European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday. December 29, 1985 30 women eager of join a or on 6 month Mediterranean cruise a a sailing enthusiast says about .10 women have answered to newspaper ads for an tre for i six month cruise of inc Mediterranean in his 42-Fout Sloop. I like Vul to pick three or or women to have the Freedom and enthusiasm m i Ravel. Know How to swim my can live in Small quarters ape is no consideration nor is sailing experience he said. Hut those picked will need about $900 for person Al expenses and air fare from Pittsburgh to Palma do Mallorca. Spam where the cruise will Burin next March. Food and All cruise expenses will be provided by the Captain. Time is the big thing. I m looking for people who can stay for the whole he said. The itinerary includes excursions in the Adriatic and ionian seas and visits to Italy. Yugoslavia fir ecce and 7 Urcy. Re Cuti said his classified ads in the Pittsburgh press and the new York times brought the responses including one from an experience Sailor in Michigan and another from an unemployed Pitts Burgher. 1 he trip will be the second for the former equipment leasing agent and broker. Me said he toured the West Ern Mediterranean nine months ago after abandoning a moderately successful career. When i m sailing i give up All the comforts and hassles and stresses of society Rucquoy said. Share of National income dropping for families with children study says a a talk rtt i ii Nii Washington Dpi families with children arc gelling a smaller share of the National income even though More mothers Are working and the trend is not Likely to change soon a study prepared for Congecsi joint eco nomic committee says. The study released by chairman David obey a wis said inc share of inc National income going to families with children has been falling for More than a decade and it suggests that no end to the trend is in sight. The last decade has been one in which economic performance has been disappointing for Many americans but it has been particularly Tough on kids obey said. The study said the share of the National income going to families with children dropped from 40.2 percent in 1973 to 32.6 percent in 1984. A committee staff analysis of the study said families with children have fared worse than families generally during the 11 year the study the third in a series or. How the econ omy has performed since world War 11, was prepared for the panel by Sheldon Danziger director of the Institute Lor research on poverty at the University of Wisconsin and Peter Gottschalk. Associate professor of economics a Bowdoin College. In releasing it. Obey said the drop in income came despite the Best efforts of families to hold the line and in Spile of a More than 60 percent increase in the number of mothers of children under three who have joined the work Force since 1973. It is amazing that Despic decreased family size and a massive movement of mothers into the work Force the income per family member has gone Down for Middle lower Middle and even lower income families obey said. On inc average a breadwinner comes horns with considerably less real income today than a decade ago he said. Meanwhile big ticket expenses such As housing arc considerably higher than in 1973." the study suggests that Young couples have sought to Deal with the problem in three ways by larger numbers of mothers gom to work by delaying having children Orby not having children at All. It says the size of the average family with children dropped from 4.18 in 1973 to 3.78 in 1984 and the number T held a Adf �8 of 18 fell from 66.4 million to62.8 million during the same period. In conclusion. Danziger and Gottschalk said that their study had made them pessimistic about the prospects for raising incomes of families with children.y"1" he co Only a grown rapidly since the 1982-1983 recession mean family income in 1984 was it la below the 1973 they said. And even if income continues to grow As rapidly As in the past two years there is no indication that the trend toward increased inequality has been taxpayers lost $390 million in fiscal crises of last 2 years a As we nor to Jiniv to. Washington up _ the fiscal crises that brought the government to the Brink of default this year and last year Cost taxpayers $390 million the mount the social Security system will be reimburse tuesday officials say. The payment to be transferred to the social Security Trust funds on the last Day of the year is much it Congress expected because it includes s381 million in interest income the system lost since i984 s bookkeeping manipulations said Mun facts a news service to Bond dealers. This year s loss of $9 million caused by a three month congressional delay in raising the statutory debt