Neenah-Menasha Northwestern (Newspaper) - July 29, 1976, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Oshkosh Daily Northwestern Associated Press United Press International year Oshkosh Wis Thursday July 29 1976 30 Pages 154 Scientists say improper diet increases cancer risk WASHINGTON AP Americans who fail to eat a balanced diet or eat too much are promoting their chances for cancer five told Congress However the scientists were cautious when asked for details on what specific foods and brands would be either good or bad for an vidual Improper diets are related to 60 per cent of all types of cancer in women and 41 per cent of those in men Dr Gio B Gori deputy director of the National Cancer division of cancer cause and prevention Senate Select Nutrition Committee on Wednesday v The scientists were careful to emphasize that an imbalanced diet has not been found to be a cause of cancer but rather is associated with the development An excess of fats for example has been linked in research to breast and colon cancer they said The panelists would not con- demn any specific types or brands of food de- spite urging by some senators Gori said that he thought any modification of our diet in the right direction should effect a decline in the incidences of these cancers in five to ten years By way of comparison if everyone stopped smoking he said it would be- 10 years before lung cancer cases would no- decline nationwide Smoking is the single clearest cause of cancer he said and the most preventable We don't need to smoke we do need to eat Others on the panel were Drs Gerald gan professor of food toxicology at the Institute of Technology Dave ezski of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute Er- nest L Wynder president of the American Health Foundation and editor of the tive Medicine Journal and Hegsted professor at Harvard University School of Public Health recommended a well-rounded diet eaten in moderation Sen Henry Bellmon asked what specific diet Gori would recommend for a year-old male blue-collar worker who wanted tjo cut his chances of getting cancer The scientist said such a man probably is overweight and would need to cut calories by reducing his intake of food with fat such as meat milk sugars and starches To make sure the worker feels Gori said he should consume more fruits and vegetables to get bulk in his diet even if that means eating more fruit a few hours later to quiet his stomach The man also should not smoke and should drink alcoholic beverages only moderately Wynder recommended not only reducing tal calories in the diet but specifically cutting those coming from fat to 35 per cent of total calories and cutting cholesterol to less than 300 milligrams a day p its soaring Man wants jobless in auto industry The auto industry's sent tors profits in the quarter soaring to a record million the highest ever by an industrial corporation for a three-month period earnings re- ported Wednesday by the world's largest auto maker amount to a startling milion a day after taxes Prof its jumped 173 per cent from million in the spring of 1975 when he in- dustry was struggling but of its worst slump in four dec- ades i GM joins Chrysler Corp in reporting record profits for the period Ford Motor Co also is expected to set a new mark when it releases its results GM's earnings top the firm's previous quarterly re- cord of million set in the first quarter of 1973 It also shatters the previous erly profit mark for an in- firm of million set in the last three months of 1974 by oil giant Exxon Corp Financial analysts said the most money ever made by a company for a single quarter was million by can Telephone Telegraph Co in the second quarter of this year is classified as a utility Analysts attributed GM's record profits to higher unit sales an in- crease in the company's market share a strong comeback in sales of profit large cars an easing of cost combined with effective controls and a recovery in overseas markets that is that in the United States Despite it's record GM's profits fell short of the million to forecast by Wall GM dollar sales in the quarter were a billion up 35 per cent from billion a year ago But unit vehicle sales of 2.37 lion were below the record 2.39 million recorded in 1973 For the first half of the year GM earned on sales of billion both records The firm had profits of million on billion in the first six months of 1975 Chrysler which lost million in 1975 reported profits of million highest in the firm's history Analysts say Ford made about million in the quarter The resurgence in an dustry known for its volatile ups and downs completes a cycle begun in late 1973 when the Mideast oil go interrupted a banner year plummeting sales and profits showing re- mixed Wednesday Wall Street in Congress to promote WASHINGTON UPI There's a Con- gress to promote George Washington to general of the Armies something dent John Adams do in Washington's lifetime so he won't be outranked by so many officers But sponsors admitted their action won't add much luster to the