European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes july 1985 Reagan hails Black gains in employment Washington a president Reagan saturday said his policies Are help ing Black people to better but said Congress is hindering Progress by blocking legislation to establish Enterprise zones and an experimental sub minimum wage for we Sec All the parts falling in place for a new surge of robust Reagan said in his weekly radio address from the presidential Retreat at Camp adding that one of the most hopeful signs for our future is being seen in our Black Mickey Shaughnessy actor Shaughnessy Dies at age 64 Cape May court not Mickey a barrel pug faced comedian who appeared in 41 including from Here to died Here of heart he was 64 years he lived in whose full name was Joseph was born in new York he began working in show business As a resort club but became a comedian when he noticed the pay was he joined the army in world War coached the boxing and acted in an army revue called stars and after the he was working on stage in where he had when a Columbia pictures producer saw his act and invited him to do a screen Shaughnessy first two movies were George Kukors the marrying kind in 1952 in which he played Aldo rays brother inlaw and the Academy a War winning from Here to in which he played the easygoing in Shaughnessy appeared in dont go near the designing woman in which he played a pug who could sleep Only with his eyes open and Jailhouse with Elvis Shaughnessy performed his nightclub act almost until the end of his he said a record million Blacks now have and Blacks have gained an aver age of new jobs every twice the rate for these gains were created by the engines of not the horseman buggy sys tem of bureaucratic make work that broke Down Long Reagan we Are reaching out to every american who yearns to Board the Freedom train that can take them to the destination of their but that train cant keep moving if government keeps blocking the he he attacked protectionist measures that raise prices and eventually cripple the Job Reagan urged prompt congressional approval of his plan for a three year test of a sub minimum wage for saying it would create about new jobs for Young following reagans Alan delivered the response for the in which he criticized reagans policy on strife torn South discussing the administrations policy of quiet diplomacy toward the White ruled Cranston what America needs is not quiet diplomacy but loud action in the form of economic the administration is opposed to such Cranston urged Reagan to help lawmakers draw up an economic sanctions Bill to combat South Africa apartheid policy of racial Cranston called apartheid an abomination that stinks in the nostrils of the civilized House votes to give former presidents less Money for office expenses Washington a the House decided Friday to Cut Back on the office and staff allowances Given to former presidents referred to As a slush fund by one congressman but bypassed a move to eliminate such support by a 199162 the House approved an amendment by Bill trimming from proposed allow ances for former chief executives and Leav ing for office and while the american people have a High respect for former presidents and want to see that adequate support is peo ple feel that expenditures for former presi dents has been Nelson total Public assistance for former presi including their libraries and secret service has grown from in 1955 to million in fiscal he Andy proposed Cut Ting All office allowances for former presi he said the Money was a slush fund used to buy such items As carpets and the former presidency has become big said who argued that the three living exp residents Richard Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter command upwards of for making a i dont know which one is a great Ora he there curios someone to have at your among the duties of staffs paid by the pub Lic allowance is to serve As booking of he Jacobs said while he did not want to return to the Days when an ailing Ulysses Grant wrote his memoirs by weve come a Long Way from Grant to Grants that Are Steny opposed a total Cut of office expense saying that much of the time of the former presi dents is spent in the business of the a Nelsons which was substituted for Jacobs would gradually reduce the staff allowances for former presidents the longer there out of consistent with a Bill introduced in the sen ate by Lawton an Origi Nal annual allowance of would be reduced to Over a nine year Peri pensions for the three living express dents and for lady Bird widow of former president Lyndon would not be secret service Protection and presidential Library allowances would not be the House also approved reducing the allowances for former presidents last but the language was dropped by a House Senate conference the action Friday came As the House considered billion for the Treasury postal service and the executive office of the president for fiscal the House adjourned for the week end before completing action on the the House Bill is nearly million above the current years spending and billion above the level proposed by president Money added by the House appropriations committee includes million for the postal rejecting reagans plan to eliminate the subsidy for delivering news magazines and free mail for the Blind and overseas the House Bill also is million above reagans request for the internal Revenue service and has million extra for the customs service to help increase enforcement of tax and import jaw top officials approve agreement on pm Saturn car working conditions Chicago up the United Auto workers International executive Board Friday approved a labor agreement for general motors Saturn that features permanent Job Security and worker participation in joint Union management Deci Law president Owen Bieber the agreement was approved by the unions 25member International executive Board during a nearly three hour the agreement will pave the Way for production of an entirely new Small car and the creation of jobs for the Bieber told a news the Law undertook these negotiations to create jobs by maintaining and expanding Domestic Small car production and to ensure the living standards of our Mem Bers employed building those he the agreement still must be ratified by the the Saturn which has been sought by More than 30 will mean new jobs and will involve production of an entirely new the Detroit free press and the Nashville tennessean reported Fri Day that Spring had been selected for the the workers will be paid salaries rather than hourly starting base rates for a Wpm members who join Saturn will be per hour for production workers and per hour for skilled members also will receive quarterly pay ments reflecting increases received by com parable a Wpm base rates will be augmented by a re Ward system that will generate additional the increases would include attendance and performance profit sharing and any increases generated by the Cost of living adjustment and the 1987 a Wpm National one year after the Startup of base rates will be adjusted to 80 percent of the average straight time hourly rates prevailing at competing a represented Domestic the new agreement provides that the Pri Mary source for recruitment of the Saturn workforce will be Law members at All Active and Laid off a Wpm members will be eligible to be considered for employment at Saturn the new agreement does include the right to All a Wpm members employed by Saturn will be protected with permanent Job which was a major consider cigarette sales ban has Hospital patients fuming san Francisco a patients were indignant on the first Day of a ban on cigarette sales at this cites health even those with a Good reason not to ivs the worst thing in the world i can said Chuck a patient at Lacuna Honda Hospital who suffers from emphysema and requires oxygen to but i ought to be Able to do it if want a ban on cigarette sales ordered this month by the City health commission for All health department facilities took effect Fri while smoking itself was not the ban requires patients to leave Hospital grounds to Purchase at Laguna Honda most patients Are Al Lon term residents who cannot leave the How Are these people going to go across the Street asked nurse Ann i think were depriving these people of their Phil chairman of the san fran Cisco health said that he was sympathetic to the needs of elderly patients but that the Hospital should not appear to condone we Are a healthcare he we  be Selling things that Are More than 400 Laguna Honda patients signed a petition to mayor Dianne its not said Ray who has been living on Ward f4 for 13 the Only Way most of us Are going to go out of Here is in a sister Carol who directs one of Laguna Honda hospitals Volunteer pro characterized the ban As Devesta ing for for some of smoking is their Only these people have so and now they have even she