European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday september 27, 1978 return to Washington Elizabeth Ray former Capitol Hill Secretary who was linked romantically with rep. Wayne Hays a Ohio before he resigned stands on the Steps of the Capitol As she greets reporters and photographers. She said she came Back to Washington to pick up some things she left behind. A photo $7.5 million apartment Complex is his for $449 Sacramento Calif. Apall Terry Sundkvist wanted was his $50 cleaning de posit refunded. Now he owns the $1.5 Mil lion apartment Complex where he once lived. Using his knowledge of Small claims court and a corporation s unwitting cooperation the attorney was Able to pay $449.31 at a county marshal s auction and study finds 3/4 of persistently poor Are Black Washington a More than three fourths of the citizens who remain poor year after year Are Black according to a federally financed study. The statistic presented to a congressional task Force monday was described As a shocking bit of information by the task Force chairman rep. Parren Mitch Ell did. The results of the 9-year study of 5,000 families were outlined by Greg j. Duncan of the University of Michigan s Survey re search Center. Blacks tend to be much More highly concentrated among the persistently poor than among the occasionally poor Dun can said. As a result he said government pro Grams aimed at eliminating Long term poverty but based on annual poverty Fig ures allocate too Little Money to Blacks. Inadequate income Duncan said Blacks made up 41 per cent of those whose family income from All sources including nontaxable items such As social Security payments was not enough to lift them above the poverty Levelin 1975. But of those who have remained below the poverty line every year since 1967 according to that method of reckoning 77 percent were Black he said. Using Only taxable income As a Mea sure Duncan said Blacks made up 27 per cent of those who were poor in 1975 and 44 per cent of those who had been in poverty for nine years. Blacks make up about 11 percent of . Population. Receive a certificate of Sale for the 95-Unitlaura Dawn Manor. The former owners Sac land investors Are trying to Settle with Sundkvist so they can sell the Complex. Sundkvist now an at Torney in Portland ore., says he has re fused an offer of $10,000. The firm also is disputing his claim in Sacramento Superior court calling the acquisition an extraordinary  it began in 1973, when the then 23-year old Mcgeorge Law school student and his wife moved from their apartment. Sundkvist says that when the manager said the cleaning Deposit would not be re turned although the apartment had been left clean Sundkvist wrote to the firm s Legal agent Patricia Lapan of san lean Dro. He says he received no reply. She says she vaguely remembers instructing the manager that Sundkvist was not entitled Toa refund. On March 13, 1975, Sundkvist filed suit in Small claims court seeking $50 plus costs and $200 in punitive damages. Lapan was served with a summons May 4, 1976, but she ignored it and on june 1, 1976, a default judgment of $312 was awarded to Sundkvist. When he could not get Sac land to pay the judgment Sundkvist requested that the county marshal s office auction off the Complex to meet the court s judgment. The Sale was scheduled for sept. 17, 1976, at the county courthouse and notices were sent to the parties involved. Only Sundkvist showed up and he was advised by marshals to bid for the property at $449.31, the amount of his judgment plus marshal s fees and interest. He got a certificate of Sale of real estate. Sac land had a year to pay the judgment and redeem title to the property but the notice of the marshal s Sale was returned unopened. But Sac land took notice in August 1977, when it attempted to sell the property for $1.5 million and a title search turned up Sundkvist s claim. Lapan and the firm s other lawyers first offered Sundkvist $1,000 to Clear the title but Sundkvist ignored the letters until the time for redemption ran out. The firm s lawyers offered Sundkvist More Money to extend the redemption period but his Sacramento lawyer Clarence Brown told them you re too  stateside flood says he s innocent wants trial moved los Angeles a rep. Daniel j. Flood says he s innocent of three charges of perjury and he wants to move his trial from the West coast to the East. The Pennsylvania Democrat entered his plea to the charges which involve $6,000 in alleged payoffs on monday. . District judge Malcolm Lucas set nov. 28 for the trial rejecting arguments by flood s attorney who said More time was needed for preparation of such a complicated Case. Defense attorney Axel Kleiboemer said he would seek a change of venue to the East coast because flood is not a wealthy Man and would suffer a hardship because of the Cost of travel for attorneys and witnesses. Save Money by showering with a Drefs Burlington it. Up folks