European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 12 of Farmers cant pay debts Pinch greatest among commercialize study finds Washington a in its most comprehensive look yet at the financial Pinch on american the agriculture department says producers Are so deeply in debt they cant make their part of a detailed Survey of farms this the figure represents just Over 12 percent of the million farms covered by the but even More telling is the news that the stress is greater among so called commercialize farms those Selling at least or More in farm products form the heart of the nations Foo production among those one in three is suffering financial either because of too heavy a debt inadequate Cash flow or the study the findings arc similar to those published in when the department issued its first assessment of farm Ings financial that paper was based on the ratio of a Farmers debts to his with farms owing More than 40 percent of their Worth deemed financially the latest study adds Cash flow data to the mix to get a More Complete picture of How Well Farmers can Cope with the new report for income from a second which Many Farmers use to make their loan of the Farmers unable to make ends More than Are in the sales some or 2 percent of the Are technically with debts greater than the value of their about 20 percent of farms in the class show both High debt Load and negative Cash while another 10 percent Are considered potentially at risk be cause of High debt even though they broke even or better in this development is especially critical because com Mercial although Only 34 percent of All account for 90 percent of All farm the report certain types of farms in certain regions Are hardest the report Cash general livestock and Dairy farms account for More than three fourths of the farms under sixty percent of the financially ailing operations Are in the Corn great lakes area and Northern the study those Are the regions where drops in farm land values have been declining by up to 25 percent in 1984 while the National average was a 12 percent the study says that most farms remain financially four out of five farms have adequate debt to asset ratios and positive Cash the Survey and two of every three in the crucial commercialize category Are faring relatively but those Farmers who Are in trouble owe the bulk of the nations billion farm a worrisome statistic for Bankers and Federal As of 29 percent of farm debt was owed by producers with debt asset ratios greater than 70 considered a perilous an other 33 percent of the debt was owed by those with debts Between 40 and 70 percent of their transatlantic scouts among Jamboree crowd Story and photo by Ronald Smokey Bassett Bowling More than 20 american boy scouts and their leaders from across Europe Are among the scouts at fort for the National scout the eight Day event brings scouts to Gether from every As Well As those from and this year boy scouts of America is hosting 303 scouts and 53 leaders from 29 foreign the american scouts from Europe Are members of the transatlantic which serves More than american youths in the near East and North the 14 scouts and two leaders formed two patrols As part of the Baltimore area contingent there Are about a Hal dozen scouts from the Council working on the Jamboree the group contains a Cross Section of military and civilian families from across including England and Jason Shafer left and Jeremy Vander both from at the Jamboree Ive earned two Merit badges so and in glad i said Eagle scout David Hansen of a member of varsity scout troop 84 in Kai Miles a Star scout from said he thinks the water sports program is and he enjoyed the opening Beach boys As a member of the Jamboree trading Post Eagle scout Bill Bassett of Kaiserslautern is working Long hours each but working on staff can be More fun than just attending the he the transatlantic Council contingent is unique because of its worldwide members of the patrols have lived in six nations and 18 their travels have taken them to the soviet Mexico and 22 other Bassett is serving on the boy scouts of America National news he was assigned to the 603rd tac control so at Sembach until july Bassett is now with the Public affairs office at Andrews health Secretary heckler has elective Hysterectomy Washington up1 health Secretary Margaret heckler was in a Hospital tuesday for surgery to remove her a procedure hundreds of thousands of women undergo each a spokeswoman at the health and human services department said checked into Columbia Hospital for women on monday for an elective Hysterectomy heckler will remain in the Hospital less than a week and will recuperate at Home for several her office a Hysterectomy can be done to treat conditions ranging from Large benign growths to but the spokesman said hecklers condition is she agreed to have the surgery now be cause late july and August is the slow and it seemed like the Best time to Nave it the spokesman he said details about the condition that prompted the surgery were its major but its a Safe proce said Mona the director of the sports gynaecology Center at George town University Hospital the usual recovery period is about six but Many Hungary chief rabbi Dies Hungary a chief rabbi of Hungary and a parliamentary has died at age Magyar nemzet newspaper Busy people who Are in Good physical Condi Tion Are Able to get Back to work removal of the uterus alone does not induce hormonal changes that bring on the cessation of menstruation that occurs when the ovaries drastically Cut Back on their output of the average starting age for menopause is said Thomas associate chief of gyn ecologic oncology and gynaecological surgery at Brigham and Wom ens Hospital in the consequences of Hysterectomy in this age group would be he referring to women who have already undergone depending on a woman hysterectomies May be done in this age group As a precaution against he hysterectomies Are also performed when the uterus producing a drag on other this condition sometimes occurs with repeated he the american College of obstetricians and gynaecologists said women underwent hysterectomies in the latest year for which figures Are Defeated As an incumbent in a congressional race in made a political comeback in 1983 when she became health Secretary and the highest ranking woman in the Reagan heckler was divorced this year following a bitter court she has a son and two Power outage darkens Capitol Tor hour Washington up a Power outage turned off the lights at the Capi Tol throwing the lawmakers into trapping people in Eleva tors and forcing thousands to evacuate Federal buildings in a 75squareblock Power was restored in the Senate at 58 minutes after the Black out sent workers scurrying for Flash lights and but Power remained out longer for part of the House Side of the Capitol As workers rushed to reset circuit for the upper floors of the House the emergency Power was also turned plunging those offices into almost total Power lost to other buildings was being returned in several Federal including the labor department and the court were evacuated and thou Sands of employees were forced out into the in the three elevator opera tors were trapped in cars Between floors and forced to wait 15 minutes in dark Ness for help to one of 20yearold Dee a Clemson University had five people in her elevator car at the nobody said after we got she they passed us up a flashlight through a crack at the Bottom of the car after a few and that helped Potomac electric which pro Vides electricity to the said an electrical fault at a substation knocked out Power to most Federal buildings in the area around Capitol Hill at about 9 the company reported that Power was restored to All customers by 10 but some delays were caused when Engi neers had to close circuit Breakers in some government buildings that automatically a fire department spokeswoman said the outage caused fire alarms to go off in Many government even though there were no police officer Shannon Crockett said there were several reports of smoke com ing from manhole a spokeswoman said Power was disrupted at police and the cites metro rail system also was of metro spokeswoman Marilyn Dicus said trains never stopped but were slowed because transit authority personnel had to operate rail Sig nals