European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page6 the stars and stripes wholesale prices increased 0.8 % in november Washington a wholesale prices stampeded by another surge in beef costs surged 0.8 percent in no vember the labor department said Friday. The increase came on the heels of a 0.9 percent increase the previous month Anil Means wholesale prices for finished goods have Rich at an annual rate of 1.8 percent through the first ii months of 1985. Retail inflation is running at an annual rate of 3.3 percent so far this year the lowest in nearly two decades. The november producer Price Index showed food costs Rose 1.6 percent after seasonal adjustment in Large part because of a 4.5 percent jump in beef costs. Overall food had risen 1.4 percent in october Bee prices 11.8 percent. High Energy prices another major Factor was a 3.1 percent increase in Energy prices the first Advance in that category since May. As prices for gasoline and Home heating Oil Rose sharply. Analysts noted that the financial markets tended to discount the big october wholesale Price jump but would be More Likely to react negatively to the novem Ber report. However Donald Ratajczak a Georgia state univer sity economist who specializes in monitoring both whole tale and retail prices said the inflationary spurt toward the end of 1985 appears to be the result of shifting seasonal pricing patterns for livestock and a temporary inventory shortage of Petroleum goods. Neil her of these factors significantly Al ters the inflationary Outlook for the next wholesale prices at the intermediate level were up 0.3 percent in november and Rose 2.9 percent at the crud level. Saturday. December 14, 1985 running for science Jennifer Smith whose spinal Cord was sererfo1 by a sniper s Bullet in 1980, competes in the Honolulu Marathon. She was aided by a computerized elec tronic muscle stimulation system from the National Center for rehabilitation engineering at Wright state University a Dayton Ohio. Ford will expand imports to include French sports car aus radian compact Detroit a Ford motor co. Has added France and Australia to its growing car import list which already includes West Germany South Korea Taiwan and mexi co. The no. 2 automaker announced plans thursday to import a High performance sports car from France and a Small car from Australia by the end of the decade. Ford currently imports 1 sports Sedan the Merkur xr4t1, from its German subsidiary and plans to add to the Merkur line next fall with a luxury Sedan called the Scorpio. In 1987, it plans to import minibars from South Korea and subcompact from a Plant it is building in Mexico. Ford also will Export it makes in Taiwan to Canada that year. In inc latest plan. Ford said it will bring in a limited number of expensive two scat High performance cars to compete in inc Market Long occupied by the Chevrolet Corvette. Ford said Chausson a of court Cevois France will be the prime engineering contractor and assembler. The australian car would be a lower priced sporty car made near Melbourne by Ford motor co. Australia Ltd. Engineering design and development work for the australian car will be subcontracted to ital design of Turin Italy Ford said. One company source said the Lii design resembles a Pontiac Ficro with a Back scat. The effects of the decision on american jobs was t immediately Clear. Ford said the number of cars brought to the United states would be relatively Low and neither would replace a current car. Both would be aimed at markets where Ford does t currently compete the automaker said. The company released few details such As the expected number of imports. It s Low volume no question about that Ford spokesman Jim Mccraw said. Company sources said they expect the Levels to be below 30,000 of each car per year. Neither car is i replacement for Ford s current mus Tang or future Mustang like vehicles Louis Ross Ford s executive vice president for North american automotive operations said in a statement. The eventual demise of the Mustang has been widely speculated. Currently the Mustang is a hot seller thanks to engine and Chassis refinements that have won Back it image As a High performance car. Nevertheless its rear drive configuration is seven years old and it is caring the usual lifespan of a body style Ford plans to buy half of the 240,000 front wheel drive cars that Japan s Mazda motor corp. Will build at Flat Rock mich., beginning in 1987, and current plans Call for the Ford versions to Bear the Mustang name or a variation on it. Women unlikely to transmit aids Chicago up despite some theories to the contrary there is Little evidence that a woman with aids can transmit the disease to her male partner a researcher said thur indy. No data arc currently available to support lie Conten Tion that this virus is spread sexually