European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 15, 1986 the stars and stripes Paga 7 Chrysler official says buyer i Benefit most this year Detroit up excess production cat cily will make the car buyer a King in 19b6 and Sci off a fight among automakers for shares of a inn Ricl heavily pen it rated by imports. Gerald or Conwald head of Chrysler motors said monday. Somebody s blood is going to spill on the floor this year said or Conwald. Whose division is the largest of four groups reporting to Chrysler corp chairman acc Iacocca. In a news conference and a speech to the economic Lub of Detroit or Conwald said Japan could capture an other 5 percent of the Domestic Market South Korea might pick up 2 percent and foreign designed cars Assem bled in America could grow from 4 to 6 percent. " Here in fact with All the foreign companies building plants plus nil of the Domestic expansion there will be 25 percent More audio capacity in America this year than the estimated Market size he said. So it s going to be dogfight. Add All that together and gel ready to be shocked when you find that Detroit automakers Caputd lose about 10 Points of inc Market share by 1986," he said. Ten Points of share is Worth about $3 billion profit in the car business. Even More important it s Worth about another 300,000 Tost american  Greenwald said 22 or 23 of the 3fi Auto companies competing in the United Stales arc foreign and seven or eight Marc Are on the Way. In response to questions Riboul reports in Industry publications that american car makers will abandon the Small car Market by 1980, Greenwald said Chrysler will not willingly surrender that segment. I d say we re the underdog he said. Put we at Chrysler arc pretty Good at playing that  meeting the Challenge he said will require american automakers to remove $2,000 from the Cost of building each vehicle and to persuade buyers that american Quality is As Good As available anywhere. Still lingering out there is an unfortunate perception he shirt. I guess it will take a couple More years of con slant reminders of the Quality of american cars. Greenwald said Chrysler s Board of directors approved a billion Dollar increase in a five year product and capital spending program from is 1.5 billion to si2.5 billion. A record s3.4 billion will be spent on new products and upgrading factories he said. In the next 12 months the program Calls for Chrysler to bring out four new products to the Dodge Shadow and Plymouth Sundance the new midsize pickup truck Dakota and an All new midsize Coupe code named  although Chrysler will continue to diversify he said in will be looking primarily at technology and defense products. He scoffed at reports Chrysler was one of the suitors of Merrill Lynch. I Don t know where All these rumours get started he said. We be never Given any consideration to buying Mer Rill  Auto manufacturing around the world Japan " i i Europe i 191 unto states european economic Community Ige Many " of inducing component of Par country in 1b83 Chuago Tribune Era proc sour tit the we raft urge Industrial Enon Prius. 1wmt Hwy Only love picked As country song of the year Nashville Tenn. A my Only love a no. I Hil by the Slater Brothers was named country music s song of the year monday night at the sixth annual National songwriter awards show. The Stuller Brothers newest member. Jimmy Fortune who wrote the song was honoured at the nationally televised show at the Tennessee performing arts Center. He won the same award a year ago for his composition  my life is truly a fairy tale come True said Fortune who joined the quartet in 1982, before that he wrote service orders at a car Dealership. The song written for his brother s wed Ding is about the Bond Between a Man and woman it also was voted the year s Best traditional Ballad. Hello Mary Lou first popularized by the late Ricky Nelson in 1961 and brought Back last summer by the slate or Brothers was voted but traditional upbeat song. It was written by Gene Pitney and Cayet Mangiaracina. David Mcgrath an associate of Pitney accepted the award by say ing he Nakeil me to remind everyone that in was Ricky Nelson who first gave Mary Lou birth 25 years ago the staplers performed the song on the show in memory of Nelson and his band who died dec. 31 in a Texas plane crash. "40 hour week for a living recorded by Alabama was the top country Rock song. The writers were Dave Loggins. Lisa Silver and Don Schlitz. There s no Way a no. I hit by Ala Bama was voted the year s top contemporary Ballad the so no about a Lover s Faith for a mate was written by Lisa Psihis. Will Robinson and John Jarrard. Jarrard who is Blind told the audience. You always