B—The Daily Collegian Thursday, May 10, 1979
Saccharin tentatively blamed
Donald Kennedy
Raised money for Shapp's presidential bid
Businessman convicted of
HARRISBURG (AP) Montgomery County
businessman Perch Hankin was found guilty yesterday
on four counts of illegally raising money for the Shapp
for President Committee.
Hankin, 61, is the fourth person to be convicted or
plead guilty on charges of funneling money through
bogus contributors to help former,Gov. Milton Shapp's
aborted presidential bid in 1976.
After the jury took just over an hour to reach its guilty
verdict, U.S. District Court Judge R. Dixon Herman
fined Hankin $5,000. The crimes carried a maximum
sentence of four years in jail and $lOO,OOO in fines.
During the three-day trial, Nankin a banker,
,lawyer and real estate developer took the witness
stand to deny that he knowingly violated the law to help
Shapp qualify for federal matching funds. •
Miami voters defeat smoking► ban proposal
MIAMI (UPI) —A recount of machine
votes and absentee ballots late
yesterday upheld the pro-smokers'
narrow victory in a referendum to ban or
curtail smoking in most public places
The final totals were 96,512 votes
against the anti-smoking proposal and
95,692 for it a difference of only 822
votes.
The outcome had hinged on about 3,200
absentees because the machine ballot
count was within 1,200 votes. But the
trend set Tuesday night held when the
paper ballots were added up yesterday
afternoon.
The recount was triggered
automatically by the closeness of the
vote.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) A Major
study of actual human exposure to
saccharin is tentatively reporting a
doubled bladder cancer risk among men
consuming the artificial sweetener, the
Food and Drug Administration disclosed
yesterday.
The study, conducted by the New
York-based American Health Foun
dation, previously had been cited by
saccharin backers as proving the safety
of the chemical used by an estimated 40
million Americans most of it in diet
soft drinks.
But FDA Commissioner Donald
Kennedy told a Senate hearing the study
reached a different preliminary con
clusion in November 1977, just as
Congress was passing a law telling FDA
not to ban saccharin for 18 months. He
said the conclusion never was made
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The anti-smoking issue was forced
onto a special election ballot, costing
taxpayers an estimated $400,000, by a
petition driVe that collected more than
10,000 signatures. It would have required
partitions for smoking and non-smoking
sections of almost all enclosed public
places, including business offices.
Pro-smoking forces, backed by• the
tobacco industry, spent nearly $1 million
to convince voters the ordinance was a
restriction of free choice, and
spokesman John Spire said he was
disappointed at the poor voter turnout
27 percent.
"The people made the decision," he
said. "You can't buy a person's vote. I
think we turned off a lot of people
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But prosecutors charged that Nankin gave cash to
four other suburban Philadelphia residents so they
would say they each gave Shapp a $250 contribution.
• "What's at stake here is not just the guilt or innocence
of Perch Hankin, but the integrity of the federal election
funding system." assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Holder
told the jury before deliberations began.
"These were blatant attempts to get around the law
. . . the process by which we pick presidents," he said.
Federal laws say a presidential candidate must get
$lOO,OOO in $250 contributions, spread over 20 states, to
qualify for matching funds.
Widespread irregularities in Shapp's fundraising
program forced him to repay the full $299,066 he got in
matching funds. Shapp, who dropped out of the race
after he finished behind "no preference" in the Florida
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public. '
A spokeswoman for the foundation
said the study still has not been
published, and the finding on bladder
cancer, very preliminary at this point, is
still being analyzed because the foun
dation wants "to be sure the data can
support this contention."
Since 1971, the group has been in
volved in an eight-city study 'sponsored
by the National Cancer Institute to
determine whether people who smoke
cigarettes with reduced tar and nicotine
run a lower risk of cancer. •
Since bladder cancer has been linked
to cigarette smoking, the group ex
panded its study to look at saccharin
exposure.
Wayne Pines, FDA's chief press
spokesman, told - reporters the
preliminary conclusion is that "men who
illegal fundraising
because we spent so much money. But
the voter turnout would have been a lot
worse if we had spent less money."
A spokesman for the clean air force
Group Against Smokers Pollution said
GASP would return with another or
dinance.
"We will come back to the county
commission with a revised clean air
ordinance and we expect the county
commission to do something about it,"
said Charles Freefield.
But he said he was pleased with the
close vote.
"We're absolutely amazed at the
people of Dade County we thank them
for their discernment and intelligence
consume saccharin have twice the risk
of bladder cancer as men who do not."
Kennedy said he did not know why the
cancer institute, which was informed of
the finding in November 1977, did not
make it public.
He said the foundation study was one
of three major ones on human exposure,
to saccharin. The other two were split on
the bladder cancer issue. While the
foundation results would appear to
"alter the balance," Kennedy said, he
would not go so far as to say two major .
studies now support the cancer finding.
"We ought to stay away from it where
possible," • Kennedy said of the
sweetener. He said he would advise
parents not to let their children have diet
drinks unless there are other health
considerations, such as diabetes or
obesity.
primary, has never been charged with wrongdoing.
Hankin admitted he reimbursed two of the four
contributors, but defense attorney Ted Flowers argued
that reimbursement did not technically violate a
provision that says one person cannot contribute in the
'name of another.
Some political contributions in the Shapp campaign
were as small as 25 cents and Some came from children,
Flowers said in his final arguments.
"Just suppose that was a child. . . . Suppose a parent
wanted to reimburse that child so the child could make
a contribution .i . . then that parent is just as guilty as
Mr. Hankin is supposed to be," Flowers said.
He also attacked the government for presenting
flims evidence. .
against all the propaganda," Freefield
sahi
A 38 percent turnout had been
predicted for the ordinance, but driz
zling weather kept voters indoors,
election officials said. Forty-four per
cent of Dade's 702,008 voters cast ballots
in 1977's gay rights ,ordinance that Anita
Bryant successfully squashed.
A similar smoking ordinance was
passed in Minnesota in 1975 and one was
defeated by a 54-46 percent margin in
California last year.
County Supervisor of Elections Joyce
Dieffenderfer said she had expected the
recount, which began shortly after the
absentee ballots were tallied, would not
make a difference.
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