European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday february 9, 1969 City of sock it to pm prices new yorkers pay and pay and pay new York up a family Man earning $35,000 a year generally belongs to the secure up per Middle class but when he lives in new York City he can feel bankrupt. His Wallet is battered by exor Bitant rents and spiralling costs of food and other essentials. His nerves Are shattered by transportation woes rude Sale clerks Rush hour crowds but mostly by the losing Battle to live within his income. The new yorker pays $1.19 fora Pound of hamburger that costs 49 cents in Denver 83 cents fora dozen eggs priced at 62 cents in Atlanta 39 cents for a loaf of bread costing 29 cents in Lub Bock tex., and 32 cents for the same quart of milk for which he would pay 29 cents in Ames he shells out up to $3.50 for movie ticket costing $1.25 in Lub Bock and if he decides to drown his troubles in drink one High Ball will Cost the new yorker up to $2.50, More than double the Price of a drink in Ames. The major agony of being anew York resident is called the big apartment apart ments Are scarce rents Are outrageously High and the services poor. The landlords just Don t give Damn said Anne Lipman a publicist who pays $180 a Mont for one room on the City s upper East Side. Her building she complained was without heat hot water or elevator service for a week this Winter and no body seemed to do anything Togetti fixed while an unfurnished two bed room apartment costs $155 a month in Denver and $125 monthly in Lubbock a new yorker will be fortunate to get one i mid Manhattan for $450. Rent controlled buildings with their Frore reasonable rents regulated by inflation fighting Laws leftover from world War Are scarce because their occupants Seldom move fun Competition to find these gems is fierce. Apartment seekers will pay of doormen superintendents and moving men for tips on upcoming vacancies. They will even scour newspaper obituary pages hoping to get a Lead to an apart ment what May seem to be a bargain apartment to its grate Ful finder often turns out to be just the . Sidney Goldberg a wife living on the City pay%lh3 by for an eight room apartment Inan older building the rent was lower when we first moved in mrs. Goldberg said but we found t it wer have to pay the 1 an d 1 of d for improvements $2.50 a month for use of a new stove and 50 cents a month for each of the 14 storm windows the landlord installed. It unfortunately adds yorkers hoping to escape the rent squeeze by buying cooperative apartment or a townhouse often find to their Dis May that such ownership is an impossible co Ops Are unavailable for less than $35,0 Cash and conventional Banks will not give mortgages on co Ops be cause they prefer to hold equity in a building not Stock in a co operative. The current Market value on East Side townhouses is estimated at Between $275,000 and$500,000 an enormous jump from the $19,000 minimum for similar seven room House in Den yorkers Brave enough to drive cars through the congested army clarifies mix up on Viet volunteering by Perry Flippins a Washington Bureau Washington is what Ever happened to my application for Transfer to Vietnam the army reports that such complaints make up a Large amount of correspondence com ing into the Pentagon and into congressional offices. So Large is the problem infant that a department of the army letter has gone out tomake sure All Vietnam Volun Teers get the word. There Are two primary Rea sons for the administrative mix up the army said Volunteer applications Are not always for warded to Daas prescribed by regulation and commanders Are not always informing individual about the course of their re quests. The a letter to personnel offices reminded administrators of the explicit instructions to be followed in processing Volunteer applications for Vietnam. In All cases the individual i entitled to know where his application stands and in Ever Case except one the application should go All the Way Toda. Only when the individual fails to satisfy stated criteria can the application be stopped. Noncom Hurt in crash a car carrying five american noncommissioned officers stationed in Naples Italy rests on its Side against House near Naples after sliding off tree Road and tumbling Down a Cliff. Two of the service men were seriously injured the panic Selwod inhabitants of the Boose fled undressed be Arfaian earthquake. A photo von Braun testifies in nazi War crimes Case new Orleans a or. Wernher von Braun american rocket expert testified for thre Bourg Here in connection with a War crime trial in his native Ger Many. I had nothing to hide and 1am not implicated the White haired von Braun told newsmen afterwards. I think everybody has to live with his past a West German judge accompanied by an entourage of lawyers flew Here from Essen Germany to hear von Braun testimony at the German consulate general in a Case in which three former is guards Are accused of executing about 100 in mates of a concent Ratish Camp at Nordhausen during world warn. Von Braun who helped develop nazi Germany s v2 rocket use Din Buzz bomb attacks on England explained Friday that Nord Hausen was the production Center for the , myself was in charge of the development program some 400 Miles away on the Baltic he. The court asked to Toas an expert witness on the it Plant operations Braun 57, who wan t. Adolf Fri lev near the end of defect l Luy Tunch of comma satellite Cape Kennedy Fla. A rocket problems saturday forced a one Day postponement of a defense department attempt to launch the largest communication spacecraft yet developed. The Iso million experimental Craft forerunner of a Satel Lite network that could link Mili tary units on the front lines in aircraft at sen is now ached used to what off at 40� pan. Sunday the air Force said. Twas originally scheduled to be launched at 4 13 . Satur Day. Air Force spokesmen said there were indications of a Short circuit in an ordnance system aboard the satellite s Titan 30 rocket. War and then came to this coun try to become one of the Pioneer of America s space has been an american n since 1955, von Braun left new Orleans inti afternoon for Huntsville ala., where he is director of the National aeronautics and space administration s George space flight Center. Defense attorneys for the three former is men claim executions of the slave labourers were ordered because inmates sabotaged Buzz bombs being a deft Nordhausen. Asked about the allegations of sabotage von Braun said whig is a pending criminal court Case and i Don t think it would to proper for me to City streets face the additional woe of paying up to $100 a month in fees. Many prefer Touse Public transportation but even that has its . Just try to find a taxi when it s raining you can to said Ruth Milton a Brooklyn Heights housewife. And bus Sand subways Are no better the buses Are slow and the subways Are always jammed. It s an impossible about the Only transportation bargain is the Staten Island ferry five cents a ride. The Cost of food other essentials and entertainment in new York is among the highest inthe country. 9 meals an average meal in a goo restaurant in Ames costs $3.57 a new yorker is Lucky to get the same for under $9, and the Tariff in a Plush spot can run As highs $20 per person. A Sitter to stay with the children while mom and dad Are dining out costs 50 cents an hour in am Sand $1.60 an hour in new York. If the new York family decides to Broil a sirloin Steak at Home the meat will Cost $1.70 a Pound compared with 98 cents a Pound in father gets grease on his suit while broiling the Steak his new York dry cleaning Bill would be $2.50, while in Ames the cos would be $1. The average Cost of a haircut in new York is $2.50or up to $20 if the Man goes to a a haircut in Atlanta averages $1.75. The shampoo set Price at an Ames Beauty Salon averages $2.50 but in Newyork it ranges from $4 to $40 in the fashionable salons. Extra fees appliance prices vary Only slightly around the country but the new yorker buying a new washing machine can find him self burdened by a $60 installation fee while his counterparts in smaller cities have their appliances installed without extra families flee to the suburbs to escape the High Cost of new York City living. 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