MIDLAND (Staff) ­ "I feel fine." Mrs. Louis F. Makowski beamed today.

"We had been waiting on pins and needles, sticking pretty close to home waiting for this call."

Mrs. Makowski was contacted by Webb Air Force Base wing commander Col. Stanley Umstead about 2:30 p.m. Thursday who confirmed that her husband's name was on the list of POWs expected to be released this weekend. No exact date of return could be given by the Air Force, however.

"Now," she said, "the next big thing in my life will be the call from Lou." Released prisoners may call home after reachingClark Air Force Base in the Philippines.

The family will not leave to meet Makowski until notified by the Air Force where he will enter the U.S. They will not fly to Clark Air Force Base to meet him.

"It won't take us long," Mrs. Makowski said when asked how soon she would leave after notification that arrangements were made by the Air Force.

Lt. Col. Makowsky, a navigator, was shot down over North Vietnam in 1966. He was listed as missing in action until 1969 and then confirmed as a POW by the Air Force.

Two POW's, Lt. Cmdr. Robert Shumaker and Lt. Col. John Dunn, both imprisoned in the same camps as Mrs. Makwoski's husband, called her recently after their release.

"Both said he was in good health and good spirits," she reported.

Mrs. Makowski has had letter contact with her husband since 1970.

The couple has three children, Cheryl, 16, Matthew, 13, and Rhoda, 7. They all have planned what to take when we leave," Mrs. Makowski said.