European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 women volunteers go to sea this fall coast guard first in the world Crews Washington up coast guard Beverly Gwin Kelley and Debra Lee Wilson took deep then stepped on the podium before the television lights thursday to represent the first women to serve on an armed military of Bonita and Wilson of san Are among 14 female coast guard volunteers who go to sea this fall on the 378foot seagoing cutters Morgenthau and Gallatin to per form such duties As enforcing the new 200mile fishing they sat quietly As their ultimate transportation Secretary Brock told this administration is committed to work toward ending discrimination against women in jobs and careers and 1 View this action by the coast guard As another big step in that Owen the coast guard radiated Pride Over win Ning another Point in intr service rival the prohibited by Law from assigning women to combat has asked Congress to change the the coast he is proud to be the first service to take this historic plans Call for 500 women in All and 24 volunteers arc sought for two years Sig ments aboard these Lon distance primarily because they can have separate living were the first in the enthused a coast guard the israelis assign women to patrol but there Al female ours Are going to be the russians Nave women serving Only on merchant not was trying hard at taking her first in the world status she told reporters she grew up around ships because her lather and Mother sailed private Power yachts up and Down the East 1 always saw the coast guard out saving lives and doing she that what i wanted to the reporters asked Boatswain male Why she volunteered to go to it seems like a Good a Chance to she said and All of the old say Gonglo sea is a Good feeling was she worried about being out at sea for a Long time and being propositioned i just Hope All the other girls who go Are prettier than i she Consumers Cut Down Coffee White a Consumers angered Over spiralling Coffee prices apparently hit the nations largest Coffee producer in the the firm Friday lowered its estimates for second Quarter general foods cited lowered Coffee although chairman James Ferguson did not say How much sales have fallen off or what the downward earnings projection would the announcement followed general foods forecast earlier this month that earnings for the current Quarter would be above the record million recorded in the second Quarter of and per cent higher than those a year for the full general foods reported net income of million on sales of placing it 44th on Fortune magazines list of the 500 largest Industrial companies a recent agriculture department study says that americans drank nearly 17 per cent less Coffee in the first Quarter of this year than they did in the first three months of Coffee prices have tripled in the past two years in part because of a 1975 Frost and High Coffee taxes in general foods has boosted the wholesale Price of Coffee at least Tive times this the upward trend slowed Early in and Coffee futures and wholesale prices have generally headed in a related Coffee futures prices Rose sharply wednesday As there was the possibility that cold weather in Argentina might move toward brazils South pm states and damage the Coffee brazilian weather officials said the threat of Frost had we definitely do not expect a major Frost a weather department spokesman said in Rio de must brands of Coffee now retail at about a Pound bottle tossed in Mississippi turns up 1 5 Miles upstream up a bottle tossed into the Mississippi River was found 15 Miles upstream 39 years Joel of recently found the bottle while visiting relatives near w3fiv the corked Medicine bottle was thrown into the River by Shirley Barnes of Long Prairie on june Barnes was 11 at the now she is Shirley a re tired of Gold no one knows How the bottle managed to set 15 Miles Joel found it near the Bank of the Swan a Mississippi tributary which runs through his grandpa rents having second thoughts Tom and Philomena Drake of Mcmurt who have become nationally known for their big Gamble in the Penn Sylvania slate Are photo graphed by Yale Joe of people Magazine As the couple checks tickets at a local the Drakes thut they Are reconsidering their pledge to spend their savings of on lottery tickets in the Hope of hitting a big their enthusiasm was dampened a bit by lottery officials who pointed out the Odds against winning a a House democrats fashioning new intelligence committee Washington up House demo cratic leaders have fashioned a new Intelli gence Commilles which they Hope will help meet president Carters concern Over pos sible leaks of National speaker Thomas Oneill of Massachusetts took personal command in drafting a Resolution creating the it was Learned the measure would come before the House rules committee on tuesday and go to the full House the next Early in his administration Carter asked Oneill to push for a joint congressional intelligence committee with Over sight of All intelligence he reasoned this would reduce the number of lawmakers with Access to sensitive be Oneill found heavy opposition to a joint House Senate panel and pushed to create a House committee nearly identical to the Al ready existing Senate intelligence com the proposed panel have Auto Matic subpoena Power and consist of nine democrats and four Oneill has already said publicly thai Edward would be us Al least one member from each of the House International relations and armed services com Millers must be on the panel since those four regular House committees now have some jurisdiction Over different Intelli gence membership would be limited to six consecutive the new committee would have Legisla Tive jurisdiction meaning Power to draft Bills Over All including the the several military intelligence units and other groups like the National Security the four regular standing committees would continue to exercise control Over specific agencies under their int the new master committee is designed to coordinate All intelligence oversight human tests to be made with laetrile Washington api the National cancer Institute is preparing reluctantly to perform human tests with a substance sonic claim is effective against the institutes acting director said Guy r Newell told a mouse subcommittee that the laetrile to begin later this would be limited to a group of cancer Patin is who already have received All conventional forms of cancer therapy without they will be informed that inc lilo is being administered to Newell he we Are in negotiations with the customs service to get us a Supply of the substance is banned from interstate shipment in this country on grounds it is not effective As a cancer Newell said that although be believes that a derivative of Apricot is the cancer Institute plans the experiments because of societal laetrile has been legalized in 10 but the Fra Baas it for interstate Sale on the grounds that it is not effective in the treatment of elsewhere in his Newell said that pregnant woman and Young children should not Lake saccharin or of tits contain ing the pot Colial cancer carving sweeten he Lold the subcommittee that he agrees with the food and drug administrations plan to ban saccharin in food and drink bul allow its sales As an overt counter engine costs up for space shuttle a officials at Marshall space flight Center said thurs Day that the complicated engine for the space shuttle May Cost 450 million Over the original the initial Cost estimate was about 500 million in when the Rock Eldyne Divi Sion of Rockwell International was selected to develop the engine and deliver 24 production main engines for the shuttle Are nine months behind test but project officials said they have development prob lems under control and the engines will be ready for the first flight in project Engineer James Thompson and John his said the in creased costs could be blamed on design problems and changes ordered by the shuttle is a reusable space vehicle for the the shuttle which resembles a giant Jet will have three main