European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pogo 28 the stars and stripes january 1978 23 killed As storm pounds London record Force driving rain and Snow lashed Britain and its coastal Waters thursday killing at least 23 people and causing havoc in in the North sea three bodies were sighted and another 14 arc missing and feared off lifeboats arid air Force planes were searching for survivors from the greek coaster sea Diamond which Sank with a Crew of seven three bodies have been further ships and helicopters Are searching for the fireman Crew of the dutch vessel Holman which is thought to have sunk off Flamborough five men who abandoned the cypriot vessel Gloriosa Are still missing after an Al night five people have died in Road accidents caused by High ice and and a 70yearold woman died in his flooded House at stars and stripes staff writer Gary Harris reported thursday night that the gym at Mildenhall was closed because of wind damage wednesday night thence Czubat closed Beca Urx of water and wind damage reopened thur the storm Sank a ship thursday near West Dunke ique wrecked a Seaside Casino near be Havre and Sank a scow near no casualties were elsewhere in blizzards swept nor Thern isolating dozens of closing Mountain roads and blanketing such cities As san Sebastian and a plonk one foot of in Northern Italy snowstorms doted ports and paralysed most Majorca leu ports were closed in and West German radio stations motorists of ice coated highways in the i mountains and in the Eifel and Hun Hills near police said that l dozens of Highway accidents Node Thini reported from reassures germans Germany up an american general under attack by the West German Public services Union for trying to help poor american soldiers by giving jobs to their wives promised thursday no germans will lose their the Union had demanded the Transfer from Germany of Lawrence commander of the 21st support cd after he called for More jobs for army the Union feared germans would be fired to make room for americans hard hit by the drop of the Dollar to a record Low against the West German in a statement issued thursday repeated his determination to increase the number of dependents the army term for relatives of but he said Ger mans would not be tired to give the americans these married soldiers live on the Ger Man Economy under near poverty con the statement As the continuing devaluation of the american Dollar causes economic and emotional problems for lower Grade soldiers and their the dependent hiring program will enable these families to bolster heir at the same the statement said Ger mans have 90 percent of the commands civilian jobs and there is no intention of releasing any of it said generally the dependents Are hired for vacant positions that current Ger Man employees do not Bank clerks Faith in Dollar brings loss Stockholm Lull a speculative Stockholm Bank clerks Faith in the recovery of the Dollar has resulted in a Mil lion loss for the the got Bank foreign department offi Cial bought dollars on Short term Low inter est and hoped for a Dollar recovery to give profits on Lon term the Bank said Bank officials said the speculations were not illegal but said the official did not report his currency deliberations to the Bank of Sweden and the Bank inspection thus breaking banking 28 aboard sinking vessel rescued in Gulf of Mexico grand la up Twenty eight people were rescued from a sinking boat in the Gulf of Mexico off the Southeast Louisiana the coast guard a spokesman said the boat Kip ii suffered a 17inch Hole in its Stern and began flooding most of the passengers and Crew were taken aboard two other boats in the a coast guard helicopter then lowered pumps to the two crewmen who remained on the Kip they kept the vessel afloat and another boat took it under food prices hit 7month High Washington a sharply rising food costs pushed the governments Index of wholesale prices up percent last nearly twice the november the government reported food prices jumped percent in Decem marking the biggest Rise in seven months and signalling higher prices in the coving months or grocery changes in wholesale food prices usually show up in retail stores within a matter of a few the percent Rise in wholesale prices last month compared with an increase of percent in november and a Rise of per cent in during the these prices had risen Only moderately or not at in the december the labor department changed the Way it measures wholesale prices to provide what the depart ment said is a More reliable measure of inflation before it hits the the new method focuses on prices of finished such As fur farm equipment and food ready for Sale in in the the government measured wholesale costs by using the prices of goods in the various stages of the production pipeline a system that often resulted in a duplication of Price changes As a particular product was transformed from raw material to finished the old wholesale Price the Al commodities showed prices Rose last month by compared with a percent increase in the Al commodities Index will be phased out in the coming months As the government emphasizes the change in prices of finished wholesale prices of finished goods Rose percent in the labor department producer finished which include commodities such As machine tools and farm equipment Rose percent Over