European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes thursday november 7, 1991 homeless total overstated senior aide to Kemp says Washington apr the number of homeless americans has been vastly overestimated and is in the 600,000 Range rather than in the millions a government housing official says. A the simple fact is that National estimates in the hundreds of thousands Are based on known and explained research methods a says Anna Kondratas. A there Are no objective data whatsoever to support an estimate in the  Kondratas senior adviser on homelessness to housing and Urban development Secretary Jack Kemp writes about the policy challenges to ending homelessness in a special edition of the american psychologist Magazine devoted to the homeless. Kondratas blames oversimplification and misinformation for leading to some less than effective Public policies and says a homelessness is too great a tragedy individual and social to  she acknowledges the Validity of the common arguments that getting an accurate count is too difficult that estimates Are incomplete or suspect and that people even differ on what constitutes homelessness. But she says so much is known about the homeless problem through social science research methods that the lower estimate is a Good one. Homeless advocates have Long used the figure of 3 million. Kondratas Calls that a Gross exaggeration and says it is irresponsible because it fails to promote Public understanding or effective policy development. She says the private Urban institutes estimate of 567,000 to 600,000 is the Federal governments current working number because it is based on the total number of individuals who use soup kitchens or shelters Over a seven Day period. A if these numbers appear Low to anyone it is Only by comparison with the outrageous myth that has made the problem seem far More inexplicable and unmanageable than it really is a a Kondratas writes. A in fact 600,000 homeless people in a country As Rich As the United states is a manageable problem even though it is also a disgrace a National shame an unforgivable waste of human resources and an affront to human  Kondratas thesis is that while there has been a significant decline in housing available to Low income people and the poor Are paying More of their income in rent it is a simplistic and wrong to think housing programs for the poor have been All but dismantled through budget cuts. A the poor have lost More affordable housing to Urban renewal inflation driven housing speculation gentrification rent control exclusionary zoning tax policy and other such Phenomena than to any putative Federal budget cuts a she writes. Good Guy Star Fred Macmurray turned cad in some films Dies by the new York times Fred Macmurray who starred in some of the Best film comedies of the 1930s and �?T40s As Well As the television situation comedy my three sons died tuesday. He was s3. The personable unassuming actor died of pneumonia at St. John s Hospital and health Center in Santa Monica Calif. He was admitted to the Hospital monday afternoon a family Friend said. Reviewers repeatedly praised the Charm credibility and spontaneity of the pipe smoking 6-foot-3-Inch onetime saxophonist who had never studied acting. He had a Good Guy image in nearly 80 films but his most noted roles were As cads a a passion crazed murderer in double indemnity 1944 and Pushover 1954a deceitful Navy Lieuten Macmurray ant in the Caine Mutiny 1954 and an exploitative philanderer in the apartment 1960. Billy Wilder persuaded the affable actor to play the rotters in double indemnity and the apartment to Surprise and Shock moviegoers a and he did. According to one anecdote Macmurray was walking in Disneyland when he was approached by an elderly woman who declared �?o1 always liked you until i saw you in the apartment. Now i hate  she is said to West Palm Beach Fla. A the judge presiding at William Kennedy Smith s rape trial said tuesday that she Hys barred most defense requests to present testimony about his accusers sexual past. Tuesday was the fourth Day of jury selection for Smith 31-year-old Nephew of sen. Edward m. Kennedy a mass. Judge Mary Eupo said she made her ruling oct. 30 alter a closed hearing under Florida a rape shield Law which is aimed at protecting sex crime victims from being grilled in court about their sexual past. Usually under the Law evidence is allowed on past sexual encounters of an alleged victim Only if it shows a a pattern of conduct or behaviour on the part of the victim which is relevant to the Issue of  the judge said she reserved ruling on two Points in the defense request for testimony about the woman a past but there was no indication which Points in the sealed rape shield motions had not been decided. Karen Kammer an attorney for the associated press said she would urge Eupo to provide an expand have then pummelled him with her purse and stalked off. A whether i play a heavy or a comedian a he said �?o1 always Start out Smiley Macmurray a decent rotarian Type. If i play a heavy there comes a Point in the film Wien the audience realizes in a really a  Macmurray s films include Alice Adams 1935hands across the table 1935the Trail of the lonesome Pine 1936the Texas rangers 1936champagne Waltz 1937true confession 1937sing you sinners 1938remember the night 1940 and take a letter Darling 1942. His Disney films included the shaggy dog 1959 the absent minded professor 1961in which he invented a a blubber a a magical rubber compound that enables people and objects to Fly and son of blubber 1963. Frederick Martin Macmurray was born on aug. 30. 