European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday february 26,1986 . Consumer prices up Only 0.3 % in january Washington a a tiny 0.1percent increase in gasoline prices helped hold consumer prices Overall to a moderate0.3 percent increase in january the govern ment reported tuesday. The labor department s consumer Price Index after adjustments for seasonal fac tors was the lowest since a 0.2 percent in crease in september. It follows a 0.4 per cent increase last month. Gasoline prices Rose 0.5 percent in de Cember. While wholesale gasoline Price declines Are not reflected in tuesday s calculation the labor department did report a 1.1 per cent drop in Overall prices for heating Oil Coal and bottled Gas. The lower gasoline prices the result of worldwide collapse in crude Oil markets is expected to show up in the consumer Price report Tor february. Food prices Rose a slight 0.2 percent witha decline posted in Overall prices for meat poultry fish and eggs. Those prices Rose 2.1percent in november and 0.9 percent in december. Vegetable and fruit prices Rose a modest0.8 percent after rising at a taster clip through the fall. Government As Well As private analysts Are saying the Good inflation performance will continue throughout 1986, largely be cause of the drop in Energy costs. Oil Price shave dropped $10 per 42-gallon barrel since the  consumer Price Index report follows a 0.7 percent drop in wholesale prices i january the steepest decline in three years the labor department reported two weeks  Rataiczak a Georgia state University economist who specializes in inflation is now predicting that the consumer Price Index will increase Only 2.8 percent this year which would be the smallest Rise in More than a  new round of Auto financing deals by major us. Automakers begun last Decem Ber held new car prices Flat As compared to the month before. Used car prices were up 0.6 percent. The department reported these other de tails of january Price activity restaurant food prices were up 0.2percent while alcoholic beverage prices gained 0.5 percent and non alcoholic Bever age prices gained 1.2 percent a reflection of higher Coffee prices brought on by the Bra Zilian drought. Housing costs increased 0.3 percent. Medical care costs Rose 0.4 percent clothing prices fell 0.3 percent entertainment costs were up 0.9 per cent. Schools update Wiesbaden Community donates to Reward for missing child Wiesbaden pupils and staff members of Hainer Berg elementary school have collected 2,500 Marks $1,100 to help a German couple find their missing 9-y ear old son. One of the largest donations 800 Marks $350 came from members of the 497th reconnaissance technical group at  Money will go toward a 25,000-Mark $11,000 Reward offered by or. And mrs. Horst Uzmann of Del Kenh com for information leading to the return of their son Sascha. The child was last seen Jan. 10 As he left a bus at Street Corner less than 90 feet from his Home. Many americans live in the Community and they have helped German police search for Sascha. We re doing this because we know if it were one of our children the germans would do this to help us said Betty Porter a special education teacher at . She and Karen Zavatson a second Grade teacher have spearheaded the assistance  addition All of the school s 1,482 students have signed their names to a card that was presented to thebe Nunns tuesday. Educators Day to be held next week at Stuttgart High Stuttgart teachers from Stuttgart Wuerz Burgand Patch High schools will participate in an educators Day at Stuttgart High school  from the three High schools will not attend classes  conference for teachers in the department of de sense dependents schools Stuttgart administrative Region is among several being held across Germany. Teachers in the Kaiser Lautem and Karlsruhe administrative areas Al ready have held similar meetings. 2 California artists working with pupils at Germany schools two professional artists from California Are working with pupils in 1 5 Small schools in Dodds Germany. They include Story writer Dan Crow who is a staff songwriter for the Disney Channel and performs music programs for children in Southern California and Wayne Dean who has written a Book on drawing and was Art coordinator in California schools for 22  two will perform for school assemblies and work in individual  schools being visited Are Derheim Weier Bof Trier Proem Buechel Herborn Seelbach Bundlach Regensburg bad sibling Berchtesgaden Garmisch Menningen Leitheim germ Rosheim and Pforzheim. 130 students to take part in leadership Institute about 130 american German do Nifon and French High school students will participate in an International student leadership Institute next week at the youth hosteling Ober Wesel Germany the students will be taught management skills that the can use in their school activities. Most of the students hold school leadership positions correction the drop in cafes Europe Gas prices in Germany an the Netherlands will take puce saturday March 1, not Friday As reported on Page 1 tuesday. The stars an stripes regrets the error. 