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Agency issues milk labeling guidelines WASHINGTON (AP) — Stores and dames can Intel milk as com ing from cows not treated with a controversial now hormone, but the labels can't suggest the milk is any safer than that from treated ani mals. the government said Monday In guidelines to be published Tuesday, the Food and Drug Admin istration said i ompnnios may label milk, h e cream and other dairy produi ts as i orning from "cows not treated with" recombinant tevine somatotropin Hut that information must lie put in "the pro|*-r context ' the ageni \ said That means the labels also have to • arry a statement like. "No sig mfit,ant different e has been shown laitween milk derived from rhSI treated and non rbST treated cows." the agent \ said The genet it ally engineered \ ersion of the naturally t« curring hor mone went on the market Friday The drug makes cow s produt w more milk. Some stores, dairies and food processors, worried about the con sumer response, have sanl they would not t arry products from treat ed animals. Others have wanted to Intel their products as corning from animals that had not Iroen treated The produt t is technically "recombinant' hSI, or rhSI for short, because it comes from genetic engineering Hut many people just < all it HST. and capitalize the "b." The agency said latels t mild not carry the claim that milk is "hST free" because the hormone occurs naturally in milk I-atiels also can not say the milk is "rBST-free" because that would imply the milk is different The labeling guidelines reinforce what the agency said last Nov 5 when it approved the drug that there is virtually no difference between milk from treated cows and nun-treated cows That message was reaffinned by the Americ an Medical Association and American Dietetic Assoc iation However, some biotec hnology critics. humane groups and consumer groups say the drug poses risks that have not been thoroughly addressed They say c ows that produt e more milk also have a higher risk of udder mfe< lions that must bo treated w ith antibiotics l leu sav those residues c ould make it into the milk supply threatening people who are allergic to antibiotic.s and encouraging the growth of resistant strains The PDA said the milk supply is tested against antibiotic residues already The agency is also supervising a program by the developer. Monsanto Co , to monitor the milk supply. The agency, in granting approval, also permitted voluntary label ing but said it must follow long-standing agency requirements to In; "truthful" and "not misleading " The agency said extensive record-keeping will also lie needed to prove claims that the c ows were not treated. Child of former house leader in critical condition PORTLAND (AP) A prema ture bobs born Monday to for tner sliit" I louse Majority Leader (,reg Walden and Ins wilt* Mvlonn was in < ntical condition al Doernbei her (Children's Hos pital with a congenital heart defei t Walden i ailed off his cam paign for the Republican nomi nation for governor last fall when the couple learned the child suffered from hvpoplastii left heart syndrome, in which fWUNDERlAND 5CVlDEO GAMES 5tti STREET PUBLIC MARKET 683-8464 / f v~. 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Waiden, 3f>. is a Hood Ktver radio station owner He entered the House in l'lH'i and became majority leader in 1991 He abandoned his quest for the GOP nomination for gover nor Inst Oct 25. the day before he was to have formally announced his i ondidatv Hut he said he would not rule out a return to politii s Walden has a moderate to conservative voting record and once worker) for former Republi can U.S Rep. Denny Smith Smith is running for the Repub lican gubernatorial nomination in the May 17 primary election The baby’s heart defect was spotted during an ultrasound examination. The condition makes the left ventrii le. the aorta and a valve too small. In the operation, known as the Norwood proce dure. surgeons cause the right ventricle to servo the whole body instead of only the lungs Oregonians cluck it up on ABC show SAI.KM (AP)— What would Oregonians do to got on 1V? Well, Kathi Smith clucked like a chit ken She was among about 125 people who auditioned Sun day at Salem's 1-ancaster Mall for the producers of ABC’s The iWtv America's Funniest People In fact. Smith, of Corvallis, clucked a rendition "The Wedding March." "I was gding to do 'Okla homa.' but I didn't think that everybody would know the song." she said. Austin Fnsey. 