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i I it, I Mc.tly Clouds Hi-ll Low Mn ntt Deidiii an Ptit II MliihT? Market; Dow fi.2 i' a 15c 6-Day Home Delivery 00c ON GUARD FOE 144 YEARS Vol. 145 No. 300 Saturday, February 28, 1976 UK. WATER QUALITY IMPROVING f) mm urn Man Is Blamed for cancer i ncrease Action Line solves problems, gets answers, cuts red tape, stands up for your rights. Write Action Line, Box 881, Dttroit, Mich.

48231. Or dial 222-6464 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. modifications five years ago, with the atmosphere in general containing 14 percent fewer solid particles and 25 percent less sulfur dioxide.

"Encouraging progress" has been made against water pollution, with only three percent of the 87 government monitoring stations reporting levels in tie poor or severe categories, compared with 16 percent in 1971. President Ford, in a special message to Congress accompanying the report, said: "We have improvjd air quality significantly in the United States during the five years. "We are beginning to bring our most chronic sources of water pollution under control, and we are improving the quality of some of our most heavily polluted waterways." WASHINGTON (UPI) The incidence of cancer in the United States has more than doubled in this century and 60 to 90 percent of the cases worldwide can be traced to environmental factors, many man-made, the administration told Congress Friday. But the sixth annual report by the president's Council on Environmental Quality also contained some good news: The quality of the nation's air and water is improving. The council said in its 763-page report that cigarette smoking remains the biggest single cancer cause, and such natural factors as sunlight and radiation also are involved.

But it said "much of the remaining is prohahly associated with carcinogenic agents produced by man" including chemicals encountered on the job. There also has been little improvement in the cancer survival rate since the 1930s, the report said. "It is estimated that 60 to 90 percent of all cancer is related to environmental factors," the report said. The council said it based this conclusion on studies showing wide variations of cancer incidence at different locations in the United States and elsewhere. "The only prudent policy toward cancer is to increase the emphasis on prevention," the council said, citing figures showing that the cancer rate is more than twice that at the turn of the century.

The council, headed by former industrial chemist and Delaware Gov. Russell W. Peterson, also said: Air pollution has improved "greatly" since Clean Air Act Commission aign Fund Camp teach a piano course at Marygrove College. I still don't have textbooks for the class, even though I ordered them through Wallace's Bookstore on the U-D campus back in November. The bookstore's been trying to get the order from the publisher, Harper Row Publishers ever since without success.

I've been teaching seven weeks now without a text can you help? L.P., Livonia. 1 Twenty-two copies of "The Laboratory Piano Course" are on way from Harper Row warehouse in Scranton, Pa. Company rep blamed shipping delay on lengthy inventory check plus fact that firm took over music text from another publisher late last year. Even at that, Harper Row records show shipment went out Feb. 4, meaning you should've received it by now.

After Action Line explained that your class was suffering because of delay, company agreed to rush new shipment by United Parcel Service. If delayed order eventually shows up, bookstore can return it. I'm a vegetarian and I'm worried about going off of my diet. mm km 1 I unreme xtende dbyfe WITHSELATAJ vl you'REfvrwj A FOOT IN. Congress Given 20 Days to Act From UPI ind AP WASHINGTON The Supreme Court Friday granted th Federal Election Commission another 20 days to approve federal tunds for presidential candidates while Congress decides whether to renew the commission along constitutional lines.

President Ford promptly urged the House and Senate to take quick action but pledged to veto any legislation going beyond a simple change in the way the commission members are appointed. Under the court's Jan. 20 decision on the campaign reform laws, the commission was ruled illegallly constituted, but was given a 30-day grace period that was to expire at midnight Sunday. 1 'St- i It Free Press HUoto cy JOHN COLLIER j.r -7 then, average American was eating 135 pounds of vegetables per year, by mid '30s figure was up to 169 pounds. Latest tally shows average U.S.

citizen eats 334 pounds of greens out of total food consumption of 3,000 pounds. Agriculture Department breaks that down into 101 pounds of fresh vegetables, 98 pounds canned, 21 pounds frozen and rest is spuds. Listen moms, we also consume 2.22 pound of spinach per person. We just moved into our new home in Madison Heights. We'd tike to plant some trees and shrubs on our lot but I just can't believe how much it'll cost us.

Isn't there some way to Improve your property without spending a fortune? D.K., Madison Heights. Oakland County Soil Conservation District has plan which ran help homeowners cut tree and shrub costs. Branch of State Department of Agriculture has 10 to 12 inch seedlings for sale in lots of 100 for and hardwoods and shrubs for sale in lots of 50 for S8-S10. Available species include red, white and Scotch pine, Norway and blue spruce, Douglas fir, black walnut and canoe birch. For order blanks, Oakland County residents can call 666-2232 in Pontiac.

