European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 05, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday May 5, 1977 Carter s vote Day registration Bill May hike frauds Justice dept. Says new look actress All Macgraw wears a cropped Hairdo created for her by Beverly Hills stylist Dusty Fleming for her role in Convoy her first picture in nearly four years. Fleming Calls his creation the Freedom Cut and predicts it will catch on throughout the country when the film i released. Dpi photo sociologist s study Washington a a memorandum prepared by the Justice department s criminal division warned that the administration s election Day registration Bill could increase voting frauds it was Dis closed at a Senate hearing wednesday. Deputy atty. Gen. Peter f. Flaherty re fused to let senators have a copy invoking the doctrine of executive privilege for the first time since president Carter took . Robert p. Griffin r.mich., Dis closed the existence of the memorandum. Flaherty said he had never heard of it before but a lawyer in the criminal Divi Sion Craig Donsanto acknowledged he had. A copy with him. Griffin said he had been told it was a six Page internal memo that discussed prob lems involved in the Bill to permit voters in Federal elections to Register at the polls and that it declared the measure would be an invitation to  when Griffin asked if he and other Mem Bers of the rules committee could see the memo saying they would like1 to have the Benefit of the Justice department s re search Flaherty refused to make it Avail Able. Are you claiming executive Privi memo before appearing before the rules lege asked Griffin. Yes sir replied Flaherty. He said it was an internal memorandum that he had not seen and. Before agreeing to 4et the rules committee Havett. Wanted to Dis cuss it with atty. Gen. Griffin b.  said he was informed the memo was prepared on april 1 for Bell before the attorney general s testimony to a House committee in support of the  Flaherty testified he knew nothing about it Griffin asked if any of the Justice department aides there were familiar with it. Donsanto seated in the audience acknowledged he knew of it and said it pointed out that the Bill might cause an increase in some kinds of  Griffin s persistent questioning Donsanto said the legislation might make the Job of the criminal division responsible for prosecuting voting frauds in Federal elections a Little More  he called it a statement of our con Cern rather than a memorandum and said it was not based on in depth re  told Flaherty it was inconceivable that he had not had the Benefit of the committee As the Justice department s spokesman for the . Outside the hearing room Flaherty said he Felt there were sufficient Safe guards against fraud in the Bill. He also said the few states that have election Lay registration of voters had experienced Only negligible  opponents of the Bill in the Senate and House have argued the Bill would be an invitation to fraudulent voting and look on it As a democratic attempt to gain More votes in Federal elections. Some pollsters contend that there Are More democrats than republicans among those who do not now vote. Sen. James b. Allen d-ala., joined in at tacking the Bill As inviting  he envisioned the possibility that it might permit the millions of illegal aliens in this country to decide the outcome of a presidential election. It opens the door for All sorts of  Allen  Flaherty said the measure s Pur pose was to increase participation in elections. He said that while it was no Panacea it was intended basically for those who let registration dates slip by and then were unable to vote. Residents of big cities mentally healthier new York not residents of big cities including new York appear to be mentally healthier than their counterparts in Small towns and Rural areas a Columbia University psychiatric sociologist has found in an interpretation of several sources of new  interpretations also suggest that the mental health of new yorkers today is substantially better than it was 20 years ago. At minimum the researcher told the american psychiatric association s annual meeting in Toronto the data stand in total refutation of the prejudgment. Continuously pressed since the 18lh Century that Urban mental health is on a one Way slide  findings and interpretations were presented by or. Leo Srole. Director of the Midtown Manhattan study which in 1962 produced a landmark report on the psychiatric health of new York City that report based on interviews in 1954, with 1.660 residents of Manhattan s East Side Rich and poor found that 23 per cent of the Sample were in need of psychiatric treatment. The 175,000 people living in the Survey area were 99 per cent  that time comments ranged from disbelief that the proportion could be so Large to of Lif that new York City was the epitome of the Urban Jungle. Since then the figure has come to be accepted As reasonable not Only for new York but also for other cities. It has also been taken As Evi Dence by such writers As Erich from that the Urban Community is a sick Socie  Srole called the anti Urban Bias of Man social commentators and politicians an undocumented  the basis of new evidence uncovered in the continuing study Srole is now asserting that however sick the City appeared to be then it now appears that Small towns and Rural areas Are even sicker. Or in the More positive vein that Srole emphasized in a Telephone interview from Toron to the big City May be a healthier accommodation to the human condition than the Small  be got to realize that Urban life does an awful lot of Good through the Cul Tural and other resources it