European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday december 24, 1985 tobacco firm cleared in liability Case Santa Barbara Calif. A a jury on Mon Day rejected the claims if the family of a deceased smoker dec Idip by a vote of 9-3 thai the . Reynolds Tobac co co. Was not liable for the Man s death. Salted in the courtroom s front Row a. The verdict is announced were three survivors of John Mark Galbraith whose death at age 69 led to the lawsuit. He had smoked cigarettes for 54 years and suffered from lung and heart disease at his death in 1982. During deliberations questions from the jurors indicated they had started by considering whether Galbraith died of cancer or of one of his other ailments which also included pulmonary fibrosis. Attorney Melvin Belli argued that Reynolds was to blame for Galbraith s death because its warnings of the dangers of smoking were insufficient. Reynolds attorney Thomas Workman told jurors Galbraith smoked because he loved it he knew the risks involved and took  he suggested that Galbraith died of hereditary illnesses including his heart disease rather than smoking. The jury had deliberated just under nine hours since receiving the Case thursday. In the civil Case at least nine jurors were required to agree to return a verdict unlike a criminal Case in Wreb the 12 jurors must reach a unanimous decision. The suit was the first of 45 similar pending actions to reach a jury. A Federal judge in Knoxville tcnn., recently Dis missed a $55 million liability suit against Reynolds saying a 51-year-old amputee had not proved the com Pany s cigarettes were defective and unreasonably  november consumer spending rebounds Reagan Washington up consumer spending Rose during november rebound ing from a big october decline As Ameri cans raised their income but put less Money into savings the Commerce department said monday. Personal income Rose 0.6 percent or sis.5 billion last month raising the total to s3.4 trillion seasonally adjusted. It was the sharpest gain since a 0.9 percent increase in april. At the same time personal spending jumped 0.9 percent to a total of j2.7 tril lion. The department said revised figures showed spending fell 1.4 percent in octo Ber a much bigger drop than the 0.9 per cent decline reported last month. The october drop was the largest since 1.4 percent recorded in May 1960. Purchases of durable goods the Gener ally More expensive items expected to last at least three years increased 2.1 percent after dropping by a revised 12 percent in october. New car sales increased modestly in november after accounting for most of the october decline the department said. The department said spending on non durable goods increased 0.32 percent and spending on services Rose 0.91 percent. Disposable personal income income after taxes Rose 0.5 percent following a revised 0.5 percent increase in october. The savings rate the difference be tween income and spending Rose to 4.2 percent or $119.8 billion during novem Ber. Revised figures showed the rate was 4.5 percent in october or $ 128 billion. Gift from Page 1 Many. It was Christmas eve 1963. Mccar thy has a Black and White photograph of himself hanging on his Wall behind his desk. His head is buried in a huge pot and steam from the hot water is rising around him. Printed under the picture Are the words lest i  tonight 46 officers and senior cos will be Manning the guard shacks in the motor pools and at the Entrance Gates to Ferris Barracks in or Langon. Mccarthy will pull staff duty officer. His command ser Geant major is his assistant. Chief warrant officer Everrtt Shaffer is looking Forward to walking an enlisted heal. He vows to have the most together uniform and bust shined boots out of All his fellow officers. Because Shaffer is battalion maintenance officer his boots arc usually up to their eyelets in grease. On monday other officers marvelled at the gloss he s been working into his boots for his big night. I look at guard not As a duty but More like an Honor he said. You represent All the other soldiers of the battalion when you re out there and the preparation makes you remember what Basic soldiering is All  Shaffer was also an enlisted Soldier. He remembers his last tour with the 1st in 46th inf in 1972. It s the same unit now renamed that he s serving with today. He s been in or Langon a total of 10 years. It s where he met his wife Giscla. How do the officers families feel about their husbands and fathers on guard duty tonight at first she did t like the idea Shaffer said but i convinced her it was the right thing to  his 12-year-old son Patrick agrees. We had to do a or Job on the officers families Mccarthy said. Now they re behind  Mccarthy said the single Soldier in t left out in the cold either. We be done every thing we could to get them into families for Christmas he said. We know this is the toughest part of the year and we want to get them Over the  tonight capt. John Angell commander of the same co b that Mccarthy walked into last year will stand behind the cookies. Although the duty is spread out so that each officer pulls guard Lor Only two hours Angell says those two hours we equate to two years of stories about How Well the Bat Talion leadership takes care of their sol  the scuttlebutt is already circulating through other units whose soldiers won t be