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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, August 23, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August prices Rise percent during july Washington up1 consumer prices inched up percent in the same As May and As accelerating housing costs were mostly balanced by lower gasoline and meat the labor department said the mild upward movement of the con Sumer Price Index through july of this year kept the annual inflation rate at just the Only big mover among the major categories was up at an 8 percent an Nual rate in the most recent three and percent in volatile vegetable prices bounced up percent during the month but Overall food and beverage prices were lifted Only the same As gasoline prices dropped helping the major category cover ing All transportation costs to go Down clothing costs also were Down per cent As  sales on summer clothing Cut prices More than declines in beef and poultry prices offset increases for pork and beef prices have gone Down in each of the first seven months and arc now percent under their level in the broadest Index of housing costs Rose with the increase for rents off set largely by a decline in furniture prices and a slowdown in fuel and utilities electricity Cost percent less in making up for in increase in natural Gas medical care costs dropped a Little less than the average of percent for the first half of the the Cost of Hospi Tal rooms posted an extremely rare decline of the decline in gasoline prices brought them percent below their Peak in March while new car prices went up at the percent average so far in this Model the Cost of financing a new or used car dropped that Cost could keep declining now that All the major automakers have announced clearance Sale financing rates for 1985 models through Telephone service kept getting up a substantial percent in with local charges alone up but interstate Lon distance Calls were percent the percent annual inflation rate for the april june Quarter was the lowest three month rate since the one ended in March department analysts the Price Index continues to Benefit from the declining Price of but aside from a Small increase in food prices anticipated for later this the Only major threat to relative Price stability remains the decline of the Dollar on foreign Exchange it eventually makes imports less of a bar easing Competition enough to allow Domestic producers to raise their prices fas but so the extra expense the Dollar shifts have added to imports Are being absorbed by the importing companies for the most analysts he gives a Hoot about animals eyes a photo Samuel Vainisi of one of great horned owl from the Brookfield our practice is much the same Only about 100 animal Eye doctors in senior zookeeper Joan Daniels As that of human the examines a except for fitting Eye Vainisi son charged in car bombing deaths of Florida tobacco his brother a police thursday arrested the son of slain tobacco heiress mar Garet Benson on charges of first degree Mur Der in the car bombing death of his Mother and brother last officials Steven was taken into said Lee assistant state attorney for the 20th judicial he said no one else has been arrested in the Collier county sheriffs Charles Marshall said Benson was arrested in fort Myers and taken to the Lee county Benson was expected to be taken later thursday to the Collier county jail Hollander said Benson was charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Benson and her 21yearold adopted and one count of attempted first degree Bensons Carol Lynn Benson of was badly burned in the Hollander said he could not give any More details because the Case is a pending criminal the Boston Herald reported that police found Bensons fingerprint on a receipt for a Foo Long Section of galvanized steel the kind used to make the the her Ald attributed the information to an unidentified source close to the was heiress to the Lan Caster Leaf tobacco the blast occurred outside the Benson Steven Benson had gotten out of the car and was inside the family Home at the who suffered Burns Over 30 per cent of her has been released from Massachusetts general Hospital and is re covering at several Days before the a Man bought the steel pipe from Hughes building a construction Supply firm in the Herald the Purchase stood out in the clerks mind because he said it was an unusually Small amount of pipe to the paper the receipt for the pipe was signed with an illegible but the heralds source said investigators have identified a fingerprint on the receipt As that of Steven police served a search warrant on Benson last week for a Sample of his according to the new Texas cadets will get physicals College Texas Apall new members of Texas univer Sites corps of cadets will receive physical examinations following the death nearly a year ago of a Cadet forced to do motivational the schools president about 650 freshmen and Transfer Stu dents will be Given physicals next week by an outside University president Frank Vandiver the examinations should identify any conditions that require further investigation by staff who will decide whether a student is physically fit to be in the Vandiver Bruce a Transfer student from new died of heat stroke 30 after being roused in the Early morning hours and forced to do vigorous exercises under the supervision of senior three cadets pleaded guilty 25 to reduced charges of hazing and received pro bated 90day sentences and a fourth Cadet received a probated sentence for tampering with Vandiver said an outside company will conduct the physicals because the University health Center lacks the staff or facilities to handle mass examinations while meeting its regular Texas has previously had All Stu dents Complete medical Vandiver said that will continue to be the policy for All students except those who elect to become no Beach boys next july Park service says Washington up the Beach boys Are once again banned from the next fourth of july Celebration in the nations capital this time in favor of a More patriotic Typ a National Park service spokeswoman participants in next years Independence Day traditionally held near the Washington have not been out the Park service is considering simply a military band concert or the an Nual fireworks what will be notably absent from the Celebration will be the Beach with their California Sunan surf or any other Rock Park service spokeswoman Sandra Alley said wednes were not talking about their Talent at she were talking about the appropriateness of the we want a More patriotic Type ceremony in keeping with the Alley said the Park service wants the program to be More Ive had letters from people saying they used to come Down to the mall All the but they cant bring their children any she that is a familiar tune for the Beach they played the mall in 1981 and but in Interior Secretary James Watt banned the group because it attracted the wrong element to the festive replacing the Beach boys that year was entertainer Wayne thousands of fans were outraged by the including first lady Nancy and the group was this the Beach boys Drew More than people to the the crowd left behind 206 tons of More than people needed medical at Tention for ailments ranging from a head ache to cuts from broken Alley said she hoped the Beach boys fans would not be As angered by the Park service ban As they were with Watts de in sure theres going to be a backlash from the but hopefully this years show will be one Many of the citizenry can also she  
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