keep the  Mississippi Squirrel revival written by Cyrus w. Kalb or. And his wife Carlene was voted no. I comedy Novelty sons. The tune about a Squirrel running wild at a Church service was recorded by Ray Ste Vens praised by Kalb As Lac master of the comedy  among those who performed during the show were Lee Greenwood the Oak Ridge boys the staplers and Stevens. Winners were chosen by renders of the music City news a monthly country music publication in Nashville. Five finalists in each category were announced in december. Officials had announced earlier that Waylon Jennings and Roger Miller would be honoured during the show for songwriting achievements. Jennings was honoured with the first an Nual preside no s award from the song writers Guild of America for his help and service to songwriters. Miller was honoured for writing the music for big River an award winning Broadway musical. Teens spent $65 billion in 85 Many did family food shopping m Chicago a Bruce Springsteen fast food Madonna video Apo. Prince mtg and Home computers we hot but Jagner jeans and athletic Wear were not. According w a Survey of How u5. Leen agers spent $65 billion last year. Household items such As groceries and Gas a acc United for jj5 billion of the local As the teen agers took Over shopping duties in Many families. That s primarily because 50 percent of teen Homes have a full Lime working Mother and another 20 percent of suburban Lake Forest said monday. Fifth two percent of the nation s teen age girls or t 8 million do the family s weekly grocery shop id the family i thu funding the grocery but teens Are doing the  Hauser Bubble gum and o that popularity might explain a decline in traditional dating reported by to can agora Hauser said As More teen agers favor group activities Over an evening is a couple. They re not stopping socializing they re inviting groups of friends Over Tor videos he said. Home computer use by teen agora increased 50 percent in 1985. Although Only 14.6 percent of Leen age girls surveyed used personal computers at Home compared with 30.1 percent of the boys. Rock music continued to have a huge Impact with teen agers listening 0 the radio More than 20 hours per week and watching mtg the music television Channel. It s Clear that mtg. Is one of the most effective vehicles at reaching teen agers he said. In reaches 43 percent of All teen agers  the Survey s findings also suggested that 3 million teen agers bought portable stereos with headphones in 1985, Hauser raid. The three most Papular performers in 1985, according to the Survey were Madonna Bruce Springsteen and Prince. In clothing sales of designer jeans and athletic Wear declined among teen age girls in favor of the looser Hodge podge collection of costumes worn by Papular sing ers elite Madonna Hauser said. The Dollar figures were obtained by asking teens How much they spent in the week before receiving the question Naire then projecting the responses for a year he said. The latest Survey was conducted in june. In assembling the Survey the company sent questionnaires to 5,000 teen agers and used 1,600 responses sob of Hera from boys. The youths were selected on the bases of age sex geography and race. Prosecutor seeking to remove judge from Seaf be of cases Rockford Mich. A a prosecutor asked a court on monday to prohibit a judge from handling cases of people accused of not wearing scat Bells because he refuses to Fine them As required by the slate s mandatory buckle up Law. Kent county prosecutor David Sawyer asked Kent county circuit court to Issue a special writ against judge Steven Servaas of the county s 63rd District court. Servaas who has 21 Days to respond to the motion rejected on Friday Sawyer s request that he disqualify himself from future seat Bell cases. Last week Servaas admitted he d suspended the fines of 15 to 30 people ticketed for nol wearing scat belts. Michigan Law has required scat Bell use since july i but Servaas said that infringes on individual rights. The Tine in Michigan s seat Belt Taw went from $10 to $25 the first of the year. Police can t Slop motorists for not wearing Bells but can ticket them if they Are stopped for another reason. Servaas said he figures thai if the legislature had been serious about the Law it would Nave assessed paints against violators driving records and Given police the Power to Slop offenders. Servaas desk is cluttered with Telephone slips for scores of in resumed Calls. He received 60 thursday from supporters detractor and reporters from new York to California. He has t had his much publicity since he bolted out of court ran a Block and a half and collared a prisoner he d just sentenced to 125 Days in prison