4 North korean envoys expelled from Berlin by Western Powers Berlin up the Western occupation Power ordered tuesday the expulsion from West Berlin of four North korean diplomats suspected of shipping american helicopter parts to North Korea. An american spokesman for West Berlin s three Power military Council which has supreme authority in the City said the diplomats were accredited to East Germany but worked out of an office in West Berlin where they engaged in illicit arms  spokesman Thomas Homan gave no details of the alleged arms shipments in an announcement he made for the British and French As Well As the americans. But West Berlin Justice spokesman Volker Kaehne said the North koreans had been investigated since december on suspicion of shipping parts of commercial helicopters to North Korea. Such shipments violate a Law passed by the occupation Powers after world War ii Banning the storage or ship ment of War Materiel in West Berlin. Homan said Law no.8 of the Komma Datura West Berlin s military Council had been violated.  the shipment of High technology products to common countries. Last month West Berlin police swooped Down on a West Berlin transport firm known to have close lid to North korean diplomats in a search for military equip ment. But nothing was found. American officials have expressed the fear that the civilian Type helicopters could be converted by the North koreans to military use by adding missiles and other armaments. In answer to a question Homan said the North koreans did not attempt to enter West Berlin tuesday. They will be turned Back if they do try he said. Splitting Legal hairs Homan said the diplomats had been ordered expelled not Only from West Berlin but from All of Berlin. What the soviets choose to do about it is up to them he said. No evidence of suicide or foul play found in deaths of no daughter Naples Italy italian medical authorities have found no evidence of foul play or suicide in the deaths of an air Force staff sergeant and her 11-year-old daughter officials said tuesday. Herd sine Dillard 33, and her daughter Lavinnie were found dead in their off base apartment Friday. Based on autopsies performed during the weekend medical authorities said the deaths were not caused by Carbon monoxide poisoning from the Gas  is no evidence of foul play the head of the italian Legal Medicine Institute said. We Are waiting for additional Mexico logical examinations of the food and Medicine taken from the apartment and until that is completed we won t have any conclusive  an air Force spokesman said we Are told that these toxicology exams can take up to six months to Complete. Well just have to wait and  a memorial service will be at 11 . Friday at the naval support activity Chapel in Naples. The bodies will be sent to Dillard s Hometown of Adri an Mich. Senior ranking woman officer to retire Washington a Brig. Gen. Mildred e. Hed Berg the nation s senior ranking woman officer will retire from the army on feb. 28, the Pentagon Laid monday. With Hedberg s retirement the distinction of being the military s senior woman officer will pass to air Force Brig. Gen. Mary a. Marsh currently an assistant Deputy director of the defense intelligence Agency. Marsh has been a general since oct. 1, 1982, a Hedberg the army s adjutant general is stepping Dow after More than 30 years of service. She reached her Posi Tion of seniority by gaining her first Star on March 1,1982. A in i or new senior woman general Ami the Navy s senior woman Admiral. Brig. Gen. Connie l. Slewitzke chief of the army nurse corps received her first Star on sept 22, 1983. 5na?.? ifilw5ial? ma7 j. Onwu Bowie director of Mand s l, Star on oct the Marine corps ranking woman. Brig. Gen. Gail , was promoted last year. A. Eur Mcreavy nurse corps and the naval medical com s Deputy commander for health care operations won tar o oct. 1,1983. Airman gets life sentence for murder Harn a Germany an airman assigned to the50th ammunition Supply so has been found guilty of premeditated murder and has been sentenced to life imprisonment. . Jay e Johnson 23, of new York was found guilty monday of the aug. 1 murder of Tahir Iqbal a pakistani citizen in Frankfurt. The six member court delivered the verdict after a five Day general court martial. Johnson also was found guilty Tut if a Hish and Dru paraphernalia Laid tech. Sgt. Art Futch a base spokesman r"?1-.10 imprisonment Johnson i lenient required forfeiture of All nay and allowances reduction in Grade to airman Basic and dishonourable discharge. In a finding of premeditated murder life imprisonments mandatory Legal office officials said