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Watch that leaf smoke! It's a bad actor STAR John Gavin, left, star of television, screen and stage, is appearing in the award winning play, at Sullivan Little Theatre-On The Square through Oct. 2. Actor John Hammond alio stars in the play. By HOWARD STEVENS Tribune State Editor Ind. If given up on cigarettes hold on.

another bad actor around leaf smoke. What damage can a little leaf smoke do? Not much by itself, but add it to all the other carcinogens and it might be very Prof. Robert Jacko notes. An environmental engineering professor at Purdue, Jacko says leaf burning adds to your exposure to cancer-inducing substances. Jacko is invovlved in a study trying to relate levels of atmospheric pollutants in urban areas to various cancers and he says one contained in smoke from burning leaves is Benzo Pyrene or BaP.

known for a long time that Benzo is a bad actor, but we also knew that you would have to breathe smoke a long time before it triggered cancerous activity. Now, though, we are surrounded by carcinogens and they all add observes Jacko, emitted from an exhaust are of course, an atmospheric problem in themselves. Put BaP together with ammonium sulfate or sulfuric acid mist and you have The atmosphere is a fantastic chemical-reaction chamber We don't know the consequences yet of all of our industrialization. Jacko adds. For many years, we thought cancer was a genetic thing or perhaps a virus.

Now we are finding out that we think it may be environmentally induced, Jacko reports. is a whole new ball game. All the pesticides, the insecticides all the chemicals put in our food. They all add up to trouble sometime in the he says. on the safe side.

Watch that leaf smoke and if you smoke, avoid it these smoke particles get into the lungs and cleared out, they can be taken into the blood stream and carried to other organs in the body. After they accumulate, they can set off a health problem for the individual many years later, the professor notes. Something keeps bothering us, too. The smell of the smoke that pours out of our city buses. It stinks to high heaven and be good for you even if they paid you to breathe it.

ERA opponents would like to forget action Report By Tribune Correspondents INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment want everyone to forget that the 1977 legislature made Indiana the 35th of 38 states needed to ratify the ERA They launched a campaign Thursday to reverse ratification or at least erase all records of it. ERA is a fraud. dividing our State Rep. Donald Boys told a news conference. legislators have a right to have another vote on The Indianapolis Republican said that he will sponsor a resolution in next legislature to expunge from the House Journal all records of the ERA passage last winter.

Boys also said he will be the House sponsor of a Senate bill to rescind ratification. state that rescinds the ERA is saying, did it but have changed our Boys said expunging motion means we never did Three states already have rescinded ratification of the amendment, but the legality of those actions has yet to be determined. unreasonable men prevail and rescinding is declared illegal, then it will obviously be wise to try another Boys said. He said there are no provisions in Indiana law for expunging legislative records, though he said the procedure was used at least three times elsewhere once in the Massachusetts Senate, once in Georgia and once in the U.S. Senate.

He said he know what materials were expunged in Massachusetts or Georgia, but he said the Senate involved an illegal vote to impeach President Andrew Jackson in 1834. Boys was joined at the Statehouse news conference by Beulah A. Coughenour, state chairman of HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) An She said Hoosier women escapee from the Indiana Girls proved that they opposed ERA School was arrested late Thurs- THE TRIBUNE. TERRE HAUTE.

IND FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1977 11 WATCH A Purdue University professor says inhaling too much leaf smoke can be dangerous to your health. The days of fall leaf burning are just around the corner and he warns that the smoke may contain a lot of cancer producing Purdue university. 'Doc' Bowen suggests Jstate has met problem Indiana Girls School escapee seized in baby's abduction plane Bert Lance now hangared in at the International Year Conference in July when 31 of 32 Indiana delegates were against the ERA. are alerting the Indiana legislators that last ratification of the ERA did not express the will of the majority of Indiana she said.

hope they will remedy this situation by supporting the legislation to Fort Wayne airport FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) The airplane that helped fuel criticism of Bert Lance is ared at Fort Wayne now, but still is in Democratic hands. Auto and airplane dealer Jim Kelley, Allen County Demo- 4 tour rivers in kayak OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Four young men from Northern Ireland and Scotland have completed well over half their kayak journey down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers in an effort to raise money for British cancer research. They are amazed the Missouri is a slow-moving, placid river winding down the Great Plains.

