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6 Tuesday, June 28, 1977 '1 28 million women beaten by spouses WASHINGTON (AP) More than half of all married women in America suffer physical abuse from their husbands, an author of a study on wife beating says. "A marriage license is a hunting license." according to Richard C. Levy, who wrote "Wife Beating The Silent with Roger Langley. "It gives a man five free beatings because the woman typically doesn't report such abuse until the fifth attack." Levy estimates that 28 million American wives are abused physically by their husbands. This Includes those who suffer an occasional slap as well as those who are beaten regularly.

How did he arrive at this number? "Two years ago we started to research the problem," he said in an interview yesterday. "We went to the FBI, the American Bar Association, HEW, members of Congress, the Library of Congress, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, looking for evidence at the official level. We found culpable ignorance." Then, Levy said, he and his partner used telephone books from about 25 cities to send questionnaires on the subject to hospitals, police departments, counseling services, crisis centers and individual attorneys. "The questionnaires started pouring back attesting to the problem at the grass rools level," he said. "Then we found seven scientific studies and, combining them with our empirical research, came up with the 28 million figure." About 10 per cent of the incidents of physical abuse involved the use of lethal weapons.

Levy said. "Most of the 10 million family trouble calls answered by police each year involve spouse abuse," he said. "But typically they're not reported as such. It's a conspiracy of silence." He said American society customarily has taken a lenient attitude toward wife-beating, even finding it amusing. "We studied TV.

Remember the Jackie Oleason Show? Remember the punch line you waited for, when Ralph would say, 'Alice, you're going to the Levy added: "If I told a joke about battered children, you'd think I was a sickie." Many police departments have a "Stitch Rule," Levy said, meaning a battered wife has to require a certain number of stitches before the husband is charged. But the government finally is starting to show some interest in the problem, Levy said. Legislation has been introduced in Congress which Levy described as "a $25 million package which would authorize the National Institute oe Mental Health to set up ongoing research on the incidence of domestic violence." He said that in researching the book, he and his partner found shelters for battered wives springing up all over the country. But, he said, "the federal government has got to come up with some sort of guidelines for these centers." Pat Scott walks beside his indoor swimming pool, which doubles as part of a solar heating-air conditioning system in his Sonora area home. Designer Ken Kessel said it is an attempt to "emulate Laserphoto) Home solar system joins pool with home SONORA (AP) Ken Kessel offers an extra dividend with solar systems he designs to heat and cool homes.

Water tanks that trap the sun's warmth double as indoor swimming pools. "The swimming pool is nothing more than our heat our storage for accumulation of our solar energy," Kessel said. In a typical Kessel design, the tank, or pool, is located in a room adjacent to a southwest wall constructed of large panes of insulated glass. Unlike normal vertical windows, they slant at a 15-degree angle to take maximum advantage of the sun's rays. The sun warms the pool to about 70 degrees, and that temperature is channeled through six-to eight-inch concrete into an enclosed chamber filled with rocks.

Air blown by a fan over those heated rocks circulates warmth throughout the house. In the summer, pool water is sprayed on the rocks, then blown into the air conditioning system to cool the house. "Our whole purpose is to try to emulate nature, what nature shows us," Kessel explains. "The ocean covers sixth-sevenths of the earth's surface. Weather actually was developed for oceans." In effect.

Kessel brings the the inside the house. "We're putting a micro climate inside of our homes." he explains. "We're using the swimming pool as our ocean, glass wall as our atmosphere and using low energy consumptive fans to move the air." Having the pool inside the house helps maintain a steady atmosphere because water vapor is transferred to the air. Kessel said. The aim "is to do exactly what nature is trying to tell us.

and it's working." Kessel claims. "We can get our humidity just about where we want it. 40 per cent." Kessel first got the idea of incorporating a swimming pool into a solar air conditioning system when he enclosed his own outdoor pool, thus connecting it to his house. "When we opened doors, we began to realize we had a micro climate available The pool was the key to it." he said. Kessel contends the cost of a house designed to incorporate a solar-heated indoor pool is close to the $30 a square foot average that homebuilders in this central Sierra Nevada area charge on conventional projects.

"We're looking at 10-15 years to pay back the entire system." he says "The original cost might be more because you're increasing the room size for the pool, but you're getting that back in energy savings plus the fringe benefit of being able to use the pool any hour of the day or night for a recreational purpose Authorities deport 27 to Mexico SAN DIEGO IAPI Twenty-seven illegal aliens were deported to Mexico yesterday after being found in a tiny apartment used as an underground smuggling stop, authorities said. They reportedly paid an average of $200 to be taken to the Los Angeles area. Also deported was a 27- year-old man ready to drive them north. "Unfortunately, we didn't get any actual members of the smuggling ring but we are coming close." a spokesman said. California newspaper Antitrust suit back in lower court WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court yesterday sent back to lower federal courts in California an antitrust case involving the McClatchy Newspapers and their method of assigning geographic areas of responsibility to newsstand distributors.

The court told the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at the McClatchy case in light of an antitrust decision handed down by the high court last week. In that decision, the court gave manufacturers new legal authority to control the resale of their products by retailers. In a separate case, the justices refused to hear an appeal by former newsstand distributor William M. Noble that he was entitled to a sale-of-business claim. The Circuit Court struck down a $63,000 award granted to Noble by a trial court.

