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LOCAL: Battle Creek farmer has the secret to growing sweet potatoes3 A SPORTS: Field set for this week's Big Tfen tournament in Battle CreekIB Jf Artist's workshop uses TOsmaskfe masks to help other 5f) SSSEST victims of sexual abuse I I 350 Tuesday May 18, 1993 1 993, Battle Creek Enquirer VEATHERSCEME Mostly cloudy. Lows, mid 40s8B NEWSLINE kFMTI TT1RF1R Creek JLJl 1 ll'JLl A cereal. First lady's new hairdo sends salons scrambling WASHINGTON Beauty salons are buzzing and stylists are flipping their wigs: cfaallen ge n. 1. ruuary Koanam uiuiran has a new 'do.

The first lady returned from a weekend trip to New York with her formerly shoulder-length hair cut to just below her ears. The new style is layered on the sides, slightly tou- ir 52,000 diners sought for breakfast record Hillary sled and swept away "1 0ffr 1 By Trace Christenson Staff Writer Battle Creek has called the bet with Springfield, Mass. and raised the ante. The 1993 Cereal Festival organizers decided Monday to up the number of cereal servings to 52,000 this year. The goat to best the more than 51,000 people Springfield served at its annual pancake breakfast last week 7T DDA's proposed boundaries ii end.

Old boundaries New boundaries Goodale JteJ wx, 15 Shermarf Jm GoquacSt. Columbia Ave. -T DDA members planned for the future on Monday as they voted Breakfast table First held in Battle Creek in 1956 for 14,000 people. Springfield fed 24,000 and Battle Creek 26,787, in the first year of the challenge. Springfield fed 51,506 on May 15.

(Previous record 44,927 in 1991 by Battle Creek.) Battle Creek goal on June 12 is 52,000 Schedule: Thursday, June 10: Miss Cereal City Pageant, 7 p.m. Friday, June 11: Cereal Festival Grand Parade, 6 p.m.; Children's Costume Parade, 7 p.m.. Saturday, June 12: World's Longest Breakfast Table, 8 am; plus events throughout the day. fl Editorial. 5A "We took a deep breath knowing that the number is a big one to grasp," said Teresa Durham, publicity chairwoman of the Cereal Festival "But everyone (on the committee) wanted to do it Oh, yes.

Oh, yes." The committee will ask state legislators to promote the breakfast across Michigan, seek media attention and buy advertising. "We are the underdog and we will have a lot of support because of that," Durham said. So the breakfast battle with Springfield will continue. Organizers there said they fed pancakes to 51,506 people during their Founders Day celebration last weekend. Battle Creek won the battle last year by serving cereal to 43,297 people.

The previous record had been 44,927 by Battle Creek in 1991. "We can do it," Durham said Monday. "But it will take a lot of people with patience; good-hearted people and good-spirited people to come down and be counted. If we have to serve them on the curb, we wilL" She said the three cereal companies in Battle Creek agreed to increase the cereal Rodham Clinton from her face. The Washington Post said in today's editions the first lady's new hairdo was the work of Frederic Fek-kai, a New York-based Frenchman who charges $275 a cut Research: Quitting smoking even helps cancer survivors ORLANDO, Fla.

It's truly never, ever too late to quit smoking, a study shows. Researchers found that the lucky few who are cured of lung cancer improve their chances dramatically of avoiding new bouts with the disease if they kick the habit Lung cancer is notoriously hard to treat Only about 6 percent of people with small cell tumors, a common form of the disease, can be cured. However, the latest study found that these survivors are five times more likely to suffer recurrence of their cancer if they keep smoking. Dr. Gary E.

Richardson presented his findings Monday at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The researchers said their study is the first to assess the effects of smoking on long-term survivors of lung cancer. Lung cancer is the nation's leading cancer killer of both men and women. It will kill an estimated 149,000 Americans this year, and smoking is overwhelmingly the major cause. Lottery officials defend new game against charges LANSING Michigan Lottery officials on Monday defended the new Bonus Lotto game against a lawmaker's charges that it's unfair and a consumer ripoff.

Rep. Joe Young D-Detroit and co-diairman of the House State Affairs Committee, said he's gotten hundreds of complaints from constituents and store owners who don't like the game. Young said an investigation of the game would begin on Wednesday, May 26. Young met Monday with Lottery Commissioner Jerry CrandaD, Lottery spokeswoman Kerry McNulty said. She disputed Young's claims that the game is too hard to Bonus Lotto, which has a drawing once a week with a minimum $4 million prize, replaced Lotto 47, which was played twice a week with a minimum $2 million prize.

Tickets for Bonus Lotto are $2, compared with Lotto 47's $1 ticket price. But McNulty said there's a 1 in 65 chance of winning a prize in Bonus Lotto, compared to a 1 in 856 chance of winning something in Lotto 47. But Young said it's harder to win a substantial prize in the new game, yet tickets cost twice as much. DEATHS Julie McCallumEnquirer Source: B.C. City Commission Rethink tax borders By Mark Mayes Staff Writer Whafsnext? The Battle Creek City Commission is to vote tonight whether to set a June 15 public hearing on the boundary changes.

