European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday september 21, 1978 stateside House passes Bill increasing duty exemption Washington a the House opened the Way tuesday for . Travellers to bring Home triple the goods they formerly could Purchase on trips abroad without paying duty. House members passed and sent to president Carter a Bill increasing the per Sonal duty exemption from $100 to $300 on goods brought in from foreign countries and from $200 to $600 on goods imported from the . Virgin islands Guam or american Samoa. The Bill also extensively revises Cus Toms procedures generally to provide for use of More modern equipment and meth ods and to permit a More flexible assess ment of penalties for violations. One of its principal sponsors rep. James r. Jones d-okla., told the House it represents the first Reform of the custom service since the Early 1950s. It is the first step in modernizing the service Jones said. The Bill is a Compromise Between ver Sions earlier passed by the House and sen ate. The Senate already has approved the Compromise and the Carter administration favors it. Corker s approval rating soars after Summit Vadim s new screen lady movie director Roger Vadim who launched the careers of Brigitte Bardot Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda uses a picture Frame to present Little known new York actress Cindy Pickett in Hollywood. She will Star in his new picture night games which begins shooting soon. Up Washington up president car Ter s approval rating among the american Public soared to 51 percent up 13 percentage Points since last june following the Camp David Summit a lbs news pol has revealed. This is the first increase in Carter s approval during his presidency the poll said. The lbs poll said the Public gives car Ter More of the credit for the successful conclusion of the Summit than either egyptian president Anwar Sadat or israeli prime minister Menachem begin. In another poll related to the Summit Abc news said More than 90 of the 120 members of the israeli parliament would vote to remove israeli settlements in the occupied Sinai. The Abc poll also indicated All israeli parties expect the communists would vote overwhelmingly for removal of the Settle ments. Archie s chair becomes smithsonian addition Betty Ford released from Hospital Washington up if you doubt that television has become a Force in american life you should have been at the smithsonian when the watergate judge and a former presidential candidate came mystery illness strikes ago. Cops probing death Pevely to. A six police offi cers became mysteriously ill while exam ining a Home where a woman had died of unknown causes authorities say. Forty families were evacuated from the neigh boyhood As a precaution. Police in this town of 1,000 persons South of St. Louis said the body of Bonnie Boyer 36, was found in a bedroom tuesday by her Mother Eva Sims. The Mother who had tried repeatedly to reach her daughter by Telephone also found mrs. Boyer s Hus band and two children stricken in the Liv ing room Jefferson county Coroner or. James c. Rehm said mrs. Boyer had been dead 8 to10 hours. Her husband Robert Boyer 36, a . Army sergeant was listed in serious Condi Tion wednesday at veterans administration Hospital in St. Louis. The couple s children Tanya 16, and Barry 12, were in critical condition at car Dinal Glennon memorial Hospital in , authorities said. Rehm said there were no signs of foul play or traces of methane  in the House. A team of pathologists in St. Louis was trying to determine the cause of the illness to treat the other family members. Or. George Gantner jr., medical examiner for St. Louis said tests had ruled out arsenic and several other toxic substances. Pevely police sgt. Harry White said six officers working at the scene became ill including me and one of the officers had been hospitalized. He said the families were evacuated from the area As a precautionary measure. To pay homage to a chair the one Archie Bunker sat in. Archie s chair and Edith a too be came museum artefacts in a plastic Cage presented tuesday night to the museum of history and technology by television entrepreneur Norman Lear who created All in the  smithsonian Secretary s. Dillon Ripley accepted on behalf of the institution. He called the chairs part of the nation s Cul Tural  Lear paid for  that followed shrimp and roast beef whiskey wine and Beer demitasse and Petit fours and a Model fashioned of strawberries and Melon balls of the Bunker House in Queens n. Y. Stringed instruments played. Sen. Barry Goldwater r-ariz., was there in a Black tie. Also attending were judge John j. Sirica who presided Over the watergate trials presidential trouble