European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday december 21, 1985 biker Laurel Butler touches up la bar Harbor Maine. The edible Complex Church Stepkin an 80-building Gin 40 feel Long and 4 feet wide con Eer Brail tillage she created at a store in gains 500 pounds of confectioners sugar. The incredible edible Village 300 pounds of Gingerbread and 100 pounds of Candy. The Sweet real estate which look Butler 500 hours to design and build was to be auctioned off Struc Ture by Structure with proceeds going to Charity. Study compares Low income women s attitudes on age Ann Arbor Mich. A Low in a my Black women arc happier about grow ing older than their White counterparts but both agree that 32 is the Best age to be. A i in varsity of Michigan researcher says. Those were some of the findings of a study by Evelyn Barbie. Assistant professor of nursing and anthropology and author of a Cross cultural study of Middle ape  and White women. Black women tend to have More positive feelings about growing older Barbee said. They value their present age for the collective Wisdom and maturity it brings. But the pleasure is accompanied by greater health problems and mental  White women interviewed were More Likely to mention the advantages of Freedom and time for themselves after the children were grown the researcher said. On the negative Side they worried More about their husbands  Barbee said she studied 107 Black women and 100 White women Ages 32 to 56. Who lived in the Detroit area. All had children and 32 percent of the Black women and ?8 percent of the White women were married. The White w Oman had an average income of $15.000 a year while the Black women averaged 510,000, she said. One of the must disturbing findings was the isolation of these women Barbee said. Two thirds reported no club memberships. Fewer than half went to movies or concerts. Only 40 percent said they exercised at Leas three times a month. Their major social outlet was Church service with Blacks attending More often than Whites and older women move  younger  nearly two thirds of the women in both groups were unemployed and both Fri card with Rifle toting Santa draws tire from anti gun forces in Washington Washington Upa pro fire arms group sent Christmas cards to president Reagan members of Congress and Cabinet officials depicting what critics called a new High in Low taste a Rifle car rung Santa kneeling Over a baby Jesus. John Snyder chief Washington lobbyist for the citizens committee for the right u keep and Bear arms said the card symbolizes what Christmas is All about " the front of the card shows a baby Jesus lying in a Cradle and a Santa Claus kneeling Over him. Santa is holding a Rifle and has a pistol strapped to his Belt. Another Rifle is pecking out of his bag of gifts which is illuminated by the Star of Bethlehem. Snyder says the verse inside and the word was made flesh from the gos Pel of John is about incarnation and the gifts symbolic giving. Santa Claus is carrying firearms he explains because 80 million americans also own firearms. And at this Lime of year it s especially important for them to defend themselves against  Snyder said the Only criticism he heard of the cards sent to the White House and Capitol Hill was from gun control advocates. But even some of his supporters found the card startling. What Santa is looking at is the sym Bol of peace and he gun certainly is not a Symbol of peace said rep. Roy Dyson. A Mil. Member of the National advisory Council of Snyder s group. I think it s a new High in Low taste said gun control supporter rep. Robert Torricelli . Rep. 0. William Whitehurst. Re a another advocate of More restrictive gun Laws said of the card it shows very poor taste and hardly captures the sense of peace on Earth Good will toward  this is not the first year Snyder s com Mittee has sent out controversial Holiday greetings. In the past the cards depicted Santa leaving a handgun under a tree or Santa Pulig a gun on a burglar who is about to steal gifts from under the tree quintly mentioned joblessness As a source of stress. The study also found that about 72 per cent of Black women and 50 percent of the Whites said their weight and body shape were better than five years ago. Black women do not necessarily View weight gain As being unhealthy and unattractive As White women do Barbie said she said both White and Black women picked 32 As the Ideal age for a woman and altogether the women would prefer to be Highl years younger than their present age. Search widened for . Escapees , . A investigators Friday questioned associates of three convicts who broke out of prison and fled in a helicopter. A woman hijacked a helicopter landed in a prison near Peler on thursday and car ried three inmates to Freedom. The search for the four was expanded Friday to cover the whole state and authorities said they expected to Issue an arrest warrant for the woman suspect. We have tentatively identified the female accomplice. We arc not ready to say just who she is said it. Tommy Smith head of the investigation for the Greenville county sheriffs department. The inmates one a convicted murderer and the others serving lengthy sentences for armed robbery fled from Perry correction institution near Pel or aboard a helicopter that had been hijacked at gunpoint by a woman and ordered to land in the prison Yard crowded with 200 inmates