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8A The Paris Naws, July 24,1989 Study targets Video display terminal user By The Associated Press A new fed- funded study on 8,000 Iwbmen office workers aims to Iresolve persistent questions over Whether video display terminals lean harm the health of people who them. Ted Weiss, whose jHp'use Government Operations subcommittee has held hearings on said the two-year, $2 million by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York is long over- jdue. Weiss said he had urged the U.S. Health Service for several to fund research "that could determine whether VDTs cause se- harm, especially for pregnant women who use them." "They have been terribly slow to partly due to encouragement by several large corporations to avoid this kind of research," he "Meanwhile, the potential harm has increased dramatically as the number of VDT users has multiplied," Weiss calls the Mount Sinai epi- study being funded the National Institute of Child and Human Development, a unit of the National Institutes of "an important first step" resolving the health issue. The study comes in the wake of a issued last month by the co- jngressional Office of Technology saying more research jis needed to explore the potential jhealth risks of power frequency fields particu- ilarly their effects on the nervous and possible role in promoting cancer.

The OTA report said that while 'Tfiost public concern has focused on transmission lines, attention should be paid to exposure to such fields from other sources such as household and office wiring, appliances and other electrical equipment, including VDTs. Building explodes in Wharton Ely The Associated Press WHARTON, Texas Au- jAorities were investigating a reported explosion and fire at a roofing company early Monday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Cindy Marek, a DPS spokeswoman in Pierce, said those living at a nearby residence were evacuated because officials were told there was a danger from paints and thinners manufactured at the firm. "Nobody was in the building and there was no injuries," Ms. Marek said.

The blaze, reported to authorities at 10:13 p.m., was brought under control shortly after midnight. "They're still putting out hot spots, but ifs under control," Ms. Marek said. Firefighters and police from several surrounding communities were at the scene, and those living in one residence near the roofing company were evacuated, Ms. said.

Rough ride aboard airliner injures 45 CRASH KILLS SIX: U.S. Army investigators inspect the wreckage of a Black Hawk UH-60 helicopter Sunday at the National Training Center in the Photo by Associated Press Majove Desert near Fort Irwin, Calif. The crash, which happened early Saturday morning, killed six soldiers from Fort Hood, and injured one. Army investigating crash that killed 6 during training By The Associated Press MIAMI After he bounced off the ceiling a second time and the plane began shaking and dropping, Bob Watson was sure American Airlines Plight 1707 from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami would crash. "Everybody thought that was it," said Watson, 39, a tennis pro from Jensen Beach.

"I was resigned to dying." About 45 passengers on the American Airlines A-300 Airbus were treated for. cuts and bruises after the plane was jolted by turbulence at 35,000 feet during its descent into Miami International Airport Saturday night. John Hotard, an airline spokesman, said Sunday in Port Worth, Texas; that the pilot's radar hadn't shown the storm that buffeted the plane. The airliner, carrying 239 passengers and a crew of nine, landed at 11 p.m. Several people were removed in wheelchairs and stretchers.

The injured were taken to Jackson Memorial, Hialeah and Palme- tto General hospitals. Most of the injuries were neck and shoulder sprains, and there were no broken bones, Hotard said. Several of the injured were admitted overnight for observation, and the hospitals reported that all were released Sunday morning. The plane's exterior was undamaged, Hotard said, but 12 seats were damaged, and holes were punched in the cabin's overhead compartments. Watson said the three-hour flight had been uneventful until about 30 minutes out of Miami.

He was reading a book, the seat-belt warning' lights weren't on, and his seatbelt was unhooked, Watson said. Then, without warning, "All of a sudden there was this tremendous' boom. I flew up and hit the ceiling. I came down in my seat, and aboui two seconds later, I flew up and hit my head again." As he was bouncing around, he said, he looked and saw "other people were doing it too. Some people's heads broke right through the ceiling panel.

It was unbelievable. People were screaming and crying." By The Associated Press FORT mWIN, Calif. A helicopter crash that killed six men, including an Oklahoman, and injured one occurred while the Army'heli- copter was directing three other aircraft in a mock attack, base officials said. As temperatures reached 105 degrees Sunday, a seven-member team of military aviation experts hunted for clues in the charred, mangled remains of the UH-60 Blackhawk that went down about 4 a.m. Saturday.

All the soldiers aboard were from the 1st Cavalry Division at Port Hood, Texas. They were at the base in the Mojave Desert for a three-week training exercise that ended Saturday, said Capt. Gary Cleland. The investigation of the crash by a team from the U.S. Army Safety Center at Fort Rucker, would last at least a week, Safety Center spokesman Lt.

Col. Herb Blank said. The Safety Center could issue orders to ground the Army's fleet of UH-60 Blackhawks if necessary, but had not done so by Sunday, he said. Officials did not know who was piloting the craft and who was crew chief when Saturday's predawn accident occurred, Cleland said. Other details were unknown, including whether the crew was flying by instruments or using night-vision goggles and what alti- tude the craft was flying.

