European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday May 7, 1966 personal income Rose 5.3 % in 85, for average of $13,451 Washington a americans personal income Rose s.3 percent last year with residents in Nebraska and new England making the big Cost gains White Western. Energy slates suffered the slowest growth the government said monday. The nationwide gain was identical 10 the 1984 increase and Iofi the income level at an average of s13.45i for every person in the country last year. The gain put income growth slightly ahead of a 3,8 percent increase in consumer prices last year. The new England Region outperformed the rest of the country with a 6.6 percent jump in incomes which pushed per cup ii t earning there to si5.j87 14 percent above   healthy new England income growth was explained by the lowest unemployment rates in the country and booming business for the Region s High technology and defense industries Many new England companies Are in the Vanguard in the production of nigh tech items and they lend to have labor shortages for High skilled workers said Commerce department analyst Rudolph Mcpass. The Region has Dan Quile Well since the i98j-s2 recession because they have a favourable Industrial mix and a lot of the old line industries thai held the Region Back Are no longer there the biggest income growth for a single state was in Nebraska but analysts attributed most of the 9 percent increase to Large government purchases of surplus farm v commodities. Without the increase in farm incomes Nebraska s income growth would have been 5.6 percent. Nebraska was allowed by the new England states of Vermont up 7.1 percent Massachusetts up 7 percent and new Hampshire tip 6,9 percent. Also in the top 10 were Virginia with income growth of 6.6 percent Connecticut and Minnesota both with 6.5 percent increases new Jersey up 6.4 percent Maryland 6.3 percent and new York 6.2 per Canu the Rocky Mountain Region had the slowest income growth of any area last year a 4, percent increase that barely outdistanced Infin lion. Income growth in this area has been held Back by slumping Energy prices which have forced Many Petroleum companies to Cut Back on drilling and exploration. By site Montana had the weakest growth last year 1.1 percent followed by Alaska with a 1.2 percent Gam other Stales with income gains below the 3.8 percent nationwide Rise in inflation were Louisiana up 2,6 percent. South Dakota up 2,8 percent and Kentucky up 3.4 per cent the slow growth in these areas was linked to either a slump in Energy production including Coal or weakness in farm incomes. Suburban wealth where top median household incomes exist in dollars per year  Calif. $4173 Saratoga. Calif. I. $417143 Highland Park Iii. Ellmetta Iii $38,542f los Altos Calif s3&525 Ridgewood no. $34,464 Naper Vitte id. . $34,1471 my $33,07bj inc ago Ortuna Graf by Kevin Boyd source the financial desk Beck the rest of the Bottom 10 included Hawaii up 3.9 percent South Carolina Washington state and Mississippi All up 4 percent and Oklahoma with a 4.1 percent increase. Even with the weak growth last year Alaska still led the country with the highest per capita income j17,756, while Mississippi a perennial last place finisher had the lowest at $9,035. In All nine states concentrated in the Northeast and new England had income Levels at least 7 percent $942 higher than the . Average while 21 Stales had per capital incomes that were at least 7 percent below the National average. Most of the slates at the Bottom were concentrated in the Southeast Southwest " id Rocky Mountain regions. Bill limiting governors authority Over guardsmen of be dropped by Norman Black a p military writer Washington the Reagan adminis Rolion has decided a Bill limiting the authority of governors Over their National guard units could pass constitutional Muster but it s temporarily dropping the idea. James h. Webb the assistant Secretary of defense for Reserve affairs said monday a decision had been made not to Advance legislation that would prevent governors from Block ing overseas training assignment for in cirouard units. Webb disclosed a week ago he had been directed by defense Secretary Caspar a Weinberger to review such legislative proposals the review was prompted by the decisions of several governors to mock any training assign ments Tor their guard units in Honduras. The United Stales has stepped up military training in Honduras in recent years As a warning to the leftist Sandi nista government of neighbouring Nicaragua. Webb said governors who oppose training in Honduras Are in effect circumventing . Foreign policy and threatening he role of the National guard in the nation s defense Structure. Webb insisted monday however dial preparation of legis lation had always been one of several alternatives under review adding that it was not a Case of Weinberger ordering the submission of legislation and then changing his mind. Webb said Weinberger decided the Best approach for the time being was to pursue private consultations with congressional leaders to make Sun they understood the basis for the Pentagon s concern. His judgment was that at this time the people in Congress who would be debating it a Bill Are not sufficiently familiar with the details