European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pige the compact ear costs Rise Survey sb6ws Detroit til l Thi ran Tif own ing and Oscr Lintt a new compact car in 20 leading cities increased 1,8 percent in 6, with los Angeles san Francisco and new York City ranking Al the lop for the seventh year in n Row. Cru corp. Reported. A 20-City average of owning and operating costs reached n record $5,251 a year up from 15,159 in 1985, inc annual Survey by inc giant leasing and rental company showed. Costs in inc 20 . Cities selected according id their geographical dispersion sic and population varied by As much As $ 1.668 a year with 17 of the 20 cities registering year to year gains. Only Cincinnati Houston and St. Louis posted decreases from 1985. The report showed. Costs arc based on a new typically Stafe controls on hot9 files advocated Washington a most slates should Institute Quality controls Over i hair police hot files because wrongful arrests have been made and vehicles in property seized As a result of inaccurate information in inc tiles says a Federal study issued sunday. The computerized hot files contain in formation on wanted or missing persons and stolen property. Police sometimes fail to report when property is recovered or when a wan cd person report is invalid says the Justice department study. Ii said there have been no studies on Ilii number no wrongful arrests and improper vehicle Sci ure thai result from inaccurate hut files. Hut Reward revealed Over a dozen recent court decisions in Olving issues of personal liability or challenges to head Missi vilify of evidence seized in connection with arrests based on invalid or in accurate.  the report said few states can Point to specific statutory authority to main Tain hot tiles and Only a handful have statutory provisions designed to help ensure the Quality of the information in those files the report said stairs should adopt Laws like the one in Georgia which re quires police to report stolen vehicles and property within 11 hours. Equipped compact car driven  Mill s a car for five years. Purchase Price depreciation insurance and License feet maintenance gasoline and Oil arc figured into the Overall outlays. Park ing and tolls arc excluded because they can vary widely among cities 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 arc higher in Urban areas than they Are in Rural locations. An earlier Hertz study showed thai the National average Cost of owning and running a new com pact car last year was 14.848. Up 1.8 per cent from $4.764 in 1985, the size of the car figures heavily into annual costs. Owning and operating a typical subcompact car last year actually decreased 1.2 percent from 1985 to $4,3s a Jear. Midsize cars Rose the nil by i1 i percent to sfi.082 a Jear costs of owning and running an inter mediate size car Rose 3.5 percent in $5. 2i owning and operating a Stan Dard Sie ear stayed Aboul even with i9851evclsat$6g24, minivan costs fall Between Ini Ernic Diate and Standard size car costs but Hen said it does not have enough Duj or history to compile their costs is rally. Los Angeles led he Nalion Yak an average Cost of 56,325 a year Ign Len and run a new compact car Folt Avoy Kan Francisco $6,317 and Mufti York $6,203. X Milwaukee remained Jaq Flash place ill $4,657. As it was in of isl. Louis declined from seventh twi into place with 15,158. Detroit a know to 10th place from the huh Iron in list ranked below Imbu cily a crazy. With an an Nual co Kici cur Cut of $5.047. Noted that tic Louii had the average compact car Purchase is 10.244. While new. York had the to il0.ft5j. The study attributed the Mcrill gain in annual costs to rises in Purchase prices insurance laves and Upkeep. Those gains More than if is t the lower interest rates which Many manufacturers offered and lower gasoline prices. Hertz noted hat. In the past n years. Purchase prices have soured 23s percent while ownership and operating costs for comparably equipped cars have gone up 200 percent. Within int time influx in iwi5 in creased by 162 percent the study noted. Gem Dandy of a comparison a to Srmsh Wiater Pearl about 114 inches in Tameler is compared with a string of s. The Pearl was Dis played Al show in new York Las Witk. The Stem weighing the equivalent of Aboul Iso curst., is claimed by its owners the House Fullam win skin. Id be the target fresh Miter Pearl in the world. Incumbent Jar ahead in Chicago race poll finds Cicack he l major Hubold Washington holds a i Lead by of his closest contender in the four Waja Layor Al rate. According to a news Der poll released two weeks before the fiction. The poll results appear wok enforce analysts predictions thai in Worce Chal lengers All of whom Are a Jere will split the vote against the Cik first Black mayor making a Wasington Victory Likely. Washington the  party candidate was the first Choice among 52 percent i f the registered voters queried in the Chicago Tribune poll the newspaper reported in its sunday editions. In we mini place was Cook chunk As Sessor Thimas Lajnes. Running is die Chicago first party candidate with 17 percent. Alderman Edward Vrdolyak running on inc Illinois Solidarity parly slate had 1.1 per int and Republican Donald Haider received support i Runi 4 Pyrc vol. Founten percent of those in Len in cd were undecided about the april 7 general election the newspaper said. The poll conducted in mid March questioned  it Grsic cd towers in Chicago. Conducted by the newspaper and Market shares corp. Of suburban mount i Rose act. The poll has a margin of error of i us or minus 3 per can i a Hingeni. Appearing at a fund Raiser saturday at a downtown hotel said he does not warn the poll to make his sup porters complacent. Hut if this is a ref Lilli Cir i Al Sisti i. Rating bits win is is Horn Una ,1 brain Tutsi or my Luis Uziuk a tic is i  Vintz birth Sitlaly in i Lamila we jail Mlay in  and return  sunday. Nuru no the ill children Nho submit a Sci him to Iii a the my Pirilli Maln artish Rii a ask Lii null a Cuil Kosoi  or go in Disik vend. Said Kansas Nordi Nair Wood Vii Ding. 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