1908, in Kankakee 111., where his father Frederick a concert violinist was on tour. He spent most of his youth in Beaver dam wis., where he graduated from High school having earned 10 letters in athletics. In High school and for one year at Carroll College in Waukesha wis., where he had an american legion scholarship he led his own three piece band macs Melody boys. He is survived by his wife the former actress june Haver whom he married in 1954 a son Robert of Hawaii and three daughters Laurie Sipma of Sacramento Calif., Kate Macmurray of los Angeles and Susan Pool of Little Rock Ark. His first wife Lillian la Monte an actress and Model died in 1953. De explanation of her ruling. The judge also said she Hadnot set a Date for a hearing into whether prosecutors May present testimony from three women who claim Smith sexually attacked them in the 1980s. Smith s attorneys have said that the 30-year-old Florida woman who says he raped her is emotionally unstable and that such traumatic sexual experiences As childhood abuse and unwanted pregnancies May have caused the a state of mind behind her charges. In Legal briefs filed monday they also claimed the woman was vengeful after arguing with Smith following consensual sex. The Woma l told police that Smith tackled and raped her March 30 on the grounds of his family a estate after they met at a Palm Beach bar. The first stage of seating a six member jury has focused on questions concerning pretrial publicity and attitudes about the Kennedy family. Jury selection May take the rest of the month and Lupo has set dec. 2 for opening arguments.  malfunction snarls Telephone Airport services from wire reports Boston a a malfunction at an at amp to transmission Center disrupted Long distance Telephone service in new England for three hours tuesday and interfered with commercial aircraft communications. About 60 percent of All Long distance Calls placed through at amp to out of new England were blocked said Paul Karoff a spokesman for american Telephone amp Telegraph co. The problem originated at a transmission facility in Blackstone a town Southwest of Boston near Rhode Island Karoff said. The outage also affected communications Between airports and air planes causing slight delays at Logan International Airport in Boston. Service was restored shortly before Midnight by rerouting Calls Karoff said. The malfunction in Blackstone was expected to be repaired  sought in scalping Baltimore a Baltimore police on tuesday were seeking the 300-Pound Boyfriend of a 43-year-old woman who was scalped As she slept monday night. The woman a Scalp was Cut off from her forehead to the Back of her neck police said. A never in my 18 years of police work a and in be seen some pretty bizarre things a have i seen anything quite like this a homicide detective i David Brown said. The victim Sheila Cowherd had emergency surgery at Shock trauma. She was in fair and stable condition tuesday a Hospital spokeswoman  kills new firefighter Holland . A a teen Ager who had just realized his dream of joining his father As a Volunteer firefighter was killed in a car crash tuesday on his Way to a fire. Gregory e. Williams 18, of Holland was pronounced dead 90 minutes after the one vehicle Accident around Midnight in this town 25 Miles Southeast of Buffalo state police  officially joined the Holland fire company in september after serving in the newly established Junior fire department much of the year. Williams lost control of his car on the Slippery Road and struck a pole police  guard convicted Charleston . A Federal july tuesday convicted a former jail guard of a Misdemeanour charge of beating a handcuffed inmate. Two others were acquitted. Donald Adkins or. Was convicted of mistreating a prisoner and violating his civil rights. He faces a year in prison and a $100,000 Fine when he is sentenced Jan. 6. The jury deliberated 2vi hours before acquitting Fred s. Beane Iii and Michael p. Dalporto of violating the civil rights of Charles Prater 19. The guards were among seven fired for allegedly participating in the beating. I Prater was beaten after he was taken to the Kanawha county jail on May 3 on a disorderly conduct charge. The Case against Prater was later  found chained White settlement Texas a a starving 13-year-old was found near death chained to a Cabinet in his family a trailer Home and his Par cuts were jailed on child abuse charges authorities said. Stephen Jay Hill was listed in a very critical condition with minimal brain activity Early wednesday at Cook fort Worth children a med real Center the Hospital said. He weighed 55 i pounds about half his Normal weight. Police officers in this fort Worth suburb found the boy after his Mother Linda Hill 37, called 911 on sunday. She and his father. Jay Hill 42, an Engineer at i general dynamics were arraigned monday night on charges of injury to a child. They were being held on $100,000 bail each. _ the Mother told authorities that they had discipline problems with the boy and kept him on a plastic Chain out of reach of food. Court s ruling favors Smith accuser