European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday november 2,1985 jobless rate in october Washington a civilian unemployment in the United stale remained Frozen Al 7. 1 percent last month As a record number of women gained jobs and service oriented businesses posted Large Job gains the government reported Friday. The labor department said the jobless rate for teen agers registered a big jump during the month but other major categories either remained unchanged or posted slight improvements. The country s depressed manufacturing industries also registered an increase of 60,000 jobs in october but the gain still left employment in this important sector 270,000 below where it stood in january. Civilian employment last month reached another record level 107.9 million workers a gain of 325,000 Over the september level. The 7. 1 percent october jobless rate matched the september level which was a slight deterioration from the 7 percent Job less rate in August. That figure had been the lowest level reached during the Reagan administration. Even with the improvement unemployment has been stuck at historically High Levels for a recovery that is about to enter its fourth year. Part of the reason has been the battering the country s manufacturers have taken from foreign Competition. For Only the second month this year the manufacturing sector registered a Small Job gain in october As factory employment climbed to 1 9.3 million workers but the 60,000 increase did not replace All of the jobs loss in september. Paiute Indian chief Dies warm Springs Ore. A a gust Nicholas Kalama chief for life of the paiute indians has died of a heart at tack at age 68. Kalama had been a cattle rancher and a logger and served in the army during world War ii. He was elected chief in 1975 and was a member of the tribal Council for the confederated tribes. Louisian ans mine sofas get the Short and the Long of it health Survey shows Baton Rouge la. Up National health statistics study reports louisianans have a Shorter life expectancy than residents of any other state and residents of the nation s capital have eve Shorter expectations. The study by the National Center for health statistics said Louisiana residents live an average of 71.7 years. District of Columbia residents average Only 69.2 live longest 77 years. Paul Gundprson director of the Minnesota Center for health statistics in , credited genetics health care and risk taking behaviour for Minnesota High rating and Louisiana s poor one. He said the greater percentage of non Whites in Louisiana probably lowered average life expectancies because Minori ties traditionally do riot enjoy the same health care when they re infants an Young he also said minorities seem to be exposed to More risks. Here in Minnesota for example a Black youth has 14 times the risk of Weinga homicide victim than a while youth Gundprson said the figure probably would be higher in Louisiana because of the state s higher crime Rale. The Bureau of vital statistics in new Orleans said heart disease is the leading cause of death in Louisiana with cancer a close second followed by strokes Acci dents and respiratory problems. Suicides and murders Are also Amon the top i Oca uses of death in the state. Reagans looking for retirement Home in la s West Side according to friends by Cox news service los Angeles first lady Nancy Reagan has reportedly passed word to old friends Here that she and president Rea Gan want to buy a House in one of several fashionable neighbourhoods on this City West Side. The Reagan plan Apo remly is to make los Angeles their primary retirement Home after the president s second term expires in january 1989. The couple would also keep their 688-acre ranch inthe Santa Ynez mountains above Santa Barbara. Los Angeles neighbourhoods said to Blunder consideration include Bel air Brentwood and Pacific Palisades where the couple lived for 25 years in a five bed room Home before Reagan became presi Dent in 1981. That 4,700-Square-foot House was built during Reagan s tenure As Host of to s general electric theater and feature modern appliances and lighting equipment unavailable to the Public until years later. Real estate agents contacted by friends of mrs. Reagan say the couple is in no hurry to buy but wants a Home waiting Here when the president leaves Ofick. The reagans have told friends they will use their ranch As a Retreat but that it is too Remote for the sort of Active retirement Reagan anticipates. The ranch is also too far from most Reagan friends who live in los Angeles. That has not been a problem for him a president with helicopters readily Avail Able to whisk him in and out of Santa Monica Airport whenever he wishes. The ranch House is also too Small and rustic to serve As a permanent residence mrs. Rea Gan has reportedly told friends since it has Only two bedrooms and is Becj cd solely by fireplaces. So far mrs. Reagan has personally inspected Only three Homes real estate Industry sources said. Mrs. Reagan report edly is doing most of her looking through two friends Marion Newbert Jorgens Enof Santa Monica wife of steel magnate Earle Jorgensen and Bonita Gram ills rather widow of entre Mcneur Jack Wrather who operated the Disneyland hotel in Anaheim and the Queen Mary and Spruce Goose hotels in nearby Long each. Earlc Jorgensen is a longtime Reagan confidante and a member of the presi Serin year old Warren Honeycutt of be Roxbury Section of Boston looks longing i neighbors by it Fin dapples in the Yard of his next door neighbor. The pups still too shaky to do much roaming around Are just one week old. Dent s informal Kitchen Cabinet As wit Jack Wrather before his death last no properties Are currently the Fuk Crum of the Reagan real estate Rumor one is an 11,000-Square-foot Bel air House once owned by comedian Jerry Lewis now owned by Lewis sex wife. If Reagan bought that estate he would reportedly tear the House Down and rebuild. Another Story has the reagans buying part of mrs. Racier s 2.5-acre estate in Bel air and building there. In either Case the reagans would have to act within a year if a new Home were to be ready before the president s term expires. The presidential rumours have also sent tremors of excitement through the local real estate la probably buy in he Palisades Riviera area where they lived before said one broker. The houses there Are Nice estate properties in the million Dollar Pliura nge. We would love to be their wherever they buy the reagans cause the funds generated by the 1982 Sale of their earlier Home which sold for $1.9million. Biologists plan new Way to Herd whale Sacramento Calif. A Humphrey the Humpback whale continued to ply the Maze of Rivers feeding into Sanfrancisco Bay biologists gathered to Dii cuss a new offensive to Herd the Rovin mammal Back to his Ocean Home. The lost whale was spotted Friday morn ing near Antioch a town about 35 Miles from the Pacific Ocean said Mona Pasquil spokeswoman for the Rescue Effort. He was not far from where the san Joaquin join with the Sacramento River to move Down Stream into san Francisco Bay. The 45-ton whale was last seen thursday night not far away about 40 Miles Inland in one of the sloughs that connect the san Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers. He has swum As far As 70 Miles from the Pacific in his three weeks inside the Golden Gale. Meanwhile a second whale entered Sanfrancisco Bay Friday but the mammal did not appear to be headed Inland to join Humphrey the coast guard said. Earlier thursday 21 scion Isis and government officials meeting in Sacramento decided unanimously to mount a new Campaign this time using guns that discharge compressed air underwater As Well As a previously tried method of hammering on pipes to direct the whale downriver. 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