European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 29, 19s7 the stars and stripes Page 7 Park service drops plans for entry fees Washington theory s personnel department has put a Bounty on the recruitment of people for hard to fill jobs such a digging ditches and laying pipe. Any City employee who finds someone la take one of the physically demanding jobs will receive a Cash Reward i percent of the new worker s maximum salary. If for example a ditch Digger is paid $20,000 a year the finder fee would be $200."we be got a set of jobs where advertising just does not help Saith Edmund Knowles examination manager of the personnel department. So i thought that there May be people who could talk their neighbors Inlo applying Knowles said monday he believes the Lack of applicants for some jobs is the result of the higher pay offered by private business. He said the maintenance worker Posi Tion is one of the tougher you d have to be Down digging sewer lines and entrenches laying pipes he said. He said 88 percent of the jobs in private businesses refilled by word of Mouth the idea for the City s Cash re Ward system came from Mcdonnell Douglas corp.,which Hasa similar program Knowles said. If the first attempt at a Bounty system is successful the program could be expanded to help find women firefighter basketball officials and pension analysts Knowles said. Teens spent $70.5 billion in 86 Lake Forest Iii a teen agers spent $40 billion of their families Money last year and 130. S billion of their own according to a study by a Market research firm. The 140 billion represented an 1j percent increase Over 19bs, while the 130.5 billion was an increase of 2percent, according to the study by teen age research unlimited. Teen agers spent most of the family Money in the grocery store and often decide what groceries magazines and other items their families use the study says. Only 29 percent of the teens said they did no family grocery shopping while 54 percent said they bought groceries occasionally. In add Ilion Lite study says 21.2 percent of the teens said they made most of the decisions on what brands to buy while oily 13 percent said their parents told them exactly what to buy. If there s something new and 1 think the others will like it i la try it once said Corey Downs. 17, of the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. Teens Are having a greater say in other family Deci Sions such As vacation plans or the magazines their families read the study indicated. Sixty percent of the teens said they influence vacation and travel plans and5s percent influence Magazine purchases. The study was based on questionnaires sent to 5,000names chosen at random but representative according to geography race and sex said Grady Mauser Trevice president for marketing. Fifty three percent responded to the growing role of Leen agers in making the family purchases May be directly related to the number of working mothers Hauser said. Seventy percent of the Leens surveyed said their mothers work with half of Hern holding full time in percent of the teens surveyed said they spend More than s30 of their own Money in a week compared with 25 percent in 1985. Seventy two per cent reported having their own savings account. When teens do spend Money it e Likely to be on videotape rentals the study found. Fifty nine percent said their family owned a video cassette recorder compared to 25 percent in 1984. Total personal consumption spending for 1986 to tales nearly $3 trillion according to the . Depart ment of Commerce. Best Auto resale values in thousands of donors in the fuel Economy ratings the top performers Are the Chevrolet sprint Honda civic Suzuki Forsa and Subaru Justy cars listed As having the lowest preventive maintenance costs Are the Nissan stanza Buick skyhawk Olds firenza Pontiac sunbird Nissan 300 and Ford Mustang of among the cars with the Best resale value Are the Chev Rolet Corvette Volvo do Toyota celica Bow 320i, Honda prelude Mazda re tand Toyota Corolla. Manson denies killing anyone new York up mass murderer Charle Manson declared in an interview broadcast tues Day that pc never lulled anyone but added maybe i should have killed 400 or 500 people. Then i would have fell belter in the Jan. 9 interview at san Quentin prison shown tuesday on Abc television Manson s3, alternated from lucidity to incoherence periodically babbling nonsensical syllables threatening the interviewer and denying he had Ever killed anyone. Manson was the Leader of a drug and sen cult the Mattson family that shocked the nation with seven killings and mutilations including actress Sharon Tate in 1969. You Guys Gat it stuck in your brain thai i Mur dered somebody. What do you want to Call me a murderer fur i be never killed anyone. I Don t Nee to kill anyone. I think it have it Here Maoson said pointing to his head. There s no need to feel guilty. I Haven t Don anything i m ashamed of he said. Maybe i Haven t done enough. I might be ashamed of that for not doing Dougli for not giving enough for not being More perceptive for not being aware enough for not understanding for being stupid. Maybe 1 should have killed 400 or 500 i would have fell better. Then i should have Felt like i really offered society something said Manson who had a Swastika carved Inlo his fore head. Manson was Toni wired to death 16 Yean ago but California s death penalty Law was struck Down and his sentence was commuted to life in prison. He ended the 90-Nunule interview by saying believe me if i started murdering people there d be none of you
