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12, 1991 Alabama largest home-owned newspaper 50 cents si cancer more prevaen jus I as deadly "We must conclude that there has been heredity, cannot be modified, he noted. And By Deborah Mesce Associated Press AVil "Some of the increase is apparently due to better diagnostic measures: we're finding it faster and at an earlier and more treatable said Dr. Bernadine Hea-ly. director of the National Institutes of Health. "Yet.

some of the increase mystifies us." she told the House Government Operations subcommittee on human resources. An estimated 175.000 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, while 44.500 are expected to die from the disease. the known risk factors account for only 20 percent to 30 percent of all cases, he said. THE REPORT CONCLUDED that while "many breast cancer patients live longer and better than their predecessors we do not seem to be winning the war against breast cancer." Scientists are not sure why incidence of the disease is rising. 88 in 100.000 women in 1973 compared with 110 per 100.000 in 1988.

the latest year for which figures are no progress in preventing the disease." Richard L. Linster of the General Accounting Office, which wrote the report, told a congressional subcommittee Wednesday. The "critical obstacles" in the fight against breast cancer are the gaps in fundamental knowledge about the disease principally, what causes it. he said. "Research in this area is a crucial priority." Most of the important risk factors that have been identified, including age and WASHINGTON Decades of breast cancer research have improved detection and treatment options for women but have made no progress in preventing the disease, according to a congressional report.

More women are being diagnosed with breast cancer today currently one in nine will get it in her lifetime but death rates from the disease have remained virtually level since the early 1970s. Congressmen's wager If U.S. Rep. Glen Browder appears in the halls of Congress next week dressed as a gamecock, it's bad news. Browder, whose district includes Jacksonville State University, has a football bet with U.S.

Rep. Dick Nichols of Kansas, who represents Pittsburg State University. The two schools' teams play for the national Division II championship Saturday. The losing congressman has to deliver a basket of state products to the winner -dressed as the mascot of the loser's university. JSU is the Gamecocks; Pittsburg State is known as the Gorillas.

"There is no way a bunch of chickens are going to be able to stop the PSU option," said Nichols. Browder's response: "It's perfectly OK for Congressman Nichols to go ape for Pittsburg State, but we know who will be crowing at the end of the game. Prices edge up Wholesale prices edged up a modest 0.2 percent last month as a stagnant economy kept a lid on inflationary pressures. The small November rise in the Producer Price Index, which measures inflationary pressures before they get to consumers, reflected falling food prices and the best performance for energy costs since July. Retail sales, also announced today inched up 0.3 percent in November.

Sales totaled a seasonally adjusted $153.1 billion. up from $152.7 billion in October. R. Randolph 'Randy' Page 49, was vice president of personnel for Bruno's Inc. Raised in Hot Springs, he lived in Oklahoma and Anniston, where he worked at Super Valu grocery store, before moving to Birmingham about 20 years ago.

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whotf jorj AlbertyUta and Scot- aiea weanesaay wnen weir eorpo- tgboro. rate jet crashed near Rome. had planned to visit Anniston's Associated Press Food World grocery stores next William Kennedy Smith smiles after 'not guilty' verdict was announced -They would walk through the store and hand but little candy canes and greet each employee and customer individually." Don Prickett. manager of the Anniston Food World on McClellan is lianked by Jury expert Cathy Bennett, left, Rebecca Christy week. The store visits by executives of the Birmingham-based grocery chain were part of an annual holiday tour designed to maintain close contact with rank and file company employees' and customers.

Two groups of company ex Will acquittal 'chill'? Experts debate Smith verdict's impact on women Jax Stste funding The funding the Alabama Commission on High Education recommends for Jacksonville State University for the next fiscal year is $6 million less than the request taken to the commission by JSU President Dr. Harold McGee at its November budget hearing. News1 5A Officers visit Vegas What do you give a city leader facing the problem of "Governing in Challenging A weekend in Las Vegas. That's the solution the National League of Cities and a number of local officials from Anniston, Oxford and Jacksonville are trying this week. Fourteen officials from the three cities are joining thousands of others from around the nation in Vegas beginning today for a five-day winter conference sponsored by the league.

