four-family townhouses and Pine Berst a development which will abut a proposed nine-hole addition to the Portage Country existing nine-hole golf course 1 Berst said that the Pacific Township Board denied approval of the plat map for Saddle Ridge I on June 29 and the plat maps for Saddle Ridge II and Pine Berst on Aug 22 I Berst a longtime area business developer said he acquired the land he is proposing to develop in 1954 been working on this for 10 years actually for the past two and a half trying to crystallize what we would not promoters We belatedly come into the area and seized the he said In giving Ms business background in the Portage area Berst emphasized that he has been involved in a number of projects which are still in operation and providing iipportant contributions to the area including Lord Pub Portage Plastics (now Portage Industries) and Buller Brothers vegetable farm The development will be a positive addition to the area both economically and aesthetically said Berst Continued from page 1 within a radius of 100 miles of the city Most of the communities are still being served by General Engineering According to Vik Tennant operated the company as its sole proprietor until about 1937 when Vernon Hamel joined him as a partner Shortly after death in 1969 the company incorporated under three owners: Vik Elmer Ernst and John Hamel' son of the original partner The engineering work done through General Engineering is mainly municipal in nature said Vik The company deals with cities villages towns and sanitary districts doing such projects as street improvements sewers waste water facilities etc Tennant did many things that benefitted development and progress When he arrived in the city Portage was taking its water supply from the Wisconsin River and treated it at the Conant Street plant water was bacteriologically safe but was far from said Vik Tennant developed two wells in the vicinity of the Conant Street pumping station and converted the' plant to a softening plant He was also responsible for major modifications to the sewage treatment plant and converted it to the more modem trickling filter plant that has served the city for about 25 years The XT.