European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and stripes Poge s bad checks no big item in markets l Washington api it costs a food store about 26 cents to accept a which is the Way 15 percent of All grocery purchases Are a new study by the food marketing Institute that Cost presumably is considered when foot prices Are although the study did not raise that the study by the food chains Trade association also showed that contrary to Esti mates offered by the Cost of bad checks is relatively Low about a Nickel for every Check accepted at the checkout the study was prompted by talk of introducing computerized systems in super markets in which Consumers would pay for their purchases with a card that would Transfer funds directly from their Bank account to the one advantage of such a proponents would be a reduction in super Market costs for handling checks and writing off bad Timothy the institutes research that most labor costs would be the same or pos Sibly higher with an Al Cash or electronic fund Transfer the Survey of stores with total 1976 sales of or 10 percent of nation Al supermarket found that each store wrote off As totally a collectable an average of checks a week out of the 717 it an average of 17 checks a week were re Lumen to each store marked insufficient the report most of the checks will be collected on subsequent re the average a collectable Check was written for which worked out to cents per Check the Cost of trying to collect on bounced checks worked out loan additional cents per Check a the study when the costs of issuing and validating Check cashing Courtesy wages for eyes for a different ring her father May be the greatest in but Thall nothing compared to what three rings at the Miami Beach Clercia it doing far is Monchou Hana Veronica and Mohammad display proper adult a served 42 years in Congress those handling processing them and some Bank fees were the Bill Tot accepting each Check came to the study labor costs Are the major Factor in the Cost of Check with 6 percent of the total assigned to the study the stores which were covered in the Sample had average weekly sales totalling compared to the Industry wide average of the average value of accepted checks was but individual store averages ranged from above f 100 to below the checks accepted totalled 75 percent of the but the study noted that the Range of the percentage ran from b per cent of sales to 137 the latter figure is possible because Many super markets accept checks for amounts in excess of the Purchase or provide Cash even when no Purchase is the report coeds at Florida state get youre next up ii two sororities at Florida stale where two girls were strangled in the pm Omega sorority have received Telephone Calls youre police Dis closed authorities refused to name the threat ened nor would they say How much importance they attach to the but sheriff Ken Katsaris said we Are not treating anything As too Remote or any Call As a prank or Crank police have run Down More than to leads and questioned dozens of persons in their search for the killer that crept into the Chi Omega House before Dawn sunday and beat four girls with a club or later strangling two of one of the girls who was slain also was in and another woman was attacked in an of Campus despite the intensive Kat Sarla said police have no suspects in terms of one person we feel is the instead of lighting filter your brain Waves Utah up some people Chew gum or nibble Candy to help them Stop but research shows there might be a better Way learning to control brain Earl working on his doctorate in psychology at Utah state said his experiments show smokers have increased frequency of certain brain he said some smokers can Cut Down or even Stop smoking by learning How to control these in he the brain produces Alpha Waves when it is relaxed and Flea Waves when it is Theta Waves Are produced when a person is we use equipment that measures the production of brain and we can attach this equipment to music or a tone or some other feedback source which Indi Cates to the person when he or she is in that state of producing Alpha Griffith said five of six subjects increased the per cent of time their brain produced Alpha Waves when they could hear the music to know Alpha production was taking three of the subjects were Able to continue High Levels of Alpha when they wanted to without the Benefit of the feedback equip two of these people decreased the number of cigarettes they Griffith and one has quit completely at the end of a six month the Sonds Sparkman wont seek reelection of time Washington up John chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee and the democrats 1952 vice presidential Candi will not seek he has served in congress12 Sparkman announcement was timed Lor sunday but the news embargo was broken his decision not to seek another six year term at the age of 78 was widely expected u opens the Way for a primary Bathe which will include George after serving six two year terms in the Sparkman was elected to the Senate in 1946 Tel fill an unexpired he was elected to a full term in iw8 and was reelected four times and ranks fourth in seniority in the Sparkman is the seventh senator to announce that he will not seek three others senators Hubert hum John and Lee Dmont died in office during this Mccellan and Welc if also had announced their although he is currently chairman of the Senate foreign relations he is Best known for his service As chair Man of of Senate banking a Post he held from 1967 through he was then considered one of the top Legisla tors on banking i Lake satisfaction in knowing thai i have always done nil that i could both for Alabama and for my Sparkman during the remainder of my i shall do Alt within my ability to serve my a member of the then Power Ful Southern bloc in the was picked by Adlai Stevenson As the democrats vice presidential candidate in Stevenson was Defeated by Dwight 1948 British foreign Secre lady Ernest Bevin openly warned the Sovi ets that their co Linued expansion May Lead to he called for a confederation of Western european nation to balance the communist 18s8 1resldcat  dispatched Secretary of stale John fun str Dulles to the Mideast with a declaration of deep concern for  countries la the a by bomber crashed in damping several unarmed bomb into a a deportment at de sense spokesman Laid there is n danger of but it is unlikely that the tombs will be recovered from toe Ley