from women to men at least with other than Low frequency or said or. B. Frank Polk of the Johns Hopkins school of Hygiene and Public health. Polk in a letter to the journal of the american medical association said the cent studies suggesting female to mate aids infection arc flawed and ignore More Likely explanations for the infection. In particular a study by the . Military in which servicemen reported contracting the disease from promiscuous heterosexual encounters is biased because Dildo sure of drug abuse or homosexuality by is. Military personnel results in discharge from the also reports of heterosexual transmission in Africa May be misleading Polk said. He suggested that medical reuse of inadequately sterilized Needles and syringes used to administer drugs for other sexually transmitted diseases May be the source of transmission. The acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus ht1.v Iii is believed to be transmitted through the Exchange of bodily fluids primarily blood and semen. Stateside Iii. Prison officials seek to end nude Magazine subscriptions Springfield. Iii. A state officials want to cancel Playboy and Penthouse Magazine subscription for four prison libraries saying they arc an inappropriate me of Public funds. If the inmates want it they can subscribe to it and by for it out of their own Money. Nic Howell a department of corrections spokesman said. Three of the libraries Are run for the state by the Region Al Corn Belt Library system. The department has asked the system to cancel the subscriptions of the magazines which contain nude pictures Howell said but we have no control Over what they the Library at the fourth prison is state operated Aid subscriptions there will be cancelled he said. Bill to be introduced to make Nixon s Birthplace historic site Yorba Linda Calif. A . Rep. William Danny Meyer says he plans to introduce & Bill to declare the House where former president Nixon was born As a National historic site. The California Republican said he was making the Effort at the request of the Yorba Linda City Council. The attempt was made with the cooperation of the National Park service which would be responsible for establishing and maintaining the 7.2-acre site in Yorba Linda that includes the Bungalow where Nixon was born Jan. 9, 1913. Nixon s father Frank built the House 30 Miles South East of downtown los Angeles in 1912 on a farm where be raised Citrus fruit. The family moved to nearby whither 10 years later. 3 Hunts planned in Montana to reduce Jackrabbit population Plentywood Mont. A Shotgun toting Hunt ers will comb Fields in northeastern Montana to shoot jackrabbits that arc nibbling precious crops Down to the roots a state senator said. Plans have been made for three Hunts each covering 640-Acrc Section of Jackrabbit info std land in the Sand Hills area of Sheridan county said state sea. De Smith. Jackrabbits Are not True rabbits but a Type of Large halt with Long ears and very Strong Hind legs. With drought and Grasshoppers already responsible for a lot of crop destruction Farmers Are worried about the damage done by thousands of jackrabbits afraid that they will soon Start on Hay Worth $90 a ton said Smith. We re hoping to gel 80 or 100 Hunters Smith said. Wyoming Grasshopper attacks expected to be worse in 1986 laram1e, Wyo. A surveys indicate the Dales Grasshopper infestation will be worse next year Tao the devastating attack this year despite a $4.5 million Spray ing program an entomologist said. According to the state agriculture department 2.9 million acres mostly Range land were infested with economically damaging numbers of Grasshoppers Orer the summer. The problem was so extensive that More than half of the state s 23 co indies applied for special state Aid. University of Wyoming entomologist Everett Spack Man said wednesday studies indicate 3.2 million acres of Range will be infested by the voracious insects nut year. During the summer officials complained the spraying which began in june was coming Loo late to kill Grasshoppers before they Laid their eggs which will Hatch this Spring. High court blocks execution of death Row inmate in Texas Huntsville. Texas a the . Supreme court has blocked the scheduled execution next week of a death Row inmate convicted in the 1975 abduction and murder of a san Antonio nurse. Justice Byron White ordered the stay for Donald Gene Franklin 34, until the full court can hear the inmate formal Appeal. Franklin was scheduled to die monday for the july 25 1975, abduction and slaving of Mary Margarct Moran he was arrested hours after the abduction but refused to divulge the whereabouts of the woman. Five Days after the kidnapping Moran was found nude and barely alive in a Field in a bed of red Anu not far from the Hospital where she worked. She died july 30 in a san Antonio Hospital. I