shooter Robert Strauss consumer adviser Esther Peterson half a caucus of senators and a Quarter quorum of congressmen. Carroll o Connor who portrays Archie telephoned from California where High blood pressure prevented him from Mak ing the flight to Washington. Jean Stapleton who plays Archie s wife came in person and said she was tickled that even the smithsonian considered Edith real and important. Earlier members of the cast met presi Dent Carter at the White House. He said the show has changed the consciousness four  at , a smithsonian official confided that the question of whether to accept so trifling an artefact with so Large a Cere Mony had raised an internal dispute within the institution. Opponents said it was All very Well if the museum wanted to create a scholarly col Lection on the history of television in acknowledging its role As a cultural phenom Enon but it showed no dignity to Start with a commotion Over a pair of chairs. Colombian leads Assembly United nations a colombian foreign minister Indalecio Lievano Aguirre has been elected president of . General Assembly. Palm Springs Calif. A former first lady Betty Ford has been discharged from the Eisenhower medical Center after undergoing Facelift surgery a Hospital spokeswoman said. Ford who left the Hospital tuesday was characteristically candid about her latest Hospital stay when she entered the Palm Springs facility last week for the cosmetic surgery. She said doctors would remove puffiness around her eyes and tighten the skin on her neck. Following the surgery Ford family spokesman Bob Barrett said everything went real Well. She s feeling  last april Ford underwent treatment at the Long Beach naval Hospital for drug and alcohol dependence. Although doctors said she was having a problem with medi cation prescribed to Dull the pain from arthritis and a pinched nerve in her neck Ford said later that she was not Only addicted to the medication. But also to  during her husband s presidency Ford had a cancerous breast removed. She won Praise from the medical profession for he openness about the problem. House oks naming building after Lindbergh Washington a the House has approved a Bill that would commemorate the late Charles Lindbergh by naming a building for the aviator near the spot where he took off in 1927 on his historic trans Atlantic flight. The new terminal radar approach control building in Hempstead Long Island n.y., would be named the Charles a. Lind Bergh Federal building. Other Bills would name Federal buildings in Pittsburg Kan., after rep. Joe Skubitz a Kan. In Griffin ga., after rep. John j. Flynt jr., a a. In Shreveport la., after rep. Joe d. Waggonner a la. In Abilene Texas after rep. Omar Burleson a Tex As and in Midland Texas after  h. Mahon a Texas. Additional Bills would name buildings in big Stone  va., after the late rep. C. Bascom Slemp in Champaign iii., after former rep. William l. Springer and in Jonesboro ark., after rep. Ezekiel Candler took gaining. Family of 3 in Chicago after 13-month sail Chicago a to Ronald Cudmore and his wife Anne being vagabonds at heart was t enough. Cudmore last year took a leave of absence from his banker s Post a Dublin ire land sold his Home bought a 36-foot sail boat and embarked on an 8,000-Milecruise. The venture was made a bit More difficult by the presence of one other Crew member the couple s son Kristin who was Only 15 months old when they Lef Cork. The family set sail aug. 6, 1977, with a year s Supply of food. They stopped in Spain Portugal Gibraltar North Africa the Canary islands and Barbados. They arrived in Chicago last week 13 months and one Day after leaving Ireland. People wonder Why we d do such a thing and spend so much for a trip cud More said monday. But life s too Short to worry about that. I be had experiences you can t buy with Money. I be gotten to know my wife and son like i never could in ire land or Here in  newly found asteroid named to Honor Summit Pasadena Calif. Up Rasha 1pm, the conjunction of an ancient egyptian god and the hebrew greeting was the name Given tuesday to a newly discovered Large asteroid which spins around the Sun mostly inside Earth s orbit. The discovery of the asteroid a Little Over 2 Miles in diameter was announced at California Institute of technology by planetary scientist Eleanor Helin and Cal tech president Marvin Goldberger. Helin who first found the asteroid sept. 10, said she named it a shalom in Honor of the successful Middle East Summit meetings at Camp David which conclude sunday. She said that a is the ancient egyptian Sun god and Symbol of enlighten to and shalom is the traditional hebrew greeting of peace. It May stand As a Symbol of the univer Sal Hope for peace she said