European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday september 24,1985 the stars and stripes pages personal computer Market in percent of us sales in $1,000 to $5,000 Range 19s3 total unto c4d 101 Mhoo Tandy 6.9% ism 21.4 Apple 28.2 others 43.5 Tandy 5.3% e 25.6 ism 27.3others 41.8 Chicago Tribune graph ii. Source Oal quest inc. Texas aids Mexico despite official s plea to stay Home san Antonio Texas Dpi governor Mark White sent the state s first Load of emergency supplies to earthquake ravaged Mexico sunday and said he was shocked a Reagan administration official tried to keep texans from helping their neighbors. White spoke at an Airport news Confer ence just prior to the departure of a privately owned Boeing 707 loaded with emergency equipment and supplies donated by the people of Bexar county. Mexico City was hit by earthquakes thursday morning and Friday night. An accurate death toll is not known but officials Lay thousands were killed. The second Load of supplies donated by texans was scheduled to leave from Dallas monday morning on the same Boeing 707. White said a televised request by assistant Secretary of state Elliot Abrams that san Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros and former us. Ambassador Bob Krueger not go to Mexico was an unfortunate comment com ing from someone not in a position to know.1 Cisneros and Kruc Ger both democrats went to Mexico City saturday to confirm ousted As head of Apple computer wizard feels no bitterness new York a Apple computer co founder Steve jobs says he feels no bitterness toward the Man who ousted him from the company John Sculley picked by jobs As president of the firm. Jobs 30, who resigned As chairman of the Board last week was relieved of operating duties in May he said in an interview in the sept 30 Issue of Newsweek. Jobs said he Learned that he was no longer wanted at the company at two separate analysts meetings in which Sculley said there was no role for me there then or in the future. That was about As Black and White As you need to make he said he Felt As if somebody had punched you in the stomach and it knocks the wind out of you and you can t but he said you know i respect his Sculley s right to make that jobs and Stephen Wozniak founded the $2 billion company in a garage 10 years ago in California s Silicon Valley. Wozniak left Apple in february in a disagreement with jobs Over the firm s priorities. Apple which at one Point had a 45 per cent share of the personal computer mar Ket now has about 25 percent. It suffered its first loss in its last fiscal Quarter. Jobs conceded that he might not be the Best person to run a company. It probably is True that the people who have been Able to come up with the innovations in Many industries Are maybe not the people that either Are the Best skilled at or frankly enjoy running a Large Enterprise last week Sculley 46, said people tend to confuse vision with innovation. Steve contributed to vision and it s an immense contribution no doubt about the firm improved and then declined under Sculley s leadership. He has begun a reorganization and expects the company to make a profit this Quarter. Jobs said he believes Sculley wanted him to sever any relationship with Apple be cause John Felt that after the reorganization it was important for me to not be at Apple for him to accomplish what he wanted to he said he had Only spoken to Sculley three times since May but would answer the phone if he called. Jobs told Newsweek he was proud of what he had accomplished in the last 10 years and i d like to do something again where when i m 40 will look Back and say you know i spent my 30s Well " Gas prices continue to slide at pump but increase is forecast by year s end los Angeles a retail Gaso line prices continued an 11-week slide by falling another two thirds of a cent per Gal Lon in the hut two weeks but May Rue by 6 cents a gallon by year s end an Oil Industry analyst said sunday. Analyst Dan Lundberg cited several fac tors that could push Gas prices up including the Iraq Iran War rising crude Oil prices fall and Winter demand for heating Oil and the Cost of reducing the Lead Content of leaded Gas. The average retail Price of All grades of Gas both self and full serve has fallen for the Lith consecutive week to $1.214 per Gallo from $1.240 last july 5," said Lundberg who surveys some 17,000 Gas stations nationwide every two weeks. The Price drop averaged two thirds of agent for retail gasoline but almost a full Penny on the wholesale Market he indicates retailers Are continuing to recoup profit margins they lost betwee january and july when retail Gas Price hikes lagged behind