European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 4 the stars and stripes wednesday june 29, 1977 tax probe of Gaa is approved Detroit a a Federal judge ruled that a grand jury May investigate the possibility that general motors corp. Tried to cheat the Federal government out of Mil Lions of dollars in taxes. Hut  District court judge James p. Churchill also ordered Federal prosecutors rail to turn Over any grand jury evidence to he internal Revenue service. Churchill made the ruling tuesday in Motmans by the world s largest Auto make to throw out subpoenas and failing that to limit the investigation pm said the grand jury proceeding Wasan unlawful attempt by the irs to collect Money in what should in a civil proceed ing. The government had accused pm of Irving to Block the ius investigation and had said the grand jury was needed for criminal probe. Hie decision delivered orally from thelic Nch. Was a half Victory for pm. The firm had asked the court to prevent grand jury evidence from being used by die ims if its Mullion to throw out the subpoenas were denied. Churchill said information obtained by the grand jury through us subpoenas Mayra it in Given to the iks except where the grand jury itself needs the technical help of iks employees such disclosures rim Only be made with his Advance approval. The judge also said that none o Ilie in formation May be Given to top iks employ sex ill order to help the grand jury return a indictment lie ruled further that one government attorney May not get any grand jury evidence Heck the iks. Not the lust the  tales Lor i Sti gation last ise he is employed by be depart mentioned in Audil olm sri into a Rimini in a while accusing 1m iks agents in their l Irving to Stem Ork. 1 health officials plan to examine the family of a Farmer who has become Missouri s second confirmed victim of Legionnaire s disease. The unidentified Farmer is recovering at a nearby Hospital state health official say. I cd Connaire s disease killed 29 persons after an american u Gion convention was held in Philadelphia last year. The Armor entered the Hospital complaining of chilis and fever. Pneumonia set in and attending physicians noted Many symptoms similar to the mysterious disease. Tests were sent to the National Center for disease control in Atlanta and confirmation of the disease was received by state health officials monday. Health officials Are now checking to see if there is any connection Between the Douglas county victim and a St. Louis Man who was hospitalized for nine Days earlier this year after getting the disease. The St. Louis Man has since recovered. Political consultant Dies Philadelphia api Joseph p. Mclaughlin. A former journalist who became political consultant to democratic presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson John f Kennedy and Hubert h. Humphrey. Has died at 65. Mondale warns of higher fees Hospital Bills bankruptcy linked Washington up vice presi Dent Walter Mondale said tuesday that Hospital Bills jumping from $16 a Darin 1950 to $160 a Day now arc the single largest cause of personal bankruptcy in the United  in a speech prepared for deliver before the National journal conference in controlling health care costs Mon Dale forecast Hospital costs Are expected to Rise to $840 a Day in 10 years. At those  he added it will soon be cheaper to Fly to French Riviera and lie in the Sun than to stay Over night in an american  like All inflation the people who Are hardest hit by rising health care costs Are the poor and Middle income americans and  he added. For millions of our citizens today the Prospect of serious illness Means the threat of financial ruin and a lifetime in debt. Hospital Bills arc the single larg est cause of personal bankruptcy in the United states  Mondale told the gathering that the health needs of the american people will not be met until we confront the Central Issue of rising costs in the health care  he was speaking in favor of the administration s proposed Hospital Cost containment act of of 1977. Mondale said the Bill is a first step toward a much More comprehensive health Cost containment Effort and sets a reasonable upper limit of 9 percent on inflation in Hospital costs and limits new capital expenditures for acute care  he said the Bill will mean savings of $2 billion in Federal state and private funds next year and that by 1980. Those savings will triple to nearly $6  for every family rising health costs have been a cruel and hidden tax that increasingly drains family re sources Mondale said. A working family today spends 10 cents out of every Dollar for health care. The typical american works a month out of every year to pay his family s health care  health care inflation has been one of the principal causes of rising deficits and taxes for state and local govern ments he said. How about a Date Honey a Lender Luule a sigh and a moment later an angry bite on the panel hears . Mayor nose. She said. Walk a mile Lor some other Camel. I m not  to i Beame Cas concorde giant step backward new York up ii in his strongest statement to Date against the concorde set. Mayor Abraham Beame said tuesday the City remains adamantly opposed to landings of the noisy Anglo French plane at John f. Kennedy Airport. We Are firmly opposed to the use Okennedy Airport by the concorde because the plane is too noisy for use Over dense Urban  Beame told a port authority of new York and new Jersey committee testing Community reaction to the Issue. The plane said Beame represents giant step backward in aircraft develop ment since it is being introduced at the very time when american aircraft manufacturers Are producing quieter  Beame also said he is concerned that a so called temporary testing period would somehow become permanent. I do not believe i is in the Best interests of the people of my City to allow this air Craft to gel its Landing gear into the door of Kennedy  Beame said. The mayor was the Lead off witness in a Day Long hearing held by the Kennedy air port s Community advisor panel. The . 2nd circuit court of appeals has ordered the port authority to make up its mind on whether it will allow the Planeto land in new York _ a port authority spokesman said air France and British airways operators of the supersonic transport were invited to present their Side at the hearing but declined to appear the three member committee is to report Back to Ilie port authority with Tes Timony presented by witnesses. State sen Sheldon Farber said the port authority had the Power to Stop the con Corde but had not done so. And called the hearings a blatant  wild horse defender Dies at 65 Hano i up Velma Johnston know Nas wild horse Annie for her Campaign to halt Slaughter of Mustangs and Burros that roam the West died monday. She was65. Wild horse Annie fought for years to preserve the wild horse herds on the Public lands in Western states. The horses and Burros were threatened by ranchers or those who wanted to kill the animals forget food she led the drive in 1959 when Congress enacted legislation prohibiting planes and trucks from rounding up the Mustangs to 1971. She helped Spur passage of the wild knee Koa min horse act which gave fur hot Protection to i he herds whoa president she was president of the International society Lor the Protection of Mustangs and Burros and also wild horse organized assistance inc., i whoa Johnston also wrote her life store mus Tang wild spirit of the  she said she started her Campaign when More than a Quarter Century ago she saw horses in a crowded Van on its Way to the slaughterhouses. Her efforts sparked controversy. Ranch ers complained the wild horses were ruin ing the grazing on the Range for other animals. In 1974 she received a warning from a vigilante group out of Idaho whose organization was called Don t tread  vigilante threat but she took the threat lightly and Hung it on her Wall of mementos. They re Aren t too Many people who have been threatened by vigilantes in the 1970s" she said. G during the roundups of wild horses by the Bureau of land management. Wild horse Annie was often on the scene to assure the horses were not harmed. And once captured she led an adoption pro Gram to find Homes for the animals. In 1972 received a Public service award from Interior Secretary Rogers Morton for her fight in behalf of the Mustangs. Her death apparently was caused by cancer. Or. Jody what d All say Washington up White House press Secretary Jody Powell has deleted the expletive nobody is sure if his new phrase is dirty. Powell who occasionally lapses into barnyard words called something nitty rap at monday s briefing. Some reporters had complained pow Ell s language was i decorous for so Hal Lowed a podium