thought it would be a fast, savage said Nicholas Francis, 25, Edinburgh, leader of the expedition. They began their trip July 13 at Great Falls, about 150 miles north of where the Missouri forms at Three Forks. They plan to reach New Orleans by Nov. 17. Their food been the greatest, said Liam 25, Belfast.

usually camp out at night and eaten a lot of jackrabbit and he said. eaten lots of peanut butter sandwiches, Other travelers are Bill Butcher, 25, Edinburgh, who serves as advance man and accountant, and Tim Eley, 22, Glasgow, navigator and photographer. Cancer organizations have sought pledges businesses along the trip, Francis said. for a good purpose, raising the said about the trip. we wanted to get the traveling out of our systems before we settle cratic chairman, recently bought the turboprop with registration number N74BL as in Bert Lance The red, white and blue Beechcraft Super-200 King-Air belonged to the National Bank of Georgia, in Atlanta, before Kelley bought it in April.

He said he had no idea of the ownership when he decided to buy based on an advertising flier from an Atlanta firm. The plane figured prominently in Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearings that led to the resignation of Lance as head of the Office of Management and Budget. There were allegations Lance made unethical personal and political use of the bank- owned plane. Kelley said he has had some IU friends seek info on girl BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Friends of a missing Indiana University student have begun a fund drive to pay for newspaper and television advertising in the hope of locating her.

State police said Thursday, however, they have no new information on the disappearance of Ann Louise Harmeier, 20, Cambridge City. She has been missing since Sept. 12 when she failed to return to campus. Her disabled car was found alongside Indiana 37 near Martinsville, but police been able to take the case much further than that. Foul play is suspected, a po- strange inquiries about the spokesman said, log including one Friends of Miss Harmeier from the bank and one from a $400 to buy news- Georgia aircraft maintenance papar space and television company whose motives he a $5,000 reward fund found suspicious.

He said he thought some news reporter or investigator may have been behind the maintenance inquiry. Kelley said he would cooperate with the FBI or a government subpoena on the log, but that logs show much anyway, except mileage and maintenance not who flew where. Kelley believes the jet was used to fly President Carter to Washington from Plains, the day after his election. has been raised. day night in connection with the alleged abduction of an infant baby who was found in an alley here Monday.

The arrest came several hours after the baby, Shawn Michael Gibson, was reunited with his mother, Mrs. Cathy Gibson of Crittenden, Ky. A police public information officer said the girl, 16, was arrested at 10:30 by police and the FBI. She was charged only with being an escapee from the girls school. Her name was not disclosed because of her age, the spokesman said.

feel like having him all over cried Mrs. Gibson while cradling the blond-haired baby at the police station. scared to death. It feels so Mrs. Gibson, 23.

and Shawn had to remain overnight in Hammond because the FBI and local welfare authorities wanted more information about the disappearance Sunday night. An FBI official said Shawn apparently was a kidnap victim, but not for ransom. The girl taken into custody, said by police to have been the babysitter, allegedly took the child by bus from Kentucky on the 275-mile trip to northwest Indiana and abandoned the boy. A Hammond man, Jim Hall, found Shawn in the alley behind his house. The baby was in good health at the time.

The baby was identified when his grandmother saw his picture in the Vincennes, Sun-Commercial. Kentucky state troopers took Mrs. Gibson to Hammond on Wednesday, but she had to wait until Thursday for the reunion because of the police investigation. Bicknell, Bluff ton honored INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The economic, community service and historic preservation efforts of nine Hoosier communities will be honored today at the closing luncheon of the annual Indiana Association of Cities and Towns convention. James T.

Morris, senior program officer for Lilly Endowment, will present Community Achievement Awards to the mayors or town board presidents of Anderson, Jeffersonville, West Lafayette, Madison, Bluff ton, Bicknell, Rising Sun, Flora and Hillsboro. A panel of state and local officials plus businessmen selected the winners in the contest sponsored by the association. An association spokesman said the awards were designed to oecognize innovative or imaginative local programs which improved the quality of local government during the year which ended June 30. The programs initated by the award winning communities ranged from improvements in sewage and utility service to recreation programs for senior citizens. INDIANAPOLIS (IPIi Gov Otis Bowen, a family physician before his election as chief state executive, said Thursday Indiana dramatically turned the in meeting the problem of doctor shortages.

