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i Tests find high levels of toxic residue tal Conservation scientists. The study may have particular significance for Environmental Conservation officials who have been asked to amend their regulations and allow the use of endrin on a permanent basis in the apple orchards of the lower Hudson alley. "The amendment would take endrin off the restricted list and place it on the highly regulated list," said department spokesman John Moore. "The test doesn't even show that endrin is really effective against the pine vole," Stone said of Mungari's work. "My opinion is that it should not be used.

The pine vole is becoming resistant to endrin. Unfortunately other wildlife isn't. If these samples came from cattle, they wouldn't be allowed on the market." The revised study is being given fresh scrutiny by the state's Health Department as well as Environmen 6 11111ACA JOURNAL Thurtitta), August 9, 1979 i -7 40 A4E----- ----tiodA kk Li t. ---c- ii 1 co 0 1 4 i's4101 ----A- r'' 3.1:,-z I ''1 ill illy, 1 1 1 a "11. 0 a ifi I '4'4 I IL II 4 r'NI I rt 1.

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Endrin had been found to cause severe liver problems and death in humans and had been linked to cancer in laboratory animals. New Amtrak station opens SCHENECTADY (AP) A smiling, josling crowd of politicians, railroad buffs and passengers waiting for the Lake Shore Limited from Chicago watched Mayor Frank Dud snip a red ribbon Wednesday and open the city's new, $881,000 Amtrak station. The station, actually put into use last week, will replace another facility in the nearby Albany suburb of Colonie which will close after Sept. 9. Passenger train service was restored to Schenectady last October.

Negotiations are in progress to bring additional New York City service here, according to John Downing, executive deputy commissioner for the state Department of va 477-34 A. -8-z, rf on all KHS Bicycles 810 off our regular low price offer good thru Aug. 18 or while supply lasts! ALBANY (AP) A controversial, state-approved 1977 poisoning program in the lower Hudson Valley involving thousands of pounds of a banned pesticide has left high levels of toxic residue in wildlife, according to a state study. The study of the use of endrin to protect apple trees from the pine vole drew little attention last month when it was released by the state's Department of Agriculture and Markets because of a mistake in the interpretation of the results. "There wasn't a mistake in the chemistry, just in the interpretation," said Ward Stone, a pathologist with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, who discovered the error.

"The levels are high and this is game that could be eaten by humans. I consider that a bloody problem," Stone said Wednesday. What Stone discovered was that in the 185-page study of wildlife from Ulster, Dutchess and Orange counties, project coordinator Robert Mungari had calculated endrin levels in samples on a "wet weight basis." Using the wet weight measure, only two of 32 liver samples taken from wildlife ranging from deer to opossums were above seizure levels of 0.3 parts per million set for food products by the Federal Drug Administration. But those federal standards are based on a more exacting method of testing relying on endrin levels in fatty tissue only, not whole organs, according to Stone. "We now have eight of the 32 samples above the FDA standard," Mungari said Wednesday of his revised study.

One of the samples, a pheasant liver. was found to have endrin residue levels of more than 30 parts per million, or 100 times the federal standard for food products, when calculated by the revised method. "It's hard to say if its a serious problem at this point," Mungari said. "I think a warning should probably be issued. I would probably advise against eating liver and fatty tissue taken from animals in the area." Mungari said that no testing was done on livestock in the lower Hudson Valley where 9.440 pounds of eldrin was sprayed in 1977 to kill the pine vole.

The pine vole, a mouse-like creature, causes damage to apple tree trunks. "We have no reports of livestock grazing in the orchards," said Mungari. "The spraying was done by hand and the chances of any drift and contamination of nearby land was unlikely." Mungari did say that one calf which strayed into a freshly sprayed The Bike Rack Open Mon.Sat., 414 College Ave. Thurs. tiI 8 Women's group takes pornography tour along 41nd Street.

II Feminists in NYC fight pornography Photo by AP "At least get it back in the closet," said WAP volunteer Jean Hamerman. "Maybe the courts will begin to see it as a crime against women," added Alexander. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that material cannot be judged obscene unless it meets three criteria: that it depict patently offensive, hardcore sexual conduct; lack literary, artistic, political or scientific value and go beyond contemporary community standards. The "contemporary community standards" are what WAP is trying to "You can change the climate of opinion so pornography is no longer acceptable," Mehrhof says.

"If we can change peoples' attitudes, they won't want to see it." At Pussycat, where men may make phone calls to scantily clad young women in glass booths, the tour group gathered in the center of the floor and eyed the women as they waited for customers. "Tell them not to take pictures!" shouted one woman employee from her booth. "We'll break their cameras! "They look down on us women," she said. "They think were illiterate but their husbands are supporting The tour women gathered on the teeming street outside. "Our looking at them was worse than the men, said Irene Agnello.

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"That's one of the saddest things I've ever seen." said Irene Agnello, one of the first-timers at the Mardi Gras "topless" bar, the last stop on an unusual tour. The twice-weekly tour of peep shows, "adult" bookstores and other sex emporiums is run by a group called Women Against Pornography and is intended to raise consciousness as to the effect of pornography on society's view of women. "Pornography is psychologically destructive to women's self-image and endangers our welfare in real life," says group organizer Barbara Mehrhol. "The essence of pornography is about the degradation and brutalization of women in the name of entertainment, in the name of free speech. in the name of profits." The group.

founded several months ago by feminists Gloria Steinem, Lynn Campbell, Dolores Alexander and author Susan Brownmil ler, wants to establish pornography as a national feminist issue. "We're starting here because it's the porn capital of the country," says Alexander. The activities of the group, which plans a two-day pornography conference here next month and a 20.000-person march on Times Square in October, are applauded but not officially endorsed by the National Organization for Women. Women Against Pornography believes "women have to be encouraged to look at this stuff and have the support of other women," says Mehrhol. So, armed with maps, quarters for peep show movies and a wealth of curiosity, bands of women of all ages and backgrounds gather at the group's Times Square storefront and proceed toward the blinking signs offering "Girls! Girls! Girls!" and "Topless and Bottomless." On a recent night, a guard tried to block one tour group from entering Show World.

a sex supermarket featuring pornographic films and "live entertainment." "No women allowed without escorts." he said. "It's illegal to keep us out." shouted the women, who eventually were permitted to go inside after they produced identification proving they were over 21. At Peep land, a similar establishment. some of the women giggled and hesitated before crowding together into booths to glimpse films entitled "Leather Porno," and "The Perverted Some of the films featured children, animals, and gang rape. Other narrow booths contained windows to a live show in which nude women stretched on a carousel and pressed their bodies to the glass.

"I'm sick to my stomach." said one of the touring women, a 54-yearold mother of four daughters. "I find it extraordinarily But, she added. "you have to have the freedom to read and see these things. It would be an infringement of the First Amendment to close these The First Amendment issue is a difficult one for the feminist group. Its members say they oppose censorship, but as Mehrhof said, "We're also protected by the First Amendment and we have the right of free speech.

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