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SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE NEW BASEBALL SEASON WHICH BEGINS REGULAR PLAY NEXT WEEK.

Daniel talks with Neal Underwood the mayor of Mt. Vernon Missouri. The town in Southeastern Missouri is offering the elderly and disabled there "taxi" rides for a mere 25 cents. The city sponsors and pays for the service which makes use of police cars that were no longer being used, but still in good condition.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

ALTHOUGH IN 1969 CHATANOOGA, TENNESSEE, WAS CONSIDERED THE DIRTIEST CITY IN AMERICA, NOW IN 1995 IT CAN BOAST OF BEING ONE OF THE CLEANEST. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH WAYNE CROP, AN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER AND FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CHATTANOOGA AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BUREAU, ABOUT THIS TRANSFORMATION.

40 years ago from this past week - Dr. Jonas Salk announced the success of a polio vaccine. Last year, Weekend All Things Considered interviewed Mark O'Brien, one of the few remaining polio sufferers who is still dependent on an iron lung. O'Brien reads a poem called "Stir" that he wrote about the frustrations of being confined to this apparatus which makes life possible for him at all.

Mention the words 'performance artist' and people are likely to think of Laurie Anderson. Jim Metzner has a review of Anderson's latest work - this time on CD-Rom. The CD-Rom is "Puppet Motel" published by the Voyager Company.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

NPR's Philip Davis reports that beginning this year, 27 states and the District of Columbia have been required, under the Federal Clean Air Act, to begin tougher automobile emissions testing. The rules would require motorists to have their cars tested at centralized test sites, as opposed to the local gas station, where much of the testing is now done. Most of the states involved are upset with the requirement, arguing they don't want to spend the money to build new tests sites. And motorists are angry, because of added inconvenience.