European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1978 the stars and stripes Polej week without electricity town hanging in there a chilled but huddled near Wood stoves and Kero Sene most of the people in thin Mountain Village Are determined to stick out a self imposed week without electric their refusal to use Tele visions or appliances started at noon sunday As a protest against High Power our efforts May be As revolutionary As the Boston Tea we Are people who know what we Are Ron a lumbering Rudd faced said tuesday while coding an ear toward howling winds Only four Light As night fell the Only lights glowing in this isolated town 200 Miles Northeast of san Francisco were four on the outside of the Californi Pacific Utility whose Bills ignited us pro local groceries reported big sales in Oil Camp stoves and ice a few folks sneaked a Little television but they did it by plugging portable sets into car Les a took All the food from his refrigerator and burled it in the Frozen ground of his when the pull lire plug plan was announced last few expected older people to participate since their health could be but 80yearold Lee Lvcy is doing her pulled plug on to despite the infirmities of a stroke suffered just two weeks Lively told a re Porter she had yanked the plug on her to and is using Only one this blackout has brought everybody to town closer said High school janitor Frank instead of watching the Boob tube All were get Ling out and visiting each and people Are helping Patty one of the protest or said the step Back into the 19th Century was not taken dont get us this blackout is a very sen pus theres nothing funny about Utility Bills that have doubled and tripled in the Post residents speak of monthly Bills As High As for that is almost half of their unemployment Westwood has a Winter unemployment Rale of about 80 percent when the primary shuts Thurmond brother indicted gab est Mike genial Host at a Philadel Phi abased talk who went to hol Lywood to celebrate the taping of his tells admirers he secret of his Success is the celebrity guest who shares emcee honors with him u week it a Here his guest is actress Suzanne up apparent pressure Over cuts Dod orders Al 4 maker probed Washington a defense Secrce Harold Brown ordered an i Vestiga i tuesday into an apparent Effort by unman aerospace to organize pressure on Congress to restore cuts in i next years pm fighter Brown acted after a cop of a her under a i calling i All Grumman Industrial team Mem is for help in urging Congress to Over Rule the Pentagon on the 1 the Carter administration has proposed trimming the pm program for fiscal year 11978 from 36 requested by the to Grumman is the Fps prime the letter bears the name of Vas vice president for corporate procure t Grumman officials had a immediate comment on the Brown ordered Navy and defense comp it Ellers to determine whether Money paid to Grumman under the f14 contract has been used or is being used in this apparent t wart by the Pentagon officials said the defense Sec i wary also plans to ask either Navy Secre Graham Claytor or  James Woolsey if the Cosmos 989 launched Kupij the soviet Union launched Cosmos Tui latest in its s Oscie Niffie Theta a news y Tau said the satellite carried for continuing outer space sex Navy is playing any role in trying id re verse a decision made by offence depart ment leaders and president the Grumman letter said the defense Secretary for reasons which Are totally unclear arbitrarily Cut the navys mini mum stated requirements and that this Cut places the readiness of our sea based striking forces in a precarious and untenable evidently aimed at the letter we Are asking you to assist the Navy and Grumman in getting these much needed f14s reinstated through the legislative saying that aerospace subcontractors generally have Good the letter we Are asking for your assistance in conveying this urgent message to the con it suggested that the subcontractors would be Hurt by production saying that for Many off fiscal Yean 1979 is work in process Brown told Congress in his annual report 2 that Cost growth in the pro Gram has caused us to decide upon a stretched Fth he the planned total Pur Chase of 521 Fps for the Heel has not been the Navy has been criticized by Penta gon analysts for inefficient spending on combat planes the analysts has put the Navy in the position of obtain ing fewer aircraft than it a Allan brother of Strom Mir was indicted by a Federal grand jury tuesday on 14 counts of medi Caid a North Augusta obstetrician and and an Nell face up to in fines and five years in jail on each of the counts if the grand jury indictment alleged that the pair filed false claims Tor payments from the Federal medicaid program be tween june 1s73 and january the indictment listed the names of each woman for whom a payment claim was the amount of each claim and the treatment allegedly rendered to each woman for whom a payment claim was indictment it said Thurmond and Shaffer received in medicaid payments after filing claims payment for services per formed by other doctors and personnel Al University Hospital in just across the state line from North the grand jury said Thurmond and Shaf Fer continued to prepare and submit such false and fraudulent claims after having been advised by staff physicians and hos Pital officials that Hospital physicians would submit claims for All services Ren dered by members of the Hospital neither Thurmond nor Shaffer was immediately available for comment an the in Strom in a Telephone View from said another George had told him that Allan is not and 1 have full Faith in the jurors of South 1 wont have any other comment us this declines comment Terrell Glenn of Allan thur mond s declined to comment on the i dont try my casts out of in january Thurmond was among 20 physicians named by the stale Legisla Tive audit Council in a list of doctors who allegedly filed medicaid payment claims for services not the an Arm of the slate general said Thurmond was overpaid by in medicaid Thurmond said then there was no intentional wrongdoing on his and in february 1977 i sent the stale department of social services a Check for f which department officials said represented every bit of what was considered an Over Spike Milligans wife Dies London a the 43yearold wife of British comedian Spike Milligan has died from the former actress Patricia Ridgeway had been married to Milligan for 15 years they had one now for Snow spells crisis api for 7yearold Kristi a we Klong blizzard Means a ride with daddy on the family but her rancher Jerry looks across the vast expanses of snowed in cattle country with a somber Eye that sees you ask if a crisis is coming weve had a crisis for a Sikorski told a newsman who arrived in a helicopter the first sunny Day after a we Klong blizzard that left info thigh snowdrifts in some Shes already missed 3i Days of school this Sikorski said of his Montana cattle Are feed sup Plica Are Short and getting Many ranchers who have feed cant get it to their some herds Are already calving in Winter pastures that have been covered by Snow for nearly 11 whose family is virtually Iso lated on a spread just West of the Montana North Dakota said his ranch is luckier than some others be cause he has heavy equipment to churn through we still lost Lour calves we just rum the  make it a Hal Miu House to Llu feed he Montana National guard helicopters have been flying emergency missions since last transporting fuel and other things to those Cut off by Thomas judge has called on the fed eral government for disaster five Highway deaths have been blamed on poor Road conditions since last but no other weather related deaths have been at a meeting in Helena stale officials decided against starting an Emer gency officials said original Esti mates Al dead cattle and sheep were revised downward to about 800 cattle and 500 this is the worst Winter anybody has Ever seen around said