European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday May 26, 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 5 dental care Dod expert fes House pane a program like Hampus is needed for dependents retirees by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington s4s a program like champs is needed for providing dental care to military dependents and retirees the defense department s top dentist told a House subcommittee tuesday. Tie army Navy and air Force dental chiefs made that need known in testimony before the armed services subcommittee on military personnel. They appeared before the panel to testify about the prob lems in military dental care basically the shortage of of the hour Long subcommittee ses Sion was spent discussing a fee sharing program like champs for no Active duty beneficiaries of military dental care. Concorde ban at Kennedy is extended new York up the 2nd court of appeals tuesday extended until june 1 a ban against concorde landings at Kennedy Airport and scheduled on that Day a hear ing on. The merits of the controversial three judge court said if the Case is not argued on that Day the ban in effect since March 1976, will be decision upset plans by Britain and France to begin no passenger test flights of the concorde into Kennedy by the end of this week. British airways and air France operators of the concorde hoped to begin regular commercial tryouts of the controversial set by june 20.the stay was sought by the port authority of new York and new Jersey which operates the Airport. Ruling against ban Peter St aard a spokesman for air France said if we get the Green Light on june 1 we Are hopeful of beginning operations on june 20." tic concorde flights into Kennedy were banned by the port authority to allow tests of the plane s noise Levels to be conducted at other airports. The ban was lifted May 11 by . District court judge Milton pol Lack who ruled it violated the Federal supremacy clause of the , however granted the port authority a stay of his order until tuesday to allow the Agency to Appeal for an extended ban against the flights. Issues consolidated the appeals court decided tuesday it would be belter to consolidate the requests for a continued ban and the Appeal against Pollack s ruling. Pollack upheld the Federal decision issued in february 1976 that authorized a 16-month test of the set at Kennedy and at Dulles Airport outside Washington. Test flights began one year ago at Dulles. The Issue pits an investment of $3 billion and the prestige of Britain and France against tens of thousands of people who live in the Kennedy area and their elected complain the supersonic transport is too noisy and will cause prop erty values to fall sharply. They have vowed to carry their fight to the supreme court. Computer sees drought end Berkeley Calif. Up a computer says California s two year drought will end next Granger a climatologist at the University of California said a computerized study of records dating Back 100 years shows the slate will have 160 per Bent of Normal rainfall and the two Winters after the 1977-78 season will have 104 and 109 per cent Normal rainfall. Presently retired service members reauthorized the same dental care As an Active duty personnel but on a space available basis at military clinics. Also ascertain stateside military facilities and overseas dependents Are authorized Mili tary dental care on a space available is one of our most important issues. Providing something like champs for dental care said . . Bhaskar chief of the army dental said one reason for people to think about military unionization is because of the absence of such a army dental clinics there has been a curtailment of 90 per cent of care for space available beneficiaries because of the shortage of resources according to Bhaskar. He told the subcommittee if you Are serious you will provide for a Hampus for dental Brig. Gen. Robert l. Thompson assist ant surgeon general for air Force dental services an Frear adm. Robert w. Elli Ott jr., chief of the naval dental corps., agreed with Bhaskar about the need for a Cost sharing dental of dwindling dental resources treatment for retirees and dependents has to be curtailed at air Force facilities according to Thompson. It is becoming More and More difficult to satisfy their needs he of this care at military facilities is viewed by Active duty and retired officials members As an erosion of an important Benefit stated Thompson. Feels that the Lack of adequate care for dependents and care for their sponsors upon retirement Are a matter of grave Are in favor of a contributory Type plan possibly similar to the champs Cost sharing procedures that would help our beneficiaries receive care from civil Ian sources Thompson said. Subcommittee chairman rep. Richard c. White d-tcx., said that the commit tee is very interested in learning More about the Cost sharing White asked the dental officers to return to the subcommittee wednesday with More in formation