There could have been enough ambient light for them not to use night goggles and to go by ments," Cleland said. No other aircraft was involved, said Maj. John Wagstaffe. The accident occurred' during an exercise involving 1st Cavalry troops in mock battle against units posing as Soviet forces at Fort Irwin's National Training Center. Wife takes space in newspaper to tell hubby: 'We are divorced' By TheAsscciated Press LONDON Steel company boss John C.

Cooper, 41, sold his business four years ago and walked out on his wife and their three children to sail around the world. His wife, Marie, said she learned what he had done only by reading the local newspaper. Now, Mrs. Cooper has a newspaper message for her millionaire husband: We're divorced. Mrs.

Cooper put an advertisement in The Times of London on Friday that said: "Mrs. Marie L. Cooper. Should anyone know the whereabouts of my husband, John Charles Cooper, ex-chairman of Cooper Industries would they please inform him that I divorced him today and was granted sole custody of our children. Thank you." But on Sunday night Mrs.

Cooper, also 41, was quoted as telling the Daily Express newspaper she would remarry her husband "if he ever gets this out of his system and comes back to us." The report said Cooper was believed to be living on his luxury yacht off the Spanish island of Majorca. The Sun newspaper quoted Mrs. Cooper as saying at her home near Wolverhampton in the English Midlands: "I still love John. My only worry is that he might get snapped up on his travels by some smartbimbo." Six arrested after figlit on commercial airliner City recognized Paris Director of Community Development Joe McCollum (center) recently accepted a Certificate of Excellence from the Texas Department of Commerce, citing the city's "commitment to further the socioeconomic purposes of the Texas Enterprise Zone Act in the cooperation with both private and public sectors The western half of Paris was recently designated an Enterprise Zone that offers new and expanding businesses certain tax and other incentives designed to stimulate growth in areas of high unemployment and economic distress. Pictured with McCollum are State Rep.

Terral Smith and State Sen. Hector Uribe, who have been instrumental in the passage of legislation regarding such zones. The city was cited during the first statewide Enterprise Zone conference held in Austin July 17-19. By The Associated Press BOSTON A husband-wife tiff aboard an airliner escalated to a fight among several passengers and led to the arrest of six people from the Continental Airlines plane at Logan International Airport. "They had a little brawl," state police Cpl, Joseph Howley said of the weekend incident aboard an MD-80 jet with 146 passengers aboard.

"It started out as a husband and wife that were sort of running around the plane and making demands on the crew and being a general nuisance and hollering," Howley said. Officials available today were unable to say if blows were exchanged on the flight Saturday, but said the husband struggled with police who arrested him in the airport terminal. Facing arraignment today on a variety of charges are Steven Sacks-Wilner, 39, attorney for Ee- publicans in the New Jersey Senate, and his wife, Joane, 37. CHIMNEY SWEEP Charley Keys Since 1978 Paris. CARPETS BEAUTIFUL 784-1681 STEAM CLEANING ON CARPETS AND FURNITURE Owner Robert Woolston 785-6684 TRACTOR TRUCK PULL JULY 28-29 PARIS FAIRGROUNDS Two-week-old baby left in church study By The Associated Press AUSTIN An abandoned infant boy, estimated to be about 2 weeks old, was found Sunday in the pastor's study of the Faith United Methodist Church, said the Rev.

Floyd Tick. A brown burlap bundle contain. Ing diapers was placed on the sofa to the child, who was wrapped in-a blanket, Vick said. grateful that they found the church," Vick said, "and glad he was brought here, instead of put in a Dumpster." "William" was the third baby 'abandoned in Austin in less than 'tvyo weeks. 'A note made from words cut out various publications and glued to a sheet of paper accompanied the infant.

It read: "Homeless and can't care of William. Help find a food was left with the baby, one of the mothers rushed out to bring him some formula," Vick said. The baby was taken by police to Children's Hospital of Austin at where he was admit- -'ted to receive additional nourish- "ment, said Larry BeSaw, a hospital 'spokesman. "He appeared a little thin and a little dehydrated, but otherwise in good shape," BeSaw said. Authorities believe the child may have been abandoned by a couple driving a brown and beige Blue Bird motor home bearing New Mexico license plates, said Senior Patrolman Dan Forbes of the Austin Police Department's traffic division.

"We have reports (from congregation members) that the vehicle was seen circling the parking lot before leaving the child," Forbes said. "We're not accusing anyone, but it's the only lead we've got," said Vick, 55, who reported he first saw the vehicle parked in the church parking lot late Saturday. He said the motor home also was parked on the church property before Sunday services began at 11:30 a.m. Vick described the man in the van as a white male in his 20s, standing about 6 feet 2 inches, with long blond hair. He said the woman was slightly shorter and also in her 20s, but he could recall no more of the woman's features.

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