European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 08, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 8, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 76 new Cor Price hikes were biggest in a decade Detroit Ai the american consumer paid an average $5,450 for a new car in 1976, $7m Mote ulan in 1975, according to an annual Survey by be National automobile dealers association. It was the biggest relative increase from one year to the next in at least a decade. The Nada reported in its 1977 act Book that a new car s average retail Selling Price in the showroom Rose 15 per cent from 1975, when a car sold for $4,750 on the average. The big jump Likely reflected the Auto Industry s Strong recovery from a severe recession particularly in the higher priced big car segment. The Survey covered both Domestic and imported cars. The average Selling Price includes taxes an Nada spokes Man said monday. During the 10-year period from 1967through 1976, the average Selling Price of a new car has gone up 70 per cent or$2,250 from $3,200, according to Nada. Industry sales analysts predict the average Price of a car in 1977 will top the fact Book also reported that there were an estimated 29,100 new car dealerships in 1978. The average Dealership sold is cars and had annual sales of $3.44 million. . Again suing pm Over engines new York a atty. Gen. Louis j. Lefkowitz is suing general motors for a second time Over switching engines among its lines of automobiles a practice he has labelled misleading and  his first suit accused pm of Selling 87, 000 bricks Pontiac and Oldsmobile which were powered by engines made a yaws Chevrolet division. This week he obtained an order from a state court requiring pm to explain by june 9 Why it should not have to make restitution to new York buyers of 1977 bricks. Pontiac Oldsmobile is and Cadillac Sev Illes powered by engines other than those from Chevrolet. Lefkowitz s office issued a list pcs crib jury chosen for trial of 12hanafis Washington up an All Black jury of eight women and four men was selected monday to try the 12 Hanafi mus lims accused of murder and kidnapping during the seizure of 149 hostages in three Washington buildings last March. The pm panelling of the jury which will be sequestered came on the sixth Day of a trial which could last six to 12 weeks. Judge Nicholas s. Nunzio said he hoped to select the 12 alternates and dispose of motions in time for the prosecution to begin its Case wednesday. So determined was Nunzio to proceed rapidly that lawyers and prospective wit Nesses had to Settle for a carry in lunch of hamburgers and soft drinks during a 15 minute recess. The 12 defendants accused of the murder of radio reporter Maurice Wil Liams and kidnapping of 149 hostages were fed separately. Lobster trapping in mass River halted by pc new Bedford mass. Up lob Stermen have agreed not to rap lobsters in the Acushnet River because some of the shellfish contain the toxic chemical pc in amounts exceeding federally recommended  of the lobsters did exceed the recommended food and drug administration level so we Felt that it was probably Best to encourage people not to lobster in that area assistant Public health commis Soner or. Morton Madoff  chemical was dumped into the River by electrical manufacturing plants before it was declared illegal he  poly chlorinated biphenyl is a fire resistant liquid once used for Many years As insulation in the manufacture of electric components such As capacitors and transformers. Studies later revealed that workers exposed to High Levels of pc showed a higher incidence of cancer of the gastrointestinal system and liver. Madoff said there is Little evidence lower exposures to pc Are  Fra allows pc in quantities not exceeding five parts per Millio Madoff said saturday that health officials met with lobster men late last week and told them Levels of pc. Some of which surpassed Federal restrictions had been found in some lobsters in the Acushnet River. Roan not talk Irv Turkey Onur Uman of Turkey the most recent arrival at the Martin Luther King or. School in Cambridge mass., is learning English with the assistance of fellow student Jan Palmer of Germany an earlier arrival at the school. Watching Over the two at Center is first Grade instructor Joann Sequela. A photo foreign 1 of growers get of pick up English fast Cambridge. Mass. A eight of the 17 children in Joann Sequeira s first Grade class at the Martin Luther King or. School could t even say hello in English when the school year began in sep tember. Now although Sequeira says we did to anything  All the foreign pupils can read English at least As Well As their american classmates. The King school is much like any other Urban school except it is across the Street from Harvard University housing for mar ried graduate students. Many of those Stu dents from areas As diverse As Germany. France Chile and Japan Send their Chil Dren to the King school. Schoolmaster John Caulfield said 50 to 60 of the elementary school s 551 pupils Are the children of Harvard graduate students Many of them Here for just a year or two. Many of the youngsters speak Only their native languages when they arrive at King said Caulfield. And those Are some times tongues spoken by no one else in the school. In a Way it s better. The kids Are forced to learn English and in this re Spect the other kids do the most teach ing Caulfield said in a recent interview. When a new foreign Pupil Enrols caul Field said "1 take him Down to his Home room. I talk to All the kids and i say. Who is going to show him How to speak English they say we Are they re used  the foreign pupils mostly in grades one through three pick up the Basic express ions within a few months Caulfield said. Sequeira said All eight pupils who did not know English when they entered her class in september scored at least As Well or better than the class average in recent Reading tests pupils at King gel average grades on Standard Reading tests. Caul Field said. Caulfield attributed much of the Success to the children s backgrounds. Ing some sevilles with Oldsmobile engines bricks with Olds and Pontiac engines Oldsmobile is with Buick engines and Pon tics with Olds and Buick engines. The Quality of the engines is not the Issue Here said Stephen Mindall. Lefko Witz s consumer fraud chief. The Issue is disclosure. If i bought a Buick i want a Buick not something else. These cars can Only be called  Lefkowitz  practice of switching engines from one pm line of cars to another without telling Auto buyers is deceptive and violates slate advertising Laws. Terms of an agreement reached april 25 Between Lefkowitz and pm were subsequently extended nationwide. Buyers had until june 1 either to return cars for sub Stantial credit toward a new one or receive a free warranty for three years or 36,000 Miles. An Extension to june 11 was granted by a state supreme court judge for 5,000 new yorkers because of delays encountered in carrying out provisions of the judgement. Warranty offer extended nationwide the june 1 deadline remained for refunds but the warranty pro vision was extended indefinitely. As of june 1, 55 per cent of those affected had chosen one of the options with 48,336owners accepting the extended warranty and 5,725 trading in their cars according Tom. More than 70 lawsuits 16 by state attorneys have been filed against pm in the first Case a corporate spokesman  company estimates its total Cost at $12  s latest suit asks along with restitution that pm be order to Label All cars that contain engines from other Divi Sions. Mindall  suit came after the at Torney general s office received 250 com plaints about engine switching. Brown grads cold shoulder defense Boss Providence . I up about Iso members of Brown University s graduating class stood and turned their backs in silent protest monday when defense Secre tary Harold Brown received an honorary degree from the Ivy league school. The 209th annual commencement marked the graduation of 1.200 seniors 40 medical school students and 400 graduate students. The nation s seventh oldest College traditionally has no paid graduation speaker. Two students chosen to give the orations made no mention of the defense Secretary y s honorary degree. The Back turning occurred when Brown former president of the California Institute of technology was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree. It was reminiscent of a similar incident in 1969 when an honorary degree was awarded to Henry Kissinger then chief of the National Secu Rity Council. This year 30 seniors signed and began circulating a petition against Brown a week before the ceremony. It urged Stu dents to turn their backs to the Rostrum rather than Honor a Man who designed and advocated programs of obliteration bombing and defoliation in Indochina when he was Secretary of the air Force. Quake jolts Southern Italy Foggia Italy up a Brief Earth quake Shock has swayed chandeliers in several villages Inland from the Spur of the italian Boot