European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes july forum helps teens induce others to shun drugs by Laura Brown staff writer Germany the Only alcohol Jennifer Hahn has drunk was wine that she sipped on new years says she has never smoked marijuana or taken other Jennifer is one of 40 eight Grade students from Mannheim Middle school participating in a teen forum on drug and alcohol the three Day event is de signed to develop positive attitudes in teen leaders to influence Peers when abuse problems arise in i dont Ever want to take says who was selected to attend because she has demonstrated leadership in with when youre at a party and your friends arc its Okas Long As youre not driving the Mannheim military Community drug and Alco hol abuse counselling Center is sponsoring the it is the first time a forum of this Type has been conducted in said Rex director of the counsel ing on the teens listened to Counselor from the Center speak on the dangers of drug and the group participated in exercises intended to help them understand peer during the next two sessions for discussing teen values and for planning strategies for abuse prevention Are this didst come about As a but rather a Becker he said drug and alcohol abuse is no higher in Mannheim than in other Dodds or these kids Are on the younger he there not using alcohol and drugs but it is at this Point that they form Ricky Charlie Adkins and Greg students at the Middle All said they have not seen Many fellow students using the three agreed that drug problems Are worse in the United states because Access is they see alcohol abuse As a greater Greg said he knows students who hide bottles in lockers and drink when they go to the lockers to get i  feel pressure if Only one person asked me to drink said if a whole group of 8 or 9 people that when you feel More you dont want to Embarrass yourself in front of those it spreads around the and everyone loses Trust in Rick Greg added they think of you As not if i had a i would advise him not to go with friends and drink because one drink can Lead to five if he wants to show off with its not a Good Jennifer Jennifer suggested ways to control drug and alcohol including having teachers and parents inform children of the dangers of alcohol and having Peers Dis courage during the forum the teens discussed additional preventive strategies include writing a play on alcohol and drug increasing classroom having group sessions for teens and sending out i think this is a very Good Jennifer said of the if we Are leaders and the other students look up to they might want to follow our example and not abuse drugs and Dollar from Page 1 be stations that thursdays scheduled Revi Sion of the percent Gross National product growth estimate for the second Quarter would reflect a slowdown in economic in Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker told Congress the which has a major influence Over the course of interest will not take Strong action to stimulate economic Volcker defended the feds decision to leave its policy saying that the prob lems which confront the Economy cannot be dealt with by monetary policy the fed attempts to provide enough Money to keep the Economy expanding without sending inflation As things now some policy actions that might on their to con tribute toward easing one problem could aggravate Volcker told the House banking among the currents buffeting the econ omy Are a Strong Dollar that has contributed to a slump for manufacturers of goods that compete in world markets and a rapid Rise in the Money Supply if could rekindle higher the Commerce department said that americans personal income Rose percent in the Rise in income was viewed As a re turn to a Normal following unusual circumstances that led to a percent drop in May and a 1 percent Rise in the government said without huge first lady from Page 1 there in the Oval the vice president he said he asked Reagan How he Felt and the president i feel Fine right at the White Deputy press Secre tary Larry Speakes said reagans first words to Bush were to deny still another report of his referring to rumours of the presidents death that swept some inter National financial somebody must be trying to make a Speakes quoted Reagan As is said Reagan and Bush discussed a wide Range of foreign policy issues As Well As the Domestic matters mentioned by the vice the White House spokesman said Navy Dale the head of the surgical team that operated on the exam ined Reagan at noon and said his digestive system was beginning to return to its nor Mal he said the doctor put the president on a diet of Clear and the intravenous feeding tubes he has been wearing were expected to be Reagan had originally planned to stay the night on the America to observe the navys drug and alcohol abuse pro but Cut the visit to about eight hours after Reagan underwent accompanied by her Broth Richard and Navy Secretary John flew by helicopter to the which has a Crew of Al most about 50 Miles off she was to eat with the Crew and observe flight Reagan has received Praise for her handling of the presidents White House chief of staff Donald Regan quoted the president As saying his wife had been a a real trouper through out the medical which began Friday when Reagan went to the Hospital for a routine procedure to remove a polyp on his Colon and remained for More surgery to remove a larger polyp meat from Page 1 agreed tuesday to go ahead with the the impetus for Smiths