BThe new boundaries could be approved June 22. servings by 7,000 from the 45,000 servings already donated. state. Instead, the DDA spends the money on development projects within its boundaries. The five new areas the DDA proposes to include in its boundaries take in: The Federal Center, Cello-Foil Products Fire Station No.

2, the Army Reserve Center and Battle Creek Adventist Hospital. BCHS's Leila Site. The Center. The old United Steel and Wire site west of South Kendall Street between Lafayette Street and Grand Trunk Avenue. Verona Dam, including land Please see DDA, 2A Downtown Development Authority members are playing swa-mi.

Fearful that time is running out on tax increment financing authorities, DDA members rubbed their crystal ball and came up with some areas they believe are ripe for development down the road. They then voted unanimously Monday to expand the authority's borders to take in such properties as the Federal Center, the Center and Battle Health System-Leila Site. "We had to take into account Gathering supplies won't be the hard part, Durham said. Getting the people will. But, she noted, 50,000 people probably have been downtown for the festival before, although not all of them have eaten breakfast Despite some public complaints about the ongoing challenge, Durham said she believes many people enjoy the rivalry.

"The organizers are not the ones pushing for that The people want to come down and want to be counted," she said. "What we truly hope to accomplish on June 12 is a successful event in all ways," added Cereal Festival Chairwoman Susan Smith. projects that are just in the dreaming stage," DDA Chairman Robert Sharkey said. The DDA is a tax increment financing district that collects nearly $8.5 million in taxes a year that would otherwise go to the Kevorkian finds loophole in law Lack of witnesses hampers suicide probe Studies say Retin-A may fight cancer Donald R. Reed Earl L.

Ross Franklin Sanders Shirley A. Slinker Hazel D. Sweezey Allan Voland Myrtle M. Whittemore Leona I. Zimmerman See Page 2A Donna M.

Avery Raymond J. Bernard William A. Dolph David D. Galley Roland Irwin Harriet W. Klomp Shirley M.

McCluskev Myron E. Pugh Elmer M. Radford Key findings: Government researchers found that Retin-A reversed cervical dysplasia, an extremely common condition that occasionally leads to cervical cancer. A study paid for by the makers of Retin-A found that the ointment can fade and even erase moles called dysplastic nevi. These moles sometimes grow into melanoma, a lethal form of skin cancer.

Jack Kevorkian: Not talking The Associated Press The Associated Press suicide, well have to do it independently of Dr. Kevorkian," police In ORLANDO, Fla. The prescription wrinkle cream Retin-A may have an entirely different use preventing cancer. Two studies reported Monday at a CORRECTIONS The Battle Creek Enquirer corrects all errors of fact Corrections are published in the bottom lefthand comer of Page 3 A. If you know of an error, please call Local Editor S.

Renee Mitchell at 966-0668, or write to her at 155 W. Van Buren St, Battle Creek, Mich. 49017-3093. HEALTH meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology are among the lat DETROIT Jack Kevorkian's latest presence during a person's death may have exposed the weakness in Michigan's law designed to stop him, a legislator says. Prosecutors said Monday they were waiting for the results of a police investigation into the suicide of Ronald Mansur, 54, of South-field, a cancer patient who died Sunday in Kevorkian's presence.

Investigators could make a recommendation on whether to charge Kevorkian by Friday, said Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Richard PadzieskL Mansur breathed a fatal dose of carbon monoxide gas through a mask at the Detroit real estate office where he worked. It was the first time Kevorkian had witnessed a suicide since assisted suicide became a felony in Michigan on Feb. 25. "If we are to establish this was assisted spector Gerald Stewart told The Detroit News in a report published today. Unlike many of the 15 suicides involving Kevorkian before the new law was passed, there were no witnesses, videotapes or documents describing Mansur's death.

Kevorkian cannot be forced to testify against himself, but police are investigating whether he supplied the suicide apparatus. He could be found in violation of the assisted-sukade ban if he placed the mask on Mansur or turned on the gas, but that would be hard to prove since there were no other witnesses. Police are also investigating whether Mansur could have operated the apparatus without assistance. Mansur's family has refused to discuss his death. INDEX searchers found that Retin-A reversed cervical dysplasia, an extremely common condition that occasionally leads to cervical cancer.

In the other, funded by the makers of Retin-A, scientists found that the ointment can fade and even erase moles called dysplastic nevi These moles sometimes grow into melanoma, a lethal form of skin cancer diagnosed in about 32,000 Americans yearly. est efforts in a new cancer field called che-moprevention. The goal is to make a preemptive strike, catching abnormal tissue before it becomes cancer. Doctors have found that Retin-A seems to bring to normal precancerous conditions of the skin and cervix, presumably eliminating the risk of developing malignancy. In one study, government-financed re- Movies 6A Nation 4A Obituaries 2A.4B Opinion 5A Sports 1-4B State 2A Television 7 A Weather 8B World.

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