European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pags4 Jam the stars and stripes Friday. September 5, 1986 offers 2-year Loans with no interest Southfield Mich. I i Amer ican mows  its big three compel to in the buyer incentive Gam wednesday Kostering two year financing without interest on most 1986 Carand jeep models Joseph e. Capp Samc s president and chief executive bitter said the pro Grain begins thursday and will continue through oct. 8. Am Hast in plagued with sluggish car sales for Moj s. The latest frenzied round out rate financing began last week when Genera motors corp. Stunned its competitors by offering 2.9 percent financing on three year Loans. Ford later matched pm s offer and by the end of the week. Chrysler chimed in with what until wednesday was a re Cord Low 2.4 percent annual percentage rate on two year Loans. Everybody thought 2.9 was  they thought 2.4 was Low Cappy said. Bui we beat them All Zero that s right Zero percent financing. You just can t go below Zero. This has got to be an Auto Industry first for a company to offer its customers such fantastic  Cappy said the program will incl Deall 1986 Renault Alliance and encore subcompact tars he four wheel drive am Eagle jeep Cherokee and Wagon Eer sport Utility vehicles and jeep co Ranche pickup trucks. A addition to Zero percent financing on two year Loans am also is offering con no on 48 on the Job smoking ban helps workers quiz researchers say Boston up Banning smoking in the w or 2.9 percent financing contracts and 5.9 percent find month contracts on i Cappy said a 20 a rent Down pay men is required Joffe Zero percent 2.9 percent and  percentage ral financing Proon Ris. Buyers Yfe prefer rebates to Cut  be offered a $600 rebate on ally pc encore and two wheel drive Cona Bones $700 on four wheel Dave Manches and $800 on Cherokee wag Beer and eagles he said. The workplace helps employees kick the habit without prompting them to quil their jobs researchers said wednesday. Work place smoking bans do encourage people to quit or smoke less and if they Ever become the Norm in will have a profound Impact on this coun try s cigarette consumption said or. Michael a a Fartin. A clinical epidemiologist at the  in san Francisco. In a letter to the new England journal of medi Cine Martin reviewed the cupericna1 of Pacific Northwest Bell which banned smoking for all15.000 employees in All company facilities in july 1985. Although the company initially received som complaints not a single employee has left because of it Martin said. When the ban was announced 1he company also unveiled a program for reimbursing employees for participating in programs to help them quit smok ing. In the first six months 1.044 employees 25 percent of All company smokers had signed up. The actual number of smokers who tried to Quilis probably much larger because Many smokers i Fer to quit on their own rather than by going cessation  said Martin. By comparison in the 26 months Becq in smoking ban employees had the oppo Tamy to participate in smoking cessation program Jet during working hours thai were free. Only " signed up. In addition even employees we con med to smoke consumed fewer Figarelle a company sur vey found that those who red Nice their smoking cutback from an average of 29  a Day to 21, said Martin. There s a Clear association Between the health consequences of Sookim and the amount they smoke. Cutting Back Berthat much would have Clear Benefit said Munin. Martin  Success of the ban to the Way it was Imp Len need. Much of to Urban s Success is because it was applied unify Only to All employees. Employees sometimes five objected to smoking bans thai allow i Hoff with private offices to smoke while those in part open work areas cannot. This smok ing a fancy applied equally to everyone said mar Lartin said Many companies Are considering Whereat retail. Deral  taxes 47.6 ,22,6 Vituj fact users whote satere growers Chicago Tribune graphic source tobacco growers information committee smoking bans primarily to save Money. Studies have shown that an employee who smokes can Cost an extra $4,700 a year primarily from higher healthcare Cost and absenteeism Martin said non smok Cis also Benefit because they Are not exposed to their co workers smoke. The risks Are clearly there and in is time to Star protecting the rights of non smokers he said. Martin called for other businesses to adopt Simi Lar Bam and said hospitals should Lake the Lead. Smoking is the greatest cause of premature death and disability in the United states and in would be ironic if health care institutions let the