The governor spoke at the dedication ot a new family practice center at Indianapolis Methodist Hospital. The center is a model office where patients of all ages and socioeconomic levels can get primary medical care in internal medicine, obstretrics, gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, psychiatry, community and preventive medicine The staff of the center includes 30 physicians appointed to a three-year family practice residency program at It is one of the oldest and largest graduate medical education programs for family doctors in the nation. Bowen, in his comments, said a decade ago, Indiana found itself in the throes of a critical doctor shortage. education in our state Of those 428, only seven were in family Hoosiers will benefit from 794 graduate-medical in tern and residency programs, 85 per cent more than just 10 years Bowen said are a total of 151 doctors enrolled in all three years of the family practice residency means that in the brief span of 10 years, Indiana has dramatically turned the corner against a previously gnawing problem of doctor Bowen said an increased number of today graduate physicians are establishing their practice in smaller Hoosier communties, thereby aiding our secondary medical problem of distribution as Following the dedication of the new family practice center, Bowen flew to Denver where he will preside Friday at a meeting of the Education Commission of the States, of which he is chairman Bowen plans to return to Indianapolis Saturday Wisconsin governor says congress expects too much on lakes Throughout all of Indiana, there were only 428 interns and residents in graduate medical WASHINGTON (UPI) Congress cannot expect the Great Lakes states to clean up the largest fresh water reserves alone. Wisconsin Gov.

Martin Schreiber said Thurs- dav Northern Illinois faces corn rootworm danger: Bug expert URBANA. Ill (AP) The northern two-thirds of Illinois in 1978 a fairly substantial threat of corn rootworm warns a University of Illinois extension bug specialist The danger exists in fields where farmers planted corn last year and the same crop this year, as well as where no soil insecticides were used, says Dr Donald Kuhlman. farmers have Stone veneer faulty on Foster Quad BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UPI) Some emergency repairs have been made to improperly installed stone veneer in the Foster Qualdrangle at Indiana University. Full repairs will be made next summer.

Campus officials said there is no danger to students inside the residence halls, although some stone on the outside could fall. Fencing has been installed around some faulty sections. HARVEST TIME corn harvesting time in Indiana and many farmers worked around the clock to get the under cover. Thisfarmer at beat the wet field problem by putting floatation tires on his tractor allowing him to harvest on time. UPI insecticide available and it does a pretty good he added.

Dr. Kuhlman estirnnted that about 65 per cent of the corn acreage was treated last year for 1976 corn rootworm infestation. He believes about the same amount of land was treated this year. The scientist said indications are that the number of insects increased threefold from the previous year Dr. Kuhlman predicts problems with the pest but added.

know if the facts will bear Where corn was planted this year and last, and in which soil insecticide has been applied, loss could average 14 per cent of the crop, he said. But soil insecticides it very Kuhlman said some farmers reduce the effectiveness of the insecticide by applying it too early in the season. Insecticide applied to fields in April last very he said, and it could break down in as little as eight weeks. By the time the corn rootworm eggs hatch and the pests are ready to go to work, the insecticide would have out of But Kuhlman said scientists are working on methods to reduce com rootworm infestation. He said he doesn't to suggest that farmers delay planting because of corn rootworms.

We may be able to have our cake and eat it, Schreiber urged Congress to provide clean up funds in a Great Lakes protection bill. He said Congress had approved bills and treaties with Canada setting clean up goals, but left funding special programs to the Great Lakes states. is unfair that the financial burden of meeting these special goals and tougher pollution standards is falling squarely on the backs of state and local he said Schreiber said federal courts were making the programs tougher on the states. is the national resposibility for the Great Lakes clearer than in Milwaukee, where recent court action has mandated a treatment level six times stricter than those the Federal Environmental Protection Agency set for the rest of the he said. cannot understate the need for this special water cleanup program on the Great he said.

are the source of fresh water for 15 per cent of the people. Great Lakes basin provides 20 per cent of the nation manufacturing output and produces 17 per cent of its he said. seems certain that many other major cities on the Great Lakes will soon be in the same boat as Milwaukee, facing enormously costly water cleanup Whitley County grand jury to get report INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) A Whitley County grand jury will receive a state Board of Accounts report showing $5,451 in receipts of the Churubusco water and sewage utility did not appear to have been deposited to the account. The report was released Wednesday by the board. Examiners said the records upon which they based the report contained errors in the distribution of receipts between the water and sewage I.