McClatchy Newspapers publish the Sacramento Bee. Noble filed suit against McClatchy in 1969 after the newspaper cancelled his contract. One of Noble's claims was that he was fired because he resisted the paper's effort to split his areas of responsibility, assigning part of it to another distributor. The appeals court found that such territorial assignments, called "area of primary responsibility" by the newspaper, violate the Sherman Act as a restriction on the "areas or persons with whom an article may be traded." The court based its decision primarily on a 1967 Supreme Court decision involving the Schwinn bicycle company. In asking the high court to find inherent differences in the bicycle and newpaper Complete saccharin ban studied WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration is considering a complete ban on the sale of saccharin.

FDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy told a House subcommittee that the agency may prohibit all sales of the artificial sweetener because of a new Canadian study which shows a high incidence of bladder cancer among males who use saccharin. He said the FDA is extending until Aug. 31 the comment period on the original proposal to ban the use of saccharin in soft drinks and foods but allow the artificial sweetener to be sold to the public over the counter. "Our purpose in extending the comment period should not be misinterpreted as a weakening of our decision to remove saccharin from the food supply," said Kennedy. "Our only purpose is to examine, in the light of important new findings.

He said he is convinced that this delay will not significantly increase the risk of cancer for those individuals who still believe they must consume saccharin. "That risk, while increasingly well-documented, appears to be attributable to prolonged consumption of saccharin and to be dose- related." said Kennedy. "During the additional two months required to permit public comment and scientific evaluation of the new studies, the risk to any saccharin user should not increase measurably." he said. businesses, McClatchy newspapers said: "Bicycles are not delivered by boys and girls who throw them on a subscriber's roof or into his shrubbery, or who sometimes do not throw them at all. But when the paper is missing, the subscriber calls the publisher, and the publisher must know who is responsible for each delivery so that readers are not lost." The newspaper had told the trial court that Noble's firing was caused by a series of complaints about delivery problems and his insistence that he be allowed to sell independently coupons clipped out of the newspapers.

In a friend of the court brief the American Newspaper Publishers Association said, "There are inherent unique differences between the publishing business related to the distribution of daily newspapers and the marketing of products or services of industrial "A daily newspaper is not a commodity," the association said, because of the fleeting time its news and advertising information remains current. Court rejects LA's water EIR SACRAMENTO (AP) In a setback for the City of Los Angeles, a state appeals court yesterday rejected a city-filed environmental impact report on its water pumping out of the Owens Valley. The 3rd District Court of Appeal said in its opinion that the impact report "fails to comply" with the 1970 state Environmental Quality Act requiring environmental impact reports. The ruling means the city's water exports from the valley must stay at the present court-imposed level far short of what the citv wants, said Duane Georgeson, a spokesman for the city. There was no immediate word on whether the city will appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court At issue in the suit the latest round in a water battle between Los Angeles and Inyo County that started in the early 1900s was the city's construction of a second aqueduct exporting water from the valley.

In a normal year, the city gets about 80 per cent of its water from this valley northeast of Los Angeles, where it owns the bulk of the flat land. But this year it will get only about 40 per cent because of drought-caused low- runoffs in the valley, where some of the residents bitterly oppose the city's pumping. The city contended initially that because the aqueduct was completed in June 1970 and the environmental act went into effect in November 1970 that an impact report was not required. But the state appeals court directed the city to make an impact report on the aqueduct's effect on the environment. Inyo County later challenged the Impact report as insufficient.

Ken Downey, an attorney for the City of Los Angeles, said the city is "disappointed the court didn't see things our way." He said the ruling left the city with two options go back and redraft its environmental impact report or file an appeal to the state Supreme Court. Downey said the city had not yet decided which course it will take. In its ruling, the court said. "A public agency need not and should not await the compulsion of judicial decrees before fulfilling the demands" of the Environmental Quality Act. Probe seeks forest fire starters LOS ANGELES (AP) Investigators sought unidentified campers yesterday who were believed responsible for lighting an illegal campfire that sparked Southern California's first major brush fire of the year.

The blaze which burned 2.000 acres of brush in Angeles National Forest was declared controlled at 10 a.m.. but U.S. Forest Service spokesman Bruce Bundick said 20 to 100 men will remain in the area to monitor remaining hot spots within the fire lines. More than 600 men fought the blaze, which cost an estimated $500,000 in damages and fire-fighting expenses. The fire broke out Saturday about 10 miles due north of the Los Angeles suburb of Sierra Madre.

An undetermined number of picknickers were evacuated Saturday from packed campgrounds an hour's drive from the suburbs. Four firemen sustained minor injuries and were treated at the sene. No houses or structures were Rackets netted James Miller reported to the Bakersfield Police Department someone broke into his car and stole an ice chest, two tennis rackets, a radio, socket set, eight-track taoes and a flashlight. threatened by the blaze, which Bundick said erupted near a creek in Big Tujunga Canyon where someone apparently had camped illeg- aly. "We're collecting all possible physical evidence but we're also contacting anyone who might have witnessed anyone in the area Saturday when the fire broke out." Bundick said.

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