European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday april 5, 1986 . Gasoline War heats up with giveaways by the associated press hundreds of people lined up for blocks to buy gasoline for As Little As a tenth of a cent per gallon As Gas stations in three cities lowered prices in return for Cash prizes from radio stations while two Texas stations pumped it for free. In Minnesota where half mile Long lines were reported outside a West St. Paul station an official of the state serv ice station association said hell Chal Lenge the promotion idea in court if it becomes widespread. About 1,000 people lined up in Boise Idaho on thursday to buy Gas at 25 cents per gallon after Wally Warila s Chevron station accepted Kin radio s offer of $500 to the station willing to briefly make its prices the lowest. An elderly woman in an old Pink Yel Low and Green Pontiac swore like a Drunken Sailor when police told her she had missed the deadline for the cheap Gas said Betty Goold who was Selling refresh ments from a truck. Warila said a Man who had waited four hours and missed the discount by 10 min utes locked himself in his car in front of the pumps and refused to move until attendants threatened to Tow his Auto. He bought a dime s Worth of Gas at the regu Lar Price before driving off. In the Rural South Louisiana Community of Scott police said cars lined up for More than a mile thursday to buy Gas at a tenth of a Penny per gallon from Joey Trahan owner of a Gas station and grocery. Trahan s Low Price won him $1,000 from Lafayette station Kumb. He said he expected to wind up making Money be cause of grocery purchases by waiting customers. A signal car Wash in West St. Paul claimed a dub s $1,000 prize by offering to sell Gas for 47.9 cents and the station pledged enough Money to lower that by 10 cents per gallon. In Austin Texas about 1,600 motorists waited up to three hours and tied up traffic to get free unleaded gasoline at two service stations. Both Gas station owners competing in a bidding War sponsored by a radio station bid to give the Gas away. Lines stretched for two Miles and several cars overheated ran out of Gas and wound up with dead batteries. Brian Ettesvold executive director of the Minnesota service station association said if the promotion idea becomes widespread hell recommend court action under a state Law that prohibits Selling goods below Cost in Many circumstances. The promotions capitalized on falling prices of gasoline resulting from the worldwide plunge in Oil prices from nearly $30 per barrel in december to about $11 per barrel Friday . Unemployment rate drops after february jump Washington a the nation s unemployment rate on the heels of its larg est monthly gain in nearly six years slipped a notch to 7.2 percent last month As the Economy created 227,000 jobs the govern ment reported Friday. Joblessness dropped 0.1 percentage Points from february s 7.3 percent As civil Ian employment Rose to 108.8 million jobs in March the labor department said. The decline had been widely anticipated by economists who had viewed the 0.6 percentage Point jump in unemployment from january to february As an aberration due to unusually Large layoffs in the Oil and Gas Industry and to flooding in California. The Bureau of labor statistics said a 170,000-Job increase in agricultural employment to nearly 1.7 million seasonally adjusted reversed february s weather re lated declines. The Agency said however that total civilian employment was virtually unchanged after the seasonal adjustments were re moved from its calculations. The Bureau said this was True even though the number of non agricultural jobs As measured by a separate business Survey edged up by about 190,000. Meanwhile the number of people who have Given up looking for work dropped by 90,000, from the last three months of 1985 to the first three months of this year to 1,097,000. Those discouraged workers have not sought work in the last six months and Are not considered part of the labor Force on which the unemployment rate is based. The government listed 8,419,000 people As officially unemployed last month Down 108,000 from february but still Well ahead of the 7,831,000 in january. Employment in the mining Industry which includes Oil and Gas workers continued its dramatic drop a result of falling Petroleum prices. The department said 30,000 jobs were lost last month cutting employment in the mining Industry to 900,000, the lowest level since june 1978. While the Economy created 227,000 jobs last month More than half were accounted for by the increase in the civilian labor Force of 119,000 to 117.2 million. Art alternative unemployment rate incorporating the 1.7 million members of the armed services stationed in the United states stood at 7.1 percent a 0.1 percent age Point drop from february. Services Trade