European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday september 28, 1977 i More than one Way of seeing things state College. A. A the person with eyes in the Back of his headway be More common than not a Pennsyl Vania state University professor says. Or. Herschel Leibowitz a professor of psychology said his research with the Blind shows human beings have two types of sight Normal vision allowing them to see and an ambient vision that subconsciously tells them where they Are in rela Tion to , a Blind person whose ambient vision has not been destroyed is capable of avoiding Walls despite not being Able to see them Leibowitz  the two systems originate in different parts of the brain a person amylose one Type of vision but not the other in some cases of brain injury. Leibowitz  vision As Leibowitz Calls thai used for Reading and recognizing objects is controlled by the visual cortex in the outer portion of the brain. Ambient vision he said originates inside the Midbrain. Leibowitz said the explanation for ambient vision is found in the interaction of fibres from the peripheral Retina of the Eye with vestibular fibres of the inner ear that Are stimulated by Gravity. That gives a person a sense of equilibrium he said a effect evident through motor activity rather than  at the neurological clinic of the University of Freiburg Germany with a neurologist or. Johannes Dich Gans confirmed this past year that people like animals have the two types of vision Leibowitz said. Focal vision can be improved wit glasses. It has to do with the what of perception Leibowitz  vision is the where of per  he said. It permits us to move about freely and Orient ourselves in space. We Learned that patients with an injury to the visual cortex that destroys their ability to recognize forms can in some cases still see motion and localize objects Arline mature of Seattle is on an egg balancing kick. She attributes her act to no trick to it mysticism but an egg Farmer says after 5 or 10 minutes the Yolk settles letting the eggs balance. Here mature has balanced 49 eggs so far. Up insiders Benefit Survey shows free overdrafts a Bank problem Washington a nearly two thirds of the Banks examined in a new government Survey allow their directors and Oiher insiders to write interest free Over drafts on their accounts. Bert Lance who last week resigned under fire As director of the office of management and budget had been criticized for writing similar overdrafts at the geor Gia Bank he operated. The Survey made by examiners of the Federal Deposit insurance corp. Also shows that the Dollar volume of the Over drafts by insiders was less than 1 per cent of the total overdrafts allowed to All depositors in the 189 Banks examined. The results of the Odic Survey con ducted during the week of sept. 12, were reported monday to the Senate banking committee which is considering Laws to tighten regulation of  As witnesses tuesday were offi cers of three Banks from which Lance received personal Loans while the Banks had the use without paying interest of depositors Money from Banks Lance headed. During Senate hearings Lance maintained that the Large overdrafts he and his relatives ran up at the family owned firs National Bank of Calhoun. A. Were part of a Liberal overdraft policy available to Al depositors. But in a report issued aug. 18. Comptroller of the currency John g. Heimann said the overdrafts by Lance his wife an members of her family who were Bank directors constituted unsafe and unsound banking  monday s hearing was marked by Dis agreement Over How Bankers misuse their position As insiders in the financial  does not appear to be wide spread abuse by insiders of overdraft privileges George a. Lemaistre chairman of the Deposit insurance Agency told the committee. Haiti holds Celebration port a Prince Haiti up Haiti s president for life Jean Claude Duvalier followed up his release of All Politi Cal prisoners in his Caribbean Island Republic with an $800,000 nationwide Cele bration to observe the 20th anniversary of the Duvalier Rule. Lemaistre also said fewer Bankers thanin past years appear to be using their relationships with other Banks to obtain Loans on terms not available to people outside the banking world. He said the number of such cases referred to the department of Justice declined from 205 in 1971 to 43 in1976. But sen. William Proxmire d-wis.,chairman of the banking panel said this might be because the cases Are so hard to prove that Bank regulators have tired of fruitlessly referring them for  said that of 250 such referrals Over a five year period in Texas Oklahoma Colo Rado and new Mexico Only one conviction  overdraft Survey showed that during a 90-Day period insiders such As Bank officers or directors had been Over drawn at 122 of the 189 Banks or approximately 64 per cent of them. At 37 Banks most of them Small like theone in Calhoun. More than 5 per cent of the Dollar volume of overdrafts allowed went to insiders. In three of the Banks the insiders overdrafts amounted to More than half of the total amount overdrawn. In the Periphery he said. In Many cases these people Are not aware of their sight ability Leibowitz said explaining How some Blind persons avoid a Wall while others walk into it. They Don t realize they Are still seeing something because the ambient system is so unconscious Leibowitz added. When Blind people with ambient vision were seated in a drum whose Walls were painted with vertical Black and White stripes and the drum was rotated the people Felt they were rotating just like people with Normal sight Leibowitz  order for the illusion of self motion to take place a person must have ambient vision he said of the Experiment. A practical application for his discovery Leibowitz said is in night driving. Al though a person s focal vision is significantly decreased at night his sub conscious ambient vision makes him feel As confident As he does during the Day. $14 billion agreed on for City renewal Washington a breaking a two month deadlock Senate and House conferees have agreed on a $14-billion housing and Community development authorization Bill. Final Senate and House passages expected before Congress adjourns for the  Block Grants a merger of such former programs As Model cities a Durban renewal would be distributed under a new dual formula giving a funding break to older cities of the East and mid West. In Atlanta Georgia gov. George Busbee complained that the South would be robbed under the legislation. I Hope the House and Senate will Stop this silly game of stealing from the less fortunate to help the Rich and reject this conference committee report he said. Two formulas eligible cities would be Able to choose Al locations on the basis either of the three year old formula giving principal weight to per capita income or a new formula giving priority to the number of older hous ing units and growth lag. The conferees rejected a third formula sponsored in the Senate by sen. Harrison Williams d-n.j., that would have further assisted the nation s oldest cities by taking into account their relative percentage of pre-1940 housing units As compared Withall metropolitan areas. But the conferees recommended that the department of housing and Urban development consider the proportion of older housing in allocating funds under a new$400-million-a-year program of Urban development action  compared with a $3.25 billion authorization for the current fiscal year the Bill would authorize Community development lock Grants at Levels of $3.5 billion for fiscal 1978, beginning next month $3.65 Bil lion for fiscal 1979 and $3.8 billion for fiscal 1980. Basic programs the measure also authorizes $1.5 billionth continue Basic housing programs until sept. 30, 1978, including funding new con tracts for some 400,000 housing units for Low income families through rent supple ments and Public housing subsidies. The measure would also increase Mort Gage limits for Federal housing administration insured Loans from $45,000 to $60.-000 for single family Homes. Down payment requirements for Cha insure Homes costing More than $25,000 would be reduced from 10 per cent to 5 per cent. New Moscow u. Rector Moscow up Anatoly log nov has been appointed Rector of Moscow University the Tass news Agency has reported. He succeeds Rem Khokhlov who died in August while Mountain climbing