European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1977 the stars and stripes poge7 swinging along with Amy Amy Carter Center ref cities la a Ham mock hanging from her ire Ehause on us South Lawn of us wite Amy hatted be two unidentified Young postal rates increased on certain mail Washington a the postal Rales on newspapers and non profit mailings went up the increase applies Only to third and fourth class firs class letters Are not affected Rie second Tass rate for records and nonprofit mailings Rose an average of u per cent As a result of the latest Fie rate for mailing a typical weekly Magazine increased from cents per copy to far a Book or the previous rate of a cents for the first Pound and for each additional Pound up Leight pounds Rose to cents for the first Pound and 11 cents for each additional far Suthon rioted nonprofit the Cost of mailing a circular Rose from 2 Lien up in the presidential tree Boute to View the fourth of july fireworks with a service agent hands guard at a photo 7eountry Survey Washington up a Senate sub committee chairman charged Ine Small business administration become lob corps for former while House officials by falling to police a 10 year old minority Enterprise loan pro s Quai Nan Lawton Chiles governmental affairs subcommittee opened three Days hearings on abuses in the sea which Fie said has shelled out billion in Loans to minority business Many of whom vere actually for wealthy White men who skimmed off then sold the worthless businesses recited Case after Case of minority aimed Loans going to the illiterate janitors being recruited to become presidents of firms in order to gel the Loans for their White of established businessmen prospering through their political connections at sea regional offices and of some companies whose entire assets consisted o sea in he mid in a of Testi Mony thursday and there seems to be some evidence the sea is running a Job corps for former White House offi Chiles quoted sea Atlanta director Wiley Messick As having told a previous hearing that the a minority loan pro earlier in the Book rate for Prary mailings in creased from 9 cents to 11 cents for the first with the Cost of each additional Pound remaining same at 4 the increase u the Smith annual step in a schedule set when the postal service became a Agency to another increase is scheduled to take effect a year from Carter names Vatican envoy Washington up president Chrtt Rhay darned David a Miami to be his personal representative will succeed ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and jul wait the vat ican from time to time to on International and humanitarian subjects of interest and and to the the White House new York not women who smoke Are Likely to undergo menopause at a younger age than according to the findings of two studies involving More than Middle aged women in seven countries in the studies the More a woman the earlier her menopause is Likely to the average age for menopause in women who have quit smok ing was found to fall Between thai of Light smokers half a pack a Day and that of women who never most women in developed countries Stop menstruating Between the Ages of 44 and with the average age around in one of the the researchers found that at Ages 48 to a woman who smokes a Back or More a Day is nearly twice As Likely to be past woman who never at Ages 60 to Par cent of the women who smoked s pack or More a Day were past As against 56 per cent of those who never this striking association Between smoking and the Onset of menopause was accidentally discovered As part of a conic Jiing International research the Boston collaborative drug surveillance Hershel Jick and Jane Porter of Boston University school of Medine and Alan Morrison of the Harvard school of Public said they noticed the relationship while exploring the link Between smoking and heart dts a closer look at the data suggested to the researchers that smoking might actually precipitate earlier at each the women in the studies who were smokers were More Likely to be past Meno pause than those who Lead never and the heavy smokers were More Likely to be past menopause than us Light the association Between smoking and earlier menopause was similar in Alt the countries the researchers said they could discern no other factors to account for the writing in the we British journal the the researchers suggested two possible mechanisms link Between smoking and one is the effect of nicotine on the Central nervous possibly resulting in changes in the Secre Tion of hormones involved in the Menc the second is the effect of cigarette smoke on certain enzymes that May in Tarn influence the Way the body handles them the researchers said the effect of smok ing of the Onset of menopause might account for the association previously found Between menopause and heart women past menopause have been shown to have a higher rate of coronary heart disease than premenopausal women of the same but since smoking is known to increase a persons Chance of developing heart disease and has now been shown to accelerate the Onset of Meno smoking rather than menopause itself May to the real explanation for the heart disease the Boston re searcher women who participated in the earlier studies were part of two much larger stud ies involving a total of patients treated at 24 hospitals in Boston and at hospitals elsewhere to the United states and in six other the smoking Meno pause analysis excluded Alt women who had had their ovaries removed surgically and whose menopausal status or smoking status was Uncertain at the time of the in Gram failed was fitted too Bard in its Early he ascribed that Robert Kunzig former head of Tif the general services admin Stratton and or Maurice stans Secretary of the com Merce Oilles quoting Messick he Salo the award of is contracts Gonna Leola and and discretionary Powers for regional officials Are far too committee investigators said Afore Harvard business school student who went on a year sea got a minority loan after he left office on grounds he was socially disadvantaged and thai two former minority advisers to president Nixon also got 1 such former Nixon political operative Harry Dent was also involved in the minority loan an aide in reference to sea office of business develop Mem director Winford Smith Lold going to Harvard Busl Nesa school or having a government Job for three years take away from a Blacks disadvantage until such time As most minorities in this country have compatible opportunities with the Majori one could easily disadvantaged Chiles so vague Are seas Regula which in any event Are ineptly and unevenly that can take the taxpayer for a very costly Mozier is but testimony from sea officials said decisions Are left up to local officials on a Caseb Case basis and to standards Are imposed by Joseph of Testi fied he gave up a Job As director of a Black orphanage in 1370 when three while men he considered friends offered him 51 per cent ownership and the presidency of a Sand Harris testified he was used in order to get an sea loan guarantee because i was Black and then was forced out of the com pants affairs by the whose attorney was the Republican state chairman Richard other questionable practices cited by Chiles involved a while businessman who was neither socially nor economically disadvantaged who got million in government con tracts under the a broke Down Cannery Plant in Florida became almost overnight a minority unfortunately the minority off Ere were fronts they got an hour for picking tomatoes and had no control Over the operations of the com a front company thai used a 73year old illiterate farm labourer Secretary Chile said along with ote Justice intends to investigate this Case for possible forgery a firm with twite sponsors sharing in exorbitant profits while paying Mack janitor an hour and listing him As the front a Black retired lawyer with an income of a year who subcontracted the entire sba4wurded contract to a White a Man who was found building a Home with taken from the company started with an sea minority a Man who got a minority loan on grounds he lived in an economically de pressed area and who owed the sea 000 from a previous a Man who was denied a minority loan because he described himself As being of Irish ancestry and then resubmitted application As an