wholesale increases the analyst two week reduction in self serve Gas Oline prices averaged about four fifths of Penny twice the reduction in full serve latest Lundberg Survey found the retail Price of self serve regular leaded Gas averaged $1.092 per gallon Down eight tenths of a cent in the past two weeks. Self serve regular unleaded was $1.168, also Down eight tenths of a Penny while Premium unleaded was $1.296, Down nearly seven tenths of a regular leaded was $1.315, Down nearly four tenths of a Penny. Regu Lar unleaded was $1.383, also Down nearly four tenths of a cent. Premium unleaded was $ 1.449, Down three tenths of a cent. Lundberg said the summer decline in Gas prices confounded projections by the . Environmental Protection Agency which expected Gas prices to go up because of the Cost of reducing Lead Content in leaded Epa had ordered the reductions to begin after july 1. The expected Price increase never materialized because crude Oil prices dropped during the summer As nations in the organization of Petroleum exporting countries exceeded production quotas in an Effort to grab bigger shares of the Market he said. Oil refiners also contributed to the Price decline by drawing Down their inventories Lundberg said. He predicted the Price raising effects of the Lead reduction finally May occur in the coming months As the Iran Iraq War an increased demand for heating Oil boost crude Oil prices. He noted that crude Oil prices have been rising since sept. 17, but the effects have yet to reach the said saudi Arabia s Oil min ister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani recently warned other open nations that if they keep exceeding production quotas Saud Arabia would increase its production Possi Bly pushing the Price of crude As Low As $18a barrel from $27, he said. If Yamani followed through on his threat pump prices could drop 6 cents a gallon by year s end. What Aid was needed. Cisneros said he talked with officials at Mexico s presidential Palace saturday night and again sunday about Relief items on the first plane. The mayor said the list includes Jack hammers Hydraulic equipment shovels picks water and water purification equip ment blankets tents and medical supplies. Cisneros said the next step in the Relief Effort would be to slow Down the influx of donated items in Texas and concentrate on setting up a Texas fund under the auspices of the governor s office. Donations to that fund would allow officials to obtain highly specialized construction and medical equipment mexican officials have requested Cisneros said. White asked Kruc Ger and Cisneros to go to Mexico to Volunteer Texas assistance de spite the Appeal from Abrams. I was shocked to see that expression from a top official in the administration. But i believe it was Best refuted by the warm reception these two received when they arrived in Mexico City White said. White said he would appoint a broader list of texans to help coordinate future re Lief efforts to Mexico. Appearing on Abc s television s night line1 program Friday Abrams said he was speaking for the mexican government which had requested the texans to stay Home. Krueger said the response of the mexican officials contradicted Abrams statement. I wish the people of Texas could have seen the Strong emotional response of this seasoned foreign service officer when he Learned of the interest of the people of Texas Krueger said. Officials in Mexico City on sunday warmly welcomed the tons of food medical supplies and excavation equipment donated by texans a reported. Humberto Lugo the director general of the Mexico City Airport told Cisneros and Krueger the mexican people were profoundly grateful for this generosity a said Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 24, 1945 the 45 staff members of the Bergen Belsen and Auschwitz concentration Camps on trial for their lives in Luneburg Germany will hear the testimony of Sophia Litinsky who was sent to the Gas chamber at Auschwitz but escaped. 30 years ago today. Sept. 24, 1955 the West German government in Bonn ratified diplomatic re lations with the soviet Union and within hours a group of German War prisoners was released. 20 years ago today. Sept. 24, 1965 the United slates renewed its Appeal to . Members to use All Means to persuade the communists to negotiate a Vietnam settlement. The . Also urged the members to deny red Chin a seat in the world organization. 10 years ago today. Sept. 24, 1975 a Middle age woman standing in a crowd fired a pistol shot at president Ford in san Francisco but missed. A disabled sex Marine knocked the gun Down and police wrestled the suspect Sara Jane Moore to the ground
