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I PAGE 15 THE IOLA REGISTER. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1977 Saccharin ban hearings start WASHINGTON (AP) The Food and Drug Administration is opening hearings on its controversial decision to ban saccharin from diet foods and soft drinks. FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy, who took office in the midst of the public outcry following the bans announcement, will preside at the two days of hearings that open today. The FDA said 49 persons had asked to testify. Most witnesses, representing the soft drink industry, consumer groups, drug companies, diabetics and dieters, are expected to oppose the agencys ban of the last artificial sweetener on the market.

The FDA announced in March it will ban saccharin as an artificial sweetener in foods and drinks this July, but will allow it to be sold as an overthe-counter drug. Kennedy has tried to explain why the FDA feels Canadian studies showing high doses of saccharin cause cancer in rats are important. Those tests, in which rats were fed the saccharin equivalent of 800 cans of diet soft drinks a day for two generations, were the basis of the FDAs ban. Kennedy said last month that many of the 16,000 letter writers who have contacted the FDA have worried that the Canadian rat study involved unrealistically high doses of saccharin. Others expressed the impression that almost any substance fed in such high doses would Cause cancer." He said neither view is correct.

Kennedy, a biologist, said FDA scientists calculate that if every American used the amount of saccharin in one large diet soft drink every day for a lifetime, there might be 1,200 additional cases of bladder cancer a year. Science warns us, he said, that if a high dose of something causes cancer in a significant number of test animals, a low dose likely will cause cancer in some people, and science reassures us that most chemicals do not cause cancer no matter how much you feed to experiment animals." The FDA says that by allowing iTrcriTT at Pittsburg State graduation ceremonies set Hundreds of associate, bachelors, masters and education specialist degree candidates are expected to be the first graduates of Pittsburg State University at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 21. Among the area students who are candidates for bachelors degrees are these from Bronson: James Lawrence Dorsey, Norma Lee Likely. Colony: Nancy Tinsley.

Gas: Daniel Lee Johnson. Humboldt: Paul Flores, Sharon Heenan and John J. Ross. Iola: Theresa Audley, Terri Caillouet, Sheila Fuller, Tyra L. Harvey, Karen Karr, John Maier, Cynthia Sears Pruitt, Phillip Rush, Susan McCrate Raines and Thomas Saxton Jr.

LaHarpe: Rhonda Beal. LeRoy: Karen McCabe. Moran: Danny Drake and Robert Wilson. Piqua: Judith Shinn, Jean Specht and Victoria Westerman. Uniontown: Glendon Epp.

Yates Center: Lauren Pringle, Lyndall Stockebrand and Larry D. Ward. Those from the area who are candidates for master's or education specialists degrees include Myma Parsons of Moran; Alan Hauser and Dan Heenan, Humboldt; Wayne Atherton, Oral Finkenbinder, Carol Dixon Mix and Harold Norris, all of Iola, and Loren Martin, Yates Center. Marmaton Valley commencement exercises tonight Danny Ludlum, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Max Ludlum, Route 1, Elsmore, will be recognized as valedictorian of the graduating class at Marmaton Valley High School tonight and Terry Lust, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lust, Rote 2, Iola, will be honored as salutatorian of the class. The recognitions will be part of the commencement exercises for the class of 1977 in the Marmaton Valley High auditorium. Dr.

Lee Baker, Pittsburg State University, will deliver the commencement address. Glen Terrill, preincipal of MVHS, will present the class and Earl Carlson, president of the board of education, will present diplomas. Members of the class are: John David Baker, Mark Allen Barker, Annette Earlene Carlson, Timothy Dale Cole, Tammy Jo Daniels, Donald David Dolen, Kendall Curtis Ericson, Janice Roxann French; Robert Curtis Gardner, Debra Anne Hancock, Gene Ray Hartman, Tammy Claudette Hawley, Eddie Alfred Henderson, Rollin Wayne Henderson Larry Dean Houk, Donna Lea Lemineux; Danny Lee Ludlum, Don William Ludlum, Terry Lew Lust, Daryl Dean Mathews, Ronald Lee McVey, Tina Roxann Nelson, Debra Jan Siefker, Joey Donald Smith; Mary Alice Spencer, Bambi Sue Stewart, Carla Denise Stewart, Sarah Mae Vanatta, Alvin Dean Wagner, Gary Gene Wagner, Debra Berdean Wall, Douglas Edward Walton. FOUND ADS ARE FREE ALLEY OOP Bill Burcham, at the Self Service Grocery here, and the Hinkley Beverage Compoany, Fort Scott, hosted a picnic for art students from Jefferson and Un rlnn I McKinley elementary schools at Shepherd Park last night. The students rlOi uog I produced Seven-Up posters which were displayed at Self Service Grocery.

