European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 Light shows Given Snappy extra up three alligators have selected the water around the battleship North Carolina As their summer resort Amo the information officer for the retired said the whole thing started with a giant Gator which first appeared near the ship in the Charlie has returned every summer for the Chicken necks fed to him by battleship soon he knew his name and would come from the Grassy Shore when he was later joined by a smaller Alligator who also Learned to respond to her now theres a baby Alli Charlotte clowns in the jumps for food when the nightly sound and tight shows Are held during the tries to steal the show by cavorting in front of the the world War ii battleship also has a resident Herd of turtles that free loads Popcorn from panel oks of Energy Washington up the Senate governmental affairs committee approved president Carters proposed department of Energy but voted to modify the Oiland Gas pricing Powers of the a similar Bill has cleared a House com but with the Power of the proposed Secretary intact As Carter originally pro posed the president wants a Secretary of Energy to be Able to set natural Gas and Oil prices As he sees committee chairman Abraham i objected to that much Power in one he and Charles and the staffs of several other senators worked out a Compromise with Carters Energy James Schlesinger a three person Board would set subject to presidential if the president disapproves any he would have to say to guide the Board in its in the Stewart said monday the House should stick to its provision that would prevent the Export of alaskan Oil to first lady will visit 7 latin nations Washington up Rosalynn Carter will embark on her first diplomatic venture later this month with official policymaking visits to seven latin american nations Over a period of almost two White House officials said the itinerary of the first Ladys to begin May 30 probably would be announced other no official sources in Washington indicated she will visit colom Jamaica and Costa Rica during her expected to end june the first Ladys latin american announced by her husband last is being billed As a policymaking diplomatic rather than just a Goodwill Carter was in Mexico i to rep resent her husband at the inauguration of mexican president Jose Lopez her planned trip is one of three to latin America by Carter administration officials Secretary of state Cyrus Vance is planning to attend the opening sessions of the seventh Oas general begin Ning in Grenada june assistant Secretary of state Toreiv Todman monday began in Colombia a 9 station familiarization trip that will also take him to Brazil and opening the oven door a watched pot wastes study shows a Cooks who keep opening the oven door to Check on dinner Are among the biggest Energy wasters in the a Federal study con the National Bureau of the country chief measuring recruited women to Cook three meals a Day for a week in a Kitchen monitored by television cameras and one Way they were not told the purpose of the the whose Headquarters Are near concluded some Cooks use 50 per cent More Gas and electricity than others because of bad Kitchen Many Consumers could achieve significant Energy savings in the Kitchen if they Learned to use their ranges More efficient the researchers John Fochler a Bureau psychologist who conducted Sik months of the tests for the Federal Energy adm Nistra said the women tended to use the right front Burner of the sometimes the regardless of How big a pan they were another wasteful habit noticed was turn ing on the oven and leaving the door open while peeling potatoes or making other the Bureau suggested that manufacturers design ovens with buzzers that sound when the door is opened and that they move the largest Burner to the rear of the is a Hatfield who the real Mccoy president Carters gets a Mountainside hug from a Bear of a Allan a descendant of the hat Fields of he famed Mccoy As he visits the tug Valley in West Carter came there to inspect Relief efforts for victims of last months photo the Kaaa head defends uterus removal of time May 1947 the army May put drafted communists into separate units to keep them under surveillance in any re Newal of selective officials in Washington May 11 1957 president Dwight Eisenhower nominated a native born alas Kan for a fou year term As governor of the territory of May 1967 a soviet destroyer harassed american warships for 90 minutes in the sea of Japan and finally scraped a destroyer in one of several close a the incident raised the Specter of a serious confrontation Between the two major Powers supporting opposing sides in the Vietnam Washington a the president of the american medical association told a House subcommittee monday that hysterectomies should continue to be used to pre vent cancer and As a contraceptive measure for women who choose the testimony Drew heavy fire at a House Commerce subcommittee hearing on unnecessary surgery a term Ama executive vice president James Sam Mons called Anthony Toby accused Sammons of continuing what he called the Amas chauvinism and insensitivity to what women Are feeling and Are going Ervin to deliver commencement address a former senator Sam Ervin who was chairman of the committee investigating the watergate scandal in will de liver the commencement address at Johns University Here May a North Carolina spent 21 years in the Senate before retiring in Moffett and several other members said subcommittee evidence and testimony convinces them that much of the surgery being performed in the is More dangerous than the malady and that Hysterectomy is a prime Henry said 000 hysterectomies were performed in America last he said the percentage Rale of hysterectomies in the was twice As High As the rate in England and four times As High As the rate for All of Sammons said two reasons for the higher rate Are the use of hysterectomies As a Means of sterilization and to pre vent he said wombs Are partially or wholly removed As a birth control measure at patients request and Are not recommended by their the woman wants it and is happier for having he he said that with the patient fully informed of All the Conse id say that it is beneficial to that patient and therefore it is Sammons said he understands the sub committee has been told that Hysterectomy should not qualify for Federal payments to prevent cancer because the Cost does not justify the he asked the subcommittee to reject that saying he cant believe con Gress is going to Tell the women of this country that they cannot or should not have an operation that could avoid the agony and ultimate death by cancer be according to some abstract forum it is not Cost Sammons also opposed requiring medi Cal Board certification of All saying this would put More than half of them out of business by preventing Many doctors from serving As residents in Small towns and As family Sammons said More and More surgeons Are already voluntarily being certified under state programs supported by the Maori Astrid studies English London up Princess Marie Astrid of one of the favourites in the guessing about a possible future wife for Prince the heir to the is brushing up her she is studying at a language school in where she took a first course in English three years