limit was considerably smaller than last year s. We have reached agreement with the Treasury department on the amounts. Social Security administration spokesman Jim Brown said Friday. The Money Wil be transferred dec. 31," Treasury department spokesman Charles Powers confirmed. At the same time As Congress increased the govern ment s borrowing limit to $2.08 trillion it ordered the Treasury department to make up any losses to the social Security Trust funds caused by the bookkeeping gyrations needed to keep the government running. As Congress debated the Gramm Rudman deficit cutting measure which held up the increase in the debt limit the Treasury department was forced to innovate. It used the off budget borrowing authority of the Federal financing Bank for the first time. It also delayed investing social Security lax receipts and cashed in system securities that had been Carnin interest. B when Congress decided to repair the damage to the funds legislators were told by administration spokesmen that the loss for 1985 was less than $10million. However i984 s huge losses were revealed in inter Agency negotiations with actuaries for the social Secu Rity administration. The Treasury department finally agreed on the $381 million in losses from october 1984, the previous debt limit impasse. The general accounting office reported dec. 5 that Treasury Secretary James Baker did not act unreasonably when he manipulated the social occur ii accounts to avoid government default but that some of the Secretary s actions appear in retrospect to have been in violation of the requirements of the social Security act. The losses. Particularly costly to social Security last year was the premature redemption of $6.3 billion in securities earning 13v. Percent the Gao said. This year faced with the same expiration of borrow ing Power the Treasury department Cut the losses by cashing in the lowest yielding social Security invest ments before those earning higher amounts stateside there s a Herb who s sizzling Over those Burger King ads . . A Burger King s television commercials about an Oul of touch loser named Herb has a Herb Here upset Over his name s being used As the butt of a joke. At first i thought it was funny but i m getting com ments from people about 15 times a said Herbert Paul Schunck. They be got an and out now that says hey Nincompoop people say. Yeah i know you. You re that idiot on to so 1 told them i m tired of their smear Campaign against Schunck. A 32-year-old or incr has asked other Herts to join him with Public complaints and pickets. I want an apology and i want them to Stop it if i have to hold them hostage with a Ketchup bottle he said. The National hamburger Chain began airing the commercials nov. 1, portraying Herb As the Only person on Earth who hts t sampled its wares. Most of the 200 herbs Whu pc written Burger King about the $40 million advertising Campaign like it and Only four or five have complained about it spokeswoman Joyce Myers said from company Headquarters in Miami. Tennessee festival to Call natives Home for reunions Nashville. Tenn. A gov. Lamar Alexander and Sara Cannon better known As Cousin Minnie Pearl will ring a giant Bell at the Capitol on new year s eve to announce Tennessee s Homecoming 86. The ceremony on the North Lawn of the Capitol in which schoolchildren also will participate will ring in More than 2,000 celebrations in More than 600 Tennessee cities towns and communities. The yearlong festival is designed to Call tennesseans Home from other states to their hometowns for reunions. Minnie Pearl and roots author Alex Haley who is out of the state working on a Book arc co chairmen of the event. 2 counties to Stop sending dangerous inmates to Hospital nor walk Calif. A los Angeles and Orange counties have agreed to Stop sending dangerous prisoners to a state mental Hospital after an escape by four patient the hospitals director said. Under a plan reached last week with the los Angele county sheriffs department inmates considered danger Ous generally those with bail Over $10,000 won t be of n -0 rom Merity metropolitan stale Hospi Tal. Director Don Miller said Friday. ?j1 1l? or p3101111 Cut through a Metal screened within hours and two who were listed As dancer of we recaptured last week. The fourth remains at la be fire causes $1 million damage to popular Baltimore nightclub Baltimore a _ a five alarm Blaze caused $1million damage to Girards a popular downtown right pm a of i wow. Back of Lac Sec and � a Lull to Dallas councilman clean Dean awarded $20 for Safe driving a cily councilman nicknamed of ble h cd cd 1 Vanderw Vior so commends-$20 Check a court co " Driver and handed him a a issued 20� can Somas Day Courtesy of. Vanderbui led the Law and order fac i