finance insurance and real estate showed employment increases of 72,000, continuing a trend Over the last 40 months. But 40,000 jobs were lost in Dura ble goods manufacturing bringing the loss of All manufacturing jobs Over the last year to 118,000. The Only goods producing Industry that had an increase in jobs Over the last year was construction noted Janet l. Nor Wood commissioner of labor statistics in testimony prepared for the congressional joint economic committee. Most economic signals in this Industry continue to be positive especially in residential construction As the decline in Mort Gage interest rates has stimulated housing  denounce Stevenson up photo Lyndon Larouche supporters and Illi Nois political candidates Janice Hart and Mark Fairchild denounce Democrat Adlai Stevenson s decision to run As an Independent for governor of Illinois rather than on the same ticket with them. They called Stevenson s decision political Hara Kiri. The two won their spots on the democratic ticket in the Illinois primary. Hart is running for Secretary of state and Fairchild is the nominee for lieutenant governor . Dismisses charges against Brown students Providence . A prostitution charges were dropped Friday against two female Brown University seniors arrested in an alleged sex for hire ring. The attorney general s office dropped the charges against Dana e. Smith 21, of Avon conn., and Rebecca r. Kidd 21, of Orange conn., during a pretrial hearing in Providence District court. The women were arrested March 6 and charged with loitering for prostitution a Misdemeanour. Each had pleaded innocent to the charge and neither appeared at the courthouse Friday. Their arrests sparked an investigation of a possible City wide prostitution ring involving As Many As 46 women six of whom police identified As current or former Stu dents at the Ivy league school. No other arrests have been made but a grand jury has heard testimony in the Case. The state did not give specific reasons for dropping the charges but in court papers cited a Rule allowing for prosecutor Al discretion in disposing of cases. Repeated attempts to reach a spokesman for the attorney general s office were unsuccessful. A Secretary said the spokesman was Busy on another line. Lawyer Peter a. Dibiase representing Kidd said there were no conditions tied to the dismissal but declined comment on women now in 30s May Sef divorce record Washington up american women who Are now in their 30s will have the highest divorce rate in the nation s his tory with six out of 10 of them predicted to end their first marriage in court a newspaper reported Friday. A . Census Bureau report that was released thursday in san Francisco at the annual meeting of the population association of America said Only women in their 30s were studied but found that men who tend to marry younger women Are equally affected Usa today reported. According to the study six out of 10 women in their 30s will have their first marriages end in divorce. The Bureau s forecast is a significant jump from the Al ready High 50 percent rate of marriage fail ure. There Are nearly 1.2 million divorces in the United states each year. Reasons for the failures Range from new ideas about husband wife relationships to the revolution in the workplace. The pro portion of 25-year-old to 34-year-old mar ried women in the labor Force went from 32 percent in 1965 to 48 percent in 1975 to 66 percent in 1985. Whether his client was cooperating with police or had testified before the grand jury. I m very pleased with the result Dibiase said i think it was very responsible on the part of the attorney general and Providence  he said his client still was attending classes at Brown and planned to graduate inlay. Dibiase blasted attempts to use the women s arrests to show the existence of a sex for Cash ring at the school. What s inappropriate is that there was a characterization there was a prostitution ring operating at Brown University he said. There is no evidence i be seen to sup port that  John Tramonti lawyer for Smith declined comment. Robert Reichley Brown s vice president said the University is pleased that the cases have been dropped but declined further comment. Providence police say information sup plied by the women led to a raid of a Condo minium on Providence s fashionable East Side where Brown is located. Police found More than 100 pictures of 46 women in various stages of undress at the Home which has become the investigation s focal Point. The condominium s owner is considered a suspect in the investigation. Korean car sales on target1 Garden Grove Calif. Up sales of the Hyundai Excel the first korean car imported to the United states Are on target after its first full month of availability to american Consumers the company has said. Hyundai sold 10,432 cars during the month of March