European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes february 197s lending Bill will include mortgages f of a Bill awaiting usually add up to More than the Cost of the under the Consumers would Washington f a a Bill awaiting a Vole by the Senate would allow prospective homeowners to Many for the first thai they Are paying More in in Terest charges for their mortgage than they do for the House the provision is Par of a Bill changing the 10yearold truth in lending Tow Senate banking committee unanimously recommended the Bill for when the Law was written a decade ago Home mortgages were excluded because of the feeling that Consumers would be less Likely to buy a Home if told All of the financing charges Over the 25or 30year course of a mortgage charges which usually add up to More than the Cost of the Maryland and Massachusetts have enacted disclosure Laws for Mort and several senators said the experience of the two states shows they do not discourage Home it is a question of whether you can Trust people to have the said Donald William agreed and said disclosure of the Dollar figure would allow the consumer to for sex exactly what the difference is be tween a mortgage at 9 percent and one at 9v4 under the consumer also would get a simpler statement of the terms their Loans than under the Prasert who sponsored the i96s truth in lending also is sponsoring the chaired by acted after both credit institutions and consumer groups testified at hearings mat the Law has too Many Complex the statement now Given to customers lists about at items of including the addition and subtraction Steps in computing various under the the consumer would be Given Only figures for the total finance the amount of monthly pay j Board and the Federal Trade the two regulatory Agency in most closely involved with the truth in  require the Federal serve to collect interest rates from various lenders in certain areas and publish them so that Consumers can compare the Fig Proxmire said this test program would see whether making the i formation available before Purchase makes Compa Rison shopping Doc opposes colleague in laetrile suit Atlanta up1 a fellow doctor testified wednesday against congressman physician Larry target of a million malpractice suit brought by the family of a deceased cancer patient Mcdonald treated with Benjamin a member of the Georgia Board of human resources and head of its physical health was the Lead off witness in the Federal court brought by the family of former postman John the family contends that Scott could have survived had conventional chemical therapy been used in his the suit names Mcdonald and doctors memo rial Hospital and argues that Mcdonald is incompetent and poses a menace As a Okel told District judge Richard Freeman and the six Man jury hearing the Case that be tulle has no scientific basis As a treatment for and that its use constitutes a violation of medical Tel read the jury an article of the jew Krnican medical associations standards ethics saying doctors must use Only treatments founded on a scientific California artist John Holmes displays three examples of nil artistic artistic footwork at his Mill Valley his footstools from left to ski he never found any s Uel rile conventional shoe and Tennis shoes the latter with in mar he is six More weeks of Winter Phil casts a chilling Shadow a Punxsutawney the weather watching followed both tradition and the i Odds thursday by reportedly seeing his to believers in the groundhog this Means six More weeks of Winter the whiskers rodent crawled from his warm Burrow shortly after Sunrise and glimpsed his As groundhogs Are said to have done almost every one of the past do Charles m president of the Punxsutawney groundhog an too 1 St robber took it Seattle i api masked gunman 2 was two hours too  believe that the store had been robbed two hours before and that what he was asking for was police when pharmacist Frank Roe convinced the second robber that the drugs he was demanding had already been taken he settled for substitutes and bounced the forecast after talking to Phil in ground Ogese outside the animals ceremonial Home on gobblers his Royal the King of Punk emerged from his Burrow to cast a noticeably Long said who along with a dozen other club members was dressed in top hat and the forecast is for six More weeks of cobblers Knob is a wooded Hilt Overlook ing this Western Pennsylvania in last the special Burrow has been High on the but this year it was moved to a Small wooded Ravine to accommodate phils Phil was taken from his comfortable museum Cage before the ceremony and tucked into his snug outdoor the new spot will make it easier for everyone to see Phil when he pops his head Erhard club members insist the new digs will not affect the accuracy of their seer of Phil is known to Nave been wrong Only one Erhard its still the same and Hes still As accurate As he 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