Sf'KK Of sl New coach fL Getting if Y) It's looking Thursday's forecast for Knights 3 into a stew 9oodbut Cloudy I IBf DeNoble coming to UL Though food tradition I'X Office building plan lJlfLitah, fflff St. Norbert basketball Tl I doubted, St. Pat's Day gets support, but Mostly cloudy Thursday. 1 1 I via Stevens PointC-1 has backersScene Jeff straubei vote is delayed B-4 Weather on A-11 Wednesday March 15, 1989 A Gannett newspaper 42 pagesFour sections 350 Gun ban Banner year at Pulaski Cfli 1 schools won porary FDA ban of Chilean fruit spurs calls to area grocers i i- By Gary Dodge Press-Gazette The Ashwaubenon, Denmark and Southern Door school districts said this morning that they have stopped serving apples because of a growing concern that children may ingest a suspected carcinogen used by American growers. But many other area school districts and colleges contacted by Green Bay Press-Gazette reporters this morning still are offering apples as part of daily menus.
Grocors sgg long-term effects from fruit scare Associated Press U.S. grocers predicted long-term effects from government warnings not to eat grapes and other fruit from Chile as they moved millions of dollars in pro Halting AK-47 imports viewed as 'necessary' Associated Press and Press-Gazette Administration officials are describing their ban on imports of AK-47s and other semiautomatic firearms as "temporary and reversible," but say it was necessary to head off an imminent flood of the assault weapons into the United States. The action Tuesday appeared to be a softening of President Bush's oft-stated opposition to gun controls, but White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitz-water said it merely enforces current law that allows imports of guns only if for sporting purposes. Bush, a member of the National Rifle Association, "shares the public concern" over the proliferation of semiautomatic weapons, but he is not changing his position against a' ban on such guns, Fitzwater said. Bush had asked national drug control director William Bennett last week to recommend what should be done about the weapons.
Calls for a ban have been prompted by scores of drug-related shootings and the recent killing of five California schoolchildren. The action will affect more than 110,000 weapons with pending applications for import, Bennett said. It does not affect semiautomatic weapons already in this country or those produced domestically such as the AR15, the civilian version of the military's M-16. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms approved the import of 88,000 such weapons during 1986, 1987 and 1988. This year alone, the government has received requests to import many more than that, with 113,732 applications pending, according to Bennett.
Michael Seims, a National Rifle Association member and sporting goods department manager at Martin's Hardware in Green Bay, said he was surprised and disappointed at the ban. "This is way, way out of whack, what they've done." He predicted the ban of exotic imported guns would create a greater demand for them among criminals. "When you can't get something, there's always a big demand for it," Seims said this morning. "Who will capitalize on the unavailability of the AK-47s? The bad guy, the same guy who is black marketing drugs. It's an instant black-market item." Seims characterized the ban as "stairstep legislation," an indication that other bans could follow that would affect sportsmen even more negatively.
duce from the South American country off store shelves and into warehouses. The Food and Drug Administration, in one of the largest actions of its kind, warned consumers Monday not to eat fruit imported from Chile after cyanide was found in two seedless red grapes shipped to Philadelphia. Meanwhile, schools across the country are banning apples from lunchrooms even as one health expert mocks educators' fears of the farm chemical Alar as a "toxic bogeyman." On Tuesday, school systems in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and in Virginia joined districts in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Cincinnati, Atlanta and elsewhere in suspending sales of apples, applesauceand apple juice. The bans follow a report that children faced increased cancer risks from the chemical that's used to make some apples crisper and brighter.
Seeking to slow the spread of apple bans and soothe consumer alarm, California's top health officer said educators were acting hastily. Kenneth Kizer, director of the state Department of Health Services, pulled out a shiny red Please see Fruit A-2 Press-Gazette photo by Joan E. Guthendge Ready for state: Kathy Kestly, 18, front left, and Dennis Lahay, 18, front right, paint banners, while Louise Banaszynski, 17, and David Mroczynski, 1 8, back, put some up at Pulaski High School Tuesday. All four are seniors. They are getting ready for Pulaski's trip to the WIAA State Boys Basketball tournament starting Thursday in Madison.
Pulaski plays Racine Horlick in first-round action. Related stories on B-1 and C-1. stronauts conserve electricity Meanwhile, some area grocery stores are getting calls from customers concerned about grapes and other produce from Chile, after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration report of a cyanide poisoning attempt in Philadelphia. Stores have pulled supplies of red, green and black grapes, nectarines, plums, peaches and other Chilean fruit from their shelves.
