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8 DAILY CHRONICLE, DeKalb. Illinois Monday, Oct. 1, 1979 department to move into theldtchen Agriculture to find answers to some of the nutritional dilemmas facing Americans, Basic research Is needed, particularly on targeting nutrient needs of specific groups of Americans, Bergland said. He said some of the nutritional infor- WASHINGTON (UP1) Secretary Bob Bergland has agricultural interests on notice the Agriculture Department will enlarge its role in the American kitchen by telling people what officials believe is best for them to eat. Agriculture has a long tradition of being "more responsive to the production and marketing of food than to the safety, quality and nutritional content of the food consumers eat," Bergland told a recent nutrition conference sponsored by the- Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

"That is now a dead tradition," he said. Bergland said he "has elevated consumer and nutrition concerns to the -highest-levels' of the policy-' making process." With the department's Human Nutrition Center celebrating its first birthday, officials are committed both to more federal nutrition research and to more education of Americans on results of that research. Past research has produced contradictory information which confuses Americans, Bergland said. He said officials are now committed to research Senate select committee, elaborated on Agriculture Department goals. Hegsted and HEW officials are involved in drafting dietary guidelines which will be put out by the executive branch.

Hegsted said the government's knowledge must be 1 translated into advice on just how much Americans should eat. Dietary patterns should assure that Americans get enough of the essential nutrients and hat they eat moderate amounts of food, he said. However. extreme recommendations, even if justified are not practical so that common sense must be part of developing educational material, he Food industries can play a major role in helping Americans moderate their eating habits by introducing new foods, he said. Hegsted acknowledged "few of us are quitje ready or capable at this time to translate a moderate, nutritionally adequate diet into food patterns." But in the next few years, he predicted, there will be a jelling of opinion on the best food patterns and the best way to present them to the public.

processing and Americans' food choices. The Agriculture Department spent another $100 million to teach Americans about nutrition and plans to spend more than that this fiscal year. Part of the education effort was a colorfully illustrated, glossy booklet entitled "Food." In that new booklet, the Agriculture Dept. for the first time told Americans to cut down on consumption of animal fats, salt and sugar and to eat more grains, fruits and vegetables. A future booklet will describe vegetarian diets.

Other moneys are being spent on educating low-4nqme families, school aged children and pregnant -(ind women about their specific food Bergland called for nutrition strategies to reach what he called "nutritionally vulnerable groups," including working women, single men and women, retired people and children. Also at the nutrition conference, Dr. Mark Hegsted, administrator of the Human Nutrition Center and author of controversial dietary goals published by a mation theAgriculture Department has passed on to Americans is outdated. Bergland boasted $40 million was Spent this past fiscal year on what happens to food between the farm and grocery, how people choose their food and if they choose what is best for them and how the human body utilizes nutrients. The government also spent some of that money to determine how government programs affect food lOstafes have residue STATES POSSIBLY CONTAMINATED WITH PCI IBa wtam 1 Lab tMUthow PCD causes cancer and transformers.

They can enter the body by ingestion, inhalation or through the skin, where they tend to accumulate in the fatty acids and are poorly metabolized. Laboratory tests have shown PCB causes cancer in test animals. In addition to its cancer-causing properties in animals, the CDC said human exposure studies involving serum PCB levels of 50 to 350 parts per billion have been associated with skin sores, hyper pigmentation, cerides in the blood elevated ATLANTA (UPI) Despite a nationwide ban on the manufacture and distribution of the suspected cancer-causing chemical PCB, federal health experts warn JhafaT" least 10 Western states may be mas- sively exposed to PCB contamination. The Atlanta-based national Center for Disease Control, which currently is studying data from two surveys to determine the level of human exposure to PCBs caused by a leak in an electric transformer in a Billings, meatpacking plant, made the announcement in its weekly morbidity report. Citing the health dangers of the chemical, CDC officials noted a federal law in 1976 ordered the manufacture and distribution of the chemical to cease within 2'2 years and banned all non-enclosed use of PCBs.

"However, since much equipment containing enclosed PCBs is iiseexposures suck as the present one in Montana may still occur," tne CDC said. Thf. chemical properties of PCBs make them useful as insulators and iieat-exchange agents in capacitors and abnormal liver-Junction. "Childnen born toymothers ex posed at pis levelare of low birth weight, may be hyperpigmented and may develop chloraclx (skin sores) from PCBs in their mother's milk," the CDC said. Meat meal produced by the Billings plant became contaminated in mid-June, but went undiscovered for two months, in which time many shipments of the meal, used in chicken and hog feed, were made to several states.

is4 Famous 'Hilltopper' AMTRAK run chugs to its demise see it, the Hilltopper was special. The elderly of Williamson, W.Va., will miss it because it was the last public transportation of any kind to the remote coal town. Joe Alexander, 66, who spent 28 years working in the Bluefield station and yards when the Norfolk Western Railway ran its own passenger trains, now will take his first plane ride. His wife, Ella, will go to Detroit next month by plane, also the first time she has flown whose editorial campaign led to the train's inauguration several years ago. "I never got to ride it myself," said Wesley.

"1 was' like everyone else. I used the car or the plane." Even Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd, who helped at Wesley's urging to force operation of the train, did not mention it as Amtrak legislation worked its way through Congress. But to those few people who did use it and work on it, and who occasionally came down to the station to BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (UPI) It was a train to nowhere. And now, it will never go anywhere again.

It was called the Hilltopper, and it lived up to its name, cresting grade after grade in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the Appalachians of West Virginia, only occasionally rolling through bottom land or hugging the Tug Fork River or the New River which cut a path through the wilderness eons ago. If scenery were money, the Hilltopper still would be running. But unfortunately for the little two-car train, all that remote scenery did not attract enough human beings wanting to ride a train. Sunday was its last trip from Washington, D.C., to the small station at Catlettsburg, Ky. In the end, the Hilltopper had few friends.

