European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 15, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 31 no decision yet on Penny $ Coin May replace half Buck Washington up the Carter administration backs proposals to end the 50-Ccnt piece and mint a smaller Dollar Coin but it has made no decision about eliminating the Penny. Treasury spokesmen said monday. The 50-cent Coin has t circulated much since Kennedy replaced Frank Lin said a spokesman for the House subcommittee on historic preservation and coinage. The spokesman said people Hoard the half Dollar with the profile of the late John f. Kennedy As a commemorative piece. Half Dollar coins bearing the pro file of Benjamin Franklin and stand ing Liberty were widely circulated. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumen thai explained the administration s position in a letter to the Coin subcommittee chairman. Delegate Walter e. Fauntroy . The Treasury recommends the pre sent Dollar Coin be replaced with a smaller More conveniently sized Dolla Coin and that the 50-Ccnt piece be eliminated Blumenthal  and half Dollar coins have been minted in their current size since 1793.blumenthal  administration has taken no position on the Penny. The Ford administration in Decem Ber appealed to Congress to give urgent consideration to the coi Issue particularly the Penny which costs almost As much to mint As its face  responded to a request of the subcommittee which began consideration of legislation on the coins after a study recommended the changes including elimination of the Penny. While production consideration Point toward elimination a thorough analysis of consumer Impact has not yet been made he said. The subcommittee spokesman said it is possible hearings on the Dollar and50-cent piece might be held in the fall. The Senate banking committee will probably defer deliberations until the Treasury makes a recommendation on the Penny. Carter endorses military urged to look i r. I i / Low fare ., . I overseas flights again at sex attitudes Washington up president Carter tuesday strongly endorsed Newslow fare air service across the Atlantic and urged approval of such Economy flights for travellers within the  transatlantic flights will Cost $135 in one direction and $102 in the  monday signed his approval of the British plan for sky train service be tween new York and London four Days after the civil aeronautics Board recommended it As a Boon. To the travelling  strongly endorse and have approved the decision of the civil aeronautic Board for the one year trial service Carter told reporters  believe that Low Cost air service should also be available to passengers travelling within the United  american world airways and trans world airlines although expressing Surprise at Carter s Quick action  will match Dollar for Dollar the Cut rate service first proposed by Britain s Laker  tickets from new York to London will Cost 65 per cent less than the present Normal Economy class fare of $385 and 80 per cent less than the $659 Cost of Normal first class  cab spokesman  Low Cost nights by All three airlines can Start 60days after Laker files a formal Tariff wih the Board. It. Rucker Ala. Up a gender identity expert has told a panel of army officers the military should recognize Chang ing life styles among soldiers including unorthodox sexual  is going to have to be some Point at which the military must evaluate its standpoint on transsexuality and homosexuality said or. Paul a. Walker director of the gender identity clinic at the univer sity of Texas at Galveston. Walker was a key witness in the fourth Day of an administrative hearing on the army s attempt to discharge spec. 4 Marie Sode on grounds of homosexual Tenden cies because of her marriage to Kristianson Houfburg a former wac who served at it. Rucker As Linda Bowers. At a news conference during a midday break in the hearing. 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Ala Bama Law requires Only that marriages be Between consenting adults,.not that the partners be of opposite  could have lived together said Walker. But getting a state Sanction fur ther Validity acts this couple s attempt to have a heterosexual  As a Man and often holding hands with Sode von a Lofburg has at tended the administrative hearings since they began last week. She has undergone hormone treatments and has no outward feminine  said von Houfburg is psychologically fit for a sex change operation an said most reputable clinics would accept her for such  said Sode showed no demonstrative interest in females and that the marriage is of cognitive heterosexual to with Sode considering herself woman and von Houfburg considering her self a Man. Soviet vessel rescues three  Yachtsmen Moscow up a soviet merchant Marine vessel radioed a report Home monday that it had rescued three Ameri can yachtsmen from a Sailboat which Cap sized in the Florida  official soviet news Agency Tass  soviet ship Krasno Zavodsky of the Baltic sea shipping co. Radioed Leningrad with news of the Rescue of the three unidentified american   ship s Captain. Vladimir Golubev radioed that the three american Shad set out earlier this month on a trans Atlantic crossing aboard a  Squall in the Florida Strait capsized the Craft and the three americans drifted in a Small Dingy for 36 hours before their signal flare was spotted by the Krasnowa   americans were taken aboard the soviet freighter and were in route to Miami where their voyage began. Dow Jones averages new York api Dow Jones closing average tues High Low close Conge Ray s partner recaptured ending Hunt i euros Tenn. A the last of the inmates who fled maximum Security Brushy Mountain state prison with convicted Assassin James Earl Ray was re captured  Warden Herman Davis said Douglas Shelton 32, was seized after wrecking a stolen Van in the Beech for Community about 12 Miles from the prison. Officials said that when the Van s owner tried to get in it tuesday morning Shelton grabbed him by the neck and threw him out. He then took off in the vehicle before wrecking it about one mile Down the  capture ended one of the most intensive manhunt in Tennessee history an kept intact Brushy Mountain s record of never having had a successful escape. Whistle signals capture after it was announced Shelton had been caught a whistle at the prison let out along continuous blast signifying that All seven of the men who scaled a prison Wal Friday night had been recaptured. Authorities said Ray the confessed killer of civil rights Leader or. Martin Luther King jr., had apparently spent weeks planning last Friday s break with his Roommate Earl Hill and Shelton. As far As the escape we feel at this time that we Are looking at Doug Shelton. James Earl Ray and Earl Hill  Warden Stonney Lane. To know it s Well planned because of the  worked on the prison s plumbing gang and is believed responsible for the makeshift pipe ladder used by the seven in mates to crawl Over the Wall. New trial petition meanwhile. Ray s attorney Jack scr Shaw of Nashville said tuesday he will file a petition within 60 Days in Shelby count criminal court requesting a new trial for his , who visited Ray tuesday for the first time since his capture also told reporters he will oppose any efforts by Tennessee officials to have Ray placed in Federal custody. Go killed two injured by mortar detonation Grafe Wuhr. Germany one sol Dier was killed and two others seriously injured tuesday when a mortar round detonated prematurely an army spokes Man  two injured soldiers were taken to a Hospital in Nurnberg the spokesman  soldiers were participating in a live fire exercise at the training area Here when the round detonated prematurely destroying the mortar tube the spokesman names of the victims Are being withheld pending notification of next of Kin. Conversion rates Brussels Upil tuesday s closing rates of the  Dollar to european currencies. I figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other local currencies to dollars Day x industrials.20transport 11 utilities 4s stocks Brit in Pound German Mark dutch older belgian Iran italian lira so Lurenc Greet drachma turkish lira Spanish peseta Juno i 1.71m 3.3171 4.m4s 24731 34.00 my 21 i.401s 17.0k 17.so  Juno 1.711 3.341 443i 2.4140 16.01 inn 17.0 17 �  v14.27 i2.14 v22.s7 230. 247 2h.lt  11343 111.12 111.47 3047 312.12 10.17 i.7s these Are commercial banking rat Sand in most cases Are not available to the Public at the exact rate  Sale of Marks to  Personnel for personal use will be at the rate of 2.34 on wednesday which is based on a Price fixing at midday and allows for a Standard handling charge