Most stores are offering refunds to their customers. Cyanide scare paralyzes Chile's fruit industryA-2 Store owners said they are waiting for word from the FDA to determine how to dispose of the produce. Several of the nation's largest school districts, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago have banned apples from their menus because of a concern about growers' use of damino-zide, a substance used to improve coloring and increase storage life and firmness. Organically grown apples are served at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, said Food Services Director Scott Hoffland. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College is washing apples and discarded recently purchased grapes because of the recent cyanide scare, said Food Services Manager June Domke.
Kathi Kaminski, food inventory coordinator at St. Norbert College in De Pere, said Washington apples still are served at the college. She said she's checking with produce suppliers to find out whether any items originated in Chile. "We have taken apples off the menu. After hearing about it, we substituted cherry cobbler," Denmark School District head cook Sandra Krings said this morning.
"If we're given the OK, then we'll put them back on." The Ashwaubenon School District will hold off serving apples until there's a change in reports on suspected carcinogens in chemicals used to grow apples, Business Manager Jon Challeen said. In place of apples, the schools are serving canned fruit, oranges and bananas, district officials said. The Green Bay School District still is selling apples to students and is asking its buyer to get apples from Washington state to ensure quality, said acting Food Services Director Aria Block. "We still have them on the menu until we get further confirmation. We don't want to blow it out of proportion.
I will monitor the situ- Engineers optimistic that sticky valve won't force early return poor for the prime landing site at mission, said Dittemore, because a similar erratic pattern was seen on the valve when Discovery flew in September. There were no power problems on that mission. Dittemore said Mission Control experts believe the valve can be made to function properly by using only one heater, in the tank instead of the usual two. This would slow the flow of cold hydrogen into the generating system,) reducing the buildup of pressure against the valve. In any case, Dittemore said a Friday landing was unlikely because the weather forecast was properly.
The problem does not threaten the astronauts' safety but could force the five-man crew to return a day early by limiting the supply of electricity. "We're optimistic that we'll come home on Saturday as planned," flight director Ron Dit-temore said today. He said the decision will be made after engineers turn on a heater in the tank this morning and monitor the flow of hydrogen through the valve. Some engineers believe there is no reason to shorten the five-day By Paul Recer Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Discovery's lights were dimmed and some computer screens were darkened today, but engineers were optimistic they could correct a sticky valve that threatened to cut short the shuttle mission.
The valve, which controls the flow from a hydrogen tank to the spacecraft's electrical generating system, started jamming shortly after launch on Monday, and Mission Control engineers planned a way to coax it into working Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The forecast was better for Saturday, he said. Should engineers decide after the test that the hydrogen tank cannot be used, "we could power down even more" and land on Saturday. Despite a dim cabin and a careful use of electrical power, the astronauts kept to their schedule of conducting experiments and photographing environmentally damaged places on Earth during their second morning in space. ation and take appropriate action, if necessary," said Block, a registered dietitian.
Apples are thoroughly washed before they are served to children in the De Pere School District, said Janice De Meuse, administrative assistant and supervisor of food services. Joan Dietrich, Reedsville School District food service manager, said she plans to use canned apple products purchased at the beginning of the year but won't buy any new apple products. Other officials, however, say they aren't too worried about the chemical scare and want more proof. "They've got to prove it a little more to me. This is just a scare.
The stuff is probably in there but it's so minor," said Irene Funk, Oconto School District food service Please see Schools A-2 Storm has most everything Rain, lightning v. -1 a 'V t.lC a. A Inside today --ftf bring problems By Tony Walter Press-Gazette Rain, snow, lightning, fire, floods, ice, fog and aggravation were all products of the late-winter storm that moved through Northeastern Wisconsin Tuesday. "We got more rain than anything else," said Dan Clark of the U.S. Weather Service at Austin Straubei Field.
"The thunderstorms show that we're in a transition period right now." The storm that was supposed to leave up to 5 inches of snow on the area left most of the snow somewhere else. Please see Storm A-2 Bridge column B- 6 MetroState B- 1 Business B- 4 Opinion page A-10 Classified ads C- 6 Records B- 2 Comics B- 6 Showtimes B- 7 Crossword puzzle C- 8 Sports C- 1 Deaths, funerals C- 6 Stock listings B- 5 Entertainment B- 7 Television B- 8 Food Scene- 1 Weather A-11 Horoscope C- 9 Weddings Scene-6 Landers column Scene-8 Wheel of Fortune C-11 Larson column A-10 World A- 8 Press-Gazette photo by Mary Pember snow combined to cause flooding on several roads and highways in the area and elsewhere in the state. Northern Wisconsin was hit with snow. Digging in: Bob Lewins of the Ashwau-benon Street Department works Tuesday afternoon to clear snow from an overflowing culvert on Hansen Road. Rain and melting Coming Thursday: Outdoors, recreation covcrago plus entertainment schedule.