on the subject. Market notoriously cyclical decline is predicted in 1-family housing replaces Singlaub rear adm. Warren c. Hamin or. Was appointed monday As senior Delegate to the korean military armistice com Mission. He replaces maj. Gen. John k. Singlaub who was removed and face reassignment. Singlaub s removal was for publicly criticizing the plan to pull . Ground troops from Korea. A Carter will ride aboard new attack a sub Washington up president Carter said tuesday he will ride on a nuclear Hunter killer submarine considered by some to be the primary warship of the , who qualified for submarine command and was in the elite nuclear pro Gram before resigning from the Navy in 1953, said during a picture taking session in the Oval office that he would Board the los Angeles Friday at Cape canaveral Fla. Carter is expected to spend six to eight hours aboard the fast attack sub and talk to its 12 officers and 115 enlisted men. Carter s Navy Mentor adm. Hyman g. Rickover father of the nuclear submarine also will be and other Navy strategists be Lieve the attack submarine will revolution ize naval warfare in the same Way the aircraft Carrier made the battleship obsolete because of its Speed silence and four torpedo tubes that eventually will be Able to fire cruise left the Navy before the first nuclear submarine the Nautilus was commissioned in 1958 but he had met Rickover s Tough qualifications for the nuclear program and had trained men to work on nuclear Power plants. During his Navy career. Carter served on two conventional submarines the Pomfret and the Al which eventually became the Barracuda. On the Al u. Carter was second in command and Quali fied to command a submarine before he left the Navy. New York a America s single family housing Boom will begin to Wane within the next two years As other types of construction begin to expand a National Bankers convention was told tuesday. Housing and especially single family housing is a notoriously cyclical building Market which typically begins to fade once the rest of the Economy heats up said George a. Christie chief economist of Mcgraw Hill information systems co. The Slack in construction typically is taken up by multiple family and Commer Cial building in a very Normal recovery pattern for the construction markets Christie told reporters before addressing the mortgage Bankers association of America an organization of Bankers real estate investors and consultants.1.4 million forecast the National association of Home build ers is forecasting 1.4 million single family housing starts this year up from 1.16 Mil lion in 1976 and surpassing the record of 1.3 million starts in the pc recession year of1972. But Christie whose company is a Lead ing compiler of data on the construction business said he expects the total to be Only about 1.3 million this year with a 100, 000 to 200.000.unit drop in 1978.john Welmore chief economist for the mortgage Bankers agreed thai housing construction is Likely to taper off but gave a More optimistic to Wetmore single family housing starts should total 1.4 million to 1.5 of time May 26, 1947 the War crimes court at Dachau sentenced Erika Flocken to death for sending prisoners to their deaths at the Muhl Dori concentration Camp. She was the first woman to be sentenced to death by the 26,1 57 at least four were killed As a series of tornadoes whipped through eight states in the Southeast causing heavy property damage. During several Days of seven weather in that part of the country,200 tornadoes bad been counted. May 28, 1967 As the Middle East crisis worsened the . Ordered that wives children and dependents of . Officials in Egypt and Israel leave those countries within 48 hours. Million this year and gain 100.000 in 1978 before children of the Post world War ii baby Boom arc becoming first Home Pur chasers in record numbers Wetmore disagreed saying the Boom in the number of Young people buying Homes began five years ago and already has said in my mortgage Money is Avail Able in great quantities in lean economic periods in part because businesses Aren t borrowing to expand their facilities. As the Economy heats up however the Boom fed by mortgage Money starts to Sec a three stage transition Christie said of the coming two years. For the rest of 1977. Single family construction will level off he said with some increases continuing in the West and South where there is still room for one family year Christie expects Home build ing to drop As mortgage markets Are squeezed by rising business demand for funds and continued tight in 1979, he sees the lagging cycles of apartments and commercial building coming to an end and replacing some single family con Bankers association predicts Mort Gage Loans made by its members will total $17 billion this year up from $15.6 billion in 1976. At the end of last year the association s members had $142 billion in Loans the loan volume grows mortgage in Terest rates Aren t expected to climb much above the current 8