who put widgets in their showers can save on hot water Bills. A widget is a Small Metal disk about the size of a dime and the Green Mountain Power co. Says it can save customers up to $40 a year on their hot water Bills. Gap announced it is offering free widgets to customers who can install them in most Shower Heads and Cut Down substantially on the amount of hot water they use. Utility officials said information about the device is being sent out in electric Bills along with a special envelope. Interested customers can mail the Enve Lope Back and Green Mountain Power will Send them a free widget. Officials said the Gadget can also be picked up at Gap offices. The widget takes some getting used to compared to a hard blasting Shower head conceded Gap marketing director Henry Boisse. But you la get just As clean in the same amount of time As before and save Money and Energy in the  German brewery worker returns to Hometown Bangor Maine a Erwin Kreuz the West German brewery worker who left his heart in Bangor while trying to find san Francisco is Back in town. This time How Ever townsfolk Are making sure he does get lost. The affable Ruddy faced Kreuz flew in and celebrated his second visit by Downing . The 50-year-old Bachelor Speaks no English but said through an interpreter at the Airport he is overjoyed to be Back in  last october Kreuz mistakenly got off a chartered flight to san Francisco during a Stopover in Bangor. He spent three Days wandering around Bangor before he realized he was not in California. When his dilemma became Public Kreuz turned into an instant celebrity. He eventually made his trip to san Francisco Courtesy of the san Francisco examiner but admitted he preferred Bangor. He is Here this time Courtesy of an insurance company and the owner of a mall he will dedicate oct. 5. Village makes a Piker out of proposition 13 Westwood to. A this Village has a problem most other communities would t mind a Little too much Money in the City coffers. With a surplus in the Treasury of More than $1,000, the 311 residents have already slashed property tax assessments by 80 percent and eliminated personal property taxes. Local Auto registration stickers Are free. And there weren t any City employees to begin with so surplus funds Aren t needed for pay raises. Adolph Frank chairman of Westwood s Board of trustees said the dilemma was caused by a one cent county sales tax approved last fall and a $1,000 Federal reve nue sharing Grant. Westwood has about 100 Homes with an average value of More than $150,000, according to City officials. The Hamlet has just two businesses within its 350 acres a country club and a Nursery and both of them do Well so they Aren t eligible to share the revenues. Frank said a Village meeting will be called sometime in october to examine Westwood s modest surplus. He said one solution would be to offer to return $1,000 to the Federal government. Cab chief forecasts Overall fare reductions new Orleans up the chairman of the civil aeronautics Board said special discount air fares soon May be replaced by Overall reductions in the Cost of Commer Cial airline tickets. Speaking to the 20th annual meeting of the National association of business economists Alfred e. Kahn said special Dis count air fares have been successful beyond my wildest  Kahn has supported air fare deregulation and making it easier for airlines to develop new markets. With the increased Competition he said rules attached to bargain flights flying at Odd hours and staying out of town for certain amounts of time will be lifted. " the philosophy is in favor of giving anybody the right to Fly anywhere he or she likes he said. That s the Way the Cracker crumbles at Yale new Haven Conn. A Yale University seems to have taken on the role of the cookie monster for some of its Stu dents. The University has removed Graham crackers from student dining Halls to save $25,000 a year according to Howard Par ish director of University dining Halls. But the removal has sparked As Many complaints among Yale s 5,150 undergraduates As tuition increases and faculty Cut backs during the last two years. Members of Yale s volleyball and basketball teams for example have circulated a petition to return the crackers that augmented the Standard daily menu. Yale decided during the summer that the Crunchy whole wheat flour Cracker was an unessential offering. Last Spring 13 cases of crackers at $8.25 a Case were Dis appearing daily from dining rooms five times More than Normal Parish said. Do busted for firing Blanks at Marine recruit x san Diego a a Marine Drill instructor convicted of firing Blanks from an m-16rifle at a 17-year-old recruit has been reduced one Grade in rank a Marine spokesman scum. A of nth Cinn in 2,4 of. Sentenced by a general court martial that convicted him ta-52fn? ? � n it la Hoo Lylor who suffered minor Burns and bruises Dur ing the incident last december at Camp Pendleton