Wayne County residents can call 722-6080 in Detroit and Macomb County residents should call 463-4834 in Mt. Clemens. Rural land owners with considerable acreage also have chance to cut tree costs through nursery stock distribution program run by Department of Natural Resources. Seedlings are sold in lots of 500 to those who want trees for erosion control, as wind breaks or wildlife cover. Applications are available at any DNR office.

3 -Day Postal Service Studied WASHINGTON (AP) -The Postal Service disclosed Friday that it is considering a cutback in mail delivery to three days a week. The disclosure brought howls of protest from congressmen and leaders of postal unions. Three-day-a-weck delivery is among the options onen to the deficit-plagued Postal Service in its campaign to cut costs Senior Assistant Postmaster General J. T. Ellington said in an interview.

Postal officials had said previously that they were considering clim'nating delivery on Saturday or one other day of the week. Islington said that is "our most immediate option." He added, "We are not excluding anything from consideraMon." Askei about three-day-awe delivery. Chairman Chailes N. WiFon of the House postal facilities subcommittee said, "It's ridiculous even to consider anything like that. It's stupid." Wilson, said, "This rs coins to stir uo the Ameri can people considerably." Another memner of the subcommittee.

Paul Simon. said, "This is another step in the wrong direction. The Postal Service is makinii the same mistake that the rail roads did. If they cut back service, tht.y are goinr to increase their deiicits." SEN. GALE McGee, chairman of the Senate Post Office Committee, said, "I don't expect three-clay service unless others outside the Postal Service fail to live up to their responsibilities.

I'm speaking about Congress and the president." McGee is sponsoring a bill to ease the Postal Service's financial crisis by doubling its congressional subsidy for three years. President Ford opposes the bill, and a similar proposal was voted down in the House last fall. McGee said the Postal Service does not believe three-day-a-week delivery "would be good postal policy. But they do have to stay solvent. They have to have some alternative Please turn to Page 2A, Col.

I Cambodia Claims U.S. Bomb Raid From AF and UPI BANKOK, Thailand Cambodia claimed Friday that American jets bombed a town near the vast temple ruins of Angkor Wat this week. Both U.S. and Thai outhorities declared the charge untrue. The communist government alleged in a Radio Phnom Penh broadcast that U.S.

jets had bombed Siem Reap in northwest Cambodia on Wednesday, killing 15 persons and wounding more than 30. The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok said the accusation was "ridiculous and completely without truth." IN WASHINGTON, Robert L. Funseth, a State Dapart-ment spokesman, said: "It is a ridiculous charge and we deny it categorically." A Pentagon spokesman Cour Pat Hearst Lie Test Withdrawn. By Defense SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Defense attorney F.

Lee Bailey, in a surprise move, Friday withdrew his attempt to put before the jury a lie detector test Patricia Hearst took shortly before her bank robbery trial. The lawyer told the court cryptically that he was doing so "reluctantly" because introduction of the polygraph test could be construed as a waiver of Miss Hearst's Fifth Amendment rights against self- incrimination. Bailey previously pressed for admission the results of the test, conducted in Jan-u a by experts i eked by him, to show she was T. Lee Bailey telling the truth about being forced to join the Hibernia bank robbery. The prosecution indicated Thursday it was finding severe flaws in the way the lie detector examinations wen administered.

The trial entered its second month Friday, and Bailey said he hoped to rest his case on Monday. It was expected to to the jury at the end of next week, atlhough the trial could be prolonged by lengthy final arguments and the judge's instructions to the jury. The third defense-called psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Jay Litfon of Yale University, was on the witness stand throughout the day to back up the contention that Miss Hearst through "coercive persuasion" was forced to act ns she did. Lifton said he would stake his 23 years experience that she could not have put on a performance for him and faked a traumatic neurosis" during the 15 hours he interviewed her In jail.

Lifton completed his testi-Please turn to Page 2A, Col. 1 1 Ann Landers Business News Classified Death Notices Editorials Entertainment Modern Living Obituaries Real Estate Religion Sports Stock Markets Television 1IA 8-I0A 5-8B 5B 6, TV MB SB 215 5B 1-SC fl-HIA 8C Action Diana Ross holds Florence Ballard Chapman's three-year-old daughter, Lisa, Friday during funeral service in the New Bethel Baptist Church. Riles for Ex-Supreme Lure Fans for a Glimpse of Stars I like gelatin but a friend of mine says that it's made from horses' hooves. Is he putting me Detroit. Friend's told you truth.

Gelatin not only comes from horse hooves but it also extracted from boiled down bones and tissues of other animals. You don't have to give up gelatin altogether because Health Supreme Foods store in Warren carries brand made with vegetable substitutes to help get around dietary restrictions. Meatless variety comes in many different flavors too. United States Department of Agriculture has been surveying American food consumption since 1920 and facts show vegetable intake has steadily increased. Back Line THE QUESTION President Ford outpoll-ed Ronald Reagan by a slight two percent in the New Hampshire primary but both men called themselves victors.

