Show Manhattan Labor leaders fighting OK Low birth weaker pension laws but not Village WEST SPRINGFIELD Mass (UPI) — A walking tour of Greenwich Village has been cut from a high school class trip after a school committeman called the famous New York City neighborhood depraved A high school sociology teacher had proposed the field trip so his 44 high school seniors and juniors could “fulfill their desire to observe many of the aspects of society studied in class” The committee voted to allow the students to take the May 24 field trip but only visit Rockefeller Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art The committee canceled the Greenwich Village part of the trip after Committeeman John Colby said “I don’t think it is necessarily a good example of an environment to show young people with impressionable minds” He said the village has “raw lifestyles” “depravation” and could be dangerous “I feel very strongly about this” he said “I don’t think that type of society should be exposed as a role model for our children” The idea to visit the village came from the students said teacher Leonard Lock-woo- d who wrote the formal request Hepatitis vaccine posing problems The new Standard-Examin- WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department said Wednesday it will fight any attempt to weaken the nation’s pension laws even for so worthy a purpose as making more money available for home mortgages “Our nation’s retirement system is too important and has too many financial problems of its own to expect it to subsidize special investments which cannot stand on their own merits” Jeffrey N Clayton head of the Labor Department agency that oversees pension plans said in testimony to a Senate Finance subcommittee As the housing industry suffers through the worst years since World War II there are growing calls for the government to relax some requirements controlling pension plans to allow them greater freedom to invest in mortgages estimates the naThe AFL-CItion’s pension funds have assets totaling $834 billion By one estimate only 06 percent of that money is invested in home mortgages The Labor Department last week O made some technical changes in regulations dealing with pension-fun- d investments and specifically authorized investment in certain mortgages However the agency stood fast in support of requiring pension trustees to act with “pru- dence and diligence” and solely for the benefit of participants and lx neficiaries of the pension plan Those standards require pension May 20 1982 Thursday er 1 3A cause high death rate weights newborn death rate tively poor in BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts would be lower than in Sweden if the births of very small babies could be avoided a study shows US health care for infants is sometimes compared unfavorably with Sweden s because newborn death rate in the United States is In 1978 there were 53 deaths per 1000 births in Sweden 79 in Massachusetts and 94 throughout the United States However the researchers calculated that if Massachusettse same proportion of underweight new-thba(j borns as Sweden the state’s newborn death rate would be 51 per 1000 births higher A study by the Massachusetts Department of The study directed by Dr Bernard Guyer Public Health shows that the higher death rate was published in Thursday’s issue of the New here is caused by the larger proportion of tiny newborns whose chances of survival are rela- England Journal of Medicine DTPS COEU10MSE administrators to determine whether each proposed investment meets the needs of participants and provides the greatest return with the lowest risk Because of the relatively high cost of handling mortgages they seldom are found in pension-pla- n portfolios even at today’s high interest rates Douglas E Johnson of Montvale NJ speaking for the Mortgag® Bankers Association of America said of the Labor Department changes: “Unless some unrecognized factor emerges the rulings apppear to be a giant step on the way toward freeing up pension funds for investment in mortgages on newly constructed and also on already existing houses” A SALE SO BIG WE'LL CLOSE AT 5 PM ON FRIDAY TO PREPARE tm vacATLANTA (UPI) — hepatitis-cine represents a significant scientific breakthrough but also creates questions of who should be immunized and who will pay for the innoculations a federal health adviser said B K4 fetV Wednesday Dr James Chin incoming chairman of the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization I UxSP aedo0 ao0s Practices and state epidemiologist from said the question of cost of this California vaccine “will be an all important one because the cost of the three doses which are needed for a primary series will be about $100 “Thus it will be unlikely that any public health program will be able to purchase any large number of doses of this vaccine” Chin said the one exception to public money being unavailable for the vaccine was Alaska That state he said “apparently has so much oil money that immunization of their high-ris- k population 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