European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 8, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 grand jury probes Carter aide Bank files paper says Atlanta a a Federal grand jury has subpoenaed Bank records on financial transactions involving president Carter and his Campaign advertising manager Gerald Rafshoon. An Atlanta newspaper  White House spokesman declined comment on the report except to say obviously if there is something going on with the grand jury we can t  quoting unidentified sources thurs Day s Atlanta Constitution reported the grand jury subpoenaed records of the National Bank of Georgia in its investigation of the financial dealings of Bert Lance. Lance was Carter s first director of the office of management and budget and is a former president of the National Bank of Georgia. House claims abortion not a n s Washington a the . Civil rights commission should expand its jurisdiction to discrimination cases involving age or Handicap but must steer Clear of abortion issues the House has decided. A Bill passed wednesday by voice vote would extend the commission s life for five years and add the new responsibilities to its current mandate to oversee enforce ment of Laws barring discrimination be cause of race color sex religion or National origin. An amendment tacked onto the Bill would prohibit abortion investigations by the commission. The commission has not been actively involved in abortion cases in the past and there was no indication it planned to be More Active in that area in the  Senate version of the measure also would Grant new jurisdiction in discrimination cases involving age or handicaps. But it would extend the commission s life for Only three years and it does not men Tion abortion. Differences Between the House and sen ate versions would have to be ironed out if the legislation is to become Law. Pioneer architect Dies san Francisco a Thomas Church a Pioneer of modern architecture in America and a principal planner for Stanford University and other College campuses has died after a Long illness. He was 76. On sept. 21, 1977, Lance resigned As bomb director after questions were raised about his personal financial dealings while head of the Georgia Bank. The newspaper said Robert Guyton National Bank of Georgia president con firmed the Federal grand jury in Atlanta investigating Lance has subpoenaed Bank records. Under Lance the Bank loaned $1 million to the Peanut warehouse business owned by the Carter family and extended $3.7 million in revolving credit to pay Farmers for their crops the Constitution said. The Constitution quoted Howard roths child president of the Gerald Rafshoon advertising inc., As saying the firm has had an account with the National Bank of Georgia since december 1976. Rafshoon who handled Carter s Campaign advertising in 1976 and became the president s assistant for communications earlier this year has placed his controlling interest in the and Agency in Trust. Carter also has placed his interest in the Peanut warehouse into a Trust for his family. Last june the Federal elections com Mission fined Carter s 1976 presidential Campaign committee $1,200 and the National Bank of Georgia $5,000 in the delayed payment by the committee of fees for use of a Bank air plane. The committee and the Bank agreed to pay the fines with the stipulation that Nei ther Side admitted any deliberate wrong  Fec maintained the committee s failure to pay the Bank for use of the air Craft until August 1977 violated the Law prohibiting a corporation from providing free services or equipment to a political candidate. Has non measurable in catching some rays Tommy White of Hampton va., catches Only Sun rays As he sits Despo Dently on a pier piling after a futile afternoon of crabbing in Harris Creek. Up College is Breeze for 13-year-old Winston Salem . A Sheri Johnson just might be the calmest fresh Man at Salem College. For. Johnson school is a Breeze. And even though she s Only 13, she s already lectured at a College. There s nothing for me to be afraid of certainly not College work she says. Johnson is one of eight children of Robert and Virginia Johnson of Doylestown a. I can handle that and All my friends from High school Are 18 or so so i know i can handle other  there is one thing she says she could t handle being Back in the eighth Grade with people my own age. You know i d be bored so  school is not the Only Breeze for John son who reportedly has an immeasurable in. She has walked away from violin and piano recitals with virtuoso ratings lec tured on the problems of gifted children at William Patterson College and began Reading before starting kindergarten. Officials at Salem College a women s school with about 600 students were initially worried about a 13-year-old in a col lege dormitory. Then they met Johnson. After talking with Sheri and her Mother we were convinced she s Able to handle Campus life set and meet her own Stan Dards and function Well with older Stu dents said Virginia Johnson no rela Tio Dean of  be run into a lot of people who Don t like the idea of my going ahead so fast the youngster said. They re afraid i la be harmed in some Way if 1 gel away from people my own age.1 she says she s headed for a career in music therapy to Combine her love for music psychology and people and her desire for quiet thought Good poetry. And talking with people who Are willing to talk about what they believe in and  i push myself nobody pushes  she says. England pays off 166-year-old Book Bill to . Washington up the British compensated the Library of Congress wednesday for three books which were used As kindling when the redcoats burned Down the . Capitol and the Library in Side it during the War of 1812. Brigadier David Houston military at tache in the British embassy presented librarian Daniel j. Boorstin with contemporary five Pound and one Pound notes and with 14 rare antique shillings As payment. The three books Worth about $13 at the time were published by Oxford University press and the ceremony helped observe the 500th anniversary of the oldest publish ing House in English or England. It was founded 14 years before Columbus discovered  books were lord Edward Hyde Cla Rendon s history of the rebellion Wil Liam Blackstone s commentaries of the Laws of England and Robert Eden s jurisprudential , not Only these but nearly All of the Library s collection was destroyed in the fire. A few survived and remain in the libary s rare Book  Library was housed in the Capitol until 1897, when it moved into its ornate Headquarters across the Street. Boorstin said the fire proved to be a Blessing. The destruction of the original collection caused Congress to Purchase for $25,000 the 6,000 books collected Over his lifetime by Thomas Jefferson covering every Field of human knowledge at the , the Library had been limited to Law books but Jefferson in a letter about the Sale of his books commented that there was hardly a subject a member of Congress would t have reason to know something  officials noticed in preparing for the ceremony that few Oxford univer sity press books were in Jefferson s i  explanation came from Fred Goff retired chief of the rare Book collection. He said Jefferson was hungry for All sorts of books so he always bought the cheapest editions. Oxford University press were too expensive for  ceremony marked the opening thursday of an exhibition of historic books in 70 languages mounted to observe the qui Centenary  University press started Only 23 years after the publication of the Guten Berg Bible