European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday october 20, 1977 private data Pentagon delays release of military records to welfare cheat probe until legality assured Washington a government investigators looking for welfare cheaters have personnel information on 2.8 million Federal employees but military records Are being withheld because of Pentagon con Cerns about  Secretary Joseph a. Califano or. Has ordered the personnel information including employee names social Security numbers and birth dates compared with data on government welfare Rolls in what he has dubbed operation  the plan is designed to identify Federal employees taking welfare benefits from the government legally or improperly. New legion deaths hit ala., Tenn. Atlanta up new cases of legionnaires disease were reported tuesday in two Cluster areas of Tennessee and Vermont and Alabama and Georgia re ported new deaths from the disease. The National Center for disease control in Atlanta also reported additional sporadic cases of the illness in other states. A spokesman said efforts were being made by the cd to compile an updated list of confirmed cases and deaths across the nation caused by legionnaires disease. The Georgia death was the first known victim in that state while Alabama listed its second known death from the disease. The Georgia health department said George Kendrick 63. Of Dawson was admitted to a Hospital sept. 5 for treatment of pneumonia like symptoms and died sept. 20. Disease confirmed City health officials in Huntsville ala., confirmed monday that a patient in a Huntsville Hospital died of legionnaires disease after a two Day Hospital stay. The victim was listed As 69-year-old Louie Mckay a custodial worker at the univer sity of Alabama in Huntsville. It was the second reported Case of the mysterious respiratory ailment in Ala Bama. The first Alabama victim was a Man in his mid 60 s who died last summer according to state health officials. Five new cases of the illness were con firmed by Laboratory tests in the Kings port Tenn., area bringing to 17 the total stricken in that East Tennessee City since aug. 1. Health officials there said 65 cases of respiratory illness were still under surveil Lance tuesday 11 of which have been found negative so far As legionnaires Dis ease was concerned. Three persons have died of legionnaires disease since the outbreak began in the Kingsport area entered mainly at hol Ston Valley Community Hospital and two nearby residential areas Cherokee Village and Gibsonton. Kingsport was one of three Cluster spots in the nation where the disease has struck in what appeared to be More than Normal frequency compared to the rest of the nation. The cd in conjunction with state health officials have launched intensive investigations in those areas in an Effort to find out How the disease is spread and what factors trigger outbreaks. Another Cluster state Vermont re ported two More cases of legionnaires disease tuesday bringing to 22 the total number of cases including 12 deaths in that , the third legionnaires disease hot spot listed new sporadic cases. The investigation in that state entered on the City of Columbus where most of nine previous cases and one death occurred. Federal health officials were trapping rodents in the Kingsport area to determine if they might be a source of transmission or carriers of the ailment. Civil service commission officials said tuesday they have Given the department of health education and welfare computer tapes identifying All government employees except those in Security agencies and some congressional and judicial posts. A memorandum Between the commis Sion and hew s inspector general said the giant social service Agency promises to safeguard the data it gets and destroy the files when it is  a spokesman for the Pentagon said its lawyers and privacy Board officials thought Califano s request for sensitive personnel data might violate the Federal privacy act. The Law was designed to limit the flow of personal information from Agency to Agency. We talked to hew and the office of management and budget about it the spokesman said. We just wanted to make sure this thing was done legally. Our really was to see if there was any Way we could comply with the request and the act  officials decided they would proceed under a Section of the privacy Law that permits Transfer of personnel information Between agencies for so called routine  in order to do that the Pentagon must publish its plan in the Federal Register and give the Public and individuals affected by the Transfer an Opportunity to object. The civil service commission said it was acting under a different Section of the Law that permits it to turn Over files on employees to Law enforcement agencies investigating civil and criminal cases. The request for private help in opera Tion match came from Califano after the government Learned that 1,732 Federal employees were on the District of Columbia welfare Rolls. Big Bird begins its descent the concorde set makes its Landing tonal Airport in new York arriving 3 hours 44 minutes and ended a l /2 approach to John f. Kennedy internal from Toulouse France. The flight took year Battle Over Landing rights. A concorde makes its Maiden flight to . S Kennedy without fanfare new York a the concorde set swooped through an overcast sky wednes Day morning and landed at Kennedy inter National Airport ending a Ivic year struggle to keep the faster than sound Pas Senger Jet out of new York. The Sun broke through and glistened on the White body of the Needle beaked plane As it touched Down with one Bounce on the runway at 11 09 a.m., 3 hours and 44 min utes after it took off from Toulouse in Southwest France where it was built. Observers at the Airport and sightseers in the Rockaway Section of Queens under the concorde s Glide path thought the land ing was quiet. I m Here 46 years and i be put up with 707s and 747s and they re twice As loud As this plane was today said Bill Gradiska a Steelworker who fives in far Rockaway. I heard nothing. It was unbelievably soundless and  but Jerry Jones of Rosedale who watched from the far Rockaway Board walk fronting the Atlantic commented right now it May be a very Beautiful sight but there s a very heavy wind thrust Lien is keeping the noise away from  the concorde s Maiden visit to new York was an Anglo British familiarization flight with the colors of British airways on the starboard Side of the Tail and air France s on the port Side. The plane car ried test equipment technicians and other personnel but no passengers. Regular commercial service was scheduled to begin nov. 22. About 40 persons were aboard the 130-ton, Triangle winged Jet. Combined with the heavy equipment aboard total weight schoolgirl wins damages London a Swiss schoolgirl Cor Nelia Studer was awarded $70,000 damages by the High court for being served caustic soda in mistake for lemonade. The cleaning acid was in a lemonade bottle left by a brewery company which had been servicing bar equipment at an Indian restaurant in Canterbury. Cornelia 10, who was on Holiday with her parents suffered permanent Throat damage he counsel said. Was about As much As with a Normal Load of passengers As concorde came Down at its Landing Speed of 160 Miles per hour. A heavy Airport Security Force was on hand but no untoward incident marred the Landing. About a dozen helicopters circled above As the concorde taxied to its Home for the next few Days hangar 17. Police and coast guard boats stood off in Jamaica Bay bordering the Field. Anti set forces had planned nothing for the Airport wednesday but vowed continued Legal fighting and big demonstrations to Block regular commercial  maintain the 1,350-mile-per hour Jet which halves the time it takes subsonic jets to Cross the Atlantic Between new York and London and Paris is illegally noisy and environmentally dangerous and wasteful. The backers of concorde have acknowledged that the plane cannot succeed commercially if denied the right to serve Newyork. About 100 spectators lined the runway for the Landing and Airport workers gawked at the Triangle winged Bird from atop other hangars