general business Community take the Lead be said. Legionnaires outbreak linked to water Tower Sheboygan Wii. Ufi state health official wednesday said a fatal outbreak of legionnaires Dis ease has been traced to a Cooling Tower at n manufacturing Plant and the bacteria have been eliminated. We re checking whether there Are other sources but we have made a significant find As to the probable cause said or. Jeff Davis an epidemiologist with the slate health division. The source of the bacteria Legio Nelta Neu Sophila was found in the Cooling lower at the Muth Wood Tock co. Which makes Auto parts and accessories officials said. The factory is on the City s Northwest Side where almost All of the victims lived. Davis said one person has died in Wisconsin and 16were confirmed to have had the disease. Six of those remain hospitalized. Two other deaths previously believed to have Bee caused by legionnaires disease were not related Davis said. Allan Nemeth president of Mulh Wood Slock agreed tuesday to shut Down the factory Cooling sys tem and clean it to get rid of the bacteria. We Are cooperating in every Way possible to get the emergency under control Nemeth said. Davis praised the company s Quick action. Davis told a news conference the bacteria probably a blown from nearby soil and seeded in the hold  after it had reached maturity the bacteria was in around the 15-Square-Block area near the Plant by a exhaust fan he said. Davis Sarthe Cooling Tower will be monitored duly for the next new Cocks. In Duane a to an outbreak of legionnaires Dis ease Ai the City Cuppe National medical Center has subsided and paid act who were evacuated have re turned to their Beds and facial said wednesday. Everything is Back Normal said or. Ralph Jung who noted that inv gators have not yet pin pointed the source of the do badly bacteria thai in Idythe Hospital in March. Three of the six patients Hobo tracked the disease have died but Hospital officials Hathoot determined if their deaths were caused by the i seek another ii uncritical condition. Dozens of patients were evacuated Frd two area of the medical Center last week As Crew contaminated suspected incubation spots. The pallets have been returned to their rooms Jung said. Tests have not confirmed if the  City of Hope is linked to the Hospital s air co lining or water systems. We Are stall awaiting results of some tests Jung said teachers strikes in 8 states affect 118,000 students by the associated press More than 7,000 teachers were on strike Over contract disputes in eights tales wednesday leaving Many of their nearly 118,000 students without classes or in abbreviated sessions. We Are talking everything Sala ties and fringe benefits Barbara r. Coda president of the Schuylkill Val Ley teacher s allocation in Pennsylva Nia said of negotiations in her District where the strike authorization Vole was 150-33. Donald f. Morabito of the Pennsylva Nia stale education association blamed bargaining problems in his state on the legislature which has failed to Institute tax changes preventing schools front re lying so heavily on real estate taxes local taxpayers have had it with thereal estate tax increases to support school budgets he said. Pennsylvania was the hardest hit with14 strikes by 3,456 teachers of 53,068 students. Public school teachers also were out on strike in Michigan Illinois Ohio Massachusetts Washington new Jersey and Rhode Island. Walkouts also spread into higher Edu cation. The 426-member faculty Union at the private Fairleigh Dickinson univer sity in new Jersey walked out wednes Day but about 40 percent of classes went on for the opening Day for 14,000 Stu dents. The us member faculty associational Roger Williams College in Rhode is land voted to Itrice but classes Don resume until thursday. And 1,325 instructors at Wayne state University i Michigan held classes wednesday for a second Day without a contract bargain ing continued. In two of Pennsylvania s districts teachers claim they were locked out by school administrators who insist the work stoppage is a strike. In one the 56 teachers in the Antie Tam District in Berks county had agreed to work under terms of their old con tract but voted tuesday to not report because the District failed to pay the last week said a Union spokesman. In Beaver county 18 teacher in the Midland District walked picket lines claiming they were locked out we feel we have been locked outre cannot work without a contract. We offered an Extension but we did not Gela written answer said Gary Wood president of the Midland education association. The contract expired Sun Day