European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes town s Way of thanking volunteers Salt Lake City a when the Teton dam broke a year ago this sunday thousands of volunteers from Utah and Southeastern Idaho helped the flood Vic Tims of Rexburg. Idaho. Now Rexburg is welcoming them Back with Tours a Box lunch social and a band concert. We re planning for 10,000 people. Including our own residents said Rex Ben Nion an official at mormon Church owned Ricks College who is chairman of the ceremonies planned for saturday. We Don t want to celebrate the flood that s for sure but we thought we ought to do something for the thousands who came in Here and  College was the Center for Relief activities after the dam burst As it was being filled for the first time on june 5,1976, unleashing a flood that left thousands Home less and was blamed for 11 deaths. Investigators ruled that faulty planning at the site was directly responsible for the said Many volunteers Are plan Ning to stay with the families they helped a year ago in Rexburg population 8.000. Bus Tours of the dam will run All Day from Ricks. Some of the people who came up Here never even saw the dam. He said. The Tours will also go through the area devastated by 80 billion Gallons of water tons of debris and mud that swept away Homes businesses farms and live Stock in the upper Snake River Valley. An added touch of nostalgia on each bus tape recordings of radio broadcasts aired the Day the dam broke will be played for the passengers As they View Rexburg one year  it was an unfortunate experience people Don t like to reflect  said Bennion. But i Don t see the depression Here that was  reason he said is the massive amount of Federal Money that has flowed into the Community to reimburse flood Vic Tims. Over $170 million in claims have been paid and new Homes Are springing up in Rexburg nearby sugar City and other communities hit by the water. As much As 70 per cent of sugar City which was once filled with government owned Mobile Homes. Is Brand new. Let s face it. The houses Are bigger and better Bennion said. A Tot of people wanted to do something with their Homes for a Long time but weren t Able to. The government is reimbursing them on re placement  Bureau of reclamation expects that by july 1978 Between $200 million and $300million will have been paid to flood Vic i think people feel it was a lot of hard work but we re fortunate to recover so quickly " said  of Rexburg will put on a Box lunch social in the City Park and a band Idaho s congressional delegation got. John Evans and commissioner of Recla mation Keith Higginson an Idaho water official at the time of the flood will speak at a mass meeting. Survey Foken hospitals ignoring mandate on abortion oldest medal of Honor Holder William Socach of Brockton. Mass., is embraced by his wife Caroline Al a party celebrating his 100th birthday. Seach is the oldest living recipient of the medal of Honor the nation s highest military award for heroism. He won the medal during the Boxer rebellion in China in 1000. A photo Mother and Caughfey reunited after 30 years new York up most of the nation s hospitals Public As Well As private continue to ignore the three year old supreme court mandate to provide abortion on demand planned parenthood federa Tion of America reported  hospitals which for religious reasons refuse abortion requests were not included in the study of Legal abortion in the ., 1975 to 1976."poor, Rural and very Young women Are most Likely to be denied abortions because they Are least Likely to have the funds the time or the familiarity with the medical system that they need said investigators working for planned parenthood s Alan Guttmacher Institute in new York. An estimated 1,115,000 abortions were performed in America last year up 8 per cent Over the previous  made authorities estimated 140.000 to 650,000 other women wanted abortions but could not be served the report  report in family planning perspectives the Institute s journal showed Abor Tion services remain excluded from 70 per cent of the nation s non Catholic general hospitals and More than 80 per cent at the Public , in most Stales Legal Al ration serv ices were available in Only one or two metropolitan areas. Many women As a result had to travel Long distances to obtain serv  report is coupled with a 1975 depart ment of health. Education and welfare Anchorage Alaska api the Call that broke More than 30 years of silence Between Hattie Turcotte and her daughter Marianne nearly was dismissed As an did you lose a daughter about 30 years ago a voice asked Over crackling Long distance lines from Florida on april 1. Who is this Turcotte asked. Marianne the caller  three Days earlier Marianne Sweetwood believed her Mother had been killed years ago in an automobile Accident. Finally an Uncle told her that her Mother was still alive and the two women now Are getting reacquainted at Turcotte s Home their separation began in Spartanburg s c Turcotte was 15 when Marianne was bom in 1941 or 1942 neither woman is sure of the year. Turcotte was soon divorced from Mari Anne s father and when the girl was just Over a year old my sex husband and his parents came in and kidnapped the baby while i was  Turcotte said. This past March Turcotte s brother came across the family name of Mari Anne s father in an Atlanta Telephone directory and called in Hopes of contacting his former brother in Law. The Call led to Sweetwood s finding out her Mother s existence and full name. I be never been so excited she said. For the next three Days she spent hours on the Telephone with operators All Over the country trying to find her Mother. She located her maternal grandmother in new Mexico and found out her Mother was in Anchorage but the address was a Box number and Turcotte s Telephone number was unlisted. Sweetwood finally talked a Post office employee into giving her the Telephone number. It was against the  she said but the woman Al the Post office must have sensed the desperation in my  a Man to pm talk on sexism san Francisco a getting sexism out of the English language can begin by replacing a three letter word with a two letter word Accord ing to a Stanford University philosophy and humanities professor. The three letter word is Man. And the two letter replacement being offered by Jeffrey j. Smith is  instead of Man cannot Uve by bread alone Smith would say pm can t live by bread  it would be the right of pm instead of the rights of Man. Smith 70. Calls pm a Persona noun pronoun Rte sex Bias of English is Clear in its common terms of  said Smith. The main objection to new words is that they sound Odd at first and make pm seem Odd u pm makes the Effort to use pm in Public be said. R. Patients procedures safety another Legal aspects of abortion. The profile shows More abortion patients were Young unmarried and non White in 1975 than in previous years. Also that More procedures were performed by vacuum aspiration the safest method and were at earlier and safer stages of preg  highlights of the study by a team headed by Joy g. Dryfoos. Guttmacher Institute planning director abortion rates vary from fewer than one abortion per 1.000 women in West Vir Ginia and Mississippi to More than 30 in California Florida. Hawaii new York and the District of Columbia. Six in 10 abortions Are now performed in clinics not associated with any Hospital. Dramatic local increases in the abortion rate was attributed to the Rise of clinics in Pensacola. Peoria Atlantic City Santa Cruz. Calif. Jersey City. Cleveland and Tallahassee among other places. U to 11 .5. Is willing to provide up to two million jobs Washington up acknowledging thai the government could become the employer of last resort labor Secre tary Ray Marshall said the administration is willing to provide up to two million Public service jobs under its welfare Reform plan. Marshall in an interview in this week s  News and world report Magazine said it is better to have people working in Public service jobs than on welfare or unemployment  asked if the Day is approaching when the Federal government becomes employer of last  Marshall replied you might say we re moving toward that Day. We have not gotten there yet our belief is that jobs Are better alternatives for unemployed people than anything  Marshall said the administration pre fers to see people work in private Industry but is willing to provide Public service jobs when necessary. Under president Carter s Reform proposal some welfare recipients will be required to seek work. Marshall said the administration will provide Between one million and two million Public service slots fur that program including the 725,000 Al ready planned. Our objective is to keep the number As Low As possible he said. It could be As few As a million which is not so Many More than the 725,000 already