European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 reducing the emphasis on seniority Job performance would be the key to wage increases Washington a the Justice department on tuesday sought immediate reinstatement of new rules de signed to put less emphasis on worker seniority in govern ment personnel Justice officials asked supreme court chief Justice Warren Burger to dismiss an appellate court order that had delayed implementation of the new acting solicitor general Charles Fried filed the request with burgers office on behalf of the office of personnel the revised rules would place greater emphasis on Job performance and less on seniority in the consideration of pay increases and other work Congress has twice prohibited the pm from imposing the new but the second of the two legislative prohibitions expired the Justice department maintained that a two judge panel of the court of appeals in Washington Fla Grantly exceeded its authority saturday in ordering a stay of the the appellate panel acted after District judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Friday turned Down initial requests by the american federation of government employees and the National Treasury employees who sought an order blocking implementation of the the the largest Federal Union and the bargain ing agent for some then appealed Jacksons winning a court of appeals order saturday that was signed by judge Patricia Wald and judge Harry the appellate panel told the government it could not implement the rules for 10 allowing time for a Feder Al judge to Rule on the issues raised by the the unions contend the regulations would Lead to wide spread disruption of the Federal civil service the appellate panel said Over the weekend that its Rul ing blocking implementation of the new rules is not a ruling on the merits of the the panel expressed concern about Legal questions that were raised about the new the Justice departments plea for the High court to vacate the administrative stay of the rules was sent to Burger since decisions of the Federal appellate court in Washington Are under his a Coke to go ashis Gupta of the coca cola in Atlanta fills the Coke space approved by Nasa for dispensing the beverage in the a photo cans will be placed on the shuttle challenger on the mid july the High tech can Cost to car dealer fined for insincere advertising Houston a a car Dealership has been ordered to pay in the highest civil penalty Ever assessed in for running a Baitman switch Adver a state official Henri ten assistant director of enforcement for the Texas motor vehicle said landmark Chevrolet used alluring and insincere offers made to attract people to the store in order to sell them a product at a higher aside from the the commission also told landmark not to engage in any such ten Brink confirmed that the fines were the largest in a civil Case in state they were advertising vehicles unattractive to buyers in the Houston vehicles without air without any advertising at Low Price in order to lure them into the store to attempt to sell them something ten Brink Jim manager of re plied to the commissions action in a pre pared statement and refused to answer any we feel this Fine pays our dues for aggressively entering the Houston Johnson our sales have More than doubled in the nine months since weve Pur chased our auditors have documented the facts that we have saved con Sumers hundreds of thousands of dollars during this period with our Low Price Trad ing the commission also entered agreed judgments against nine other Houston area car dealers for advertising violations and assessed each civil penalties of the minimum under commission ten Brink the nine dealers assessed penalties in clude Bob Marco Buick Marcus Jones Buick Al Parker Buick Hub Buick de montrond Buick Ben Reading Buick Vance sons am Renault and Ron Carter the ads used an asterisk to Point out that License and destination fees were not included in the advertised under commission rules All charges except title and License must be included As advertised ten Brink Ron Carter Chevrolet was fined for a name your own write your own Deal advertisement that ten Brink said also violates the commissions advertising Abby column causes a Sticky mess Maine up the sporting goods store bean tossed a curve to nationally syndicated columnist dear Abby and now both Are having to eat their Abigail Van acting on a readers informed her readers that Spruce gum a rare concoction that Abby says keeps the Mouth moist and has none of the drawbacks of chewing tobacco is Avail Able at Beans Freeport at least that what the columnist was told by one misinformed bean apparently unaware that the store Hast carried Spruce gum for about a Spruce gum is scarcer than hens Kilton Andrew the Compa nys Public affairs said in a letter of apology to please let your readers know that we Are trying to get someone interested in Spruce gum production because our supplier has Andrew but a new problem has Abby was Good for and the store has been flooded with nearly mail and phone orders for Spruce Andrew said the firm sent a card to each prospective customer breaking the news thank you for contacting us about Spruce our Spruce gum supplier went out of but were looking for Aneth Well let you know if were College education averaging up 11 from 84 Washington a education at Public colleges and universities is costing an average of per student this percent higher than last As tuition expenses Are rising faster than the inflation the department of education said the latest annual report produced by the departments National Institute of education on the costs of higher education said students and their families Are paying an average of per student for an increase of percent Over the 198384 school the balance of the average students was paid by state and local and was percent higher than last the report Kent who wrote the report for the said tuition fees outpaced the inflation rate in the past year because Public colleges and universities Are trying to reverse the tremendous loss in purchasing Power of faculty salaries in the past 20 Halstead said College faculty members had suffered a 16 percent decline in salary purchasing Power since the Early while students Are nowhere beginning to pay the full Cost of a College other findings contained in the report included tuition Revenue per student ranged from a High of in Vermont to a Low of in appropriations of state and local tax revenues for Public higher education ranged from a High of per student in Alaska to a Low of in new total per student spending for Public higher including tuition and state and local ranged from in Alaska to in South Public higher education absorbed per cent of All state and local tax the share ranged from less than 5 percent in Vermont and new Hampshire to 14 percent or More in new Mexico and the report said that during the seven year period Stu from 197778 to a majority of the states boosted their net tuition Revenue per student faster than the inflation rate in higher education but 16 states did not keep Pace with the Rise in those during the same it per student appropriations from state and local tax revenues lagged slightly behind higher education costs but they Rose faster than inflation in 21