Washington bureaucrats didn't like it. Amtrak didn't like it. It was the poorest performer in Amtrak's system, and the only one of the five trains scheduled to be cut that no one fought for in court. "We had taken it on a use-it-or-lose-it basis, and people didn't use it," said Richard Wesley, executive editor of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph and the man Both the station agent and Conductor E.H. Vance must transfer to other work.

9 "1 think if they'd run it somewhere, like Columbus, it would have filled right up," said Vance, who now will become conductor on a local freight working the coal mines out of Bluefield Vance put his finger on one of the Hilltopper's main problems: it went nowhere, connected with nothing, and got there in the middle of the night. The Hilltopper arrived at 12:45 a.m. in Catlettsburg, nothing more than a small station that served, but was not near, Ashland, and Kenova, W.Va. It left for Washington at 5:33 a.m., still before dawn, almost as if it was embarrassed to be seen there in daylight. Once, it connected with another train for Chicago, but that train's schedule was changed.

So at the end, its nearest connection with any other train was almost seven hours. A UPI reporter rode the Hilltopper on a "normal" weekday the week before its demise to see who really needed it. Obviously not enough did. Leaving Washington on a dreary and rainy day, there were only 22 passengers. UA gives approval to GM DETROIT (UPI) -Members of the United Auto Workers union have decisively approved a new contract with the General Motors arming their leaders for negotiations with the Ford Motor Co.

Talks with the nation's No. 2 automaker opened today. The UAW said Sunday the strike-free GM settlement was approved by a vote of 129,374 to 51,391. "Ratification was approved by a more than 2-to-1 margin of the workers who voted," UAW President Douglas Fraser said. Roughly half the 460,000 GM workers represented by the UAW did not cast votes but the situation did not dismay UAW officials.

"Reports were widespread that many workers favoring ratification did not bother to vote because they figured the ratification vote would carry," Fraser said. The UAW said the contract was favored by 75 perceht of production workers and 61 percent of. skilled workers who voted. Union officials also said local contract agreements between plant-level union and company officials now have been reached in 75 of 151 UAW bargaining units at the No. 1 auto firm.

Convinced by early returns late last week the contract was being ratified, UAW officials declared a midnight Thursday strike deadline at Ford. Routes to end Sunday Courts mulling the future on long-distance AMTRAK runs Health News Facial Pain Can Mean Nervousness, Irritability BY DR. JAMES W. McCOY Doctor of Chiropractic CREATIVE Recently a case was be-. ine discussed that involved a young woman who complained of a Nashville, Tenn.y "We don'tnave the authority or the budget to run these trains beyond to-day," an Amtrak spokesman said, pointing out that the $200,000 a day it will cost to keep the four lines operating would come out of the budget for other routes.

1 lis 1 slight pain over one eye that had per-sisted for three weeks. After thoroughly examining the patient, Penn Station at 4:55 p.m. EDT Sunday with 75 passengers aboard for its final run. It was due in Kansas City at 11:05 EDT tonight. Fate of the Lone Star between Chicago and Houston, the Floridian between Chicago and Miami and St.

Petersburg, and the Hiawatha between Chicago and Seattle is still in doubt. A federal judge in Wichita, Friday ordered the three routes operating for at least another 10 days in response to a suit filed by the National Association of Railroad Passengers; the attorney generals for Alabama, Kansas and Minnesota; and the city of cities, including Montgomery, Nashville, Louisville, Bismarck, N.D.; Butte, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio, and Roanoke, Va. The cutbacks come at a time when freight railroads are experiencing a resurgence of traffic because of the energy crisis. But Amtrak itself said its resources were spread too thin and it needed to be rid of some of its least-traveled routes. The Champion from New York to St.

Petersburg, and the Silver Meteor from New York, to Miami now 'will be combined as far south as Jacksonville, Fla. Dr. McCoy 1 Uw-1 I her Chiropractor commenced WASHINGTON (UPI) -The fate of three longdistance passenger trains is in the hands of the courts today, but two others died on schedule as part of the first major cutback since Amtrak took ever the trains in 1971. Amtrak planned to ask a federal judge in Wichita, today to reconsider his order to keep the Lone Star, the Floridian and the North Coast Hiawatha rolling temporarily. Five Amtrak routes were scheduled to end Sunday, but only two of them did.

No attempt was made to save the Hilltopper, which operates between Boston and Catlettsburg, and late Sunday Chief Justice Warren Burger overruled an appeals court and told Amtrak it could kill the National Limited between New York and Kansas City, Mo. The National Limited pulled out of New York's Since one of the lines now has been killed, presumably the figure would be approximately $150,000 a day for the three remaining. The cutbacks leave Oklahoma without any passenger service, and ends service to several state capitals and other treatment and asked her which the patient can be unaware of until they are located. On the third, on the branch which is connected to the nerve above the eye, the irritation can be great enough to make the patient aware of the pain. As for the rapid change from pain and anguish, I might say that whenever someone takes action on trouble as soon as it's noticed, there's always a good chance for dramatic results from the treatment.

If one waits until they have acute facial neuritis the treatment, of course, would not produce such startling results. It is not unusual for a person to wait for "little hurts" to go away. But, quite frankly, these little irritations can return and return, and return until a serious problem develops. The point is that nerve irritations are caused. That's the key word.

They don't just happen. And the only avenue to correction is to find that cause. And until it's found, there will be nervous irritability. 10 return ine ionowing day. When she came in for her second appointment, she announced "I don't know what you did but I find I am completely relaxed not jittery and the pain is gone! I would like to explain Just Leave the Printing to Us For every personal or business stationery need, count on us.

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