European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Milf Job the stars and sufi pics. Monday March 23, 1987 compact car costs Rise Survey shows Detroit us l the costs of own ing Ami operating a new compact car in 30 leading cities increased 1.8 percent in he with los Angeles. San Francisco Anil new York City ranking at the lop for the we Cath year in a raw crw corp. Reported. A 20-City average of owning and oper mint awls reached a record jj.25.1 a kit. Up from  in miss Llic annual Mino by the Ian leasing and rental Chimp i showed. Costs in the 20 . Cities selected according to Ollil in geographical dispersion sic and population varied by As much As $l,fi68 a year with 17 of the 20 cities registering year to year gains Only Cincinnati Houston and St.  posted decreases from 1985, the report Hovd costs Are based on a new. Typically Safe controls onhot9 files advocated Washington Lai j most state should Institute Quality controls Over their police lint files because wrongful arrests have Hen made and vehicles improperly Sei Edas a result of inaccurate information in the flies says a Federal study issued sunday the computerised hot files contain in formation on wanted or missing persons Anil stolen Emperly police Mync times la it to report when property is recovered or when i wan cd person report is i Vul id save the Justice department study. La said there Lii Ive Havn no studies on tlit1 number of wrongful arrests and improper vehicle Ici ures Ilia result from inaccurate hot i let. Hut research revealed Over a Down recent court a Camions involving issues of person liability or challenges o the admissibility of evidence sheol in connection Riih arrests based on invalid or in accurate.  1 he report said few states can Point i Pecille statutory authority to main Tain hot Liles and Only a handful have statutory provisions designed 10 help ensure the Quality of the information in those  the report said slates should adopt Laws like the one in Georgia which re quires police to report stolen vehicles and properly within 12 hours. Equipped compact car driven 10,000 Miles a year for five years. Purchase Price depreciation insurance and License fees maintenance gasoline and Oil Are figured into the Overall outlays. Park ing and tolls Are excluded because hey can vary widely among Chin Hertz said. Ownership and operating costs arc higher for larger new cars and can be As much As 40 percent less for used models. The study also noted that costs Gener ally fire higher in Urban areas than they arc in Rural locations. An earlier Hertz study showed that the National average Cost of owning and running a new com pact car last year was $4,848, up 1,8 per cent from s4.764 in 1985. The size of the car figures heavily into annual casts. Owning and operating a typical subcompact car last year actually decreased 1.2 percent from 1985 to $4,380 a year. Midsize ears Rose the most by i  percent i ,nn2nyear. Costs of owning and running an inter mediate sic Cor Rose 3.s percent to 15,921 owning and operating a Stan Dard size car stayed about even with1985 Levels at $6,824, minivan costs fall Between intermediate and Standard sire car costs but Hertz said it does not have enough data or history to compile their costs separately los Angeles led the nation with an average Cost of s6.125 a year to own and run a new compact car followed by san Francisco 16,317 and new Vork $6,203milwaukee remained in last place at 14,657, As it was in 1985. St. Louis declined from seventh to ninth place with j5.i58. Detroit which Row to both place from the i4ih spot on ls�85 s list ranked below the 20-City average with an an Nual compact car Cost of j5.047. The study no cd that Detroit had the lowest average compact car Purchase Price $ 10.24 j. While new York had the highest Al 0,663. Tin Mudy attributed the Overall gain in annual costs to rises in Purchase prices insurance tasks and Upkeep. Those gain More than offset the lower interest rates which Many manufacturers offered and lower Gnu line prices. Hertz no cd that in the past 14 years Purchase prices have soured 3.18 percent while ownership and operating costs Tor comparably equipped cars have gone up 200 percent. Within that time inflation has in creased by 162 percent the study noted Gem Dandy of a comparison App Hole a Rrt Shalit Pearl about i v inches in diameter h compared Ullh a string of i set d curls. The Pearl was dist a show in new York last week. The eco weft Hong the equivalent of about Iso carats is claimed by its owners the slut is aft Lurry Winston 10 be the largest fresh Miler Pearl in the world. Incumbent for ahead in Chicago race poll finds  api mayor Harold Washington in los a 3-1 Lead Over his Elii Sesi contender in tie four Way mayor Al mix. According to a newspaper poll released Tun weeks before the Clellion. The pull results appear to reinforce aimljms1  that the three Chal Ich Nerv All of whom Are while Wilt split the mil1 against inc its s first Black nun or. Nia Liim i Washington Victory Liki h m 34hiii Liin. I i  party candidate was the first Choice among 52 percent of the registered voters queried in the Chicago Tribune poll the newspaper reported in its sunday editions. In second place was Cook county As Sessor than is Lynes running As the c he Ulm l first party candidate with 17 percent. Alderman Edward Vrdolyak. Running on Ilie Illinois Solidarity party slate Lead 1.1 percent and Republican Dunald Haider received support from 4 permit. Fourteen percent of those interviewed were undecided about the april 7 general election the newspaper said. The poll conducted in mid March questioned 1,145 registered voters in Chicago. Conducted by inc newspaper and Market shares corp. Of suburban mount Prospect the poll has a margin of error of plus or minui3 percent Washington appearing at a fund Raiser saturday at a downtown hotel said he does not want the poll to make his sup porters complacent but if this is a reflection of the City of Chicago it seems they voters fee Good about our four years in office Washington said. Hynes and Vrdolyak Are both democrats who chose to run on third party slates to gel a spot on the general election ballot. Each has repeatedly urged the other to drop out of the race so the remaining candidate would have a belter Chance to beat Washington boy with brain tumor to get wish see Washington Mil Lirett Sllyn. Kan up a 11 eur old ism Nam   the Iii he surviving ii to Ino Piralk or in limit air w ill h.iu1 kit Misli fungi True Al i n1 nisus i a nation s i i Pill. Ins non Lii i said s.itufda\. I he Kauris  thu ii Iii i Mcmake a Vish  ii is Pas in fur a trip to Washington Lite Firis Birkhead his parents. Keith and e in Hir khad and his 15-\ear-old sister , hits Ulin was hum with .1 brain i Iriina id Lias undergone is i bum Ith a link1 in the Bach a flies Skull and was not expected in Lemute than a few Das or weeks. Al the Lumner is son of like ii Lime i limb. Hui we Dun i Kunu  Lime it s Sei for mrs. Birkhead said