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Kitchen fires fatal to five in Indiana

By The Associated Press Two kitchen fires have killed five people, including three young brothers, in northern Indiana, authorities say. Six people, including four firefighters, were injured in the fires. Six other people escaped injury. The brothers died in Elkhart when fire swept through their family’s first floor apartment around 1 a.m., a coroner said. The victims’ parents and four city firefighters were injured. In South Bend, an elderly home owner and a renter died shortly after midnight in the fire that struck a two-story frame house on the city’s west side. Elkhart County Coroner Carl Yoder said Paul Briggs, 11, Samuel Briggs, 4, and Russell Briggs, 2, died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The South Bend victims were identified as Walter Kaminski, 70, the owner, and Lynne Klaffke, 20, who rented an apartment upstairs, St. Joseph County Coroner Dr. Louis Grwinskisaid. Kaminski died of carbon monoxide poisoning, and Ms. Klaffke died of burns and carbon monoxide poisoning, Grwinski said. David Briggs, 32, father of the children who died, suffered a broken

Bombing sparks calls for security

KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) A bomb blast in the Howard County Courthouse has triggered a call for security changes. “We need someone there who will be in charge of security of the courtroom,” Prosecutor James D. Andrews said Friday. Robert D. Gray, 42, of Marion, was being tried on two counts of trafficking in LSD when he detonated the bomb that killed him, injured 15 others and destroyed portions of the third floor of the courthouse. The

Cancer risks?

Glass of beer 3,000 times worse than tap water

WASHINGTON (AP) A peanut butter sandwich has 10 times the cancer-causing potential of a serving of bacon, but is 20 times safer than breathing the air in a normal home for 14 hours, according to researchers who developed a scale for measuring the dangers of cancerous substances. California scientists said Thursday they developed a system for ranking the potential hazard to humans of natural and man-made chemicals that cause cancer in animals. The scale is designed to help assess the hazards of numerous carcinogens people hear about but don’t know how to relate to, they said. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, said their system which, for example, rates a daily glass of beer as a greater cancer hazard than some pesticide pollution takes into account reallife exposures to the many cancercausing substances. “Our purpose is not to scare people about an occasional raw mushroom or beer, but to help them make sense of the many reports they see about this or that causing cancer in animals,” Dr. Bruce N. Ames, the principal researcher, said in a telephone interview.

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neck and severe head cuts when he dove through a first-floor window to escape the flames, officials said. He was listed in serious condition at Elkhart General Hospital. His wife, Cora, also 32, was treated for burns to her legs, feet and hands and released. The Briggs’ two other sons, who were not identified, and three occupants in two other apartments in the house escaped without injury. Elkhart firefighters Michael Ivory, 27, and Bob Rider, 41, were treated for minor eye injuries suffered at the fire and released, fire officials said. Firefighter Eric Windbigler was treated for a back injury suffered in a fall at the house, and firefighter Ray Collins, 27, was treated for minor burns to both hands. Briggs apparently put a pan on a stove burner after he returned home from work and then fell asleep, investigators said. Mrs. Briggs told fire officials she also was asleep and awoke to find the stovetop in flames. The bodies of Samuel and Russell were found on a couch in the combined living room and kitchen, officials said. Paul’s body was found in a bedroom off the kitchen. Damages were estimated at $40,000 in the Elkhart fire and $17,000 in the South Bend fire, officials said.

bomb was carried in a plastic suitcase that also contained a handgun, and was detonated in the office of Sheriff John D. Beatty. Andrews said once the rubble was removed from the courthouse, he would push for the addition of security officers and the installation of metal detection devices. Andrews also called for increased efforts to combat drug abuse in the area. In a prepared statement read outside the badly damaged building,

Ames said the scale, expressed as a percentage of risk over a lifetime of exposure, rates possible cancer hazards to people based upon the known potency of a substance in animals and the likely human exposure. Under this system, a daily ration of the peanut butter used in one sandwich has a rating of 0.03 percent because of a carcinogen from mold that forms on peanuts. Bacon, which develops carcinogens called nitrosamines when cooked, has a 0.003 percent rating if eaten each day. And the normal air pollution in a conventional house, breathed 14 hours a day, is rated 0.6 percent. The researchers, including Renae MaGaw and Lois Swirsky Gold, describe their HEP scale, for “Human Exposure dose-Rodent Potency,” in the April 17 issue of the journal Science, a special issue focusing on assessing risks. The scale is an extension of a much-discussed report Ames published in 1983. That study concluded that the most-common carcinogens to which people are exposed are natural substances, such as by-products of mold and fungus contamination of grains and other foods, and not man-made com-

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Two Morgan County inmates recaptured after hour of freedom

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Two prisoners escaped briefly from the Morgan County Jail after they removed a loose cement block, crawled through a hole and walked out an unguarded door, authorities said. Donald E. Collis, 24, of Indianapolis, was captured at 4 p.m. about a mile south of Martinsville on Indiana 37. He was in jail on charges of driving while intoxicated, driving with a suspended license and violating probation. More than an hour later, authorities captured Herman R. Hinchman, 28, of Mooresville, who was found on an island in the White River a mile west of Martinsville. Hinchman was being held in jail on $75,000 bond for four counts of forgery and and three counts of

Andrews said he believed the bombing was directed at a judicial system that has become intolerant oi drug use and drug dealing. “Drugs and violence are almost synonymous terms, not only in oui county but in every county.” A preliminary engineering report indicated the courthouse suffered lit tie structural damage, and the president of the county commission Daniel E. Wood, said it woulc probably be fully re-opened bj Tuesday. *

pounds such as pesticides and industrial chemicals. Merely identifying a substance as a potential cancer agent is not very useful for making health decisions. ’ Ames bases his HERP rating on a ratio between the dose rate that infduces cancer in half of the animals itested, called TD-50, and lifetime :human daily exposure to the chemical per unit of body weight. Using this scale, chlorinated tap water had a low HERP rating that still was several times higher than the potential hazard of pesticide residues, the researchers said. The alcohol in a glass of beer poses a possible cancer hazard 3,000 times that of tap water, said the report, and dried herbs, raw mushrooms, peanuts and other natural foods can have higher scores in the amounts generally consumed than trace pollutants. There isn’t enough human data to determine whether any of these potential hazards warrant a change of eating habits, the researchers said. “If people start worrying about all the things that give cancer, then they can't concentrate on the important things, such as cigarette smoking and the buildup of radon gas in buildings,” Ames said.

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theft. Sheriff Charles E. Beaver said the men now also face felony charges of jail escape. The prisoners were moved Friday morning from the 97-year-old jail’s lower cell block to the juvenile wing because of extensive remodeling and painting work on the bottom floor, Beaver said. The 8-by-12-inch cement block that was removed by the prisoners already had been loose in the juvenile wing adjacent to the shower, Beaver said, and the door they walked out through was left open to ventilate the jail from paint fumes and because of sandblasting equipment. Two women saw the men hurrying from the building and reported the escape, he said.

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