European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 30, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 hell run 26-mi/e race with artificial leg Chicago up Jerry Benson s super vet to shirt won t be the Only thing to distinguish him from the hundreds of other runners in the mayor Daley Marathon next month. Benson 28, a Marine Veteran from suburban South Holland will attempt to run the 26-mile course with an artificial leg. His my leg was severed above the ankle nine years ago by mortar fire in Vietnam. Benson who prided himself on his athletic abilities underwent six operations to relieve the pain. Bat surgery could not Correct the emotional pain from the realization his sports Days might be Over. I wanted to do the things i d Dove before but the doctors and pros Theus makers said it was impossible he said. They Only had one Type of leg and it was Only Good for  but that changed after a 171 visit to Fitzsimmons Hospital in  had a Chance to see Many other Guys and the prosthetics they used. It give me ideas. Id that waste do degree leg foot join new leg was designed m Benson could lean Forward without taunt after Gandng his Confidence at bowing Benson decided he could ran and that led to basketball baseball and even surfing. To run the Marathon be began a Rig. Orbs training program last month which includes a Dally routine of 1h hours of swimming Riding a bicycle 20 Miles and naming five Miles. With super vet emblazoned on Hist Short Benson said he will ran the sept 24 Marathon not or myself but for disabled and handicapped  i could live with myself whither i finish or not. Bat i d sure like to hush. Maybe then More veterans would get the same ideas i did that much More is possible and open to  chief of Hud deplores prejudice against poor because they Are poor Washington a Patricia Harris Secretary of the department of housing and Urban development said monday that recent social Progress in this country is endangered by the resurrection of prejudice against the poor because they Are  this attitude contributed to the passage of proposition 13. She said which Many Ca wornian supported because they thought it would Cut welfare payments and end educational services to children of undocumented  the proposition adopted in California limits property taxes. Harris appealed to a convention of the National Council of la  Unity among minorities and among the poor to combat what she called this new kind of prejudice against the  it is a kind of prejudice that i have de scribed in the past As the acceptance of a Black Cabinet member but the refection of a subsidized housing project for the poor she said. It is a kind of prejudice that is born of the false allegation that people Are poor pan am gets of on Stock Purchase Battle to buy airline heats up Washington a the Battle by two airlines to acquire control of National airlines heated up monday when the civil aeronautics Board authorized pan Ameri can world airways to Purchase up to 25percent of National s common Stock. The cab earlier had granted that Sam authority to Texas International airlines. But next month it could order both airlines Tofu the  Board has invited Public comments on voting trusts submitted by both pan Amand Texas International and will decide after a 30-Day period whether to approve the trusts or to order divestiture by the two  its monday order the cab also As signed the Texas International National acquisition Case and the North Central Southern airways merger Case to separate administrative Law judges. It is expected to assign a judge to the pan am National Case later this  Board directed the judges to make decisions by Jan. 2. It earlier set March 1as a target Date for its final ruling. The order also denied National s request or an order preventing the two carriers from buying any More of its Stock. A halt in further illegal purchases of National Stock is necessary to allow National s Board to fulfil its responsibility of examining the pan am offer free from the pressures of a Stock Market raffle National chairman . Maytag said. The Federal aviation act was designed to prevent the kind of ill considered Stock buying dogfight that this situation could very Well turn into he  International launched its sur share. Since then u.s., Bolivia Exchange Washington up a Griffin Bell announced. Al shares giving it about 11.9 percent of National s  a previous cab ruling Texas International was Given authority to buy shares beyond the 9.2 percent Only when monday s official order was issued. The Board s Bureau of enforcement will deter mine if punitive action should be taken against the  has doggedly fought the Texas International takeover attempt. But it said it wants to study pan am s offer to buy National for j286 million or j35 a  pan am made its offer last week it said it already owned 411,600 shares or4.8 percent of National s Stock. In the cab s Only comment chairman Alfred e. Kahn said last week that the Board under its philosophy is always very concerned when it loses a competitor in a free Market  cab approval would be required for a merger. In the North Central Southern Case the two airlines announced in july they have reached in principle a in Foj Rathe terms include issuance of 2.2 shares of North Central common Stock for each share of Southern Stock. Only because they choose to be so nourished by the exaggerated image of a sys tem that takes from the Rich to give to the poor and encouraged by the callous Mes Sage that the poor should now be left to fend for themselves Harris  convention theme is Varios Modos Una Voz which translates into various ways one  Harris said it is Apt. There is no time she said for Power struggles among Blacks hispanics or native americans for resentment by the elderly or childless of tax for schools or for resistance by younger workers of taxes for social Security benefits for the elderly. It is time for us All to work together Toni in the Bud this new kind of prejudice against the poor she said. Drug caused Boyer death Phoenix Ariz. Up actor Charles Boyer who died saturday apparently committed suicide because he was despondent Over the death of his wife and his own health a Maricopa county medical examiner said  of an autopsy showed a lethal level of barbiturates in Boyer s blood. He died saturday and was to be buried monday his 79th  s wife of 44 years Patricia a former English actress died of cancer thursday. Boyer did not attend his wife s funeral in California on saturday and was due to have prostate  spokesman for the medical exam Iner s office said the amount of seconal in Boyer s blood was about three times the lethal amount. A simple graveside ceremony was prepared for the actor. 21-weeks1 officer training j a  Marine meets Ngi test. To undergo the Rigours of Marine   a and she is the Only one who is preg Ca Cuil Iii urn a i through such training. , it took even longer for some of a men to get used to training with a preg Nant woman. At first some of the a we necks were almost patronizing toward we Wool 118-Dound second lieutenant one asked me i Eyt me. Now they Don t even door tag said Jacobson. Who last week Snow sed a machine gun tripod and 400 rounds of ammunition during a Field Jacobson. 25. Is one of the first pregnant a fs"1just so Short i bad up we so e d a Icson. Who Effim women marines who be two weeks a8ta Marine corps de j.T, from the Kra