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PARKERSBURG, W. VA. NEWS D. lit,000 S. 34,000 AUG l 4 1975 Hy Marie W ood Scribbled On A Reporter's Pad AND THAT IS THAT / My new picture broughta phoned query from e friend to the effect, where had I dredged it up, and it looked like I must have bean about 30 yean old when it was taken. "Sorry, chum," I retorted, "it's a color snapshot my sister took earlier this summer." My favorite of all my pictures remains the one that has been pulled because it got too dark, and the original is missing. Both were Candida, snapped by my sitter, neither retouched. (You don't retouch snaps.) As foe. the favorite, it showed maturity with all lines apparent and my hair was worn pulled back, which I can't do again until the side curls grow out. As lor the tines, the new picture just isn't quite as sharp. But at least you'can see I am Happy in my work. THIS TIME ITS ENDAN CERED STRIPED BASS AND SALMON If you nave been buying commercially distributed striped bass and salmon, better get busy checking. It seems that the Hudson River and Lake Ontario bass and salmon have been found to contain frightening amounts of a toxic chemical, referred to as PCB which means polycho-chlorlnaieU biphenyl, ueed since 1930 in the manufacture of plastics, paints, electrical transformers, printing ink, caulking compound and hydraulic fluids, and banned In noth Britain and Canada. More than five parts per million makes food unsafe. As much as 390 parts per million have been found in some of the fish being warned about. Some of the toxic fish have been < found near Ganaral Electric plants, according to a report in the Monsanto Chemical, the only domestic manufacturer of the chemical has been asked to supply a customer list of PCB purchasers. Check of drinking water supplies in Ute ares also is un derway, and Poughkeepsie, N. V., pumps its drinking water directly from the Hudson River and, according to PCB authorities, no known water - purification process can remove PCB," Last year 1.3 million pounds of striped bass were taken from the Hudson River by sportsmen and commercial fishermen. It "also is feared that northern pike, large and smallw mouth bass, yellow and white perch, and white catfish taken from the water there have unhealthy PCB concentrations. `' In Japan in ]96B 1,000 persons developed a skin disease after eating rice oil contaminated by PCB, and 16 deaths were at tributed to It. PCB hae been found In turtle eggs, milk of pregnant women and chickens fed on fish meal. It withstands temperatures up to l,100 degrees Fahrenheit and has been found m cardboard owes with contamination traced to printer's ink. Fish-eating mink with only vary minimum amounts ingested, have failed to, reproduce and have had a 71 per cent mortality rate. t There's more, but that should be enough. Except that it is> described as an "ubiquitous" substance (everywhere) and "per sists, once U gets into (he food chain." Just whare the fish taken out of the Hudson River and Lake Ontario have been shipped appears anybody's guess. You cm check with your grocer. He's likely as much concerned as you MORE TIME TO BE BORED WITH SELF AND ENVIRONMENT I'd like to add I spent some time recently checking with a very well Informed area executive asking all kinds o( questions about dangerous chemical additives in food, one in particular His stand was that we gel this cancer producing chemical in "such extremely minute amounts" it couldn't really amount to much. As more and more of these warnings emerge. I keep wonder ing just how long this civilisation can exist with the increasing number of these various dangerous additives in these amounts "too minute to cause us any worry." I also have begun to wonder if it has any relation to mv in creasing disinterest in food as such. I ve almost lost my taste tor meat. My brother-in-law says it's because the animals today are being grass-fed instead of grain-fed. I'm not inclined to agree. It could. I suppose, be sub conscious concern with all the additives. But we get them in vegetables. Try reading labels on some of the canned goods And our cucumbers and green peppers are sprayed with wax. our oranges, lemons and apples are sprayed with dye (which means the day of grating orange and lemon rind for flavors is gone) ami apples must be washed in another chemical, as well as most vegetables. You can get that chemical at the health, food store in the Mall and it is supposed to be non-harmfui. It vou took a bit further, you will discover more of (his pollu tion which has been added to sell food, nut to make it more* healthful. So then you finally read there are certain vilamines which will pull some of these and other dangerous chemicals out of (he body, including the bi products of atomic radiation Bui wlm wants to be always supplementing? On the other hand, so long as the American housewife is go ing to continue to demand prepared foods which can give her more time (to be bored with self and environment), she and her family are going to pay the price. And since the supermarket is dependent upon her dollar the grocer has no alternative but to make ture she's getting what she will buy. Ever think about that? HONS 030882