European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lance denies Manip president again rallies to defense of budget chief Washington a Bert Lance testified thursday that while he might have made mistakes in running his Georgia Banks he engaged in no wrongdoing or cover up and president Carter said he has seen no evidence that his budget director is dishonest incompetent or that he Hask acted  while Lance mounted his defense before the Senate governmental affairs commit tee Carter said he is keeping an open mind about the future of his budget director and close Friend. I am sure that the decision that i make along with Bert Lance at the conclusion of the hearings will be satisfactory to the american people Carter said in a Tele phoned question and answer session with the radio television news directors association. The president said he had not had a Chance to watch or read the testimony Lance presented in defense against accusations of improper financial conduct. But taunts May have led to girl s death Chicago up seven year old Mel Laine Turner walked into school to the taunts of Whites. She left delirious and died with the repeated taunts on her lips. Go Back go Back go Back where you belong the crowd of angry Whites chanted at Mellaine and 83 other Black children arriving at Stevenson elementary school tuesday under a voluntary busing plan. Up with sickle cell anaemia some pleated. At about 10 . Tuesday school officials said Mellaine was taken to the Prin Cipal s office. She complained of Chest pains and was shaking and crying. She died about 10 hours later at Wyler children s Hospital apparently of sickle cell crisis. Her parents Joe and Helen Turner told continued on Page 28, col. 1 is surveys smoking scene i would like to say something about smoking the letter writer began. I am 11 years old. I m in the seventh Grade. Both my parents smoke. My father has tried his Best to Stop smoking. He went from 4 packs to 2 packs of cigarettes a Day. My Mother smokes a Little. But be cause my parents Don t smoke too much does t mean my brother and i still Don t nag them about it. We won t Stop until they Stop Complete  smoking. The subject seems to be on the minds of Many in Europe today. In response to this intensified interest by smokers and nonsmokers staff writer Bob Hoyer has re searched and written a 10-part special report on smoking and health which begins tuesday in your stars and stripes. It is a report that smokers and nonsmokers alike should find thought provoking and interesting. Look for the series titled smoking and you beginning tuesday. He said he will read the record of the proceedings later before deciding what to do. I am keeping an open mind about the subject eager to have All the responses that Are being made Carter said. The president said some published allegations against Lance Are erroneous. Those that prove to be Correct i will have to make a judgment on them later he said. Related photo Page 3. Lance told the Senate hearing i am secure and comfortable knowing that my conscience is Clear and that the people s verdict will be a fair and just  drawling slowly and solemnly Lance told the two senior members of the com Mittee to their faces they have been unfair in their Public statements before this his Day in court. Speaking More in sorrow than in anger Lance told the senior re publican sen. Charles Percy that his actions were puzzling.  Percy replied that he had questioned the dates on some of Lance s personal checks and whether they were timed to help him obtain a tax deduction. Percy concedes indiscretion it was wrong for me to even raise the possibility Percy conceded. Percy asked and chairman Abraham Ribicoff d-conn., ordered that the com Mittee seek a report from the internal Revenue service and the comptroller of the currency dealing Point by Point with their findings on the Lance defense state ment. Percy said he Hopes to get that information by saturday. Ribicoff said the worst thing we could do for the Senate for or. Lance for our selves or the president is to leave any impression that there was any Effort to conceal facts about the  sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., who emerged As a prime Lance defender demanded that the committee ask the Justice department to investigate leaks of Lance data by the comptroller s office. We might As Well get everybody investigating everybody Here in Washington Nunn said. Ribicoff granted that request too. One by one the president s longtime personal Friend replied to allegations made in past weeks that his personal and Bank dealings most of them before he joined the Carter government were marked by irregularities and improprieties. When he finished Reading his 1%-hour statement he got a half minute of Hearty applause from spectators in the hearing room. Lance told the panel and a National Tele vision audience that his rights had been treated in the most irresponsible and destructive manner and allegations against him have been erroneous. Misrepresented. And  moreover he said some Are completely misunderstood because those making the charge do not have All the facts i did not ask for this fight but now that continued on Page 28, col. 1 the  authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 36, no. 151 so Dally and sunday Friday september 16,1977 1f 21855 a before Senate investigating panel budget director Bert Lance scratches Bis nose As he testifies before the Senate governmental operations com Mittee on his financial dealings. A Chicopee mass. Up the world s largest polish sausage is missing and presumed eaten. Its owner said wednesday someone stole the 25-foot-Long, 107-Pound Kielbasa after it was displayed at the world Kielbasa festival in Chicopee last weekend. Leon Partyka manager of Chicopee provisions co. Inc., which made the giant sausage says he has t seen it since the festival. I just Hope whoever took it enjoys it. It s fully cooked arid ready to eat party a  said he would t pay a Ransom for the Kielbasa and does t even want it Back. But if somebody Calls and says they have it i la Send them the Rye bread and horseradish to go with  Partyka had made some disparaging comments about another giant Kielbasa last week saying residents of Rogers City mich., had Only made a giant hot dog and not a real Kielbasa when they cooked a 3,000-Pound sausage. He said it was not a Collar shaped link in a single animal casing like traditional Kielbasa. Now he thinks somebody from Michigan May have gotten the last laugh. Maybe with All the discussion some body from Rogers City came Down to take a look at it so they d have both the world s largest hot dog and the world s Best tast ing Kielbasa he said. If anybody had to steal it i Hope it was them just to prove we have the Best tasting  Partyka said he did t see any Way his company s giant sausage which contains pork beef and veal and a secret formula of spices could have been eaten while it was still at the fair so he thinks it was carted away in one piece. We be asked around but nobody knows anything everybody s innocent he said. Partyka said he will just write off the loss of the Kielbasa Worth about $200 Ona per Pound basis. He had planned to display the Large Sau Sage at other fairs after the festival in Chicopee which claims to be the nation s Kielbasa capital. But now he says the com Pany does t have the necessary two weeks to produce another sausage the size of the stolen one