provides and that Many people thrive  he said. The study found that people who lived in Rural areas and in cities with populations of fewer than 50,000 had symptom scores that were nearly 20 per cent higher than people who lived in cities of More than 50,000. The scores were based on 12 symptoms people reported having experienced such As sleeping difficulties the feeling that everyone is against me that worries get me Down physically and that a Ner Vous breakdown is imminent. Another body of evidence came from comparison of the Midtown Manhattan data with a similar Survey made in Rural Stirling county in Nova Scotia. In Stirling county people live at an average density of 20 per Square mile in Midtown the Den sity is 75,000.after drawing subsample from each group that matched demographically Srole compared the mental health scores and found that they offer no support whatsoever to the antique presupposition of the superiority of Rural mental health. On the contrary Stirling s estimated mental morbidity rate is higher than mid town s by a wide and highly significant statistical  that the mental health of the City has improved with time came from re interviewing As Many of the original mid town Sample As could be reached. Of the i,-660 original persons 695 were interviewed in 1974. Exactly 20 years after the first interviews. Forty four per cent still lived i Manhattan and 17 per cent were in the other four boroughs. Srole then compared the mental health ratings of those in their 40s now with those who were in their 40s several years ago and found that the proportion in need of psychiatric help had dropped by half. A similar decline was measured in compar ing the generations in their 50s now and 20 years ago. Srole said this apparent improvement should not be attributed to anything that has changed since 1954 but to changes that took place earlier in the Century when the lawyer says witness proves Ray innocent Petros. Tenn. Up an attorney for James Earl Ray claimed tuesday that a witness can place Ray at a gasoline Sta Tion the afternoon or. Martin Luther King or. Was  Kershaw of Nashville the latest of Ray s Many attorneys made the state ment before he and staff members of the House assassination committee met forthe fifth time to interview Ray at Brushy Mountain state prison. Ray who pleaded guilty to the King slaying in Exchange for a 99-year prison sentence has since changed his Story and claims he did not kill the civil rights  to the gasoline station where Ray claims he was when King was shot. Kershaw said there was a person who remembered him and has made a state  did not disclose the identity of the witness or whether the witness could recall the exact hour when Ray was at the station. King was shot about 6 . On april 4.1968.Kershaw said that a Man known Only As Raoul had employed Ray to work in an alleged smuggling operation. He said that haul had told Ray to rent a room at a flophouse across the Street from the Lorraine Motel the Day before King was shot to death on the Balcony of the  started sending him out to do things like buy binoculars. He later told him to go to a movie Kershaw said. Kershaw said Ray was in the rented room at about 3 . And was told to go out and buy the binoculars. He said when Ray returned he was told to go to a movie. Ray went instead to get the spare tire on his car fixed the attorney said. He was told by the service station attendant that he did t have time to fix it. Ray Hung around for a while and then left he said. During the afternoon. Kershaw said Ray also had a Beer or a  Ray told investigators that that he bought a .30-06 Remington pump action Rifle the gun that apparently was used to kill King on instructions from  the gun was placed in the custody of the committee and detailed ballistics tests on the weapon was ordered. They Don t know whether they have the Rifle that killed King or  interview subjects were in their formative years. He said these included general improvements in social and economic conditions. Also important he said were parental influences shaped by the Era in which the parents grew up. Others ordered to share Tris economic ban Washington Upil a Federal judge tuesday o ordered retailers garment manufacturers and chemical companies to share the $200 million economic Burden of the ban on Tris treated  for the american apparel manufacturers association said some garment companies will still be forced out of Busi Ness. In issuing his ruling . District court judge George Hart rejected a request from the manufacturer of Tris Vel Sicol chemical co., to let Only the garment Industry pay the Bill for the recall and refund. The consumer product safety commis Sion banned Tris treated children s sleep Wear last month on the basis of evidence from the environmental defense fund that the flame retardant chemical could be a cancer Causer. Hart s order is essentially what he out lined last week after garment manufacturers contended they would lose perhaps 10. 000 jobs if they had to pay for Tris treated children s nightgowns being returned. Under the order Consumers with unwashed Tris treated nightgowns May return them to the retailer for full Pur Chase Price the retailer May collect his Purchase Price from the garment manufacturer the garment manufacturer May collect the Cost of the Tris treated fiber or material from the Mill and the Mill in turn can collect the Cost of the Tris from the chemical company. Arthur Harold a lawyer representing the apparel manufacturers association said the order still leaves two thirds of the economic Burden on the garment manufacturers and there will still be some Gar ment manufacturers who will be unable