13, painted his fingers to look like the members of his favorite rock band. Aerosmith, stuck them through holes in a shoebox and wiggled them to a tape of "Walk This Way." Tom Augustyn and his 11 year-old son, Anthony, reen acted the message on their answering machine. "I can't come to the phone right now because I'm feeding my Doberman," Anthony said, as his father hunched on all fours wearing his bell around his neck and harked like a dog. "I've always been one of those t losel comedians." Tom said. 1 Repair project to save state Capitol in the works 5ALKM (AF) — Oregon’s marble-dad Capitol looks as solid as a rock, but [Mils of its insides ore crumbling. Some walls and the brick and clay filler underneath them were jarred out of place Inst Man:h 27 bv a strong earthquake cen tered northeast of Salem. A two-year repair and reinforcement pro ject is to Imgin soon, costing millions. But even that will not do all that engineers say should be done to protect one of the state's laist known landmarks from a more severe quake. The Capitol was completed in 1938. at a cost of $2 5 million. A largo addition was added in 1976. costing $12 million. A preliminary estimate is that the earth quake damage repairs will cost about $2.5 million. The l,egislature allocated another $4.3 million for reinforcement, or what the engineers ( nil "seismic upgrade." Most of the damage from last year's tem blor is in the rotunda area in the middle of the building, which is topped by a dome 106 feet above the floor. Chipped plaster and small crac ks in walls were seen the day of the quake. But a clos er look later revealed more serious prob lems Clay tiles and brick-andmortar areas between the inner and outer walls shook loose and are crumbling in some places. Marble-covered walls in the rotunda were wrenched loose from their connections to the floor "The structural engineer says the walls have lost their structural integrity," said Wade Lange, Capitol operations manager. Or to put it another way, the walls could fall down, he said. The rotunda has been closed to the public since last spring. Many complications face the project, which is to Inigin about mid-April. First, four oil-on-canvas inurals must be slowly peeled from the walls and stored until the work is done. The murals, each 26 feet by 11 feet, depict scenes in Oregon his tory. The murals are fastened to walls with a lead-based adhesive, and some walls also are covered with lead-based paint. Because lead now is considered a hazardous sub stance. Lange said, speciul precautions have to be taken in removing it. Tualatin, Bend lead population growth PORTLAND, Ore (AP) — The Port land suburbs and Deschutes County led the population growth in Oregon that opened the decade, and no change in that pattern is expected before the de< ade is out Figures released Monday by the U.S Census Bureau showed that the Portland suburb of Tualatin led Oregon cities with a 14 H percent growth rate from 1990 to 1992, to 17.291 | wo pie Deschutes County in ( entral Oregon grew at n 12 4 percent rate, to H4.294 people, with the county seat of Bend expanding by 10 percent to 22,fil4 Neighboring Jefferson and Crook counties also were among the fastest growing areas in Ore gon. along with Washington and Clackamas counties, which con tain most of Portland's suburbs COM€ DOWN TO SYS AND R€CGIV€ IOC OFF iuo Choke of rt-goUr crust or D«p Dish Ski ) ptOSI FREE drink STS PIZZA -1211 Alder on Campus • 686 9S98 One coupon per slice • Expires 3/18/94 Kd Schafer, the director of the Oregon State Data Center at Port land State University, said the growth pattern will continue se of a strong Oregon »k oii omy. "I think we'll see continued growth within the state in gener al. hut concentrated primarily in the Portland metropolitan area with some concentrations in cen tral Oregon," Schafer said Much of the growth comes from Californians moving to Ore gon to escape the weakening Cal ifornia economy and higfi hous ing costs, Schafer said "We have lower housing costs than most major cities in Cali fornia or in Western Washing ton," Schafer said. "We also have a cost of living that's somewhat less than other areas along the Pacific Const ' 342 - 3358 136 E 11th • Eugene, OR. LIVE ENTERTAINMENT NIGHTLY MONDAY MOVIE NIGHT POOL TABLES FREE DARTS A FOOSBALL ASSORTED EATS ■mokinA preferred