reputation of the man known as the father of his country A House Armed Services subcommittee voted Wednesday to mote Washington who held the rank of lieutenant al at the time of his death The action was taken with Pentagon approval after Rep on Mario Biaggi author the said scores of military men outrank George Washington a fact of history which at long last must be corrected If passed by Congress almost a certainty in a Bi- centennial and election year Washington would snare the title with World War I hero Gen John Pershing who was so promoted by Con- gress in 1919 Pentagon officials said the title is higher than the star General of ranks given eight other Americans Civil War Gens Ulysses S Grant liam Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan and World War II Gens George shall Dwight D Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur H H Hap Arnold and Omar Bradley Bradley is the only living five-star general Direct payments under Social Security attacked WASHNGTON AP The House ing Committee has received a flood of senior citizens unhappy with a new program of depositing Social Security payments directly into bank counts Chairman Henry S Reuss says Reuss Wednesday urged ury Secretary William Simon to straighten out the problems Under the optional plan Social Security recipients can have their checks deposited directly in their bank accounts rather than mailed to their home The idea was conceived as a way of speeding up payment preventing loss or then from mailboxes cutting paperwork and waiting lines at banks and reducing government handling costs But the Treasury Department has failed to issue regulations spelling out the banks obligations to Social Security and abuses have been said Reuss He said the committee in the last few weeks has received about 800 letters from elderly persons pointing out flaws in the program Most complaints involve failure of the bank to notify citizens that their checks have been deposited so that money can be withdrawn from the related Reuss Others complained that it took repeated calls to the banks to find out whether their checks bad been Some said sonal checks bounced even after the banks had received the deposit to cover them praised the firm for im- proving its profit margin Company officials warned that earnings must improve further to finance future in- vestments The United Auto Workers demanded a fair share of GM's wealth in its new contract Mars probe takes first soil sample PASADENA Calif The first sampling of an soil is in Viking lander nourished by light water vapor and chicken soup as scientists search for life on the Red Planet When the robot lander's arm dug the sample and de- posited it in three chambers Wednesday it represented the first time that earthlings substances on another planet for The experiments will take and answers expected soon But scientists displayed immediate joy that the project was Until a pin that had jammed the robot arm was dislodged last weekend there had been doubt that king could pick up the dirt I'm delighted ecstatic I can't tell you how thrilled I said Soften a scientist One piece of bad news in- An instrument to search for molecular ing blocks of life signaled it did not get a sample of soil Engineers said have been a false signal or Viking's extended digging arm may have come up ty when it tried to collect the soil sample for ment Called a gas graph mass spectrometer it is designed to search for organic com- pounds It could check the results of biology ments and it might be able to Find signs of life that once existed on Mars even if such life failed to survive I'm not at to hear that word about the said Dr Fred Brown a Officials said they would order Viking to photograph the funnel day to see if dirt was placed in it was some new mation about the nature of the soil itself The cal hand left a six-inch trench about two inches deep in the ground The dark steep-sided trench did not collapse as it might have if the surface was extremely dusty Instead a project man said it looked like wet sand indicating the soil was sticky although not moist MILWAUKEE AP Wayne Bevirt was laid tff from his jtb as a wallpaper salesman in Illinois and ra Feb 1C He is still waiting far his first tion check Right I'm broke but my brother has offered me money to hire Bevirt 52 said The Chicago people atone point told me to go on welfare and not be embarrassed abont it Bnt I've worked for almost years and don't want to go on fare Bevirt has a file of with ment officials in three states and with pers state legislators and congressmen who tried to help him His troubles began when he was laid off by the Loyd Co of ton Heights III They may end this week as he has ben told he will finally col- lect some jobless pay by the end of this week Bnt Bevirt has been told that before in his battle and all of this may just be conversation His former employer's home office in Atlanta ad- vised him to file the Jobless claim in Wisconsin where Bevirt lives and the consin agency sent the claim to Illinois as is tomary with fit claims