Region11 A Boulevard, said this morning, recalling the annual visits. Said John Denney. manager of the Food World on Quintard Avenue: "It was sort of a goodwill mission to meet employees and wish them a merry Christmas and thank them for the jobs they had done. They would be here about thirty minutes, walk through and greet all the employees." Denney and Prickett knew them all from the past tours. ecutives had started their separate tours on Dec.

2 and. for about four days a week until Dec. 20. they planned to visit each of the From Wire Reports grocery chain's 241 stores in Alabama. Georgia.

Florida. Missis sippi, lennessee ana muui Caro lina. Wednesday, on several points: That rape cases are difficult to prosecute and sexual harassment is difficult to prove. That both the Thomas and the Smith cases were atypical because of the prominence of the men involved and the amount of attention the charges received. That society still doesn't fully understand the nature of rape and sexual harassment, and tends to stigmatize women who are victimized by men.

See Smith2A Thursday. Bruno's cancelled First there was Anita Hill, accusing Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Then there was the Florida woman who said William Kennedy Smith raped her. Two cases involving women challenging the behavior of powerful men. Two cases in which the men ultimately prevailed.

What is the message? Feminists and advocates for rape victims generally agreed, after Smith's acquittal in West Palm Beach. the remainder of this year's tour. The group that perished in the Page who died in the crash. Page. 49.

who grew up in Hot Springs. was the company's See Bruno's6A air crash had been scheduled to visit the chain's two Anniston stores Monday, as part of a day- Korean pact paves way for peace Off-campus experiment is on target Obltuarles18A Mrs. Octavia Agnew, Fort Wayne, Ind. Mrs. Alma Josephine Albea, Piedmont Mrs.

Willa Mae Bennett, Anniston Mrs. Lillie Crofton, Chicago Miss Terry L. Doubledee, Riverview, Fla. Charles Etress, Pell City Mrs. Mae L.

Garrett, Alpine Mrs. Grace M. Hardman, Ashland Arthur Paul Hutto, Talladega Edward Long, Anniston Mrs. Bettie Carroll Richardson, Alexandria Mayfield Royston, Roanoke Mrs. Callie Scales, Oxford Rev.

Cleveland Sims, Anniston Mrs. Floy Lucille Stephens, Minnesota "jurf' By C.W. Lim Associated Press TV tonight! Search for parents Tonight on "Beverly Hills, 90210," Steve finds support in his search for his real parents and teen-age romance blossoms at the winter dance (FOX, 8 p.m. ListingsMB Steve OrossThe Anniston 8tar SEOUL. South Korea North and South Korea, bitter enemies since the Korean peninsula was divided in 1945.

agreed today to a historic non-aggression accord that as the first major step toward unification. The agreement, which comes after months of diplomatic momentum between the capitalist South and the Communist North, calls for both sides to drop mutual hostilities and discuss a full peace treaty. Yet the first major accord between the nations apparently failed to address the crucial problem of the North's highly secret nuclear program. Officials on both sides said nuclear issues were not discussed at the five sessions that led to the agreement, and that nuclear issues would be dealt with separately. North Korea, however, was to make a statement on the issue Friday, said South Korean spokesman Lee Dong-bok.

From the beginning, both sides said they would consider a comprehensive agreement on reconciliation, non-aggression, economic cooperation and exchanges as separate from proposals for a nuclear-free peninsula. By Judy Johnson Star Education Editor JSU South is growing. Never mind that plans for Jacksonville State University's new off-campus offerings in Oxford and Anniston were hatched, just this summer to head off a drive for a full community college in Anniston. Never mind that a promised study of Calhoun County's higher education needs hasn't yet gotten off the ground Never mind that an education money crisis seems to have dried up hoped-for state money. No headcount figures on enrollment are yet available, but 14 courses in the fall term averaged 14 students each.

Preregistration for spring term's 20 courses already averages 15 per course. That's around 50 percent growth. And registration itself doesn't come until January. Signups are expected to increase then. So far.

the quiet growth and a small but varied offering of courses are what has been delivered on promises made by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education and JSU last summer. At the time, there seemed to be a promise of new state money. But the way the state pays for higher education, combined with the current education money crisis, leaves JSU essentially on its own for some time to come in paying for building the program. WHEN JSU officials first proposed it. ACHE, to encourage the university, changed a long-standing policy of not providing state money for off-campus programs.

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