so Lucky. Privates Are asking. Why can t we do this too " Angell lid. Mccarthy spoke of the leadership Benefit of this gesture. This is leadership by example he said. It May be the Only Chance a Young officer will get to walk guard. I Hope some will remember and carry it throughout their Ca  from Page 1 age for the financially strained farm credit system the $70 billion banking network that is the nation s largest farm Lender. The president then went to the agriculture department to hold a Brief closed Cir Cuit television news conference with farm state reporters in an Effort to demonstrate concern for agriculture s problems. Senate majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas praised enactment of the two Billi As essential first step in restoring Hope and Confidence in Rural  the farm Bill reauthorizes for five Yean a Long list of programs ranging from crop Price supports Ana income subsidies to for eign famine Relief efforts food Stamps and agricultural credit research and Extension programs. At the heart of the Bill Are provision lowering Federal Price supports for major commodities including wheat com Ricc Cotton and soybeans. The action is designed to make the crops More competitive in world Trade and restore . Market share lost in recent years to an overvalued Dollar and excessive support Levels. In a gesture of concern Over the badly slumping farm Economy which has been hit particularly hard in the Export dependent midwestern Grain Belt the Bill replace in come lost to lower Price supports with in come subsidies. While the Cost of the Bill s commodity sections has been estimated at $52 billion Over the next three years analyst Lay it is Likely to go considerably higher perhaps to $75 billion and set records for farm program spending. Cheat from Page 1 Lotical commitments they cause grave con Cern regarding soviet commitment to arms control and they Darken the atmosphere in which current negotiations arc being con ducted in Geneva and  in another sense soviet violations Are not of equal  Reagan said. While some individual violations Are of Little apparent military significance in their own right such violations can acquire importance if left unaddressed they Are permitted to become precedents for future More threatening violations Reagan said. The report accused the soviets of treaty violations in nine cases. All except one have been raised in earlier reports. The one new charge accuse the soviets of concealing the association Between intercontinental ballistic mis ills and launch ers during testing. These deliberate soviet con Almont activities impede our ability to knew whether a Type of missile is in compliance with Salt ii requirements Reagan said. They could also make it More difficult for the United states to assess accurately the mormon choir figure Dies Salt Lake City a Richard p. Condic 87, who brought the mormon Tabernacle choir to world prominence during his 17 years at its Helm died sunday Fol lowing a Short illness. Condic a Tenor who studied at the new England conservatory of music directed the choir from 1957 to 1974. Critical parameters of any future  the report also repeated charges that a soviet radar being built in Central Siberia violates the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty and that Moscow is violating a provision of the Salt ii treaty by testing and deploying the ss-25 missile. The report noted that the soviets have denied they Are guilty of any violations and claim instead that they Are in Complete compliance with their arms control obligations and  presidential spokesman Larry Speakes announcing continued . Observance of the Salt ii treaty said our position on Salt ii is that we have indicated that we will live under the agreements of Salt ii and not violate them. And until we say differently the policy remains the  army recesses probe of go s role in death Nellinger Germany is army officials at incl Lingen Barracks have recessed an article 32 investigation of a Soldier s role in a scuffle that killed a Ger Man Man in nearby Stuttgart a 2nd sup port come spokesman said. Pfc. Theodore n. Erickson 22, of the 2nd support come s 800th service co is charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Hendrik hangs Tler 24, of Rothweil. Hengstler died oct. 8 of injuries he suffered sept. 29 when he was knocked to the ground and hit his head at the Cann Statter Volk fest in Stutt Gart officials said. Maj. James Allard Public affairs officer said the article 32 hearing comparable to a grand jury investigation recessed monday for two weeks because several witnesses Are on vacation and officials Are awaiting medi Cal evidence. German police apprehended Erickson for temperatures l h 20 n 37 s3 11 40 77 40 26 35 16 13 k 37 40 64 24 s5 21 37 47 70 7s 4s 36 70 Al any Atlanta Allan la Colv Allan la Colv Botlon Chicago Cleveland Dalpat Al Worth Denver Del Roll Honolulu Houston Kanui Colv l h 54 76 60 70 4 32 Soma 69 55 6� 46 76 30 31n 37 26 41it n 39 an 4i Lai Vai Lai anger Miami  moment Orlando no thu Plath Mrgan Portland Ore sin Lebec Tiv sati Frind Tco warm Mutton european weather  Lor tue Tav Moilov Clouds with put of area of fog throughout Germany. Benet wed Cloudy to Motily Cloudy with rain expected be Treme u u hai8rn Germany can i Peck Safru Bower until late Ade noon. High Perrwe return Range from upper 3