request for the test came from an incident involving Yugo Slavian a staff member a truck carrying yugoslavian beef broke Down in he the Driver apparently told somebody who helped him that the shipment was bound to a commissary in Washington that resulted in an unhappy editorial in a local paper that caught the attention of representatives from Montana that the panel found out two weeks ago that the meat want going to a commissary but to a military contractor who gave it away As incentive chilled beef already is being shipped to the Pacific three times the distance from the to the staff member the meat going to the Pacific is being shipped with relatively new commissary experts no attempt is being made to ship uncut carcasses on finished parts Are vacuum packed in plastic and hard chilled to about 30 degrees earlier tests raised the question of whether refrigerator trucks used in shipping could keep the meat in the right temperature a senior official of the defense personnel sup port Center in Philadelphia the Center oversees commissary operations for the the technology May require that the temperature of the meat be kept within a Range of 1 or 2 degrees above or below the desired he the trucks May Only be Able to keep the fluctuation to within 5 he said during the the meat would have to go to some of the largest commissaries in the european it would have to go to stores that could take a whole truckload and sell it he individual stores usually dont have the Freezer and the warehouses Are these Are the kind of issues wed have to look one goal is to avoid freezing and thawing the which adversely affects the commissary specialists the support Center official said the grassed european beef also has a More Grainy taste than Corn fed taste and Price have been concerns of commissary shoppers each time the buy american Issue has been raised in recent the support Center official said the commissary system would not have experimented with shipping beef to even with new because the Price difference is important to service member Consumers besides the fact that there is no trans Atlantic shipping Cost added to european the general agreement on tariffs and Trade authorizes the government to buy a certain amount of subsidized euro Pean economic Community an Agri cultural specialist the m or panel staff member said commissary shoppers often could buy ground Chuck for half what shoppers in Groc Ery stores would the support Center official said commissary shoppers might find hamburger at 29 cents a while he might pay at his grocery store in new he said commissaries in Europe obtain beef from England and while ribs could come from Smith represents the sparsely populated Eastern Southern four fifths of his a major cattle the agricultural specialist we knew beef was being shipped to the Pacific he we wanted to know Why it  be made available to he said the question arose As to whether Only american beef should be sold in american commissaries abroad or whether it should be offered in addition to european then theres the Price differ he those Are the reasons we sought a the support Center official said the relatively Low Cost leads Many americans serving abroad to eat better cuts of meat or steaks and expensive roasts that they  choose in the he said shipping costs of meat could show up in commissary if Congress directed that the meat be made available subsidy payments to Farmers and a retroactive wage settlement to Federal postal employees in personal income would have increased percent in april and percent in in its report on housing the government said construction was started at an annual rate of million Homes last up from million in the number of building permits a gauge of future slipped to an annual rate of million in june from Mil lion the previous lower interest rates on Home mortgages have been credited with helping Spur renewed growth in at a meeting with reporters on Volcker first indicated that the Federal re serve is sticking to the Basic monetary course it has followed All year economic growth has sagged this year As the feds my measure of the Money Supply has grown Well above the initial targets set by the Central my is a measure of checking accounts and Volcker said the fed has decided to Mea sure growth from this beginning with the period from april through provid ing a higher starting base than the final three months of temperatures july 16 l h 64 87 89 Little Rock 63 88 85 los Angeles 53 88 84 Louisville 69 88 88 Memphis 72 80 Atlantic 89 Miami Beach 71 91 87 Paul 65 87 91 Nashville 69 88 85 new Orleans 59 93 86 new York 73 81 91 Norfolk 59 74 89 Oklahoma City 63 84 83 Omaha 78 93 90 Orlando 67 82 87 Philadelphia 57 76 102 Phoenix 65 83 80 Pittsburgh 65 75 86 Maine 74 99 Dallast 81 59 92 77 Providence 55 86 Des 91 Raleigh 57 94 Reno 54 78 87 St Louis 58 85 91 Petersburg 68 85 99 Salt Lake City 73 91 64 san Francisco 75 83 72 Seattle 58 85 79 Syracuse 71 89 100 Tucson 57 86 Kansas 91 Washington 83 97 Las 93 Wichita european weather forecast for thursday becoming partly Cloudy in the seasonable temperatures continue As highs reach mid 70s and lows reach Low Sunset thursday Sunrise Friday Outlook for Friday variable with highs in upper lows in Low temperatures recorded wednesday p f f p f f f 4am 4pm 73 84 52 72 72 88 70 84 59 73 57 68 54 73 4am 4pm m 54 68 f f f f f f 55 79 54 68 66 91 63 73 55 79 71 90 partly Cloudy mostly Cloudy Iraln by Dot 7th 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