After a wait of several weeks Bevirt was told that he was not eligible for ment It turned ont that his Atlanta home office had been making its jobless tax payments to the wrong state The Milwaukee Job ice office twice told him he conld not receive jobless pay because he had worked on commission Illinois of- told him to ignore that information and said they would get a check in the mail this week Residents gather iri the streets of Peking in the ermath of a series of powerful tremors which Gathering in the streets shook China Wednesday China today said loss of life and damage was heavy Telephoto Heavy toll in quake HONG KONG UPI Chinese today reported great losses to people's life and property in what may have been one of the nation's worst earthquakes this century Heavy casualties were feared in the city of Tangshan described as almost tened The quake the world's strongest in a dozen years rumbled through east China before dawn Wednesday It was centered about 100 miles southeast of Peking and 63 miles northeast or Tientsin the nation's second and third largest cities That put the center almost precisely in Tangshan an industrial city with a population of about 1 million A second powerful quake struck the same area about 15 hours later The Chinese Communist party's tral Committee said in a statement broadcast this morning the quake caused great losses to people's life and property Chinese officials seldom report dents or disasters and never give de- tails Such an admission by the nation's highest authority indicates the disaster may be the worst since the ists took control in 1949 according to veteran Chinese analysts in Peking and Hong Kong It could rank among the worst of this century in one Peking lomat There were no reports of American casualties in Peking or Tientsin where a U.S labor delegation had been at- tending a trade fair The first confirmed casualties all Japanese were in Tangshan and the Central Committee statement said Tangshan City in particular suffered extremely serious damages and es Cloudy tonight and cooler tonight with overnight lows in the 50s Details on Page 2 Inside 2 6 10 17 20 22 22 23 Aree 24 26 26 Want 27 Candidate says I hate ta see them Carter neighbors evicted as hometown land values soar Ga AP The old man clenched and unclenched his gnarled hands as be toM bow he his wife and seven children were evicted from the house occupied across the street from Jimmy Carter's home The house where the Pittman family lived was a shack really but it had a garden where they grew six kinds of vegetables and there was room for their pig Now they're living in a crowded bare apartment in a housing project in nearby Americas and they're ened about future I hale it so bad 1 don't know what to said man as he sal on a kitchen chair in his living room My hopes look pretty rough The retired black worker said his lord Martin Poole of nearby De Solo ordered family lo move Pillman said Poole told him the Democratic party had offered him a certain amount of money He told me he house lorn According to Mrs man Poole said that if Mr Carter becomes president they beautify the erty for him like park The family left July 54 day Carter was ed for president and the house half-hidden in a stand oT oak trees across from the home was lorn down Wednesday Carter says lhal neither he nor any member of his ly requested eviction of I hate lo see he said After he discovered ly after his nomination lhal ramshackle wooden house was being demolished Carter went lo see Pittman He told me he didn't want to see any of his colored friends said frail man I said hated logo 1 know Mr Carter didn't have anything to do with it been a friend of Mr Carter's 1 like him He's a man with high Pillman said he had talked to Carter several limes during Jhe years page 2 7 Gas price hike blocked WASHINGTON AP The U.S Court of Appeals is blocking a a year increase in natural gas price ceilings while opponents seek to cancel the new ceilings The court issued an order Wednesday to temporarily slop the higher rate ceilings approved on Tuesday by the Federal Power Commission said the new rale ceilings are so close to rates charged for unregulated in- gas that they amount to an FPC attempt lo don its responsibility lo regulate interstate prices A coalition of 16 petitioners challenged the FPC rale Wednesday asking the appellate court lo vent collection of higher rates until the court hears Ine case The order granting a delay did not say if the would accept the case for review Issued by Judges Charles Fahy and son m the order imposed an immediate stay of the in- crease until farther order Opponents of the higher rale ceiling said they also were asking the FPC to reconsider its deci- sion approving the boost As approved by Ibe FPC the new rale ceiling would aflow interstate natural gas pipelines to double and triple the previous price ceiling on new natural gas supplies soM by producers lo the pipelines Hie FPC said this would mean the average customer would pay abont more per year for ral gas an increase of about 6 per cent
