European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes May prison guard stabbed by inmate asking million in lawsuit Baltimore a a prison guard who survived a stabbing by an inmate last fall is suing state corrections officials for alleging unsafe conditions sparked the officer Willie Newkirk was stabbed in the left Side and Abdomen 6 As he stood with officer Herman Toulson on the fifth tier of the Maryland Penitentiary South where the states most dangerous inmates Are Toulson was fatally stabbed in the Newkirk has not returned to work since he was the which charges civil rights says the attack left him physically unable to work and in continuing need of psychiatric stud end tails to his death Affer climbing Tower on Campus a a 20yearold student fell to his death As he was descending from a Tower on a Salisbury state College administration police Michael Mammano was climbing Down from the hol Loway Hall Tower with some other students when the Accident a police spokesman Mammano May have tried to jump to a tree from the third floor roof on top of which the Tower stands when he the spokesman Mammano suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead at Peninsula general the Tower on the colleges Campus has been frequently climbed As a but no serious injuries to climbers have been reported orders study of dangers of pesticide use in the Home a a study of dangers to infants and toddlers posed by the use of pesticide in the Home has been ordered by a state the problem is that people assume that because these arc sold in hardware stores and in supermarkets opposite baby its Safe to use said Richard a paediatrician and scientist for the state health the California department of food and agriculture ordered the study of the pesticides following a report by a the Moray chemical that said Chil Dren could absorb toxic doses of nerve poisons present in products sold for household use on Furni Ture and cabbie loan with daughter inlaw Cristina and holds tickets for trip to cabbie Given English trip after returning lost purse a photo new York a a rumanian born cab Driver helped Cement relations Between new York City and after he found and returned a purse belonging to the wife of the lord mayor of the British they were frankly floored when cabbie loan Smeu telephoned them and said he had the Larry City commissioner for the office of business said a 61yearold former agricultural Engineer who came to new York to be near relatives four years found the purse containing a Large amount of american and British currency and credit cards on april who Speaks Little related the Story through his she said he picked up a couple at a hotel in Midman Hattan and was about to take them to Kennedy International Airport when they spotted the limousine that Origi Nally was supposed to drive them when they got out of the the who turned out to be Shirley left her purse Smeu said he took the purse Home and later called England to let the owner know it was we didst know it was involving the Cristina said at a news conference called by British she was very she didst expect to find she said of tuckers As a the lord mayor invited the his and Cristina to Fly to England As their they were to arrive in Manchester for a fou Day visit on tues Tucker was visiting new York City to promote Trade and tourism Between the Kieves a cabbie for 18 will tour Manchester with the tuckers and meet some local cab inflation rate last month held to percent Washington a the first food Price drop in 11 months offset a continued creep in Energy costs to hold the april inflation rate to the government reported food which had held Flat in declined by percent last month the first drop since when they fell by the same gasoline continuing to spurt up Ward from what analysts have characterized As unusually depressed Winter Rose percent on a seasonally adjusted basis that took into account traditional Spring excluding Energy and the consumer Price Index Rose percent last for the first four months of inflation at the retail level was running at an annual rate of just slightly ahead of the percent of last All in the labor departments con Sumer Price Index report for april was a reaffirmation of analysts assessment that the percent increase in March prices was an aberration and that inflation will hold steady for prior to the big March which had been attributed almost entirely to a big jump in fuel the Chi had risen percent in january and percent in feb in a separate report the com Merce department said the Economy grew at a sluggish percent annual rate in the first three months of the the the slowest since the end of the 198182 races was attributed to aggressive foreign Competition for american the department provided these addition Al details on consumer Price activity for april prices for food bought in grocery stores fell the second straight but restaurant meal prices gained per the grocery Price decline was led by a percent drop in beef which Are now percent below what they were at the end of last poultry and egg prices also were As were prices for fresh fruits and that leaves fruit and vegetable still percent above their december a lingering vestige of the Winter freeze in alcoholic beverage prices were changed for the second straight in housing costs Overall Rose percent after a percent Rise in Home owners and renters costs both were up but maintenance and repair costs declined fuel Oil part of the housing Cost Rose percent last month after a percent Rise in but those costs Are still lower than at the end of 1984 and Are percent below their Peak of transportation which include were up percent in april after a percent gain in nearly All of the increase was attributed to the Sharp gain in gasoline which have risen percent since but those Are Well below their 1981 level Down overhauled Carrier Forrestal leaves shipyard Philadelphia a the navys first super car although hobbled by a broken left the Phila Delphia naval shipyard monday after a million overhaul designed to add 15 years to its Active the 31yearold the second ship rebuilt Here under the navys billion service life Extension sailed for its Home port of to prepare for a training said Yard spokesman Al because of the gear discovered by Yard work ers May the ship can use Only three of its four propellers until it can be repaired in Peterson the problem was not related to the he workers were criticized after defective welds found on the aircraft Carrier Saratoga following its overhaul Here forced million in but an inquiry later absolved the employees and blamed a new welding the overhaul was completed on time and within its Peterson the one of 12 Navy was stripped Down to its Bare Metal and repainted while the ships navigation and electronics systems were completely redone and made More Peterson Crew quarters were the catapults length and the mane vering and propulsion systems Reha he the Navy has not decided whether to fix the gear prob Lem at the Philadelphia shipyard or in Peterson 5 arrived at the enlkt17 for a Milhon 28month rehabilitation under the Navy