Who do you think the real winner was, FORD or REAGAN? To vote NO Call 961-4422 i ft -) 7 1 -f A And, they seeing (he like Sievie Wonder where their ao, to Chapman. Mrs. Chapman in Mt. death was a year her three stories from were Her funeral Please I'm a music instructor at Jackson Jr. High School in Detroit.

Several years ago I was given authorization to renovate the band room. The order Included band risers but the I received choral risers by mistake. I tried to straighten out the error but the company maintained they delivered what was ordered and that was that. The choral risers are still in their boxes, which really seems like a waste. I know this has been going on for a long time, but is there anything you might be able to do? J.B., Detroit.

Choral risers are going out, new band risers are coming in. Region 7 supervisor in charge of school has only been on job for five months, wasn't familiar with drawn-out equipment mixup when Action Line called. Supervisor figured simplest solution would be to transfer choral risers to region building where there was need, put, in new band riser order for you. Delivery date will depend on funds available at time of new equipment order. As of Thursday, the FEC had certified a total of in matching funds for 14 candidates.

Had the commission lost, that power Sunday, it could have caused some temporary financial hardship for the candidates. ASKED to grant the panel an additional 30 days, the court with Justice Harry A. Blackmun dissenting compromised on 20 more days, through March 22. In that interim, the commission will continue to authorize federal matching funds to the presidential candidates. The court acted on a petition by the citizens' lobby Common Cause, the League of Women Voters and other groups, which noted Congress was working to remedy the court's objections to the makeup of the commission.

As set up in the campaign law, four of the panel's six voting members are congressional appointees. The court decreed this unconstitutional because the four are not "officers of the United States" appointed by the president. The Senate is expected to take up next week a bill approved by its Rules Committee that would reconstitute the FEC as outlined by the court but with added restrictions on its investigatory powers. The House Administration Committee is working on the same bill, which was drafted by its chairman, Rep. Wayne Hays, D-Ohio.

The committee resumes work Monday with a goal of finishing by the end of the week meaning the House might not get it until the week of March 8 at the earliest. John Gardner, head of Common Cause, expressed pleasure at the delay, despite its being shorter than requested. 1 I AP Photo poured nut in the hopes of famous people, the celebrities singer-actress Diana Ross and singer who returned to Motown, dream began more than a decade help bury Florence Ballard died Sunday of a heart attack Carmel Mercy Hospital. Her headline news, as were the stories ago about her life on welfare young daughters, and the a decade ago when the Su-premcs a singing phenomenon. took on the air of theater.

turn to Page 5A, Col. I More Pictures on Back Pae BY SUSAN WATSON AM) PETER BEN.1AMINSON Fret Press Stall Writers People started lining up almost before daybreak Friday to attend the funeral ser-v ices of Florence Ballard Chapman, the former member of the who went from international ctardom in the 19W)s to welfare and poverty in the 1970s. They poured onto Linwocd Street, around the New Bethel Baptist Church, some wearing mink coats and evening dresses and others in simple house dresses, to glimpse the rem-iins of the 32-year-old former star who, like many of them, grew up with little more than a polden dream of fame. 6) Ex-GOP Chairmen Back Ford HOW YOU VOTED REAGAN, 60.1 percent. COMMENTS: "Reagan was the underdog, and gave Ford quite a scare.

I think he has to be considered the victor" "Anytime a candidate can stick that close to the incumbent, he's a winner all the way" "Reagan was the real winner, and no one knows it better than President Ford" "There's no Ford in this country's future" "Reagan will be the people's choice in the rest of the primaries, too." FORD, 39.9 percent. COMMENTS: "Numbers don't lie. Ford won by two percent" "It was a close race, but the better man came through in the end" "Why doesn't Reagan go back to Death Valley Days" "There weren't enough votes cast to declare either man a victor. Only time will tell" "This was the President's first national test, and I think he did extremely well." i 4 fc WASHINGTON -(P--President Ford was endorsed by 11 former Republican national chairmen Friday as he prepared for a weekend of campaigning against Ronald Reagan in Florida. The president will fly to Miami early Saturday and spend most of the day seeking votes in populous southeast Florida for the March 9 primary.

HE WILL start the day at a naturalization ceremony for 1,200 persons in Miami and take part in a 40-mile, 4'j-hour motorcade from Palm-Beach Lauderdale before flying to Sarasota overnight. On Sunday, ord will campaign in Sarasota and Tampa. The president heads for Florida buoyed by a narrow victory over Reagan in New Hampshire and by the en- I'lcase turn to Page 2A. Col. t- TOMORROW'S QUESTION The Ford Administration has proposed new regulations for the food stamp program which will save $1.2 billion annually and cut five million people from the rolls.

Do you favor the plan? said: "The report is totally false. It's a damned lie." Thai Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj told newsmen within hours of the broadcast that the bombing report was "not true" and no American war-planes had landed lit Thailand the day of the alleged attack. The radio alleged that after Please turn to Page 5A, Col. I To vote YES Call 961-3211 William Miller, former Republican national chairman, enjoys a joke with President ford after White House meeting Friday..