Roasting wieners are Detlef Galbreath, left, and Bobby Mallettee, right. (Register Photo) Court retains control over Sandsfrom estate saccharin to be sold only as an over-the-counter drug, like aspirin, use would be reduced 90 per cent. Under the proposed regulations, companies that produce saccharin would have six months to prove that the benefits of their products outweigh the risks under laws that specify drugs must be both safe and effective. Stamp investment increases fiftyfold almost immediately LYNDHURST, England (AP) It doesnt take much to excite a stamp collector. Just a few missing perforations.

A businessman who wishes to remain anonymous went into his local post office to buy a sheet of stamps and emerged with what could turn into a fortune. His sheet of 100 stamps, face value 11 pence (19 cents) each, was missing perforations along the bottom two rows. He knew enought about stamp collecting to recognize the possibility of a rarity, and contacted dealer Alan Grant here. The businessman paid 11 pounds for the sheet of stamps, and we paid him 550 pounds (935 dollars) on the spot, Grant said Monday, with a promise of commission on sales. What makes the stamps potentially so valuable is that they are the first known imperfections in the vast issue celebrating the 25th anniversary of Queen Elizabeths reign.

Grant said Monday he will sell five pair of the imperforates for 350 pounds (595 dollars) each, and keep the remainder. One pair will be offered the Queen at a very fair price. Bargains galore are in store for Iola Register Readers. FRED LASSMAN ELECTRIC 616 PECAN STREET HUMBOLDT. KANSAS PHONE 473-3583 feu court approval.

Hecht, who argued the court had no authority to freeze property Mrs. Sandstrom claims is hers alone until and unless she is convicted of something, could appeal Bullocks order to the state Court of Appeals. However, he didnt indicate Tuesday whether he would make such an appeal. Bullock also told Mitchelson that he would require court approval to pay outstanding debts of the estate, which Mitchelson said included the broadcast executives funeral expenses, utility bills at the couples home and dental bills. McClure said the basic question involved was what constitutes Mrs.

Sandstroms own property, as apart from the estate. Who makes that decision? he asked. Does she make it? Does the court make it? If she makes it, then it's off and gone. The estate may have an interest in that money, and once its expended the estate has no way to recover it. McClure spoke specifically of what he said was a $4,000 checking account at a Topeka bank upon which Mrs.

Sandstrom apparently could write checks. That money, the evidence will show, came from Sandstrom, McClure said. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A judge ordered Tuesday that none of the assets of the Thad M. Sandstrom estate be disposed of without prior court approval, including property which his widow claims is hers, if it was acquired during their 24-year marriage.

Mrs. Sandstrom, 53, accused of first-degree murder in the May 3 slaying of Sandstrom, wont even be able to buy a tube of toothpaste without approval of the court, contended her attorney, Robert D. Hecht. Her preliminary hearing on the murder charge is scheduled for Friday morning, but Hecht told reporters Tuesday he probably would seek a continuance, The preliminary hearing will determine whether she should be bound over for trial. Mrs.

Sandstrom is accused in a complaint signed by Shawnee County Dist. Atty. Gene Olander with shooting Sandstrom twice in the head as he apparently lay asleep in the estranged couples home in northwest Topeka early the morning of May 3. She has been held in the county jail, unable to post a $75,000 surety bond, since May 5, when deputies arrested her at a local hospital where she was treated for 2 Vt days for an apparent overdose of pills. Judge Terry Bullock of Shawnee County District Court listened to arguments by Hecht and Robert McClure of Topeka, an attorney representing Fred Mitchelson, Pittsburg, attorney and special administrator of Sandstroms estate, on a request for an injunction freezing assets of the estate.

Bullock, who last week issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Mrs. Sandstrom or others from disposing of any of the estates property, granted the injunction. He made it apply to all property, owned by Sandstrom, by the estate, held in joint tenancy by the couple, or acquired by either Sandstrom or Airs. Sandstrom during their marriage. The only exception spelled out by Bullock was on property which Mrs.

Sandstrom had acquired in any way separate from Sandstrom's income during their marriage. This would include property she owned prior to the marriage, or acquired through gift or inheritance during the marriage. McClure said an inventory of the estates property should be completed in two to three weeks. Still to be inventoried, he said, are Mrs. Sandstroms personal effects, such as furs and jewelry, contents of a safety deposit box, and out-of-state property.

Hecht said Mrs. Sandstrom has no personal belongings with her in jail, and that to acquire even the most basic personal items will require FRIDAY 1 P.M. ALLEN rmm COUNTY EVERY FRIDAY AT 1 P.M. GAS CITY, KANSAS Leon Thompson Fred Thompson LaHarpe 496-2413 Moran 237-4458 Classified ad copy must be at The Register office no later than p.m., day before first publication. by Dave Graue Wllii MW EXAMP.LEIROUTE-IYOUATHRO.WAIOO ima 3021SHWASH NGTON IBH0NEI5121U1.