of the Issue to pursue that right now. The position of the department of defense is that there is no constitutional question involved Webb continued. We do believe thai any legislation proposed would be  another ranking Pentagon official who asked not to be identified said the idea of introducing a Bill had been shelved in part because the administration did not want to touch off a political dogfight at a Lime president Reagan s fiscal 1967defense budget is under ire. This official also said the Pentagon hoped thin private consultations might prod some legislators to introduce Bills Oft Neiron. Governors around the country have condemned the Pursuit of legislative limits on their authority As an overreaction. National guard units unlike the reserves and Active duty units Are under slate Contra during peacetime under a Section of the Constitution that guarantees Trie right of Stales to maintain their own militia. Guardsmen cannot be sent outside the United slates for training without the concurrence of their governor. According to Dan Donahue a guard spokesman in Washington the governors of Maine Massachusetts ver Mont Washington and Kansas have advised the Pentagon they will not allow Thor guard units to train in Honduras i. Gen. Pm melt h. Walker chief of the National guard Bureau of the army and air Force contended that the governors arc wrong in raising safely concerns As a reason la Black deployments to Honduras. But Walker also believes a constitutional amendment would be Nec Essary to change the current system of control Over the guard. We found no constitutional limits to Congress consid ering a Bill on Sis Webb countered monday. Stateside Maryland firm seeks 50% hike in insurance Fate for doctors Baltimore a the company hat insures Rotoni. Maryland doctors is seeking a 50 percent average Rale increase effective july 1, saying a new state Law intended to curb malpractice awards won t have much effect to several  the increase is approved by slate regulator doctors say it will drive up patients fees and Pic some obstetricians and surgeons to leave their practices. The medical Mutual liability insurance society of i Maryland a not for profit company owned by poll hold i in insures about three fourths of Maryland s doctors j buying individual insurance. The rate hike would be on top of a 29 percent increase last year and would push annual insurance Bills for some High risk pc Chalmis Well Over $69.000. People express gets of to buy Provincetown Boston airline Tampa Fla. A a Federal bankruptcy judge has approved the $30 million buyout by people express inc. Of faltering  Boston airline which operates commuter flights in Florida and new England  Boston based in Naples was the nation largest regional Carrier in 1984. People express inc. Is the Parent company of people express airline Brill airways and Frontier airlines. It feels pretty Good to be out of bankruptcy Aba president Peter Van arid at said after . Bankruptcy judge Alexander Paskay approved the takeover. Judge figures a Pound of fat is Worth a Day of Freedom Chicago a a Cook county judge has a unique scale of Justice he has released a prisoner 30 Days Early because Trie Man lost 29 pounds. Circuit judge James m. Bailey on april 2 ordered col Ambus Adams who tipped the settles at 321 pounds to either lose weight or spend 60 Days in jail for falling to report to probation officers. Adams 54, complied and after weighing in at 292 pounds he was released from the Cook county jail a month Early. The judge took the total weight of the evidence on the scale of Justice and decided the Man had served enough time said assistant stale s attorney John Brady. Adams attorney Gerald Maupin suggested the ten Lence. "1 feel a lot better said a aim. It was Worth in Adams drank Only liquids for seven Days and Cut out sweets potatoes and bread. He said he is proud of the results and plans to continue dieting. Lab unveiled capable of testing quake resistance of buildings san Diego a Bridges will Sway and buildings will be shaken to their rafters in the nation s first Laboratory capable of full scale testing for earthquake resistance. We intend to Lake these buildings right up to the Edge of destruction in a sequence of testing that will provide useful  lab director or. Gil Hegemier said at its unveiling on the University of California Campus Here. The key feature of the 14 million facility it a stationary 3-foot-thick Wall that can be connected to structures up la five lories tall by Piston like Hydraulic devices called actuators. The actuators which Are anchored to the face of the reinforced Wall Are attached to the test Structure and can shake in according to computerized instructions. Rhode Island College to Block graduation of non paying student Providence. . Up the Rhode Island supreme court has Given Providence College the Power to Block this month s graduation of a student who has at tended classes fur three years without paying any tuition a lawyer Tor the school said Lorcan Yamagata 21, will be excluded from taking her final Crami because she own the College 522,000 in overdue tuition costs. She s going to be treated As a member of the general Public not As a member of the College Community said College attorney William Mcmahon. We Don t have