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Show Sunday, January 17, 1971 Fishing Industry Being Hurt by Reports From FDA By DFANC. MILLER UPI Business Baivorn "aitorn NEW YORK (UPI)—Mrs. ch said| the decline was “as much 12 per cent. “I've had customers come as 6 per ceni,” “Swordfish sales are oops and grab swordfish steaks for “over tolerance” ana of ; fear "re going off the Resta tuna and swordfish right to zero,” said associations and wholesale dis- won't be measurable until the Larkin, manager st Gameean market,” said Mrs, W.K. that it is contamina by because of Food and Drug Clair, Michigan, were a contain excessive amounts of the pollutant. The FDA calls 0.5 per cent of a million the tolerance level: Later in the year, an inquisitive New York professor who tested a can of tune brought home by his wife discovered an excessive amount in “. An embar- tributors are reluctant to talk is season, starting next Farms, toeeit 's hens Ss Humphreys, woo with her husband operaics two fish about it, ~ a United Press month. sales normally are oe . “And tuna ” i is ie+markets in Houston. “But I ayere survey indicated worn anaan . that Pesce eg Tap and would say that mercury tion is mentioned three to four lobster—are selling well. since the mid-1960s, when tuna Canned tuna sales in the San times a day by customers.” Diego area, home base for tuna ce Warnings Began . fleets, are down as much as 50 mercury scare surfaced showing tolerance per cent. Fresh swordfish is off almost a year ago when fish in P om the fishing industry is hurting Other Seafoods Unaffected more today than at any time | Tuna sales at Grand Union pregnancy. Like many Ameri ba” f MAMIE EISENHOWER participates at dedication ceremonyfor the GOP’s new national headquarters building in Washington, D.C., this weekend. The building is named for her late husband, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. In the ae are replicas of the proposed new Eisenhower dollar coi Administration (FDA) reports sourceschecked said the full Ife iti ‘i 16—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah AY Fay@ a \ Cle ee ay raENUFLTH MasheSOT Tough Decision But thus far, more than $800 WASHINGTON (UPI) —If you were a member of million in federal funds has how would you feel been pledged --and the governabout a sleek new superjet to ment’s own estimates now are let global commuters cut their that it will cost about $1.5 billion just to get a prototype in travel time in half? Would you spend a lot of the air. Other experts have testified it government money tbuild it and keep America in competi- will cost between $3 billion and tion with base‘nations building $5 billion to get the big bird — dubbed a “flying dodo bird” by a similar plan Or would you scrap the idea its detractors —readyto fly. The Boeing Co., the prime as silly in the face of unmet domestic needs such as pover- SST contractor, has chipped in about $50 million so far and is ty, hunger and disease? Would he give the go-ahead in line for a cancellation to build the plane so as not to premium equalling every penny lose nearly $1 billion already it contributed if the government invested in it and risk a asks out. multibillion-dollar loss in jobs Though environmentalists and balance of payments? have long protested that the Cr would you reject the superjet would needlessly polsuperjet as a dirty, noisy lute the world with ear-splitting monster likely to benefit the noise and suffocating fumes, it JetSet few at the expense of was not until last year that the health and hearing of earth- their muscle started to be felt. bound millions? ‘The questions may give you In the House, anti-SST forces an idea of why the Congress is fell only 14 votes shy of having trouble making up its rejecting President sae collective mine on the fate. of request for $290 the supersonic transport (SST), continue SST Greugnme me a proposed 1,800-mile-an-hour Senate later voted to scrap the jetliner. tliner. project on a 52-41 vote. It was Some time before March 30, the first time a majority had the 92nd Congress will make been mustered in either house another decision on the SST. against the plane. For the past six years, the But a House-Senate conferdecision has been go, and work ence committee “ is due to start on two prototype ised” on a $210 million figure models this year. for the current fiscal year Butthere is evidence that the ending June 30. This triggered next vote might doom the SST a two-week Senatefilibuster to death on the drawing boards as a billion-dollar mistake, that “wasn’t cracked until despite frantic efforts by the opponents won a promise of Nixon administrationto salvage funding only through March and another up-or-down vote "The 300--passenger plane is then on spending for the envisioned as America’s answer balance of the year. to the British-French Concorde and the Russian TUI44, now being tes An SST could zip travelers from New York to London in three hoursinstead of the usual six at 2.7 times the speed of sound. It could also cruise at subsonic speeds. When President John F. Kennedy launched the project in 1963, he indicated the governinent’s share of develop- NEED AUTO INSURANCE? Getthe best, with Fast, Fair, Friendly service from FARMERS _— INSURANCE Ce, GR fsieee LNEO IIELOLIEL LOW 1971 JANUARY CLEARANCEPRICES!!! USE YOUR CREDIT DON’T MISS THESE FABULOUS CLEARANCE BARGAINS!!! NOTICE! 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