European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 3, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 Senate sends housing Bill to House Washington up the Senate voted 53 to 19 saturday to Send a $14.7 Bil lion housing and Community development Bill to the House for final congressional a  Compromise measure was approved after the Senate put off further efforts trend a filibuster on the natural Gas Bill until  housing Compromise worked out by a House Senate conference committee was brought up by sen. William Proxmire d wis., chairman of the Senate banking committee. The legislation extends the Community development Block Grant program and Var ious Low income housing programs authorized under several older Laws. Proxmire told the Senate failure to act quickly on the Bill could have most Seri Ous consequences for some programs including one authorizing federally subsidized flood insurance. He said the program expired at Midnight Friday. If a flood struck he said some Home owners would be unprotected. That s Why we have to act this after noon he said. The Compromise version must still be approved by the House before it goes to the White House. Sen. Edward Brooke r-mass., Joine Proxmire in urging approval of the com Promise but said it had serious Short comings and would be a mixed bless ing for some cities. He said the Bill As originally passed 79to 7 by the Senate would have provided Many smaller cities More housing Money by Basing Grants on the percentage of older houses. Brooke said he was tremendously Dis appointed this provision had been dropped in the House Senate conference. Sen. Jesse Helms r-n.c., complained that More time should have been Given for debating the  ought to know a Little bit about what they re voting on he  responded that there had been two Days of debate on the Bill when it was first passed. The Bill authorizes nearly $11billion for the Community development Block Grant and Urban development action Grant programs Over the next three years. About $1.2 billion would be authorized for Public housing housing for the elderly and other Low income housing programs. $70 million suit claims Ford left Man in Russia Detroit a a 62-year-old Man i siring Ford motor co. For $10 million claim ing that it sent him to Russia in the 1930sto help build an Auto Plant and then abandoned him to the mercies of a soviet Pris on Camp. Floridian Dies after Alligator bite Punta Gorda Fla. Up a pal shores Man attacked by an Alligator while working on his backyard Dock died Satur Day from complications of the bite. A spokesman at the Punta Gorda medi Cal Center said George Leonard 52, had been listed in stable condition but suddenly worsened at 4 . He died at 11 35 . A seven foot female Alligator was founding the area Friday and shot to death by officers of the state game and fresh water fish commission. Two baby alligators were found under Adock near the one Leonard was working on leading officers to speculate the Mother Gator could have attacked because she Felt  Young were in  officer sgt. Neil Branch said the Gator was shot because once they bite person they will bite again. We Don t take any chances with trying to catch one  the babies were left in the canal which leads to the peace River because officers said Small gators Are not  was standing in the water of the canal working on his Dock when the Alligator bit off his . Mrs. Anne Anderson a next door neigh Bor said she and  husband heard a scream. We rushed out and found  and his daughter. His  was dangling at the Elbow,." doctors had tried to restore the  but were unsuccessful and had to Complete the amputation at the  said she and other residents of Palm shores have complained numerous times to the game commission about the number of alligators in the canal. She added that one Gator lunged at  Daugh Ter recently. Ranald Zamora left15-year-old defendant in a Florida murder trial talks with friends during a break in his trial pause in murder trial in Miami. An sex policeman testified Zamora admitted killing an 89-year-old neighbor. But his attorney contends he was under the influence of television intoxication from watching television shows of violence. A photo Victor Herman of Royal Oak mich., insisted last week that he and his father Sam Herman were among nearly 300 workers sent to Russia by Ford in 1931 to help build the Plant. But Ford denied that the Hermans worked for the firm and says it sent Only a few employees to Russia. Herman who said he believes nearly All the other workers died in prisons or concentration Camps said he tried to negotiate with Ford officials when he returned to this country last year. I thought they would be glad to see me or at least shed a tear for the others Herman said. They seemed very sympathetic at first. But it seems they Are afraid if they do anything for me others will turn  a hearing Date for Herman s lawsuit filed sept. 23 in . District court has not been set. The suit alleges Herman was employed at a Detroit area Ford Plant in 1931 when at the age of 16, he and his father answered an advertisement calling for workers to help build to soviet Plant. Once they arrived in Russia the suit charges Ford never tried to find out what happened to the workers nor did it try to bring any of them Home. The suit does not say what happened to Herman s father. Ford the suit says owed Herman a duty to safeguard his rights and because it did not do so should pay him $10 million in damages. But . Nolte Ford vice president and general counsel said records show the firm sent a few of its employees to work in a soviet Auto Plant. And he said we believe All of the Ford employees returned safely to the United states in the Early 1930s. Neither or. Herman nor his father was among the Ford employees sent to Russia by the company Nolte added. Nolte said the soviet government independently hired a number of Auto work ers from the United states and the  mans May have been included in that group. Herman said he was arrested in 1938 for no apparent reason and spent 12 years in a siberian labor Camp. After his release he spent another six years in Siberia marry ing and fathering two daughters Svetlana and Janna now in their 20s. He said he later became a boxing coach and Pilot but never renounced his . Citizenship and fought constantly for per Mission to leave. That permission was granted in 1976, with the help of a Cousin who is an attorney in the United states. Last May Svetlana and Janna were Al Lowed to join their father. Before they arrived Herman said he was assured by a Ford official that the firm would help train the Young women and give them jobs. Since then i have heard nothing  Man said. He said he has obtained a loan to put his daughters through computer programming school. His wife Galina remains in the soviet Union Herman said. Russian writer gets exit of Moscow a Viktor urine author of More than 15 collections of poetry and Cre Ator of an experimental poet s theater i Moscow in the 1960s, has received Permis Sion to leave the soviet Union he told re porters