the while consumer food prices climbed percent from december 1976 to Decem Ber last the finished goods Index stood at meaning that it Cost wholesalers postal service claims Yule mail record Washington up the postal service is patting itself on the Back for Low ering its operating deficit and successfully handling a record volume of Christmas mail in Pete senior assistant postmaster reported Christmas mail handled Between 3 and 25 by 113 Large Post offices and 21 bulk mail facile which together account for 6045 per cent of All showed a percent increase in piece it appears the postal service handled a record volume during the 1977 Christmas Dorsey told the Board of Gover nors at its first meeting of the thais sign air pact Bangkok Lap Vietnam and thai land have signed an agreement allowing airlines of the two nations to overfly each others officials said the pact reflected a desire by both countries to establish a close for the same goods purchased for in the 1967 base the percent Rise in consumer food prices last month followed two months of smaller increases before four months of declines that helped hold Down retail food sharply higher prices for processed poultry and vegetable Oil products were largely responsible for the december prices also Rose for fish and Dairy processed fruits and vegetables and declines were reported for fresh and dried fresh fruit and roasted the percent increase in wholesale prices of finished goods in 1977 was twice the percent Rise in it matched the Rise in wholesale prices in 1975 and contrasted with a near record jump of percent in most economists Are forecasting an Overall inflation rate of about 6 percent in prices of sem finished goods those commodities that require further processing before they Are ready for Sale to the final user increased percent in about the same As in the proceeding two prices were higher for leather liquefied Petroleum army to beef its artillery units in Europe continued from Page it into German experts and Allied military including the head of natos military com have said a principal purpose of the Neutron warhead would be to cripple soviet tank columns quickly by killing their Crews with intense radiation penetrating their Armor the Neutron warhead produces twice the deadly radiation of a conventional nuclear bomb but less than a tenth As much blast heat and limiting destruct the deadly radiation level produced by a Neutron warhead probably would last no More than a few compared with months from a conventional atomic Allied troops would be Able to move into a bombed area nato defense ministers have not taken a position on deployment of the Neutron warhead in London love in chains trial set for May 2 London api the trial of Joyce Mckinney in the move in chains Kidnap Case has been set for May a clerk at the old Bailey Central criminal court a former american Beauty and Keith were committed for trial last month by a Magis trates court after being accused of Kidnap Ping mormon missionary Kirk Anderson of they Are accused of holding Anderson against his will in a cottage and forcing him to have Intercourse with Mckinney lumber and Gypsum prices for crude materials j percent in less than 1 percent Rise but about the same i higher prices were report Iron and steel paper and natural cruder her prices declined for the third c a slowdown in Grain prices last i following a Sharp Rise in november Haku Rise in the Price of crude foodstuffs j other agricultural prices to p much less than the november and Farmers have been upset by return they have been receiving on Theiu put and several farm mounted strikes to protest the Tow p the wholesale Price report is t Sample of about different i Industrial wholesale prices Are pric charge each other for generally foreshadow the prices com although the relationship isl i precise and there Are time under the old Al commodities i Price change for a raw material or sem finished goods such As often reflected again later in a Flat product such As a new the j Rise was the wholesale Price figures followed t Day the labor departments report t unemployment fell to a three year Low of 8 percent in which president Ter hailed As Good news for the the department said the now unemployment figure of percent i revised downward to Percey historical purposes when it makes ital adjustment of seasonal firemen continued from Page ii corridor to help the delegates leave the h but the grimaced voters could no protected from the angry pickets shouts c Scab and press association rear the unions executive Secretary Parry told the news Agency after that he believed some militant behaved like there were Many men who hid c genuinely lobby a Point of View which t genuinely press association if Parry As but there were i who behaved like animals with Vio Tecetl we cannot stand for or before the meeting violence baft out As delegates assembled to decide future of the strike which has bitterly divided the Union in Many areas of die police reinforcements were called to but even Parry was jostled and  tried to enter Bridlington spa Royal a smoke bomb was thrown from crowd and a thick Cloud of Orange enveloped the area but no injuries concorde studies saudi hop saudi Arabia api Bri Tilby airways is studying the possibility of Start ing a supersonic air link Between and saudi using the concorde a British airline Oto Daj i